If "Gaggle" used highly sensitive microphones and could record a normal conversation inside your house or in your backyard from the street, would that be a breach of privacy? Should be expected that you need the proverbial "Cone of Silence" because someone might be walking/driving down the street with a sensitive microphone?
With the promise of HD street view, what's the legal ramifications of Google taking a picture that allows someone to see into your house through a window? What about license plates? Could someone write an application that "walks" down the streets and OCRs all the visible license plates?
Are we expected that if we want privacy we have to keep our blinds/shades closed at all times?
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I can safely say the only episode I've ever watched, and will watch was last night's finale.
My take...
They all died in the crash, The island was purgatory.
Removing the rock from the island was akin to "pulling the plug" on the series and would send them to hell and cancel all hopes of future syndication.
The multi-religion church at the end was symbolizing a positive afterlife which we all know means eternal life in syndication.
Personally, I'm just glad this shit is over. Now we can get back to watching reality TV, b/c using actors is overrated.
In our district Freshmen take Earth Science, Sophomores take Bio, Juniors Chemistry and Seniors take Physics. There's also some techy electives such as Intro to Programming, Computer Animation/CAD and an Intro to Computers (teaches the basics of how to use a computer, browsers, word processing, etc...)
Check out the applications that your those that set the curriculum want to use. Some software suites are available for one platform and not another. You can't just say, "We're using OS/2 and that's the way it will be!" As you'll have 10 department heads yelling at you that there aren't any XYZ applications available to it.
Also, who says you have to have 5k PCs each with it's own disk, OS load etc.. Why not look at Virtual Desktops (vmware view with dumb terminals/thin clients in the classrooms? The Unix folks have been doing this for years, but this solution is pretty slick. We've deployed it for all the staff as they only use a dozen or so standardized applications.
Btw, I'm an ex-mainframer and managing 1 mainframe and 5000 dumb 3270 terminals is much easier than 5000 desktops; and speaking from experience managing a couple of large X86 servers and a 100 thin clients is very similar.
I can't wait until someone is watching TV and then ads which are based upon Google analyzing every email/IM/purchase/chat that user has ever made appear on their TV......In front of their wife...
Has anybody ever been required to clean the air? Doubt it. Most polluting companies are just fined and then have to clean their exhaust after they have been caught polluting.
So the question I have is, how many "Carbon Credits" would BP have to purchase in order to avoid having to clean up their spill?
I've noticed recently that many non-facebook accounts (cnnmoney.com for example) know about my facebook account. Usually I see a link/graphic at the bottom of the page that says "click to 'like' this" or something similar.
Anybody know how to keep these third party sites from knowing about your facebook account?
I seem to recall some application back in the SunOS days called xroach, which when run would have roaches hide under your windows. Then when you closed/moved a window/xterm the roaches would scatter and hide under other windows.
Given the horrid behavior of Facebook over the last month I'm feeling a lot better about Google. Maybe they're equally sleazy, but at least they don't whack you over the head with their sleaze.
As someone that has lived near the ocean for his entire life; I am not exactly happy about having salt infused water vapor in the air. If you live near the shore, you have to deal with house paint, car finishes, wooden surfaces decaying, wearing away and failing...
Anybody from an area of the world that has salt applied to their roads in the winter care to share stories about salt corroding their car's undercarriage?
My cousin has one of those Leapfrog Tag books. These are the ones in which you have a "pen" which can touch various objects on the pages and produce a sound. It's most often demonstrated as having the "pen" read the words that the child touches. However, the child can often touch animals, cars, trains etc etc and have the corresponding sounds. Out of two children, I have never seen them use the book the way that it is intended, they just touch the pictures repeatedly for the sounds. If I want them to read the book for the words, then you have to take away the pen and use the book as a traditional book.
Besides it's a waste of batteries. IMHO, it's just another way to "outsource parenting." People already outsource the babysitter to TV.
Also these books are damn expensive compared to used books, the ones libraries give away for a $.25 or ones from your friends whose kids have outgrown them.
Note: I'm not a server guy, i'm not a LAMP guy, I'm not a OS guy nor a DBA. I deal with two objects in the datacenter, storage devices and switches that move packets (either FC or FICON) to storage devices.
First when I heard the term 'enterprise disks' I figured they were talking not about the drives themselves, but rather of the highend EMC, IBM, HDS variety (HP/SUN don't count b/c they rebrand HDS). There's no dampening in those arrays, they're basically racks/cabinets on wheels with casters on them to lock them down. If I was reading from a raw disk, then I could definitely see how vibration would have an impact, but with Enterprise disk arrays, there's so much cache (in the array, not on the drive) and read-ahead algorithms in place that I could see how users wouldn't notice the difference. I'm not so sure that EMC/HDS/IBM would be willing to build their disk arrays out of carbon fiber. Especially with the price conscious consumers like myself that love nothing more than my yearly meeting with my storage vendor to discuss $/GB.
I know of some companies that put their highend (Superdome/p690) servers on earthquake pads, which in the event of an earthquake the server can stay put while the floor shifts underneath.
I've actually experienced this problem first hand. I used to work at one of the above mentioned storage companies and we manufactured a disk shelf that had 8 drives in the front and 8 in the back. There was a metal divider in both the front and back that separated the box into quadrants. We noticed one year that there was a significant drive loss in the field and upon further investigation, we noticed that one slot in particular had an abnormally high failure rate. So we flew to one such site that had these suspect drive shelves, and measured the vibration of each disk in their disk shelves (they had about 100) using a tool that look pretty much like an accelerometer at the end of a pencil. Turns out that the drive location that had the highest number of failures, was not abnormally vibrating, but that a drive 4 spots away was. It seems that if a the drive next to the divider had a "high vibrational drive" it would set up a standing wave which would eventually cause another drive, which was perfectly fine from a manufacturing standpoint to fail.
How long would it take barnacles and other creates or plants to start to grow on this thing thereby increasing drag? I don't recall seeing anything growing on the blades of a windmill...
EMC loves to tell you to use RAID1. - 2 copies of your data If it's important, you should use timefinder (snapshots), 1 more copy of the data. If you want DR, then you should implement SRDF, 1 more copy of the data (this one is remote) If you want to do data warehousing on what you just replicated, you run timefinder on the remote copy, 1 more copy.
So that makes it 5 copies of my data on disk.
Oh, and to protect myself from data corruption (or a deleted file) being replicated to all these copies, it's still recommended that I backup to tape/VTL/MAID.
Total of 6 copies of data. That is if I'm using dedup on my VTL or TSM (which stores versions of a given file). If i'm using a traditional (daily incrementals plus weekly fulls) I could have lots of duplications within my tape infrastructure.
Ever wonder why EMC stands for Endless Mirroring Company.
Could an organization with a/8 resell a block of their IP addresses? I can't imagine how someone like MIT or US Postal Service, could use 16million IP addresses, or HP use 32million (they have their own plus Compaq/DECs).
Take a toddler's "binky" (their security blanket) away from a toddler and they're the same way. They teenagers need their instant communication, their updates, twitters, facebook entries etc etc etc. No different than my 2yr old sleeping with her stuffed animals.
Sure some kids survive fine when you tell them they are too old to have "a binky" but eventually, after a few tantrums, they survive. However, expect quite a bit of crying.
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A human being walking their dog isn't taking photographs with a zoom enabled camera and then providing an API to access those pictures.
If "Gaggle" used highly sensitive microphones and could record a normal conversation inside your house or in your backyard from the street, would that be a breach of privacy? Should be expected that you need the proverbial "Cone of Silence" because someone might be walking/driving down the street with a sensitive microphone?
With the promise of HD street view, what's the legal ramifications of Google taking a picture that allows someone to see into your house through a window? What about license plates? Could someone write an application that "walks" down the streets and OCRs all the visible license plates?
Are we expected that if we want privacy we have to keep our blinds/shades closed at all times?
I can safely say the only episode I've ever watched, and will watch was last night's finale.
My take...
They all died in the crash,
The island was purgatory.
Removing the rock from the island was akin to "pulling the plug" on the series and would send them to hell and cancel all hopes of future syndication.
The multi-religion church at the end was symbolizing a positive afterlife which we all know means eternal life in syndication.
Personally, I'm just glad this shit is over. Now we can get back to watching reality TV, b/c using actors is overrated.
In our district Freshmen take Earth Science, Sophomores take Bio, Juniors Chemistry and Seniors take Physics. There's also some techy electives such as Intro to Programming, Computer Animation/CAD and an Intro to Computers (teaches the basics of how to use a computer, browsers, word processing, etc...)
Check out the applications that your those that set the curriculum want to use. Some software suites are available for one platform and not another. You can't just say, "We're using OS/2 and that's the way it will be!" As you'll have 10 department heads yelling at you that there aren't any XYZ applications available to it.
Also, who says you have to have 5k PCs each with it's own disk, OS load etc.. Why not look at Virtual Desktops (vmware view with dumb terminals/thin clients in the classrooms? The Unix folks have been doing this for years, but this solution is pretty slick. We've deployed it for all the staff as they only use a dozen or so standardized applications.
Btw, I'm an ex-mainframer and managing 1 mainframe and 5000 dumb 3270 terminals is much easier than 5000 desktops; and speaking from experience managing a couple of large X86 servers and a 100 thin clients is very similar.
I can't wait until someone is watching TV and then ads which are based upon Google analyzing every email/IM/purchase/chat that user has ever made appear on their TV... ...In front of their wife...
Has anybody ever been required to clean the air? Doubt it. Most polluting companies are just fined and then have to clean their exhaust after they have been caught polluting.
So the question I have is, how many "Carbon Credits" would BP have to purchase in order to avoid having to clean up their spill?
I've always had that disabled, but it still shows up on cnnmoney.
I've noticed recently that many non-facebook accounts (cnnmoney.com for example) know about my facebook account. Usually I see a link/graphic at the bottom of the page that says "click to 'like' this" or something similar.
Anybody know how to keep these third party sites from knowing about your facebook account?
It dates back into some of the great classic works of our time... upon reading Romeo and Juliet one critic was overheard saying:
"Nice play Shakespeare..."
or upon solving a great mystery, Watson was once overheard saying, "No shit Sherlock."
I seem to recall some application back in the SunOS days called xroach, which when run would have roaches hide under your windows. Then when you closed/moved a window/xterm the roaches would scatter and hide under other windows.
When China does it, the world protests. all the space junk created. However, when the US does it, it's to save other satellites.
Something about not reinventing the wheel.
Given the horrid behavior of Facebook over the last month I'm feeling a lot better about Google. Maybe they're equally sleazy, but at least they don't whack you over the head with their sleaze.
That's because Google hasn't been caught. Oops.
As someone that has lived near the ocean for his entire life; I am not exactly happy about having salt infused water vapor in the air. If you live near the shore, you have to deal with house paint, car finishes, wooden surfaces decaying, wearing away and failing...
Anybody from an area of the world that has salt applied to their roads in the winter care to share stories about salt corroding their car's undercarriage?
My cousin has one of those Leapfrog Tag books. These are the ones in which you have a "pen" which can touch various objects on the pages and produce a sound. It's most often demonstrated as having the "pen" read the words that the child touches. However, the child can often touch animals, cars, trains etc etc and have the corresponding sounds. Out of two children, I have never seen them use the book the way that it is intended, they just touch the pictures repeatedly for the sounds. If I want them to read the book for the words, then you have to take away the pen and use the book as a traditional book.
Besides it's a waste of batteries. IMHO, it's just another way to "outsource parenting." People already outsource the babysitter to TV.
Also these books are damn expensive compared to used books, the ones libraries give away for a $.25 or ones from your friends whose kids have outgrown them.
Note: I'm not a server guy, i'm not a LAMP guy, I'm not a OS guy nor a DBA. I deal with two objects in the datacenter, storage devices and switches that move packets (either FC or FICON) to storage devices.
First when I heard the term 'enterprise disks' I figured they were talking not about the drives themselves, but rather of the highend EMC, IBM, HDS variety (HP/SUN don't count b/c they rebrand HDS). There's no dampening in those arrays, they're basically racks/cabinets on wheels with casters on them to lock them down. If I was reading from a raw disk, then I could definitely see how vibration would have an impact, but with Enterprise disk arrays, there's so much cache (in the array, not on the drive) and read-ahead algorithms in place that I could see how users wouldn't notice the difference. I'm not so sure that EMC/HDS/IBM would be willing to build their disk arrays out of carbon fiber. Especially with the price conscious consumers like myself that love nothing more than my yearly meeting with my storage vendor to discuss $/GB.
I know of some companies that put their highend (Superdome/p690) servers on earthquake pads, which in the event of an earthquake the server can stay put while the floor shifts underneath.
I've actually experienced this problem first hand. I used to work at one of the above mentioned storage companies and we manufactured a disk shelf that had 8 drives in the front and 8 in the back. There was a metal divider in both the front and back that separated the box into quadrants. We noticed one year that there was a significant drive loss in the field and upon further investigation, we noticed that one slot in particular had an abnormally high failure rate. So we flew to one such site that had these suspect drive shelves, and measured the vibration of each disk in their disk shelves (they had about 100) using a tool that look pretty much like an accelerometer at the end of a pencil. Turns out that the drive location that had the highest number of failures, was not abnormally vibrating, but that a drive 4 spots away was. It seems that if a the drive next to the divider had a "high vibrational drive" it would set up a standing wave which would eventually cause another drive, which was perfectly fine from a manufacturing standpoint to fail.
Just get one of those retractable Janitor key rings that clip onto your belt/pants.
How long would it take barnacles and other creates or plants to start to grow on this thing thereby increasing drag? I don't recall seeing anything growing on the blades of a windmill...
Since this is EMC, let me tell you...
EMC loves to tell you to use RAID1. - 2 copies of your data
If it's important, you should use timefinder (snapshots), 1 more copy of the data.
If you want DR, then you should implement SRDF, 1 more copy of the data (this one is remote)
If you want to do data warehousing on what you just replicated, you run timefinder on the remote copy, 1 more copy.
So that makes it 5 copies of my data on disk.
Oh, and to protect myself from data corruption (or a deleted file) being replicated to all these copies, it's still recommended that I backup to tape/VTL/MAID.
Total of 6 copies of data. That is if I'm using dedup on my VTL or TSM (which stores versions of a given file). If i'm using a traditional (daily incrementals plus weekly fulls) I could have lots of duplications within my tape infrastructure.
Ever wonder why EMC stands for Endless Mirroring Company.
Could an organization with a /8 resell a block of their IP addresses? I can't imagine how someone like MIT or US Postal Service, could use 16million IP addresses, or HP use 32million (they have their own plus Compaq/DECs).
Name one other profession or trade or area of expertise where expert advice is so routinely ignored for such trivial reasons.
Parents.
I recall once hearing a US Army General say during the Iraqi war that "If the copier had been invented prior to WWII, we'd all be speaking German."
Take a toddler's "binky" (their security blanket) away from a toddler and they're the same way. They teenagers need their instant communication, their updates, twitters, facebook entries etc etc etc. No different than my 2yr old sleeping with her stuffed animals.
Sure some kids survive fine when you tell them they are too old to have "a binky" but eventually, after a few tantrums, they survive. However, expect quite a bit of crying.
Since this has come out I've decided to charge my family and friends $1000/computer, which they can pay to me upon being reimbursed by McAfee.