It's such a major screwup, it's hard for me to see how it couldn't have been done at least partly on purpose. How the hell did all those credit card numbers make it to hardcopy?
All is revealed in TFA. The one that you didn't read.
We have all them things in the UK and the police deal with them fine. Special branchs work on them, but they're still the police and don't need fancy loop hole organisations to do it. If anything they're superior to the FBI because they're directly connected to the average copper working on the street, who notice and see far more than guys working in buildings hidden away from everything.
Which works quite nicely in a system with a strong central government and weak local governments. It doesn't work out so well when local governments are nearly as strong as the central government. Thus, the US has the FBI as well as local law enforcement.
So First4Internet was the reason why I can't play DVD's in my CD player? I'll get them! I had fallen for the urban myth that it was lack of codec's, no video screen, and laser wavelength differences.
Umm First4Internet has nothing to do with dvd and car cd players it was use by sony for copy protection on windows machines.
On behalf of the parent post, let me point out that it sucks having to deal with stupid people.
First4Internet == rootkit "whichever of those big companies it was whose DVDs couldn't play in car CD players or something" == dualdisc.
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So, I guess Judge Paez lives in that fantasy world where the rights of the people must be explicitly given within the Constitution, or they don't have them.
Gilmore's objection was that he was being denied his Constitutionally guaranteed right to travel by air because he would not present an ID. The three judge panel pointed out that there is no such guarantee in the Constitution.
Don't confuse a right with a privilege. You have the right to move about the country, but not the right to do it in any specific way. Gilmore paid for the privilege of flying by air - but one of the conditions of exercising that privilege was providing identification.
The ruling came from the 9th Circuit, too - not a group of folks who tend to rule against privacy issues.
and that's a Microsoft NetMeeting compatible conferencing tool. Too many flipping NetMeeting sessions going on at work, and I hate having to borrow an MS box, call up IT, get a login (forgotten immediately) and so on -- all to join a meeting.
Doesn't that suggest that you're using a screwdriver to pound nails (to torture an already tortured analogy)?
Yeah but if you've been rolling your dice for the last 120 years then on your last 7 rolls you got 5 record highs with none of the rolls being low for the last 20 years, you might begin to suspect someone rigged your dice.
Would you bet your entire life savings that the next roll wasn't going to be high?
You might suspect that, but it's quite likely that you're just rolling high numbers. In a truely random system, each value is as likely as any other. What you describe is called "poor man's statistics" in blackjack. I wouldn't bet my life's savings on any roll of the dice, but not for your reason.
The weather isn't random. The fact that a temperature value is a record high is really just noise in the overall trend of temperature measurements. It's a headline grabber, but it's just a datapoint.
I didn't say that the Democrats were the good guys - just that this particular situation gives the Alaska state Dems good press. Where it goes from here is anybody's guess - the Dems could easily end up making a mess out of the whole thing. Which would be fine with me - I'm one of the reasons that my state stays red.
So Diebold claims that their proprietary database format can't be released. The state has two choices. Release the data and defend themselves in a lawsuit or don't release the data and let a third party force Diebold to defend themselves in a lawsuit. Seems to me that the state of Alaska is letting the Democratic Party take the lead here - and I don't see a problem with it. Why waste taxpayer dollars and exposure to liability when a third party will foot the bill?
Besides, it gives good press to the Democratic Party and bad press to Diebold. As for the government, well, everybody hates the government already, right?
What is happening now is cultural suicide. No people should be allowed to extinguish their precious diversity.
I don't wear a kilt and I don't eat haggis, even on Robbie Burns' birthday (and you should be happy - nobody wants to see me in a kilt). I don't play the bagpipes.
And I don't farm or raise sheep on a tiny chunk of land on a barren, windswept rock of an island off the coast of Scotland. Why? Because my great great grandparents had the decency to get the hell off of Barra and high tail it to Canada. And after half a generation there, they moved south.
Actually, since it's a federal case and he's in a federal prison, he'll serve the full term. There's no parole in the federal prison system. You serve what you get.
Google Monty Python. Don't be so serious, especially here.
Truth be told, your comment was neither attacked nor dismissed. Just held up for a little fun.
FWIW, my "work" is fun. And as a product of late '60s and '70s education, I went through the classic "brainwashing" education. Somehow I still managed to muddle through.
Even more interesting, my mother was one of the brainwashers! Go figure.
That's an interesting point. The Scottish programmer a couple of cubicles down is constantly cursing while he programs. The only hitch is that he, like every other Scotsman that I've known, doesn't seem to have a volume control (is that just a Scottish condition?) So he's kind of loud. It's not the cursing that bothers me. It's not really even the loudness. But put it together and it's a little disconcerting.
Also, I've been in the workforce for around 30 years and I've never had nor heard a manager raise his or her voice to anyone - other than when I was in the Navy, but I guess that's a given.
I think in order to keep a superficially ordered and hierarchical society we grind kids down to fit them into the boxes you forsee, and that they exist there is no argument.
Translation: "It's a fair cop, but society is to blame."
I worked on a data analysis project in the Navy. The computer system was a couple of VAX minicomputers in a cluster with terminals throughout the building. There were six Sun Sparcstations (yeah, it was a few years back) with no floppy drives. The building was divided into two sections - low security and high security. If you brought a briefcase, backpack, anything like that, it stayed in the low security area. All that you brought into the high security area was yourself. Anything else that you needed, the Navy got for you. And if it wasn't a consumable, it was tracked. The only way that anything left that secure area was in a burn bag or packaged and tracked.
We only had a staff of about 20, so it was relatively easy to manage.
Oh, and the building was an old torpedo training facility. Solid concrete walls, but the roof was designed so that if there was an explosion, it would all go straight up. So it wasn't exactly safe to walk on - there was always the danger of falling through. Right into the secure area. Go figure.
I don't want to be pedantic, but if I did, I'd consider the change in temperature as the important measurement. After all, there's not much chance that the computer will be working at anything near 0K. So, consider the "zero point" to be room temperature, or about 295K.
So, at normal voltage, the peak CPU temperature changed by 56K. With reduced voltage, the peak CPU temperature changed by 42K.
1 - (42K / 56K) =.25, a 25% difference in temperature change. And that's the important number.
Well, look at this this way: if your small town's population is dwindling because there is no financial opportunity, at some point, the town will cease to exist. So, while financial success is not the only measure, it is certainly a foundation - if you can't make enough money to live where you want to live, then you move to a place where you can live.
Technology put new life into the town where I live. To the west is a major computer manufacturer and to the west is one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world. Both have drawn other tech companies as the industry has grown locally.
The small rurual communities around me were dying out, but now they're booming - and still maintaining a sense of small town America as well. Maybe it's an anomaly, but it's worked out here.
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While you're researching, you might want to check to see just how readily plutonium oxidizes in the presence of heat. Rapid oxidization, or burning, produces a somewhat different effect than liquifying.
Oh, and the amount of plutonium is roughly a handful.
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'It's more reconciling the costs of learning new systems with what the needs of the new systems are.'
Could a grammar nazi out there please change the syntax from PR Babble to English?
"You're fired."
It's such a major screwup, it's hard for me to see how it couldn't have been done at least partly on purpose. How the hell did all those credit card numbers make it to hardcopy?
All is revealed in TFA. The one that you didn't read.
We have all them things in the UK and the police deal with them fine. Special branchs work on them, but they're still the police and don't need fancy loop hole organisations to do it. If anything they're superior to the FBI because they're directly connected to the average copper working on the street, who notice and see far more than guys working in buildings hidden away from everything.
Which works quite nicely in a system with a strong central government and weak local governments. It doesn't work out so well when local governments are nearly as strong as the central government. Thus, the US has the FBI as well as local law enforcement.
-h-
So First4Internet was the reason why I can't play DVD's in my CD player? I'll get them! I had fallen for the urban myth that it was lack of codec's, no video screen, and laser wavelength differences.
Umm First4Internet has nothing to do with dvd and car cd players it was use by sony for copy protection on windows machines.
On behalf of the parent post, let me point out that it sucks having to deal with stupid people.
First4Internet == rootkit
"whichever of those big companies it was whose DVDs couldn't play in car CD players or something" == dualdisc.
Social Security!
I'm getting sleeeeeeeepy...
Fingers broken? Why not Google the answer instead of subjecting yourself to ridicule on Slashdot?
Runon sentences like that needs MORE CAPITALIZATION.
So, I guess Judge Paez lives in that fantasy world where the rights of the people must be explicitly given within the Constitution, or they don't have them.
Gilmore's objection was that he was being denied his Constitutionally guaranteed right to travel by air because he would not present an ID. The three judge panel pointed out that there is no such guarantee in the Constitution.
Don't confuse a right with a privilege. You have the right to move about the country, but not the right to do it in any specific way. Gilmore paid for the privilege of flying by air - but one of the conditions of exercising that privilege was providing identification.
The ruling came from the 9th Circuit, too - not a group of folks who tend to rule against privacy issues.
-h-
and that's a Microsoft NetMeeting compatible conferencing tool. Too many flipping NetMeeting sessions going on at work, and I hate having to borrow an MS box, call up IT, get a login (forgotten immediately) and so on -- all to join a meeting.
Doesn't that suggest that you're using a screwdriver to pound nails (to torture an already tortured analogy)?
-h-
Yeah but if you've been rolling your dice for the last 120 years then on your last 7 rolls you got 5 record highs with none of the rolls being low for the last 20 years, you might begin to suspect someone rigged your dice.
Would you bet your entire life savings that the next roll wasn't going to be high?
You might suspect that, but it's quite likely that you're just rolling high numbers. In a truely random system, each value is as likely as any other. What you describe is called "poor man's statistics" in blackjack. I wouldn't bet my life's savings on any roll of the dice, but not for your reason.
The weather isn't random. The fact that a temperature value is a record high is really just noise in the overall trend of temperature measurements. It's a headline grabber, but it's just a datapoint.
-h-
I didn't say that the Democrats were the good guys - just that this particular situation gives the Alaska state Dems good press. Where it goes from here is anybody's guess - the Dems could easily end up making a mess out of the whole thing. Which would be fine with me - I'm one of the reasons that my state stays red.
-h-
That whooshing sound is the GP's point zipping over your head.
So Diebold claims that their proprietary database format can't be released. The state has two choices. Release the data and defend themselves in a lawsuit or don't release the data and let a third party force Diebold to defend themselves in a lawsuit. Seems to me that the state of Alaska is letting the Democratic Party take the lead here - and I don't see a problem with it. Why waste taxpayer dollars and exposure to liability when a third party will foot the bill?
Besides, it gives good press to the Democratic Party and bad press to Diebold. As for the government, well, everybody hates the government already, right?
-h-
What is happening now is cultural suicide. No people should be allowed to extinguish their precious diversity.
I don't wear a kilt and I don't eat haggis, even on Robbie Burns' birthday (and you should be happy - nobody wants to see me in a kilt). I don't play the bagpipes.
And I don't farm or raise sheep on a tiny chunk of land on a barren, windswept rock of an island off the coast of Scotland. Why? Because my great great grandparents had the decency to get the hell off of Barra and high tail it to Canada. And after half a generation there, they moved south.
On the other hand, I do play golf. Badly.
-h-
Actually, since it's a federal case and he's in a federal prison, he'll serve the full term. There's no parole in the federal prison system. You serve what you get.
-h-
...maybe you can explain what you really
meant?
Google Monty Python. Don't be so serious, especially here.
Truth be told, your comment was neither attacked nor dismissed. Just held up for a little fun.
FWIW, my "work" is fun. And as a product of late '60s and '70s education, I went through the classic "brainwashing" education. Somehow I still managed to muddle through.
Even more interesting, my mother was one of the brainwashers! Go figure.
-h-
Also, there's "fixing" and there's "fixing". What needs to be fixed with a new spin of the silicon and what can be fixed with a microcode update?
It's blog news. Not exactly real news.
-h-
That's an interesting point. The Scottish programmer a couple of cubicles down is constantly cursing while he programs. The only hitch is that he, like every other Scotsman that I've known, doesn't seem to have a volume control (is that just a Scottish condition?) So he's kind of loud. It's not the cursing that bothers me. It's not really even the loudness. But put it together and it's a little disconcerting.
Also, I've been in the workforce for around 30 years and I've never had nor heard a manager raise his or her voice to anyone - other than when I was in the Navy, but I guess that's a given.
-h-
I think in order to keep a superficially ordered and hierarchical
society we grind kids down to fit them into the boxes you forsee,
and that they exist there is no argument.
Translation: "It's a fair cop, but society is to blame."
I worked on a data analysis project in the Navy. The computer system was a couple of VAX minicomputers in a cluster with terminals throughout the building. There were six Sun Sparcstations (yeah, it was a few years back) with no floppy drives. The building was divided into two sections - low security and high security. If you brought a briefcase, backpack, anything like that, it stayed in the low security area. All that you brought into the high security area was yourself. Anything else that you needed, the Navy got for you. And if it wasn't a consumable, it was tracked. The only way that anything left that secure area was in a burn bag or packaged and tracked.
We only had a staff of about 20, so it was relatively easy to manage.
Oh, and the building was an old torpedo training facility. Solid concrete walls, but the roof was designed so that if there was an explosion, it would all go straight up. So it wasn't exactly safe to walk on - there was always the danger of falling through. Right into the secure area. Go figure.
-h-
If you want to be pedantic...
.25, a 25% difference in temperature change. And that's the important number.
I don't want to be pedantic, but if I did, I'd consider the change in temperature as the important measurement. After all, there's not much chance that the computer will be working at anything near 0K. So, consider the "zero point" to be room temperature, or about 295K.
So, at normal voltage, the peak CPU temperature changed by 56K. With reduced voltage, the peak CPU temperature changed by 42K.
1 - (42K / 56K) =
-h-
Well, that certainly puts my mind at rest.
Well, look at this this way: if your small town's population is dwindling because there is no financial opportunity, at some point, the town will cease to exist. So, while financial success is not the only measure, it is certainly a foundation - if you can't make enough money to live where you want to live, then you move to a place where you can live.
Technology put new life into the town where I live. To the west is a major computer manufacturer and to the west is one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world. Both have drawn other tech companies as the industry has grown locally.
The small rurual communities around me were dying out, but now they're booming - and still maintaining a sense of small town America as well. Maybe it's an anomaly, but it's worked out here.
-h-
While you're researching, you might want to check to see just how readily plutonium oxidizes in the presence of heat. Rapid oxidization, or burning, produces a somewhat different effect than liquifying.
Oh, and the amount of plutonium is roughly a handful.
-h-