At the high school I went to we had a 3D animation class running xsi softimage. It was a fun class and I eventually became the TA. I then discovered that all of the computers in the entire school district had been wired using fiber underground. This wasn't 5000 computers, but still it was a good 800 or so unused. For our 3D class most computers would be set to render and they would stay on all night. The next morning (usually over the weekend) we would come back to see if our work was done.
I had the genius idea to install the headless xsi renderfarm backend software (can't remember the name of it) on all of the computer in the district. This way the rendering could be greatly accelerated over the school district. The problem is the education license of softimage is everything the full retail version has with a limitation on multi computer rendering. After I ran tests on the software for a week planning to streamline the software into every computer, the school got a call. The xsi people called letting us know of our license restrictions. Because of this, the plan never went through. However, I never would of in a million years have foreseen a consequence like being charged 1mil because of the pissy school district.
Sometimes in the IT world when you think outside the box and it does genuinely help it only comes back to bite you in the ass regardless. *sigh*
I could be wrong. I only speak from light personal experience but if you set the program to run at idle priority via windows (not inside the program) it really does not slow down the machine, even a single core machine. However, it will rarely run at 100% cpu either.
What one needs to do is set the program to bootup from a.bat file (or as a service) with/idle after the program path (if i remember correctly). This allows windows itself to set the program to the lowest priority. If you set the priority to low inside the program it hardly does anything at all.
Obtaining a router that supports 802.11n's 300+ mbps is far more important because the router actually has to do math for the wireless signal and most routers today are designed to run standard at those speeds with wpa2 turned on.
Getting any semi decent N gigabit router on the market should do it.
Nice rant, but you miss the point. If someone is getting away with murder are you going to let them?
You make it sound like she is getting away with murder and yet instead of blaming her and having her take consequences for her actions you point a finger at someone else who has little to no relation to the issue at hand allowing the original 'villain' to get away scot free.
Take it from another angle. If the president directly does something wrong do you blame him for it directly or do you blame yourself and everyone else in the country that elected that president? Is it ok to blame someone who elected someone else for that someone else's mistake? Shouldn't you be blaming the person directly at fault?
More accurately: he is _trying_ to do what he said he would. imho, there is a big difference between someone elected who sells out and directly lies and one that tries regardless if he/she gets it done. I'd rather have an honest politician that does nothing than a politician that sells out. That and it seems people are never happy. Everything has to be perfect. If there is one flaw, even nothing that effects their policies then off with their head! ffs, can't people just be content that we at least have honesty in the white house?
It is congress that changes things not the president. If the president does not represent congress (centrist) then congress and the pres will be at a stalemate. It takes a centrist president (by congress' standards, not the citizens) to be able to change things.
The title of the story is, "Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned" except that the story has nothing to do with Obama and calling this the 'Obama Administration' is a bit of a stretch as well.
It is Elena Kagan, not Obama. Her job is the United States Solicitor General. She is represents the US as a prosecutor for the Supreme Court. Isn't she just doing her job?
I don't understand how one person doing what they are suppose to be doing means Obama is against our rights. The connection just isn't there for me.
So if a company 'cheats' the system, as in they do not pay for a license then they do not legally have to accept an audit without a court order. However, if a company is legitimate and buys a proper license then they have to legally accept an audit?
Sounds like the safe solution is to cheat the system.
I'm not really quite sure what consists of as 'most' especially when opinions vary from generation to generation.
I know for a fact that China has a GIANT bit torrent user base and a large p2p, in general, user base. My guess is that many use this to circumvent the firewall.
Also, most people I talk to seem to be quite anti FCC when it comes to restricting the freedom of speech which generally is the same thing china is doing except for television. However, I do know a good number of people who are pro regulating the internet for the user so corporations can't take advantage and do what China does.
It really depends where you are and who you're talking to.
Your ideas are right but the different lidar guns flash at different rates so you can't just spam random light at it. You have to have a device that will see these flashes, identify what type of gun it is, and then send flashes back that fuck up the reading.
There are a couple of good lidar jammers on the market but the really good ones are on the 'grey' market aka they are foreign. Guys of lidar (google it) have done lidar jamming tests so you can see which jammers are good.
POP has unanimously across this country been labeled as inaccurate. It even says it in the radar guns manual (which can be used in court btw).
To bad it is hard to tell if you've been popped. Most officers know better but some still do it. The best thing you can do is when you get pulled over be all friendly to the officer and act like his radar gun is the coolest thing in the world. If you word everything right you might be able to get him to acknowledge he has been using some sort of instant on and then use his words against him in court.
Yes if you're 100 feet away. I'd like to see you hold a laser up to a moving vehicle 2000 feet away and not expect it to bounce all over the place, including other vehicles. Also, try doing that all day long for 40 hours a week. This is why in europe they use tripods and are required to have cameras on the lidar guns proving it did not bounce all over the place. Most guns (around 1/3rd) in this country are used lidar guns from the UK because they where not accurate enough and where flawed devices so they sold them to this country and then the USA took the cameras off to remove proof of their inaccuracy.
No actually. Radar obtains speed of a vehicle in less than a MS I believe. (speculation) But lidar takes anywhere from 0.1 second to about 2 seconds. Usually most readings are obtained in.2 to.4 seconds.
It isn't that radar isn't accurate, because it is. It is more that radar can't identify what is what and since most KA radar guns have a 2 mile range (much farther for K and X) then an officer can shoot their radar gun at you and the speed reading might actually be a vehicle out of site.
To counter this radar guns today are usually based around finding the highest speed in a crowd and only stating that or the largest. Most are programmable. This way if the cop is on a 5 line highway and they see one vehicle going twice the speed as everyone else they can set it to highest speed mode and be assured they have the speed of that vehicle.
Two problems accure from that: 1) If there is a faster vehicle out of sight. or 2) If the officer is only looking at the left most lane and never paying attention to any of the other lanes. It is common for someone in the left hand lane to go 75mph here and someone going 90mph in the very right most lane because how open it is. If an officer shoots at the left lane driver it will show 90mph.
Lidar was made by Geico Insurance as a way to counter this issue. Problem is, lidar is far from accurate even if you know who you're hitting. It is completely the opposite of radar.
Lidar shouldn't be legal. It was made by big business only to increase profits without any thought to the legitimacy of it.
Exaggerating the length of the bill(s) is pointless. There is about as much content on a single page of a bill as a page on a Goosebumps book. Everything is double spaced, giant font size, and there is enough white space on the sides to kill multiple trees.
Not only that but most of the bill is super redundant. I'm not sure why but it feels like someone with altimers wrote these bills.
The bill pushes for a medicare like system for people making below a certain income bracket so they do not have to worry about paying if they can not afford it. This will also help the unemployed. How many people in this country get fired because an extended leave due to a medical issue and then can not pay it because they now have no job?
The bill covers every situation imaginable except restricting prices on health care companies like japan and many other countries do. The second you force everyone to get health insurance it is almost like a monopoly. They jump the prices up on everyone because they can not because they have to. The solution is to have the gov regulate the prices and have health insurance companies compete via service not goods. One step at a time...
Not only that but I had health insurance from the day I was born and arguably before that through my mother. When I turned 18 and decided to move out of the area I was living in my health insurance did not extend to that area so I had to get new heath insurance. I'm 22 now and have no health insurance because I can't get it because of a pre existing condition. I have a hormon based birth defect that requires me to take birth control. It is a minor issue and I would be taking birth control anyways (yes, i'm female) but because of this 'birth defect' it is a pre existing condition even if I had heath insurance my entire life.
This case started right after CA bought Lidar guns to use as speed enforcement in the state. Lidar, unlike radar, does not measure speed but distance. It takes multiple distance readings, does some simple math, and then finds the average speed from those readings.
So right when our state upgrades to technology that is near identical to GPS the courts throw out GPS as an accurate source of data because GPS does not measure speed but a mean of multiple distance readings.
If I get a speeding ticket via lidar in the future I'm going to have to pull up this case and turn the tables around because this is ridiculous and ironic, if anything.
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At the high school I went to we had a 3D animation class running xsi softimage. It was a fun class and I eventually became the TA. I then discovered that all of the computers in the entire school district had been wired using fiber underground. This wasn't 5000 computers, but still it was a good 800 or so unused. For our 3D class most computers would be set to render and they would stay on all night. The next morning (usually over the weekend) we would come back to see if our work was done.
I had the genius idea to install the headless xsi renderfarm backend software (can't remember the name of it) on all of the computer in the district. This way the rendering could be greatly accelerated over the school district. The problem is the education license of softimage is everything the full retail version has with a limitation on multi computer rendering. After I ran tests on the software for a week planning to streamline the software into every computer, the school got a call. The xsi people called letting us know of our license restrictions. Because of this, the plan never went through. However, I never would of in a million years have foreseen a consequence like being charged 1mil because of the pissy school district.
Sometimes in the IT world when you think outside the box and it does genuinely help it only comes back to bite you in the ass regardless. *sigh*
I could be wrong. I only speak from light personal experience but if you set the program to run at idle priority via windows (not inside the program) it really does not slow down the machine, even a single core machine. However, it will rarely run at 100% cpu either.
What one needs to do is set the program to bootup from a .bat file (or as a service) with /idle after the program path (if i remember correctly). This allows windows itself to set the program to the lowest priority. If you set the priority to low inside the program it hardly does anything at all.
In another news source it says he was given explicit permission to run the software.
I have a feeling none of us know the whole story.
Obtaining a router that supports 802.11n's 300+ mbps is far more important because the router actually has to do math for the wireless signal and most routers today are designed to run standard at those speeds with wpa2 turned on.
Getting any semi decent N gigabit router on the market should do it.
Does 'magic' still work?
Nice rant, but you miss the point.
If someone is getting away with murder are you going to let them?
You make it sound like she is getting away with murder and yet instead of blaming her and having her take consequences for her actions you point a finger at someone else who has little to no relation to the issue at hand allowing the original 'villain' to get away scot free.
Take it from another angle. If the president directly does something wrong do you blame him for it directly or do you blame yourself and everyone else in the country that elected that president? Is it ok to blame someone who elected someone else for that someone else's mistake? Shouldn't you be blaming the person directly at fault?
More accurately: he is _trying_ to do what he said he would. imho, there is a big difference between someone elected who sells out and directly lies and one that tries regardless if he/she gets it done. I'd rather have an honest politician that does nothing than a politician that sells out. That and it seems people are never happy. Everything has to be perfect. If there is one flaw, even nothing that effects their policies then off with their head! ffs, can't people just be content that we at least have honesty in the white house?
Regardless what it is that doesn't make it right. I believe in blaming the person responsible, not the team they represent.
It is congress that changes things not the president. If the president does not represent congress (centrist) then congress and the pres will be at a stalemate. It takes a centrist president (by congress' standards, not the citizens) to be able to change things.
The title of the story is, "Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned" except that the story has nothing to do with Obama and calling this the 'Obama Administration' is a bit of a stretch as well.
It is Elena Kagan, not Obama. Her job is the United States Solicitor General. She is represents the US as a prosecutor for the Supreme Court. Isn't she just doing her job?
I don't understand how one person doing what they are suppose to be doing means Obama is against our rights. The connection just isn't there for me.
Sounds very nazi like.. the people watching the people. uggg...
So if a company 'cheats' the system, as in they do not pay for a license then they do not legally have to accept an audit without a court order. However, if a company is legitimate and buys a proper license then they have to legally accept an audit?
Sounds like the safe solution is to cheat the system.
I'm not really quite sure what consists of as 'most' especially when opinions vary from generation to generation.
I know for a fact that China has a GIANT bit torrent user base and a large p2p, in general, user base. My guess is that many use this to circumvent the firewall.
Also, most people I talk to seem to be quite anti FCC when it comes to restricting the freedom of speech which generally is the same thing china is doing except for television. However, I do know a good number of people who are pro regulating the internet for the user so corporations can't take advantage and do what China does.
It really depends where you are and who you're talking to.
I think it is important to keep in mind that transsexuals have been around for thousands of years.
Your ideas are right but the different lidar guns flash at different rates so you can't just spam random light at it. You have to have a device that will see these flashes, identify what type of gun it is, and then send flashes back that fuck up the reading.
There are a couple of good lidar jammers on the market but the really good ones are on the 'grey' market aka they are foreign. Guys of lidar (google it) have done lidar jamming tests so you can see which jammers are good.
POP has unanimously across this country been labeled as inaccurate. It even says it in the radar guns manual (which can be used in court btw).
To bad it is hard to tell if you've been popped. Most officers know better but some still do it. The best thing you can do is when you get pulled over be all friendly to the officer and act like his radar gun is the coolest thing in the world. If you word everything right you might be able to get him to acknowledge he has been using some sort of instant on and then use his words against him in court.
Yes if you're 100 feet away. I'd like to see you hold a laser up to a moving vehicle 2000 feet away and not expect it to bounce all over the place, including other vehicles. Also, try doing that all day long for 40 hours a week. This is why in europe they use tripods and are required to have cameras on the lidar guns proving it did not bounce all over the place. Most guns (around 1/3rd) in this country are used lidar guns from the UK because they where not accurate enough and where flawed devices so they sold them to this country and then the USA took the cameras off to remove proof of their inaccuracy.
No actually. Radar obtains speed of a vehicle in less than a MS I believe. (speculation) But lidar takes anywhere from 0.1 second to about 2 seconds. Usually most readings are obtained in .2 to .4 seconds.
It isn't that radar isn't accurate, because it is. It is more that radar can't identify what is what and since most KA radar guns have a 2 mile range (much farther for K and X) then an officer can shoot their radar gun at you and the speed reading might actually be a vehicle out of site.
To counter this radar guns today are usually based around finding the highest speed in a crowd and only stating that or the largest. Most are programmable. This way if the cop is on a 5 line highway and they see one vehicle going twice the speed as everyone else they can set it to highest speed mode and be assured they have the speed of that vehicle.
Two problems accure from that: 1) If there is a faster vehicle out of sight. or 2) If the officer is only looking at the left most lane and never paying attention to any of the other lanes. It is common for someone in the left hand lane to go 75mph here and someone going 90mph in the very right most lane because how open it is. If an officer shoots at the left lane driver it will show 90mph.
Lidar was made by Geico Insurance as a way to counter this issue. Problem is, lidar is far from accurate even if you know who you're hitting. It is completely the opposite of radar.
Lidar shouldn't be legal. It was made by big business only to increase profits without any thought to the legitimacy of it.
Watch out! This will turn up on Fox News if we echo such a joke.
Exaggerating the length of the bill(s) is pointless. There is about as much content on a single page of a bill as a page on a Goosebumps book. Everything is double spaced, giant font size, and there is enough white space on the sides to kill multiple trees.
Not only that but most of the bill is super redundant. I'm not sure why but it feels like someone with altimers wrote these bills.
The bill pushes for a medicare like system for people making below a certain income bracket so they do not have to worry about paying if they can not afford it. This will also help the unemployed. How many people in this country get fired because an extended leave due to a medical issue and then can not pay it because they now have no job?
The bill covers every situation imaginable except restricting prices on health care companies like japan and many other countries do. The second you force everyone to get health insurance it is almost like a monopoly. They jump the prices up on everyone because they can not because they have to. The solution is to have the gov regulate the prices and have health insurance companies compete via service not goods. One step at a time...
Not only that but I had health insurance from the day I was born and arguably before that through my mother. When I turned 18 and decided to move out of the area I was living in my health insurance did not extend to that area so I had to get new heath insurance. I'm 22 now and have no health insurance because I can't get it because of a pre existing condition. I have a hormon based birth defect that requires me to take birth control. It is a minor issue and I would be taking birth control anyways (yes, i'm female) but because of this 'birth defect' it is a pre existing condition even if I had heath insurance my entire life.
The entire system is corrupt.
This case started right after CA bought Lidar guns to use as speed enforcement in the state. Lidar, unlike radar, does not measure speed but distance. It takes multiple distance readings, does some simple math, and then finds the average speed from those readings.
So right when our state upgrades to technology that is near identical to GPS the courts throw out GPS as an accurate source of data because GPS does not measure speed but a mean of multiple distance readings.
If I get a speeding ticket via lidar in the future I'm going to have to pull up this case and turn the tables around because this is ridiculous and ironic, if anything.
You know, there actually are females on slashdot...