First of all, what the hell are you doing on slashdot? Does your wife in fact make you grovel over every $20 purchase? Were you that guy at the Microcenter in Ohio begging, pleading into the cellphone for permission from your slavemaster to spend a pittance on something you would enjoy? You know, it is possible to go through life standing up, not on your knees.
OK, I'm not married, but recently when I was at the computer store, I overheard this scrawny guy on the phone with his wife begging her for permission to get the 2G instead of the 1G RAM upgrade. His whiny, pathetic, groveling demeanor over a $20 difference in price, and his futile attempts to explain to her why 2G is better than 1G, made me absolutely want to vomit. I'm not married, but I vowed that day to either divorce or kill myself if I ever find myself to be such a pathetic, spineless loser.
So my advice to the married chumps out there is to keep a separate bank account for discretionary purchases which your wives have neither control of nor access to. Life without self-respect (and gadgets) is not worth living.
This means that you can upgrade your CPU now without needing to change your motherboard or buy pricey new DDR3 memory.
Other than starving CIS majors, who barely earn enough money from their university's computer lab to pay for Ramen Noodles, who does that? IT professionals would just buy all the hardware together because their time is worth more than their money, and everybody else just buys entire new computers. This could only appeal to a handful of small-budget kids.
Sometimes I wonder if you guys have a cron job running to notify you if a discussion of slashdot UIDs ever comes up. You never post much else, just the "mine's shorter" comments.
Truecrypt is not appropriate because it does not have centralized management capabilities. Trucrypt is an amazing program for a knowledgeable individual to use, but is simply lacking in features organizations require.
I don't have a complete answer (I know Checkpoint offers a product that claims to do this, but I haven't tested it). I will say that encrypting everything is easy; managing keys is the difficult part. Keep that in mind while evaluating.
The upshot is, you may want to test drive very carefully any display boasting low integer millisecond pixel response times.
First of all, I'm not really sure why that's considered a "upshot." But more importantly, I baffled by the submitters implication that I would have to carefully test an 8ms lag screen but not a 7.5 or 8.2ms screen. Huh?
For a database to be "most popular among PHP developers" is probably bad thing, actually. Microsoft Access is most popular among Visual Basic developers.
Mind explaining why? Here, we use SQLite for apps with small numbers of users and small DB size. We use Postgres for large or high load databases. So where is the niche for MySQL?
As a security professional, I can tell you that the only malware that scares me personally is the stuff that the virus scanner doesn't know about.
Furthermore, I have run virus scanners on my personal machines for years without seeing even one detection. The computer I use for gaming does not run virus scanners at all, and I see no malware traffic in the network logs for that box.
Virus scanners do not protect responsible net users. They do protect irresponsible net users from common malware.
The statistics you quote simply do not support the argument you are making because they do not control for income.
I do not know if it is the case that you honestly do not understand statistics, or that you are using sophistry to push an agenda. Either way, your error should be obvious to an educated person.
As someone who grew up around poor white people, I find your statement offensive. "The system" treats all poor people badly, regardless of ancestry (see sig).
Does the RFID tag provide any security, though? RFID is just a barcode. If I were designing such a system, the RFID would contain a database key, and which would be used to look up a photo and other important information in a centralized passport database.
So cloning a passport would be pretty worthless, because you can't change the photos and such in the database.
n00bz with college degrees in CS/IT make $60k these days. A job making only $30k would sort of defeat the primary purpose of going to college (and taking major debt to do so).
Homosexual taboos are documented as going way, way back. Documentation of the taboo appears in ancient Hebrew religious texts, for example. It is *not* a recent development in human history. This is not the same as saying it was shared by every ancient society (which is the mistake you are making).
Our brains are hard-wired for taboos because they helped primitive societies avoid disasters.
There is a lot of "noise" in the taboo "signal", for example: taboo words. But some taboos (against incest, or eating certain things) were socially useful. Even the common taboo against homosexual sex could have been beneficial to primitive societies because such practices were significantly more likely to spread disease through the population. Obviously, modern medicine makes this a non-issue, today.
I would say it is unrealistic to expect a society to have no useless taboos, because they are physically part of our brains. But if we stop using government to enforce useless taboos, we will have advanced.
Intel has claimed that they will get rid of the need for GPUs by adding GPU cores to their CPUs. NVidia has claimed that CPUs don't matter much anymore, and that their GPUs are what consumers really need to go forward.
Time will tell who is right, so I own both INTC and NVDA;-)
Yeah, I have an Atom netbook with the Intel GPU, and it is a little slow for full-screen HD video (hulu). I would love it if an NVIDIA GPU were an option, even for significantly more money.
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First of all, what the hell are you doing on slashdot? Does your wife in fact make you grovel over every $20 purchase? Were you that guy at the Microcenter in Ohio begging, pleading into the cellphone for permission from your slavemaster to spend a pittance on something you would enjoy? You know, it is possible to go through life standing up, not on your knees.
OK, I'm not married, but recently when I was at the computer store, I overheard this scrawny guy on the phone with his wife begging her for permission to get the 2G instead of the 1G RAM upgrade. His whiny, pathetic, groveling demeanor over a $20 difference in price, and his futile attempts to explain to her why 2G is better than 1G, made me absolutely want to vomit. I'm not married, but I vowed that day to either divorce or kill myself if I ever find myself to be such a pathetic, spineless loser.
So my advice to the married chumps out there is to keep a separate bank account for discretionary purchases which your wives have neither control of nor access to. Life without self-respect (and gadgets) is not worth living.
Other than starving CIS majors, who barely earn enough money from their university's computer lab to pay for Ramen Noodles, who does that? IT professionals would just buy all the hardware together because their time is worth more than their money, and everybody else just buys entire new computers. This could only appeal to a handful of small-budget kids.
Sometimes I wonder if you guys have a cron job running to notify you if a discussion of slashdot UIDs ever comes up. You never post much else, just the "mine's shorter" comments.
Truecrypt is not appropriate because it does not have centralized management capabilities. Trucrypt is an amazing program for a knowledgeable individual to use, but is simply lacking in features organizations require.
I don't have a complete answer (I know Checkpoint offers a product that claims to do this, but I haven't tested it). I will say that encrypting everything is easy; managing keys is the difficult part. Keep that in mind while evaluating.
... and you don't risk getting sued into bankruptcy this way ...
The turbo was a switch used to underclock a CPU in order to run older software.
CCP is encouraging users of the Linux EVE client to upgrade to the OpenOffice.org Calc application.
First of all, I'm not really sure why that's considered a "upshot." But more importantly, I baffled by the submitters implication that I would have to carefully test an 8ms lag screen but not a 7.5 or 8.2ms screen. Huh?
For a database to be "most popular among PHP developers" is probably bad thing, actually. Microsoft Access is most popular among Visual Basic developers.
Mind explaining why? Here, we use SQLite for apps with small numbers of users and small DB size. We use Postgres for large or high load databases. So where is the niche for MySQL?
As a security professional, I can tell you that the only malware that scares me personally is the stuff that the virus scanner doesn't know about.
Furthermore, I have run virus scanners on my personal machines for years without seeing even one detection. The computer I use for gaming does not run virus scanners at all, and I see no malware traffic in the network logs for that box.
Virus scanners do not protect responsible net users. They do protect irresponsible net users from common malware.
The statistics you quote simply do not support the argument you are making because they do not control for income.
I do not know if it is the case that you honestly do not understand statistics, or that you are using sophistry to push an agenda. Either way, your error should be obvious to an educated person.
As someone who grew up around poor white people, I find your statement offensive. "The system" treats all poor people badly, regardless of ancestry (see sig).
Surprisingly, it was revealed that funding for liver replacement research was provided entirely by the liquor industry.
Does the RFID tag provide any security, though? RFID is just a barcode. If I were designing such a system, the RFID would contain a database key, and which would be used to look up a photo and other important information in a centralized passport database.
So cloning a passport would be pretty worthless, because you can't change the photos and such in the database.
Didn't they do it this way?
That's what she said.
n00bz with college degrees in CS/IT make $60k these days. A job making only $30k would sort of defeat the primary purpose of going to college (and taking major debt to do so).
This is where you blame QA.
Homosexual taboos are documented as going way, way back. Documentation of the taboo appears in ancient Hebrew religious texts, for example. It is *not* a recent development in human history. This is not the same as saying it was shared by every ancient society (which is the mistake you are making).
What harm has the hydrogen bomb ever done?
Here is the HD version.
Our brains are hard-wired for taboos because they helped primitive societies avoid disasters.
There is a lot of "noise" in the taboo "signal", for example: taboo words. But some taboos (against incest, or eating certain things) were socially useful. Even the common taboo against homosexual sex could have been beneficial to primitive societies because such practices were significantly more likely to spread disease through the population. Obviously, modern medicine makes this a non-issue, today.
I would say it is unrealistic to expect a society to have no useless taboos, because they are physically part of our brains. But if we stop using government to enforce useless taboos, we will have advanced.
Intel has claimed that they will get rid of the need for GPUs by adding GPU cores to their CPUs. NVidia has claimed that CPUs don't matter much anymore, and that their GPUs are what consumers really need to go forward.
Time will tell who is right, so I own both INTC and NVDA ;-)
Yeah, I have an Atom netbook with the Intel GPU, and it is a little slow for full-screen HD video (hulu). I would love it if an NVIDIA GPU were an option, even for significantly more money.
On the other hand, I got a netbook so I could escape the distractions of TV, video games, and home; and instead escape to a café where I can actually get work done.