If you have 100 people approach and ALL 100 of them have mal-intent... and then system only alerts you to 78 or 80 of them... then sure, you've got a 78-80 percent success record I guess.
It'd be much nicer if 100 people approached and only ONE of them had mal-intent and it was able to spot that person 78-80% of the time... AS LONG AS it is 100% perfect at correctly identifying the other 99 innocent people as innocent people.
78-80% success rate doesn't sound so good if it means that I have a 20-22% chance of getting a full body cavity search every time I get within 500 feet of the police.
As long as you have put your [ database | web server | automobile | children ] in my care, I am 100% responsible for its safety.
You may have your [ database | web server | automobile | children ] back at any time. At that moment, I relinquish all responsibility and will not be held liable for any damage that results. You agree to accept full responsibility for its safety.
If you take over responsibility and then wish to return control to me, I will charge $150 an hour to inspect and verify the integrity of the database that is being returned to my care. I may refuse to assume responsibility for the database being returned to me if it has been altered in any way.
Hmmm... that's an interesting point. So what are the real numbers?
Let's say:
Airborn Hours = total # hours that all humans spend in the air in a year Driving Hours = total # hours that all humans spend in a car (either passenger or driver) in a year
So I want to know how (Automobile Deaths / Driving Hours) compares to (Airplane Deaths / Airborn Hours).
Pet Peeve: Data mining is about making statistical inferences based on a large group of data and extracting patterns that nobody saw before. Examining someone's address book, copying an email in the Outbox, and inserting junk in the middle of that is no more than low tech vandalism.
Bits can be copied. DRM will never work. So instead of praying for better DRM, let the music be free and serve as an *advertisement* for your concerts!
I've seen ticket prices as high as $400, $500 and up for seats to shows and that's fine. It's called supply and demand. Fans can't copy a concert seat, so they pay the going price.
Of course, all that being said, I think that the RIAA is wrong when they say that CD sales are down as a result of P2P. CD sales are down because the music sucks.
I was a user in that environment, not a sysadmin, I do not know how to set it up. I was merely trying to provide an avenue for the submitter to investigate.
Everything is very snappy. Most users do not realize that there is no hard drive. They are given scratch space that they can write to so it feels like they have a hard drive but that space disappears when the machine is rebooted.
As for multimedia, yes. They can run anything that a normal computer can run. Web browsers come with default plugins. A user can "install" their own plugins into the browser but of course, they disappear after a reboot. Users can "install" any software they like - go ahead, do your worst, we don't care, the next user up to the machine has all the skills and training necessary to bring the machine back to square one (reboot).
Since they have 5000+ machines, yes, these come from multiple servers. The submitter sounds like they have less than 20 which would probably work fine from one server. The University had this running 12 years ago so the techniques for getting it working should be well established and documented. Wish I could tell you more.
My university uses a set of machines without hard drives. Every PC on campus (more than 5000 of them) boot off the nic card. When you boot any machine, The OS and all the applications come into the machine from a central server. This way, no PC can catch a virus, have the kerel corrupted, have files erased, etc. Any machine can be returned to perfection with a simple reboot which takes about 30-40 seconds. That would at least address your maintenance problem.
While I would love to believe that we can get the whole world to work together, be polite to eachother, and sing songs and hold hands together, it's... umm... not going to happen. Why should I expect that the masses will buy and learn to use these phones correctly?
Cell phone jammers are the correct solution for when people don't know how to be polite.
1. lots of knowledge can only come from experience and effort and can't be taught 2. the field changes often so syntax changes often - general concepts move more slowly 3. not every consultant understands everything - you have to ask around 4. you learn by doing. doing comes from having work to do. find new tasks and try to do them. 5. lots of answers are already on the Internet. Google is your friend. Learn to use it well. 6. the people at slashdot and fark love to talk
Philosophical Rules:
1. If it can appear in a computer, it can be copied. There are no exceptions and never will be. 2. If you help other people, they will help you. Open Source is about working together, not communism and not piracy. 3. Learn why DRM is bad. 4. Perfect anonymity is possible on the Internet so complete censorship is impossible and always will be. 5. AOL is not the Internet and HTML screws up email
Technical Rules:
1. The Internet is slower than your computer. 2. Networks overlap - it's meaningless to say, "There are slowdowns in New York today". 3. understand bloat. Find out why the biggest isn't always the best. 4. The Web is a subset of the Internet. The Internet can do more than the Web. Email is not part of the Web. 5. Your connection to a remote site is made up of a series of connections and is as slow as the slowest link in the chain. 6. Understand asynchronous routing if you are going to use traceroute. Traceroute can only give you part of the story.
Why does everyone always think "sender pays" would kill mailing lists? When you sign up for the list, you would be told what "from" address you should whitelist. Then, the owner of the mailing list sends out the messages with ZERO postage.
Because that only works at the browser level. I wouldn't be able to use the gestures in Thunderbird, The Gimp, my text editor, my FTP client, my telnet window...
I'm looking for an app (and I think wayv might be it) that works at the OS level (or the X Windows level) so that the gestures affect any app that has a scroll bar - which is what I miss from when I used Pointix on Windows.
I'm a HUGE fan of mouse gestures. I used them for 3 years with a program called Pointix on Windows - which I dearly miss now that I'm on Linux.
It worked at the OS level so the gestures worked in EVERY program.
Circle left was the back button in ANY web browser. Circle right was the forward button. Right Click + Drag scrolled ANY window in the direction of the drag.
Text editors, email clients, spreadsheets, Photoshop. It worked everywhere because all the programs used a function in the OS for the scroll bars.
I could use my computer 10% faster - it made my life easier. How's that for a use? (I never use things just because "they're cool". That's not enough reason for me.)
How long have we been waiting for Dick Tracy's "Two Way Video Wristwatch" to be reality? As useless as this gadget is, it's still a long predicted milestone.
Also, Kubrik's 2001 came out 30 years ago and has that famous scene with the wireless videophone so it seems appropriate that this (again, useless) gadget will be available in a few months.
Spoofing isn't even necessary. I could easily hide behind a proxy. I could request a web page through anonymizer.com or from some proxy a friend sets up for me in a different country. You'd have no idea where I really am.
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And what do those stats 78% and 80% mean?
If you have 100 people approach and ALL 100 of them have mal-intent... and then system only alerts you to 78 or 80 of them... then sure, you've got a 78-80 percent success record I guess.
It'd be much nicer if 100 people approached and only ONE of them had mal-intent and it was able to spot that person 78-80% of the time... AS LONG AS it is 100% perfect at correctly identifying the other 99 innocent people as innocent people.
78-80% success rate doesn't sound so good if it means that I have a 20-22% chance of getting a full body cavity search every time I get within 500 feet of the police.
Can we examine pieces of metal from hundreds of years ago? Can we find out what George Washington's fingerprints looked like?
This is a standard contract issue.
As long as you have put your [ database | web server | automobile | children ] in my care, I am 100% responsible for its safety.
You may have your [ database | web server | automobile | children ] back at any time. At that moment, I relinquish all responsibility and will not be held liable for any damage that results. You agree to accept full responsibility for its safety.
If you take over responsibility and then wish to return control to me, I will charge $150 an hour to inspect and verify the integrity of the database that is being returned to my care. I may refuse to assume responsibility for the database being returned to me if it has been altered in any way.
I wonder if they use Orwell's 1984 in any of their English classes in Chicago?
I wonder what percent of Americans have read it?
Geeks arguing about exercise. Yeah - this oughta be good.
Hmmm... that's an interesting point. So what are the real numbers?
Let's say:
Airborn Hours = total # hours that all humans spend in the air in a year
Driving Hours = total # hours that all humans spend in a car (either passenger or driver) in a year
So I want to know how (Automobile Deaths / Driving Hours) compares to (Airplane Deaths / Airborn Hours).
Pet Peeve: Data mining is about making statistical inferences based on a large group of data and extracting patterns that nobody saw before.
Examining someone's address book, copying an email in the Outbox, and inserting junk in the middle of that is no more than low tech vandalism.
This is the way it's *supposed* to work.
Bits can be copied. DRM will never work. So instead of praying for better DRM, let the music be free and serve as an *advertisement* for your concerts!
I've seen ticket prices as high as $400, $500 and up for seats to shows and that's fine. It's called supply and demand. Fans can't copy a concert seat, so they pay the going price.
Of course, all that being said, I think that the RIAA is wrong when they say that CD sales are down as a result of P2P. CD sales are down because the music sucks.
I was a user in that environment, not a sysadmin, I do not know how to set it up. I was merely trying to provide an avenue for the submitter to investigate.
Everything is very snappy. Most users do not realize that there is no hard drive. They are given scratch space that they can write to so it feels like they have a hard drive but that space disappears when the machine is rebooted.
As for multimedia, yes. They can run anything that a normal computer can run. Web browsers come with default plugins. A user can "install" their own plugins into the browser but of course, they disappear after a reboot. Users can "install" any software they like - go ahead, do your worst, we don't care, the next user up to the machine has all the skills and training necessary to bring the machine back to square one (reboot).
Since they have 5000+ machines, yes, these come from multiple servers. The submitter sounds like they have less than 20 which would probably work fine from one server. The University had this running 12 years ago so the techniques for getting it working should be well established and documented. Wish I could tell you more.
My university uses a set of machines without hard drives. Every PC on campus (more than 5000 of them) boot off the nic card. When you boot any machine, The OS and all the applications come into the machine from a central server. This way, no PC can catch a virus, have the kerel corrupted, have files erased, etc. Any machine can be returned to perfection with a simple reboot which takes about 30-40 seconds. That would at least address your maintenance problem.
While I would love to believe that we can get the whole world to work together, be polite to eachother, and sing songs and hold hands together, it's... umm... not going to happen. Why should I expect that the masses will buy and learn to use these phones correctly?
Cell phone jammers are the correct solution for when people don't know how to be polite.
General Concepts:
1. lots of knowledge can only come from experience and effort and can't be taught
2. the field changes often so syntax changes often - general concepts move more slowly
3. not every consultant understands everything - you have to ask around
4. you learn by doing. doing comes from having work to do. find new tasks and try to do them.
5. lots of answers are already on the Internet. Google is your friend. Learn to use it well.
6. the people at slashdot and fark love to talk
Philosophical Rules:
1. If it can appear in a computer, it can be copied. There are no exceptions and never will be.
2. If you help other people, they will help you. Open Source is about working together, not communism and not piracy.
3. Learn why DRM is bad.
4. Perfect anonymity is possible on the Internet so complete censorship is impossible and always will be.
5. AOL is not the Internet and HTML screws up email
Technical Rules:
1. The Internet is slower than your computer.
2. Networks overlap - it's meaningless to say, "There are slowdowns in New York today".
3. understand bloat. Find out why the biggest isn't always the best.
4. The Web is a subset of the Internet. The Internet can do more than the Web. Email is not part of the Web.
5. Your connection to a remote site is made up of a series of connections and is as slow as the slowest link in the chain.
6. Understand asynchronous routing if you are going to use traceroute. Traceroute can only give you part of the story.
Why does everyone always think "sender pays" would kill mailing lists? When you sign up for the list, you would be told what "from" address you should whitelist. Then, the owner of the mailing list sends out the messages with ZERO postage.
Because that only works at the browser level. I wouldn't be able to use the gestures in Thunderbird, The Gimp, my text editor, my FTP client, my telnet window...
I'm looking for an app (and I think wayv might be it) that works at the OS level (or the X Windows level) so that the gestures affect any app that has a scroll bar - which is what I miss from when I used Pointix on Windows.
I'm a HUGE fan of mouse gestures. I used them for 3 years with a program called Pointix on Windows - which I dearly miss now that I'm on Linux.
It worked at the OS level so the gestures worked in EVERY program.
Circle left was the back button in ANY web browser. Circle right was the forward button.
Right Click + Drag scrolled ANY window in the direction of the drag.
Text editors, email clients, spreadsheets, Photoshop. It worked everywhere because all the programs used a function in the OS for the scroll bars.
I could use my computer 10% faster - it made my life easier. How's that for a use? (I never use things just because "they're cool". That's not enough reason for me.)
How long have we been waiting for Dick Tracy's "Two Way Video Wristwatch" to be reality? As useless as this gadget is, it's still a long predicted milestone. Also, Kubrik's 2001 came out 30 years ago and has that famous scene with the wireless videophone so it seems appropriate that this (again, useless) gadget will be available in a few months.
Spoofing isn't even necessary. I could easily hide behind a proxy. I could request a web page through anonymizer.com or from some proxy a friend sets up for me in a different country. You'd have no idea where I really am.