For the first few times I saw IMAX it was good. Then IMAX decided to create just a large flat screen and slap IMAX logo to wring cash. The large flat screen is nowhere near the IMAX parabolic dome screen. Then very good head phones came to the market that will compensate for outside noise and deliver deafening sound without all the 18 kW speakers IMAX uses. After all the technical things, what really sucks is the fare they are showing. How many times can one watch the Colorado river and the polar ice caps? It has become so bad local science museum has made IMAX free with membership.
Now will they dare to ask slashdot to take down my comments?
What are the headphones that compare to the surround sound experience of an IMAX theater? Or did you just mean that headphones can be loud?
Are those fiber links really from 2 independent providers? Where my company most needs redundancy, the fiber is owned & maintaned by a single provider and every one is a reseller.
One fiber goes out to the street where it connects to AT&T's fiber ring, a single fiber cut could take out our building, but it would take 2 cuts to take out AT&T's ring.
The second fiber connection goes up to the roof where it's connected to a (microwave?) transmitter that hits an antenna about 5 miles away where the provider has their own backhaul to an IXP.
Right now there's a massive push for even the smallest web projects to be "cloud scale" to this degree. No, the crazy custom shit that Google does in their datacenter is not something you need in YOUR datacenter.
I thought the current push was for the smallest web projects to run on a public cloud like Google or Amazon, so if you need this kind of scale, you can have it, but you don't have to pay for it until you need it. Is there some other push to drive companies to create their own datacenters to give them the ability to scale?
I know my company is completely in the cloud, there are literally no servers in the "server room", just switches and a firewall. Oh, and two 1 Gig fiber connections from 2 providers.
Dividing by zero is, by definition, undefined, why would you want divide by zero to be equal to zero? If you don't trap it and handle it appropriately, you'll be generating undefined results.
What is the use case for having divide by zero equal to zero? (except, perhaps for 0 / 0 where you really want it to be zero, but I can't think of any other case where having any number divided by zero equal to zero would give correct behavior).
I remember when the iButton (and the Java ring with a java iButton embedded in the ring) came out, *that* was going to eliminate passwords - just hold your ring up to the iButton reader on your door, your computer, or any thing you want to secure. Passwords are a thing of the past when you have your iButton.
It's only been 17 years, so I'm sure we'll start seeing the readers built in to computers any day now.
over the period when the misleading advertising was going on
It's not clear what the correct period should be. AT&T assumed that their advertising was fine until told otherwise. If the FCC had fined them after 1 day of misleading advertising, then AT&T would have paid a small fine and stopped. It turns out that the FCC reacted more slowly. AT&T shouldn't be punished proportionally with the slowness of law enforcement.
You should try that excuse after you get a speeding ticket: Sure officer, I knew that going 100mph was against the law, but if you would have stopped me at 56 mph instead of taking your time and waiting until I reached 100mph, the fine would be much smaller. I shouldn't be punished proportionally with the slowness of law enforcement
Covering over black so that it doesn't show isn't easy. It can take a surprising number of coats to do the job. Sometimes you can strip all of the paint off the wall and start fresh; other times you're better off going with wallpaper. Still, I agree with you that the father deserves an A++ for understanding that it was an accident.
I haven't come across anything that this won't cover:
I liked being able to use my bank and accept paypal since people use it.
Instead, I'd just use my credit card directly for online purchases, subscriptions, and I'd only accept the main credit card companies for my payment gateway.
I think many sellers would see less business if they stop accepting Paypal -- I like paypal payments because I don't want to give out my credit card number to random people on the internet -even if my money is not at risk, credit card fraud is annoying to deal with (have to identify all of the fraudulent charges, update payment info for recurring charges, etc). There's a lot of smaller merchants that I just wouldn't buy from if I had to give them a CC number.
Is there a viable competitor to Paypal? Google and/or Apple could probably come up with a competitive service, but they seem to want Android/IOS lock-in more than they want to provide a service. Maybe Google Wallet already offers everything paypal does?
If paypal demanded I receive robo calls on my fucking phone line as part of their fucking service, as someone who has been completely happy with paypal up to that point, I'd drop them like the biggest fucking rock into the biggest fucking ocean with a large karploosh like someone taking a giant shit and flushing it down the fucking toliet.
Where would you go? you signed up with Paypal for a reason, what is the next best alternative?
Not necessarily. Any child who has a parent who would immediately think 'is that a logarithmic spiral' rather than 'how in the hell am I going to clean this mess up and how much is it going to cost me' is pretty much assured to wind up really fucked up.
Really? That's how you define bad parenting? A parent that's excited about a learning opportunity after a messy accident rather than being upset about something that a few dollars of touchup paint can cover over?
Some parents have literally killed children over far less, this parent gets an A++ in my book.
He should be too. Have you seen what septic engineers make these days? No seriously, it's insane. Some of them even get in to the six figures.
I haven't seen what a septic engineer makes, but I'd imagine that they make the same thing as that guy's son, but larger (though 6 figures sounds like exaggeration unless you're measuring in milligrams). Of course, it all goes the same place when it's flushed.
The headline seems to have a typo, it shouldn't be Australian ISPs Will Be Forced To Block (Some) Pirate Websites, but rather Australian ISPs Will Be Unable To Block (Any) Pirate Websites
"A completely new alkaline battery is rated to generate 1.5 volts, but once its output drops below 1.35 or even 1.4 volts, it effectively becomes useless to many devices. "
And yet I can't recall any device that didn't work happily with the 1.2v supplied by a rechargeable NiMH.
The remote for my old Sony TV refused to work with NiMH's, but since the remote lasted for a couple years of regular use with a pair of Alkalines, this $10 battery booster wouldn't really be worth it.
Why wouldN'T deleting a picture on a phone NOT also remove it on the backup device?
You're confusing mirroring with backup. If Google just mirrored what you did on your phone and deleted photos automatically when you delete them from your phone, then it's no longer a "backup device".
Though if you don't want Google to backup your photos, you can turn it off.
Sub question: Would you care if you lost a few blocks of data? Bit rot is a serious concern but the problem is an isolated one. If I lost a single photo on my computer I may be lightly upset, but no where near as upset as losing all the data on my drive.
Like you said, it depends which block.
I could have a corrupt block in the middle of a movie file and not even notice, but if I lost a block near the beginning of a large compressed archive file, I may lose the entire archive -- and if it's silent corruption undetected by the filesystem or disk drive, it may be propagated to all of my backups before it's discovered.
I'd rather have the drive fail entirely versus slow undetected block corruption.
That either you're exaggerating or you do something very, very wrong with your drives? I use low-end, cheapest of the cheapest consumer-SSDs and for example this 64GB drive I have has logged 9607 hours of power-on time. Has it broken yet? No. Are there any issues with it? Nope, not a single one. I do have to ask you: what exactly do you do with those drives of yours if you manage to break them so fast?
Unless you use a checksumming filesystem (zfs, btrfs, etc) and regularly scrub the filesystem (both data and metadata), would you even know if you lost a few blocks of data?
It's good to have a healthy fear of asterisks -- there's a big difference between "rm -rf *.tmp" and "rm -rf *.tmp"
Asterisks are nothing compared to slashes. You should try "rm -rf */", as root, of course.
That hasn't been a problem for quite some time... As long as you didn't do something like "touch./--no-preserve-root" beforehand, all that will do is remove all of the non-hidden files from your current directory:
[user@test]$ sudo rm -rf * / rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `/' rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
You would probably get a faster response when you provide dates, badges, etc.
Just a sweeping request of everything is a stupid stunt and of no benefit at all. Unless you really believe he is going to view all six years worth of data from hundreds of officers.
The problem is that not all abuse is reported so you don't always have dates, badges, etc.
If you can make a sweeping request and enlist volunteers (or even computer algorithms) to look for abuse, you may uncover actionable patterns that can be followed up by specific FOIA requests for original footage.
And you believe that the blurred copy is the one that is archived and reviewed for security, and future use in court? the only copy? rather than the original footage that could actually be used to prove a particular person is the one who did something? Sorry, that sounds inconsistent.
Why doesn't anyone read the articles any more?
This guy has nothing to do with the original footage -- the originals are still used for court and other police use (internal affairs investigations, etc). This guy's job is to automatically redact videos so they can be released to the public without paying police to sit down and manually review every video.
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For the first few times I saw IMAX it was good. Then IMAX decided to create just a large flat screen and slap IMAX logo to wring cash. The large flat screen is nowhere near the IMAX parabolic dome screen. Then very good head phones came to the market that will compensate for outside noise and deliver deafening sound without all the 18 kW speakers IMAX uses. After all the technical things, what really sucks is the fare they are showing. How many times can one watch the Colorado river and the polar ice caps? It has become so bad local science museum has made IMAX free with membership.
Now will they dare to ask slashdot to take down my comments?
What are the headphones that compare to the surround sound experience of an IMAX theater? Or did you just mean that headphones can be loud?
Are those fiber links really from 2 independent providers? Where my company most needs redundancy, the fiber is owned & maintaned by a single provider and every one is a reseller.
One fiber goes out to the street where it connects to AT&T's fiber ring, a single fiber cut could take out our building, but it would take 2 cuts to take out AT&T's ring.
The second fiber connection goes up to the roof where it's connected to a (microwave?) transmitter that hits an antenna about 5 miles away where the provider has their own backhaul to an IXP.
Right now there's a massive push for even the smallest web projects to be "cloud scale" to this degree. No, the crazy custom shit that Google does in their datacenter is not something you need in YOUR datacenter.
I thought the current push was for the smallest web projects to run on a public cloud like Google or Amazon, so if you need this kind of scale, you can have it, but you don't have to pay for it until you need it. Is there some other push to drive companies to create their own datacenters to give them the ability to scale?
I know my company is completely in the cloud, there are literally no servers in the "server room", just switches and a firewall. Oh, and two 1 Gig fiber connections from 2 providers.
Dividing by zero is, by definition, undefined, why would you want divide by zero to be equal to zero? If you don't trap it and handle it appropriately, you'll be generating undefined results.
What is the use case for having divide by zero equal to zero? (except, perhaps for 0 / 0 where you really want it to be zero, but I can't think of any other case where having any number divided by zero equal to zero would give correct behavior).
I remember when the iButton (and the Java ring with a java iButton embedded in the ring) came out, *that* was going to eliminate passwords - just hold your ring up to the iButton reader on your door, your computer, or any thing you want to secure. Passwords are a thing of the past when you have your iButton.
It's only been 17 years, so I'm sure we'll start seeing the readers built in to computers any day now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's not clear what the correct period should be. AT&T assumed that their advertising was fine until told otherwise. If the FCC had fined them after 1 day of misleading advertising, then AT&T would have paid a small fine and stopped. It turns out that the FCC reacted more slowly. AT&T shouldn't be punished proportionally with the slowness of law enforcement.
You should try that excuse after you get a speeding ticket: Sure officer, I knew that going 100mph was against the law, but if you would have stopped me at 56 mph instead of taking your time and waiting until I reached 100mph, the fine would be much smaller. I shouldn't be punished proportionally with the slowness of law enforcement
Too bad strong encryption wasn't available to him -- was whatever "weak encryption" he used known to the NSA as being vulnerable?
Covering over black so that it doesn't show isn't easy. It can take a surprising number of coats to do the job. Sometimes you can strip all of the paint off the wall and start fresh; other times you're better off going with wallpaper. Still, I agree with you that the father deserves an A++ for understanding that it was an accident.
I haven't come across anything that this won't cover:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/KIL...
Not even when the tenants thought it would be cool to paint a hexagram on their bedroom wall in black paint.
I liked being able to use my bank and accept paypal since people use it.
Instead, I'd just use my credit card directly for online purchases, subscriptions, and I'd only accept the main credit card companies for my payment gateway.
I think many sellers would see less business if they stop accepting Paypal -- I like paypal payments because I don't want to give out my credit card number to random people on the internet -even if my money is not at risk, credit card fraud is annoying to deal with (have to identify all of the fraudulent charges, update payment info for recurring charges, etc). There's a lot of smaller merchants that I just wouldn't buy from if I had to give them a CC number.
Is there a viable competitor to Paypal? Google and/or Apple could probably come up with a competitive service, but they seem to want Android/IOS lock-in more than they want to provide a service. Maybe Google Wallet already offers everything paypal does?
If paypal demanded I receive robo calls on my fucking phone line as part of their fucking service, as someone who has been completely happy with paypal up to that point, I'd drop them like the biggest fucking rock into the biggest fucking ocean with a large karploosh like someone taking a giant shit and flushing it down the fucking toliet.
Where would you go? you signed up with Paypal for a reason, what is the next best alternative?
Not necessarily. Any child who has a parent who would immediately think 'is that a logarithmic spiral' rather than 'how in the hell am I going to clean this mess up and how much is it going to cost me' is pretty much assured to wind up really fucked up.
Really? That's how you define bad parenting? A parent that's excited about a learning opportunity after a messy accident rather than being upset about something that a few dollars of touchup paint can cover over?
Some parents have literally killed children over far less, this parent gets an A++ in my book.
He should be too. Have you seen what septic engineers make these days? No seriously, it's insane. Some of them even get in to the six figures.
I haven't seen what a septic engineer makes, but I'd imagine that they make the same thing as that guy's son, but larger (though 6 figures sounds like exaggeration unless you're measuring in milligrams). Of course, it all goes the same place when it's flushed.
The headline seems to have a typo, it shouldn't be Australian ISPs Will Be Forced To Block (Some) Pirate Websites, but rather Australian ISPs Will Be Unable To Block (Any) Pirate Websites
Copy protection often uses a form of encryption. Do they want this to be banned as well?
Clearly not - the government is fine with encryption that's trivially broken, they only want to control strong encryption.
"A completely new alkaline battery is rated to generate 1.5 volts, but once its output drops below 1.35 or even 1.4 volts, it effectively becomes useless to many devices. "
And yet I can't recall any device that didn't work happily with the 1.2v supplied by a rechargeable NiMH.
The remote for my old Sony TV refused to work with NiMH's, but since the remote lasted for a couple years of regular use with a pair of Alkalines, this $10 battery booster wouldn't really be worth it.
Hello! I am a company offering unlimited storage for no cost, and with no strings attached.
Umm... no. Frankly, I'd rather pay someone just because then, at least there is a chance, that it is an honest deal.
Then pay them, they have a paid option too.
Why wouldN'T deleting a picture on a phone NOT also remove it on the backup device?
You're confusing mirroring with backup. If Google just mirrored what you did on your phone and deleted photos automatically when you delete them from your phone, then it's no longer a "backup device".
Though if you don't want Google to backup your photos, you can turn it off.
Sub question: Would you care if you lost a few blocks of data? Bit rot is a serious concern but the problem is an isolated one. If I lost a single photo on my computer I may be lightly upset, but no where near as upset as losing all the data on my drive.
Like you said, it depends which block.
I could have a corrupt block in the middle of a movie file and not even notice, but if I lost a block near the beginning of a large compressed archive file, I may lose the entire archive -- and if it's silent corruption undetected by the filesystem or disk drive, it may be propagated to all of my backups before it's discovered.
I'd rather have the drive fail entirely versus slow undetected block corruption.
What does that tell you?
That either you're exaggerating or you do something very, very wrong with your drives? I use low-end, cheapest of the cheapest consumer-SSDs and for example this 64GB drive I have has logged 9607 hours of power-on time. Has it broken yet? No. Are there any issues with it? Nope, not a single one. I do have to ask you: what exactly do you do with those drives of yours if you manage to break them so fast?
Unless you use a checksumming filesystem (zfs, btrfs, etc) and regularly scrub the filesystem (both data and metadata), would you even know if you lost a few blocks of data?
I for one have *never* been afraid of asterisks.
It's good to have a healthy fear of asterisks -- there's a big difference between "rm -rf *.tmp" and "rm -rf * .tmp"
Asterisks are nothing compared to slashes. You should try "rm -rf * /", as root, of course.
That hasn't been a problem for quite some time... As long as you didn't do something like "touch ./--no-preserve-root" beforehand, all that will do is remove all of the non-hidden files from your current directory:
[user@test]$ sudo rm -rf * /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `/'
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
So...a fishing expedition.
Yes, or citizen oversight of those that we're paying to protect us.
You would probably get a faster response when you provide dates, badges, etc.
Just a sweeping request of everything is a stupid stunt and of no benefit at all. Unless you really believe he is going to view all six years worth of data from hundreds of officers.
The problem is that not all abuse is reported so you don't always have dates, badges, etc.
If you can make a sweeping request and enlist volunteers (or even computer algorithms) to look for abuse, you may uncover actionable patterns that can be followed up by specific FOIA requests for original footage.
My parents still have one of these in their house, and it still works fine (even if dialing is tedious):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Since it's around 50 years old and still working, I'd say it's the best dumb phone.
I for one have *never* been afraid of asterisks.
It's good to have a healthy fear of asterisks -- there's a big difference between "rm -rf *.tmp" and "rm -rf * .tmp"
And you believe that the blurred copy is the one that is archived and reviewed for security, and future use in court? the only copy? rather than the original footage that could actually be used to prove a particular person is the one who did something? Sorry, that sounds inconsistent.
Why doesn't anyone read the articles any more?
This guy has nothing to do with the original footage -- the originals are still used for court and other police use (internal affairs investigations, etc). This guy's job is to automatically redact videos so they can be released to the public without paying police to sit down and manually review every video.