I wanted to blow up my Windows server by feeding it with 12470 volts. But I think Microsoft is in bed with the power company because they refused my request to connect directly to the 12470 volt wires up on the pole.
For the song "Let it Be" by The Beatles, IFPI is asking for 10 times the damages, since the band's music isn't officially available online. Interesting logic here - perhaps if The Beatles music was made officially available, people wouldn't even need to pirate it.
Since I only buy music online, now (yes, I really do pay for music), and only if it works in Linux (yes, I really do use Linux to play music I pay for), it seems that if the owner of the Beatles song "Let it Be" doesn't offer it online and playable in Linux, then they don't count me in as part of their potential market. So if I download that song, there is no loss of sale, since there wouldn't be a sale were I to not download it, because there can't be a sale if they won't sell to the tiny fractional minority market I'm in (people who only buy music online for playing in Linux).
The need for domestic violence victims is to hide where they are. They might be staying with a relative. They might be staying with a friend. They might be staying at a shelter. By using the landline phone to call their abusive partner, they reveal where they are located. The solution is to use a pre-paid cellphone. It can be blocked because it is the same number. But it doesn't reveal the location of the caller (at least not yet).
b) CONTENTS OF PLAN.-The national broadband
23 plan required by this section shall seek to ensure that all 24 people of the United States have access to broadband capability and shall establish benchmarks for meeting that goal. The plan shall also include-
So how many people don't have broadband now? 23 or 24?
... for the number of seconds since the epoch (1 Jan 1970). Instead, what we should be doing with 64 bits is the number of nanoseconds. Keeping the same epoch and using a signed 2's complement 64 bit value with a resolution of 1 nanosecond, it will not overflow until the year 2262, on Friday, 11 April, at 23:47:16 plus 854775807 nanoseconds. Who thinks we won't be using 128 bit (or greater) machines (if bits will even matter) by then?
Of course this means we have to create a new function call and type name, since programs already using time() and time_t expect a number of seconds. I propose the names timens() and timens_t for nanoseconds, timeus() and timeus_t for microseconds, and timems() and timems_t for milliseconds. All these can be library implementations that use a kernel specific syscall to get the actual time at the best suitable resolution and convert as needed.
Right. It depends on the level of abuse. Some people consider any ad that appears over things to be an abuse. And in some cases it can be abused (lack of "X" button to remove ad). But this is not like those "new window" popups that keep popping new ones when you close them, necessitating killing the browser or something.
That means all the people that can't get a coupon to buy a digital TV converter won't be able to see it launch. Maybe they'll have to delay the analog TV shutdown.
Although the tap to each home attenuates the signal quite a bit, it is possible for people to inject signals into the cable system. It won't go beyond the first amplifier unless its frequency is in the uplink band and that signal won't be redistributed. But it does mean people can distribute weak signals around their neighborhood. On frequencies the cable company isn't using, it won't take a lot of signal to communicate with your neighbors. For example you could run your own neighborhood LAN over the cable wires.
It would take a LOT of signal power to take over an existing signal. You'd have to boost it as much as the attenuator tap reduces it, plus the additional amount to take over the signal on that channel. But it would be possible. So what I'm curious about is just how widespread this porn was seen in Tuscon.
You can't ever trust what you don't have access to. So you will need to do the encryption yourself, regardless of what else the device does. That's "user trusted encryption" which these devices simply cannot ever offer (unless you build it yourself).
Oh, and BTW, you can't really trust your CPU, either.
Fiber has far more capacity than 20 Mbps. WTF are they doing? Sharing 100 people on one fiber? 20 Mbps is enough for 1 or 2 HD program streams, and then it's used up. Ultra definition TV will be coming in about 15 years, and that will need about 40 to 50 Mbps for one program stream. What if different members of a family want to watch different programs? We need something that will grow. 100 Mbps in 2010. 1000 Mbps in 2020.
The solution to being attacked by better weapons is not better armor. That's only a stopgap. The solution is to hunt down those who misuse weapons and make them incapable of or unwilling to continue.
But, Obama said we were not going to use torture, anymore.
Doing ECC the way this box would have to do when non-ECC RAM is installed, means that not only is it using 1/9 of the memory for ECC, but it also has to store it separately, requiring extra RAM access cycles, and potentially slowing down as a result.
The article says ECC DIMMs are NOT supported. Are you saying the article is wrong?
Many programs that worked fine in XP failed in Vista. Failure modes included DRM issues with things that shouldn't have DRM be applicable (like unencrypted video the user made for themselves). Other failure modes of applications included just freezing, or aborting, or some window failing to come up (looks like freezing).
Another common problem with Vista is the greater resource requirements. You get a new machine that is twice as fast and twice as big, but you can only do just as much on the new machine with Vista as you could do on the old machine with XP. With Linux, and my experience doing so, I can trim out the bloatware and make it run fine on an older 400 MHz computer with 64MB of RAM. Vista should have had lean modes specifically for providing what it can provide on older, smaller, slower, machines.
Lots of people really didn't care for the eye candy, which was using up a lot of CPU and GPU power. They just want their stuff to work, and want it to work faster and better somehow if they are going to be paying more in software and/or hardware costs for it.
And in many cases, possibly most, these are more expensive products. For example, a circuit breaker or switch or other electrical contact interruption device, is going to have a DC voltage rating well below its AC voltage rating. Look at typical circuit breakers and see that their DC ratings are somewhere from 2.5 times to 10 times LOWER than their AC ratings. It's easier to break an AC arc than a DC arc, because the AC arc goes to zero volts 100 or 120 times a second. If a circuit breaker fails to quench an arc in a short circuit condition, things will quickly go from bad to spectacularly worse.
I'm not ruling out a DC power system design. But there are a lot of factors that need to be carefully considered, including short term and long term uninterrupted power sourcing. I'd rather have a power converter/UPS combination in each rack that takes in 380VAC to 480VAC, converts it to 12VDC, parallels it with a 12VDC battery suitable to power the rack for a couple minutes, and powers all the blades in that rack. That will keep fault currents manageable at low cost. For redundancy, that power converter should have dual AC input, one fed from utility, and the other fed from the generator, if there isn't a larger room-scale transfer switch (which can be the cheaper and safer open-transition switch if all the power converters in each rack have a minute of battery ride-through capacity).
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This happened where I worked a LONG time ago. It took out about 50 modems, 3 communications multiplexers, and 1 mainframe computer.
I wanted to blow up my Windows server by feeding it with 12470 volts. But I think Microsoft is in bed with the power company because they refused my request to connect directly to the 12470 volt wires up on the pole.
From TFA:
For the song "Let it Be" by The Beatles, IFPI is asking for 10 times the damages, since the band's music isn't officially available online. Interesting logic here - perhaps if The Beatles music was made officially available, people wouldn't even need to pirate it.
Since I only buy music online, now (yes, I really do pay for music), and only if it works in Linux (yes, I really do use Linux to play music I pay for), it seems that if the owner of the Beatles song "Let it Be" doesn't offer it online and playable in Linux, then they don't count me in as part of their potential market. So if I download that song, there is no loss of sale, since there wouldn't be a sale were I to not download it, because there can't be a sale if they won't sell to the tiny fractional minority market I'm in (people who only buy music online for playing in Linux).
The need for domestic violence victims is to hide where they are. They might be staying with a relative. They might be staying with a friend. They might be staying at a shelter. By using the landline phone to call their abusive partner, they reveal where they are located. The solution is to use a pre-paid cellphone. It can be blocked because it is the same number. But it doesn't reveal the location of the caller (at least not yet).
And you think all your posts by "Anonymous Coward" on Slashdot are tame by comparison?
b) CONTENTS OF PLAN.-The national broadband 23 plan required by this section shall seek to ensure that all 24 people of the United States have access to broadband capability and shall establish benchmarks for meeting that goal. The plan shall also include-
So how many people don't have broadband now? 23 or 24?
... for the number of seconds since the epoch (1 Jan 1970). Instead, what we should be doing with 64 bits is the number of nanoseconds . Keeping the same epoch and using a signed 2's complement 64 bit value with a resolution of 1 nanosecond, it will not overflow until the year 2262, on Friday, 11 April, at 23:47:16 plus 854775807 nanoseconds. Who thinks we won't be using 128 bit (or greater) machines (if bits will even matter) by then?
Of course this means we have to create a new function call and type name, since programs already using time() and time_t expect a number of seconds. I propose the names timens() and timens_t for nanoseconds, timeus() and timeus_t for microseconds, and timems() and timems_t for milliseconds. All these can be library implementations that use a kernel specific syscall to get the actual time at the best suitable resolution and convert as needed.
It tells you what they are running.
The previous reply didn't show up, but it won't let me re-post it unless I change it. So this part is just the change.
It tells you what they are running.
Right. It depends on the level of abuse. Some people consider any ad that appears over things to be an abuse. And in some cases it can be abused (lack of "X" button to remove ad). But this is not like those "new window" popups that keep popping new ones when you close them, necessitating killing the browser or something.
Instead, it is about using DHTML to create a floating object within the same window. Have a look here.
That means all the people that can't get a coupon to buy a digital TV converter won't be able to see it launch. Maybe they'll have to delay the analog TV shutdown.
Although the tap to each home attenuates the signal quite a bit, it is possible for people to inject signals into the cable system. It won't go beyond the first amplifier unless its frequency is in the uplink band and that signal won't be redistributed. But it does mean people can distribute weak signals around their neighborhood. On frequencies the cable company isn't using, it won't take a lot of signal to communicate with your neighbors. For example you could run your own neighborhood LAN over the cable wires.
It would take a LOT of signal power to take over an existing signal. You'd have to boost it as much as the attenuator tap reduces it, plus the additional amount to take over the signal on that channel. But it would be possible. So what I'm curious about is just how widespread this porn was seen in Tuscon.
The name of my firewall machine is ...
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... asbestos
You can't ever trust what you don't have access to. So you will need to do the encryption yourself, regardless of what else the device does. That's "user trusted encryption" which these devices simply cannot ever offer (unless you build it yourself).
Oh, and BTW, you can't really trust your CPU, either.
Actually it is true. Early in the transition, waivers were needed. Towards the end, this was eliminated. You might want to read some details here.
Or is your mouse making too much noise?
... and physically disable the sound module in it.
Fiber has far more capacity than 20 Mbps. WTF are they doing? Sharing 100 people on one fiber? 20 Mbps is enough for 1 or 2 HD program streams, and then it's used up. Ultra definition TV will be coming in about 15 years, and that will need about 40 to 50 Mbps for one program stream. What if different members of a family want to watch different programs? We need something that will grow. 100 Mbps in 2010. 1000 Mbps in 2020.
The solution to being attacked by better weapons is not better armor. That's only a stopgap. The solution is to hunt down those who misuse weapons and make them incapable of or unwilling to continue.
But, Obama said we were not going to use torture, anymore.
Doing ECC the way this box would have to do when non-ECC RAM is installed, means that not only is it using 1/9 of the memory for ECC, but it also has to store it separately, requiring extra RAM access cycles, and potentially slowing down as a result.
The article says ECC DIMMs are NOT supported. Are you saying the article is wrong?
In my experience, most of the people I know that need a converter did not even know about the program...
They aren't watching TV? It's been splatter all over every channel many times a day, now.
Many programs that worked fine in XP failed in Vista. Failure modes included DRM issues with things that shouldn't have DRM be applicable (like unencrypted video the user made for themselves). Other failure modes of applications included just freezing, or aborting, or some window failing to come up (looks like freezing).
Another common problem with Vista is the greater resource requirements. You get a new machine that is twice as fast and twice as big, but you can only do just as much on the new machine with Vista as you could do on the old machine with XP. With Linux, and my experience doing so, I can trim out the bloatware and make it run fine on an older 400 MHz computer with 64MB of RAM. Vista should have had lean modes specifically for providing what it can provide on older, smaller, slower, machines.
Lots of people really didn't care for the eye candy, which was using up a lot of CPU and GPU power. They just want their stuff to work, and want it to work faster and better somehow if they are going to be paying more in software and/or hardware costs for it.
Thanks! I hadn't thought of calling a VA hospital, before.
And in many cases, possibly most, these are more expensive products. For example, a circuit breaker or switch or other electrical contact interruption device, is going to have a DC voltage rating well below its AC voltage rating. Look at typical circuit breakers and see that their DC ratings are somewhere from 2.5 times to 10 times LOWER than their AC ratings. It's easier to break an AC arc than a DC arc, because the AC arc goes to zero volts 100 or 120 times a second. If a circuit breaker fails to quench an arc in a short circuit condition, things will quickly go from bad to spectacularly worse.
I'm not ruling out a DC power system design. But there are a lot of factors that need to be carefully considered, including short term and long term uninterrupted power sourcing. I'd rather have a power converter/UPS combination in each rack that takes in 380VAC to 480VAC, converts it to 12VDC, parallels it with a 12VDC battery suitable to power the rack for a couple minutes, and powers all the blades in that rack. That will keep fault currents manageable at low cost. For redundancy, that power converter should have dual AC input, one fed from utility, and the other fed from the generator, if there isn't a larger room-scale transfer switch (which can be the cheaper and safer open-transition switch if all the power converters in each rack have a minute of battery ride-through capacity).