Perhaps he's happy with the millions he's already made, happy with his skill at swimming (thusly has a hobby he loves and can do for most of the rest of his life) and keeping his sponsors happy with with a squeaky clean image is less important to him than living his life how he wishes.
Should wealthy athletes strive to maintain branding so as not to dilute their advertising image, or should they live as they wish, within the bounds of morality? Since (apparently) you already disregard marijuana as a moral issue, then your value judgement on intelligence is a very commercial one. Your mega-corp overlords are pleased...
What sort of life is it when one can't express one's true personality, and must live in a hermetically sealed jar, under a big fat microscope? I say fuck that and stay true to yourself. And if that someone that you are is a laid back, smoking, olympic superswimmer, then you might lose fifty of your sixty-five million dollars (???? guess pulled out of ass), then at least you're no longer living a lie.
Or (quickly, don hats of foil...) was this a lack of intelligence in spooking endorsement deals, or rather, an experiment in survival-of-the-fittest to "weed" out crappy sponsors?
Yeah, check out Grover Norquist. He (and one of his proteges, Jack Abramoff) were instrumental in the early movement to end liberalism in government by simply bankrupting the taxpayers, as well as promoting the hiring of ideologues for key federal administrative positions rather than screening for qualification.
Check out The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank... it's certainly not unbiased, but it's well-sourced, follows the history of neo-conservatism fairly accurately, and nails down all the major sticking points. In fact, he really only editorializes in his opinion of the overall damage caused by the various political attacks our governmental structure has sustained.
Anyway, it's definitely a worthwhile read for anyone striving to understand this past Bush presidency. It casts the past eight years in a different light than that which is portrayed by the mainstream media.
Further, what if a passenger wants to kill someone? As in, their express intent is to hop an airplane, fly to a location and kill someone on the ground?
Certainly we'd like the local legal system, in the state they fly to, to prevent that crime. But is it a crime to fly with murderous intent?
Worse, does doing so immediately make one a terrorist who, presumably, has then given up the "privilege" to request habeas corpus, amongst all the other suspended constitutional "privileges"?
So visually observing the use of the patriot act (for combatting terrorism) made you feel safer when used to bust people for other crimes (packing a dope pipe in their bag)?
Treating an average traveler as an enemy only makes that traveler feel safe if they are deluded into believing that this treatment reduces attack frequency.
In truth, it's far more likely that the infrequency of hijackings since Sep. 11th is due to some of the very earliest action, i.e., frozen terrorist funding sources during the run-up to the Afghani conflict, and possibly the early bombings on known training camps. Beyond that, TSA's real mandate is to make the public "feel" safer without really addressing the problem, other than the most superficial reduction in makeshift weaponry.
I had hoped this would be the future of interactive fiction, as it has the potential to be way more deeply immersive than the original Infocom engine, given the fully-rendered real-time aspect of gameplay.
Of course the best tools in the world for creativity are no good without well-written stories, which Infocom provided in abundance.
My previous experiences with Myst and Riven, began to convince me that my conjecture would be borne-out in the future.
As a full-time Linux desktop user (no, I'm not twitter, I'm not twitter, I'm not twitter!!! I'm a real dude for heaven's sake), though, I'd basically given up ever seeing Uru on my machine. Now, I have a new hope. I doubt, by any means, that the porting will be an easy task, nor any guarantee that it's possible. However, it's probably quite possible that it will be ported into future Windows and Mac machines. This means an active development community and active user-base. That, I'm hoping, will keep Uru alive long enough for a porting effort, or a re-implemented compatible client.
Seriously? You're claiming that USB 2.0 bus bandwidth exceeds SATA 150? Or even ATA66? I would be surprised if USB2 even beats ATA33 during sustained write operation (think DMA).
Or perhaps you're claiming that raw disk I/O on commodity hard drives is slower than I/O to commodity NAND through a wear-leveling FTL IC??
No, both are slower.
USB 3.0 may be faster, but before then we'll have SATA/600 to much faster (possibly flash-based solid-tate!) disks, anyway.
Not to mention that wear-leveling flash controller ICs are still kind of black ju-ju, and you're unlikely to be able to get every commodity flash controller manufacturer to disclose certain details about the wear-leveling algorithms used in their ICs, even with an NDA, unless you're planning on using them in your commodity flash storage device. Oh, and buying thousands of them as well.
For example, that micron white-paper is pretty vague when it comes to details of an actual dynamic wear-leveling algorithm... their example is 25% "dynamic" data and 75% "static" data. How does the flash controller determine this? It's likely hard enough to determine, with any accuracy, what exactly is going to be static or dynamic unless you're implementing a whole system around the NAND IC, and you can constrain it that way.
As far as choosing a USB flash stick because you happen to know that its flash controller performs in a superior fashion when it contains a swap partition/file... how would you even determine that? Performance is no measure here; remember, we're talking about wear-leveling, not throughput. The two aren't necessarily orthogonal, but are orthogonal enough for this discussion.
You'd need to do what the OP is doing, meter & record your swap usage statistics (!!), and determine the impact on the underlying NAND. If you're *very* lucky there might be some CFI way of getting block-wear information out of the controller, but you'd probably have to hack up the usb-storage kernel module to do any of this monitoring during run-time (which means putting hacked custom kernels on your daily-use USB-hosted operating system, which you modify yourself for each new flash stick you test out).
I think this is probably not feasible for the OP, who will probably have to just pick one, and when it dies, claim "Wow, that one lasted a long time, it RULEZ!!" or "Shit, I think I barely used it and it died anyway, Yoyodyne Flash Sticks are the SUXXORZ!!!".
I'm with you on eliminating the block-device layer, or at least having a mode to do so. We can choose, currently, to format our USB sticks FAT32 if we wish. We could alternately use ext2 on them (I do, currently... mostly so permissions bits stay put, and to foil DHS for an hour or two if they fuck with my shit). Why, analogously, should we not be permitted to bypass the flash controller completely? Format the flash JFFS2 (or something better... I'm not a software wear-leveling weenie) and interact with it via the MTD subsystem? I've read articles about eschewing the block-layer completely and using an object-filesystem on flash, instead (in this case, perhaps "filesystem" is a misnomer; think "object-datasystem" or something). I'm sure they could figure out what impact that would have on their warranty service and adjust pricing accordingly.
Letting manufacturers "get it wrong" is doubly bad, in that it's hardly transparent to us that they were ever responsible to begin with. As I pontificated above, it's not trivial to rigorously identify a crappy flash controller. A *bad* flash controller, sure. A functional controller with a poor implementation, however, not so easy.
At any rate, his swap would be bottlenecked by the USB connection, which would be shared with transfers of his own data as well. I would say he should carry two sticks, and use a whole second stick for swap. That would maximize the utility of whatever wear-leveling algorithm the flash controller happens to use on that stick. It would require him to manually activate swap (since he may not know for sure what usb device address the swap stick will address), but that would reduce bus contention. Swap over USB sounds horrible anyway, and soothing the savage OOM-killer is the only reason I see why you'd ever do that.
That $1 is a magic mental limit. You go over that, many people will no longer be willing to buy tunes. May seem silly but that's how it works. There are various mental limits when it comes to prices like that. There's been research done to suggest that if iTunes songs went up even to $1.10 it would result in a massive drop sales.
Hm. No, I call bullshit on that. The magic mental limit will be broken. Where else will people by music online for their magic $200 ipod? No... platform lock-in and the fact that the lions share of itunes users are very happy with it will ensure that nothing substantive changes.
Bloggers will whine for a year or so (in blogger time... in real calendar time, that's somewhere between 2-4 weeks:-) ).
<sarcasm> Prognosticating here, but Apple is just dragging this out until "the man" forces them raise prices. They'll have no choice! They really tried to protect you, fight the good fight, but in the end, the evil empire of greed will just force them to raise prices. Well, they Apple provides such value, their product is easily worth the additional cost, but they'll still be so very sad to be strongarmed into passing it on to you. Thank goodness the premium non-DRM tracks are still available!! </sarcasm>
More prognosticating... non-DRM tracks won't experience the hike in price.
For those of us who already don't like the itunes/ipod ecosystem, nothing will change due to the price hike. I'm curious about the wider affects of this for other online music vendors, such as Amazon's MP3 store. Will the RIAA, et. al., ride a victory here toward renegotiating every digital distribution contract? What about little guys like cdbaby and audiolunchbox?
At least Seiko produces serial EEPROMs with > 50yrs data retention, and are rated for high temperatures (125 degrees C).
Those max out at 64k, though.
You'd probably want to use some sort of EM shielding (Faraday cage or similar) in addition to ESD protection, and thermal shielding to keep the temperature on the surface of the die below 125C during welding, and also carefully choose your burying location.
But, yeah, storing thousands (the OP didn't actually say thousands of photos, did he?) of pictures would require thousands of 64k (k-bit, I believe!) of ICs. I can only imagine the programming effort involved; special jigs that house & power hundreds of PROMs per batch write...
Look; we slashdot crowd may not get out much, but when we do some of us know a good idea when we hear one! I, for one, welcome our new bathtub-gin overlords...
I'll bring the olives and my rec.humor.funny archive, and then we can all sing Bruce's Philosopher's Song as loud as we can until the neighbors threaten to snip the DSL with hedge-trimmers!
Of course, uninformed liberals think he's off base here, while the rest realize that a combination of energy technologies, an efficient, augmented, national grid, and plug-in hybrids will solve the commuter pollution problem.
Oh, and conservatives think the rest of us are crazy... "What energy problem??? It's the liberals and the EPA and the terrorists that make gas expensive! Fix it, damnit! Oh, and give my all my taxes back."
Ok, maybe not. I'm bitter. Sorry for the flamebait. The rant filter is less effective at times...
A-fucking-men to that! We think corn prices are bad now, due to ethanol, and blame this on hippy "environmentalists" and "global warming cultists"??
Imagine if the corn lobby got shitcanned and the Feds stopped subsidizing corn...
The problem is huge, pervasive, and not limited to the oil industry. It's truly basic international economic theory... unrestricted trade benefits both parties, because capital exchange seeks equilibrium, and is efficient.
Three major things screw this up for the free market... #1 Tariffs, #2 Subsidies, #3 Imperfect information sharing. The last really can't be mitigated, and is also the biggest problem for representative democracies in general (elections, etc).
But the first two... damnit, we're responsible for those, too, but overturning corporate subsidy, and reclaiming our tax dollars requires that the public not be apathetic, which requires mass understanding of the problem in the face of lobbyists... which brings us back to problem #3.
So, in other words, any no-load market index fund which indexes the same (or similar) funds, and carries a maintenance ratio below 0.2%, is, in your opinion, just as good?
Well, how about VTSMX (or it's ETF, VTI), and FSTMX? Assuming you choose a brokerage that offers commission-free trades on those funds (Fidelity for the latter, I really don't know who goes commission free for the Vanguard securities). They run 0.19% and 0.10%, respectively.
What you're saying is that anyone who doesn't want to rebalance their entire portfolio on a monthly basis is better served by offerings in the same class as those I mentioned above. I would have to agree.
I do see the benefit in rebalancing monthly, but how is that any different than the commission death of the day-trader, albeit amortized over a greater time period? I do also see the benefit in holding, well... your own holdings, in terms of special requirements (i.e., socially-responsible investing, inclusion in a foreign retirement account like a Canadian RRSP, etc.), and also the benefit of being able to conduct your own vote on shareholder initiatives.
Real-time quotes may be nice for timing market entry, when extending your long positions, e.g. if you're an steady, monthly index investor, you may pick the most opportune day-of-week/time-of-day and pick up a few basis-points worth of value. Maybe this is a reason for choosing ETFs instead of traditional funds, since quotes could stream from the exchange directly. Of course, whether you're in a couple of funds, or holding dozens of long stock positions, once you've opened up an online brokerage account, your streaming quotes are essentially free (or super cheap) anyway.
Clearly a peer-to-peer data exchange is the modern solution to this particular problem. So, a bittorrent-like system for exchanging the data would then relax the resource crunch on the overused data source.
How exactly to convince torrent trackers (and worse, the users themselves!) to actually maintain torrents for the 25Gb generated on March 25, 1986 (or whatever arbitrary day you want) is the wicked problem. I'm not sure it could keep up with 25Gb of new porn per day.
Besides, anyone can be a shareholder. You just buy shares. The identity (or ideology) of one's shareholders does not directly reflect a company's morality. The open market assures essentially unfettered access to publicly traded companies, so one could probably make a point about how many child-molesters, music pirates, and red commie pinkos are shareholders in various companies, and still the outcome is essentially meaningless.
So, we here at Slashdot basically hate Google's censorship policy. Some of us think that it is the only way some modicum of internet freedom can be extended to Chinese citizens. Some of us think that by doing so, Google is supporting a brutally cruel, oppressive, suppressive, revisionist regime. This is old news.
What's the deal with the kdawson/Google hate-on? What's the deal with the "Wait for Google to go EEEEVIL" mentality? Why can't we just go back to hating Microsoft? Let them hate on Google.
Hey, now! No need to be hostile, we like our Gentoo.
Now, excuse my while I read the handbook and figure out how to keep an old version of portage around to use Manifest1-hash digests for manifests from my overlays...
Seriously, though, I have always liked the Gentoo approach, having always admired the BSD zen of package management, but liking the Linux kernel, especially the 2.6 build system, which totally rocks... and I was thrilled with the kernel 2.2 build scripts when they were released. 2.4 was an improvement from that, and 2.6 has easily twice that improvement.
Plus, being a Gentoo-person, I'll probably be inclined to try out ext4 first amongst my peers, and we do have two machines that will be hosting networked multi-terabyte scratch-space for automated software builds. So, there we have 1) the big filesystems, 2) the networking component (probably via NFS), 3) transient nature of the data, as they're all build outputs, and the source code is in a repository, elsewhere. So, it could completely crap out, and nothing would be lost except that us engineers would have to all spin our own builds, locally. Sounds like a good way to test out ext4. The only problem I have is that I don't really know how to post a useful post-mortem report to LKML if badness happens... hmm.
They own LinkSys, remember? That's their entire line of consumer products. Perfect for product-placement, wouldn't you say? That way they can advertise their shiny new Vista-compatible drivers!
Iowa corn is not food. Industrial corn farmers don't eat their corn. Nobody buys the corn that could become ethanol as a raw food item.
Yet, we still eat it. How? Agribusiness corn is essentially a feat of chemical engineering that turns sunlight, soil components & anhydrous ammonia into starch & oil. Just add water, and wait a season. Processed starches & oil become cheap food, but the raw material never started out that way.
We would need a custom search engine spider to index publicly available docket numbers, dates, defendant & plaintiff names, etc., in municipalities nationwide. There, as far as I can tell, is no standard (as in web API) that these sites use, and not all cities have a web site displaying their court cases. However, folks could customize one to their local city/borough/county court web site, and then present that data via some agreed-upon standard API. Then, they could list their URL with a national registry/site that then polls each listed URL to update it's larger database. I would say that the local spider/gatherer sites would likely offer RSS/Atom feeds with each article content containing a metadata-formatted case, in some sort of structure. It could be in XML, or better ASN.1 to save some bandwidth. As long as it's all public info, there is no liability here (i.e., it is not illegal to name defendants in active court cases if such names were presented publicly by the court, on their web site).
Unfortunately, on many sites, one can search for active cases and see public record, but the search requires partial names or docket numbers, rather than listing those on the docket for that day.
Anyway, this could be done, with some limited success and the following resources: one person (a Slashdot reader) per court district with some bandwidth and some web admin skills, some coders to produce the customizable spider/indexer/database in some distributable format, and then, the whole national website & database itself. That last one might actually cost some money, and sounds like a candidate for the EFF to host.
So, there. I've sketched the architecture. Go do it.
Yes, slashdot, teach me to hack too! Email me the codez!!!
If the AC were serious about learning about computer security they wouldn't be asking for "concrete examples...specifically" of "someone can be running as a limited user and gain administrator access."
So how "easy" is it? Well, easy in some situations and hard in others, and if you keep machines patched and up-to-date (regardless of OS) then it's generally harder.
Is that good enough? If not, learn C & C++, and read the BugTraq archives for the past 15 years, and then come back and share with the class when you finish.
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Perhaps he's happy with the millions he's already made, happy with his skill at swimming (thusly has a hobby he loves and can do for most of the rest of his life) and keeping his sponsors happy with with a squeaky clean image is less important to him than living his life how he wishes.
Should wealthy athletes strive to maintain branding so as not to dilute their advertising image, or should they live as they wish, within the bounds of morality? Since (apparently) you already disregard marijuana as a moral issue, then your value judgement on intelligence is a very commercial one. Your mega-corp overlords are pleased...
What sort of life is it when one can't express one's true personality, and must live in a hermetically sealed jar, under a big fat microscope? I say fuck that and stay true to yourself. And if that someone that you are is a laid back, smoking, olympic superswimmer, then you might lose fifty of your sixty-five million dollars (???? guess pulled out of ass), then at least you're no longer living a lie.
Or (quickly, don hats of foil...) was this a lack of intelligence in spooking endorsement deals, or rather, an experiment in survival-of-the-fittest to "weed" out crappy sponsors?
Yeah, check out Grover Norquist. He (and one of his proteges, Jack Abramoff) were instrumental in the early movement to end liberalism in government by simply bankrupting the taxpayers, as well as promoting the hiring of ideologues for key federal administrative positions rather than screening for qualification.
Check out The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank... it's certainly not unbiased, but it's well-sourced, follows the history of neo-conservatism fairly accurately, and nails down all the major sticking points. In fact, he really only editorializes in his opinion of the overall damage caused by the various political attacks our governmental structure has sustained.
Anyway, it's definitely a worthwhile read for anyone striving to understand this past Bush presidency. It casts the past eight years in a different light than that which is portrayed by the mainstream media.
Further, what if a passenger wants to kill someone? As in, their express intent is to hop an airplane, fly to a location and kill someone on the ground?
Certainly we'd like the local legal system, in the state they fly to, to prevent that crime. But is it a crime to fly with murderous intent?
Worse, does doing so immediately make one a terrorist who, presumably, has then given up the "privilege" to request habeas corpus, amongst all the other suspended constitutional "privileges"?
So visually observing the use of the patriot act (for combatting terrorism) made you feel safer when used to bust people for other crimes (packing a dope pipe in their bag)?
Treating an average traveler as an enemy only makes that traveler feel safe if they are deluded into believing that this treatment reduces attack frequency.
In truth, it's far more likely that the infrequency of hijackings since Sep. 11th is due to some of the very earliest action, i.e., frozen terrorist funding sources during the run-up to the Afghani conflict, and possibly the early bombings on known training camps. Beyond that, TSA's real mandate is to make the public "feel" safer without really addressing the problem, other than the most superficial reduction in makeshift weaponry.
Agreed.
I had hoped this would be the future of interactive fiction, as it has the potential to be way more deeply immersive than the original Infocom engine, given the fully-rendered real-time aspect of gameplay.
Of course the best tools in the world for creativity are no good without well-written stories, which Infocom provided in abundance.
My previous experiences with Myst and Riven, began to convince me that my conjecture would be borne-out in the future.
As a full-time Linux desktop user (no, I'm not twitter, I'm not twitter, I'm not twitter!!! I'm a real dude for heaven's sake), though, I'd basically given up ever seeing Uru on my machine. Now, I have a new hope. I doubt, by any means, that the porting will be an easy task, nor any guarantee that it's possible. However, it's probably quite possible that it will be ported into future Windows and Mac machines. This means an active development community and active user-base. That, I'm hoping, will keep Uru alive long enough for a porting effort, or a re-implemented compatible client.
Exciting stuff!
Seriously? You're claiming that USB 2.0 bus bandwidth exceeds SATA 150? Or even ATA66? I would be surprised if USB2 even beats ATA33 during sustained write operation (think DMA).
Or perhaps you're claiming that raw disk I/O on commodity hard drives is slower than I/O to commodity NAND through a wear-leveling FTL IC??
No, both are slower.
USB 3.0 may be faster, but before then we'll have SATA/600 to much faster (possibly flash-based solid-tate!) disks, anyway.
Not to mention that wear-leveling flash controller ICs are still kind of black ju-ju, and you're unlikely to be able to get every commodity flash controller manufacturer to disclose certain details about the wear-leveling algorithms used in their ICs, even with an NDA, unless you're planning on using them in your commodity flash storage device. Oh, and buying thousands of them as well.
For example, that micron white-paper is pretty vague when it comes to details of an actual dynamic wear-leveling algorithm... their example is 25% "dynamic" data and 75% "static" data. How does the flash controller determine this? It's likely hard enough to determine, with any accuracy, what exactly is going to be static or dynamic unless you're implementing a whole system around the NAND IC, and you can constrain it that way.
As far as choosing a USB flash stick because you happen to know that its flash controller performs in a superior fashion when it contains a swap partition/file... how would you even determine that? Performance is no measure here; remember, we're talking about wear-leveling, not throughput. The two aren't necessarily orthogonal, but are orthogonal enough for this discussion.
You'd need to do what the OP is doing, meter & record your swap usage statistics (!!), and determine the impact on the underlying NAND. If you're *very* lucky there might be some CFI way of getting block-wear information out of the controller, but you'd probably have to hack up the usb-storage kernel module to do any of this monitoring during run-time (which means putting hacked custom kernels on your daily-use USB-hosted operating system, which you modify yourself for each new flash stick you test out).
I think this is probably not feasible for the OP, who will probably have to just pick one, and when it dies, claim "Wow, that one lasted a long time, it RULEZ!!" or "Shit, I think I barely used it and it died anyway, Yoyodyne Flash Sticks are the SUXXORZ!!!".
I'm with you on eliminating the block-device layer, or at least having a mode to do so. We can choose, currently, to format our USB sticks FAT32 if we wish. We could alternately use ext2 on them (I do, currently... mostly so permissions bits stay put, and to foil DHS for an hour or two if they fuck with my shit). Why, analogously, should we not be permitted to bypass the flash controller completely? Format the flash JFFS2 (or something better... I'm not a software wear-leveling weenie) and interact with it via the MTD subsystem? I've read articles about eschewing the block-layer completely and using an object-filesystem on flash, instead (in this case, perhaps "filesystem" is a misnomer; think "object-datasystem" or something). I'm sure they could figure out what impact that would have on their warranty service and adjust pricing accordingly.
Letting manufacturers "get it wrong" is doubly bad, in that it's hardly transparent to us that they were ever responsible to begin with. As I pontificated above, it's not trivial to rigorously identify a crappy flash controller. A *bad* flash controller, sure. A functional controller with a poor implementation, however, not so easy.
At any rate, his swap would be bottlenecked by the USB connection, which would be shared with transfers of his own data as well. I would say he should carry two sticks, and use a whole second stick for swap. That would maximize the utility of whatever wear-leveling algorithm the flash controller happens to use on that stick. It would require him to manually activate swap (since he may not know for sure what usb device address the swap stick will address), but that would reduce bus contention. Swap over USB sounds horrible anyway, and soothing the savage OOM-killer is the only reason I see why you'd ever do that.
Umm. Or you could just use your mouse in links. I do.
http://links.sourceforge.net/docs/manual-0.82-en/links-usage-mouse.html
That $1 is a magic mental limit. You go over that, many people will no longer be willing to buy tunes. May seem silly but that's how it works. There are various mental limits when it comes to prices like that. There's been research done to suggest that if iTunes songs went up even to $1.10 it would result in a massive drop sales.
Hm. No, I call bullshit on that. The magic mental limit will be broken. Where else will people by music online for their magic $200 ipod? No... platform lock-in and the fact that the lions share of itunes users are very happy with it will ensure that nothing substantive changes.
Bloggers will whine for a year or so (in blogger time... in real calendar time, that's somewhere between 2-4 weeks :-) ).
<sarcasm>
Prognosticating here, but Apple is just dragging this out until "the man" forces them raise prices. They'll have no choice! They really tried to protect you, fight the good fight, but in the end, the evil empire of greed will just force them to raise prices. Well, they Apple provides such value, their product is easily worth the additional cost, but they'll still be so very sad to be strongarmed into passing it on to you.
Thank goodness the premium non-DRM tracks are still available!!
</sarcasm>
More prognosticating... non-DRM tracks won't experience the hike in price.
For those of us who already don't like the itunes/ipod ecosystem, nothing will change due to the price hike. I'm curious about the wider affects of this for other online music vendors, such as Amazon's MP3 store. Will the RIAA, et. al., ride a victory here toward renegotiating every digital distribution contract? What about little guys like cdbaby and audiolunchbox?
At least Seiko produces serial EEPROMs with > 50yrs data retention, and are rated for high temperatures (125 degrees C).
Those max out at 64k, though.
You'd probably want to use some sort of EM shielding (Faraday cage or similar) in addition to ESD protection, and thermal shielding to keep the temperature on the surface of the die below 125C during welding, and also carefully choose your burying location.
But, yeah, storing thousands (the OP didn't actually say thousands of photos, did he?) of pictures would require thousands of 64k (k-bit, I believe!) of ICs. I can only imagine the programming effort involved; special jigs that house & power hundreds of PROMs per batch write...
Not a NIC, my friend. To quote the parent:
What, exactly, is the problem with support for network cards?
In particular, what is "too much of a pain for average users (and even skilled users)."
Yet more specifically (to the other poster), what about configuring your NIC causes you "crippling agony"?
Look; we slashdot crowd may not get out much, but when we do some of us know a good idea when we hear one! I, for one, welcome our new bathtub-gin overlords...
I'll bring the olives and my rec.humor.funny archive, and then we can all sing Bruce's Philosopher's Song as loud as we can until the neighbors threaten to snip the DSL with hedge-trimmers!
... it's now easier to buy actual morphine or heroin from your friendly dealer down the street, than an actual copy of Fallout 3 from a retailer.
Now isn't that an improvement?
(ducks)
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Yeah, he did. Around this time last year. So did Al Gore in his book. This is old news, McCain's late on the bandwagon.
http://www.nowpublic.com/barack_obamas_nuclear_ambitions
Of course, uninformed liberals think he's off base here, while the rest realize that a combination of energy technologies, an efficient, augmented, national grid, and plug-in hybrids will solve the commuter pollution problem.
Oh, and conservatives think the rest of us are crazy... "What energy problem??? It's the liberals and the EPA and the terrorists that make gas expensive! Fix it, damnit! Oh, and give my all my taxes back."
Ok, maybe not. I'm bitter. Sorry for the flamebait. The rant filter is less effective at times...
A-fucking-men to that! We think corn prices are bad now, due to ethanol, and blame this on hippy "environmentalists" and "global warming cultists"??
Imagine if the corn lobby got shitcanned and the Feds stopped subsidizing corn...
The problem is huge, pervasive, and not limited to the oil industry. It's truly basic international economic theory... unrestricted trade benefits both parties, because capital exchange seeks equilibrium, and is efficient.
Three major things screw this up for the free market... #1 Tariffs, #2 Subsidies, #3 Imperfect information sharing. The last really can't be mitigated, and is also the biggest problem for representative democracies in general (elections, etc).
But the first two... damnit, we're responsible for those, too, but overturning corporate subsidy, and reclaiming our tax dollars requires that the public not be apathetic, which requires mass understanding of the problem in the face of lobbyists... which brings us back to problem #3.
X-(
So, in other words, any no-load market index fund which indexes the same (or similar) funds, and carries a maintenance ratio below 0.2%, is, in your opinion, just as good?
Well, how about VTSMX (or it's ETF, VTI), and FSTMX? Assuming you choose a brokerage that offers commission-free trades on those funds (Fidelity for the latter, I really don't know who goes commission free for the Vanguard securities). They run 0.19% and 0.10%, respectively.
What you're saying is that anyone who doesn't want to rebalance their entire portfolio on a monthly basis is better served by offerings in the same class as those I mentioned above. I would have to agree.
I do see the benefit in rebalancing monthly, but how is that any different than the commission death of the day-trader, albeit amortized over a greater time period? I do also see the benefit in holding, well... your own holdings, in terms of special requirements (i.e., socially-responsible investing, inclusion in a foreign retirement account like a Canadian RRSP, etc.), and also the benefit of being able to conduct your own vote on shareholder initiatives.
Real-time quotes may be nice for timing market entry, when extending your long positions, e.g. if you're an steady, monthly index investor, you may pick the most opportune day-of-week/time-of-day and pick up a few basis-points worth of value. Maybe this is a reason for choosing ETFs instead of traditional funds, since quotes could stream from the exchange directly. Of course, whether you're in a couple of funds, or holding dozens of long stock positions, once you've opened up an online brokerage account, your streaming quotes are essentially free (or super cheap) anyway.
At least mine are.
Clearly a peer-to-peer data exchange is the modern solution to this particular problem. So, a bittorrent-like system for exchanging the data would then relax the resource crunch on the overused data source.
How exactly to convince torrent trackers (and worse, the users themselves!) to actually maintain torrents for the 25Gb generated on March 25, 1986 (or whatever arbitrary day you want) is the wicked problem. I'm not sure it could keep up with 25Gb of new porn per day.
Perhaps financial data compresses well...
You mean Cortés, right?
I use judicious quantities of "Overrated".
It's my most favorite-est mod ever.
Besides, anyone can be a shareholder. You just buy shares. The identity (or ideology) of one's shareholders does not directly reflect a company's morality. The open market assures essentially unfettered access to publicly traded companies, so one could probably make a point about how many child-molesters, music pirates, and red commie pinkos are shareholders in various companies, and still the outcome is essentially meaningless.
So, we here at Slashdot basically hate Google's censorship policy. Some of us think that it is the only way some modicum of internet freedom can be extended to Chinese citizens. Some of us think that by doing so, Google is supporting a brutally cruel, oppressive, suppressive, revisionist regime. This is old news.
What's the deal with the kdawson/Google hate-on? What's the deal with the "Wait for Google to go EEEEVIL" mentality? Why can't we just go back to hating Microsoft? Let them hate on Google.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Hey, now! No need to be hostile, we like our Gentoo.
Now, excuse my while I read the handbook and figure out how to keep an old version of portage around to use Manifest1-hash digests for manifests from my overlays...
Seriously, though, I have always liked the Gentoo approach, having always admired the BSD zen of package management, but liking the Linux kernel, especially the 2.6 build system, which totally rocks... and I was thrilled with the kernel 2.2 build scripts when they were released. 2.4 was an improvement from that, and 2.6 has easily twice that improvement.
Plus, being a Gentoo-person, I'll probably be inclined to try out ext4 first amongst my peers, and we do have two machines that will be hosting networked multi-terabyte scratch-space for automated software builds. So, there we have 1) the big filesystems, 2) the networking component (probably via NFS), 3) transient nature of the data, as they're all build outputs, and the source code is in a repository, elsewhere. So, it could completely crap out, and nothing would be lost except that us engineers would have to all spin our own builds, locally. Sounds like a good way to test out ext4. The only problem I have is that I don't really know how to post a useful post-mortem report to LKML if badness happens... hmm.
So, there. I'm not off-topic either. Ha!
They own LinkSys, remember? That's their entire line of consumer products. Perfect for product-placement, wouldn't you say? That way they can advertise their shiny new Vista-compatible drivers!
Iowa corn is not food. Industrial corn farmers don't eat their corn. Nobody buys the corn that could become ethanol as a raw food item.
Yet, we still eat it. How? Agribusiness corn is essentially a feat of chemical engineering that turns sunlight, soil components & anhydrous ammonia into starch & oil. Just add water, and wait a season. Processed starches & oil become cheap food, but the raw material never started out that way.
Watch 'Independent Lens' feature 'King Corn' sometime (plays on your leftist commie pinko PBS station periodically, http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn/).
Why not just grow food? Why not grow a more efficient ethanol crop, like switchgrass or camelina?
These questions, and more, have nothing to do with the PATRIOT act.
Cheers!
We would need a custom search engine spider to index publicly available docket numbers, dates, defendant & plaintiff names, etc., in municipalities nationwide. There, as far as I can tell, is no standard (as in web API) that these sites use, and not all cities have a web site displaying their court cases. However, folks could customize one to their local city/borough/county court web site, and then present that data via some agreed-upon standard API. Then, they could list their URL with a national registry/site that then polls each listed URL to update it's larger database. I would say that the local spider/gatherer sites would likely offer RSS/Atom feeds with each article content containing a metadata-formatted case, in some sort of structure. It could be in XML, or better ASN.1 to save some bandwidth. As long as it's all public info, there is no liability here (i.e., it is not illegal to name defendants in active court cases if such names were presented publicly by the court, on their web site).
Unfortunately, on many sites, one can search for active cases and see public record, but the search requires partial names or docket numbers, rather than listing those on the docket for that day.
Anyway, this could be done, with some limited success and the following resources: one person (a Slashdot reader) per court district with some bandwidth and some web admin skills, some coders to produce the customizable spider/indexer/database in some distributable format, and then, the whole national website & database itself. That last one might actually cost some money, and sounds like a candidate for the EFF to host.
So, there. I've sketched the architecture. Go do it.
Yes, slashdot, teach me to hack too! Email me the codez!!!
If the AC were serious about learning about computer security they wouldn't be asking for "concrete examples...specifically" of "someone can be running as a limited user and gain administrator access."
So how "easy" is it? Well, easy in some situations and hard in others, and if you keep machines patched and up-to-date (regardless of OS) then it's generally harder.
Is that good enough? If not, learn C & C++, and read the BugTraq archives for the past 15 years, and then come back and share with the class when you finish.