The island has less than 2000 residents. That means 1 degree of separation at most, I'd guess. If you're not one of them, you kinda stick out.
Besides, wifi has terrible bandwidth. Why fly all the way there to get what you can get at many unis for free? Hell, there are unis where you can just walk into the library, plug in your laptop, and use the school's massive bandwidth.
As cheesy a plot as flying to Niue to spam from a secret cave hideout might be, it's an idea that 10 seconds of thought would reject.
Let's talk about oversimplified supply and demand like you learned in high school.
When a consumer is willing to pay more than a producer is selling for, the consumer has an obvious benefit. The sum of these benefits (consumer valuation - price) over all the consumers is the consumer surplus. There is a similar concept for producer surplus that takes longer to explain.
Auctions (in theory) eliminate the consumer surplus. That's why people complain about them: they like their share of the consumer surplus.
That's also why companies don't like haggling or competitive bidding: it removes produce surplus. (Car dealerships in America are something of an exception. They're a well-refined system of manipulation to make you think you're getting a better deal by haggling even though they're still making sizeable profits from you.)
It would if police departments had enough officers to aggressively enforce speed limits and other safety-motivated traffic laws. But when police departments hire officers specifically to do that, people complain that the police are just doing it for the money, because people like to break traffic laws. (Another issue is that--at least in Houston--the police are often the worst drivers on the road, so even judges are hesitant to take them too seriously in traffic cases.)
This is just another example of government trying to get every dollar they can, and pandering to corporate interest.
Corporate interest? Which ones exactly? As far as I know there are no significant automotive or oil interests in Seattle. There are few corporations with an interest in traffic of all things. No, this is the government pandering to people who live in the suburbs, work in the city, and for whatever reason refuse to carpool or use public transportation. For once it's actually pandering to the people--at the expense of smog and long-term road maintenance costs, mind you.
What do I need great 3D performance for? Do you really use Linux for games? I use a Windows box for games, and for that there are perfectly good drivers for ATI.
And for 2D stuff, anything will work pretty well, so my refusal to buy nVidia becomes an economic protest.
You know, the Overrated mods I'm getting are pissing me off. I have enough karma that I could troll for a year and still have a karma bonus. If you don't like me, flame me, but spend your mod points modding up other peoples' comments instead of wasting them on me. I have no idea why Overrated/Underrated still exist after they've been shown for so long now to be so ripe for abuse.
I'm not buying any more nVidia cards until they release their drivers as open source, or alternatively reveal the specifications necessary for the community to write open source drivers. I am not willing to mess with binary kernel modules, since that means using a stock distro kernel and having no assurance that future kernels will have the module compiled for them.
In fact, I just did some rough calculations. Consider a really big dinosaur at 23m length. From looking at the picture, we can conclude scientifically that it was about 18m from brain to ass. Now, assuming dinosaurs had nerves similar to ours, they ranged in
transmission speed from 20-100 m/s. Even for the fastest nerves, we're talking about a 200ms latency to the rear legs and tail. For humans, that would be a 20ms latency to the toes. For the slowest nerves, it's 1000ms for the dinosaur and 100ms for the human. That's a pretty significant difference and I imagine their bodies would have to function differently in some fundamental ways to compensate for that. I wonder what blue whales do about the problem, or those enormous squid that some people claim to have seen.
Furthermore, it sounds like that wasn't the case for dinosaurs, some of which had little bird-sized brains in enormous bodies.
True, but many of the larger dinosaurs also had a nerve sac in their asses. This helped them control their lower bodies, since the latency to the brain would have been high enough to make walking clumsy. IANA paleontologist
But when you consider just how much emotional investment the sysadmins had in this project, their priorities are entirely understandable.
Plus, what else are they going to do? I'm sure these sysadmins are glad to have real jobs where they do real work for real money. The Bush administration doesn't seem to have any more of an economic plan for Iraq than they do for the United States. Something like a third of Iraqis are unemployed and more are severely underemployed. Surely the Americans could have figured out in advance that with so many government employees in fake jobs, the destruction wreaked by war would cause a massive economic collapse. Oh right, but this is an administration that only thinks ahead when it comes to politics, but never policy.
True, but people broke the embargo because they know that an embargo almost never works against a dictator. Think about Cuba or North Korea, for example. The leadership stays strong and rich while the poor suffer. Breaking an embargo (which you have no legal necessity to follow) is hardly the same as starting a war aimed at conquering a country. I applaud the countries that shipped food, medicine, and consumer goods to Iraq. Yes, some may have been skimmed off the top by the government, but it gave to a brutally repressed people what they were too terrified to claim on their own.
And yes, I know that in the long run most Iraqis will be better off without Hussein. That doesn't mean the method and circumstances of his removal were wise or just.
For all we know the umpires are constantly making bad calls that cancel each other out.
And they are. Officials do this in every sport. When they make what they think in retrospect was a bad call, rather than correcting themselves and giving the players the impression that they can argue calls, they give a compensation call to the other team. This allows them to feel they're fair because they make the same number of calls for both teams. This is not a bad idea, though in many sports they'd do just as well by letting random errors accumulate for each time.
I think more OSS projects should follow nmap's lead and officially drop support for SCO. That means removing UnixWare-specific documentation and Makefile code, refusing to answer questions about problems on UnixWare, and so on. Then the techs who run UnixWare will have to pressure their bosses to switch to something--anything--else. Sure, SCO seems to have an end strategy now that involves lawsuits, insider trading, and fleeing to the Bahamas, but maybe the bad press will lower their share price sooner and not allow the executives to make so much money.
Yes, I know this hurts geeks who have to run UnixWare. But they're gonna be hurt anyway when SCO disappears, so what's the harm in forcing the issue a little early?
Can SCO management legally gag their employees during this litigation?
Probably not, but they can fire them for speaking to the media about the company without permission. The employees might qualify for whistleblower protection, but that depends on the state and usually only applies in specific circumstances.
Easy way around that. If you're picking a target for a packet, give it a 90% chance of being in the same/24 as your IP, a 7% chance of being within the same/16, a 2% chance of being within the same/8, and a 1% chance of being anything at all. That will tend to reduce the bandwidth through slow links. (Those numbers are arbitrary of course; you'd want to do some empirical testing to find the best weighting--maybe even base it on time so it spreads more widely shortly after the planned release time, slows down to thoroughly infect networks for a few hours, then goes back to randomly spewing packets to bring even the biggest routers to a crawl.)
This isn't my idea; it was in the original paper I read about Warhol worms. Slammer didn't do it, perhaps to stay under 476. But it's a danger, and if there's someone writing a multi-attack worm for real gain, you bet they're working on something like that.
(Why someone would really be able to gain from bringing the Internet down for a day is beyond me. Maybe if it's a country with anti-satellite weapons, they could really impair communications for a day, but beyond making a point I fail to see the purpose. Watch the next Bond movie for the rest of the plot.)
There are these things called, uh, let me think, they're often connected to wires in the wall, umm, sometimes people forget to turn them off in movie theaters, err, they make noise when someone wants to talk to you, uh, damnit I forget. But they were the big thing a few years ago. I think I can even remember using them for Internet access, but maybe that was just a bad dream.
I know it's silly but I always love when IBM uses the phrase "FUD" in corporate announcements since they know it means nothing to the mainstream press
I'd imagine most journalists do know what "fear", "uncertainty", and "doubt" mean. Just because they don't know that it's a common phrase doesn't mean they can't correctly interpret the semantics of that sentence.
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RTFA, and give me some of whatever you're smoking
The island has less than 2000 residents. That means 1 degree of separation at most, I'd guess. If you're not one of them, you kinda stick out.
Besides, wifi has terrible bandwidth. Why fly all the way there to get what you can get at many unis for free? Hell, there are unis where you can just walk into the library, plug in your laptop, and use the school's massive bandwidth.
As cheesy a plot as flying to Niue to spam from a secret cave hideout might be, it's an idea that 10 seconds of thought would reject.
Oh, so they're using wireless because the wind disrupts IP-over-avian. :)
Let's talk about oversimplified supply and demand like you learned in high school.
When a consumer is willing to pay more than a producer is selling for, the consumer has an obvious benefit. The sum of these benefits (consumer valuation - price) over all the consumers is the consumer surplus. There is a similar concept for producer surplus that takes longer to explain.
Auctions (in theory) eliminate the consumer surplus. That's why people complain about them: they like their share of the consumer surplus.
That's also why companies don't like haggling or competitive bidding: it removes produce surplus. (Car dealerships in America are something of an exception. They're a well-refined system of manipulation to make you think you're getting a better deal by haggling even though they're still making sizeable profits from you.)
IANA economist
It would if police departments had enough officers to aggressively enforce speed limits and other safety-motivated traffic laws. But when police departments hire officers specifically to do that, people complain that the police are just doing it for the money, because people like to break traffic laws. (Another issue is that--at least in Houston--the police are often the worst drivers on the road, so even judges are hesitant to take them too seriously in traffic cases.)
What do I need great 3D performance for? Do you really use Linux for games? I use a Windows box for games, and for that there are perfectly good drivers for ATI.
And for 2D stuff, anything will work pretty well, so my refusal to buy nVidia becomes an economic protest.
You know, the Overrated mods I'm getting are pissing me off. I have enough karma that I could troll for a year and still have a karma bonus. If you don't like me, flame me, but spend your mod points modding up other peoples' comments instead of wasting them on me. I have no idea why Overrated/Underrated still exist after they've been shown for so long now to be so ripe for abuse.
I'm not buying any more nVidia cards until they release their drivers as open source, or alternatively reveal the specifications necessary for the community to write open source drivers. I am not willing to mess with binary kernel modules, since that means using a stock distro kernel and having no assurance that future kernels will have the module compiled for them.
In fact, I just did some rough calculations. Consider a really big dinosaur at 23m length. From looking at the picture, we can conclude scientifically that it was about 18m from brain to ass. Now, assuming dinosaurs had nerves similar to ours, they ranged in transmission speed from 20-100 m/s. Even for the fastest nerves, we're talking about a 200ms latency to the rear legs and tail. For humans, that would be a 20ms latency to the toes. For the slowest nerves, it's 1000ms for the dinosaur and 100ms for the human. That's a pretty significant difference and I imagine their bodies would have to function differently in some fundamental ways to compensate for that. I wonder what blue whales do about the problem, or those enormous squid that some people claim to have seen.
Someone should get one of {0.iq, no.iq, negative.iq low.iq} and CNAME it to whitehouse.gov.
True, but people broke the embargo because they know that an embargo almost never works against a dictator. Think about Cuba or North Korea, for example. The leadership stays strong and rich while the poor suffer. Breaking an embargo (which you have no legal necessity to follow) is hardly the same as starting a war aimed at conquering a country. I applaud the countries that shipped food, medicine, and consumer goods to Iraq. Yes, some may have been skimmed off the top by the government, but it gave to a brutally repressed people what they were too terrified to claim on their own.
And yes, I know that in the long run most Iraqis will be better off without Hussein. That doesn't mean the method and circumstances of his removal were wise or just.
And the other half of the time, I get useless stacks of documentation that only tangentially mentions the topic I'm searching for.
I think we should all send our underpants to Microsoft to help them complete Phase I.
Can you get ejected for trying to DoS at Questec machine?
I think more OSS projects should follow nmap's lead and officially drop support for SCO. That means removing UnixWare-specific documentation and Makefile code, refusing to answer questions about problems on UnixWare, and so on. Then the techs who run UnixWare will have to pressure their bosses to switch to something--anything--else. Sure, SCO seems to have an end strategy now that involves lawsuits, insider trading, and fleeing to the Bahamas, but maybe the bad press will lower their share price sooner and not allow the executives to make so much money.
Yes, I know this hurts geeks who have to run UnixWare. But they're gonna be hurt anyway when SCO disappears, so what's the harm in forcing the issue a little early?
Looks like somebody has a case of the crunchies!
Zero. I'm sure the EPA is looking into ways to increase that amount, however.
Easy way around that. If you're picking a target for a packet, give it a 90% chance of being in the same /24 as your IP, a 7% chance of being within the same /16, a 2% chance of being within the same /8, and a 1% chance of being anything at all. That will tend to reduce the bandwidth through slow links. (Those numbers are arbitrary of course; you'd want to do some empirical testing to find the best weighting--maybe even base it on time so it spreads more widely shortly after the planned release time, slows down to thoroughly infect networks for a few hours, then goes back to randomly spewing packets to bring even the biggest routers to a crawl.)
This isn't my idea; it was in the original paper I read about Warhol worms. Slammer didn't do it, perhaps to stay under 476. But it's a danger, and if there's someone writing a multi-attack worm for real gain, you bet they're working on something like that.
(Why someone would really be able to gain from bringing the Internet down for a day is beyond me. Maybe if it's a country with anti-satellite weapons, they could really impair communications for a day, but beyond making a point I fail to see the purpose. Watch the next Bond movie for the rest of the plot.)
There are these things called, uh, let me think, they're often connected to wires in the wall, umm, sometimes people forget to turn them off in movie theaters, err, they make noise when someone wants to talk to you, uh, damnit I forget. But they were the big thing a few years ago. I think I can even remember using them for Internet access, but maybe that was just a bad dream.
Well, this would be prosecuted, thanks to the Bush administration's sincere stance against corporate crime.
Oh, wait...