I think that everyone who posted that you supposedly have to scroll on EE to view things for free is a shill for the site. I have tried it on a PC and on a Mac, on a few different browsers, and I can't see a single answer. There's nothing to scroll down to. The page is always maybe 1.5 screen heights long, and it offers you to start a free subscription. So, dear AC what's the fucking trick?
Nevertheless, parent has a point. eHow is a drain on bandwidth and not much more. The SNR is so bad that I just can't depend on the site at all as it'd waste too much time, that means I may miss higher quality nuggets there, but that's collateral damage so to speak.
Sugar != sugar. Glucose is metabolized by every cell in our body, and is produced by metabolizing other carbohydrates, too. Fructose is only metabolized in the liver and is converted directly into fatty acids and nothing else. This leads to problems.
Every hospital I've been to has an all-encompassing wireless network, with dedicated segments for various uses. Thousands of people each day bring their malware-infested laptops onto that network, and guess what: somehow nobody got sued, no law was violated, etc.
In other words: it's not really an insurmountable problem to have network isolation between various classes of devices. If I were to make a decision about it, I'd simply put their server on a yet-another fully isolated network segment, with ssh and calendar ports open to the outside. All that needs to be done to make it HIPPA compliant then is to get signed paperwork that no patient data is to be stored on that system, and do periodic audits to ensure it's the case. In the simplest case: use the system's package manager to list all modified or non-managed files, and make sure there's nothing there. It's not really hard to do.
The FPGAs needed to replace even fairly lousy shipping discrete GPUs cost on the order of $10k each. To replace a decent middle-of-the-pack GPU with an FPGA, you'd need to spend on the order of $100k in chips just for one board. Never mind that the board would consume on the order of 1kW of power, and good luck if your board assembly house messes something up: you lose a house's worth of hardware. It'd probably cost a couple $k to get the board assembled!
Oh boy. A wipe with "zeros" doesn't work like a degausser coil. You would be right if you used a degausser to degauss a platter. The heads don't degauss the magnetic domains when you overwrite data with "zeros". They simply remagnetize with a different pseudorandom (encoded and scrambled) bitstream. When you wipe with zeros, or with anything else for that matter, what gets written on the platter is pseudorandom data. The drive's electronics (be it an ASIC or firmware) has the pseudorandom generator necessary to descramble the data. The scrambling and encoding process is necessary simply to ensure data integrity on the medium.
Here's what I make of it: The "principle" that allowed the recovery to work decades ago was that there were multiple (think dozens or more) magnetic domains storing each encoded bit. These days, you have pretty much one guaranteed domain per encoded bit. There is no way to recover anything, because once you overwrite it, the only magnetic domain that stored the bit has been altered. There are no other domains that could store it, so there's nothing to recover. Data is stored in magnetization state of magnetic domains, after all.
Who the fuck designs hard drives that won't spin down when they are too hot? Every spinning platter hard drive in production has, AFAIK, a built-in temp sensor. What's wrong with using it to protect itself?
I think that all those arithmetic problems were set up specifically to make sure you can do long addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They also expect you to do it on polynomials. Surely things are easier if you have a copy of maxima handy, but I could have done it all by hand. Or on a Marchand, if one wanted to be true to the times;)
I thought that SAT and similar tests mostly test how well you are prepared to take them. That was what I took out from preparing to take GRE. Seemed like a thorough waste of time -- I learned "skills" that are totally useless elsewhere.
I agree. As for mathematical parts, I think I'd have been able to answer all of them in grade 10, and perhaps 75% of them in grade 8. It doesn't even mean I was particularly good at maths, just that they taught us all this stuff, and expected us to know it. In cold war Poland of all things. I don't think I'd have passed the entrance exams to a math department after finishng high school, though -- not without lots of preparation.
I'm sure the average italian male wouldn't mind to fuck all the hot chicks that pass him by on the street, but to consider it somehow OK because it's "ordinary"?!
Anyway, are you sure you support those [google.com] Italian libel and slander laws? Specifically, that certain "deceptive techniques" can be libelous, like (and I cite) clever implication, suggestive combinations, disproportionately scandalized and indignant tone, etc.? That seems like a clusterfuck designed to shut up anyone you disagree with. After reading the chapter above I of course do understand why Google got in trouble, and I don't think they'll have any way out. Alas, if you seriously support that kind of law, then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree...
Expectations have no effect here. Again, the auto-complete presents a fact. Popularity ranking is simply a fact from the database that the algorithm uses. It does not specifically target anyone, and to consider it libelous you'd have to be seriously drugged. I'm not excluding the last possibility when thinking of Italian lawmakers and courts.
I'm sure the average italian male wouldn't mind to fuck all the hot chicks that pass him by on the street, but to consider it somehow OK because it's "ordinary"?!
Anyway, are you sure you support those Italian libel and slander laws? Specifically, that certain "deceptive techniques" can be libelous, like (and I cite) clever implication, suggestive combinations, disproportionately scandalized and indignant tone, etc.? That seems like a clusterfuck designed to shut up anyone you disagree with. After reading the chapter above I of course do understand why Google got in trouble, and I don't think they'll have any way out. Alas, if you seriously support that kind of law, then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree...
You know what? It's not google who makes baseless accusations. BTW, how the fuck is an autocomplete suggestion an accusation I don't know, but let's set this aside. It's a typing aid, damnit. It's a piece of code. It's not programmed to target anyone in particular. Heck, for all I care, the output is precisely a statement of mathematical fact -- an output of a generic autocomplete algorithm, whose input was the snapshot of google's database at a certain point in time. You may not like it, but facts aren't libel, and especially not an output of a relatively simple and impartial algorithm. Sure, google's employees coded it up, but the jump from "autocomplete code" to "libel" (it's not slander, duh!) is a long one.
It's like saying that just because your last name is Liaraan, by chance the same as that of the Liaraan, Anders, the crook, whose dictionary entry succeeds the entry for liar, n., you can sue Liber Load and Co, publishers of said dictionary, for libel. I mean, couldn't they just put the Liaraan's entry somewhere less, um, obvious?
If recent slashdot stories are anything to go by, Italian law is seriously fucked up. Seriously.
A "mid sized" company won't run a small business server... Heck, there are some media-heavy small businesses where a single "reasonable" machine would be short on I/O bandwidth to be even two of those servers at once (say file and print), never mind running every piece of server infrastructure.
I agree. I used to use their DACs, been badly burned and had to go through three board revisions: first I used a 4 channel chip, then a 2 channel version of the same thing, then I switched to a similarly performing chip from ADI that was never out of stock, and cost less. The only TI parts I use are a good ADC that always seems to be in stock, and some logic glue that has multiple sources but comes cheapest from TI for some reason.
[...]states like New York run up “their” debt indirectly. They issue bonds through tens of thousands of separate legal entities. New York “state” doesn’t owe all of that $78.4 billion in debt -- it owes only $3.5 billion in “general-obligation” debt. [...] Who owes the rest? The MTA, the Dormitory Authority, the Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority and so on. [...] So, if we let New York go “bankrupt,” does that mean that the TFA should go bankrupt? How ’bout the MTA? Should they all go bankrupt? Should a judge be able to take a big pile of money that the MTA, as a corporation working on behalf of the state, has committed to transit retirees and give it to, say, Dormitory Authority bondholders?
Yes, even raw data from a pair of F-16 viewscreens. The quality is so bad that you can't really make any reasonable inferences from it in the case you likely refer to, apart from saying "sorry, not enough".
As for appealing to authority: since when presidents, peace prize winners and generals are experts at evidence analysis? This is but an example of constant idolization of people of position who speak far outside their area of expertise. This is one of the reasons why the vaccine fiasco is still around: celebrities who don't know shit keep parroting lies. And, ahem, the celebrities you refer to were not likely eyewitnesses: they didn't see the UFOs first hand. They only saw the evidence.
I know that trolls shouldn't be fed, but this "high static charge" FUD just made me chuckle. It doesn't mean squat. It's like if you said "when an Airbus experiences wakalixes". Just because you use words from a science vocabulary doesn't mean you make sense.
If you mean something, just say it. If there's a known problem, there will be an airworthiness directive about it. Link to it or just shut the fuck up.
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I think that everyone who posted that you supposedly have to scroll on EE to view things for free is a shill for the site. I have tried it on a PC and on a Mac, on a few different browsers, and I can't see a single answer. There's nothing to scroll down to. The page is always maybe 1.5 screen heights long, and it offers you to start a free subscription. So, dear AC what's the fucking trick?
Nevertheless, parent has a point. eHow is a drain on bandwidth and not much more. The SNR is so bad that I just can't depend on the site at all as it'd waste too much time, that means I may miss higher quality nuggets there, but that's collateral damage so to speak.
Kudos on the Peruvian girl, I guess? ;)
Sugar != sugar. Glucose is metabolized by every cell in our body, and is produced by metabolizing other carbohydrates, too. Fructose is only metabolized in the liver and is converted directly into fatty acids and nothing else. This leads to problems.
Every hospital I've been to has an all-encompassing wireless network, with dedicated segments for various uses. Thousands of people each day bring their malware-infested laptops onto that network, and guess what: somehow nobody got sued, no law was violated, etc.
In other words: it's not really an insurmountable problem to have network isolation between various classes of devices. If I were to make a decision about it, I'd simply put their server on a yet-another fully isolated network segment, with ssh and calendar ports open to the outside. All that needs to be done to make it HIPPA compliant then is to get signed paperwork that no patient data is to be stored on that system, and do periodic audits to ensure it's the case. In the simplest case: use the system's package manager to list all modified or non-managed files, and make sure there's nothing there. It's not really hard to do.
It's pretty easy to figure out that the third is the problem: yes, you can't install any custom software on your boxee. End of story, gplv3 violation.
The FPGAs needed to replace even fairly lousy shipping discrete GPUs cost on the order of $10k each. To replace a decent middle-of-the-pack GPU with an FPGA, you'd need to spend on the order of $100k in chips just for one board. Never mind that the board would consume on the order of 1kW of power, and good luck if your board assembly house messes something up: you lose a house's worth of hardware. It'd probably cost a couple $k to get the board assembled!
Oh boy. A wipe with "zeros" doesn't work like a degausser coil. You would be right if you used a degausser to degauss a platter. The heads don't degauss the magnetic domains when you overwrite data with "zeros". They simply remagnetize with a different pseudorandom (encoded and scrambled) bitstream. When you wipe with zeros, or with anything else for that matter, what gets written on the platter is pseudorandom data. The drive's electronics (be it an ASIC or firmware) has the pseudorandom generator necessary to descramble the data. The scrambling and encoding process is necessary simply to ensure data integrity on the medium.
Here's what I make of it: The "principle" that allowed the recovery to work decades ago was that there were multiple (think dozens or more) magnetic domains storing each encoded bit. These days, you have pretty much one guaranteed domain per encoded bit. There is no way to recover anything, because once you overwrite it, the only magnetic domain that stored the bit has been altered. There are no other domains that could store it, so there's nothing to recover. Data is stored in magnetization state of magnetic domains, after all.
Who the fuck designs hard drives that won't spin down when they are too hot? Every spinning platter hard drive in production has, AFAIK, a built-in temp sensor. What's wrong with using it to protect itself?
Thus defeating the mouse wiggler ;)
I think that all those arithmetic problems were set up specifically to make sure you can do long addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They also expect you to do it on polynomials. Surely things are easier if you have a copy of maxima handy, but I could have done it all by hand. Or on a Marchand, if one wanted to be true to the times ;)
I thought that SAT and similar tests mostly test how well you are prepared to take them. That was what I took out from preparing to take GRE. Seemed like a thorough waste of time -- I learned "skills" that are totally useless elsewhere.
I agree. As for mathematical parts, I think I'd have been able to answer all of them in grade 10, and perhaps 75% of them in grade 8. It doesn't even mean I was particularly good at maths, just that they taught us all this stuff, and expected us to know it. In cold war Poland of all things. I don't think I'd have passed the entrance exams to a math department after finishng high school, though -- not without lots of preparation.
You're joking, but the Latin part looks eerily like TeX output.
I'm sure the average italian male wouldn't mind to fuck all the hot chicks that pass him by on the street, but to consider it somehow OK because it's "ordinary"?!
Anyway, are you sure you support those [google.com] Italian libel and slander laws? Specifically, that certain "deceptive techniques" can be libelous, like (and I cite) clever implication, suggestive combinations, disproportionately scandalized and indignant tone, etc.? That seems like a clusterfuck designed to shut up anyone you disagree with. After reading the chapter above I of course do understand why Google got in trouble, and I don't think they'll have any way out. Alas, if you seriously support that kind of law, then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree...
Expectations have no effect here. Again, the auto-complete presents a fact. Popularity ranking is simply a fact from the database that the algorithm uses. It does not specifically target anyone, and to consider it libelous you'd have to be seriously drugged. I'm not excluding the last possibility when thinking of Italian lawmakers and courts.
I'm sure the average italian male wouldn't mind to fuck all the hot chicks that pass him by on the street, but to consider it somehow OK because it's "ordinary"?!
Anyway, are you sure you support those Italian libel and slander laws? Specifically, that certain "deceptive techniques" can be libelous, like (and I cite) clever implication, suggestive combinations, disproportionately scandalized and indignant tone, etc.? That seems like a clusterfuck designed to shut up anyone you disagree with. After reading the chapter above I of course do understand why Google got in trouble, and I don't think they'll have any way out. Alas, if you seriously support that kind of law, then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree...
You know what? It's not google who makes baseless accusations. BTW, how the fuck is an autocomplete suggestion an accusation I don't know, but let's set this aside. It's a typing aid, damnit. It's a piece of code. It's not programmed to target anyone in particular. Heck, for all I care, the output is precisely a statement of mathematical fact -- an output of a generic autocomplete algorithm, whose input was the snapshot of google's database at a certain point in time. You may not like it, but facts aren't libel, and especially not an output of a relatively simple and impartial algorithm. Sure, google's employees coded it up, but the jump from "autocomplete code" to "libel" (it's not slander, duh!) is a long one.
It's like saying that just because your last name is Liaraan, by chance the same as that of the Liaraan, Anders, the crook, whose dictionary entry succeeds the entry for liar, n., you can sue Liber Load and Co, publishers of said dictionary, for libel. I mean, couldn't they just put the Liaraan's entry somewhere less, um, obvious?
If recent slashdot stories are anything to go by, Italian law is seriously fucked up. Seriously.
A "mid sized" company won't run a small business server... Heck, there are some media-heavy small businesses where a single "reasonable" machine would be short on I/O bandwidth to be even two of those servers at once (say file and print), never mind running every piece of server infrastructure.
Things will hopefully start changing in the enterprise server segment once samba4 gets released and stabilizes.
I agree. I used to use their DACs, been badly burned and had to go through three board revisions: first I used a 4 channel chip, then a 2 channel version of the same thing, then I switched to a similarly performing chip from ADI that was never out of stock, and cost less. The only TI parts I use are a good ADC that always seems to be in stock, and some logic glue that has multiple sources but comes cheapest from TI for some reason.
It seems that bankruptcy is no cure for broke states:
[...]states like New York run up “their” debt indirectly. They issue bonds through tens of thousands of separate legal entities. New York “state” doesn’t owe all of that $78.4 billion in debt -- it owes only $3.5 billion in “general-obligation” debt. [...] Who owes the rest? The MTA, the Dormitory Authority, the Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority and so on. [...] So, if we let New York go “bankrupt,” does that mean that the TFA should go bankrupt? How ’bout the MTA? Should they all go bankrupt? Should a judge be able to take a big pile of money that the MTA, as a corporation working on behalf of the state, has committed to transit retirees and give it to, say, Dormitory Authority bondholders?
Yes, even raw data from a pair of F-16 viewscreens. The quality is so bad that you can't really make any reasonable inferences from it in the case you likely refer to, apart from saying "sorry, not enough".
As for appealing to authority: since when presidents, peace prize winners and generals are experts at evidence analysis? This is but an example of constant idolization of people of position who speak far outside their area of expertise. This is one of the reasons why the vaccine fiasco is still around: celebrities who don't know shit keep parroting lies. And, ahem, the celebrities you refer to were not likely eyewitnesses: they didn't see the UFOs first hand. They only saw the evidence.
I know that trolls shouldn't be fed, but this "high static charge" FUD just made me chuckle. It doesn't mean squat. It's like if you said "when an Airbus experiences wakalixes". Just because you use words from a science vocabulary doesn't mean you make sense.
If you mean something, just say it. If there's a known problem, there will be an airworthiness directive about it. Link to it or just shut the fuck up.