So, does this mean that if Opera desperatly needs some more cache, they'll start logging the pages they strip and sell off the logs to the highest bidder? What about DOJ requests for folks checking out pr0n on their mobile phone?
Is this liability that Opera really wants to take on?
Not just Stalin, The US also praciticed quantity over quality.
Just ask any Luftwaffe fan (or as they're politely known in gaming forums; Luftwhiners) and they'll give you the ad nauseum about how every german aircraft was far superior in every way shape and form to any other plane in the skies.
As far as WW2 was concerned, more trumped "better".
There are a dozen apartment complexes / co-op's / condos gatherings within 5 miles of where I sit here in Mishawaka (ten mins. from So-Be), yet SBC can't seem to provide me with DSL. This area has to have the highest population density around, but it's either 50 bucks a month to comcast or crappy dial-up.
Funny thing is, there are hundreds of Dishes up around here, so I'm not the only one who hates comcast.
DAMMIT MA BELL, GET OFF YER ASSES AND GIVE ME A CHANCE TO GIVE MONEY TO YOUR MONOPOLY INSTEAD OF THE OTHER GUY'S EQUALLY OPPRESSIVE MONOPOLY!!!!!
For me Hitachi and Fujitsu drives have been dreams. Never had a failure. I've had great luck with Western Digital and Maxtors as well. Now, a post or two down, someone else will tell me that I'm playing Russian Roulette with my drive choices.
Have we finally decided that all pieces of journalism have to devolve into the Foxnews/Air America "Today in blah XYZ Happened.....BECAUSE YOU FUCKING SUCK YOU LIBERAL PUSSY/RIGHTWING NAZI!!!!!!" format? The article stands on its own as an interesting science piece. We have a better understanding of something we didn't know before. rah rah us, go humanity. Do we really need to throw in some controversy-of-the-moment bull? Let's try some better headlines:
"Caltech studies of Bee flight may help rescue American Journalist kidnapped in Iraq."
"Can new information about Bee flight explain the Natalee Haloway disappearance?"
"Bee flight and the rising cost of natural gas, how it affects you!"
C'mon, can't we let some stories stand on their own for once? I'd kinda like to watch/read the news without a first year j-school hack trying to offend/outrage me via the AP.
Indeed, unstarts were a huge problem with the early SR-71's. They never really "solved" the problem of unstarts, they just mitigated the problem by having the flight control system control engine restarts at high speed.
South Park, for whatever bashing it takes as infantile potty humor mixed in with occasional Left wing / Right wing issues, has set a new standard for cable TV shows. An average episode costs less than $100,000 USD (not counting whatever deals Creators Parker and Stone have with Comedy Central) and can go from concept to final print in two weeks. Throw in it's high ratings with the 18-35 crowd, and in one 30 second commercial spot, you the parent company have just recouped your initial investment.
Adult swim has taken this sort of guerilla approach, picking up cheap, quick turn around projects. There's no huge capital outlay (unless you're buying an old fox show that was a failure and will probably never see the light of day again.....) and even if it fails, you can drop something fresh into it's slot in no time.
I wonder if the business plan ripoff has contributed to the Viacom / AS fued? Or if viacom just can't remove their heads from thier asses...
The reason you can't find arrested development is because it's being dumped. The show isn't being renewed, and they're throwing out the remaining episodes wherever they can. No new episodes are being produced.
For as much of a critical sucess as Arrested Development was, it never really drew big, prime time ratings.
Stores that accept bottle returns put a cap on what can be returned. Most Michigan stores won't accept more than $25.00 in returns without special appointment e.g. a group wants to do a "bottle drive". While this is in part a fraud deterrance measure, (why go to the trouble when you've got to work so hard for 25 dollar incriments), it's also a logistics thing. 250 pop bottles (.10 a bottle in mich.) take up a lot of space, the machines will need to be emptied a couple times, and no one else can take care of their 4 dollars worth of bottles while you're doing 25. On top of all that, stores use a specific type of paper for bottle slips, usually with the store's logo on it. Again, lotsa work for a pretty small return and a chance to become a ward of the state for retail fraud.
Pop bottle barcodes do contain some kind of location code. You can't bring in out of state bottles, they'll be rejected by most machines. Not sure if it's a state specific code, "state does/doesn't have bottle return"-code or a "michigan.10, other state.05, all others reject" code.
I submitted this years ago!!!OMFG!!!
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Actually, these aren't all that new. A couple years ago a Ford Dealer in the Detroit area, Mel Farr (a former Detroit Lions Football player in addition to sleezy used car salesman archtype) drew some heat for installing similar devices in the vehicles of his, ahem, "higher risk" clients. The story hit the papers and caused a bit of a stir (and the link / story I submitted were rejected. I was heartbroken.)
As an aside, Mel Farr was run out of business by Ford after racking up close to 30 million dollars in debt. They got tired of his "the check's in the mail" line and simply "forgave" Farr's debts in exchange for his dealerships. Apparently the no-pay no-start devices didn't help with the used car business.
BOINC provides a framework for projects to work within. Once you separate out the fact that you're doing two installs, BOINC & project, it's much easier to understand.
Seti@home isn't going to lose 99% of their users just because the install and connect process got modestly more difficult. Though I'm sure at some point we'll see an article here at slashdot that says "Seti loses XX% of users" that all the harp seals can point to. BOINC is a better framework, the new client vastly improves over the old one. It's a shame that some folks have chosen to to put their stamp of disapproval on it after one or two shots.
and i've been using this boinc thingy for like months now to run my seti... so where exactly is the news here ?
The news is that old Seti is finally dying, and not in the silly "netcraft confirms" way, but finally going away.
The comments about the move over the few threads that have talked about it are freaking hilarious. I've never seen so many (reasonably) tech savvy people turn into 85 year old codgers. "My Opteron processes 14 Seti@home classic units to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"
Seti Classic hasn't been doing anything productive for *years*. The work units you were running were validations and revalidations of already validated workunits. You may as well have created 500 blank word documents and set up a windows task to copy them from one partition to another for all the good it was doing. The "real" work was moved over to BOINC long ago. Classic is dead, remember how cool it was, and move on.
What I can't figure out is how people are having problems figuring out BIONC. Download BIONC. Install. Sign up with whatever @Home project you're interested in using. Go back to BOINC, attach to project using account key that was e-mailed to you (or e-mail address.). Walk away and wait for client to it's thing. Sometimes, especially during/. mentions, the servers at the various projects take a big hit as hordes of users sign up and try to grab the client, resulting in "no work from project" messages, but that's the worst I've seen.
Seti seems to have taken care of their last few bottlenecks, and opening up the old servers to start doing something useful should take care of the rest of any other capacity issues they've had. BOINC has been a huge improvement over classic. You can't fake results to run up your "score", the client is much more responsable when it runs out of work (trying to reconnect at growing random intervals during an outage, instead of constantly hammering away like a screaming toddler), and workunit queueing is handled within BOINC instead of through a third party system. I kinda miss the command line client, but that's about it.
So tell me, when you go out to dinner, do you get a seat for your smug sense of self satisfaction too?
Take a minute and read the article. The worm travels via AIM and requires user interaction to execute. You could craft the same type attack with GAIM against OpenBSD running in VMware, inside a room with Biomtric locks. A network is only as secure as its weakest link, and this particular rootkit strikes the weakest link of all. Users.
But hey, you're right. This one is totally on Microsoft. They're clearly to blame for shitty AIM code and users that are dumb enough to click every link they get.
You're assuming the "Strike Zone" in baseball is a fixed area that does not change. You're wrong.
The rule of thumb is from the belt to the knees (or letters to the knees), and over the plate. This changes for every player. But what about the guy whose wheel house (prime hitting area) is just below the knees or just above the letters. The ump has a little leeway as to what is and isn't a strike.
What about the 41 year old hall of fame bound pitcher who's two strikes away from his first ever perfect game, in a meaningless game at the end of the season where both teams have long since been eliminated from playoff contention? That strike zone is going to be from the tip of the cap to 1 inch off the plate for the last couple outs. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's a human game.
Technology has it's place. The strike zone monitoring system, now that it has matured some, has helped weed out some of the umps that had no concept of calling a game. In a few years, we'll have instant replay in baseball for determining homeruns (no arugment there. Being 400 ft away and trying to see a 4 inch ball hit a 6 inch yellow line isn't all that easy). Niether of those are bad things. But there's a limit to what electronics should do.
Take hockey reffing. A good ref can control the flow of the game. Pro hockey, despite whatever the NHL wants you to believe, is still a rough game, and the rough element has its place. A good ref will let the players police themselves up to a point. Only if the guys start acting damned fools do they break out the whistles. I can't see an electronic ref system having the same "give and take" as humans have.
There's a lot to be said for simply letting the players play.
It predicts that the IPv4 address space will be exhausted in 2 - 10 years and suggests that it isn't worth trying to reclaim old allocations
In a related story, Conhugeco Amalgamated Logging industries announced that trying to replant logged forests is a "waste of time."
There's an awful lot of IP space out there, and reallocation can expand the life of IPv4 to a point where IPv6 transition will be a moot point. Until then we'll just keep repeating the same chicken and egg argument, as if the "transition" is going to involve a janitor throwing a giant breaker somewhere and *presto* the world is IPv6!
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No, Government would be:
"Take whatever's most expensive, even if it's not suited for the job. Buy four, use one."
D'OH!
I ummm....meant to say "cash."
Also, I wasn't aware that Opera was a non-US company. Learn something new every day.
So, does this mean that if Opera desperatly needs some more cache, they'll start logging the pages they strip and sell off the logs to the highest bidder? What about DOJ requests for folks checking out pr0n on their mobile phone?
Is this liability that Opera really wants to take on?
Ask any of the servers I manage. My data definatly knows when I go missing.
They know when I leave, and they definatly know when I go on vaction. Or when I want to leave early......
"Blacks, Dogs, and Irishmen keep off the grass"
"How many polacks does it take to change a light bulb?"
Racism, discrimination based on nation of origin, whats the difference?
The sound of a pistol being cocked doesn't have/need a language.
Not just Stalin, The US also praciticed quantity over quality.
Just ask any Luftwaffe fan (or as they're politely known in gaming forums; Luftwhiners) and they'll give you the ad nauseum about how every german aircraft was far superior in every way shape and form to any other plane in the skies.
As far as WW2 was concerned, more trumped "better".
There are a dozen apartment complexes / co-op's / condos gatherings within 5 miles of where I sit here in Mishawaka (ten mins. from So-Be), yet SBC can't seem to provide me with DSL. This area has to have the highest population density around, but it's either 50 bucks a month to comcast or crappy dial-up.
Funny thing is, there are hundreds of Dishes up around here, so I'm not the only one who hates comcast.
DAMMIT MA BELL, GET OFF YER ASSES AND GIVE ME A CHANCE TO GIVE MONEY TO YOUR MONOPOLY INSTEAD OF THE OTHER GUY'S EQUALLY OPPRESSIVE MONOPOLY!!!!!
You mac can be changed at will. The physical address is burned into the card, but the OS (windows or linux) can be bluffed into using a different one.
All hardware sucks. End of story.
For me Hitachi and Fujitsu drives have been dreams. Never had a failure. I've had great luck with Western Digital and Maxtors as well. Now, a post or two down, someone else will tell me that I'm playing Russian Roulette with my drive choices.
All hardware sucks. All hardware will fail.
If I'm using P2P it's to find stuff that's not on iTunes. I'm downloading more music now (legally) than I have in months/years.
A. Because it makes following your point difficult, and it's confusing.
Q. Why is top posting bad?
Have we finally decided that all pieces of journalism have to devolve into the Foxnews/Air America "Today in blah XYZ Happened.....BECAUSE YOU FUCKING SUCK YOU LIBERAL PUSSY/RIGHTWING NAZI!!!!!!" format? The article stands on its own as an interesting science piece. We have a better understanding of something we didn't know before. rah rah us, go humanity. Do we really need to throw in some controversy-of-the-moment bull? Let's try some better headlines:
"Caltech studies of Bee flight may help rescue American Journalist kidnapped in Iraq."
"Can new information about Bee flight explain the Natalee Haloway disappearance?"
"Bee flight and the rising cost of natural gas, how it affects you!"
C'mon, can't we let some stories stand on their own for once? I'd kinda like to watch/read the news without a first year j-school hack trying to offend/outrage me via the AP.
Indeed, unstarts were a huge problem with the early SR-71's. They never really "solved" the problem of unstarts, they just mitigated the problem by having the flight control system control engine restarts at high speed.
South Park, for whatever bashing it takes as infantile potty humor mixed in with occasional Left wing / Right wing issues, has set a new standard for cable TV shows. An average episode costs less than $100,000 USD (not counting whatever deals Creators Parker and Stone have with Comedy Central) and can go from concept to final print in two weeks. Throw in it's high ratings with the 18-35 crowd, and in one 30 second commercial spot, you the parent company have just recouped your initial investment.
Adult swim has taken this sort of guerilla approach, picking up cheap, quick turn around projects. There's no huge capital outlay (unless you're buying an old fox show that was a failure and will probably never see the light of day again.....) and even if it fails, you can drop something fresh into it's slot in no time.
I wonder if the business plan ripoff has contributed to the Viacom / AS fued? Or if viacom just can't remove their heads from thier asses...
The reason you can't find arrested development is because it's being dumped. The show isn't being renewed, and they're throwing out the remaining episodes wherever they can. No new episodes are being produced.
For as much of a critical sucess as Arrested Development was, it never really drew big, prime time ratings.
Stores that accept bottle returns put a cap on what can be returned. Most Michigan stores won't accept more than $25.00 in returns without special appointment e.g. a group wants to do a "bottle drive". While this is in part a fraud deterrance measure, (why go to the trouble when you've got to work so hard for 25 dollar incriments), it's also a logistics thing. 250 pop bottles (.10 a bottle in mich.) take up a lot of space, the machines will need to be emptied a couple times, and no one else can take care of their 4 dollars worth of bottles while you're doing 25. On top of all that, stores use a specific type of paper for bottle slips, usually with the store's logo on it. Again, lotsa work for a pretty small return and a chance to become a ward of the state for retail fraud.
.10, other state .05, all others reject" code.
Pop bottle barcodes do contain some kind of location code. You can't bring in out of state bottles, they'll be rejected by most machines. Not sure if it's a state specific code, "state does/doesn't have bottle return"-code or a "michigan
Actually, these aren't all that new. A couple years ago a Ford Dealer in the Detroit area, Mel Farr (a former Detroit Lions Football player in addition to sleezy used car salesman archtype) drew some heat for installing similar devices in the vehicles of his, ahem, "higher risk" clients. The story hit the papers and caused a bit of a stir (and the link / story I submitted were rejected. I was heartbroken.)
As an aside, Mel Farr was run out of business by Ford after racking up close to 30 million dollars in debt. They got tired of his "the check's in the mail" line and simply "forgave" Farr's debts in exchange for his dealerships. Apparently the no-pay no-start devices didn't help with the used car business.
systems with multiple pentium pro processors won't work well with server 2003, just FYI.
"I'll bet they'll lose over 30%, though."
They'll "lose" that many in old accounts that don't renew anyway. I've got a few that were linked to e-mail addresses that have long since died off.
BOINC is not Seti. Seti is not BOINC.
BOINC provides a framework for projects to work within. Once you separate out the fact that you're doing two installs, BOINC & project, it's much easier to understand.
Seti@home isn't going to lose 99% of their users just because the install and connect process got modestly more difficult. Though I'm sure at some point we'll see an article here at slashdot that says "Seti loses XX% of users" that all the harp seals can point to. BOINC is a better framework, the new client vastly improves over the old one. It's a shame that some folks have chosen to to put their stamp of disapproval on it after one or two shots.
and i've been using this boinc thingy for like months now to run my seti ... so where exactly is the news here ?
/. mentions, the servers at the various projects take a big hit as hordes of users sign up and try to grab the client, resulting in "no work from project" messages, but that's the worst I've seen.
The news is that old Seti is finally dying, and not in the silly "netcraft confirms" way, but finally going away.
The comments about the move over the few threads that have talked about it are freaking hilarious. I've never seen so many (reasonably) tech savvy people turn into 85 year old codgers. "My Opteron processes 14 Seti@home classic units to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"
Seti Classic hasn't been doing anything productive for *years*. The work units you were running were validations and revalidations of already validated workunits. You may as well have created 500 blank word documents and set up a windows task to copy them from one partition to another for all the good it was doing. The "real" work was moved over to BOINC long ago. Classic is dead, remember how cool it was, and move on.
What I can't figure out is how people are having problems figuring out BIONC. Download BIONC. Install. Sign up with whatever @Home project you're interested in using. Go back to BOINC, attach to project using account key that was e-mailed to you (or e-mail address.). Walk away and wait for client to it's thing. Sometimes, especially during
Seti seems to have taken care of their last few bottlenecks, and opening up the old servers to start doing something useful should take care of the rest of any other capacity issues they've had. BOINC has been a huge improvement over classic. You can't fake results to run up your "score", the client is much more responsable when it runs out of work (trying to reconnect at growing random intervals during an outage, instead of constantly hammering away like a screaming toddler), and workunit queueing is handled within BOINC instead of through a third party system. I kinda miss the command line client, but that's about it.
So tell me, when you go out to dinner, do you get a seat for your smug sense of self satisfaction too?
Take a minute and read the article. The worm travels via AIM and requires user interaction to execute. You could craft the same type attack with GAIM against OpenBSD running in VMware, inside a room with Biomtric locks. A network is only as secure as its weakest link, and this particular rootkit strikes the weakest link of all. Users.
But hey, you're right. This one is totally on Microsoft. They're clearly to blame for shitty AIM code and users that are dumb enough to click every link they get.
You're assuming the "Strike Zone" in baseball is a fixed area that does not change. You're wrong.
The rule of thumb is from the belt to the knees (or letters to the knees), and over the plate. This changes for every player. But what about the guy whose wheel house (prime hitting area) is just below the knees or just above the letters. The ump has a little leeway as to what is and isn't a strike.
What about the 41 year old hall of fame bound pitcher who's two strikes away from his first ever perfect game, in a meaningless game at the end of the season where both teams have long since been eliminated from playoff contention? That strike zone is going to be from the tip of the cap to 1 inch off the plate for the last couple outs. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's a human game.
Technology has it's place. The strike zone monitoring system, now that it has matured some, has helped weed out some of the umps that had no concept of calling a game. In a few years, we'll have instant replay in baseball for determining homeruns (no arugment there. Being 400 ft away and trying to see a 4 inch ball hit a 6 inch yellow line isn't all that easy). Niether of those are bad things. But there's a limit to what electronics should do.
Take hockey reffing. A good ref can control the flow of the game. Pro hockey, despite whatever the NHL wants you to believe, is still a rough game, and the rough element has its place. A good ref will let the players police themselves up to a point. Only if the guys start acting damned fools do they break out the whistles. I can't see an electronic ref system having the same "give and take" as humans have.
There's a lot to be said for simply letting the players play.
It predicts that the IPv4 address space will be exhausted in 2 - 10 years and suggests that it isn't worth trying to reclaim old allocations
In a related story, Conhugeco Amalgamated Logging industries announced that trying to replant logged forests is a "waste of time."
There's an awful lot of IP space out there, and reallocation can expand the life of IPv4 to a point where IPv6 transition will be a moot point. Until then we'll just keep repeating the same chicken and egg argument, as if the "transition" is going to involve a janitor throwing a giant breaker somewhere and *presto* the world is IPv6!