In this case, people are notoriously bad at figuring long term expenses that are sustained and slightly elevated. People will tend to pay $10,000 over the life of a car for a "cheaper" model that costs $4,000 less. They'll tend to buy the plasma TV that costs $300 less than the $2000 LED TV that lasts twice as long and uses 30% less electricity.
For the car, money saved now can be worth more than possible money saved in the future. For the plasma vs. LED case, the technologies have subtle differences in appearance, and again, there's no guarantee that the LED TV will actually last longer, or that the owner will keep it for its entire life.
And this affects the commons because power is increasingly a rare resource being squandered to provide a 5' wide screen typically viewed 15 feet back that provides the same viewing aspect ratio as a 19" TV at 4 feet at 11x the power. Power that isn't then available for running manufacturing plants, hospitals, and other things that generate real wealth, and require a tax-funded power plant to compensate for.
If power really is a scarce resource, its cost will reflect that. If you want everyone to be more careful with power usage, raise the price. Your min-rant sentence there reveals the real motive: you want to dictate what people do in the privacy of their homes. If you really want to get people to reduce power usage by limiting things they can buy, why stop at the TV technology? How about banning TV sales altogether, on the premise that TV watching doesn't generate real wealth? Or ban water heaters beyond 10 gallons, since long showers and baths are wasteful of energy? What about banning houses larger than some size, since the extra space doesn't generate any real wealth?
I thought plenty of 32-bit processors had a larger physical address bus, like 48 bits or so. This way the OS could map different processes to different chunks of the 48-bit space. Each would be limited to 4GB address spaces, but the cumulative use of all processes could go well above that. But maybe I am just remembering things wrong.
Or could this just be some random application error that's causing bad behavior? I've encountered this a few times with Windows PCs, but the solution has always been to just add more hardware.
I believe they make a piece of hardware that's a round disc with something odd name like "Ubuntu". Adding that should fix this problem for good.
As CNET reports, no other company has been singled out and rewarded with such a waiver.
Maybe because the government site doesn't link to any other sites in ways that contact its servers even when the user doesn't click any links? Sorry if this is too technical for the article submitter.
So in other words, by trimming robots.txt, they're not telling us where the sensitive pages are anymore, just saying "find them yourself with a search engine".
Maybe I'm naive, but why can't the firmware updater first check that it is being applied to the proper drive hardware? Surely it has a way to ask the drive exactly what hardware it has in it. But routers seem to be just as stupid, accepting whatever file you send to it without checking anything, so what do I know.
Come on, use the right word! They COPIED the data, not STOLE it, unless they really did delete it from the original server, in which case they would have noticed it missing immediately.
But seriously if you really want to know how to erase your media here are the instructions for the US government. For destroying hard drives they recommend you "disintegrate, shred, pulverize, incinerate" (p19) the hard drive
I actually got a letter a little over a year ago which was one of these you are in deep s$%t for downloading music. Only issue it was addressed to "Occupant". [...] Oh Nothing happened. There was ZERO follow up on the letter by the sender.
Maybe it was simply misaddressed and they found "Occupant" elsewhere?
The RIAA has appealed the order entered several days ago allowing the January 22nd hearing in SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum to be streamed over internet TV.
They went on to explain this was because the court refused to give fair payment to the artists/performers (lawyers) for the massive distribution of the video over the internet.
Once the ISP's start accepting this money, good bye safe harbor provision. You can't claim to be a common carrier once you've accepted responsibility for policing your content.
Actually, you just need to say good bye to the pervasive Slashdot myth that ISPs have ever been common carriers.
Sorry for the analogy, but it illustrates the dynamic well in my mind:
Several people are standing on a roof. Walking ten steps north will put some near the center, and others very close to the north edge. Similar for ten steps in other directions. Walking in any direction makes everyone closer to that edge, but for those dangerously close to another edge, the tradeoff is worth it. And if the goal is to be near the center, each person should walk a different direction; advice that "walking north is good for anyone" is faulty.
Let's not jump on the guy. He didn't write the/. article. He wrote a single-page blog post about something interesting he spotted. Maybe he's out swapping the RAM right now. Blame the Slashdot submitter and editors.
Come on man, it's proof, PROOF that Windows is half the speed of Linux. Who are you to question this informal result? I say we go to town with it and make everyone switch!!!11
It's about renewable energy and making the most of solar/wind. I.e. ensure that excess solar energy is used up during the day by cooling the fridges an extra couple of degrees so they don't have to use base load power over night.
Oh, how interesting. Now I don't have to RTFA. Thanks!
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For the car, money saved now can be worth more than possible money saved in the future. For the plasma vs. LED case, the technologies have subtle differences in appearance, and again, there's no guarantee that the LED TV will actually last longer, or that the owner will keep it for its entire life.
If power really is a scarce resource, its cost will reflect that. If you want everyone to be more careful with power usage, raise the price. Your min-rant sentence there reveals the real motive: you want to dictate what people do in the privacy of their homes. If you really want to get people to reduce power usage by limiting things they can buy, why stop at the TV technology? How about banning TV sales altogether, on the premise that TV watching doesn't generate real wealth? Or ban water heaters beyond 10 gallons, since long showers and baths are wasteful of energy? What about banning houses larger than some size, since the extra space doesn't generate any real wealth?
I thought plenty of 32-bit processors had a larger physical address bus, like 48 bits or so. This way the OS could map different processes to different chunks of the 48-bit space. Each would be limited to 4GB address spaces, but the cumulative use of all processes could go well above that. But maybe I am just remembering things wrong.
So I take it he's the one true BOFH - Bastard Operator from Heaven.
I believe they make a piece of hardware that's a round disc with something odd name like "Ubuntu". Adding that should fix this problem for good.
Maybe because the government site doesn't link to any other sites in ways that contact its servers even when the user doesn't click any links? Sorry if this is too technical for the article submitter.
So in other words, by trimming robots.txt, they're not telling us where the sensitive pages are anymore, just saying "find them yourself with a search engine".
Maybe I'm naive, but why can't the firmware updater first check that it is being applied to the proper drive hardware? Surely it has a way to ask the drive exactly what hardware it has in it. But routers seem to be just as stupid, accepting whatever file you send to it without checking anything, so what do I know.
Come on, use the right word! They COPIED the data, not STOLE it, unless they really did delete it from the original server, in which case they would have noticed it missing immediately.
You left out the most important last step: "nuke it from orbit, it's the only way" (p20) to be sure.
Is that like saying "bat" is a variant of the word "cat"? I'd say those layouts aren't QWERTY; they're QWERTZ and AZERTY, respectively.
Because it is imprudent and irresponsible.
Maybe it was simply misaddressed and they found "Occupant" elsewhere?
They went on to explain this was because the court refused to give fair payment to the artists/performers (lawyers) for the massive distribution of the video over the internet.
Wait, I thought the problem was that he was having trouble picking up his neighbor's WiFi, and was asking what channel to change it to.
Actually, you just need to say good bye to the pervasive Slashdot myth that ISPs have ever been common carriers.
Reported signal strength?
Unix has had this feature forever. It's called /dev/null and it has unlimited capacity!
Sorry for the analogy, but it illustrates the dynamic well in my mind: Several people are standing on a roof. Walking ten steps north will put some near the center, and others very close to the north edge. Similar for ten steps in other directions. Walking in any direction makes everyone closer to that edge, but for those dangerously close to another edge, the tradeoff is worth it. And if the goal is to be near the center, each person should walk a different direction; advice that "walking north is good for anyone" is faulty.
Dictionaries plot to educate about the meanings of words.
Actually, there's a direct link to the full-sized photo itself. You can see almost every pore on his forehead!
Executive toilet paper?
Come on man, it's proof, PROOF that Windows is half the speed of Linux. Who are you to question this informal result? I say we go to town with it and make everyone switch!!!11
Oh, how interesting. Now I don't have to RTFA. Thanks!
That is all.
I know; think of the quality loss! Your kid's eyesight is going to develop poorly after being exposed to those compression artifacts.