Anyone with a functioning brain should realize that TSA is a giant waste of money, unless you have stock in a nail-clipper supply company.
Every terror plot that has been averted since 9/11, was averted by passengers. Underwear bomber, shoe bomber, etc... all thwarted by civilians who won't tolerate that shit anymore.
The liquid plot was thwarted by the intelligence services The second underwear plot was created then thwarted by the intelligence services The print cartridge plot was thwarted by the intelligence services
The TSA's whole job is to keep radical idiots from blowing me and my family up in mid air. If the government has to spend a bunch of money to make sure that doesn't happen, I'm perfectly okay with that. Seriously, $200M. How many millionaires can't afford to pay a few extra bucks in taxes every year to make sure 300 million plus people can fly safely?
Please list the people the TSA have stopped from blowing you and your family up.
Virgin had no option but to comply with the court order that was issued. If they had ignored it, they would've been fined hundreds of thousands of pounds - probably even more than that.
I think it would be more effective to vote out the worst half. All the others would get the message. If you vote out everyone then they don't know how to change.
Half of the voters in America think the worst half are Republicans. Half of the voters in America think the worst half are the Democrats.
You're screwed as long as you have your current system.
Yes it is, as the OP was kind enough to tell you advanced mplayer use.
Compare this cut-and-paste job to using "simple" tools.
Click Start Click Find type *.mov wait for the find to finish double click the top file watch it if it breaks, delete the file double click the next file continue for all files
The CLI makes complex tasks easy and fast. When someone is kind enough to give you a copy and paste line it's even easier and faster.
Ubuntu pops up a warning window, and if you ignore it the battery light turns orange, and then red, and then it should hibernate. Flat-out dying is not something I've come across under Ubuntu (and I have some flaky old machines with old batteries, and they still warn me and then shut down).
I have. I have flakey batteries that report 0% when they've still got another 20 minutes or so left. When the warning pops up I often kill gnome-power-manager, save my work, and take my changes.
Sometimes I don't get to power in time.
I also have a problem if I knock my second battery out the CD bay (thinkpad). The machine doesn't like that when on battery power, and just turns off.
Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dang if I did not see all the PHBs come out from work with your comment. "I can get 1TB Drives from Fryes for $80.00, why do you say it costs several hundred?".
Are you one the the exchange admins that claims that 10,000 emails totalling 500MB is too much to have in your inbox, despite gmail AND hotmail not even sniffing at it (and providing rich-text cross-platfordm email, instant search)?
For enterprise storage I tend to aim high at a capital cost of $500/TB, and running costs of $50/TB/year.
That means purging 300GB saves $20 a year. If it only takes a day that's fast. It also costs the company $800 in lost time. Whoop.
Yes, let's blame Republicans. After all, it was the Republicans fault last year when President Obama invited them to the White House and called them UnAmerican on national TV.
Yes, that happened. Yes, I puke a little every time someone blames Republicans for the lack of bipartisanship.
Obama is the most caustic President we have had, perhaps ever.
FFS, you haven't read the OP.
Sure, the democrats are bad. That's why the majority of people don't vote for them. Sure, the republcans are bad. That's why the majority of people don't vote for them.
Get some compromise, your "team" isn't going to get it's own way all the time in politics. Deal with it, and take one bill at a time. Vote on it's merits, don't use it as a tool to attack the other minority party.
This sort of politics is pathetic. Politics is not a football game.
...isn't that a preconfigured OS is installed on the computer. It's that a computer is sold with all of its hardware functional in Linux, so when one buys one of these, one can wipe the vanilla install off, if one chooses, and install one's own favorite distribution and know everything will work.
I'm no windows expert, however I recently had to build a windows machine as the other windows machine, running skype, had some broken problem, and I was only in the country for another day.
Took a recently decommissioned ubuntu machine, found a CD rom drive, and put windows 7 on. The machine is from about 2009, just before windows 7 came out.
After the long tedious install I found that the network card didn't work, and the graphics were stuck in 800x600.
A look (from my linux laptop) online revealed you have to download "drivers" to make hardware work? Windows gave little clue as to the type of graphics or network card, however I eventually found the equivalent of lspci, and managed to find the pci-id (using my linux laptop again). Finally found the motherboard manufacturer, only to be told this motherboard had something like "boxed support", and I couldn't download the driver.
As time was running out and I had a plane to catch I had to give up. I'm now going to have to fly half way round the world again to fix the mess.
Moral of the story? If you want something to just work, just slap a recent ubuntu on.
My point was that when it comes to "the rich" (> $1m, which are more like the 0.01%), not having them pay any taxes is financially indistinguishable from having them pay 100% taxes
You can say that about pretty much any group. Why bother taxing people with surnames beginning with "Z"?
And what a lovely idea, until one sees how things worked in the South until civil rights legislation passed. Since virtually no white restaurant would serve a black person, this whole "competition will kill racism" line suddenly looks pretty fucking retarded, no?
Do you get racism in Somalia, land of the libertarian?
With such a wide range of storage sizes, you're going to have serious trouble setting up any kind of redundant encoding
Yes. But wouldn't it be awesome if there was some magical filing system daemon that ran on multiple machines, automatically meshed together, and presented a single contiguous file system, which kept at least n copies of data on m machines, auto-replicated (reducing available free space) if a disk died or a machine was offline for > p hours, and offered some simple admin interfaces. Throw in an LTO interface (perhaps LTFS based, perhaps not) for good measure too.
This is slashdot, we all know how to use raid, and we're capable of looking up where things like drbd are, but something like unraid at a network level?
Air Force One has to be the most uniquely recognizable aircraft on the planet. It's kind of hard to keep quiet when it flies into someplace, unless they flew in on a nondescript plane.
They have more than 1 plane that looks like airforce 1. Get half a dozen of them, and fly one to Singapore, one to South Africa, one to Baghdad, one to Rio, one to Tokyo, and one to Kabul.
Eventually Slashdot will be nothing but a brand; a collection of minimally-viewed tech blogs that are finally sold to a media company and rolled into their large collection of robotic advertising delivery channels.
I think that's been happening for a while now, to be honest.
I know. I've been watching Discovery and other channels like it since before it was cool to watch that kind of stuff, but now the main channels are mostly full of stupid reality crap. You have to go to.. BBC... to find good stuff, and not all cable or satellite providers offer all of those newer networks, much less offer them on the lower packages.
Dunno what country you're in, but the BBC is broadcast OTA in my country, and it's full of stupid reality crap. There's the occasional gem, but you can say the same about any channel.
7 letters, 7 words would have been a fairly strong password, even if it was all lowercase.
Assuming that a hacker knew it was 7 lowercase letters, and they were random, that's 26^7 That's more secure than 5 random characters from the about 72 upper/lower/numeric/symbols
Now I believe his password was actualy xxx, giving about 2000*26*26*26 combinations, only as secure as a 4 random character password, however unless someone had access to hotmail's hashes, it doesn't matter.
Most backs have a password of 4 numbers. That's 10,000 combinations, it's barely more secure than a 2 symbol password! However those banks lock you out after 3 failed attempts, you won't be brute forcing that. I'd hope things like hotmail would do something similar -- maximum of 5 login attempts in 5 minutes for example, and an email to your account whenever you get a wrong password.
So you're saying that the TSA guy who took the bribe trusted the obviously trustworthy guy trying to bribe him that it was really coke, as opposed to say, 10 lbs of plastic explosives?
Security theater to catch the rare stupid attacker and enrich the buddies of those in congress and nothing more is all it is.
I've seen the TSA catch people with bottles of water or penknives. Never seen them catch the "rare stupid attacker", and certainly not the even rarer smart attacker.
... even if they have hostages and even if they have knives.
I totally agree, from the safety of my computer terminal many thousands of miles away from the US.
Now, hands up who volunteers to be the first one to get to the hijacker, more than likely to be mortally wounded, so that the rest may live.
Recent attempts at bringing down aircraft in the western world: * Shoe Bomber * Underpants Bomber * Heathrow plot with the liquids
Recent attempts at bringing down aircraft in the western world which weren't caught by the new at-airport policies * Shoe Bomber * Underpants Bomber * Heathrow plot with the liquids
Recent attempts at bringing down aircraft in the western world which were stopped by passengers and crew on board * Shoe Bomber * Underpants Bomber
Recent attempts at bringing down aircraft in the western world which were stopped by intelligence services * Heathrow plot with the liquids
Recent items confiscated from me at the airport * Bottle of water * Gaffer tape (Both Delhi and Manchester, UK)
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Because after this latest underwear-related threat to our national security, I predict searches will get a LOT more annoying.
We only need to search double-agents. The CIA can provide a list of them
The fact that there are so few attempts to blow up planes that the CIA has to provide would-be-suicide-bombers just proves it's not a problem.
Anyone with a functioning brain should realize that TSA is a giant waste of money, unless you have stock in a nail-clipper supply company.
Every terror plot that has been averted since 9/11, was averted by passengers. Underwear bomber, shoe bomber, etc... all thwarted by civilians who won't tolerate that shit anymore.
The liquid plot was thwarted by the intelligence services
The second underwear plot was created then thwarted by the intelligence services
The print cartridge plot was thwarted by the intelligence services
The TSA's whole job is to keep radical idiots from blowing me and my family up in mid air. If the government has to spend a bunch of money to make sure that doesn't happen, I'm perfectly okay with that. Seriously, $200M. How many millionaires can't afford to pay a few extra bucks in taxes every year to make sure 300 million plus people can fly safely?
Please list the people the TSA have stopped from blowing you and your family up.
Lost lives as a result of cancer from being subjected to the scanners...
That's actually a saving on things like Social Security, if the cancer hits towards the end of working life and is swift and cheap.
There is a way. But a law of war is that you should not use weapons that cost more than what you destroy with them.
That's not really a law, it's more of a guideline.
One which even Dubya followed
Virgin had no option but to comply with the court order that was issued. If they had ignored it, they would've been fined hundreds of thousands of pounds - probably even more than that.
BT haven't blocked it (yet), neither have O2.
I think it would be more effective to vote out the worst half. All the others would get the message.
If you vote out everyone then they don't know how to change.
Half of the voters in America think the worst half are Republicans.
Half of the voters in America think the worst half are the Democrats.
You're screwed as long as you have your current system.
mplayer can detect corrupted movie and audio files
find . -name '*.mov' -exec mplayer -msglevel all=6 -speed 100.0 -framedrop -nogui -nolirc -cache 8192 -tskeepbroken -ao null -vo null {} \; | grep Warning! > $1.txt
Change the *.mov as appropriate.
<infomercial>its JUST. THAT. EASY folks!</infomercial>
Yes it is, as the OP was kind enough to tell you advanced mplayer use.
Compare this cut-and-paste job to using "simple" tools.
Click Start
Click Find
type *.mov
wait for the find to finish
double click the top file
watch it
if it breaks, delete the file
double click the next file
continue for all files
The CLI makes complex tasks easy and fast. When someone is kind enough to give you a copy and paste line it's even easier and faster.
Ubuntu pops up a warning window, and if you ignore it the battery light turns orange, and then red, and then it should hibernate. Flat-out dying is not something I've come across under Ubuntu (and I have some flaky old machines with old batteries, and they still warn me and then shut down).
I have. I have flakey batteries that report 0% when they've still got another 20 minutes or so left. When the warning pops up I often kill gnome-power-manager, save my work, and take my changes.
Sometimes I don't get to power in time.
I also have a problem if I knock my second battery out the CD bay (thinkpad). The machine doesn't like that when on battery power, and just turns off.
Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but dang if I did not see all the PHBs come out from work with your comment. "I can get 1TB Drives from Fryes for $80.00, why do you say it costs several hundred?".
Are you one the the exchange admins that claims that 10,000 emails totalling 500MB is too much to have in your inbox, despite gmail AND hotmail not even sniffing at it (and providing rich-text cross-platfordm email, instant search)?
For enterprise storage I tend to aim high at a capital cost of $500/TB, and running costs of $50/TB/year.
That means purging 300GB saves $20 a year. If it only takes a day that's fast. It also costs the company $800 in lost time. Whoop.
Yes, let's blame Republicans. After all, it was the Republicans fault last year when President Obama invited them to the White House and called them UnAmerican on national TV.
Yes, that happened. Yes, I puke a little every time someone blames Republicans for the lack of bipartisanship.
Obama is the most caustic President we have had, perhaps ever.
FFS, you haven't read the OP.
Sure, the democrats are bad. That's why the majority of people don't vote for them.
Sure, the republcans are bad. That's why the majority of people don't vote for them.
Get some compromise, your "team" isn't going to get it's own way all the time in politics. Deal with it, and take one bill at a time. Vote on it's merits, don't use it as a tool to attack the other minority party.
This sort of politics is pathetic. Politics is not a football game.
The U.S is deeply divided into two opposing camps, and the media encourage this by playing the two parties off like football teams.
Your party is not always right. The other party is not always wrong. Politics should not be a "my team's better than yours" shouting match.
...isn't that a preconfigured OS is installed on the computer. It's that a computer is sold with all of its hardware functional in Linux, so when one buys one of these, one can wipe the vanilla install off, if one chooses, and install one's own favorite distribution and know everything will work.
I'm no windows expert, however I recently had to build a windows machine as the other windows machine, running skype, had some broken problem, and I was only in the country for another day.
Took a recently decommissioned ubuntu machine, found a CD rom drive, and put windows 7 on. The machine is from about 2009, just before windows 7 came out.
After the long tedious install I found that the network card didn't work, and the graphics were stuck in 800x600.
A look (from my linux laptop) online revealed you have to download "drivers" to make hardware work? Windows gave little clue as to the type of graphics or network card, however I eventually found the equivalent of lspci, and managed to find the pci-id (using my linux laptop again). Finally found the motherboard manufacturer, only to be told this motherboard had something like "boxed support", and I couldn't download the driver.
As time was running out and I had a plane to catch I had to give up. I'm now going to have to fly half way round the world again to fix the mess.
Moral of the story? If you want something to just work, just slap a recent ubuntu on.
Windows is only $300 if your time is free.
My point was that when it comes to "the rich" (> $1m, which are more like the 0.01%), not having them pay any taxes is financially indistinguishable from having them pay 100% taxes
You can say that about pretty much any group. Why bother taxing people with surnames beginning with "Z"?
And what a lovely idea, until one sees how things worked in the South until civil rights legislation passed. Since virtually no white restaurant would serve a black person, this whole "competition will kill racism" line suddenly looks pretty fucking retarded, no?
Do you get racism in Somalia, land of the libertarian?
Any place there is a security screening line is an effective site to set off a bomb.
Yet it doesn't really happen. Not even in Israel, let alone the U.S.
There is NO threat from criminals that want to commit mass murder by hijacking planes.
There is A GENUINE THREAT from heart disease, cancer (including that caused by ionising radiation), diabetes, driving a car.
Hell, in america, more people died from hernias in the last 15 years than from plane hijackings.
This.
With such a wide range of storage sizes, you're going to have serious trouble setting up any kind of redundant encoding
Yes. But wouldn't it be awesome if there was some magical filing system daemon that ran on multiple machines, automatically meshed together, and presented a single contiguous file system, which kept at least n copies of data on m machines, auto-replicated (reducing available free space) if a disk died or a machine was offline for > p hours, and offered some simple admin interfaces. Throw in an LTO interface (perhaps LTFS based, perhaps not) for good measure too.
This is slashdot, we all know how to use raid, and we're capable of looking up where things like drbd are, but something like unraid at a network level?
Air Force One has to be the most uniquely recognizable aircraft on the planet. It's kind of hard to keep quiet when it flies into someplace, unless they flew in on a nondescript plane.
They have more than 1 plane that looks like airforce 1. Get half a dozen of them, and fly one to Singapore, one to South Africa, one to Baghdad, one to Rio, one to Tokyo, and one to Kabul.
I too started with Slashdot in the late 90's (closer to early 2000 I suppose).
Life/work got in the way, so I quit following the site. I finally came back about 6 months or so ago, mostly lurking.
How can work get in the way of slashdot, it surely goes hand-in-hand?
I think that's been happening for a while now, to be honest.
Yet we still coming back.
There simply isn't an alternative.
I know. I've been watching Discovery and other channels like it since before it was cool to watch that kind of stuff, but now the main channels are mostly full of stupid reality crap. You have to go to .. BBC ... to find good stuff, and not all cable or satellite providers offer all of those newer networks, much less offer them on the lower packages.
Dunno what country you're in, but the BBC is broadcast OTA in my country, and it's full of stupid reality crap. There's the occasional gem, but you can say the same about any channel.
7 letters, 7 words would have been a fairly strong password, even if it was all lowercase.
Assuming that a hacker knew it was 7 lowercase letters, and they were random, that's 26^7
That's more secure than 5 random characters from the about 72 upper/lower/numeric/symbols
Now I believe his password was actualy xxx, giving about 2000*26*26*26 combinations, only as secure as a 4 random character password, however unless someone had access to hotmail's hashes, it doesn't matter.
Most backs have a password of 4 numbers. That's 10,000 combinations, it's barely more secure than a 2 symbol password! However those banks lock you out after 3 failed attempts, you won't be brute forcing that. I'd hope things like hotmail would do something similar -- maximum of 5 login attempts in 5 minutes for example, and an email to your account whenever you get a wrong password.
So you're saying that the TSA guy who took the bribe trusted the obviously trustworthy guy trying to bribe him that it was really coke, as opposed to say, 10 lbs of plastic explosives?
Security theater to catch the rare stupid attacker and enrich the buddies of those in congress and nothing more is all it is.
I've seen the TSA catch people with bottles of water or penknives. Never seen them catch the "rare stupid attacker", and certainly not the even rarer smart attacker.
... even if they have hostages and even if they have knives.
I totally agree, from the safety of my computer terminal many thousands of miles away from the US.
Now, hands up who volunteers to be the first one to get to the hijacker, more than likely to be mortally wounded, so that the rest may live.
Recent attempts at bringing down aircraft in the western world:
* Shoe Bomber
* Underpants Bomber
* Heathrow plot with the liquids
Recent attempts at bringing down aircraft in the western world which weren't caught by the new at-airport policies
* Shoe Bomber
* Underpants Bomber
* Heathrow plot with the liquids
Recent attempts at bringing down aircraft in the western world which were stopped by passengers and crew on board
* Shoe Bomber
* Underpants Bomber
Recent attempts at bringing down aircraft in the western world which were stopped by intelligence services
* Heathrow plot with the liquids
Recent items confiscated from me at the airport
* Bottle of water
* Gaffer tape (Both Delhi and Manchester, UK)
Mainly containing extremely old titles (Doom, Half-Life)
Oh thanks, now I feel really old.