"Hypermilers use a "pulse and glide" system, and it said that accelerating at an RPM where your engine gives peak torque is more fuel efficient than going the absolute slowest RPM you can."
woot! my rsx provides peak torque at about 5400 rpm... fun times.
This is probably a good thing to do; I'd vote for it. But it hardly seems like a solution. DNS is one of the least secure systems we use... have I missed a technological revolution or something? last I checked it was trivial to compromise name lookups. unauthenticated UDP... chains of blind trust... corruption magnets operating the registrars... come on now.. with a straight face; try and tell me that none of the root servers or registrars have been compromised by one or more intelligence agencies.
You make some good points except for this one:
Also, he is a contract employee who can be released at any time for any reason You must know that is not correct. In fact it is ludicrous.
If upon reflection this is not obvious to you then consider these examples: - firing a stripper because she is not attracted to you. - firing a road-worker because you found out he is gay. - firing an office worker because they are jewish. - firing an accountant because she refuses to 'cook the books'
This isn't about the school district doing anything inappropriate. It's about kids doing something that they knew was inappropriate and being punished appropriately. I fail to see why anyone is upset by this. Part of the function of education is to teach children how to behave and what their boundaries are. I have to say that in this scenario i disagree strongly with your position. Our industrial-age education system tries to teach our children to accept censorship as appropriate. The very idea that children should allow anyone else to restrict what information they access is abhorrent to me.
Bureaucracies are slow to change and we (humanity) have had some pretty fucked-up ideas find their way into our rules. You must understand that sometimes the right thing to do is to break the rules. Examples of this from recent history include: - slavery and racist discrimination in the USA. - employment discrimination by gender and/or race - faith-based censorship of sexuality (current problem) - discrimination by nationality (current problem) - political censorship (current problem)
think for yourself! don't let anyone tell you "you can't read that" or "you can't see that" don't let anyone tell you it is ok to hate/abuse this group or that group. tell them to go fuck themselves. read, think, make your own decisions.
The problem is not simply that the chosen db back-end has some significant drawbacks. Any system can and will have bugs and weak areas... What makes this scandalous is that Jet (MS Access) is literally THE crappy database engine and everyone knows/knew this. If a DB admin or programmer is going to make a joke about a farked-up database project the db will be ms-access. If you are going to mock a competitor you might suggest that they build their software using visual basic and a JET database.
None of this is news, JET has been widely considered the worst possible choice for many years now. Choosing JET for an election system DB is right up there with re-publishing stories from the onion as real news.
Guys, you are using the "joke" database. and that's not funny.
I guess you haven't heard of https or ssh... The tests i posted clearly showed that I was using SSL to encrypt the http transfers as well as SCP (openSSH) for a second encrypted transfer test.
I also provided plain-text http transfer speeds for comparison. In order to show any traffic shaping on the SSL test we have to provide a non-SSL test as a baseline.
ya really, people should lay-off the prez. I think people just get too riled-up about losing their freedom, and, you know, the mountains of dead bodies and millions of ruined lives. people overreact about the silliest things.
No slowdown on that either. Upstream rate is 97.5% of this cable modem's capability (800kbps)
This is on a saturday, at 7:10pm local time. Not quite peak usage time of day but not 3am either.
This does not prove anything of course. I've only failed to prove that there is traffic shaping, I have not proven that there is no traffic shaping. Maybe I'll try again at a known peak traffic time.
Nonesense. You have failed to comprehend my argument. How someone responds to criticism is not even a factor. (where did you get that from?) My morality requires me to take action to curb violence wherever I have the ability to do so.
Because there are times/places where I physically cannot stop violence I am not excused from acting when and where I DO have the ability to make a difference. How hard is that to understand?
Here's an example for you, maybe it will help your understanding. If someone pulls a gun and starts shooting people right in front of me I should act to stop them. If someone pulls a gun and starts shooting people 1000KM away from me there's not much I can do (at least not right away). The fact that I can't stop the second gunman does not mean that I should do nothing about the first. got it?
Right on.
the challenge of the 21st century is the defeat of such people I would like to suggest that the way to do this will be to spread education/information and to foster cross-national communication and relations. I don't mean intergovernmental relations, I mean people to people. Student exchange programs, cross-border sports leagues, free exchange of cultural art works (movies/tv/books/radio etc). I would personally like to see a massive (publicly funded) student exchange program. 10% of our students should be studying in foreign countries at any given time, and vice-versa. We need to make certain that our children know that humans are humans everywhere you go. Hatred and ignorance of "foreigners" and nationalist pride should end with our generation.
That argument didn't work in kindergarden why do you think it would work in the real world?
When everyone else is murdering civilians to gian/maintain state power and influence it does not mean that you are free to act the same way. Quite the contrary, it means that you have an extra responsibility; You must act morally AND try to stop the others crimes.
p.s. if I could get a direct line to russian or chinese legislators I would call them up the moment I finish berating my congress critter. Sadly, they don't have to take my calls or listen what I have to say about anything.
Oh for christ's sake. Of course there are other nasty regimes in this world, the reason we go on and on about the USA is because the USA is supposed to be a democracy; we are supposed to have a say. In other words, as voters we expect (nay, demand) that our goverment act in a manner that is consistent with our goals and our values. When they don't do that it is our duty as citizens to raise holy-hell. (we cannot make such demands of china or russia)
Me bitching and moaning about the reams of dead Chechens is pointless, Putin doesn't give a rats ass what I have to say. On the other hand, my elected representative here in the USA IS supposed to give a crap what I have to say. That's why I bitch and scream about the reams of dead Iraqis. When your democratic government commits crimes YOU are personnaly responsible. It is your personal duty to do something about it. (soap box, ballot box, ammo box)
To summarize: Our government is a democracy; we are our government. We are responsible for our own actions.
the US really has deteriorated into a lawless kingdom. The US has repeatedly (and blatently) broken their trade agreements with Canada and others. The government down there doesn't even obey their own domestic laws or constitution and the justice department had been reduced to a lap-dog (neutered). Nobody expects the americans to honour deals they sign anymore. (fool me 3 times... well, er, we won't be fooled again)
I did that a couple of months ago on a dir full of video files on a server. (live, hosted video files for paying customers) thankfully deleting files that are hundreds of megs is relatively slow and I was able to ctrl-c before it had deleted very much stuff. It is a heck of a way to get an adrenaline rush
The submitter needs a lesson in reading comprehension. Nowhere in the article does MIT suggest that the world is running out of uranium. The article describes a supply shortage due to a long period of minimal investment in mining. They go on to describe how the market has raised the price of uranium and if you have any interest in mining stocks you will know that uranium mining companies are curretly extremely popular because of this high price. Thus hundreds of millions of dollars have been flowing into uranium mining over the last few years. There is no suggestion that the world is running out.
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"Hypermilers use a "pulse and glide" system, and it said that accelerating at an RPM where your engine gives peak torque is more fuel efficient than going the absolute slowest RPM you can."
... fun times.
woot! my rsx provides peak torque at about 5400 rpm
You are being killed by an Orc.
Allow or Deny?
DENY DENY DENY!!!!
This is probably a good thing to do; I'd vote for it. But it hardly seems like a solution.
DNS is one of the least secure systems we use... have I missed a technological revolution or something? last I checked it was trivial to compromise name lookups.
unauthenticated UDP... chains of blind trust... corruption magnets operating the registrars...
come on now.. with a straight face; try and tell me that none of the root servers or registrars have been compromised by one or more intelligence agencies.
In fact it is ludicrous.
If upon reflection this is not obvious to you then consider these examples:
- firing a stripper because she is not attracted to you.
- firing a road-worker because you found out he is gay.
- firing an office worker because they are jewish.
- firing an accountant because she refuses to 'cook the books'
wake me up when they actually have a real debate.
If using the creative commons license increases the exposure of these sleaze-fests that hardly seems like a good thing.
p.s.
Dear "debate" moderators, grow a farking pair.
The debaters are not your lords and masters, YOU are in charge and have a job to do.
Our industrial-age education system tries to teach our children to accept censorship as appropriate. The very idea that children should allow anyone else to restrict what information they access is abhorrent to me.
Bureaucracies are slow to change and we (humanity) have had some pretty fucked-up ideas find their way into our rules.
You must understand that sometimes the right thing to do is to break the rules. Examples of this from recent history include:
- slavery and racist discrimination in the USA.
- employment discrimination by gender and/or race
- faith-based censorship of sexuality (current problem)
- discrimination by nationality (current problem)
- political censorship (current problem)
think for yourself!
don't let anyone tell you "you can't read that" or "you can't see that"
don't let anyone tell you it is ok to hate/abuse this group or that group.
tell them to go fuck themselves. read, think, make your own decisions.
Dude, this is obviously a late april fool's joke.
Sincerely, I. P. Freely
The problem is not simply that the chosen db back-end has some significant drawbacks.
Any system can and will have bugs and weak areas... What makes this scandalous is that Jet (MS Access) is literally THE crappy database engine and everyone knows/knew this.
If a DB admin or programmer is going to make a joke about a farked-up database project the db will be ms-access.
If you are going to mock a competitor you might suggest that they build their software using visual basic and a JET database.
None of this is news, JET has been widely considered the worst possible choice for many years now.
Choosing JET for an election system DB is right up there with re-publishing stories from the onion as real news.
Guys, you are using the "joke" database. and that's not funny.
"signed a lease"?!?
I think you mean appropriated at gunpoint.
Spot on.
When the analysis starts with ".com addresses are US websites" you may as well stop reading.
Who is this "Zonk" fellow who posted the article? did he not read it or is he/she new to the internet?
Obviously US traffic is declining because their tubes are all blocked-up with pirates!
Aha! ;)
So if the attorney firings were partisan political actions then it WAS appropriate to use personal email accounts!
I guess you haven't heard of https or ssh...
The tests i posted clearly showed that I was using SSL to encrypt the http transfers as well as SCP (openSSH) for a second encrypted transfer test.
I also provided plain-text http transfer speeds for comparison.
In order to show any traffic shaping on the SSL test we have to provide a non-SSL test as a baseline.
ya really, people should lay-off the prez.
I think people just get too riled-up about losing their freedom, and, you know, the mountains of dead bodies and millions of ruined lives.
people overreact about the silliest things.
wget http://autocast.ca/test.dat
Length: 10,485,760 (10M) [text/plain]
18:52:39 (539.62 KB/s) - `test.dat' saved [10485760/10485760]
wget https://autocast.ca/test.dat
Length: 10,485,760 (10M) [text/plain]
18:53:03 (560.59 KB/s) - `test.dat.1' saved [10485760/10485760]
No slowdown on https downloads at this moment from this location.
scp test.dat odin.canadacast.ca:/root/
test.dat 100% 10MB 97.5KB/s 01:45
scp odin.canadacast.ca:/root/test.dat .
test.dat 100% 10MB 602.4KB/s 00:17
No slowdown on that either.
Upstream rate is 97.5% of this cable modem's capability (800kbps)
This is on a saturday, at 7:10pm local time.
Not quite peak usage time of day but not 3am either.
This does not prove anything of course.
I've only failed to prove that there is traffic shaping, I have not proven that there is no traffic shaping.
Maybe I'll try again at a known peak traffic time.
iWeb is great and they're in Montreal.
Prices are good, i think they'll price match too.
Nonesense. You have failed to comprehend my argument.
How someone responds to criticism is not even a factor. (where did you get that from?)
My morality requires me to take action to curb violence wherever I have the ability to do so.
Because there are times/places where I physically cannot stop violence I am not excused from acting when and where I DO have the ability to make a difference.
How hard is that to understand?
Here's an example for you, maybe it will help your understanding.
If someone pulls a gun and starts shooting people right in front of me I should act to stop them.
If someone pulls a gun and starts shooting people 1000KM away from me there's not much I can do (at least not right away).
The fact that I can't stop the second gunman does not mean that I should do nothing about the first. got it?
Student exchange programs, cross-border sports leagues, free exchange of cultural art works (movies/tv/books/radio etc).
I would personally like to see a massive (publicly funded) student exchange program. 10% of our students should be studying in foreign countries at any given time, and vice-versa. We need to make certain that our children know that humans are humans everywhere you go. Hatred and ignorance of "foreigners" and nationalist pride should end with our generation.
"but everyone else is doing it!!!"
That argument didn't work in kindergarden why do you think it would work in the real world?
When everyone else is murdering civilians to gian/maintain state power and influence it does not mean that you are free to act the same way. Quite the contrary, it means that you have an extra responsibility; You must act morally AND try to stop the others crimes.
p.s. if I could get a direct line to russian or chinese legislators I would call them up the moment I finish berating my congress critter. Sadly, they don't have to take my calls or listen what I have to say about anything.
Oh for christ's sake.
Of course there are other nasty regimes in this world, the reason we go on and on about the USA is because the USA is supposed to be a democracy; we are supposed to have a say.
In other words, as voters we expect (nay, demand) that our goverment act in a manner that is consistent with our goals and our values. When they don't do that it is our duty as citizens to raise holy-hell. (we cannot make such demands of china or russia)
Me bitching and moaning about the reams of dead Chechens is pointless, Putin doesn't give a rats ass what I have to say.
On the other hand, my elected representative here in the USA IS supposed to give a crap what I have to say.
That's why I bitch and scream about the reams of dead Iraqis.
When your democratic government commits crimes YOU are personnaly responsible. It is your personal duty to do something about it.
(soap box, ballot box, ammo box)
To summarize: Our government is a democracy; we are our government. We are responsible for our own actions.
the US really has deteriorated into a lawless kingdom.
The US has repeatedly (and blatently) broken their trade agreements with Canada and others.
The government down there doesn't even obey their own domestic laws or constitution and the justice department had been reduced to a lap-dog (neutered).
Nobody expects the americans to honour deals they sign anymore.
(fool me 3 times... well, er, we won't be fooled again)
I did that a couple of months ago on a dir full of video files on a server.
(live, hosted video files for paying customers)
thankfully deleting files that are hundreds of megs is relatively slow and I was able to ctrl-c before it had deleted very much stuff.
It is a heck of a way to get an adrenaline rush
my perl and python certainly don't do that.
The submitter needs a lesson in reading comprehension.
Nowhere in the article does MIT suggest that the world is running out of uranium.
The article describes a supply shortage due to a long period of minimal investment in mining.
They go on to describe how the market has raised the price of uranium and if you have any interest in mining stocks you will know that uranium mining companies are curretly extremely popular because of this high price. Thus hundreds of millions of dollars have been flowing into uranium mining over the last few years. There is no suggestion that the world is running out.
are you nuts? of course there is an extensive paper-trail.
Come on, this is Money, not votes.