Apropos of nothing, and not really related: at university, I got into trouble for running a MUD (unauthorized!) out of my home directory. It went undetected until a friend wrote a buggy bit of lpmud code that caused the daemon to write a lot of log messages, and overnight it filled the filesystem where my home directory lived.
The next day (after having my account locked), I was being torn a new asshole by the sysadmin (who certainly did have some bastard operator from hell traits) and got the lecture about "There are 10,000 users on this system" and how I had made it inaccessable to 10,000 users. I already knew that there were actually only 100 or so home directories on the filesystem I filled up, and out of the 10,000 users on that particular system, 9500 had never logged in and probably never would. I was going to say this but in a rare show of good judgement I decided to just let it drop and try to redeem myself somehow.
Which we did, when a friend and I discovered a local root exploit and reported it immediately instead of trying to take advantage of it. We were actually both in trouble, my friend for an earlier attempt to crack the root password - that had earned him a very shouty session with the head of computer services - it was only mitigated to a mere bollocking because another sysadmin of another department had challenged him to do it, saying it was impossible. This was in the days before shadow passwords. My friend used distributed computing to crack the password file and we reckon was probably only a few hours from getting the root password).
We can eat raw food but cooking is what made us human, it's what allowed our ancestors to get more energy out of the food while expending less effort, allowing for more brain development. You can probably survive very happily on a raw food diet today because (in the west at least) have very easy access to food and don't have to expend much energy personally to get it, and can get an excessive quantity of it too.
It's rare cuisine because it's revolting. A food critic once said about surstromming (one type of fermented fish), the challenge was to vomit AFTER the first bite, not before.
Apropos of nothing, but I always find it a bit ironic that supposedly free US citizens are barred by their own government from travelling to Cuba and can get into a lot of trouble for doing so.
Most cats where I live go outside and have a fair amount of rat, mouse, insect, small bird etc. content to their diet. I know mine do. They sometimes leave me a dead half-eaten rat as a present...
Why should surface mount be such a barrier? Lots of non-radio electronics enthusiasts are comfortable with SMD out of necessity, because many interesting devices (for example FPGAs) are only available in fine pitch SMD. I frequently solder fine pitch SMD stuff by hand, once you know how it's done (and there are HUNDREDS of tutorials on YouTube) it's not actually any more difficult than through hole. I've also home made my own PCBs which take 0.4mm pin pitch devices - now that's a bit more time consuming (you have to be very fastidious when doing the toner transfer to the copper clad), it's a long way from being impossible.
The thing is the prosecutor was brandishing the 35 year maximum sentence and beating him with it. For what he actually did, the maximum sentence ought to not involve even a custodial element to it, at most a fine and community service; that they piled on so many charges to have such a high maximum sentence (grossly in excess of the maximum sentence for many violent crimes) is itself barbaric and unjust.
Nuclear winter is a bit of a misnomer - it's more like nuclear months-long night. In the event of a large scale exchange (let's imagine a 1980s scenario where the Soviets and the West exchange 3000 megatons worth), in the months after the exchange due to stratospheric soot injection, at mid day the lighting conditions would be that of a moonlit night.
Go out on a moonlit night. Imagine that's how light it will get for a significant period of time. Very few people will survive that. Imagine that it happens at the start of the growing season.
This was discovered independently by Soviet and US climate scientists in the 1980s. Since then, with better models, we've tried to model a nuclear winter again and found it is likely even worse than what the 1980s research revealed. In particular the consequences of a hypothetical war between Pakistan and India, exchanging a total of 50 Hiroshima-sized weapons on populated targets, and the result would be a "nuclear autumn" that would cause enough cooling to cause a reduction in the growing season in North America by 60 days and disruption to the climate for a decade.
The prosecutor was brandishing the 35 year maximum sentence as a stick to beat Swartz with. In reality, what Swartz did should be non-custodial (seriously, what good does it do putting someone in prison for this?), a fine and perhaps community service, and a misdemeanour on his record. That the maximum sentence (whether he's likely to get it or not) is greater than you can get for a violent crime like armed robbery is barbaric and unjust.
While you can't live the high life on $200/month, you can certainly eat stuff that's not chips or soda or Ramen noodles. There are plenty of healthy "non-luxury" vegetables that don't cost a fortune. Sure you might not get to eat meat every day, but you don't have to live off chips and soda.
The shut down is actually scheduled, and was planned long before the run that produced the Higgs boson data. You'll need to get another conspiracy theory, I'm afraid.
You can only change the side of the road you drive on overnight. You can hardly have some vehicles one day, and other vehicles some other day, or some towns on one day and other towns on some other day.
I don't know of anyone who talks about their weight in the UK in kilograms. Everyone, even 15 year olds, talk about their weight in stones. Also everyone talks about pints of beer and milk, including teenagers. And miles. I've never heard of anyone in Britain talking in kilometers or km/h regardless of age.
1. Correlation does not imply causation. The UK is not a "hollow shell of their former selves industrially" due to metrication. 2. The "hollow shell" isn't even true. At the start of this recession, British manufacturing's output was the highest it had been in history. It's not so obvious now because manufacturing employs fewer people while making more valuable output. I'd say that's pretty damned positive.
I doubt Arizona has as many road signs as England - England is rather more densely populated and has rather more road mileage. England's population is 53 million (84% of the UK population), Arizona's population is only 6.5 million.
It's worse than that. Half the packages are in mils (such as SOIC, 0603 passive components, SOT-23 etc) and the other half are in mm (TSOP and TQFP with 0.5mm pitch, various LQFPs with 0.4mm pitch etc). So on one board it's quite possible to have some components in mils, and some in imperial, and you have to choose one grid (either a mils grid or a mm grid). Since the PCB fabricators seem to be using mm, I use a mm grid and the PCB layout tool can make traces snap to the component pins of things that are in mils.
In the late 80s, after I got banned from using the modem playing MUDs (by running up a rather large phone bill - at that time in this country *ALL* phone calls were charged per minute - well, actually per 5 minutes because the equipment was still electromechanical Strowger switches and could only charge by the 'unit', and one unit lasted 5 minutes for an off-peak local call) I used to get up a 5.30 am twice a week to play for half an hour. I figured one hour off-peak local call per week would go un-noticed on the phone bill (Strowger phone exchange remember - no such thing as itemised billing - billing was done by photographing(!) banks of meters which just showed a read-out of units) and my parents would be soundly asleep.
The only time I almost got caught was when one of the phones "chirped" while I was dialling the MUD and woke them up (but they didn't investigate). I unplugged the other phone after that...
Using undocumented APIs is something that Microsoft's done in the past too, to gain unfair advantage.
Also, back in the day Microsoft smarmily said "We'll port Office to OS/2 only when there's enough users" (knowing full well that no MS Office on OS/2 would help to hamper OS/2's adoption rates). Now it's their turn to take the medicine. I'm sure Google will use the same argument for not porting the YouTube app to Windows Phone.
I remember going up the Cottonwood Canyons in Utah in the winter, driving my friend's ancient Honda Civic (with 180,000 miles), using snow tires. I was doing much better than the 4x4 in front of me.
I don't live in Utah, but where I do live I think we get significant snow fall once every three years or so and then it lasts for a week at most. It's always remarkable that when it snows the ditches are full of 4x4 vehicles that have gone off the side of the road. They seem to forget that every vehicle has four wheel braking so they don't fare any better than a normal front wheel drive car when it comes to stopping.
There are plenty of games about that don't require internet access. They might not be the big blockbuster stuff, but they are *good* games nonetheless.
On the entirely separate problem of rip-off hotel WiFi, this is the reason I tend to stay in B&Bs run as small family businesses rather than chain hotels like Travelodge. Firstly, the "low price" chain hotels are only low price for a vanishing minority of customers, most the time you book the £19 offer isn't actually on. The "low price" hotels are often times more expensive than a B&B. Virtually all the B&Bs that I've stayed at have free wi-fi. With hotel finders online like booking.com it's very easy to find and book with the non-chain hotels and B&Bs now, and just as easy to book as one of the big so-called "low cost" chain hotels. Whether the situation is the same in NZ, I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me. (Only in the United States have I found that chain hotels have free wi-fi).
If I'm forced to stay in a hotel with no free wifi, I just tether my phone. Most of the time 3G access works just as well. (Same goes for over priced WiFi access in airports).
Not for a while. Any car worth owning for some time has had a galvanized body.
My car is 17 years old, it has a few scratches (one caused by hitting a rock hidden in long grass doing a nasty dent down the left side) but no rust at all - despite living in an environment laced with salt water (a very windy island, where the sea regularly comes crashing over the sea wall on one road I frequently use) and where it can get cold enough where the roads get gritted and salted.
Officially, in Britain flashing your lights is only to alert the other driver to your presence. However, in reality it's like you say notwithstanding what may be actually written in the Highway Code.
I find that file you cite very readable. It's well formatted, it's clear what the code is supposed to do etc., comments where necessary. Why do you think it's sarcasm?
I'm not a kernel dev, btw. It is entirely possible that I find that file eminently readable because I read a lot of other people's perl scripts...
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Apropos of nothing, and not really related: at university, I got into trouble for running a MUD (unauthorized!) out of my home directory. It went undetected until a friend wrote a buggy bit of lpmud code that caused the daemon to write a lot of log messages, and overnight it filled the filesystem where my home directory lived.
The next day (after having my account locked), I was being torn a new asshole by the sysadmin (who certainly did have some bastard operator from hell traits) and got the lecture about "There are 10,000 users on this system" and how I had made it inaccessable to 10,000 users. I already knew that there were actually only 100 or so home directories on the filesystem I filled up, and out of the 10,000 users on that particular system, 9500 had never logged in and probably never would. I was going to say this but in a rare show of good judgement I decided to just let it drop and try to redeem myself somehow.
Which we did, when a friend and I discovered a local root exploit and reported it immediately instead of trying to take advantage of it. We were actually both in trouble, my friend for an earlier attempt to crack the root password - that had earned him a very shouty session with the head of computer services - it was only mitigated to a mere bollocking because another sysadmin of another department had challenged him to do it, saying it was impossible. This was in the days before shadow passwords. My friend used distributed computing to crack the password file and we reckon was probably only a few hours from getting the root password).
We can eat raw food but cooking is what made us human, it's what allowed our ancestors to get more energy out of the food while expending less effort, allowing for more brain development. You can probably survive very happily on a raw food diet today because (in the west at least) have very easy access to food and don't have to expend much energy personally to get it, and can get an excessive quantity of it too.
It's rare cuisine because it's revolting. A food critic once said about surstromming (one type of fermented fish), the challenge was to vomit AFTER the first bite, not before.
On a point of pedantry, MS didn't bale Apple out -- Apple still had billions of cash reserve and were no where near bankrupt.
Apropos of nothing, but I always find it a bit ironic that supposedly free US citizens are barred by their own government from travelling to Cuba and can get into a lot of trouble for doing so.
Most cats where I live go outside and have a fair amount of rat, mouse, insect, small bird etc. content to their diet. I know mine do. They sometimes leave me a dead half-eaten rat as a present...
Why should surface mount be such a barrier? Lots of non-radio electronics enthusiasts are comfortable with SMD out of necessity, because many interesting devices (for example FPGAs) are only available in fine pitch SMD. I frequently solder fine pitch SMD stuff by hand, once you know how it's done (and there are HUNDREDS of tutorials on YouTube) it's not actually any more difficult than through hole. I've also home made my own PCBs which take 0.4mm pin pitch devices - now that's a bit more time consuming (you have to be very fastidious when doing the toner transfer to the copper clad), it's a long way from being impossible.
The thing is the prosecutor was brandishing the 35 year maximum sentence and beating him with it. For what he actually did, the maximum sentence ought to not involve even a custodial element to it, at most a fine and community service; that they piled on so many charges to have such a high maximum sentence (grossly in excess of the maximum sentence for many violent crimes) is itself barbaric and unjust.
Nuclear winter is a bit of a misnomer - it's more like nuclear months-long night. In the event of a large scale exchange (let's imagine a 1980s scenario where the Soviets and the West exchange 3000 megatons worth), in the months after the exchange due to stratospheric soot injection, at mid day the lighting conditions would be that of a moonlit night.
Go out on a moonlit night. Imagine that's how light it will get for a significant period of time. Very few people will survive that. Imagine that it happens at the start of the growing season.
This was discovered independently by Soviet and US climate scientists in the 1980s. Since then, with better models, we've tried to model a nuclear winter again and found it is likely even worse than what the 1980s research revealed. In particular the consequences of a hypothetical war between Pakistan and India, exchanging a total of 50 Hiroshima-sized weapons on populated targets, and the result would be a "nuclear autumn" that would cause enough cooling to cause a reduction in the growing season in North America by 60 days and disruption to the climate for a decade.
The prosecutor was brandishing the 35 year maximum sentence as a stick to beat Swartz with. In reality, what Swartz did should be non-custodial (seriously, what good does it do putting someone in prison for this?), a fine and perhaps community service, and a misdemeanour on his record. That the maximum sentence (whether he's likely to get it or not) is greater than you can get for a violent crime like armed robbery is barbaric and unjust.
While you can't live the high life on $200/month, you can certainly eat stuff that's not chips or soda or Ramen noodles. There are plenty of healthy "non-luxury" vegetables that don't cost a fortune. Sure you might not get to eat meat every day, but you don't have to live off chips and soda.
The shut down is actually scheduled, and was planned long before the run that produced the Higgs boson data. You'll need to get another conspiracy theory, I'm afraid.
You can only change the side of the road you drive on overnight. You can hardly have some vehicles one day, and other vehicles some other day, or some towns on one day and other towns on some other day.
I don't know of anyone who talks about their weight in the UK in kilograms. Everyone, even 15 year olds, talk about their weight in stones. Also everyone talks about pints of beer and milk, including teenagers. And miles. I've never heard of anyone in Britain talking in kilometers or km/h regardless of age.
1. Correlation does not imply causation. The UK is not a "hollow shell of their former selves industrially" due to metrication.
2. The "hollow shell" isn't even true. At the start of this recession, British manufacturing's output was the highest it had been in history. It's not so obvious now because manufacturing employs fewer people while making more valuable output. I'd say that's pretty damned positive.
I doubt Arizona has as many road signs as England - England is rather more densely populated and has rather more road mileage. England's population is 53 million (84% of the UK population), Arizona's population is only 6.5 million.
On a point of pedantry, the US doesn't have an official language.
It's worse than that. Half the packages are in mils (such as SOIC, 0603 passive components, SOT-23 etc) and the other half are in mm (TSOP and TQFP with 0.5mm pitch, various LQFPs with 0.4mm pitch etc). So on one board it's quite possible to have some components in mils, and some in imperial, and you have to choose one grid (either a mils grid or a mm grid). Since the PCB fabricators seem to be using mm, I use a mm grid and the PCB layout tool can make traces snap to the component pins of things that are in mils.
In the late 80s, after I got banned from using the modem playing MUDs (by running up a rather large phone bill - at that time in this country *ALL* phone calls were charged per minute - well, actually per 5 minutes because the equipment was still electromechanical Strowger switches and could only charge by the 'unit', and one unit lasted 5 minutes for an off-peak local call) I used to get up a 5.30 am twice a week to play for half an hour. I figured one hour off-peak local call per week would go un-noticed on the phone bill (Strowger phone exchange remember - no such thing as itemised billing - billing was done by photographing(!) banks of meters which just showed a read-out of units) and my parents would be soundly asleep.
The only time I almost got caught was when one of the phones "chirped" while I was dialling the MUD and woke them up (but they didn't investigate). I unplugged the other phone after that...
Using undocumented APIs is something that Microsoft's done in the past too, to gain unfair advantage.
Also, back in the day Microsoft smarmily said "We'll port Office to OS/2 only when there's enough users" (knowing full well that no MS Office on OS/2 would help to hamper OS/2's adoption rates). Now it's their turn to take the medicine. I'm sure Google will use the same argument for not porting the YouTube app to Windows Phone.
I remember going up the Cottonwood Canyons in Utah in the winter, driving my friend's ancient Honda Civic (with 180,000 miles), using snow tires. I was doing much better than the 4x4 in front of me.
I don't live in Utah, but where I do live I think we get significant snow fall once every three years or so and then it lasts for a week at most. It's always remarkable that when it snows the ditches are full of 4x4 vehicles that have gone off the side of the road. They seem to forget that every vehicle has four wheel braking so they don't fare any better than a normal front wheel drive car when it comes to stopping.
There are plenty of games about that don't require internet access. They might not be the big blockbuster stuff, but they are *good* games nonetheless.
On the entirely separate problem of rip-off hotel WiFi, this is the reason I tend to stay in B&Bs run as small family businesses rather than chain hotels like Travelodge. Firstly, the "low price" chain hotels are only low price for a vanishing minority of customers, most the time you book the £19 offer isn't actually on. The "low price" hotels are often times more expensive than a B&B. Virtually all the B&Bs that I've stayed at have free wi-fi. With hotel finders online like booking.com it's very easy to find and book with the non-chain hotels and B&Bs now, and just as easy to book as one of the big so-called "low cost" chain hotels. Whether the situation is the same in NZ, I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me. (Only in the United States have I found that chain hotels have free wi-fi).
If I'm forced to stay in a hotel with no free wifi, I just tether my phone. Most of the time 3G access works just as well. (Same goes for over priced WiFi access in airports).
Not for a while. Any car worth owning for some time has had a galvanized body.
My car is 17 years old, it has a few scratches (one caused by hitting a rock hidden in long grass doing a nasty dent down the left side) but no rust at all - despite living in an environment laced with salt water (a very windy island, where the sea regularly comes crashing over the sea wall on one road I frequently use) and where it can get cold enough where the roads get gritted and salted.
Officially, in Britain flashing your lights is only to alert the other driver to your presence. However, in reality it's like you say notwithstanding what may be actually written in the Highway Code.
I find that file you cite very readable. It's well formatted, it's clear what the code is supposed to do etc., comments where necessary. Why do you think it's sarcasm?
I'm not a kernel dev, btw. It is entirely possible that I find that file eminently readable because I read a lot of other people's perl scripts...