OK. Let's say that ability is based on number of accidents per week and that there are 20 people in our society. Here's the breakdown of our accidents in this society:
1 person: 18 accidents per week 3 people: 1 accident per week 16 people: 0 accidents per week
This makes the average number of accidents per week 1.05.
This makes the number of people "above average" (fewer than 1.05 accidents per week) 19 out 20, or 95%. 95% of people were above avearge.
I'm not saying that this is how the real stats work out (although it is plausible), but nothing mathematically prevents 95% of a population from being above average. Please retake elementry school mathematics and then post your snide comments to slashdot:)
Why don't we just ban driving then? No cars => no car accidents and that means that none of your retarded contrived scenerios can occur. I don't drive and don't intend to, so I support the abolition of cars. Yeah man... for society!
RAID is great, but PLEASE don't think that it is a substitute for backups. For one thing, RAID won't protect you against yourself. If you screw up the filesystem, the RAID device will happily mirror that change to your other disks. If your system is compromised, you can't restore from a known good set unless you have a offline backup. In addition, cheap disks often come in bad lots. That is, if one disk in the group fails, the likelihood of the other disks in that group failing is MUCH higher. If you're doing cheap RAID, try to get disks from different lots or manufacturers to avoid defects in a single lot.
RAID is great for the scenario of one disk randomly failing. But backups are the solution to nearly ever other problem with the filesystem.
Yes! Grading based on homework is mornoic. This killed me all though high school and still in college. I don't need to do a math problem 500 times to figure out how to solve it, usually I can get it right having first actually tried to solve the problem on a test:) Homework is good practice, and in certain subjects enjoyable even, but it shouldn't be for grading. Let the test scores be the grade.
This semester I took "Introduction to Computing" (great since I learned to read from a BASIC programming book... I really needed this class, yes indeed...) I got a B despite doing all the homework (and getting good scores, 9/10 and 10/10s) and getting the highest score in the class on the midterm and final. Unfortunately, I didn't go to lab, and that apparently made a difference. Some people who got ``A''s don't even know how to write a Hello World program (but they tried really hard). *sigh*
The current University system is a joke. It filters out the mediocre and makes them look good, while the truly intelligent (but perhaps slightly lazy) get NOTHING for their efforts but the shaft.
I will right the wrongs when I become a professor: if you can't write a simple program after Introduction to Programming, you FAIL even if you did show up to sleep through the labs and lectures!
That's the going rate around here, but now that I think about it, you're right. I am being majorly shafted. In Japan, I got 55MBps for $20 a month! There's NO reason it shouldn't be like that here...
What? My DSL line rental costs $5 a month, and 1.5M/768k costs $70 on top of that (with 3 static IPs and no landline service). This is Speakeasy (in SBC territory).
Isn't the quote, "They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." My source is the OpenBSD 3.0 Release Song... but hey, it's still a good point. Another good point the song brings up is, "During these hostile and trying times and whatnot, OpenBSD may be your family's only line of defense."
They can put a backdoor on my OpenBSD box after they beat me to death with a cold, dead Model M keyboard. (Come to think of it... that would be easy to do.)
Your company should take a hint from M$ and get a better EULA. Clauses like "our company isn't liable even if we intentionally fuck up your data" would probably be a good idea:)
Try this. Compile your program and wxWidgets with -g3 debugging symbols. Run your program in GDB. Type ALT into a select box. See where the program crashes. Fix that code.
How hard is this? You have the source code to wxWidgets, you have the source to your app... This is a trivial problem.
If someone has gotten so close to the computer that they can plug in a keychain drive, boot their own OS, and steal data, then your security failed long ago. Ever hear of locking the door?
Do your other e-mail services do "conversation" or "archive" or labels instead of folders? No. Anything different confuses people, these are different. That's the gp's point.
The way I see it, Cisco has no responsibility for the "human rights" of China. They're not the government. If China comes to Cisco and says, we'll trade you these millions of dollars for your routers, they have an obligation to the shareholders to say OK. I mean, if they don't do it, then Juniper will do it. China is the one that is responsible for their misdeeds against their people, Cisco merely makes it slightly easier for them. That doesn't make them "liable" for it, though. They're just trying to make money. The shareholders are supposed to like money (isn't that why public corporations are all evil).
The solution, of course, is to not buy Cisco products if this bothers you, though. I (for other reasons, mainly their habit of suing security people trying to HELP them) won't buy them anyway, but this is (I guess) yet another reason to look elsewhere for routers.
What exactly would this do? Induced current is proportional to the CHANGE in flux of a magnetic field. Just putting a magnet near CAT 5 cables would do... nothing.
Take the magnets and stick them to a monitor and (with the magnet there), degauss the monitor. Fun for everyone.
I've never driven a car, so I don't really know, but I always thought public transportation was "more expensive" than driving. I pay $75 a month (in Chicago), but people in the suburbs can pay nearly $200 a month on train fare alone. Does this end up being cheaper than gas?
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OK. Let's say that ability is based on number of accidents per week and that there are 20 people in our society. Here's the breakdown of our accidents in this society:
:)
1 person: 18 accidents per week
3 people: 1 accident per week
16 people: 0 accidents per week
This makes the average number of accidents per week 1.05.
This makes the number of people "above average" (fewer than 1.05 accidents per week) 19 out 20, or 95%. 95% of people were above avearge.
I'm not saying that this is how the real stats work out (although it is plausible), but nothing mathematically prevents 95% of a population from being above average. Please retake elementry school mathematics and then post your snide comments to slashdot
Why don't we just ban driving then? No cars => no car accidents and that means that none of your retarded contrived scenerios can occur. I don't drive and don't intend to, so I support the abolition of cars. Yeah man... for society!
RAID is great, but PLEASE don't think that it is a substitute for backups. For one thing, RAID won't protect you against yourself. If you screw up the filesystem, the RAID device will happily mirror that change to your other disks. If your system is compromised, you can't restore from a known good set unless you have a offline backup. In addition, cheap disks often come in bad lots. That is, if one disk in the group fails, the likelihood of the other disks in that group failing is MUCH higher. If you're doing cheap RAID, try to get disks from different lots or manufacturers to avoid defects in a single lot.
RAID is great for the scenario of one disk randomly failing. But backups are the solution to nearly ever other problem with the filesystem.
Having both is an excellent idea.
Yes! Grading based on homework is mornoic. This killed me all though high school and still in college. I don't need to do a math problem 500 times to figure out how to solve it, usually I can get it right having first actually tried to solve the problem on a test :) Homework is good practice, and in certain subjects enjoyable even, but it shouldn't be for grading. Let the test scores be the grade.
This semester I took "Introduction to Computing" (great since I learned to read from a BASIC programming book... I really needed this class, yes indeed...) I got a B despite doing all the homework (and getting good scores, 9/10 and 10/10s) and getting the highest score in the class on the midterm and final. Unfortunately, I didn't go to lab, and that apparently made a difference. Some people who got ``A''s don't even know how to write a Hello World program (but they tried really hard). *sigh*
The current University system is a joke. It filters out the mediocre and makes them look good, while the truly intelligent (but perhaps slightly lazy) get NOTHING for their efforts but the shaft.
I will right the wrongs when I become a professor: if you can't write a simple program after Introduction to Programming, you FAIL even if you did show up to sleep through the labs and lectures!
> Alright, I can see your new here.
Hey! Your new here is showing! For God's sake... put that thing away.
My Powerbook and three iPods have worked perfectly from day one. Sorry that you had problems :)
That's the going rate around here, but now that I think about it, you're right. I am being majorly shafted. In Japan, I got 55MBps for $20 a month! There's NO reason it shouldn't be like that here...
What? My DSL line rental costs $5 a month, and 1.5M/768k costs $70 on top of that (with 3 static IPs and no landline service). This is Speakeasy (in SBC territory).
Isn't the quote, "They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." My source is the OpenBSD 3.0 Release Song... but hey, it's still a good point. Another good point the song brings up is, "During these hostile and trying times and whatnot, OpenBSD may be your family's only line of defense."
They can put a backdoor on my OpenBSD box after they beat me to death with a cold, dead Model M keyboard. (Come to think of it... that would be easy to do.)
Your company should take a hint from M$ and get a better EULA. Clauses like "our company isn't liable even if we intentionally fuck up your data" would probably be a good idea :)
Somewhere near here: http://www.hymn-project.org/
I don't have a phone line. How exactly would the phone company know about me?
I do. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Uh...?
Try this. Compile your program and wxWidgets with -g3 debugging symbols. Run your program in GDB. Type ALT into a select box. See where the program crashes. Fix that code.
How hard is this? You have the source code to wxWidgets, you have the source to your app... This is a trivial problem.
If you do not trust the people with physical access to the servers, then fire them. Security through insecurity is no security at all.
Duh, that's the same thing. Remember that Linux is just stolen SCO UNIX code :)
:)
(just kidding, in case you didn't notice the smiley
If someone has gotten so close to the computer that they can plug in a keychain drive, boot their own OS, and steal data, then your security failed long ago. Ever hear of locking the door?
I can do RC-4 by hand. If millions of dollars were at stake I would figure out some way to do it.
Do your other e-mail services do "conversation" or "archive" or labels instead of folders? No. Anything different confuses people, these are different. That's the gp's point.
Probably near the place where he said, 'R->0'. That's what a superconductor does; it reduces resistance to somewhere near 0.
The way I see it, Cisco has no responsibility for the "human rights" of China. They're not the government. If China comes to Cisco and says, we'll trade you these millions of dollars for your routers, they have an obligation to the shareholders to say OK. I mean, if they don't do it, then Juniper will do it. China is the one that is responsible for their misdeeds against their people, Cisco merely makes it slightly easier for them. That doesn't make them "liable" for it, though. They're just trying to make money. The shareholders are supposed to like money (isn't that why public corporations are all evil).
The solution, of course, is to not buy Cisco products if this bothers you, though. I (for other reasons, mainly their habit of suing security people trying to HELP them) won't buy them anyway, but this is (I guess) yet another reason to look elsewhere for routers.
What exactly would this do? Induced current is proportional to the CHANGE in flux of a magnetic field. Just putting a magnet near CAT 5 cables would do... nothing.
Take the magnets and stick them to a monitor and (with the magnet there), degauss the monitor. Fun for everyone.
No, he's right. That web comic sucks. The reason Penny Arcade and UF are linked so much is because they don't suck. UF is downright good!
Do people really pay $100 a month for gasoline?
I've never driven a car, so I don't really know, but I always thought public transportation was "more expensive" than driving. I pay $75 a month (in Chicago), but people in the suburbs can pay nearly $200 a month on train fare alone. Does this end up being cheaper than gas?