[sarcasm] Well, if you don't like it, start your own search engine. Free market, private company, blah blah blah blah. This is totally not an abuse of a monopolistic position at all. [/sarcasm]
your scale here is way off. public radio and nea funding are ridiculously small drops. it's absurd to even talk about cutting their funding to help balance the budget.
people really need to start talking about the biggest money suckholes of them all: defense, medicare, and social security.
wasting your time talking about penny ante stuff like npr and the nea is pointless. you're missing the big picture, and will literally accomplish nothing trying to take care of this problem by going after the smallest budget items.
see, the thing is, that later on in the article the general incompetence of the systems support people is discussed. i mean, they have 11TB of shared drive space so employees can share movies and music, but they don't have enough space on their servers to keep adequate logs of activity.
frankly, occam's razor applies, here. the reason you were told not to trust writing zeros is probably because the likelihood that you'd've screwed it up was too high. which is probably what happened to bradley manning.
also, writing zeroes takes a long time. thermite is much, much faster.
The Tea Party isn't actually protesting anything. They seem to be desperately trying to cling to the status quo in which they've found themselves to be so comfortable.
"Health care for me, not for anyone else"
"No new taxes... for me"
etc, etc.
See the difference? They're trying to preserve their own position, not trying to actively change things. So, no, they're not protestors.
regardless of the math, S&P's reasoning is sound. let's not try to find scapegoats, please. the U.S. is hurtling at full speed towards a deficit meltdown, and quibbling over S&P's math doesn't change the fact that the country needs to come to terms with it ASAP.
How is it not opt-in the way it is already? Nobody forces you to look at porn when you open a web browser. They very act of going to specific sites to look at pornography is opt-in by itself.
why would they bother installing linux, since they have a friend who is skilled and willing enough to clean it up for them?
i've been down this road too many times. i have now been forced to never offer "clean up" support for friends and family. it makes me sad, but it's the only way they learn : (
not really. it is often the case that students skip lecture, and then don't properly learn the material. they then either slow down the pace of the class during labs and recitation, or ask stupid question that they should already know the answer to in lecture, or waste the teacher's and ta's time by getting additional instruction on things they should already be aware of. this all then negatively affects the performance of students who actually try to attend and do all of their work properly.
your conjecture would be correct, if the teaching staff would be willing to let these students fail. however, this often negatively reflects on the performance of the professor. thus, you have students that don't have the good grace to fail quietly, and teachers that have no option but to help them out. everyone suffers as a result.
this is a growing problem in academia. go to any university (there is undoubtedly some form of post-secondary institution geographically close to where you are right now), and ask any of the instructors about this problem. they'll have a lot to say about the subject. so much so, in fact, that they probably wouldn't think to ask why some random person is asking them about class attendance out of the blue.
the boss of a forklift driver may not necessarily be licensed or authorized to drive said forklift. in a case like that, where someone can cause significant damage by not being properly trained in how to use a resource, access should definitely be denied.
i have never heard of that (Sovereign Citizen Movement), before. thank you for introducing me to the most batshiat insane assemblage of 'logic' i have ever seen in my life. i am truly impressed.
perhaps this is a quibbling point, but TiVo didn't invent timeshifting. the invention of the VCR was responsible for that. one should learn about history a bit more before attempting to romanticize it unnecessarily.
it's unlikely to ever happen, as that would require a complete rewrite of the entire codebase. there's so much cruft in photoshop, i don't know anyone who would even be willing to say it's even possible.
that being said, i think it probably needs a good overhaul (organic growth over 20 years can't be pretty to maintain), and i'd pay a lot for a solid *NIX port.
and what do we do with the waste, runoff, and pollution from non-nuclear power generation? where's your outrage over the contamination of our environment from mining coal?
we're already behaving in a short-sighted fashion, and burdening the next generations.
if your $20 is more than their cost in labour to accommodate your request, then yes. typically, however, the marginal cost of one-off requests is just too much.
[citation needed] is not a substitute for meaningful discussion and rebuttal.
"Linux is definitely faster and more feature-rich than FreeBSD." Keeping in the spirit of your post, would you care to post some benchmarks concerning the speed of linux vs. BSD in data storage, or for ZFS vs. btrfs?
at any rate, isn't stability more important in terms of this type of storage? if you're using a NAS-type device, i can't see how speed would be your primary concern, since you're limited by the NAS-style architecture right out the gate.
As noted above, the problem really lies with the numbering scheme. Most distro maintainers knew that KDE 4.0 was completely unsuitable for anyone. However, the clamouring userbases only cared that 4 > 3, and as such, in general demanded that 4.0 be provided to them. And they got what they asked for.
you're really stretching on this one. using the fact that pi is an irrational number to support an argument that real life doesn't match up with measurements.... you're really off by several orders of magnitude, here. you'd do far better to attack imprecision in the manufacturing process, or aberrations caused by real world use.
pi is not why some things work in theory, but not in practice. you'd know that if you had more than a passing flirtation with either of those two nouns.
SSL, not SSH. And the SSL vulnerability in XP in supposedly worked-around by running a firewall (for the purpose of this discussion, the POS that ships with XP is supposed to be a firewall).
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[sarcasm] Well, if you don't like it, start your own search engine. Free market, private company, blah blah blah blah. This is totally not an abuse of a monopolistic position at all. [/sarcasm]
jumping around like a crack-addled kangaroo typically helps separate them, too.
idiot players was the main reason i quit WoW. they just made the game miserable.
your scale here is way off. public radio and nea funding are ridiculously small drops. it's absurd to even talk about cutting their funding to help balance the budget.
people really need to start talking about the biggest money suckholes of them all: defense, medicare, and social security.
wasting your time talking about penny ante stuff like npr and the nea is pointless. you're missing the big picture, and will literally accomplish nothing trying to take care of this problem by going after the smallest budget items.
see, the thing is, that later on in the article the general incompetence of the systems support people is discussed. i mean, they have 11TB of shared drive space so employees can share movies and music, but they don't have enough space on their servers to keep adequate logs of activity.
frankly, occam's razor applies, here. the reason you were told not to trust writing zeros is probably because the likelihood that you'd've screwed it up was too high. which is probably what happened to bradley manning.
also, writing zeroes takes a long time. thermite is much, much faster.
The Tea Party isn't actually protesting anything. They seem to be desperately trying to cling to the status quo in which they've found themselves to be so comfortable.
"Health care for me, not for anyone else"
"No new taxes ... for me"
etc, etc.
See the difference? They're trying to preserve their own position, not trying to actively change things. So, no, they're not protestors.
at this point, i wonder if AT&T has actually bought its own story, or if they have to practice keeping a straight face in the mirror every morning.
regardless of the math, S&P's reasoning is sound. let's not try to find scapegoats, please. the U.S. is hurtling at full speed towards a deficit meltdown, and quibbling over S&P's math doesn't change the fact that the country needs to come to terms with it ASAP.
Two things come to mind:
"Those who speak, do not know; those who know, do not speak."
and ...
"Loose lips sink ships."
You're correct; there's no benefit to these childish displays. Their juvenile antics will be their own downfall.
"I really doubt that ..."
You would be wrong: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n7_v149/ai_18051356/
How is it not opt-in the way it is already? Nobody forces you to look at porn when you open a web browser. They very act of going to specific sites to look at pornography is opt-in by itself.
why would they bother installing linux, since they have a friend who is skilled and willing enough to clean it up for them?
i've been down this road too many times. i have now been forced to never offer "clean up" support for friends and family. it makes me sad, but it's the only way they learn : (
not really. it is often the case that students skip lecture, and then don't properly learn the material. they then either slow down the pace of the class during labs and recitation, or ask stupid question that they should already know the answer to in lecture, or waste the teacher's and ta's time by getting additional instruction on things they should already be aware of. this all then negatively affects the performance of students who actually try to attend and do all of their work properly.
your conjecture would be correct, if the teaching staff would be willing to let these students fail. however, this often negatively reflects on the performance of the professor. thus, you have students that don't have the good grace to fail quietly, and teachers that have no option but to help them out. everyone suffers as a result.
this is a growing problem in academia. go to any university (there is undoubtedly some form of post-secondary institution geographically close to where you are right now), and ask any of the instructors about this problem. they'll have a lot to say about the subject. so much so, in fact, that they probably wouldn't think to ask why some random person is asking them about class attendance out of the blue.
the boss of a forklift driver may not necessarily be licensed or authorized to drive said forklift. in a case like that, where someone can cause significant damage by not being properly trained in how to use a resource, access should definitely be denied.
i have never heard of that (Sovereign Citizen Movement), before. thank you for introducing me to the most batshiat insane assemblage of 'logic' i have ever seen in my life. i am truly impressed.
perhaps this is a quibbling point, but TiVo didn't invent timeshifting. the invention of the VCR was responsible for that. one should learn about history a bit more before attempting to romanticize it unnecessarily.
it's unlikely to ever happen, as that would require a complete rewrite of the entire codebase. there's so much cruft in photoshop, i don't know anyone who would even be willing to say it's even possible.
that being said, i think it probably needs a good overhaul (organic growth over 20 years can't be pretty to maintain), and i'd pay a lot for a solid *NIX port.
and what do we do with the waste, runoff, and pollution from non-nuclear power generation? where's your outrage over the contamination of our environment from mining coal?
we're already behaving in a short-sighted fashion, and burdening the next generations.
harumph indeed. kids these days.
i covertly appropriated several computer labs at the time to contribute to the effort. man, those were the days.
for now. all of my encodes of late have been h264/aac. i'm really gonna be pissed when the next format bump comes along, tho; OCD is a bitch.
if your $20 is more than their cost in labour to accommodate your request, then yes. typically, however, the marginal cost of one-off requests is just too much.
[citation needed] is not a substitute for meaningful discussion and rebuttal.
"Linux is definitely faster and more feature-rich than FreeBSD." Keeping in the spirit of your post, would you care to post some benchmarks concerning the speed of linux vs. BSD in data storage, or for ZFS vs. btrfs?
at any rate, isn't stability more important in terms of this type of storage? if you're using a NAS-type device, i can't see how speed would be your primary concern, since you're limited by the NAS-style architecture right out the gate.
As noted above, the problem really lies with the numbering scheme. Most distro maintainers knew that KDE 4.0 was completely unsuitable for anyone. However, the clamouring userbases only cared that 4 > 3, and as such, in general demanded that 4.0 be provided to them. And they got what they asked for.
you're really stretching on this one. using the fact that pi is an irrational number to support an argument that real life doesn't match up with measurements .... you're really off by several orders of magnitude, here. you'd do far better to attack imprecision in the manufacturing process, or aberrations caused by real world use.
pi is not why some things work in theory, but not in practice. you'd know that if you had more than a passing flirtation with either of those two nouns.
okay ... but how is it better?
SSL, not SSH. And the SSL vulnerability in XP in supposedly worked-around by running a firewall (for the purpose of this discussion, the POS that ships with XP is supposed to be a firewall).