Cable modems can go 10Mb/sec upstream and downstream. The capping is artificial, but does reflect real concerns about bandwidth management on a large shared network - obviously they can't give everyone 10Mb up and down.
Actually, the rate for downstream is more in the general area of 54Mbps per television channel sacrificed for internettraffic. Unfortunately the upstream is more limited; the cable networks were designed to broadcast, and even when they did conceive interactivity, the amount of bandwidth (in terms of Mhz ranges) set aside for the return-channel was rather limited; and there's obviously a limit to how many times you can 'split up' a neighborhood in 'subnets' that have a separate head-end each.
The whole 'cable is shared bandwidth' is somewhat of a thing of the past given that pretty much every one is using (euro)DOCSIS these days, which actually does TDMA - but the availability of upstream bandwidth can still be a bottleneck.
EndNote is really awesome. Is there any reason people don't get it if they need it? They just don't know it's out there? Really, it was roughly perfect over a decade ago.
Most people don't know about it (even if it's installed on the computer right there in front of their noses on the university's campus license) and it does something Word itself is supposed to be able to do, so many don't think to look for it. At a full retail price of $299.95, some people prefer to be reamed by the devil they know than the devil they don't.
I've often heard people complain about Word with long documents, but I've never had any issues with them myself (up to about 120 pages, personally). How long is "long?"
I've seen documents as short as 50 pages go completely FUBAR; this seems to be correlated strongly with using any graphical objects - if you're doing all of your lay outs and figures right at the end you're safer.
As for footnotes, even back in 1992, Word + EndNote did my thesis in APA style perfectly without breaking a sweat. HUGE time saver compared to what other folks had to go through.
For people without EndNote, it's still that bad;-)
I've never used, or even seen LaTeX? Any good versions for Mac OS X I should check out?
No, that's not a basic democratic principle. That's a current principle used to encourage everyone to vote without fear of reprisal, but it's hardly a fundamental aspect of the system.
I seem to recall those Ancient Greeks in Athens being rather fond of their secret ballots. Speaking of f(o)undations...
Practical RDF is an oxymoron.
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There is nothing practical about RDF. The syntax is horribly complex for what it does, which is basically assert relationships between pairs (think isa(tweety,bird), where 'isa' is the relationship). Also note that asserting relationships between pairs is NOT at all sufficient to model real world data (think update anomalies); which is why we have much better models, such as the relational model, and the prolog and LISP datastructures. (In fact, prolog comes with an assert statement)
With RDFS you can define restraints on relationships; for example that in the relationship is_married_to(M,F) the participants M and F should be of a different gender (just an example folks, visit Amsterdam!). Again, this is done in a horribly convoluted syntax, and it cannot model some very useful restraints.
Furthermore, the tools for RDF c.s. are not up to scratch. Buggy parsers, buggy GUIs, apps that are not under active development, memory footprints that are insane.
RDF is useful only for RSS, which, by-the-by, doesn't conform to the RDF/RDFS specs - precisely because of the tools.
For storing data in a meaningful way, even the simplest of databases (yes, mysql) is much better. If you want to have better constraints on stuff, and perhaps even do some nifty "inference engine" stuff, stick to prolog if you need that sort of thing, it will make life much easier, even though it's a scary language and not as hyped as XML. (Other options would be CLIPS/Jess, LISP/Scheme or some custom made magic).
I've worked with RDF and it plain sucks. No two ways about it. Just say no to RDF!
The key is just to define your standard template. Get that template down, and you're writing object-oriented with styles. Understanding how to use styles and tabs is critical to efficient Word use. Instead of doing it spaghetti-code style with formatting applied directly to units of text, build the right design for each style, and religiously only use styles. If you need to change the style later, it's changed in all instances. Much, much easier.
Not trolling; but this is exactly how I use LaTeX.. Plus, unlike Word, LaTeX will easily handle very very large documents, and does the best job at footnotes.
(On the other hand, a LaTeX distribution can be hell to set up, and importing figures (or rather exporting them to properly cropped EPS/PDF) can be a PITA).
1) Voter walks into voting office, identifies himself and is issued a paper ballot. 2) Voter fills a square/cirkel on the ballot, next to the candidate's name and/or picture. 3) Voter inserts ballot into machine
The, either;
3a) Machine spits out ballot because no choice or multiple choices have been indicated. 4a) Voter is instructed to report this to the staff at the polling station 4aa) If the machine is working properly, staff instructs the voter to go back in the booth and invalidate his/her ballot by marking a couple of candidates so his/her original choice cannot be determined, the faulty ballot is destroyed, and the voter is issued a new ballot, proceed to step 2. 4ab) There's nothing wrong with the ballot. The machine is buggy, so this polling station now switches to manual counts, and shuts down the machine.
OR;
3b) The machine says "your vote is X - is this correct?" 3ba) the Voter choses "yes". The vote is counted and the ballot is stored in a secure box. 3bb) the voter choses "no". Go to step 4a
If the machine bugs out, so what, follow the manual procedure, you need the paper ballots and pens anyway! If the machine works, great, you have your results within minutes after closing. If you need a recount - no problem, you have a paper trail. Recounting can be done manually, or by machine. If people don't fill in the ballots correctly - the machine asked for confirmation, so they can't bitch about it.
Write-in candidates? Sure, just have a checkbox "write-in"; you can sort those out (by machine) easily and do a manual count on the write-ins only (if write-in candidates collectively even pass the threshold). You could even have the machine ask to type the name of the write-in candidate and have it print it on the ballot (for legibility in recounts).
It's really not rocket science...
Now distance voting, online or otherwise, that's the big one..
"Every software in government, which is paid for from citizens taxes, should be open source."
Maybe I'm being a little bit picky here, but I'd prefer the best tool for the job (yes, I am a gov't employee).
That's why, when ballots are counted by hand, no one is allowed to look how they are being counted. You see, when the ballots are counted behind closed doors, the result comes back in under a minute, but when people can inspect the counting, and insist upon a "procedure" being drawn up that everyone can rad, manual counting can take an hour!
Many countries prefer to manually count votes behind closed doors with no published counting procedure. For example, Iraq, China, etc. In fact, in these countries the election results are almost always known even before the elections, that's how efficient it is!
But isn't up2date the service they plan on making money with?
Please some-one answer this.. I was looking into fedora because up2date simply didn't work for patching sshd lately (server too busy to cater to free-as-in-beer accounts) and my budget is roughly less than a shoestring:-/
It's trademarked, and there is a problem because they are using the Dewey Decimal System name in their advertising [citysearch.com] without permission.
Problem is, the trademark is for "IC 016. US 038. G & S: Periodical Publication-Namely, an Index Relating to a System of Classifying the Field of Human Knowledge. FIRST"..
A hotel is not a publication. Unless I'm mistaken. In which case you sir, are a bookworm.
For example, I've yet to figure out a way to effectively get a computer lab with 30 eMacs installed and configured the same way. DHCP/Netboot is slow because we only have 100mbit switches.
First off, any cluster will have a REALLY fast network. That's kind of the whole point;-)
You should look into getting multicast drive imaging software to work on your macs.
Companies' PBX boxes do the same. They're not regulated as telecommunications companies.
The deal with regulation is that ILEC's have a monopoly, because it's easier to dig one cable into every home (I say dig, I understand you USians still have overhead phone cables as well..) than to have 100 competing companies rolling out competing networks. In return for this monopoly, the ILEC must provide things like universal access, etc.
VOIP carriers are more like LD carriers, except for the fact that at least one of the endpoints is IP in stead of POTS or ISDN. No big deal, really.
The ILECs seem to be in favor of having VOIP carriers like vonage either completely destroyed, or as heavily regulated as cell phone providers - which makes absolutely no sense, even if cell phone providers weren't as overregulated as they are today (and by that I mean that there are not enough opportunities for meaningful competition, rather than 'ownership restrictions should go').
It would probably be unfair to other LD operators to have VOIP operators be totally unregulated whilst LD operators are - maybe a little more regulation for VOIP and a litte less for LD..
But what should be avoided at all cost is that it would be made illegal or impossible for end-users to use VOIP to talk to each other (and yes, the telco's and DSL people would LOVE to prohibit you from using voicechatting and/or vonage! There are bills introduced on all regulatory levels to this effect all the time..) because that would make it harder for ILEC/LD/VOIP telcos to make a living. The regulation should encourage competition, lower barriers of entry, level the playing field, and protect consumers, NOT stifle adoption of this (or any other) technology.
A buck fifty doesn't sound like much, but.. what do they (vonage/FCC) do in return for that money?
this gets in Computer World, eWeek, or even mabe a link to this from the SCOX page on finance.yahoo.
What does it take to get listed on "business intelligence" sites like finance.yahoo.com and brokers' sites? People should send in these open letters as press releases, at the very least.
Perhaps under a headline such as "FooBar Inc. announces intent to acquire SCOX" -- for $0.000000001 per share, based on our expectation that they will fail in court..
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"It's hard for me to believe it's even English you're speaking. I don't recognize any of the words."
Reading this Slashdot post just made me understand what she means.
Telstart 4 heeft vanmorgen (19 september) een interne storing gehad. Ik heb het een paar minuten geleden gecontroleerd, en er zijn nog draaggolven op 11.7Ghz verticaal en 12.1 Ghz horizontaal, dus de satelliet hangt nog in zijn baan om de aarde, alleen er is geen signaal te bekennen. Op de webpagina's van Loral Skynet staat nog geen aankondiging, maar Telstar 4 stond toch al op de nominatie om vervangen te worden door Telstar 8, dus misschien versnellen ze die uitrol. Intelsat zal zich dit nieuws zeker aantrekken, aangezien ze laatst overeengekomen met Loral om het grootste deel van hun satellieten die boven de VS hangen over te nemen, waaronder deze.
Is that better?
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But wait... normally you can only restore warp at the dramatically necessary moment, which is right after a commercial break as the aliens attack. But if Telstar 4 carries the commercials, then we can't have a commercial break! Now what do we do?
It's increasingly common for cable operators to add their own ads to the channel (by agreement) which override any nationwide ads on the channel. So, even though the signal is lost, you can still enjoy watching the vast of amazing offers at Joe's Bar&Grill, 10 Parkavenue.. No worries there, then.;-)
* The bank connection includes federally mandated encryption. The FFIEC (Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council) specifies the exact standard of encryption used. by the way, have you notice that there are no "Windows standard" encryption schemes anyway? They are all industry standards.
On the other hand, communications DLLs (such as TCP/IP, VPN, X.25 stacks etc.) are hardly likely to be custom built. Why use an OS at all if you're building everything from scratch. So yes, there will be pieces of software hooked up to the communications line which are commonly available for your offline hacking convenience. And yes, most likely a lot of software running on that machine will be made by Microsoft who have a rather suspect track record. As arguments go, it's not half-bad.
* Buffer overrun exploits also rely on unchecked input - if input is screened to a limited variety of characters few if any buffer overrun exploits would be possible.
This had been common programming practice since 1964, that's why we NEVER, EVER see buffer overflow exploits on windows, let alone in fine programs such as openssh.. Overlooking an unchecked buffer, why, that's unpossible!
* Finally, the maintenance staff has *gasp* physical access to the cartridges of cash loaded into the machine. Why the hell would they bother with a virus when they can just take the money and wander off? The basic premise of any bank is that you can trust the employees not to take the money.
No, the basic premise is that you don't trust people. That's why maintenance is done in pairs; two employees would have to collude to steal cash. But the issue here, more than anything, is avoiding detection. If you can install a backdoor on, say, 500 ATMs, and then 6 months later, money starts to disappear from ATMs from a bank that doesn't even employ you anymore. Why, you're laughing all the way to Mexico!
The most difficult part of fraud is getting away with it (as some people who used to work for Enron can tell you).
As someone who uses linux on a laptop, running SuSE 8.2 I *DEFINITELY* have a use for this. I use my laptop in a professional capacity to do quite a lot of things, and while I can run on batteries I do generally turn it off and on at least a couple times a day. Further - because I am occasionally forced to dual boot, sometimes that can be even more often. It is a good 3-4 minutes between power on and KDE desktop. This is on an 800mhz P3 with 512 megs of RAM.
Are you running services you don't need? Like, say, httpd, sendmail, crond(*), kudzu, ntpd, xinetd, sshd, snmpd etc. etc.? I imagine you're not using your laptop as a server..
(*) use anacron if your pc is turned off a regularly
I could probably name about a dozen or two dozen people out of that number that use IRC/are capable enough to use IRC. However, random cute girl from English class doesn't use IRC, and is not going to bother to learn how to use a much more confusing protocol.
IRC could use better clients... How about a client where your user id is just username@irc.net, and the client figures out it needs to connect to IRCnet and set up a query with username? Doesn't trillian already use irc, and surely the jabber clients do..
And why not just "fix" irc? IRC could do with passwordprotected nicknames (accounts!) build right into the standard, so you don't have to dick about with nickservices that are sometimes unavailable. IRC needs better protection against floods and channeltakeovers - why not fix the standard? Sure, not all networks will go along, so what, in the current situation networks are making up stuff as they go along anyway!
I'd propose a new IRC standard with a few key characteristics: - broad backwards compatibility (but nothing too complex, keep it simple) - user directory service (hopefully something truly distributed, something Kerberos-like with replication perhaps, as long as all the user needs is his client, username and password that's all transparent) - secured private channels built right into the standard (no channel takeovers unless you hack someone's password) - non-registered accounts do get access, because of backwards compatibility, but registered users get semi-op status and can kick/ban all guests. Not very relevant for IM purposes, but you'd expect channels to live on.
On the other hand, there's jabber.. Which does all sorts of neat-o things better than an enhanced version of IRC would, from an IM perspective at least. Why not evangelize jabber?
MSN messenger didn't suddenly get a critical mass of users - people started adopting it slowly as their more clueless brethren who just came online started using MSN messenger in stead of ICQ or any of the other IM programs. There's no reason why jabber couldn't overtake MSNMSG/AIM/YIM/ICQ as the IM of choice, given enough evangelization / marketing. And a clutterfree, feature-complete free client.
I'm sorry, but random cute girl from English class doesn't give a fuck about "Open Standards", etc, etc. She just wants to chat with her friends. And I want to chat with her. So, I will continue to use GAIM to talk on AIM.
Fer chrissakes, go to the gym, work out, impress teh ladies with your bling bling, and then *they* will install any crappy IM client for whatever crappy network *you* are using!
Maybe you should let them know of a tool that will allow them do do their research properly. It's called WHOIS.
Actually WHOIS is quite bad. Using dig is slightly better, but it's best to just try to register it (or query the SRS) - the shared registry system itself has the most up-to-date information, as it's the system that has direct access to the registry's database in order to, well, perform registrations and check availability.
Teenage girls are what drive the cellphone economy in Japan...
And, more relevantly, Europe. Japan is by all means a minor market for Nokia, who's stronghold is in countries with GSM networks (Europe, the rest of Asia and the Americas (except the US)). They do have CDMA models (for the US, Japan uses something called PDC or PHS - there is W-CDMA 3G service which would work with some 3G handsets as well, but raise your hand if you have a 3G handset... I thought so.), but not as many as GSM models.
Note how the article says "It is planned to come in two versions, a GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900 for Europe and Asia and a GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1900/1800 for the Americas." which pretty much rules out Japan (no PDC/PHS/WCDMA-3G)
Jackson Pollock Vincent Van Gogh Georges-Pierre Seurat Rene (Francois Ghislain) Magritte William Shakespear (although his existance as an historical figure is questioned, like Homer) James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce Damien Hirst Tracey Emin (won the Turner prize with her soiled bed) Andy Warhol (Wilhelm) Richard Wagner (also notable for contributing to the Apocalypse Now soundtrack) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Salman Rushdie Christo (Javacheff) (his wife is a co-wrapper, not wrappee) Steven Spielberg (Berta Helene Amalie) "Leni" Riefenstahl (James Marshall) "Jimi" Hendrix Bret Easton Ellis Buster Keaton (indeed a great source of inspiration for "Jackie" Chan Kong-sang) Janis Joplin
Full names are from wikipedia.. Mods, don't mod this one up, it would spoil the fun;-)
If you ever have the urge to sum up an artist's work in one sentence again... don't.
Pop-quiz!
The dude who splashed paint on canvas spread on the groud. The dude who cut off his ear and painted sunflowers. The dude who started off those dotty paintings. The dude who made that picture of a pipe that says it isn't a pipe. The dude who wrote Romeo & Juliet. The dude who wrote those books where he was going on and on about all the stuff he was thinking and doing and you couldn't figure out what was fact and what was fiction the grammar didn't work out anyway pretty damn boring book that was. The dude who cuts animals in half and suspends them in formaldehyde. The gal who made an exposition out of her own dirty bed. The dude who painted a can of soup. The dude who composed the Ring. No, not that other dude who wrote about the Ring. The dude who wrote that book and then all those Arabs went medieval on him, only he hid. The dude who wraps buildings up like a parcel (and his wife, too). The dude who directed E.T. The gal who made those nazi films that died the other day. The dude who poured lighter fluid over his guitar and burnt it on stage. The dude who wrote the book about killing lots of people while using lots of snobby eighties brands. The dude who was in that black&white film where the front of a house falls over, but he's standing where the window comes down and there's no glass in it. The gal who sings about wanting a Mercedes Benz.
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Cable modems can go 10Mb/sec upstream and downstream. The capping is artificial, but does reflect real concerns about bandwidth management on a large shared network - obviously they can't give everyone 10Mb up and down.
Actually, the rate for downstream is more in the general area of 54Mbps per television channel sacrificed for internettraffic. Unfortunately the upstream is more limited; the cable networks were designed to broadcast, and even when they did conceive interactivity, the amount of bandwidth (in terms of Mhz ranges) set aside for the return-channel was rather limited; and there's obviously a limit to how many times you can 'split up' a neighborhood in 'subnets' that have a separate head-end each.
The whole 'cable is shared bandwidth' is somewhat of a thing of the past given that pretty much every one is using (euro)DOCSIS these days, which actually does TDMA - but the availability of upstream bandwidth can still be a bottleneck.
EndNote is really awesome. Is there any reason people don't get it if they need it? They just don't know it's out there? Really, it was roughly perfect over a decade ago.
Most people don't know about it (even if it's installed on the computer right there in front of their noses on the university's campus license) and it does something Word itself is supposed to be able to do, so many don't think to look for it. At a full retail price of $299.95, some people prefer to be reamed by the devil they know than the devil they don't.
do you know any thing i can use to view latex under windows? or linux?
i just installed lyx and i'm playing around with it. is there anything better you suggest?
Learn some LaTeX codes, edit in vim, run latex or pdftex and view at leasure in gv or acrobat.
Yes, it's a hassle, but worth it if you're writing scientific articles; maths and footnotes support is excellent.
I've often heard people complain about Word with long documents, but I've never had any issues with them myself (up to about 120 pages, personally). How long is "long?"
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I've seen documents as short as 50 pages go completely FUBAR; this seems to be correlated strongly with using any graphical objects - if you're doing all of your lay outs and figures right at the end you're safer.
As for footnotes, even back in 1992, Word + EndNote did my thesis in APA style perfectly without breaking a sweat. HUGE time saver compared to what other folks had to go through.
For people without EndNote, it's still that bad
I've never used, or even seen LaTeX? Any good versions for Mac OS X I should check out?
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No, that's not a basic democratic principle. That's a current principle used to encourage everyone to vote without fear of reprisal, but it's hardly a fundamental aspect of the system.
I seem to recall those Ancient Greeks in Athens being rather fond of their secret ballots. Speaking of f(o)undations...
There is nothing practical about RDF.
The syntax is horribly complex for what it does, which is basically assert relationships between pairs (think isa(tweety,bird), where 'isa' is the relationship). Also note that asserting relationships between pairs is NOT at all sufficient to model real world data (think update anomalies); which is why we have much better models, such as the relational model, and the prolog and LISP datastructures. (In fact, prolog comes with an assert statement)
With RDFS you can define restraints on relationships; for example that in the relationship is_married_to(M,F) the participants M and F should be of a different gender (just an example folks, visit Amsterdam!). Again, this is done in a horribly convoluted syntax, and it cannot model some very useful restraints.
Furthermore, the tools for RDF c.s. are not up to scratch. Buggy parsers, buggy GUIs, apps that are not under active development, memory footprints that are insane.
RDF is useful only for RSS, which, by-the-by, doesn't conform to the RDF/RDFS specs - precisely because of the tools.
For storing data in a meaningful way, even the simplest of databases (yes, mysql) is much better. If you want to have better constraints on stuff, and perhaps even do some nifty "inference engine" stuff, stick to prolog if you need that sort of thing, it will make life much easier, even though it's a scary language and not as hyped as XML. (Other options would be CLIPS/Jess, LISP/Scheme or some custom made magic).
I've worked with RDF and it plain sucks. No two ways about it. Just say no to RDF!
The key is just to define your standard template. Get that template down, and you're writing object-oriented with styles. Understanding how to use styles and tabs is critical to efficient Word use. Instead of doing it spaghetti-code style with formatting applied directly to units of text, build the right design for each style, and religiously only use styles. If you need to change the style later, it's changed in all instances. Much, much easier.
Not trolling; but this is exactly how I use LaTeX..
Plus, unlike Word, LaTeX will easily handle very very large documents, and does the best job at footnotes.
(On the other hand, a LaTeX distribution can be hell to set up, and importing figures (or rather exporting them to properly cropped EPS/PDF) can be a PITA).
Metaphors use "like or as".
You're busted, too pal.
By the grammar and usage police
Nope, those are similes.
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Method and apparatus for voting;
1) Voter walks into voting office, identifies himself and is issued a paper ballot.
2) Voter fills a square/cirkel on the ballot, next to the candidate's name and/or picture.
3) Voter inserts ballot into machine
The, either;
3a) Machine spits out ballot because no choice or multiple choices have been indicated.
4a) Voter is instructed to report this to the staff at the polling station
4aa) If the machine is working properly, staff instructs the voter to go back in the booth and invalidate his/her ballot by marking a couple of candidates so his/her original choice cannot be determined, the faulty ballot is destroyed, and the voter is issued a new ballot, proceed to step 2.
4ab) There's nothing wrong with the ballot. The machine is buggy, so this polling station now switches to manual counts, and shuts down the machine.
OR;
3b) The machine says "your vote is X - is this correct?"
3ba) the Voter choses "yes". The vote is counted and the ballot is stored in a secure box.
3bb) the voter choses "no". Go to step 4a
If the machine bugs out, so what, follow the manual procedure, you need the paper ballots and pens anyway!
If the machine works, great, you have your results within minutes after closing.
If you need a recount - no problem, you have a paper trail. Recounting can be done manually, or by machine.
If people don't fill in the ballots correctly - the machine asked for confirmation, so they can't bitch about it.
Write-in candidates? Sure, just have a checkbox "write-in"; you can sort those out (by machine) easily and do a manual count on the write-ins only (if write-in candidates collectively even pass the threshold). You could even have the machine ask to type the name of the write-in candidate and have it print it on the ballot (for legibility in recounts).
It's really not rocket science...
Now distance voting, online or otherwise, that's the big one..
"Every software in government, which is paid for from citizens taxes, should be open source."
Maybe I'm being a little bit picky here, but I'd prefer the best tool for the job (yes, I am a gov't employee).
That's why, when ballots are counted by hand, no one is allowed to look how they are being counted. You see, when the ballots are counted behind closed doors, the result comes back in under a minute, but when people can inspect the counting, and insist upon a "procedure" being drawn up that everyone can rad, manual counting can take an hour!
Many countries prefer to manually count votes behind closed doors with no published counting procedure. For example, Iraq, China, etc. In fact, in these countries the election results are almost always known even before the elections, that's how efficient it is!
But isn't up2date the service they plan on making money with?
:-/
Please some-one answer this.. I was looking into fedora because up2date simply didn't work for patching sshd lately (server too busy to cater to free-as-in-beer accounts) and my budget is roughly less than a shoestring
It's trademarked, and there is a problem because they are using the Dewey Decimal System name in their advertising [citysearch.com] without permission.
Problem is, the trademark is for "IC 016. US 038. G & S: Periodical Publication-Namely, an Index Relating to a System of Classifying the Field of Human Knowledge. FIRST"..
A hotel is not a publication. Unless I'm mistaken. In which case you sir, are a bookworm.
For example, I've yet to figure out a way to effectively get a computer lab with 30 eMacs installed and configured the same way. DHCP/Netboot is slow because we only have 100mbit switches.
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First off, any cluster will have a REALLY fast network. That's kind of the whole point
You should look into getting multicast drive imaging software to work on your macs.
Companies' PBX boxes do the same. They're not regulated as telecommunications companies.
The deal with regulation is that ILEC's have a monopoly, because it's easier to dig one cable into every home (I say dig, I understand you USians still have overhead phone cables as well..) than to have 100 competing companies rolling out competing networks. In return for this monopoly, the ILEC must provide things like universal access, etc.
VOIP carriers are more like LD carriers, except for the fact that at least one of the endpoints is IP in stead of POTS or ISDN. No big deal, really.
The ILECs seem to be in favor of having VOIP carriers like vonage either completely destroyed, or as heavily regulated as cell phone providers - which makes absolutely no sense, even if cell phone providers weren't as overregulated as they are today (and by that I mean that there are not enough opportunities for meaningful competition, rather than 'ownership restrictions should go').
It would probably be unfair to other LD operators to have VOIP operators be totally unregulated whilst LD operators are - maybe a little more regulation for VOIP and a litte less for LD..
But what should be avoided at all cost is that it would be made illegal or impossible for end-users to use VOIP to talk to each other (and yes, the telco's and DSL people would LOVE to prohibit you from using voicechatting and/or vonage! There are bills introduced on all regulatory levels to this effect all the time..) because that would make it harder for ILEC/LD/VOIP telcos to make a living. The regulation should encourage competition, lower barriers of entry, level the playing field, and protect consumers, NOT stifle adoption of this (or any other) technology.
A buck fifty doesn't sound like much, but.. what do they (vonage/FCC) do in return for that money?
this gets in Computer World, eWeek, or even mabe a link to this from the SCOX page on finance.yahoo.
What does it take to get listed on "business intelligence" sites like finance.yahoo.com and brokers' sites? People should send in these open letters as press releases, at the very least.
Perhaps under a headline such as "FooBar Inc. announces intent to acquire SCOX" -- for $0.000000001 per share, based on our expectation that they will fail in court..
They'd included the link in my signature.. ;-)
"It's hard for me to believe it's even English you're speaking. I don't recognize any of the words."
Reading this Slashdot post just made me understand what she means.
Telstart 4 heeft vanmorgen (19 september) een interne storing gehad. Ik heb het een paar minuten geleden gecontroleerd, en er zijn nog draaggolven op 11.7Ghz verticaal en 12.1 Ghz horizontaal, dus de satelliet hangt nog in zijn baan om de aarde, alleen er is geen signaal te bekennen. Op de webpagina's van Loral Skynet staat nog geen aankondiging, maar Telstar 4 stond toch al op de nominatie om vervangen te worden door Telstar 8, dus misschien versnellen ze die uitrol. Intelsat zal zich dit nieuws zeker aantrekken, aangezien ze laatst overeengekomen met Loral om het grootste deel van hun satellieten die boven de VS hangen over te nemen, waaronder deze.
Is that better?
But wait... normally you can only restore warp at the dramatically necessary moment, which is right after a commercial break as the aliens attack. But if Telstar 4 carries the commercials, then we can't have a commercial break! Now what do we do?
;-)
It's increasingly common for cable operators to add their own ads to the channel (by agreement) which override any nationwide ads on the channel. So, even though the signal is lost, you can still enjoy watching the vast of amazing offers at Joe's Bar&Grill, 10 Parkavenue.. No worries there, then.
Your arguments are foolish on the face.
Are they?
* The bank connection includes federally mandated encryption. The FFIEC (Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council) specifies the exact standard of encryption used. by the way, have you notice that there are no "Windows standard" encryption schemes anyway? They are all industry standards.
On the other hand, communications DLLs (such as TCP/IP, VPN, X.25 stacks etc.) are hardly likely to be custom built. Why use an OS at all if you're building everything from scratch. So yes, there will be pieces of software hooked up to the communications line which are commonly available for your offline hacking convenience. And yes, most likely a lot of software running on that machine will be made by Microsoft who have a rather suspect track record. As arguments go, it's not half-bad.
* Buffer overrun exploits also rely on unchecked input - if input is screened to a limited variety of characters few if any buffer overrun exploits would be possible.
This had been common programming practice since 1964, that's why we NEVER, EVER see buffer overflow exploits on windows, let alone in fine programs such as openssh.. Overlooking an unchecked buffer, why, that's unpossible!
* Finally, the maintenance staff has *gasp* physical access to the cartridges of cash loaded into the machine. Why the hell would they bother with a virus when they can just take the money and wander off? The basic premise of any bank is that you can trust the employees not to take the money.
No, the basic premise is that you don't trust people. That's why maintenance is done in pairs; two employees would have to collude to steal cash. But the issue here, more than anything, is avoiding detection. If you can install a backdoor on, say, 500 ATMs, and then 6 months later, money starts to disappear from ATMs from a bank that doesn't even employ you anymore. Why, you're laughing all the way to Mexico!
The most difficult part of fraud is getting away with it (as some people who used to work for Enron can tell you).
As someone who uses linux on a laptop, running SuSE 8.2 I *DEFINITELY* have a use for this. I use my laptop in a professional capacity to do quite a lot of things, and while I can run on batteries I do generally turn it off and on at least a couple times a day. Further - because I am occasionally forced to dual boot, sometimes that can be even more often. It is a good 3-4 minutes between power on and KDE desktop. This is on an 800mhz P3 with 512 megs of RAM.
Are you running services you don't need? Like, say, httpd, sendmail, crond(*), kudzu, ntpd, xinetd, sshd, snmpd etc. etc.? I imagine you're not using your laptop as a server..
(*) use anacron if your pc is turned off a regularly
I could probably name about a dozen or two dozen people out of that number that use IRC/are capable enough to use IRC. However, random cute girl from English class doesn't use IRC, and is not going to bother to learn how to use a much more confusing protocol.
IRC could use better clients... How about a client where your user id is just username@irc.net, and the client figures out it needs to connect to IRCnet and set up a query with username? Doesn't trillian already use irc, and surely the jabber clients do..
And why not just "fix" irc? IRC could do with passwordprotected nicknames (accounts!) build right into the standard, so you don't have to dick about with nickservices that are sometimes unavailable. IRC needs better protection against floods and channeltakeovers - why not fix the standard? Sure, not all networks will go along, so what, in the current situation networks are making up stuff as they go along anyway!
I'd propose a new IRC standard with a few key characteristics:
- broad backwards compatibility (but nothing too complex, keep it simple)
- user directory service (hopefully something truly distributed, something Kerberos-like with replication perhaps, as long as all the user needs is his client, username and password that's all transparent)
- secured private channels built right into the standard (no channel takeovers unless you hack someone's password)
- non-registered accounts do get access, because of backwards compatibility, but registered users get semi-op status and can kick/ban all guests. Not very relevant for IM purposes, but you'd expect channels to live on.
On the other hand, there's jabber.. Which does all sorts of neat-o things better than an enhanced version of IRC would, from an IM perspective at least. Why not evangelize jabber?
MSN messenger didn't suddenly get a critical mass of users - people started adopting it slowly as their more clueless brethren who just came online started using MSN messenger in stead of ICQ or any of the other IM programs. There's no reason why jabber couldn't overtake MSNMSG/AIM/YIM/ICQ as the IM of choice, given enough evangelization / marketing. And a clutterfree, feature-complete free client.
I'm sorry, but random cute girl from English class doesn't give a fuck about "Open Standards", etc, etc. She just wants to chat with her friends. And I want to chat with her. So, I will continue to use GAIM to talk on AIM.
Fer chrissakes, go to the gym, work out, impress teh ladies with your bling bling, and then *they* will install any crappy IM client for whatever crappy network *you* are using!
Maybe you should let them know of a tool that will allow them do do their research properly. It's called WHOIS.
Actually WHOIS is quite bad. Using dig is slightly better, but it's best to just try to register it (or query the SRS) - the shared registry system itself has the most up-to-date information, as it's the system that has direct access to the registry's database in order to, well, perform registrations and check availability.
Teenage girls are what drive the cellphone economy in Japan...
And, more relevantly, Europe. Japan is by all means a minor market for Nokia, who's stronghold is in countries with GSM networks (Europe, the rest of Asia and the Americas (except the US)). They do have CDMA models (for the US, Japan uses something called PDC or PHS - there is W-CDMA 3G service which would work with some 3G handsets as well, but raise your hand if you have a 3G handset... I thought so.), but not as many as GSM models.
Note how the article says "It is planned to come in two versions, a GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900
for Europe and Asia and a GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1900/1800 for the Americas." which pretty much rules out Japan (no PDC/PHS/WCDMA-3G)
Pretty close, my cultured friend!
;-)
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Jackson Pollock
Vincent Van Gogh
Georges-Pierre Seurat
Rene (Francois Ghislain) Magritte
William Shakespear (although his existance as an historical figure is questioned, like Homer)
James (Augustine Aloysius) Joyce
Damien Hirst
Tracey Emin (won the Turner prize with her soiled bed)
Andy Warhol
(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner (also notable for contributing to the Apocalypse Now soundtrack)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Salman Rushdie
Christo (Javacheff) (his wife is a co-wrapper, not wrappee)
Steven Spielberg
(Berta Helene Amalie) "Leni" Riefenstahl
(James Marshall) "Jimi" Hendrix
Bret Easton Ellis
Buster Keaton (indeed a great source of inspiration for "Jackie" Chan Kong-sang)
Janis Joplin
Full names are from wikipedia..
Mods, don't mod this one up, it would spoil the fun
the dude who painted the melting clocks.
If you ever have the urge to sum up an artist's work in one sentence again... don't.
Pop-quiz!
The dude who splashed paint on canvas spread on the groud.
The dude who cut off his ear and painted sunflowers.
The dude who started off those dotty paintings.
The dude who made that picture of a pipe that says it isn't a pipe.
The dude who wrote Romeo & Juliet.
The dude who wrote those books where he was going on and on about all the stuff he was thinking and doing and you couldn't figure out what was fact and what was fiction the grammar didn't work out anyway pretty damn boring book that was.
The dude who cuts animals in half and suspends them in formaldehyde.
The gal who made an exposition out of her own dirty bed.
The dude who painted a can of soup.
The dude who composed the Ring.
No, not that other dude who wrote about the Ring.
The dude who wrote that book and then all those Arabs went medieval on him, only he hid.
The dude who wraps buildings up like a parcel (and his wife, too).
The dude who directed E.T.
The gal who made those nazi films that died the other day.
The dude who poured lighter fluid over his guitar and burnt it on stage.
The dude who wrote the book about killing lots of people while using lots of snobby eighties brands.
The dude who was in that black&white film where the front of a house falls over, but he's standing where the window comes down and there's no glass in it.
The gal who sings about wanting a Mercedes Benz.