I read a work that proported to be non-fiction, about how ancient Egyptians could have had the necessary sailing technology to make contact with the Aztecs. Similar to what happened in Contiki (sic) where they rafted from South America to Southeast Asia on some trees strapped together with rope.
I assume by RAID 1 he means RAID 0+1, where he could lose at most 50% of his drives and still be okay (although, if a single drive at the same position failed on both sides of the mirror, he'd be SOL and have lost the entire thing...so it does have a catastrophic failure at onyl 20%.)
A RAID 6 array with two hot spares would be better...7 drives in RAID + Parity + 2 SPAREs, means the catastrophic failure situation is the same as his 0+1 array, but he has 2100GB instead of 1500GB of available storage space. Hot-spares on hand would also mean that in the event of a failure, his array would rebuilt itself to "safe" status relatively quickly.
I guess it doesn't help matters that I let them track every search I make and give it to me in a nice history organized by search term, and which links I clicked on below it.
I like having tons of information about myself available, even if it means it's available to someone else as well. The important difference here is that I'm making the informed decision to vacate some of my privacy in exchange for some data mining done for me on my behalf, rather than my privacy being violated without any choice in the matter on my end.
We had a gentleman come to my university for a guest lecture about his life synthesis research...basically, he'd created from scratch a working "organism" complete with DNA and everything...Only truoble of course being, his cell was instructed just to replicate one protein over and over, and eventually it burst because he hadn't quite figured out how to make it get rid of said proteins.
Still, he'd created a working cell with DNA and protein synthesis from scratch, and he'd hand-coded it, to do what he wanted.
It's only a few (very difficult and expensive) steps from there to crafting customized fully-functional organisms that can, say, reproduce.
As environmental conditions change over time -- naturally, or with human help -- the niches change, new ones are created, and existing ones collapse. Wilson cycles and natural climate and mineral cycles all change the environment. External events such as meteor strikes also change the environment.
Things are always changing in the dynamic system that is the Earth; evolutionary changes may be much smaller now than they were previously but it still exists. Evolution would only completely stop if everything else stopped changing entirely.
Just because we're not evolving whole new life forms doesn't mean that new species aren't being created and old ones don't disappear as they become suited or unsuited for the current conditions.
I'm confused as to what that means...will they be turning over your source IP at the specific point in time, will they be linking your source IP to your VPN IP at a specific point in time, will they be linking you VPN IP to your name and address at a specific point in time, or what?
Based on a very embarrassing situation I saw happen to a classmate on an overhead LCD projector, people oftentimes can accidentally download material even more illegal than copyright infringement off a P2P network without intending on it. Things such as that tend to, rightly, carry huge penalties for actual abusers and distributers the world over. That said, however, it would be a shame if this "anonymous" service was able to point a finger at F. Idiot, username FIDIOT001@EXAMPLE.COM, with RELAKKS IP of S.WE.ED.EN and Source IP of A.ME.RI.CA at TIME.
People need to know exactly what is and isn't privvy information, and the english-sweedish language gap is a fairly large one.
I think the point is that it's (1) based in Sweeden, (2) encrypted end-to-end, (3) as anonymous as you want it to be based on the information you provide to them, and (4) fairly strongly protected legally in the jurisdiction it operates in.
1 and 4 being pretty big for USians who are using it...2 for people whose ISPs filter. 3, dubiously so, as at some point they have your credit card saying that you have an account although I suppose that, if they don't store your tunnel account with your CC number, they have no way of getting to you personally.
It doesn't matter if someone nefarious is on the same link-local segment sniffing all your traffic, if they can't identify through technological means who you are, and can't compel the provider through legal means either because they didn't keep that information or just won't give it over.
The living room PC was an ideal in a very short period of time when PCs were powerful enough for mass-multimedia, but networking wasn't quite up to the task of delivering it remotely.
Thusly, a component formfactor PC for your entertainment rack, to rip movies onto, download music onto, etc. For one reason or another, protocols and speeds hadn't standardized to allow this to be done over a network. (Windows MCE 2004 era)
Very shortly thereafter, Windows MCE 2005 was released, and the need for a Living Room PC went away. Suddenly, there was a standardized protocol (Media Center Extender) to follow, that X-Box products as well as other standalones could implement to deliver media content remotely. You didn't need your PC to be under your television any more, you could have a smaller, quieter box down there, and whatever type of computer you wanted somewhere else.
Computers will move more and more into the television segment of things, but it won't be through direct attachment. It will be through a Linksys Set-Top Box or an X-Box 360 pulling content over a network and pushing it to the television. As the network gets more powerful, each device attached to it doesn't need to be quite as much. You only need 1 big MCE box to support a handful of Extenders, after all.
I do agree with you there -- the Federal government and their never ending intrusions into more and more aspects of every private citizen's lives come to mind.
Given the choice between, say, sharing nothing with the Feds except the bare-minimum legally required data (bank statements and travel records, for instance) and sharing more detailed information (phone records, credit card purchases, etc) I would likely voluntarily share more information than absolutely necessary, just because I'm a helpful guy like that.
I am, however, 100% against sharing any information at all with the current Administration, and only do so because I am required by law to comply. I am not given the choice at all.
I also do think that businesses get a great deal more leeway in this regard than the Government ever should: you can reasonably use someone else's product if you don't like the terms, but it's a lot harder to pack up and move to Canada or Britain or Tuvalu than it is to use Linux instead of Windows on your home PC. And it's a lot harder to use cash only, instead of using credit cards or electronic drafts.
The trouble is, there are too many people (members of my family, in fact) who really believe that Americans should reasonably expect to have no privacy in any aspect of their lives at all, post-9/11, if it can keep a handful of people dying. The only alternative to this position, is that individual privacy is worth American lives. (I'd say yes, it is, but that's my personal opinion and nobody elses.) As long as you have people who believe that not only is what is being done necessary, but is right, we can't win.
Google Desktop isn't unsafe in any way. Google fully discloses the fact that they'll be rooting around in your hard drive and mixing data from there, with data from their servers, for the purposes of providing a local Google search to you on your own machine.
There's nothing wrong with people who are willing to voluntarily give up some measure of their own privacy in exchange for a service provided on that data -- I use Gmail for all of my e-mail, even to the point of forwarding multiple accounts into my gmail inbox, and don't think twice about the fact that somewhere, Google is reading and storing it.
The problem arises when people aren't informed their privacy is being tampered with...malicious web toolbars and cursor packages, Gator, etc. No anti-spyware application I've seen to date has detected Google Desktop (granted, I've only seen 3 machines that actually used GD) but that says something to me.
Does it really matter? The video being more professional produced doesn't make it any less entertaining, funny, insightful, or any other adjective you can think of. In fact, were it an individual or the firm, both probably had the same ideas on the subject.
Why can't businesses take advantage of social/viral marketing to get their point across? It should be the content that matters, not who made it.
Agreed, on my system with 2GB of RAM, I used to get a bit disturbed if in-use memory rose above about 600MB at one time with ~60 processes running (AIM clients, bluetooth manager, cell phone toolkit, webcam tray icon, tv-tuner scheduler and processor, ATI driver processes, a dozen Windows dealies, etc. Having realized, however, that even while playing 3D games and watching television at the same time as Winamp is playing, I peak out at about 1600MB, I don't have any problems letting whatever needs to run, run.
Dual-Core and 2GB of RAM lets me make my PC as configurable as I want it to be, without worrying about every megabyte of memory usage.
I'd think that all it would take to drown in a body of water, is for that body of water to be able to cover all breathing orifaces available.
If you can drown in 3 inches of water in a bathtub (granted the people who do this are either stupid, drugged, or physically handicapped) you can drown in 62 feet of Lake Erie.
My apologies there, I was editing my post and re-arranging it and missed a "cut" at the top. The first line shouldn't be there, I moved it lower but forgot to delete it. Yeah...way to start off on a bad note.
In all honesty, how do people have time to play MMO games and do anything fulfilling with their lives?
I'm not terribly torn up about the gaming industry going downhill, what with the only titles recently released being yearly updates to re-hashed sports titles or GTA variants, but I do wonder how the industry became profitable in the first place.
Almost nothing is geared towards a casual gamer any more. I maintain an Everquest subscription for old time's sake, and to have the option available if I want it, but I'm lucky if I log on two hours per week. Between my education, employment, volunteering, and interpersonal relationships, I have very little time left to put into something like that. At the endgame, where I've managed to get by plodding along an hour or two a week, it can take up to an hour to find a group of people to play with in the first place. All the other MMO games are the same, and even a lot of the non-multiplayer games involve a lot of grinding or gruntwork to actually get anywhere in them. The only good casual games out there are Nintendo platformers, and these are so devoid of maturity in any respect that I can't play most of them. (Exemptions given to Mario and Zelda games, because those are classics.)
I just wonder, how it is possible to participate in an MMO and still do anything with their lives?
I wager that, in fact, it isn't.
A friend of mine, meanwhile, neglects the first three and a good portion of the fourth items in my list of other activities there, in favor of playing videogames for the better part of 8 hours a day. He's capped out multiple characters in World of Warcraft, but in reality, has nothing to show for it aside from a hole in his bank account and a slightly bigger imaginary e-penis. Actually, on further inspection, it's not just one friend...it's all half-dozen friends I know who play that game, do it at the exclusion of other activities they previously found enjoyable and profitable such as jobs and friends.
China's three-hour-rule seems like a very, very good idea to be put in place on the server end, all around the world.
On mine, and every other phone I've seen, you could require a PIN to unlock any features in any way, and the lock is stored on the SIM card so it can't be bypassed.
Most non-SIM phones also have the ability to do a complete lockdown.
They can take the phone and play around with it, but just tell them you forgot the password and haven't taken it to the phone shop to get it fixed yet.
If I terminate my Volume License Agreement, all copies of Windows installed on machines using the VLK become unlicensed but wouldn't stop running. WGA can check if the key attached to the installation has been revoked for one reason or another, and update the machine's status accordingly, and now disable or at least strongly warn against contiuning to use software for which there no longer was a valid license on file.
That's why it checks more often. That said, once a day is a little much; once a week should be fine.
I'd think that the due-dilliagnce of sticking a "CCTV Recording In Progress" sticker on your front door would probably take care of the notification part.
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Thanks, I did my calculations using numbered boxes on the back of a magazine, and skipped a couple important parts. :p
You're right.
Does this mean the Swedish won't share it with say the Americans, if you're doing something that would anger them?
Granted, I doubt for anything short of terrorism the authorities on both sides would bother to communicate with the Sweeds, but still.
I read a work that proported to be non-fiction, about how ancient Egyptians could have had the necessary sailing technology to make contact with the Aztecs. Similar to what happened in Contiki (sic) where they rafted from South America to Southeast Asia on some trees strapped together with rope.
I assume by RAID 1 he means RAID 0+1, where he could lose at most 50% of his drives and still be okay (although, if a single drive at the same position failed on both sides of the mirror, he'd be SOL and have lost the entire thing...so it does have a catastrophic failure at onyl 20%.)
A RAID 6 array with two hot spares would be better...7 drives in RAID + Parity + 2 SPAREs, means the catastrophic failure situation is the same as his 0+1 array, but he has 2100GB instead of 1500GB of available storage space. Hot-spares on hand would also mean that in the event of a failure, his array would rebuilt itself to "safe" status relatively quickly.
I guess it doesn't help matters that I let them track every search I make and give it to me in a nice history organized by search term, and which links I clicked on below it.
I like having tons of information about myself available, even if it means it's available to someone else as well. The important difference here is that I'm making the informed decision to vacate some of my privacy in exchange for some data mining done for me on my behalf, rather than my privacy being violated without any choice in the matter on my end.
We had a gentleman come to my university for a guest lecture about his life synthesis research...basically, he'd created from scratch a working "organism" complete with DNA and everything...Only truoble of course being, his cell was instructed just to replicate one protein over and over, and eventually it burst because he hadn't quite figured out how to make it get rid of said proteins.
Still, he'd created a working cell with DNA and protein synthesis from scratch, and he'd hand-coded it, to do what he wanted.
It's only a few (very difficult and expensive) steps from there to crafting customized fully-functional organisms that can, say, reproduce.
As environmental conditions change over time -- naturally, or with human help -- the niches change, new ones are created, and existing ones collapse. Wilson cycles and natural climate and mineral cycles all change the environment. External events such as meteor strikes also change the environment.
Things are always changing in the dynamic system that is the Earth; evolutionary changes may be much smaller now than they were previously but it still exists. Evolution would only completely stop if everything else stopped changing entirely.
Just because we're not evolving whole new life forms doesn't mean that new species aren't being created and old ones don't disappear as they become suited or unsuited for the current conditions.
I'm confused as to what that means...will they be turning over your source IP at the specific point in time, will they be linking your source IP to your VPN IP at a specific point in time, will they be linking you VPN IP to your name and address at a specific point in time, or what?
Based on a very embarrassing situation I saw happen to a classmate on an overhead LCD projector, people oftentimes can accidentally download material even more illegal than copyright infringement off a P2P network without intending on it. Things such as that tend to, rightly, carry huge penalties for actual abusers and distributers the world over. That said, however, it would be a shame if this "anonymous" service was able to point a finger at F. Idiot, username FIDIOT001@EXAMPLE.COM, with RELAKKS IP of S.WE.ED.EN and Source IP of A.ME.RI.CA at TIME.
People need to know exactly what is and isn't privvy information, and the english-sweedish language gap is a fairly large one.
I think the point is that it's (1) based in Sweeden, (2) encrypted end-to-end, (3) as anonymous as you want it to be based on the information you provide to them, and (4) fairly strongly protected legally in the jurisdiction it operates in.
1 and 4 being pretty big for USians who are using it...2 for people whose ISPs filter. 3, dubiously so, as at some point they have your credit card saying that you have an account although I suppose that, if they don't store your tunnel account with your CC number, they have no way of getting to you personally.
It doesn't matter if someone nefarious is on the same link-local segment sniffing all your traffic, if they can't identify through technological means who you are, and can't compel the provider through legal means either because they didn't keep that information or just won't give it over.
That'll cost you at least a Honda Element, if not a Toyota Prius.
The living room PC was an ideal in a very short period of time when PCs were powerful enough for mass-multimedia, but networking wasn't quite up to the task of delivering it remotely.
Thusly, a component formfactor PC for your entertainment rack, to rip movies onto, download music onto, etc. For one reason or another, protocols and speeds hadn't standardized to allow this to be done over a network. (Windows MCE 2004 era)
Very shortly thereafter, Windows MCE 2005 was released, and the need for a Living Room PC went away. Suddenly, there was a standardized protocol (Media Center Extender) to follow, that X-Box products as well as other standalones could implement to deliver media content remotely. You didn't need your PC to be under your television any more, you could have a smaller, quieter box down there, and whatever type of computer you wanted somewhere else.
Computers will move more and more into the television segment of things, but it won't be through direct attachment. It will be through a Linksys Set-Top Box or an X-Box 360 pulling content over a network and pushing it to the television. As the network gets more powerful, each device attached to it doesn't need to be quite as much. You only need 1 big MCE box to support a handful of Extenders, after all.
I do agree with you there -- the Federal government and their never ending intrusions into more and more aspects of every private citizen's lives come to mind.
Given the choice between, say, sharing nothing with the Feds except the bare-minimum legally required data (bank statements and travel records, for instance) and sharing more detailed information (phone records, credit card purchases, etc) I would likely voluntarily share more information than absolutely necessary, just because I'm a helpful guy like that.
I am, however, 100% against sharing any information at all with the current Administration, and only do so because I am required by law to comply. I am not given the choice at all.
I also do think that businesses get a great deal more leeway in this regard than the Government ever should: you can reasonably use someone else's product if you don't like the terms, but it's a lot harder to pack up and move to Canada or Britain or Tuvalu than it is to use Linux instead of Windows on your home PC. And it's a lot harder to use cash only, instead of using credit cards or electronic drafts.
The trouble is, there are too many people (members of my family, in fact) who really believe that Americans should reasonably expect to have no privacy in any aspect of their lives at all, post-9/11, if it can keep a handful of people dying. The only alternative to this position, is that individual privacy is worth American lives. (I'd say yes, it is, but that's my personal opinion and nobody elses.) As long as you have people who believe that not only is what is being done necessary, but is right, we can't win.
Google Desktop isn't unsafe in any way. Google fully discloses the fact that they'll be rooting around in your hard drive and mixing data from there, with data from their servers, for the purposes of providing a local Google search to you on your own machine.
There's nothing wrong with people who are willing to voluntarily give up some measure of their own privacy in exchange for a service provided on that data -- I use Gmail for all of my e-mail, even to the point of forwarding multiple accounts into my gmail inbox, and don't think twice about the fact that somewhere, Google is reading and storing it.
The problem arises when people aren't informed their privacy is being tampered with...malicious web toolbars and cursor packages, Gator, etc. No anti-spyware application I've seen to date has detected Google Desktop (granted, I've only seen 3 machines that actually used GD) but that says something to me.
Does it really matter? The video being more professional produced doesn't make it any less entertaining, funny, insightful, or any other adjective you can think of. In fact, were it an individual or the firm, both probably had the same ideas on the subject.
Why can't businesses take advantage of social/viral marketing to get their point across? It should be the content that matters, not who made it.
Set him up to be issued an ASBO :p
Agreed, on my system with 2GB of RAM, I used to get a bit disturbed if in-use memory rose above about 600MB at one time with ~60 processes running (AIM clients, bluetooth manager, cell phone toolkit, webcam tray icon, tv-tuner scheduler and processor, ATI driver processes, a dozen Windows dealies, etc. Having realized, however, that even while playing 3D games and watching television at the same time as Winamp is playing, I peak out at about 1600MB, I don't have any problems letting whatever needs to run, run.
Dual-Core and 2GB of RAM lets me make my PC as configurable as I want it to be, without worrying about every megabyte of memory usage.
I'd think that all it would take to drown in a body of water, is for that body of water to be able to cover all breathing orifaces available.
If you can drown in 3 inches of water in a bathtub (granted the people who do this are either stupid, drugged, or physically handicapped) you can drown in 62 feet of Lake Erie.
Shameless plug, but my web site has original court documents from a handful of MPAA lawsuits as well as a whole round of RIAA ones.
l es/jwk/05-30086-Complaint-MPAA-UMASS.pdf is a copy of the MPAA filing suit against college students at UMASS for sharing "The Life Aquatic", "Meet the Fockers", "Closer", and "Coach Carter"
www.trendyblog.com click "riaa / mpaa lawsuits" tag on the left and read away.
There's a lot of RIAA and only a few MPAA on there, but http://www.trendyblog.com/resource/storage/userfi
My apologies there, I was editing my post and re-arranging it and missed a "cut" at the top. The first line shouldn't be there, I moved it lower but forgot to delete it. Yeah...way to start off on a bad note.
In all honesty, how do people have time to play MMO games and do anything fulfilling with their lives?
I'm not terribly torn up about the gaming industry going downhill, what with the only titles recently released being yearly updates to re-hashed sports titles or GTA variants, but I do wonder how the industry became profitable in the first place.
Almost nothing is geared towards a casual gamer any more. I maintain an Everquest subscription for old time's sake, and to have the option available if I want it, but I'm lucky if I log on two hours per week. Between my education, employment, volunteering, and interpersonal relationships, I have very little time left to put into something like that. At the endgame, where I've managed to get by plodding along an hour or two a week, it can take up to an hour to find a group of people to play with in the first place. All the other MMO games are the same, and even a lot of the non-multiplayer games involve a lot of grinding or gruntwork to actually get anywhere in them. The only good casual games out there are Nintendo platformers, and these are so devoid of maturity in any respect that I can't play most of them. (Exemptions given to Mario and Zelda games, because those are classics.)
I just wonder, how it is possible to participate in an MMO and still do anything with their lives?
I wager that, in fact, it isn't.
A friend of mine, meanwhile, neglects the first three and a good portion of the fourth items in my list of other activities there, in favor of playing videogames for the better part of 8 hours a day. He's capped out multiple characters in World of Warcraft, but in reality, has nothing to show for it aside from a hole in his bank account and a slightly bigger imaginary e-penis. Actually, on further inspection, it's not just one friend...it's all half-dozen friends I know who play that game, do it at the exclusion of other activities they previously found enjoyable and profitable such as jobs and friends.
China's three-hour-rule seems like a very, very good idea to be put in place on the server end, all around the world.
Lock the phone--
On mine, and every other phone I've seen, you could require a PIN to unlock any features in any way, and the lock is stored on the SIM card so it can't be bypassed.
Most non-SIM phones also have the ability to do a complete lockdown.
They can take the phone and play around with it, but just tell them you forgot the password and haven't taken it to the phone shop to get it fixed yet.
I have a VLK.
If I terminate my Volume License Agreement, all copies of Windows installed on machines using the VLK become unlicensed but wouldn't stop running. WGA can check if the key attached to the installation has been revoked for one reason or another, and update the machine's status accordingly, and now disable or at least strongly warn against contiuning to use software for which there no longer was a valid license on file.
That's why it checks more often. That said, once a day is a little much; once a week should be fine.
I'd think that the due-dilliagnce of sticking a "CCTV Recording In Progress" sticker on your front door would probably take care of the notification part.
Did anyone ever figure out what happened to gmail accepting username+handle@gmail.com?
:(
I tried to use that for filtering, and it worked -- for about a day. After that, mail to username+handle wasn't delivered to me anymore.
I'd use something like that for filtering but I can't
I thank its creator every day that I browse Myspace, for my Flashblock, Adblock, and Filterset.G extensions.
It manages to block most of that crap at the perimiter, and let me easily block all the other sites that provide such crap.
Whoever thought calling the EMBED commands to display remote video "videocodez" is a moron and I hate them, also.