Is anyone sick of the whole terrorism 'cliche' being applied to the most ludicrous things? You can't bring big bags into the local ramshackle movie theater because of 'terrorism'. Now, to prevent 'terrorism,' eBay will give your information out to anyone who wants it.
Might I ask those who insist that this prevents terrorism... exactly HOW it does so? Are people trading bombs and illicit firearms on eBay and I'm just overlooking the "Terrorist" category?
...crack up laughing when they read the title, and immediately picture the Iraqi Information Minister saying this? (And may our stomachs roast in hell for wasting so many IPs!)
Most places are willing to sell "burstable" bandwidth -- they could run, say, an OC-3, but you might normally only use 3 Mbps of it. You'll pay more than if you just bought 3 Mbps of plain old traffic, but if you get hit with a deluge of traffic, you can use all 155 Mbps of it. (But then you get charged for it.) If you bandwidth usage is irregular, buying "burstable" bandwidth is definitely the best way to go.
"Burstable" pricing is usually more expensive per Mbps, but it's cheaper than getting a super-big line and using a tiny fraction of it.
A second thing, that's probably a much 'messier' solution, would be to try to resell some hosting space or something. (But then most people will want support, and you risk someone spamming or whatnot... But it's an alternative to keep in the back of your mind.)
Actually, it's even worse. Rather than randomly switching around numbers, we now have duplicate numbers. (*fights urge to try to work in a duplicate story joke*)
It's more like:
1 is redefined as 0.
0 is still defined as 0.
So when someone has 0 of something, they could have 0 or 1.
For some odd reason, they thought that people might have difficulty understanding this, and therefore created the "High Speed" and "Full Speed" designators, to make things even easier to understand.
It's not necessarily just about this one time. Maybe you can manage 84 hours a week for a month or two. (I couldn't!) But suppose they decide that it worked really well, and decide to bump you up to 60 hours a week all the time, since you got so much more done? Now, when they first try this nonsense, is really the time to say "No way." If you don't, chances are this will happen again.
A bunch of people have also mentioned that you should ask for vacation time at the end. Maybe I'm overly cynical, but I'd have a hard time trusting people who expect 12/7 labor to not "forget" my vacation. While it might cost you your job, you really have to ask yourself if you want to keep working there. And don't be misled if they offer to "reduce" the hours from "impossible" to "excessive." Just because 70 hours a week is 14 hours less doesn't make it any more acceptable.
I don't think you have a choice but to try to organize with your coworkers, and tell management what you're willing to work and what you're not. They really have no choice but to listen to you -- they might be in trouble if you work fewer hours, but they'll definitely be completely screwed if you all quit.
I second this. While you could really screw them over with an en masse quitting, being sued (especially if you have the 8+ needed for class action) is likely an even scarier proposition for them. Having their _customers_ sued would surely be scarier.
If they don't take you seriously, or if they do but make you work anyway, follow through. If I started getting certified mail from lawyers representing the employees of a company I was doing business with, I'd back out of the deal with them really quickly.
I wonder if the release of these documents will deter the conspiracy theorists?
Not if the government secretly withheld the entries pertaining to the aliens. I think as more and more evidence is released against them, they'll scream "cover up" more and more.
...is an ISP that offers IPv6. I don't expect small residential ISPs to support it right away, but it'd be a huge step toward IPv6 integration if data centers could bring in another OC3 or whatnot that ran IPv6. With the recent story about people stealing netblocks because there's the impending shortage, I think data centers would be eager to be able to offer IPv6.
Until at least a big backbone ISP supports it, we won't see 'true' IPv6 to the household.
First, you mention that a laptop doesn't generate much heat. While it doesn't necessarily heat up my room as much as my dual Athlon box, certain areas of the laptop get red-hot, even on new ones. I end up putting things between the laptop and my lap to prevent myself from getting set on fire. (Okay, small exaggeration...) I'd be concerned about overheating with it running 24/7.
I'd actually suggest a 486. Someone threw away four or five ones (smallish cases, too) at my local dump (erm, recycling center... not like I'm digging through trash. There's a little bin for computer stuff.). It had no problem serving as a firewall for the cable modem here, and I'd suspect that if it's a small little thing you'll be running (ie, you're just hosting personal site / mail, as opposed to hosting Slashdot...), the 486 should actually be fairly powerful.
The downside is that:
1.) You can't walk into a store and buy one, or parts for it. (But on the flipside, I've found several spare machines... A friend set up a 10-node cluster of 486s, and only paid for the cabling.)
2.) Power draw isn't super-low.
But they're quiet, can be rather small, put off little heat, and you can get several entirely free.
If you're running Linux on your desktop machine, can you use that as your server? The desktop I'm writing this on doubles as a webserver and DNS server.
This one is obviously 'staged,' but Slashdot's 404 error, translated to Korean and back:
404 files which it does not discover
The URL which is demanded (404 fruits) it did not discover.
If you it feel, URL in the place where the ya comes to from the pater@slashdot.org, right song.
-- From here
rotfl, I completely missed your point until I read one of the other replies from someone in Amsterdam, noting that "New Amsterdam" is now "New York." (What on Earth was I thinking?!)
I suppose there's a subtle distinction between "New Amsterdam" and "New York." I'm so embarassed by this mistake that I think I'll flee the country for New Mexico. *ducks*
I think the concept of doing away entirely with broadcast television is absurd, or at least, highly premature. While I've had cable for years and couldn't fathom why anyone would _prefer_ broadcast ("wireless") television, I have to say that I know people without cable.
I don't believe for a second that every home in America has a cable line, and I don't believe that 30 years from now 'wireless' TV will have been phased out. Not only do some people like 'free' TV, but I can't tell you how valuable our small battery-operated TVs have been in horrible weather. Trees have taken down all the wires -- we have no power or phone, and turning on an emergency generator proved that cable TV went down, too. But with a small TV, we were able to get live information on the storm. Will this ever be replaced?
I agree -- the TV Broadcast Spectrum can be put to better use. But by that, I mean a more spectrum-efficient way. I see no benefit in phasing out broadcast TV, but there are plenty of reasons not to. Plus, as we continue to move toward more spectum-efficient technologies (2-way radios are starting to move to 12.5 kHz bandwidth; spread spectrum use is ever-growing...), I find it difficult to believe that we're ever going to run out of spectrum for radio. I hope that 20 years from now I'll be watching 'spread spectrum' TV or whatnot, but I sincerly hope that I'm not tied to a wire for my TV.
It's really ironic, too -- everything is moving toward wireless. Need a network? Why not go wireless? Want a new phone? Why not just get a cell phone, or at least a cordless phone? It won't be long before the Internet is as ubiquitous wirelessly as cell phone service. But when it comes to TV, why would people want to move _away_ from the wireless trend?
Yes, cable TV is hugely popular, and I certainly prefer my cable TV. But the concept of replacing it entirely with cable is about as ingenious as noting that everyone has a cell phone now, and shutting off residential phone lines to all homes, because the wires can be used for something else. Sure, some people might never notice. But there will always be people who still depend on their regular phone.
I'm worrying that you're going to cost me a lot of money.;)
I'm typing this on a pair of 19" CRTs (at 1280x1024 or so, running Xinerama). I've grown to love the crisp, sharp appearance of my laptop's LCD, and find my CRTs blurry and dim compared to my laptop. Plus, now that it's summer, I no longer appreciate the scorching heat they give off.
Each CRT cost me about what a 15" LCD would cost me today. Because I'm running a low-end dual-head video card, I have both monitors at 1280x1024, and they're probably loafing, but the video card is clearly at its limits -- I had it higher, but the right monitor had a horrible green tint. Lowering it made it usable, alhtough there's still a noticable tint if you look from a distance. So in short, although I could in theory be at 1600x1200 across two monitors, I'm nowhere near it. A pair of 15" LCDs, if I bought them now, would have cost me the same amount, but I would have had a sharper, clearer image, a cooler room, and waaaay more desk space. Plus, I was marvelling in the store about how when I was playing with an LCD, I managed to accidentally move it. Trust me, 19" flat-screen CRTs don't move far without a very deliberate attempt to move them. (Also carry a pair of them up two flights of narrow stairs...)
Anyway, I guess I could have summed this all up by saying "I agree." But next time it comes to monitors, I'm thinking a trio (you know you're a geek when you feel cramped with "only" two monitors) of 15" LCDs will be a worthwhile investment. More space (both screen real estate and desk real estate), about the same cost as if I sprung for CRTs, way less heat, and a much nicer image. Not to mention the coolness factor.:)
Frankly, when I can't copy or print from a page, I'll most likely stop going there. DRM will never catch on if we boycott them.
The other thing that applies more to music is something that another reply points out -- at some point, you get the content. Before Napster, I actually hooked my radio's line out up to my computer's line in, and had.wav's of songs. Pretty pathetic, I admit, but when you can't play songs on your computer, you can always play 'em on a real CD player and play it into your computer. And don't tell me that they'll do away with headphone jacks.:)
My only knowledge of laws regarding international waters occurs from Part 97 of the FCC laws, governing amateur (ham) radio, so I'm not sure if they apply to other things or not, but...
Essentially, if you're in international waters, I believe you're subject to the laws of wherever the ship is registered. In other words, if you register it in the US, and take it into international waters, you're bound by US laws and probably subject to US police coming after you.
Register it in a liberal place like New Amsterdam (I think? Aren't they drug- and prostitute-friendly?) and you'll be able to have parties that are way more fun. =-D
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Wow, 13.7 Mbps is an awful lot of traffic.
The question we all want to know... Was the webserver running fvwm at the time?;)
Glad to hear it held up, although I had trouble getting there.
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This is like a "Happy friggin' birthday" greeting. "It's your birthday, here's the Slashdot effect for your birthday." And they can't effectively return the gift if they don't like it.
My favorite 'statistic' regarding IPv6 is to simply evaluate 2^128:
340282366920938463463374607431768211456
For those not sure what comes after a billion: $ number 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 three hundred forty undecillion. two hundred eighty-two decillion. three hundred sixty-six nonillion. nine hundred twenty octillion. nine hundred thirty-eight septillion. four hundred sixty-three sextillion. four hundred sixty-three quintillion. three hundred seventy-four quadrillion. six hundred seven trillion. four hundred thirty-one billion. seven hundred sixty-eight million. two hundred eleven thousand. four hundred fifty-six.
I had never even heard of an "undecillion" before this.:)
I've recently started working in a restaurant, and as such handle a fair deal of cash. I have to say, I've never bothered to check currency to see if it's real. I know in some department stores it's required for the clerks to use a counterfeit-detecting pen on anything over $20, but this is certainly not the norm.
The problem is that you can do a fairly lousy job, especially if you're giving me a wad of various bills to pay for your dinner. (ie, if you give me a bunch of $5's and $1's, I'd just throw them all in the register, most likely not even looking at them one-by-one.)
Machines exist for 'counting' money (at extremely high rates) that automatically check various security features. Suppose cash registers started having an interface to this -- you'd stick the money in, and it would automatically undergo security checks.
By the way, am I the only one who isn't too convinced that the new bill styles will be effective? The old ones will still be accepted, and if they're easier to forge, why wouldn't I just forge one of those? Frequently changing their design won't really counter counterfeiting (heh, no pun intended there).
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Is anyone sick of the whole terrorism 'cliche' being applied to the most ludicrous things? You can't bring big bags into the local ramshackle movie theater because of 'terrorism'. Now, to prevent 'terrorism,' eBay will give your information out to anyone who wants it. Might I ask those who insist that this prevents terrorism... exactly HOW it does so? Are people trading bombs and illicit firearms on eBay and I'm just overlooking the "Terrorist" category?
We've covered Hamidi's case more than once in the past.
Which begs the question, was its repeated coverage deliberate, or was it a duplicate?
Isn't it the River Jordan that many claim has healing powers? And if so, would it heal the crippled CD and enable it to play?
...crack up laughing when they read the title, and immediately picture the Iraqi Information Minister saying this? (And may our stomachs roast in hell for wasting so many IPs!)
Most places are willing to sell "burstable" bandwidth -- they could run, say, an OC-3, but you might normally only use 3 Mbps of it. You'll pay more than if you just bought 3 Mbps of plain old traffic, but if you get hit with a deluge of traffic, you can use all 155 Mbps of it. (But then you get charged for it.) If you bandwidth usage is irregular, buying "burstable" bandwidth is definitely the best way to go. "Burstable" pricing is usually more expensive per Mbps, but it's cheaper than getting a super-big line and using a tiny fraction of it. A second thing, that's probably a much 'messier' solution, would be to try to resell some hosting space or something. (But then most people will want support, and you risk someone spamming or whatnot... But it's an alternative to keep in the back of your mind.)
But when you say USB 2.0... Do you mean "Full" or "High Speed"? :)
Actually, it's even worse. Rather than randomly switching around numbers, we now have duplicate numbers. (*fights urge to try to work in a duplicate story joke*) It's more like: 1 is redefined as 0. 0 is still defined as 0. So when someone has 0 of something, they could have 0 or 1.
A simple, easy-to-follow guide to the changes.
USB 1.1 is now USB 2. USB 2 is now USB 2.
For some odd reason, they thought that people might have difficulty understanding this, and therefore created the "High Speed" and "Full Speed" designators, to make things even easier to understand.
Wait...
It's not necessarily just about this one time. Maybe you can manage 84 hours a week for a month or two. (I couldn't!) But suppose they decide that it worked really well, and decide to bump you up to 60 hours a week all the time, since you got so much more done? Now, when they first try this nonsense, is really the time to say "No way." If you don't, chances are this will happen again.
A bunch of people have also mentioned that you should ask for vacation time at the end. Maybe I'm overly cynical, but I'd have a hard time trusting people who expect 12/7 labor to not "forget" my vacation. While it might cost you your job, you really have to ask yourself if you want to keep working there. And don't be misled if they offer to "reduce" the hours from "impossible" to "excessive." Just because 70 hours a week is 14 hours less doesn't make it any more acceptable.
I don't think you have a choice but to try to organize with your coworkers, and tell management what you're willing to work and what you're not. They really have no choice but to listen to you -- they might be in trouble if you work fewer hours, but they'll definitely be completely screwed if you all quit.
I second this. While you could really screw them over with an en masse quitting, being sued (especially if you have the 8+ needed for class action) is likely an even scarier proposition for them. Having their _customers_ sued would surely be scarier.
If they don't take you seriously, or if they do but make you work anyway, follow through. If I started getting certified mail from lawyers representing the employees of a company I was doing business with, I'd back out of the deal with them really quickly.
I wonder if the release of these documents will deter the conspiracy theorists?
Not if the government secretly withheld the entries pertaining to the aliens. I think as more and more evidence is released against them, they'll scream "cover up" more and more.
...is an ISP that offers IPv6. I don't expect small residential ISPs to support it right away, but it'd be a huge step toward IPv6 integration if data centers could bring in another OC3 or whatnot that ran IPv6. With the recent story about people stealing netblocks because there's the impending shortage, I think data centers would be eager to be able to offer IPv6. Until at least a big backbone ISP supports it, we won't see 'true' IPv6 to the household.
First, you mention that a laptop doesn't generate much heat. While it doesn't necessarily heat up my room as much as my dual Athlon box, certain areas of the laptop get red-hot, even on new ones. I end up putting things between the laptop and my lap to prevent myself from getting set on fire. (Okay, small exaggeration...) I'd be concerned about overheating with it running 24/7. I'd actually suggest a 486. Someone threw away four or five ones (smallish cases, too) at my local dump (erm, recycling center... not like I'm digging through trash. There's a little bin for computer stuff.). It had no problem serving as a firewall for the cable modem here, and I'd suspect that if it's a small little thing you'll be running (ie, you're just hosting personal site / mail, as opposed to hosting Slashdot...), the 486 should actually be fairly powerful. The downside is that: 1.) You can't walk into a store and buy one, or parts for it. (But on the flipside, I've found several spare machines... A friend set up a 10-node cluster of 486s, and only paid for the cabling.) 2.) Power draw isn't super-low. But they're quiet, can be rather small, put off little heat, and you can get several entirely free. If you're running Linux on your desktop machine, can you use that as your server? The desktop I'm writing this on doubles as a webserver and DNS server.
This one is obviously 'staged,' but Slashdot's 404 error, translated to Korean and back: 404 files which it does not discover The URL which is demanded (404 fruits) it did not discover. If you it feel, URL in the place where the ya comes to from the pater@slashdot.org, right song. -- From here
You don't have by mission ton of ACCESS/mycpu g.htm on this servers.
:)
How I love Babelfish.
I really am losing it! I suppose there's a subtle distinction between "New Amsterdam" and "New York." s/New York/Amsterdam/
rotfl, I completely missed your point until I read one of the other replies from someone in Amsterdam, noting that "New Amsterdam" is now "New York." (What on Earth was I thinking?!) I suppose there's a subtle distinction between "New Amsterdam" and "New York." I'm so embarassed by this mistake that I think I'll flee the country for New Mexico. *ducks*
I think the concept of doing away entirely with broadcast television is absurd, or at least, highly premature. While I've had cable for years and couldn't fathom why anyone would _prefer_ broadcast ("wireless") television, I have to say that I know people without cable.
I don't believe for a second that every home in America has a cable line, and I don't believe that 30 years from now 'wireless' TV will have been phased out. Not only do some people like 'free' TV, but I can't tell you how valuable our small battery-operated TVs have been in horrible weather. Trees have taken down all the wires -- we have no power or phone, and turning on an emergency generator proved that cable TV went down, too. But with a small TV, we were able to get live information on the storm. Will this ever be replaced?
I agree -- the TV Broadcast Spectrum can be put to better use. But by that, I mean a more spectrum-efficient way. I see no benefit in phasing out broadcast TV, but there are plenty of reasons not to. Plus, as we continue to move toward more spectum-efficient technologies (2-way radios are starting to move to 12.5 kHz bandwidth; spread spectrum use is ever-growing...), I find it difficult to believe that we're ever going to run out of spectrum for radio. I hope that 20 years from now I'll be watching 'spread spectrum' TV or whatnot, but I sincerly hope that I'm not tied to a wire for my TV.
It's really ironic, too -- everything is moving toward wireless. Need a network? Why not go wireless? Want a new phone? Why not just get a cell phone, or at least a cordless phone? It won't be long before the Internet is as ubiquitous wirelessly as cell phone service. But when it comes to TV, why would people want to move _away_ from the wireless trend?
Yes, cable TV is hugely popular, and I certainly prefer my cable TV. But the concept of replacing it entirely with cable is about as ingenious as noting that everyone has a cell phone now, and shutting off residential phone lines to all homes, because the wires can be used for something else. Sure, some people might never notice. But there will always be people who still depend on their regular phone.
I'm worrying that you're going to cost me a lot of money. ;)
:)
I'm typing this on a pair of 19" CRTs (at 1280x1024 or so, running Xinerama). I've grown to love the crisp, sharp appearance of my laptop's LCD, and find my CRTs blurry and dim compared to my laptop. Plus, now that it's summer, I no longer appreciate the scorching heat they give off.
Each CRT cost me about what a 15" LCD would cost me today. Because I'm running a low-end dual-head video card, I have both monitors at 1280x1024, and they're probably loafing, but the video card is clearly at its limits -- I had it higher, but the right monitor had a horrible green tint. Lowering it made it usable, alhtough there's still a noticable tint if you look from a distance. So in short, although I could in theory be at 1600x1200 across two monitors, I'm nowhere near it. A pair of 15" LCDs, if I bought them now, would have cost me the same amount, but I would have had a sharper, clearer image, a cooler room, and waaaay more desk space. Plus, I was marvelling in the store about how when I was playing with an LCD, I managed to accidentally move it. Trust me, 19" flat-screen CRTs don't move far without a very deliberate attempt to move them. (Also carry a pair of them up two flights of narrow stairs...)
Anyway, I guess I could have summed this all up by saying "I agree." But next time it comes to monitors, I'm thinking a trio (you know you're a geek when you feel cramped with "only" two monitors) of 15" LCDs will be a worthwhile investment. More space (both screen real estate and desk real estate), about the same cost as if I sprung for CRTs, way less heat, and a much nicer image. Not to mention the coolness factor.
Frankly, when I can't copy or print from a page, I'll most likely stop going there. DRM will never catch on if we boycott them. The other thing that applies more to music is something that another reply points out -- at some point, you get the content. Before Napster, I actually hooked my radio's line out up to my computer's line in, and had .wav's of songs. Pretty pathetic, I admit, but when you can't play songs on your computer, you can always play 'em on a real CD player and play it into your computer. And don't tell me that they'll do away with headphone jacks. :)
My only knowledge of laws regarding international waters occurs from Part 97 of the FCC laws, governing amateur (ham) radio, so I'm not sure if they apply to other things or not, but...
Essentially, if you're in international waters, I believe you're subject to the laws of wherever the ship is registered. In other words, if you register it in the US, and take it into international waters, you're bound by US laws and probably subject to US police coming after you.
Register it in a liberal place like New Amsterdam (I think? Aren't they drug- and prostitute-friendly?) and you'll be able to have parties that are way more fun. =-D
Wow, 13.7 Mbps is an awful lot of traffic.
;)
The question we all want to know... Was the webserver running fvwm at the time?
Glad to hear it held up, although I had trouble getting there.
This is like a "Happy friggin' birthday" greeting. "It's your birthday, here's the Slashdot effect for your birthday." And they can't effectively return the gift if they don't like it.
My favorite 'statistic' regarding IPv6 is to simply evaluate 2^128:
:)
340282366920938463463374607431768211456
For those not sure what comes after a billion:
$ number 340282366920938463463374607431768211456
three hundred forty undecillion.
two hundred eighty-two decillion.
three hundred sixty-six nonillion.
nine hundred twenty octillion.
nine hundred thirty-eight septillion.
four hundred sixty-three sextillion.
four hundred sixty-three quintillion.
three hundred seventy-four quadrillion.
six hundred seven trillion.
four hundred thirty-one billion.
seven hundred sixty-eight million.
two hundred eleven thousand.
four hundred fifty-six.
I had never even heard of an "undecillion" before this.
I've recently started working in a restaurant, and as such handle a fair deal of cash. I have to say, I've never bothered to check currency to see if it's real. I know in some department stores it's required for the clerks to use a counterfeit-detecting pen on anything over $20, but this is certainly not the norm.
The problem is that you can do a fairly lousy job, especially if you're giving me a wad of various bills to pay for your dinner. (ie, if you give me a bunch of $5's and $1's, I'd just throw them all in the register, most likely not even looking at them one-by-one.)
Machines exist for 'counting' money (at extremely high rates) that automatically check various security features. Suppose cash registers started having an interface to this -- you'd stick the money in, and it would automatically undergo security checks.
By the way, am I the only one who isn't too convinced that the new bill styles will be effective? The old ones will still be accepted, and if they're easier to forge, why wouldn't I just forge one of those? Frequently changing their design won't really counter counterfeiting (heh, no pun intended there).