> I've got doubts about using such a device 24/7 as my normal desktops operate.
So've I. The day after I posted to usenet saying the HD in my powerbook was nice and quiet - suddenly it *WASN'T*. Ouch.
And I couldn't find a way to get into the case to replace it, otherwise I would've done so myself; as it is, the muppets I took it to put a 2.5" drive in on the slave channel. Transpires MacOS X can't cope if it's accessing an IDE channel with nothing on the master - it installs (taking near-exponentially longer, the further it got) and hangs on or immediately after bootup. So now I'm booting Tiger off an external firewire drive - or debian-testing/ppc off the internal drive!
Don't bank on it. I got a stupid email via my ISP just after Christmas, from the MPAA - with a Cc to fact-uk.org.uk. Now if that doesn't consitute breach of some data-protection act on an international scale...
Well, he was wrong. Civilisation is the denial of our basic natures. It is culture working against genetic impulses.
I'm also wondering: so america doesn't have a national driving license but leaves it up to each state? What would happen if we, in Britain, were not to have a national one but leave it up to each county to design? *shrug*. (Mind you, I wouldn't want any *more* national ID data being stored than this; driving license is where the line is drawn, here.)
> But then, when you go to a restaurant, you hand over your physical credit card to some waiter you don't know from Adam.
Yes, and I'm pretty sure I've heard of that being exploited by naughty waiters, too. This is why I never let the card go out of my sight, and it's also why I favour a nice strong crypto connection to websites whilst shopping.
Wouldn't surprise me. It was actually possible to get some kind of performance out of it over about 2k5rpm which I believe is where the other valves cut in (and below that, it was a complete dog); but also the clutch was completely knackered (got through 3 of them) and really it didn't have enough power to cope with the hills on the A68.
Dad's had a near-identical car to mine now for the last year, and loves it to bits. He even exceeded the stated max average mpg (67.something over 65.7) on a 250-mile trek, the other week.
> Broadband providers will actually have to start taking responsibility for this sort of thing and disconnect zombie infected clients.
Interestingly, blueyonder *do* have a suitable clause in their Ts&Cs, or at least did when I signed-up (~3.5yrs ago), that security was the user's problem and that they may well disconnect idiots. I really wish they'd acted on it more.
> they eroneously claimed that my mail server was relaying. It wasn't, it never was.
I blocked their scanner with an icmp-admin-prohibition in the firewall. Easiest option yet;)
What's even more ironic is that these were the idiots who used M$loth sExchange to handle incoming mail, routing it *based on the bloody To: header* (when the reason it was hitting their MXen was the envelope - a Bcc-to-self job) and then complained they had a spam problem! And never *ever* solved the support case I opened concerning it! Small wonder I also ran my own MTA to bypass the problem. Bah.
Yes, I think one has to be quite brain-dead to rely on an RBL for instant rejection. Assess how accurate they are and use a weighted score - oh wait, that's what SpamAssassin does already! Goodie, then.:)
I'm hoping that Toyota's vvti is better than Honda's. I drove my Dad's Civic 1.5 and it had absolutely no idea when to change between 8 and 16 valves - would rush from 70 to 85 on a flat motorway, and then sulk down to 55 when I *needed* the juice to get up hill. IMNSHO a straightforward VW-group 1.9TDi has proved far more sane a driving experience (in the latter case, "what hill?";) and gets 65mpg compared to about 53ish (motorway in both cases).
Now, this linked website is old - I remember visiting it one or maybe two years ago. It also exposes that it's completely useless to get multiple drivers' average mpgs, simply because not everyone drives in order to maximize it.
As for strategy to maximize mpg: on clear motorways, cruise at 69-70mph (a little bit below where the turbo cuts-in), using cruise-con to keep it steady. When you hit a jam, hog the fast lane and drive at the average speed of the guy 2 cars in front, leaving a huge gap (the space is a precious commodity: reel it out on down-hill stretches, and wind it in like so much fishing-line when you go up-hill). On country A-roads with 60/national speed limit, do about 58mph, because this is closer to the max-torque (in a diesel, meaning least extra work required to go up-hill), and it means you can go round more corners without braking at all.
No, the kids will be at home with free & open-source software by the time they've finished. Nothing quite like breeding the next batch of hackers(,) right?
Well yes, quite. Am I alone in the universe in preferring to use wget in a terminal for my actual downloads, if only so I can ensure they get placed in the right folder from the outset rather than having to move from ~/Downloads/ ?
I'm not convinced that's a good thing. There are some pretty canny CV-readers (or resume-readers for left-pondians readign) out there, as witnessed by the fact I've been asked "so why did you only stay with for 1yr?". It's quite hard to say "because they were evil slimeballs" without feeling awkward.
In this case, since our poster has survived these wazzocks for a few years, I'd be inclined to go with the opinion it's a temporary abberation and work through the minimum time remaining - and if money doesn't come, sue afterwards.
Yeah, give 'em some noise to be wondering about, by all means.
Now, if it's basically wifi connection of some sort, what say folks get out there with their wifi sniffers and intercept the signal, see what it really is transmitting?
Your sarcasm is noted. However, what exactly is wrong with the proposed change in definition of science there?
"seeking natural explanations for what we observe around us" sounds suspiciously open to including creationism, whereas the way I read "continuing investigation that uses observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation, logical argument and theory building to lead to more adequate explanations of natural phenomena", well, the only thing I don't think is right is the restriction to natural phenomena, but I'm right with them on investigation, observation, hypotheses, logic, etc. Those are the things that *don't* make it into Creationism, and set the scientific method apart!
> I don't see any research from them on that part. Seems like they just want to give up.
Well yes, the answers to those are very easy when you're in the intelligent-design camp. "Got put them there", that's about all you need to say. It *does* answer just about everything you could ask about the natural world; the trouble is it's not a particularly good explanation, and it doesn't predict what's going to happen next (unless you include Gen.3 in the story of creation and conclude "people will be idiots", or something).
> Genesis 1 is rather vague and is probably symbolic of some deeper spiritual reality.
Well yes. When you show me a mountain that's taken a few hundred thousand years to get to its current shape, or give me carbon-dating evidence of a geezer been stuck up the Alps for 10k yrs, and point at a book trying to tell me it's all 4000 yrs old, I know with which I'll be agreeing. As such, I think the *best* you can get out of Genesis 1 and 2 is a bunch of metaphorical abstractions ("there is a God", OK, I can cope with that; "He was involved in the creation of the universe", fine... etc) and/or scene-setting for the rest of the Bible.
I've just finished reading _The Selfish Gene_, and would like to point out that it is not without its pure assertions. The closing appendices flatly state that all explanations prior to Darwin were "wrong"; it would be a good deal more polite to say that they were posited as early stories to attempt to explain what people saw about them, in a way to which they could relate. Now, while I rate the theory of evolution through natural selection a good theory, in that it explains some things and predicts some things and sounds plausible, it also does *not* lack for holes. It's one thing to say "this is how it could have come about", it's another thing to have conclusive evidence for every evolutionary path to demonstrate why the world *must* *now* be populated by the current set of species, according to the theory.
See folks, some kind of rational combination of facts and metaphysics is still quite possible. Why get all het up about the differences, just work out how to apply the words from one "camp" to those from the other.
I don't have a problem with creationism being taught in schools, as long as it stays right where it belongs in the RE lessons, firmly entitled "some loonies believe this literally".
Let the science lessons teach what they will, likewise the RE. Let neither presume to be ultimately authoritative (either because there's always the next scientific revolution, or for reasons of ecumenical humility), and leave it up to the brats to work out.
Multiply by having *my* CFLAGS (-Os, -fomit-frame-pointer and -fstack-protector) versus yours versus the rest of the world's options in there, and the fact I run on PPC... *hic* yup, that's a heck of a big database you'd have to keep there. Oops:)
Well yes. The other perspective of this is that if you write for a RDBMS, it takes over your programming life, particularly if you have to optimize the number of queries in order to minimize network-related latency.
OK, now I've just realised what I want most is a generic tie - whatever your data, serialize it (like pickling in python), with random-access updates/retrieval. Hmm:)
I always find this kind of journalism rather banal. "Could be used for..." never happens. Rather, things either fade into oblivion, or generally exceed expectations. (Consider what would've happened if someone had said "the space mission... could be used to promote the digital watch", wouldn't that just be lame?!)
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> I've got doubts about using such a device 24/7 as my normal desktops operate.
So've I. The day after I posted to usenet saying the HD in my powerbook was nice and quiet - suddenly it *WASN'T*. Ouch.
And I couldn't find a way to get into the case to replace it, otherwise I would've done so myself; as it is, the muppets I took it to put a 2.5" drive in on the slave channel. Transpires MacOS X can't cope if it's accessing an IDE channel with nothing on the master - it installs (taking near-exponentially longer, the further it got) and hangs on or immediately after bootup. So now I'm booting Tiger off an external firewire drive - or debian-testing/ppc off the internal drive!
I thought there was something similar (pistol grip with a tiny mini-joystick on top) for the Amstrad CPC range, oh, um about 10-15yrs ago?! ;)
Don't bank on it. I got a stupid email via my ISP just after Christmas, from the MPAA - with a Cc to fact-uk.org.uk. Now if that doesn't consitute breach of some data-protection act on an international scale ...
Well, he was wrong. Civilisation is the denial of our basic natures. It is culture working against genetic impulses.
I'm also wondering: so america doesn't have a national driving license but leaves it up to each state? What would happen if we, in Britain, were not to have a national one but leave it up to each county to design? *shrug*. (Mind you, I wouldn't want any *more* national ID data being stored than this; driving license is where the line is drawn, here.)
> But then, when you go to a restaurant, you hand over your physical credit card to some waiter you don't know from Adam.
Yes, and I'm pretty sure I've heard of that being exploited by naughty waiters, too. This is why I never let the card go out of my sight, and it's also why I favour a nice strong crypto connection to websites whilst shopping.
Wouldn't surprise me. It was actually possible to get some kind of performance out of it over about 2k5rpm which I believe is where the other valves cut in (and below that, it was a complete dog); but also the clutch was completely knackered (got through 3 of them) and really it didn't have enough power to cope with the hills on the A68.
Dad's had a near-identical car to mine now for the last year, and loves it to bits. He even exceeded the stated max average mpg (67.something over 65.7) on a 250-mile trek, the other week.
> Broadband providers will actually have to start taking responsibility for this sort of thing and disconnect zombie infected clients.
;)
Interestingly, blueyonder *do* have a suitable clause in their Ts&Cs, or at least did when I signed-up (~3.5yrs ago), that security was the user's problem and that they may well disconnect idiots. I really wish they'd acted on it more.
> they eroneously claimed that my mail server was relaying. It wasn't, it never was.
I blocked their scanner with an icmp-admin-prohibition in the firewall. Easiest option yet
What's even more ironic is that these were the idiots who used M$loth sExchange to handle incoming mail, routing it *based on the bloody To: header* (when the reason it was hitting their MXen was the envelope - a Bcc-to-self job) and then complained they had a spam problem! And never *ever* solved the support case I opened concerning it! Small wonder I also ran my own MTA to bypass the problem. Bah.
Yes, I think one has to be quite brain-dead to rely on an RBL for instant rejection. Assess how accurate they are and use a weighted score - oh wait, that's what SpamAssassin does already! Goodie, then. :)
Yes, but I don't see the same boot capacity and I hate to think what you'd have to smoke to get the same mph ;8)
I'm hoping that Toyota's vvti is better than Honda's. I drove my Dad's Civic 1.5 and it had absolutely no idea when to change between 8 and 16 valves - would rush from 70 to 85 on a flat motorway, and then sulk down to 55 when I *needed* the juice to get up hill. IMNSHO a straightforward VW-group 1.9TDi has proved far more sane a driving experience (in the latter case, "what hill?" ;) and gets 65mpg compared to about 53ish (motorway in both cases).
Now, this linked website is old - I remember visiting it one or maybe two years ago. It also exposes that it's completely useless to get multiple drivers' average mpgs, simply because not everyone drives in order to maximize it.
As for strategy to maximize mpg: on clear motorways, cruise at 69-70mph (a little bit below where the turbo cuts-in), using cruise-con to keep it steady. When you hit a jam, hog the fast lane and drive at the average speed of the guy 2 cars in front, leaving a huge gap (the space is a precious commodity: reel it out on down-hill stretches, and wind it in like so much fishing-line when you go up-hill). On country A-roads with 60/national speed limit, do about 58mph, because this is closer to the max-torque (in a diesel, meaning least extra work required to go up-hill), and it means you can go round more corners without braking at all.
No, the kids will be at home with free & open-source software by the time they've finished. Nothing quite like breeding the next batch of hackers(,) right?
Well yes, quite. Am I alone in the universe in preferring to use wget in a terminal for my actual downloads, if only so I can ensure they get placed in the right folder from the outset rather than having to move from ~/Downloads/ ?
I'm not convinced that's a good thing. There are some pretty canny CV-readers (or resume-readers for left-pondians readign) out there, as witnessed by the fact I've been asked "so why did you only stay with for 1yr?". It's quite hard to say "because they were evil slimeballs" without feeling awkward.
In this case, since our poster has survived these wazzocks for a few years, I'd be inclined to go with the opinion it's a temporary abberation and work through the minimum time remaining - and if money doesn't come, sue afterwards.
Yeah, give 'em some noise to be wondering about, by all means.
Now, if it's basically wifi connection of some sort, what say folks get out there with their wifi sniffers and intercept the signal, see what it really is transmitting?
Your sarcasm is noted. However, what exactly is wrong with the proposed change in definition of science there?
"seeking natural explanations for what we observe around us" sounds suspiciously open to including creationism, whereas the way I read "continuing investigation that uses observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation, logical argument and theory building to lead to more adequate explanations of natural phenomena", well, the only thing I don't think is right is the restriction to natural phenomena, but I'm right with them on investigation, observation, hypotheses, logic, etc. Those are the things that *don't* make it into Creationism, and set the scientific method apart!
> I don't see any research from them on that part. Seems like they just want to give up.
Well yes, the answers to those are very easy when you're in the intelligent-design camp. "Got put them there", that's about all you need to say. It *does* answer just about everything you could ask about the natural world; the trouble is it's not a particularly good explanation, and it doesn't predict what's going to happen next (unless you include Gen.3 in the story of creation and conclude "people will be idiots", or something).
> Genesis 1 is rather vague and is probably symbolic of some deeper spiritual reality.
Well yes. When you show me a mountain that's taken a few hundred thousand years to get to its current shape, or give me carbon-dating evidence of a geezer been stuck up the Alps for 10k yrs, and point at a book trying to tell me it's all 4000 yrs old, I know with which I'll be agreeing. As such, I think the *best* you can get out of Genesis 1 and 2 is a bunch of metaphorical abstractions ("there is a God", OK, I can cope with that; "He was involved in the creation of the universe", fine... etc) and/or scene-setting for the rest of the Bible.
I've just finished reading _The Selfish Gene_, and would like to point out that it is not without its pure assertions. The closing appendices flatly state that all explanations prior to Darwin were "wrong"; it would be a good deal more polite to say that they were posited as early stories to attempt to explain what people saw about them, in a way to which they could relate.
Now, while I rate the theory of evolution through natural selection a good theory, in that it explains some things and predicts some things and sounds plausible, it also does *not* lack for holes. It's one thing to say "this is how it could have come about", it's another thing to have conclusive evidence for every evolutionary path to demonstrate why the world *must* *now* be populated by the current set of species, according to the theory.
See folks, some kind of rational combination of facts and metaphysics is still quite possible. Why get all het up about the differences, just work out how to apply the words from one "camp" to those from the other.
I don't have a problem with creationism being taught in schools, as long as it stays right where it belongs in the RE lessons, firmly entitled "some loonies believe this literally".
Let the science lessons teach what they will, likewise the RE. Let neither presume to be ultimately authoritative (either because there's always the next scientific revolution, or for reasons of ecumenical humility), and leave it up to the brats to work out.
I thought they had a `find similar pages' feature, which in the case of images worked by the surrounding text, not by the content of the image per se.
No. Distribute responsibility sensibly: prosecute the bloody morons who let their boxes rot unattended.
Multiply by having *my* CFLAGS (-Os, -fomit-frame-pointer and -fstack-protector) versus yours versus the rest of the world's options in there, and the fact I run on PPC ... *hic* yup, that's a heck of a big database you'd have to keep there. Oops :)
Well yes. The other perspective of this is that if you write for a RDBMS, it takes over your programming life, particularly if you have to optimize the number of queries in order to minimize network-related latency.
:)
OK, now I've just realised what I want most is a generic tie - whatever your data, serialize it (like pickling in python), with random-access updates/retrieval. Hmm
I always find this kind of journalism rather banal. "Could be used for..." never happens. Rather, things either fade into oblivion, or generally exceed expectations. (Consider what would've happened if someone had said "the space mission... could be used to promote the digital watch", wouldn't that just be lame?!)
> Little Timmy and Mom's data is seperate.
Not if you're root, it isn't.
Maybe they're uploaders, not downloaders ;)