Especially if you've used the same nick on other sites (I'm assuming so). A quick Googling of your slashdot nick shows that: - you've made some 3D models of your desk and wine rack. - you've got a last.fm profile listing Elvis and Chuck Berry as recently listened to - you're on Openmoko - you like boardgames - you may something to do with g-b.dk - you've posted to linuxquestions.org about bookmarks - your nick may be a reference to the main character of a game called 'The Neverhood'
Oh, and if you thought privacy was easier before the webbernet, go talk to a skip tracer about how easy it is to find you, even when covering your tracks.
Because the climate simulation model they use does a LOT of inter-process communication. Each piece of the calculation depends on what's going on around it. Ever see footage of manual calculation rooms NASA used to have*? Imagine if every one of the calculations those people were doing depended on the previous calculation they did, AND all of the previous calculations of their eight nearest neighbors.
Now you know why that atmospheric model has a benchmark rated in "century/months" - the number of centuries of "model"-time that can be calculated per month of "wall clock"-time. That they're working toward a century per day is pretty amazing, especially when they're also tightening the resolution down from 20 sq. km. to under 5 sq. km. by 6+ levels of atmosphere.
They've been around for while. Any standard fridge can be made to work without a compressor (read: "pump") just by using a pilot light (even just a candle) at a low point to get the coolant to circulate up and around.
they are not intended to be sources of free technical support for existing Vista users
Until the people they convinced to buy Vista come back to the store in a black fart of rage looking for blood or someone to kidnap until their machine works like it did before.
Either Scientific American or Discover magazine had an article on this about 12 years ago. Mostly it had to with a settlement they found on the tip of Tierra del Fuego, and postulated that they had been driven down through the Americas by the Asians. Likely descendants of Australian aborigines, iirc.
You're naively assuming that it's up to the athletes at all. Given what goes on with doping being illegal, it would be a field day for sport club owners and countries; anyone who would benefit greatly without taking any of the risk. For them, to hell with the health concerns of the athlete, as long as they bring back sacks of gold. (and silver and bronze, but mostly gold).
Aaaaannndd... If anyone out there still thinks their libertarian IT-guy-next-door is a bit over-the-top or paranoid for running his own email server in his basement, here's why*!
Time to get an unfettered DSL line with a static IP and setup my own server.
(Actually, time to become an email server configuration consultant)
* - and yes, I RTFA'd and this has to do with slurping email off of a server's storage area and not making a copy of an email being transmitted
Is it just me or does automated law enforcement give anyone else the shivers?
There's a lot to be said for the discretion of those executing the law.
Pretty soon, it'll be like credit card bills - you'll get a monthly statement for all your minor infractions, or if you don't have any, a "fee" for not generating enough revenue for the government. Until they come up with something to nail you for: "The red-light cameras we installed caught you sitting at a green light for two seconds while you were adjusting your radio - $20"
This is exactly what happened to the old video game 'Tapper', where you played a bartender serving thirsty customers. Originally licensed by Budweiser. They had to give it a face lift after parents complained (originally targeted for bars, it got into places it probably shouldn't have been in) to Root Beer Tapper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapper
Someone please write a trojan horse that clandestinely starts a bittorrent client on infected PCs and starts downloading whatever hot thing the MPAA/RIAA have so graciously produced for us. Watch them start a flood of takedown/3-strike notices and shut everyone off.
When I bought a house, I called up Comcast, the monopoly-owner-provider there, and ordered Extended Analog service (having previously been a digital subscriber). The chipper young woman on the other end of the line piped back, "Why? For only $5 more per month, you can get digital service with 900 channels!" I don't need 900 channels, ever, but I wanted her to see the real behind-the-scenes crap going on, so I replied with, "Oh? Just $5 more per month? How about after fees and taxes?"
"Let's see...for Analog service, altogether you're paying...$31.50 per month. For digital... Oh."
The fastest booting system I've had in recent years was a Pentium (II?) 266 with OpenBSD that booted in about 30 seconds including BIOS. Not the most fun to manage, but it's a good system.
Now the fastest ever was my old 7Mhz Amiga 1000 booting off the RAD: disk. But that requires booting, loading the RAD: and rebooting. But you're booting from main memory, so it took about 5 seconds. From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOS) "The Amiga OS also has support for a fixed-capacity recoverable RAM disk, which functions as a standard RAM disk, but can maintain its contents on restart. It is commonly called the RAD disk, and it can be used as a boot disk (with boot sector)."
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Especially if you've used the same nick on other sites (I'm assuming so). A quick Googling of your slashdot nick shows that:
- you've made some 3D models of your desk and wine rack.
- you've got a last.fm profile listing Elvis and Chuck Berry as recently listened to
- you're on Openmoko
- you like boardgames
- you may something to do with g-b.dk
- you've posted to linuxquestions.org about bookmarks
- your nick may be a reference to the main character of a game called 'The Neverhood'
Oh, and if you thought privacy was easier before the webbernet, go talk to a skip tracer about how easy it is to find you, even when covering your tracks.
Was clear a couple years ago, then got pixelated, but now it's half-and-half:
http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=lake+wylie,+sc&ie=UTF8&ll=35.051649,-81.070637&spn=0.004479,0.006759&t=h&z=17&iwloc=addr
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
Because the climate simulation model they use does a LOT of inter-process communication. Each piece of the calculation depends on what's going on around it.
Ever see footage of manual calculation rooms NASA used to have*? Imagine if every one of the calculations those people were doing depended on the previous calculation they did, AND all of the previous calculations of their eight nearest neighbors.
Now you know why that atmospheric model has a benchmark rated in "century/months" - the number of centuries of "model"-time that can be calculated per month of "wall clock"-time.
That they're working toward a century per day is pretty amazing, especially when they're also tightening the resolution down from 20 sq. km. to under 5 sq. km. by 6+ levels of atmosphere.
* - http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1327
Note: I used to work in the same division of NCAR as Rich Loft. Brilliant guy.
Don't hold your breath; it'll disrupt the predictions.
Yes Cray could do better, but the Cray of today is not the Cray of yesterday.
It's as close to 'in-name-only' as you can get, considering the number of times it's been bought off and fleeced.
They've been around for while. Any standard fridge can be made to work without a compressor (read: "pump") just by using a pilot light (even just a candle) at a low point to get the coolant to circulate up and around.
they are not intended to be sources of free technical support for existing Vista users
Until the people they convinced to buy Vista come back to the store in a black fart of rage looking for blood or someone to kidnap until their machine works like it did before.
Good. Freaking. Luck.
Indeed, every search engine and Internet user would be required to have a private investigator license if MediaSentry needs one.
But not everyone using a search engine or collecting data from a p2p client are doing so for the purpose of presenting evidence in court.
Nice try.
My first reaction was that this has Microsoft written all over it (being that Yahoo refused to sell itself to them).
Microsoft learned a lesson about the DOJ when it went toe-to-toe with it: it's a tool to be used like any other.
Maybe I'm not RTFA'ing right, but this doesn't actually stop anyone from snagging the data from it, like the ones on passports or credit cards.
Who cares if you can't clone an RFID-laden credit card! You don't need a physical card to make fraudulent purchases.
They're still around?
Either Scientific American or Discover magazine had an article on this about 12 years ago. Mostly it had to with a settlement they found on the tip of Tierra del Fuego, and postulated that they had been driven down through the Americas by the Asians. Likely descendants of Australian aborigines, iirc.
Hell, these are just dongles! I haven't seen one of those since the '80s. They worked about as well, then, too (not so much).
Be sure to get the Power Drill book.
It's not a textbook, per se, but a really great reference to have around.
Throw our own Boston Tea Party and dump all the un-auditable, papertrail-less voting machines into the nearest river/lake/car compactor.
So, this seems to have a really high "neato!" factor, but not a lot of practical use. Except for maybe 3D modelers in Hollywood?
Maybe this can be rolled into Photoshop or Hugin.
Homer: "And this racing stripe here I feel is pretty sharp."
Burns: "Agreed! First prize."
You're naively assuming that it's up to the athletes at all. Given what goes on with doping being illegal, it would be a field day for sport club owners and countries; anyone who would benefit greatly without taking any of the risk. For them, to hell with the health concerns of the athlete, as long as they bring back sacks of gold. (and silver and bronze, but mostly gold).
Makes me want to play netrek again. Where's my BerkRicksMoo client? Wonder if there are any Vanilla servers even still running.
What are you looking at? Get off my lawn!
Aaaaannndd...
If anyone out there still thinks their libertarian IT-guy-next-door is a bit over-the-top or paranoid for running his own email server in his basement, here's why*!
Time to get an unfettered DSL line with a static IP and setup my own server.
(Actually, time to become an email server configuration consultant)
* - and yes, I RTFA'd and this has to do with slurping email off of a server's storage area and not making a copy of an email being transmitted
Is it just me or does automated law enforcement give anyone else the shivers?
There's a lot to be said for the discretion of those executing the law.
Pretty soon, it'll be like credit card bills - you'll get a monthly statement for all your minor infractions, or if you don't have any, a "fee" for not generating enough revenue for the government.
Until they come up with something to nail you for: "The red-light cameras we installed caught you sitting at a green light for two seconds while you were adjusting your radio - $20"
This is exactly what happened to the old video game 'Tapper', where you played a bartender serving thirsty customers. Originally licensed by Budweiser. They had to give it a face lift after parents complained (originally targeted for bars, it got into places it probably shouldn't have been in) to Root Beer Tapper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapper
Someone please write a trojan horse that clandestinely starts a bittorrent client on infected PCs and starts downloading whatever hot thing the MPAA/RIAA have so graciously produced for us. Watch them start a flood of takedown/3-strike notices and shut everyone off.
When I bought a house, I called up Comcast, the monopoly-owner-provider there, and ordered Extended Analog service (having previously been a digital subscriber). The chipper young woman on the other end of the line piped back, "Why? For only $5 more per month, you can get digital service with 900 channels!" I don't need 900 channels, ever, but I wanted her to see the real behind-the-scenes crap going on, so I replied with, "Oh? Just $5 more per month? How about after fees and taxes?"
"Let's see...for Analog service, altogether you're paying...$31.50 per month. For digital... Oh."
"Hmm?"
"$55 per month."
"Yeah, exactly. Analog, please."
The fastest booting system I've had in recent years was a Pentium (II?) 266 with OpenBSD that booted in about 30 seconds including BIOS. Not the most fun to manage, but it's a good system.
Now the fastest ever was my old 7Mhz Amiga 1000 booting off the RAD: disk. But that requires booting, loading the RAD: and rebooting. But you're booting from main memory, so it took about 5 seconds.
From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOS)
"The Amiga OS also has support for a fixed-capacity recoverable RAM disk, which functions as a standard RAM disk, but can maintain its contents on restart. It is commonly called the RAD disk, and it can be used as a boot disk (with boot sector)."