ok except that this has been in email headers since the dawn of time. especially noted the "X-" prefix denoting that this is actually a useless header, present only for extra info. Lotus notes adds a bunch of these and sendmail allows you do put in what ever you like.
all in all i thought this was a very good post. my problem was with this:
Nobody will play the nuclear card. Any nation who deployed a nuclear weapon on US soil would be nuked off the face of the earth.
do you really think that if these scumbags from 9/11 had access to nukes they would not use them? I, hesitantly, agree that nations will not send nukes but terrorists are another story. with the belief in heaven awaiting them, all they have to do is strike a big blow, nukes seem the best way to do that.
you don't have to store the video of everybody. once the recogniion software is up to par you will have the identity of each person surveilled (sp?). all you have to store is a text blurb w/ an id# and date and location. you can do it in a couple of bytes.
it is still a large infrastucture but by no means is it untenable.
well put. I am all for some good gore in some of my games. Games like Mario and zelda can also capture me because they are down right fun. I have played a million really bad gory games and a bunch of really stupid kids games. gore doesn't make or break a game. though I do think it is a cheap thrill tactic. enough gore for people to go "wow! look at that gore" definitely catches a market. You can catch that market (some of it) w/ fun, imaginative, creative games but it is alot harder to come up with that kind of game than it is to rehash an old idea w/ some more blood.
i, unfortunately, think that criminals would find a new way to intimidate. I don't think it will eliminate crime. As the other poster pointed out they could just shoot at the head or, assuming they are physically more able, detain or beat you or simply wrestle your wallet away. there would of course be instances in which this would help but I don't think it would solve the problem.
That being said. I don't think anything will solve the problem. there will always be those without who are willing to take it from those with by any means necessary.
you are paying for them now. but instead of educating them so they have at least a chance of be something other than a burden to our society we are doing nothing with them. when released they have little to no options so they go w/ what they know. considering the only things they learned in their years of incarceration was how to deal w/ criminals and tricks from the same it isn't suprising that we have such a high reoffender rate.
over the long run i think education will cost us less and has the possibility of raising the bar of our society.
actually, the software all has "by breaking this seal you agree to our license" wording before you can get at the media (disks). At that point if you don't want it you are supposed to take it back.
note the name of this thread: "reality"
back in reality, you can't fire everybody. they (assumably) have valueable skills and do necessary work. not all workers have time or inclination to learn new technical crap just to get their job done. if you understand computers it is easy to poke around and figure things out. if you are busy and/or not a techie it doesn't matter that you are smart or do your job well if the platform is changed and your tools don't work the way you expect them to.
especially in these trying economic times, the company cannot waste the time and resources necessary to retrain the current employees or fire them and hire new people. and really, how many non techies are you going to find comfortable on linux.
really man, you have obviously spent way to much time w/ your computer. you have forgotten that it isn't the only skillset out there and that it does take a skill to use.
all this is saying nothing of the potential for lawsuits. These people probably have contracts and I bet linux doesn't appear on them.
another comment on your sig.
I feel your pain. my orig nick was 'corn' but when everybody started spelling it w/ a 'k' and thinking I was a fan of those fucks I had to start changing it around.
hey all,
this is interesting. i am running a couple e450s. they have nifty monitors built in that tell me (when i run prtdiag) the temp of each cpu, the fan, the power supply and the ambient temp. I have a script that bitches at me if these get too hot (as an aside, what is "too hot"? i have it set ot warn at 55 and go critical at 60 celsius). anyway, last tuesday the colo's airconditioning went out. ( i was impressed they still had power and network connection w/ the wtc only about 4 blocks away) i watched the machines climb higher and higher all day w/ nobody down there to check the ac and no way to get in to fix stuff. I shut down all redundant systems and hoped. long story short the highest processors went up to about 63 degrees and all is/was still working well.
my questions (in a long winded sort of way) are:
what temp would they die at?
does sun have any internal limiters like the p4?
ej
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jesus guys, back off. I think the guy has a good idea. I have no idea where to start looking for info but any info that has been verified and could help the authorities is a good thing. if anybody has any good ideas I will happily throw some machine power at them. maybe a distributed.net client to analyze the rest of the financial district stresses and make sure nothing else is likely to topple. it seems we could do more to help the effort and we can definitely do better than bitching about them not using the network.
besides, language evolves. "doh" is now considered a word (see a previous/. article). i get sick of ye olde brits trying to hold on to an outdated form of language. i imagine it is largely because we have taken their language and propigated it world wide.
whatever, it is sort of like bitching about typos. couldn't you find anything better in his post to respond to?
the arguement for internet connectivity is, (as is mentioned in teh article) that it allows access to a knowledgebase on how to properly do all of the things they need. ie proper crop rotation, power grids, etc..... with access to the network they can actually set it up correctly and efficiently the first time rather than repeating all the mistakes we made the first time around.
i don't agree. I would like to see him get out but I think it is much more important that we get rid of the DMCA. if we can get rid of it, we can almost definitely get him out. but I think our priority should be to fix the law so this doesn't keep happening or even get worse.
i absolutely agree. RPG's helped not just in math and reading but also served to build a knowledgebase for different mythologies and some also tried to work a bunch of physics in that gave me a base of understanding.
the most important skill, as i see it, was the problem solving using an arbitrary set of rules. ie given the thief's scale walls, the magician's 4 spells and your ball of wax you have to storm a castle. figure out a creative way to do it.
that and it kept me out of drugs until later in school which I think was a good thing.
the purpose of the place, as i see it, is to remove your data from the possibility of control by another party. while this can be b/c you are doing "bad" things it is not the only reason. this idea of "if you aren't doing anything wrong you don't have to hide" is terrifying.
ok, so you have this plasma "floating" in the bottle at 12 gazillion degrees. the power goes out. doesn't your ball of plasma just eat it's way through anything it touches and head towards the center of the earth?
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thank you god, thank you god, thank you.....
ok except that this has been in email headers since the dawn of time. especially noted the "X-" prefix denoting that this is actually a useless header, present only for extra info. Lotus notes adds a bunch of these and sendmail allows you do put in what ever you like.
all in all i thought this was a very good post. my problem was with this:
Nobody will play the nuclear card. Any nation who deployed a nuclear weapon on US soil would be nuked off the face of the earth.
do you really think that if these scumbags from 9/11 had access to nukes they would not use them? I, hesitantly, agree that nations will not send nukes but terrorists are another story. with the belief in heaven awaiting them, all they have to do is strike a big blow, nukes seem the best way to do that.
you don't have to store the video of everybody. once the recogniion software is up to par you will have the identity of each person surveilled (sp?). all you have to store is a text blurb w/ an id# and date and location. you can do it in a couple of bytes.
it is still a large infrastucture but by no means is it untenable.
HAHAHAHAH
no mod points today but I liked this one.
well put. I am all for some good gore in some of my games. Games like Mario and zelda can also capture me because they are down right fun. I have played a million really bad gory games and a bunch of really stupid kids games. gore doesn't make or break a game. though I do think it is a cheap thrill tactic. enough gore for people to go "wow! look at that gore" definitely catches a market. You can catch that market (some of it) w/ fun, imaginative, creative games but it is alot harder to come up with that kind of game than it is to rehash an old idea w/ some more blood.
my guess is he meant "reaping profits" and just missed the e
i, unfortunately, think that criminals would find a new way to intimidate. I don't think it will eliminate crime. As the other poster pointed out they could just shoot at the head or, assuming they are physically more able, detain or beat you or simply wrestle your wallet away. there would of course be instances in which this would help but I don't think it would solve the problem.
That being said. I don't think anything will solve the problem. there will always be those without who are willing to take it from those with by any means necessary.
mod this up. finally a sane voice
you are paying for them now. but instead of educating them so they have at least a chance of be something other than a burden to our society we are doing nothing with them. when released they have little to no options so they go w/ what they know. considering the only things they learned in their years of incarceration was how to deal w/ criminals and tricks from the same it isn't suprising that we have such a high reoffender rate.
over the long run i think education will cost us less and has the possibility of raising the bar of our society.
ej
it is supposed to be water resistant to 30 mtrs
ej
actually, the software all has "by breaking this seal you agree to our license" wording before you can get at the media (disks). At that point if you don't want it you are supposed to take it back.
ej
note the name of this thread: "reality"
back in reality, you can't fire everybody. they (assumably) have valueable skills and do necessary work. not all workers have time or inclination to learn new technical crap just to get their job done. if you understand computers it is easy to poke around and figure things out. if you are busy and/or not a techie it doesn't matter that you are smart or do your job well if the platform is changed and your tools don't work the way you expect them to.
especially in these trying economic times, the company cannot waste the time and resources necessary to retrain the current employees or fire them and hire new people. and really, how many non techies are you going to find comfortable on linux.
really man, you have obviously spent way to much time w/ your computer. you have forgotten that it isn't the only skillset out there and that it does take a skill to use.
all this is saying nothing of the potential for lawsuits. These people probably have contracts and I bet linux doesn't appear on them.
ej
another comment on your sig.
I feel your pain. my orig nick was 'corn' but when everybody started spelling it w/ a 'k' and thinking I was a fan of those fucks I had to start changing it around.
fucking shitty bands. B(
hey all,
this is interesting. i am running a couple e450s. they have nifty monitors built in that tell me (when i run prtdiag) the temp of each cpu, the fan, the power supply and the ambient temp. I have a script that bitches at me if these get too hot (as an aside, what is "too hot"? i have it set ot warn at 55 and go critical at 60 celsius). anyway, last tuesday the colo's airconditioning went out. ( i was impressed they still had power and network connection w/ the wtc only about 4 blocks away) i watched the machines climb higher and higher all day w/ nobody down there to check the ac and no way to get in to fix stuff. I shut down all redundant systems and hoped. long story short the highest processors went up to about 63 degrees and all is/was still working well.
my questions (in a long winded sort of way) are:
what temp would they die at?
does sun have any internal limiters like the p4?
ej
jesus guys, back off. I think the guy has a good idea. I have no idea where to start looking for info but any info that has been verified and could help the authorities is a good thing. if anybody has any good ideas I will happily throw some machine power at them. maybe a distributed.net client to analyze the rest of the financial district stresses and make sure nothing else is likely to topple. it seems we could do more to help the effort and we can definitely do better than bitching about them not using the network.
well said and thank you
ooohh a grammar flame. you really zinged him.
/. article). i get sick of ye olde brits trying to hold on to an outdated form of language. i imagine it is largely because we have taken their language and propigated it world wide.
besides, language evolves. "doh" is now considered a word (see a previous
whatever, it is sort of like bitching about typos. couldn't you find anything better in his post to respond to?
the arguement for internet connectivity is, (as is mentioned in teh article) that it allows access to a knowledgebase on how to properly do all of the things they need. ie proper crop rotation, power grids, etc..... with access to the network they can actually set it up correctly and efficiently the first time rather than repeating all the mistakes we made the first time around.
that is fair enough. i don't see the need to involve the russians in this. that just complicates the matter.
i don't agree. I would like to see him get out but I think it is much more important that we get rid of the DMCA. if we can get rid of it, we can almost definitely get him out. but I think our priority should be to fix the law so this doesn't keep happening or even get worse.
ej
i absolutely agree. RPG's helped not just in math and reading but also served to build a knowledgebase for different mythologies and some also tried to work a bunch of physics in that gave me a base of understanding.
the most important skill, as i see it, was the problem solving using an arbitrary set of rules. ie given the thief's scale walls, the magician's 4 spells and your ball of wax you have to storm a castle. figure out a creative way to do it.
that and it kept me out of drugs until later in school which I think was a good thing.
the purpose of the place, as i see it, is to remove your data from the possibility of control by another party. while this can be b/c you are doing "bad" things it is not the only reason. this idea of "if you aren't doing anything wrong you don't have to hide" is terrifying.
ok, so you have this plasma "floating" in the bottle at 12 gazillion degrees. the power goes out. doesn't your ball of plasma just eat it's way through anything it touches and head towards the center of the earth?
ok, but you forgot something, as I recall:
Roland: 5
Helmet: 5
(slams up visor) 1 2 3 4 5!! that's the stupidest combination I have ever heard. it is the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage.
(snip couple seconds/minutes)
President Spaceball: What is the combination?
Helmet: 12345
PS: Amazing! that is the same combination I have on my luggage
I know I missed some details but at least it is a bit closer to the original.
ej