IEDs are being planted specifically to kill soldiers, and seem to have the intended effect judging from the news. I see lots of kids with legs blown off from russian and US mines, not seeing it so much from IEDs.
The answer is - they can't. It's as accurate as a magic eight ball. But someone has to pay when a murder is done, and it's her unlucky day.
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What, exactly, is in the final game that wasn't in the E3 demo back in '06?
It took 2 years to polish the bugs out of games _THIS_ simple? What? This is pretty much exactly what he demonstrated back then.
I think Will discovered rule #2:
1: Design game. 2: Take 2 years paid vacation 3: Profit
Let me know what the "casual gamers" think of the space stage. I think it's "Pirates are attacking your colony! Pirates are attacking your colony! Ecodisaster has struck your colony! Pirates are attacking your colony! You have taken too long, and were eaten by the borg."
1 - bad game, I didn't get paid to review it. 2 - unused 3 - unused 4 - bad game I got paid to review 5 - anywhere from "doesn't suck" to "best game ever"
except you have no idea what P2P means in this case.
It doesn't mean "flung out in the internet to a thousand hosts who redirect it to the recipient.". It means you (a peer) communicate directly with your friend (also a peer). Peer to Peer. P2P. Get it?
IRC "DCC Send" is a P2P protocol.
And the upside of using skype is they've done a lot of work towards getting around NAT problems, including using their own servers as a relay / third party initiator of UDP traffic to get the packets flowing through your gateway.
First, traceroute to the closest IP. If traceroute is blocked, then snmpwalk IP-FORWARD-MIB::ipCidrRouteIfIndex of your own gateway, which conveniently gives you destination, masklength, nexhop, and interface index. It's a damned useful table.
Repeat for each nexthop until nexthop is 0.0.0.0 (connected). This is the closest IP-based router.
snmpwalk IP-MIB::ipNetToPhysicalPhysAddress.[ifindex].ipv4.4.[destination ip]. That's your snmp "arp".
If you know the IPs of your switches (they probably don't, but admins on slashdot might find this useful) you can then snmpget BRIDGE-MIB::dot1dTpFdbPort.$snmpmac (MAC address in decimal form) on the switch to get the port it's attached to.
Now you know how to get (netwise) from point A to point B, so you send a monkey to start looking up cables.
Router A interface N, physically connected to... Redocumentation time. It's not that big a deal, companies have to do it all the time when they acquire someone with a lower standard of documentation.
Judging from how screwed they are, they are going to have to do that anyway, so the sooner they get started the better. Once they have the network physically (and logically) mapped, they can start reconfiguring the network one router at a time.
And perhaps, this time, they'll require hardcopy documentation of their admins.
SNMP is an amazingly useful tool, and a lot of smaller shops should really look into it. It's not just for "the big boys" with enterprise level SNMP management software.
I'd just like to take a moment to point out that citing a "x%" failure rate is a meaningless number.
Everything everywhere has a 100% failure rate - over a long enough timespan. At the opposite end, you've got the DoA rate, which is generally really low. So, over what time span are they claiming a 10-20% failure rate for nV chips? 1 month? 1 year? "lifetime" ( = product lifecycle)
Make that 24 panels or 150x24x4 = 14.4 KW daily. Although they make 200W panels the same size giving me 19.2KW which would be enough to power any house with a 150A service or less. If you had a 150A service you couldn't use this much energy in a day without blowing a fuse somewhere. I have a 100A service and would have to push some of this energy back to the utility or have a storage plan.
I think your math is wrong. Your breaker is instantaneous load, not daily load - so 150w * 24 panels = 4800w, or ~20a on a 240v feed/40a on a 115. I don't know about you, but I draw a lot more then that.
I priced your system out - $42,000 for the equipment (panels & transfer switch), and you have to install it (permits/certified electrician) on top of that. At my average power bill of $300/month, I'd have to have a 100% savings every month for about 15-20 years (after interest) to make it worthwhile.
Nuclear fuel has a limited supply? I suppose, if by limited you mean "will run out of the reserves we currently know of in 1000 years unless we use seawater reclamation, fusion, or breeder reactors to make more efficient use of it."
I'd MUCH rather we used uranium for our baseload power needs rather then bulldozing the entire Appalachian mountain chain for coal.
People play cruel pranks all the time. If she should be punished, so should all of them. You'd have never even heard of her if the dumb bitch hadn't gone emo and killed herself. I'm not heartless, I've just seen a lot worse behavior that's "perfectly acceptable" because someone didn't decide to go lights-out over it.
Yes, you absolutely should. And you should be completely shocked every time they can't install it. And you should tell all your neighbors to do the same - because seriously, all those rollouts do cost them a huge pile of dough, and the more people who do it the better.
Don't feel bad anyway - A) they'll never go bankrupt and B) they are "too big to fall" which means we'll be bailing them out over their fuckups.
Because time is an excellent filter. There were tons of horrible books written 50+ years ago, but nobody remembers them. 99% of everything is garbage - you're seeing the 1% that was worthwhile.
Looking back on the books of the 90s in 2040 you'll have the same impression that it was a golden age of literacy.
Ok, that's got me curious - what's the cosmological model for a 13ish billion year old universe, but distances greater then 26bn LY apart? Galaxies traveling at > c for the early part of the universe?
Actually, I have a better plan - fuck the idiots who wrote IE6-hack-centric-pages and used a strict doctype. If a page claims strict compliance, render it that way. If it claims nothing, run it in quirks mode. Oh gods no a table-based layout might not look right! These idiots are bitching that their non-compliant websites arn't pixel-perfect in layout, not that it renders a blank page.
yeah pretty worthless, I've bought $1000 worth of drive from them, but that's after jan 1 2006. Even if if it was before that, I would have to file 10 seperate claims for ~$5 each. Meanwhile the cocksucking trial lawyers get a cool 1.8mn in cash.
Seriously - class action lawsuits are utterly worthless. "Whoops we ripped you off by conspiring to raise memory prices tenfold. Here's a 2 dollar coupon that expires the day we get around to mailing it out and is only good at a single retailer in northern alaska. "
Seriously - How many people here paid nearly a grand for 32 meg SIMMS? Remember the "welp we had a glue factory fire so prices skyrocketed!" bullshit? Special glue just for memory ICs - and that scaled exactly with capacity? Yeah, that "glue factory fire."
"Oh yeah our batteries in our ipods are horribly defective here everyone who spent $300 on this shitty self-destructing rev of hardware and can cough up documentation gets 2 free songs on our own music store."
I'd really prefer the courts just fine the fuck out of the companies and it goes to something worthwhile - letting them use legal judgements as cheap advertising is just bullshit.
yes, but we're talking 5 years since filmgimp/cinepaint forked to make 32bit because it was needed for professional work then. Why is gimp competing with MS-Paint in 2007, when in 2002 it was obvious that 8bit-channels were obselete?
Actually, you're dead wrong. There's a reason credit cards are so horrible - a supreme court case ruled that you only have to comply with the laws of the state that you are operating out of. There was rapidly a race to the bottom between a few shitty states to get rid of the Usury laws, and now 99% of credit card/mortgage brokers are operating out of one of those states.
The same with sales tax - if you have any part of your business in the state, you have to remit sales tax to in-state transactions, even if it is an online transaction that shipped in from another state. If you have no footprint in that state, no sales tax requirement. (The onus is left upon the buyer to voluntarily pay the requisite amount - which they generally never do. Not even businesses.)
Also, the only real "fair" way to allocate scarse resources would be to auction the tickets with a long-enough window, then let the scalpers markup as much as they want. If someone didn't bother to buy tickets before the last second, the secondary market will supply them.
Artifical price caps on a scarse good always create a black market. Period. That's inarguable. "free market" breaks down on scarsity models when you have the ability of a single non-originating actor to aquire all of the goods and reprice them. Auctions kill most of his profit margin - if he's competing with the people who are going to go to the game anyway, why should he outbid them? When they refuse to pay $850 on the auction, would they pay it at the door? He'll end up with tickets he can't sell.
Again, which is why you get a cracked copy of said games. "Sorry I won't share a computer with that _OTHER_ software" is bullshit. I don't know what the hell they're trying to do, either - I installed the cracked version of C&C3 via daemon tools. Most of these are cracked AND out on the net before release day - hell, you can finish games before you can legitimately buy them. Seriously, what are these clowns thinking - why the fuck would I pay money to infest my system with crippling viruses? When I buy it for real, I _STILL_ have to go download a cracked copy just to play the damned thing, the legitimate version refuses to install. Newsflash - we hate your rootkits, your securom and trying to type in 40-character keys with "o" and "0" in them. You're not stopping piracy and we all know it. Just release the goddamned game so I know I can go to the store, buy it and install it.
The patent is on their hybrid 'checkbox/windows selection' GUI abomination. It's really fucking ugly - note the "If you scroll the current checked selection off the screen, the behavior changes."
IF YOU SCROLL THE BEHAVIOR CHANGES.
Dear IBM: Didn't you learn to share your drugs? Please be giving me some of that crack.
you're the idiot - the exploit works because _IF NON ROOT USERS_ can call chroot, _THEY_ setup the /etc/group and /etc/passwd, so the (hardlinked, suid) copy of su sees the user copies. Notice how they get to pick the root password? Right. Now you get it. This is the "security" reason why a convienience/testing feature got made root-only.
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I'll call bullshit on this one.
Landmines kill indiscriminately.
IEDs are being planted specifically to kill soldiers, and seem to have the intended effect judging from the news. I see lots of kids with legs blown off from russian and US mines, not seeing it so much from IEDs.
The answer is - they can't. It's as accurate as a magic eight ball. But someone has to pay when a murder is done, and it's her unlucky day.
What, exactly, is in the final game that wasn't in the E3 demo back in '06?
It took 2 years to polish the bugs out of games _THIS_ simple? What? This is pretty much exactly what he demonstrated back then.
I think Will discovered rule #2:
1: Design game.
2: Take 2 years paid vacation
3: Profit
Let me know what the "casual gamers" think of the space stage. I think it's "Pirates are attacking your colony! Pirates are attacking your colony! Ecodisaster has struck your colony! Pirates are attacking your colony! You have taken too long, and were eaten by the borg."
I mean grob.
I mean grox.
Easier to translate system:
1 - bad game, I didn't get paid to review it.
2 - unused
3 - unused
4 - bad game I got paid to review
5 - anywhere from "doesn't suck" to "best game ever"
except you have no idea what P2P means in this case.
It doesn't mean "flung out in the internet to a thousand hosts who redirect it to the recipient.". It means you (a peer) communicate directly with your friend (also a peer). Peer to Peer. P2P. Get it?
IRC "DCC Send" is a P2P protocol.
And the upside of using skype is they've done a lot of work towards getting around NAT problems, including using their own servers as a relay / third party initiator of UDP traffic to get the packets flowing through your gateway.
Actually, you don't need to arp.
First, traceroute to the closest IP. If traceroute is blocked, then snmpwalk IP-FORWARD-MIB::ipCidrRouteIfIndex of your own gateway, which conveniently gives you destination, masklength, nexhop, and interface index. It's a damned useful table.
Repeat for each nexthop until nexthop is 0.0.0.0 (connected). This is the closest IP-based router.
snmpwalk IP-MIB::ipNetToPhysicalPhysAddress.[ifindex].ipv4.4.[destination ip]. That's your snmp "arp".
If you know the IPs of your switches (they probably don't, but admins on slashdot might find this useful) you can then snmpget BRIDGE-MIB::dot1dTpFdbPort.$snmpmac (MAC address in decimal form) on the switch to get the port it's attached to.
Now you know how to get (netwise) from point A to point B, so you send a monkey to start looking up cables.
Router A interface N, physically connected to... Redocumentation time. It's not that big a deal, companies have to do it all the time when they acquire someone with a lower standard of documentation.
Judging from how screwed they are, they are going to have to do that anyway, so the sooner they get started the better. Once they have the network physically (and logically) mapped, they can start reconfiguring the network one router at a time.
And perhaps, this time, they'll require hardcopy documentation of their admins.
SNMP is an amazingly useful tool, and a lot of smaller shops should really look into it. It's not just for "the big boys" with enterprise level SNMP management software.
I'd like to point out that just because there are two sides, doesn't mean there are two sets of extremists.
As an example, Flat Earthers. Am I an extremist for believing in a spherical earth? Obviously my views are diametrically opposed to theirs.
ID = Young Earth Creationism = Flat Earth.
I'd just like to take a moment to point out that citing a "x%" failure rate is a meaningless number.
Everything everywhere has a 100% failure rate - over a long enough timespan. At the opposite end, you've got the DoA rate, which is generally really low. So, over what time span are they claiming a 10-20% failure rate for nV chips? 1 month? 1 year? "lifetime" ( = product lifecycle)
Make that 24 panels or 150x24x4 = 14.4 KW daily. Although they make 200W panels the same size giving me 19.2KW which would be enough to power any house with a 150A service or less. If you had a 150A service you couldn't use this much energy in a day without blowing a fuse somewhere. I have a 100A service and would have to push some of this energy back to the utility or have a storage plan.
I think your math is wrong. Your breaker is instantaneous load, not daily load - so 150w * 24 panels = 4800w, or ~20a on a 240v feed/40a on a 115. I don't know about you, but I draw a lot more then that.
I priced your system out - $42,000 for the equipment (panels & transfer switch), and you have to install it (permits/certified electrician) on top of that. At my average power bill of $300/month, I'd have to have a 100% savings every month for about 15-20 years (after interest) to make it worthwhile.
Only oil and nuclear have limited supply.
Nuclear fuel has a limited supply? I suppose, if by limited you mean "will run out of the reserves we currently know of in 1000 years unless we use seawater reclamation, fusion, or breeder reactors to make more efficient use of it."
I'd MUCH rather we used uranium for our baseload power needs rather then bulldozing the entire Appalachian mountain chain for coal.
People play cruel pranks all the time. If she should be punished, so should all of them. You'd have never even heard of her if the dumb bitch hadn't gone emo and killed herself. I'm not heartless, I've just seen a lot worse behavior that's "perfectly acceptable" because someone didn't decide to go lights-out over it.
Don't feel bad anyway - A) they'll never go bankrupt and B) they are "too big to fall" which means we'll be bailing them out over their fuckups.
Business as usual.
Still no 64-bit release, but at least they're building it on the minefield nightlies.
Which, BTW, seem to indicate that b5 is the last before final. Nightlies are now 3.0pre not 3.0b6pre.
Because time is an excellent filter. There were tons of horrible books written 50+ years ago, but nobody remembers them. 99% of everything is garbage - you're seeing the 1% that was worthwhile.
Looking back on the books of the 90s in 2040 you'll have the same impression that it was a golden age of literacy.
*cough*bullshit*cough*
What's with all the science articles lately that are basically investor scams?
Ok, that's got me curious - what's the cosmological model for a 13ish billion year old universe, but distances greater then 26bn LY apart? Galaxies traveling at > c for the early part of the universe?
Actually, I have a better plan - fuck the idiots who wrote IE6-hack-centric-pages and used a strict doctype. If a page claims strict compliance, render it that way. If it claims nothing, run it in quirks mode. Oh gods no a table-based layout might not look right! These idiots are bitching that their non-compliant websites arn't pixel-perfect in layout, not that it renders a blank page.
yeah pretty worthless, I've bought $1000 worth of drive from them, but that's after jan 1 2006. Even if if it was before that, I would have to file 10 seperate claims for ~$5 each. Meanwhile the cocksucking trial lawyers get a cool 1.8mn in cash.
Seriously - class action lawsuits are utterly worthless. "Whoops we ripped you off by conspiring to raise memory prices tenfold. Here's a 2 dollar coupon that expires the day we get around to mailing it out and is only good at a single retailer in northern alaska. "
Seriously - How many people here paid nearly a grand for 32 meg SIMMS? Remember the "welp we had a glue factory fire so prices skyrocketed!" bullshit? Special glue just for memory ICs - and that scaled exactly with capacity? Yeah, that "glue factory fire."
"Oh yeah our batteries in our ipods are horribly defective here everyone who spent $300 on this shitty self-destructing rev of hardware and can cough up documentation gets 2 free songs on our own music store."
I'd really prefer the courts just fine the fuck out of the companies and it goes to something worthwhile - letting them use legal judgements as cheap advertising is just bullshit.
yes, but we're talking 5 years since filmgimp/cinepaint forked to make 32bit because it was needed for professional work then. Why is gimp competing with MS-Paint in 2007, when in 2002 it was obvious that 8bit-channels were obselete?
Hey look they've got CMYK support and more then 8 bit color too! Wow, a modern version of gimp!
Oh sorry, I was using photoshop. Gimp is still worthless for anything that'd you'd want a serious tool for.
How many KERNEL security exploits were released in the last year?
Some occasional obscure driver bullshit, but I can't think of any in the parts of the kernel everyone will have.
Actually, you're dead wrong. There's a reason credit cards are so horrible - a supreme court case ruled that you only have to comply with the laws of the state that you are operating out of. There was rapidly a race to the bottom between a few shitty states to get rid of the Usury laws, and now 99% of credit card/mortgage brokers are operating out of one of those states.
The same with sales tax - if you have any part of your business in the state, you have to remit sales tax to in-state transactions, even if it is an online transaction that shipped in from another state. If you have no footprint in that state, no sales tax requirement. (The onus is left upon the buyer to voluntarily pay the requisite amount - which they generally never do. Not even businesses.)
Also, the only real "fair" way to allocate scarse resources would be to auction the tickets with a long-enough window, then let the scalpers markup as much as they want. If someone didn't bother to buy tickets before the last second, the secondary market will supply them.
Artifical price caps on a scarse good always create a black market. Period. That's inarguable. "free market" breaks down on scarsity models when you have the ability of a single non-originating actor to aquire all of the goods and reprice them. Auctions kill most of his profit margin - if he's competing with the people who are going to go to the game anyway, why should he outbid them? When they refuse to pay $850 on the auction, would they pay it at the door? He'll end up with tickets he can't sell.
Again, which is why you get a cracked copy of said games. "Sorry I won't share a computer with that _OTHER_ software" is bullshit. I don't know what the hell they're trying to do, either - I installed the cracked version of C&C3 via daemon tools. Most of these are cracked AND out on the net before release day - hell, you can finish games before you can legitimately buy them. Seriously, what are these clowns thinking - why the fuck would I pay money to infest my system with crippling viruses? When I buy it for real, I _STILL_ have to go download a cracked copy just to play the damned thing, the legitimate version refuses to install. Newsflash - we hate your rootkits, your securom and trying to type in 40-character keys with "o" and "0" in them. You're not stopping piracy and we all know it. Just release the goddamned game so I know I can go to the store, buy it and install it.
The patent is on their hybrid 'checkbox/windows selection' GUI abomination. It's really fucking ugly - note the "If you scroll the current checked selection off the screen, the behavior changes."
IF YOU SCROLL THE BEHAVIOR CHANGES.
Dear IBM: Didn't you learn to share your drugs? Please be giving me some of that crack.
you're the idiot - the exploit works because _IF NON ROOT USERS_ can call chroot, _THEY_ setup the /etc/group and /etc/passwd, so the (hardlinked, suid) copy of su sees the user copies. Notice how they get to pick the root password? Right. Now you get it. This is the "security" reason why a convienience/testing feature got made root-only.