According to this article one of the defenses of Akamai is the big diversity of their hardware...
Erm, I think the poster made a mistake here. This diversity is attributed to the 13 root servers. Akamai's services do not employ such techniques due to the unsupportable cost. Based on the problems we saw during the DDoS, I can't say Akamai had much to offer in its arsenal.
Despite using rails to cleverly complete the circuit to the next stage, if you are using coils to accelerate the projectile you have created a gauss gun or "coil gun" rather than a rail gun.
Yeah. After typing the whole thing up, I did a little additional research and saw that "modern" stuff uses the magnetic field from the rails themselves to generate a Lorentz force. We were probably seeing both forces at work, but I suspect the Lorentz force was actually working against us in our setup. We actually considered photodetectors at first, but we were concerned about the switching speed of what could be afforded on the budget of a high school student at the time. There's plenty of commodity stuff available today that would work great for that. The rail idea was one that my partner woke up with one morning after we'd spent a couple days on calculations to figure out how well the photodetectors and associated electronics would perform.
A friend and I started building an EM rail gun for a high school science project in 1985. We didn't even know about any military projects. We just thought it was cool to accelerate a nail using solenoids. It was years later that I found out our idea was being pursued by the military, and I looked up what I could find on the projects to see how it differed from ours. Besides bigger magnets and more power, it functions very much like what we built. In our case, the inside of the gun barrel had a "railroad track" of wires that used the metal projectile to complete a circuit and conduct electricity (through the projectile) to the correct solenoid (the one that would continue to accelerate the projectile). The only problem we had was that part of the momentum of the projectile would be thwarted by the fact that the iron in the nail would stick to the wire when current was passed through. The military solved this problem by using a tungsten rod positioned above a wad of metal foil (iron or steel). The metal foil completes the circuit and also, due to the extreme amounts of electricity, vaporizes. The foil plasma vapors are then pulled along the magnetic field just like the nail in our experiment, but without the sticking problem. The accelerating (and expanding) vapors push the projectile through the barrel, causing it to exit with astounding velocity. This kind of weapon goes through armor plating like a knife through butter.
Hense, it bans polygyny and polyandry as well as homosexual unions.
Based on the language above, it doesn't seem to limit multiple marriages. I mean, each separate marriage could be considered the union of a man and a woman. Do you agree?
The definition of marriage ammendment against homosexual unions also defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.
OK, now I know what you're talking about. However, somebody else replied with the text, and the quote is "between a man and a woman," which does not seem to imply that there is any limit on the number of unions, deemed "marriage", that may take place. Even left as you have it above, "between one man and one woman" does not exclude the possibility of multiple marriages. However, it might be ambiguous enough to require a trip through the court system before it gets fully interpreted.
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or does wireless seem a bit overhyped?
It all depends on your needs or work habits. Here are my personal reasons:
Wireless LAN at home: I frequently have to work at home. The office where our internet access is downstairs. I like having a wireless signal so that I can either work at the kitchen table or while sitting on the couch in the family room. It allows me to at least be in the same room with my family while I work. I could install a couple ethernet jacks and run cable, but that's a hassle in my house and I would have to break my internet connection to move from the kitchen to the family room.
Wireless Hotspots: I travel internationally for business. As such, I have rather long expense reports to file. The work needed to file an expense report is not taken into consideration when projects are assigned to me. At the moment, our expense reporting system requires an internet connection. It's nice to be able to handle my expense reporting while I'm in an airport or a cafe somewhere through wireless. It's also nice to be able to get to e-mail and communicate with people at work while sitting in the airport. This is especially true when I'm traveling during a business day.
Cell Phones: OK, in my mind these are actually less useful. But good reasons to have them are:
Unlimited calls to my wife's mobile regardless of where I am in the country.
Nationwide long distance included
Backup source of connectivity for my laptop (GSM + GPRS)
A way to call for help in an emergency where there's no phone around
Hundreds of thousands of Mormons arguing for a constitutional ammendment that is so religiously based that it also makes the marriage practices of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, etc., which are still vigorously defended if not practiced by Mormons unconstitutional
Wait, are you saying the Mormons are arguing for a constitutional ammendment that bans polygyny? Which ammendment was that? What did I miss? That sounds REALLY strange.
Swing over to www.democraticunderground.com and see what REAL liberals (not straw men) say about NPR. They accuse it of being dominated by right wingers.
Then personal hell for those guys would be a situation where they were forced to listen to Rush Limbaugh 24x7, right?:-)
So are you claiming that they shouldn't be allowed to advertise their products? If so, why not?
There's a difference between advertising and playing the whole song. It's closer to an Infomercial than an advertisement. Also bear in mind that in a perfect world, radio stations would play music that their target audience wants to hear. When the industry is paying them to play, that's not what happens. In a "normal" market, the listeners would just turn to another station. Unfortunately, all of the stations are tied into the same game, given the whole playlist monopoly thing that goes on. Perhaps if the labels would exercise a little bit of restraint, like not paying for the same song to be played over 100 times in the same week, nobody would care about an "advertisement" here and there. Unfortunately, companies (and even more so cartels) seem to have a little difficulty figuring out just how far is too far.
Because companies that do this should be taxed to hell and back for doing it.
I understand your feelings, and I feel the pain myself, but I think this is going too far. What would probably be a better idea is to level the playing field a bit. In many cases, the workers to whom the jobs have gone are forced to work unreasonable hours in very unhealthy conditions. This happens some in India, more so in China. Instead of taxing companies that outsource, we should make sure that the people receiving the jobs have at least similar protection that our own workers have. Complying with OSHA and other regulatory agencies costs companies money, but it protects the workers. The same should be offered to the receivers of the jobs that went overseas.
Also, it should be required that each company make public all shifts of labor to overseas. This allows consumers who really care about the situation to become informed and make decisions on their own, and helps keep the government out of the market.
I wonder... did s/he compile the lastest custom kernel for their hardware? Did they tune ATA I/O performance with hdparm? Did he disable non-essential daemons running in the background? I doubt it.
Yeah, but the article makes it clear that your "average" person isn't going to want to or feel comfortable doing this kind of thing. A really nice addition to installers would be to check the hardware available and provide the option to do some of these things automatically for machines with more "limited" resources. Is there one out there that already does this?
At least in Linux one has the option to switch between lighter environments such as XFCE, fluxbox, etc. when more power is required.
Agreed, but many applications are built for either KDE or GNOME, and therefore require that at least the libraries be loaded. That can be a particularly big hit, especially at first runtime. Since I'm not contributing to either project, I really have no authority to make demands, but it would be nice if the coders paid a little more attention to both code size and speed in their development. Also, making things more modular might avoid having all kinds of bloaty code that will never be used loaded into memory.
No, it's because selecting the proper display - even by name, size and brand from the GUI installer and then selecting the exact video card in the same manner, the desktop (after installation) is massive but the resolution is small, forcing me to mouse around the edges to see the rest of the desktop.
That is absolutely bizarre. Could you give all information on both your monitor and video card? I'd like to do a little research, and if I don't come up with anything at least I know what to avoid.
If I could at least get the monitor working, that would be enough for me to switch. It just really sucks having a $3,000 1920x1600 dpi monitor and a $500 video card but only get a 1024x768 resolution in linux.
Is it because you are having trouble figuring out how to switch resolutions in X?
Instead of spending time consulting lawyers, why don't the lusers instead spend time reading the accompanying manual which tells them to select their own password.
Maybe instead, you need to spend some time reading the article, the accompanying comments and the previous Slashdot posting. This is not a user-configurable password. It's a backdoor login and password that users are not notified of. I might as well not bother to change the default login and password if anybody can instead use the backdoor set.
Why do people want to blame, sue and hold responsible a company for the actions of users who have chosen either not to read or not to follow the doccumentation.
Because there is no action users could take to fix this problem while still using the device, and the documentation says NOTHING about it. There is no reason for this kind of backdoor other than for hacking by Netgear employees. In such a consumer-grade device, emergency access for a lost password should be as easy as a hardware button to reset to factory defaults. For commercial-grade devices, there are more complicated methods of hardware-enabling backdoors that are otherwise unavailable.
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Erm, I think the poster made a mistake here. This diversity is attributed to the 13 root servers. Akamai's services do not employ such techniques due to the unsupportable cost. Based on the problems we saw during the DDoS, I can't say Akamai had much to offer in its arsenal.
Or am I the one who misread?
You REALLY need to see Spiderman 2. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how good a movie that reuses thematic and plot devices can actually be.
Maybe he downloaded it onto an old hard drive that was failing and then promptly threw it into the trash?
I'll do you one better. It's a run-on sentence. Replace the commas with semicolons and it will be a bit better. :-)
Yeah. After typing the whole thing up, I did a little additional research and saw that "modern" stuff uses the magnetic field from the rails themselves to generate a Lorentz force. We were probably seeing both forces at work, but I suspect the Lorentz force was actually working against us in our setup. We actually considered photodetectors at first, but we were concerned about the switching speed of what could be afforded on the budget of a high school student at the time. There's plenty of commodity stuff available today that would work great for that. The rail idea was one that my partner woke up with one morning after we'd spent a couple days on calculations to figure out how well the photodetectors and associated electronics would perform.
No, this is the US Government we're talking about. The price is probably more like $1500 per license. :-)
A friend and I started building an EM rail gun for a high school science project in 1985. We didn't even know about any military projects. We just thought it was cool to accelerate a nail using solenoids. It was years later that I found out our idea was being pursued by the military, and I looked up what I could find on the projects to see how it differed from ours. Besides bigger magnets and more power, it functions very much like what we built. In our case, the inside of the gun barrel had a "railroad track" of wires that used the metal projectile to complete a circuit and conduct electricity (through the projectile) to the correct solenoid (the one that would continue to accelerate the projectile). The only problem we had was that part of the momentum of the projectile would be thwarted by the fact that the iron in the nail would stick to the wire when current was passed through. The military solved this problem by using a tungsten rod positioned above a wad of metal foil (iron or steel). The metal foil completes the circuit and also, due to the extreme amounts of electricity, vaporizes. The foil plasma vapors are then pulled along the magnetic field just like the nail in our experiment, but without the sticking problem. The accelerating (and expanding) vapors push the projectile through the barrel, causing it to exit with astounding velocity. This kind of weapon goes through armor plating like a knife through butter.
Based on the language above, it doesn't seem to limit multiple marriages. I mean, each separate marriage could be considered the union of a man and a woman. Do you agree?
OK, now I know what you're talking about. However, somebody else replied with the text, and the quote is "between a man and a woman," which does not seem to imply that there is any limit on the number of unions, deemed "marriage", that may take place. Even left as you have it above, "between one man and one woman" does not exclude the possibility of multiple marriages. However, it might be ambiguous enough to require a trip through the court system before it gets fully interpreted.
It all depends on your needs or work habits. Here are my personal reasons:
No, I think it's instead because of competition from the cable industry. What do cable providers in your area charge for similar speeds?
Wait, are you saying the Mormons are arguing for a constitutional ammendment that bans polygyny? Which ammendment was that? What did I miss? That sounds REALLY strange.
Then personal hell for those guys would be a situation where they were forced to listen to Rush Limbaugh 24x7, right? :-)
I would HARDLY call NPR right-wing dominated.
There's a difference between advertising and playing the whole song. It's closer to an Infomercial than an advertisement. Also bear in mind that in a perfect world, radio stations would play music that their target audience wants to hear. When the industry is paying them to play, that's not what happens. In a "normal" market, the listeners would just turn to another station. Unfortunately, all of the stations are tied into the same game, given the whole playlist monopoly thing that goes on. Perhaps if the labels would exercise a little bit of restraint, like not paying for the same song to be played over 100 times in the same week, nobody would care about an "advertisement" here and there. Unfortunately, companies (and even more so cartels) seem to have a little difficulty figuring out just how far is too far.
I understand your feelings, and I feel the pain myself, but I think this is going too far. What would probably be a better idea is to level the playing field a bit. In many cases, the workers to whom the jobs have gone are forced to work unreasonable hours in very unhealthy conditions. This happens some in India, more so in China. Instead of taxing companies that outsource, we should make sure that the people receiving the jobs have at least similar protection that our own workers have. Complying with OSHA and other regulatory agencies costs companies money, but it protects the workers. The same should be offered to the receivers of the jobs that went overseas.
Also, it should be required that each company make public all shifts of labor to overseas. This allows consumers who really care about the situation to become informed and make decisions on their own, and helps keep the government out of the market.
Yeah, but the article makes it clear that your "average" person isn't going to want to or feel comfortable doing this kind of thing. A really nice addition to installers would be to check the hardware available and provide the option to do some of these things automatically for machines with more "limited" resources. Is there one out there that already does this?
True, but there are two problems:
Agreed, but many applications are built for either KDE or GNOME, and therefore require that at least the libraries be loaded. That can be a particularly big hit, especially at first runtime. Since I'm not contributing to either project, I really have no authority to make demands, but it would be nice if the coders paid a little more attention to both code size and speed in their development. Also, making things more modular might avoid having all kinds of bloaty code that will never be used loaded into memory.
No, but turning these features off should allow you to run well in 64MB or less. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
That is absolutely bizarre. Could you give all information on both your monitor and video card? I'd like to do a little research, and if I don't come up with anything at least I know what to avoid.
Is it because you are having trouble figuring out how to switch resolutions in X?
That's an appropos job. Try "man -k keyword" instead.
No. The asterisk is too high up. Maybe if we could use the <SUB> tag...
Maybe instead, you need to spend some time reading the article, the accompanying comments and the previous Slashdot posting. This is not a user-configurable password. It's a backdoor login and password that users are not notified of. I might as well not bother to change the default login and password if anybody can instead use the backdoor set.
Why do people want to blame, sue and hold responsible a company for the actions of users who have chosen either not to read or not to follow the doccumentation.
Because there is no action users could take to fix this problem while still using the device, and the documentation says NOTHING about it. There is no reason for this kind of backdoor other than for hacking by Netgear employees. In such a consumer-grade device, emergency access for a lost password should be as easy as a hardware button to reset to factory defaults. For commercial-grade devices, there are more complicated methods of hardware-enabling backdoors that are otherwise unavailable.