yes, he probably has, a firm hold of himself, maybe slightly lubricated hold... you're gonna have to wipe a lot of stuff after that "hold", more than just bits'n'bytes
as to weenies a few posts up complaining that there are no sexy geek-chicks out there, yes there are,but sorry guys, they just don't talk to complete losers that waste their time on slashdot and who have to look for girlfriends {given that they'd have time to look besides lubricate and/. };)
The geniuses doing it over there forget the fact that the usb dongles are mostly powered by the usb bus, now if they get wireless, they will all have to have power adapters or batteries & chargers. Still a mess.
That's exactly what i was thinking about. The Russian gov. is not interested in powering up the northern villages for a few hundred million dollars, however they are willing to experiment there on mobile electricity stations to power their troops where ever they go. They have a budget for military, they don't have a budget for anything that is outside Moscow or Petersburg, the other people are just on their own there.
War is coming, the signs area all over the place lately, but like in the 30s, everybody just keeps ignoring them and wave the happy-happy-peace flag (yeah that grin that you're having now will kindly dissolve when somebody sticks his nuke down your throat).
Needless to say, this is a rather bad time to invest your money into the stock market;)
#1 Isn't he supposed to hype about T1 cpus and ultrasparcs (these don't run this app)
#2 Isn't he supposed to promote another programming platform (java) ?
#3 Isn't he supposed to sweettalk about solaris which doesnt "do the app" ?
#4 Is he trying to get clients that have to give up the environment where they are convinced ?
#5 Is this posted on a website where neither windows nor macosx are very popular amongst users ?
This looks like selling beachbeds to eskimos by bushmen. Nobody has a clue what's rolling.
They transmeta laptops are out there for quite a while already and very energy efficient. Now you need to invent something that takes less energy to spin the dvd drive and to lit up your screen.
I wish transmeta would be affordable, right now they are just far too expensive compared to via or amd geode, and all of these listed chips have extremely low power requirements. They are ideal for non performance laptops, pvr's, file storage servers. Less heat, less noise, less chances of the machine burning down.
* i don't use phones (i think i have made 2 calls in september...), except for calling my mother to wish her happy bd. * and i avoid being in the states.
Works quite well against tapping by the bushmen. Not sure about others tho.
The next posting here stated that hey we only need 410GBytes of storage per hour. Even if computers cut the phonecalls per day to a reasonable amount (let's say the use some kind of simple voice recognizition and select out 1 call of 1000) , that would mean that real humans have to listen to 300,000-400,000 calls per day (if one person makes one call in the day in the united states). And do you honestly think that sensitive data is dropped on cheap seagate drives ?:p
Every grandmother complaining that his upper neighbour is "terrorizing her with the hiphop music", will probably trigger a low hit. If a person bitches about the stupid war to his friend, says that al qaeda is so pointless and that osama is probably dead and that bush is just stupid, another one to pick. Or call your mate after a party and tell him that the girl you picked up was like on _nitro_ , a sex_bomb_ in the bed and too bad that she had a _bush_ down there.
Moreover, people that call eachother for the messages that cia/nsa/whoever would like to tap, probably use codetalk and maybe even custom encryption devices, rendering the voice recognizition as useful as a carrot on the end of the line.
The reports says itself that you have to be root to exploit it.
This is actually a problem these days. 7 years back you were root once in a month when you rebuilt your 2.2 kernel and lived happily afterwards as a normal user. Netscape 4.7 refused to start under root...
However, if you look around now, there are tons of guide out there how to install "this damn ati" on suse or how to hack "this nvidia" in fedora or how to apply "that qemu patch" in ubuntu. People provide weird patches and suggest the users to "sudo" the commands for this that and that. Guess what, anyone providing a guide out there can "root" all these machines, provided that his guide & software|patches is up long enough without being spotted.
The distros today don't put pressure on the "root factor", they just try to catch the dummy users from windows, but if those all endup sudo'ing just about anything to get the permissions correct, then the whole idea of linux security is gone.
Can you really imagine that the gov. would be able to tap that many wires ? Hundreds of millions of people calling every day, there is no way to even scan all these phonecalls, let alone pay attention to a certain message.
Also, i think you have to be brilliantly blue eyed and naive to believe that the CIA doesn't already tap wires without any kind of authorization, they are doing it, but only certain wires. So go on, call her neighbour and tell her that you're going over, nobody will know about it.
Laws are for people ('dumbusers' as analogue from 'our world), while some agencies are above the laws anyway ('h4x0r' kids).
Ofcourse i have no proof for my statements here, but do you really think i'd be alive, kicking and free if i'd have evidence for this ?
4x4 is a direct loan from car industry. You have a jeep that uses 4 wheels to crawl around, it has 4x4 written on it, do you assume it has 16 pulling wheels ? It doesnt say 4 times 4 cores, it says 4x4, it's an expression, not math, it's time to get over it:)
Anyway, i'd like to know where this article author lives, he claims that he can get DDR rams cheaper than DDR2, while in most places where i'm checking out, it's pretty much the other way around. Whatever x86 i will acquire as next will have at least DDR2 in it, there is no point to go for DDR & S939 anymore, the memory price just undermines it's cheapness.
However, what i'd would like to see (and to what amd will say "in your wildest wet dreams") , would be AMD Geode , running on DDR2 memory and consuming 15W power for the cpu and 60W for the whole machine. Fanless ofcourse:)
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To continue the misery of numbers, i'm pretty sure that the USB port doesn't allow more than 500mA to be drained from it in any position, so a 2500mAh battery would charge 5 hours... The real fast chargers today can do it in less than half an hour for 2000mAh+ batteries, "regular" fast chargers can do it in 1-2 hours....
So this usb chargeable battery offering is : more price, less value..
Btw. a schematics and parts to charge your "regular" NiMh batteries from the usb will cost you less than 24$, time for do-it-yourself...
I run my laptop as a desktop replacement , around 22-24 hours a day (depending on if i take it along to work or not), so there is the answer for the "why".
Secondly, last time i ran it, my cpu peaked at 80+ degrees in notime and the machine decided quietly just to shut down, which wasn't really what i expected:) I only managed to check the cpu temp and didn't even get to 'killall fah' (checking the temp. was the first reaction to the noise that the fan started to make).
While i saw this feature on BOINC, i didn't see it on fah. Let's just hope that they can improve that department and maybe reorganize their app a bit so that they could allow slower clients too. Even at 10% only, my machine would still produce 2.2-2.4h of production capability per day, counting in all machines that don't want to burn like candlelights, that would sum up quite a lot. (Why didn't they sub-boinc this thing anyway ?)
For the boinc people, thumbs up as long as the idea goes (the implementated gui / xml conf is a bit odd, i have to admit, but certainly a step in the right direction).
While probably 10% offtopic, i still hope this gets out to all the science app builders :
Please make your applications scalable in % of cpu power used:)
I have a laptop here, cute 3200 bogomips under it's belly, but i refuse to burn my system's cpu in favor of curing cancer. I wouldn't mind to give you 10% or 20% of the cpu power, because that wouldn't heat it up, but your applications that burn at 110% of the power available, are just not usable for most partly "idle" machines. Moreover, you'd get a bunch of workforce from fileservers which are idling on the cpu 90% of the time.. but as long as your applications just slay their performance in cold blood and cause them to run at nearly nuclear explosion temperatures (renicing the process will help against the first issue sometimes, but not the latter), you are just losing possible helpers.
One minimalistic "sleep" or "delay" into your mainloop, and whoop's , you're going to get more work done than you have ever before. Until then, nothing will fold on my machines over here.
From a Freudish point of view. The whole thing looks like a hoax, more like the interviewer has been just owned in a game times enough so his own bitterness his hitting out. Seriously, those imaginary questions which i doubt anyone answered at all (besides someones subconscious) are just so aggressive that any weak ass cheater would have hanged up the line.
There isn't really a point in the whole thing, just someone is bitching on an imaginary cheater. It would however be interesting to see an interview with a developer of a game and see how they counter the cheaters (not bit-by-bit but general wise) and what do they think about the whole thing. Cheating possibility on some corners may make a game even more popular (and therefor more profitable for them), do they really always fight it ?
As for cheaters: make your own cheat servers and kick the sh*t out of each others, let the 'normal players' have their fun. As far as i care, you still lose even if you win by cheating.
a) biodiesel is still just starting up, it will provide a rope for us for quite a while.
b) back to steam engines, we can still produce a lot of "powerforests" (i don't really know what's the correct english term for this type of fast growing plant industry) to burn, sun can help to heat the steam as well without using oil expensive plastic components.
c) hydrogen coming in, even if only as fuel cells. can be produced by windmills at shore.
d) burning good old alcohol also still works, can be produced from anything (sugar, potatoes, wheat..)
no reason to panic yet. ofcourse we have to cut down on energy usage a lot, but panic will not help doing it. infact, panic has proven to be very unefficient in anything else than powering wars.
When you technically think about a thunderstorm and the ionic purifier... you should find some very basic similarities:) The scale ofcourse is slightly different, but the overall idea...
Obligatory::night sober> go out She slaps you: "No you won't":night sober> flee Her slap misses you. Your slap misses her.:night sober> flee Her slap hits you. Your slap misses her.:night hp:scratched sober> flee Woooouuh... you managed to escape.
Bar
The tables are covered in pints. Dim light shines over the attractive female figures in the room. Enjoy your stay:night hp:scratched sober> drink pint:night hp:scratched slightly drunk> drink pint:night hp:scratched quite drunk> drink pint:night very drunk>
Even if the hibernation would work perfectly, you've got a dozen applications that use constant internet connections, those are not there after resume and apps start to act funny.
Moreover, there are applications that work as daemons with listening network sockets, if they are revived in a new environment with new ip coming from the hotspot over dhcp quite a bunch of them just fail to resume the work (lazy programmers:p).
You'd just have to redesign the whole logic of an operating system and networking to make it really usable with suspend/resume. Current development standards are usually based on the continious ideology and on a static environment, but that just doesn't apply in the resuming world:)
Sure, your notepad will manage to resume after suspend, but users would expect more.
As for the original topic, startup sounds are just plain annoyments made up by the marketing team. My laptop isn't a cheap one either, but it doesn't have hardware sound control, just software based buttons. Am i supposed to be annoying everyone else everywhere i got with some gling-glang-bling-blang ? Don't think so. I'll stay with the penguins, i want control.
He may be a wise man, but his boat obviously has fed the developers of IE... snippets that match and that we sometimes all hate:)
P2 Shift computation in time (precompute, evaluate lazily, share expenses or batch); P3 Relax system requirements (trade certainty or accuracy for time, shift computation in space); P4 Leverage off system components (exploit locality, trade memory for speed, exploit existing hardware), P7 Avoid unnecessary generality; P8 Don't be tied to reference implementation; P11 Optimize the expected case (use caches);
I wish that those m$ zombies would have paid more attention to the other points in the book too:(
hmm, i used linux debian on this setup, with a clunky realtek 3189 network card, and my video over the Xv extension of the xserver worked flawlessy, sound came through arts over the net, everything just works.
it's down to the configuration, the network itself can do it.
There are a dozen of isp's out there that have load balancing on their proxies based on the idea that the dns record of the proxy has multiple hits as ip addresses, now if the user computer hops from one to another, it seems to the server that the "client has changed his address", if you cut the wire here, the users will just be angry and disapointed. It would be very annoying to login everywhere again if your dog knocks over your dsl modem and you lose the connection for a fraction of a second.
Considering the amount of keyloggers on the move and the amount of dummy windows users blindly running them really undercuts any meanings for the session id hunt anyway. There are workarounds, but none of them are really comfortable.
For the article. You have an web application that allows execution of uploaded code files, aside from everything else, this is just intolerable. And without that fault the system on the whole still be unaffected in the large scale, only a single victim and his/her resources would be harmed.
As noted by many people in other posts, ffs learn to escape your variables and don't let people run uploaded files. If this should prove to be too hard for you, practice "do you want fries with that" for the future.
Do you know why there's no crime? Most of these people go to church!
Most spanish people go to church at well, try to lose the sight of your backpack for a second in Barcelona, you'd be surprised...
I think it's down to the people themselves, not where they go or what absurd religion they believe in. AL has nice and smart people, the weather is too iffy for the `bad people`. They prefer Florida (godspeed and stay there...):)
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yes, he probably has, a firm hold of himself, maybe slightly lubricated hold ...
,but sorry guys, they just don't talk to complete losers that waste their time on slashdot and who have to look for girlfriends {given that they'd have time to look besides lubricate and /. } ;)
you're gonna have to wipe a lot of stuff after that "hold", more than just bits'n'bytes
as to weenies a few posts up complaining that there are no sexy geek-chicks out there, yes there are
Not really.
The geniuses doing it over there forget the fact that the usb dongles are mostly powered by the usb bus, now if they get wireless, they will all have to have power adapters or batteries & chargers. Still a mess.
That's exactly what i was thinking about. The Russian gov. is not interested in powering up the northern villages for a few hundred million dollars, however they are willing to experiment there on mobile electricity stations to power their troops where ever they go. They have a budget for military, they don't have a budget for anything that is outside Moscow or Petersburg, the other people are just on their own there.
;)
War is coming, the signs area all over the place lately, but like in the 30s, everybody just keeps ignoring them and wave the happy-happy-peace flag (yeah that grin that you're having now will kindly dissolve when somebody sticks his nuke down your throat).
Needless to say, this is a rather bad time to invest your money into the stock market
Well to me it looks really odd.
#1 Isn't he supposed to hype about T1 cpus and ultrasparcs (these don't run this app)
#2 Isn't he supposed to promote another programming platform (java) ?
#3 Isn't he supposed to sweettalk about solaris which doesnt "do the app" ?
#4 Is he trying to get clients that have to give up the environment where they are convinced ?
#5 Is this posted on a website where neither windows nor macosx are very popular amongst users ?
This looks like selling beachbeds to eskimos by bushmen. Nobody has a clue what's rolling.
They transmeta laptops are out there for quite a while already and very energy efficient. Now you need to invent something that takes less energy to spin the dvd drive and to lit up your screen.
I wish transmeta would be affordable, right now they are just far too expensive compared to via or amd geode, and all of these listed chips have extremely low power requirements. They are ideal for non performance laptops, pvr's, file storage servers. Less heat, less noise, less chances of the machine burning down.
You don't get it, it's the "Laser" ...
....)
Mwuhahaahaaaa (Lego boss biting the little finger
Make notes
...), except for calling my mother to wish her happy bd.
:p
* i don't use phones (i think i have made 2 calls in september
* and i avoid being in the states.
Works quite well against tapping by the bushmen. Not sure about others tho.
The next posting here stated that hey we only need 410GBytes of storage per hour. Even if computers cut the phonecalls per day to a reasonable amount (let's say the use some kind of simple voice recognizition and select out 1 call of 1000) , that would mean that real humans have to listen to 300,000-400,000 calls per day (if one person makes one call in the day in the united states). And do you honestly think that sensitive data is dropped on cheap seagate drives ?
Every grandmother complaining that his upper neighbour is "terrorizing her with the hiphop music", will probably trigger a low hit. If a person bitches about the stupid war to his friend, says that al qaeda is so pointless and that osama is probably dead and that bush is just stupid, another one to pick. Or call your mate after a party and tell him that the girl you picked up was like on _nitro_ , a sex_bomb_ in the bed and too bad that she had a _bush_ down there.
Moreover, people that call eachother for the messages that cia/nsa/whoever would like to tap, probably use codetalk and maybe even custom encryption devices, rendering the voice recognizition as useful as a carrot on the end of the line.
The reports says itself that you have to be root to exploit it.
...
This is actually a problem these days. 7 years back you were root once in a month when you rebuilt your 2.2 kernel and lived happily afterwards as a normal user. Netscape 4.7 refused to start under root
However, if you look around now, there are tons of guide out there how to install "this damn ati" on suse or how to hack "this nvidia" in fedora or how to apply "that qemu patch" in ubuntu. People provide weird patches and suggest the users to "sudo" the commands for this that and that. Guess what, anyone providing a guide out there can "root" all these machines, provided that his guide & software|patches is up long enough without being spotted.
The distros today don't put pressure on the "root factor", they just try to catch the dummy users from windows, but if those all endup sudo'ing just about anything to get the permissions correct, then the whole idea of linux security is gone.
ps does anyone have a mirror for the pdf ?
Can you really imagine that the gov. would be able to tap that many wires ? Hundreds of millions of people calling every day, there is no way to even scan all these phonecalls, let alone pay attention to a certain message.
Also, i think you have to be brilliantly blue eyed and naive to believe that the CIA doesn't already tap wires without any kind of authorization, they are doing it, but only certain wires. So go on, call her neighbour and tell her that you're going over, nobody will know about it.
Laws are for people ('dumbusers' as analogue from 'our world), while some agencies are above the laws anyway ('h4x0r' kids).
Ofcourse i have no proof for my statements here, but do you really think i'd be alive, kicking and free if i'd have evidence for this ?
4x4 is a direct loan from car industry. You have a jeep that uses 4 wheels to crawl around, it has 4x4 written on it, do you assume it has 16 pulling wheels ? It doesnt say 4 times 4 cores, it says 4x4, it's an expression, not math, it's time to get over it :)
:)
Anyway, i'd like to know where this article author lives, he claims that he can get DDR rams cheaper than DDR2, while in most places where i'm checking out, it's pretty much the other way around. Whatever x86 i will acquire as next will have at least DDR2 in it, there is no point to go for DDR & S939 anymore, the memory price just undermines it's cheapness.
However, what i'd would like to see (and to what amd will say "in your wildest wet dreams") , would be AMD Geode , running on DDR2 memory and consuming 15W power for the cpu and 60W for the whole machine. Fanless ofcourse
To continue the misery of numbers, i'm pretty sure that the USB port doesn't allow more than 500mA to be drained from it in any position, so a 2500mAh battery would charge 5 hours ... The real fast chargers today can do it in less than half an hour for 2000mAh+ batteries, "regular" fast chargers can do it in 1-2 hours ....
..
...
So this usb chargeable battery offering is : more price, less value
Btw. a schematics and parts to charge your "regular" NiMh batteries from the usb will cost you less than 24$, time for do-it-yourself
I run my laptop as a desktop replacement , around 22-24 hours a day (depending on if i take it along to work or not), so there is the answer for the "why".
:) I only managed to check the cpu temp and didn't even get to 'killall fah' (checking the temp. was the first reaction to the noise that the fan started to make).
Secondly, last time i ran it, my cpu peaked at 80+ degrees in notime and the machine decided quietly just to shut down, which wasn't really what i expected
While i saw this feature on BOINC, i didn't see it on fah. Let's just hope that they can improve that department and maybe reorganize their app a bit so that they could allow slower clients too. Even at 10% only, my machine would still produce 2.2-2.4h of production capability per day, counting in all machines that don't want to burn like candlelights, that would sum up quite a lot. (Why didn't they sub-boinc this thing anyway ?)
For the boinc people, thumbs up as long as the idea goes (the implementated gui / xml conf is a bit odd, i have to admit, but certainly a step in the right direction).
While probably 10% offtopic, i still hope this gets out to all the science app builders :
:)
.. but as long as your applications just slay their performance in cold blood and cause them to run at nearly nuclear explosion temperatures (renicing the process will help against the first issue sometimes, but not the latter), you are just losing possible helpers.
Please make your applications scalable in % of cpu power used
I have a laptop here, cute 3200 bogomips under it's belly, but i refuse to burn my system's cpu in favor of curing cancer. I wouldn't mind to give you 10% or 20% of the cpu power, because that wouldn't heat it up, but your applications that burn at 110% of the power available, are just not usable for most partly "idle" machines. Moreover, you'd get a bunch of workforce from fileservers which are idling on the cpu 90% of the time
One minimalistic "sleep" or "delay" into your mainloop, and whoop's , you're going to get more work done than you have ever before. Until then, nothing will fold on my machines over here.
From a Freudish point of view. The whole thing looks like a hoax, more like the interviewer has been just owned in a game times enough so his own bitterness his hitting out. Seriously, those imaginary questions which i doubt anyone answered at all (besides someones subconscious) are just so aggressive that any weak ass cheater would have hanged up the line.
There isn't really a point in the whole thing, just someone is bitching on an imaginary cheater. It would however be interesting to see an interview with a developer of a game and see how they counter the cheaters (not bit-by-bit but general wise) and what do they think about the whole thing. Cheating possibility on some corners may make a game even more popular (and therefor more profitable for them), do they really always fight it ?
As for cheaters: make your own cheat servers and kick the sh*t out of each others, let the 'normal players' have their fun. As far as i care, you still lose even if you win by cheating.
a) biodiesel is still just starting up, it will provide a rope for us for quite a while.
..)
b) back to steam engines, we can still produce a lot of "powerforests" (i don't really know what's the correct english term for this type of fast growing plant industry) to burn, sun can help to heat the steam as well without using oil expensive plastic components.
c) hydrogen coming in, even if only as fuel cells. can be produced by windmills at shore.
d) burning good old alcohol also still works, can be produced from anything (sugar, potatoes, wheat
no reason to panic yet. ofcourse we have to cut down on energy usage a lot, but panic will not help doing it. infact, panic has proven to be very unefficient in anything else than powering wars.
When you technically think about a thunderstorm and the ionic purifier ... you should find some very basic similarities :) The scale ofcourse is slightly different, but the overall idea ...
Obligatory: :night sober> go out :night sober> flee :night sober> flee :night hp:scratched sober> flee ... you managed to escape.
:night hp:scratched sober> drink pint :night hp:scratched slightly drunk> drink pint :night hp:scratched quite drunk> drink pint :night very drunk>
...
She slaps you: "No you won't"
Her slap misses you.
Your slap misses her.
Her slap hits you.
Your slap misses her.
Woooouuh
Bar
The tables are covered in pints. Dim light shines over the attractive
female figures in the room. Enjoy your stay
Connection lost
Even if the hibernation would work perfectly, you've got a dozen applications that use constant internet connections, those are not there after resume and apps start to act funny. :p).
:)
Moreover, there are applications that work as daemons with listening network sockets, if they are revived in a new environment with new ip coming from the hotspot over dhcp quite a bunch of them just fail to resume the work (lazy programmers
You'd just have to redesign the whole logic of an operating system and networking to make it really usable with suspend/resume. Current development standards are usually based on the continious ideology and on a static environment, but that just doesn't apply in the resuming world
Sure, your notepad will manage to resume after suspend, but users would expect more.
As for the original topic, startup sounds are just plain annoyments made up by the marketing team. My laptop isn't a cheap one either, but it doesn't have hardware sound control, just software based buttons. Am i supposed to be annoying everyone else everywhere i got with some gling-glang-bling-blang ? Don't think so. I'll stay with the penguins, i want control.
No, it was some damn hot pr0n, or just the flaming edge software (bleeding edged isn't that extraordinary these days).
Mod him up, Scotty !
He may be a wise man, but his boat obviously has fed the developers of IE ... snippets that match and that we sometimes all hate :)
:(
P2 Shift computation in time (precompute, evaluate lazily, share expenses or batch);
P3 Relax system requirements (trade certainty or accuracy for time, shift computation in space);
P4 Leverage off system components (exploit locality, trade memory for speed, exploit existing hardware),
P7 Avoid unnecessary generality;
P8 Don't be tied to reference implementation;
P11 Optimize the expected case (use caches);
I wish that those m$ zombies would have paid more attention to the other points in the book too
Who would have thought that bird flu may actually be good for something (/me thinks about the zillion killed birds in china ...)
hmm, i used linux debian on this setup, with a clunky realtek 3189 network card, and my video over the Xv extension of the xserver worked flawlessy, sound came through arts over the net, everything just works.
it's down to the configuration, the network itself can do it.
Yeah, the ip/session_id chaindown doesn't work.
There are a dozen of isp's out there that have load balancing on their proxies based on the idea that the dns record of the proxy has multiple hits as ip addresses, now if the user computer hops from one to another, it seems to the server that the "client has changed his address", if you cut the wire here, the users will just be angry and disapointed. It would be very annoying to login everywhere again if your dog knocks over your dsl modem and you lose the connection for a fraction of a second.
Considering the amount of keyloggers on the move and the amount of dummy windows users blindly running them really undercuts any meanings for the session id hunt anyway. There are workarounds, but none of them are really comfortable.
For the article. You have an web application that allows execution of uploaded code files, aside from everything else, this is just intolerable. And without that fault the system on the whole still be unaffected in the large scale, only a single victim and his/her resources would be harmed.
As noted by many people in other posts, ffs learn to escape your variables and don't let people run uploaded files. If this should prove to be too hard for you, practice "do you want fries with that" for the future.
Do you know why there's no crime? Most of these people go to church!
...
:)
Most spanish people go to church at well, try to lose the sight of your backpack for a second in Barcelona, you'd be surprised
I think it's down to the people themselves, not where they go or what absurd religion they believe in. AL has nice and smart people, the weather is too iffy for the `bad people`. They prefer Florida (godspeed and stay there...)