I don't disagree with what you said. The problem is determining it. Because you get it wrong and the person could end up dead. It's weighing those risks, an IMO that's something the patient should have a say in that's the hard part. You start putting blanket restrictions on stuff and people are going to start dying of completely curable diseases.
Waiting it out eh? Why don't you wait it out, maybe you'll get lucky the bacteria will make it to the bloodstream and you'll be dead.
Bacterial infections are a big deal, before antibiotics the survival rate for bacterial infections was low. If you didn't have a stellar immune system and good care you would be pretty much guaranteed a long painful death. Without antibiotics anyone 50+ that gets a bacterial infection is probably going to die, probably of sepsis and multiple organ failure which is one of the most painful ways to die.
I'll never forget a person I worked with that was so intent on getting the job done that they ignored being sick and it turned out to be a bacterial infection that progressed rapidly to meningitis. The person in question got late stage antibiotic treatment and luckily survived but is now mentally handicapped. Had they gotten those antibiotics early on there would have not been any meningitis.
The video card is question is the series of Nvidia card that had 2G of memory but could only physically address 1.5G without a massive penalty to rendering. In the windows driver the last 0.5gb was basically turned off and only used as an absolute last resort.
Clearly the same optimization for bad design doesn't exist on the Linux side. Personally I think that was a stupid choice of GPU to test with, though it's sure generating the clicks they want.
FOSS didn't start until the mid 80's and Linux (which gave FOSS real legs) wasn't a thing until the early 90's. There was so much abandoned commercial software at the point that FOSS became popular that FOSS will never be able to catch up. There are literally entire companies and classes of software that are just gone and lost to humanity entirely because copyright prevented the retention of the code.
Professional Engineer is actually a regulated term in most states, calling yourself one implies you are state certified and licensed and use of the term if you aren't can subject you to administrative punishment from the licensing board including severe fines.
When you become licensed you basically enter an agreement with the state to be accountable to the licensing board including giving the licensing board the right to not only fine you but potentially incarcerate you for violating the licensing laws. These laws regulate the practice of engineering and are not necessarily statements of qualification only that the individual is accountable to the board and the rules they make. Though to obtain the license most states require the applicant to obtain recommendations from 3-5 other licensed engineers, these recommendations are confidential and the applicant often isn't even allowed to handle the recommendation before it's received by the board.
So in the end, if you run into a licensed engineer chance are he found at least 3 other licensed engineers to say confidentially to the board that said person is qualified to practice and place their seal on plans that effect the life and safety of the public. Such a statement says nothing about the actual skills of said person, particularly outside their area of expertise.
The FCC isn't regulating this stuff, they are regulating interconnection agreements and plan to use a very light hand. For something like this, as long as Comcast is upfront with people about the existence of the cap and giving them the choice to subscribe or not then I don't think they will take any action at all.
Now if they are doing this to Harm Netflix or impose something on a Netflix interconnect agreement they will probably get slapped down hard. Putting a cap on the data use doesn't violate net-neutrality. Trying to use your end-user base as a weapon against a competitor is and will get them in trouble. The whole charging Netflix extra because they compete against Comcast in video is likely to get them slapped. Because that avenue of content restriction is gone they are using another that doesn't violate net-neutrality. The problem will come if they exempt their own services from the cap as that would likely bring FCC review as anti-competitive.
Have no fear, it won't be long before people start dropping dead of previously curable diseases. There's already a completely untreatable version of tuberculosis that's developed that doesn't respond to a single antibiotic. The state has been going to court and getting forced quarantine orders on the cases they discover. It won't be long before there is a massive outbreak of untreatable TB which will kill enough people to cause this to change.
Sociopaths would not exist in our society were there not some evolutionary advantage to being an asshole. There clearly is an advantage in some situations and at some level of lack of empathy. But at the same time if that lack of empathy extends too far the advantage becomes a very sharp disadvantage. This has kept the number of sociopaths in society as a certain fixed percentage that's remained relatively stable for a very long time from what they can see in demographic records.
The problem of sequestering sociopaths is that there is no clear way to diagnose and no clear evidence that such people if removed from society would make the overall society better. If we started removing them from society there would likely develop evolutionary pressure to bring them back and more and more would be born/develop and unbalance the system that keeps their numbers fairly fixed. Not to mention totally illegal and a gross violation of human rights right up there with the final solution.
Actually I have a ~75 TB array at home and it fits in the front portion of a 24disk 4U server. So you need a box that is about 20 inches x 8 inches x 8 inches (the extra is to allow for a little padding) filled with 4 TB hard drives. And if you want to pay the extra for 8TB shingled drives you can basically halve the size but you will probably take a performance penalty for the shingling
This company like Marriott was already doing it and didn't alter their behavior after the Marriott settlement. The FCC is going through their complaint log and verifying if these companies are still dong it (remember the FCC asked people to report it when the Marriott publicity hit). The company didn't stop doing it so they now get fined just like Marriott.
You shouldn't ascribe to malice what is likely just business momentum. The company was already doing it. There were dozens of electronics suppliers that marketed the ability to do this very thing, including major ones like Cisco. The ability to do it is baked right into the AP software and has been there for about a decade. All these conventions companies that charge for WiFi do it and likely all of them are going to need to be fined to get them to stop. And that's what the FCC is doing, going down the list and issuing fines to those that are still doing it.
If they repeat the same behavior they will not pay the same fine again. Repeat violations become a very big deal including criminal prosecution if they do it more than a couple times. The end result here is a Judge ordering a bunch of people to jail if they keep violating, in addition to the fines going up significantly with each violation.
If they are stupid enough to violate again they will be taken to court and forced to sign a consent degree (along with a bigger fine). They violate the consent decree and the judge can basically send them to jail without even a trial and do other things like order a complete halt to all their operation and a suspension of all wifi services.
Saying they will just do it again is flippant and lacks understanding on how significant these actions are. Though the FCC doesn't have quite the authority the IRS does with their special courts, they still have broad regulatory and police authority and can absolutely ruin your life if they want to and you anger them at severe personal risk.
Why does one minute every few years have to be redefined just to keep "one day" relatively constant?
Because the Earths rotational speed is slowing. The moon is slowing the planet down as it moves away from Earth. Because the rotational velocity is changing constantly if we want days/years to remain consistent we need to add a second every couple years. Keep in mind the number of days per year is defined by the number of rotations the planet makes in the time it takes to circle the sun one time.
The Junk dealers is ALWAYS going to know how much it's really worth (and if he's not sure he'll put it aside until he does know) and I highly doubt he's going to voluntarily hand it over without receiving a check for how much it's worth.
One of the prime profit opportunities in the junk business is to receive items that aren't junk. Dealers are always on the lookout for special non-junk items they can make a bundle on because some ignorant dumbass sold it to them for a few cents a pound. It's not that much different than the pawn business where they are always on the lookout for antiques and other items they know are worth far more than the owner believes.
When I heard this story I was at first incredulus that the guy didn't walk across the street and tell the neighbor what it was. Then I realized that the chances the Junk dealer wouldn't put it aside and determine the worth before melting it down was near zero. Then I realized the guy that didn't walk across the street basically screwed over the neighbor by not telling him how much it was worth with the side realization that he may have cut a side deal with the junk dealer by tipping him off.
We have better than 2 dozen scientifically confirmed speciation events fully documented and available in the literature in the less than 200 years we've been watching.
Evolution is a fact. There are entire branches of biological sciences based on it that would not be viable sciences without the existence of evolution. Those branches of science have a direct effect on you several times a year and one day they might cure your cancer. To deny evolution denies the reality around us every day.
Unless people act to stop it, we'll continue to whittle away the middle class, the economy will go from stagnation to deflation and eventual collapse as the only driving force in the economy evaporates.
As the economic differential spreads and grows the dollar will decline in value and collapse just like it does in so many banana republics where there is only a poor and ultra rich economic class.
The US economy is entirely based on the spending of the middle class and poor, this spending accounts for near 80% of the economy. The wealthy and upper middle class spend almost nothing in comparison. As middle class wages have declined due to a complete halt to wage growth so has their spending. The economic stagnation that has affected the country since the 2008 collapse is the direct result of this erosion of middle class spending power. Without an intervention by the government and a policy like the capital tax proposed by Thomas Piketty including a sharp increase in minimum wages this is almost an inevitable result.
Fortunately if the millennials stick to the policies they appear to be supporting now we'll reverse the political damage of the aging baby boomers before we have a catastrophic economic collapse but until that happens we'll only experience economic stagnation and erosion of middle class spending.
And get past the fact that warner/chappell was the only one that might have had a claim on it as they had rights going back to someone that claimed to be the original author.
I like to thing one of my dogs is fairly average intelligence but she absolutely loves food. She would eat the parsley, both steaks, the plates and anything else that smelled like the meat. She will lick every inch of her dish three or four times after eating something like real meat just to make sure she got every ounce of scent out. She also eats so fast that I'm surprised she hasn't choked to death already.
The dog will go for whichever one is closer and then try to eat the second one, at least judging by all the dogs I've known. Dogs are not as particular as you imply.
The paper discusses the natural solutions that are possible. Though the more interesting solutions are the non-natural solutions. If you are willing to throw intelligence into the equation this could be any number of things from massive solar collectors or other large collections of produced objects down to dyson spheres under construction. Certainly an interesting finding nonetheless.
Is this the best you can do to try to keep the "scandal" alive? Just because the RDP port is open doesn't mean it's actually RDP running on the port. I used to run SSH on the telnet port. And just because the IP shows as from the same server doesn't mean it is. Lots of people use DMZ's with port forwarding to isolate servers.
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I don't disagree with what you said. The problem is determining it. Because you get it wrong and the person could end up dead. It's weighing those risks, an IMO that's something the patient should have a say in that's the hard part. You start putting blanket restrictions on stuff and people are going to start dying of completely curable diseases.
Waiting it out eh? Why don't you wait it out, maybe you'll get lucky the bacteria will make it to the bloodstream and you'll be dead.
Bacterial infections are a big deal, before antibiotics the survival rate for bacterial infections was low. If you didn't have a stellar immune system and good care you would be pretty much guaranteed a long painful death. Without antibiotics anyone 50+ that gets a bacterial infection is probably going to die, probably of sepsis and multiple organ failure which is one of the most painful ways to die.
I'll never forget a person I worked with that was so intent on getting the job done that they ignored being sick and it turned out to be a bacterial infection that progressed rapidly to meningitis. The person in question got late stage antibiotic treatment and luckily survived but is now mentally handicapped. Had they gotten those antibiotics early on there would have not been any meningitis.
The video card is question is the series of Nvidia card that had 2G of memory but could only physically address 1.5G without a massive penalty to rendering. In the windows driver the last 0.5gb was basically turned off and only used as an absolute last resort.
Clearly the same optimization for bad design doesn't exist on the Linux side. Personally I think that was a stupid choice of GPU to test with, though it's sure generating the clicks they want.
Mod Parent up.
The stock went to zero and the computer did that auto layoff thing, we're all unemployed!
FOSS didn't start until the mid 80's and Linux (which gave FOSS real legs) wasn't a thing until the early 90's. There was so much abandoned commercial software at the point that FOSS became popular that FOSS will never be able to catch up. There are literally entire companies and classes of software that are just gone and lost to humanity entirely because copyright prevented the retention of the code.
Have you ever even looked at an abandonware site?
Professional Engineer is actually a regulated term in most states, calling yourself one implies you are state certified and licensed and use of the term if you aren't can subject you to administrative punishment from the licensing board including severe fines.
When you become licensed you basically enter an agreement with the state to be accountable to the licensing board including giving the licensing board the right to not only fine you but potentially incarcerate you for violating the licensing laws. These laws regulate the practice of engineering and are not necessarily statements of qualification only that the individual is accountable to the board and the rules they make. Though to obtain the license most states require the applicant to obtain recommendations from 3-5 other licensed engineers, these recommendations are confidential and the applicant often isn't even allowed to handle the recommendation before it's received by the board.
So in the end, if you run into a licensed engineer chance are he found at least 3 other licensed engineers to say confidentially to the board that said person is qualified to practice and place their seal on plans that effect the life and safety of the public. Such a statement says nothing about the actual skills of said person, particularly outside their area of expertise.
The FCC isn't regulating this stuff, they are regulating interconnection agreements and plan to use a very light hand. For something like this, as long as Comcast is upfront with people about the existence of the cap and giving them the choice to subscribe or not then I don't think they will take any action at all.
Now if they are doing this to Harm Netflix or impose something on a Netflix interconnect agreement they will probably get slapped down hard. Putting a cap on the data use doesn't violate net-neutrality. Trying to use your end-user base as a weapon against a competitor is and will get them in trouble. The whole charging Netflix extra because they compete against Comcast in video is likely to get them slapped. Because that avenue of content restriction is gone they are using another that doesn't violate net-neutrality. The problem will come if they exempt their own services from the cap as that would likely bring FCC review as anti-competitive.
Can you explain to me how I requested the hundreds of thousands of bytes of port scan and malware scanning that comes in on my modem unrequested?
There are a lot of things that use bytes that you didn't request. I'd wage up to 5% of your monthly use is stuff that you didn't in any way request.
Have no fear, it won't be long before people start dropping dead of previously curable diseases. There's already a completely untreatable version of tuberculosis that's developed that doesn't respond to a single antibiotic. The state has been going to court and getting forced quarantine orders on the cases they discover. It won't be long before there is a massive outbreak of untreatable TB which will kill enough people to cause this to change.
Sociopaths would not exist in our society were there not some evolutionary advantage to being an asshole. There clearly is an advantage in some situations and at some level of lack of empathy. But at the same time if that lack of empathy extends too far the advantage becomes a very sharp disadvantage. This has kept the number of sociopaths in society as a certain fixed percentage that's remained relatively stable for a very long time from what they can see in demographic records.
The problem of sequestering sociopaths is that there is no clear way to diagnose and no clear evidence that such people if removed from society would make the overall society better. If we started removing them from society there would likely develop evolutionary pressure to bring them back and more and more would be born/develop and unbalance the system that keeps their numbers fairly fixed. Not to mention totally illegal and a gross violation of human rights right up there with the final solution.
Actually I have a ~75 TB array at home and it fits in the front portion of a 24disk 4U server. So you need a box that is about 20 inches x 8 inches x 8 inches (the extra is to allow for a little padding) filled with 4 TB hard drives. And if you want to pay the extra for 8TB shingled drives you can basically halve the size but you will probably take a performance penalty for the shingling
This company like Marriott was already doing it and didn't alter their behavior after the Marriott settlement. The FCC is going through their complaint log and verifying if these companies are still dong it (remember the FCC asked people to report it when the Marriott publicity hit). The company didn't stop doing it so they now get fined just like Marriott.
You shouldn't ascribe to malice what is likely just business momentum. The company was already doing it. There were dozens of electronics suppliers that marketed the ability to do this very thing, including major ones like Cisco. The ability to do it is baked right into the AP software and has been there for about a decade. All these conventions companies that charge for WiFi do it and likely all of them are going to need to be fined to get them to stop. And that's what the FCC is doing, going down the list and issuing fines to those that are still doing it.
If they repeat the same behavior they will not pay the same fine again. Repeat violations become a very big deal including criminal prosecution if they do it more than a couple times. The end result here is a Judge ordering a bunch of people to jail if they keep violating, in addition to the fines going up significantly with each violation.
If they are stupid enough to violate again they will be taken to court and forced to sign a consent degree (along with a bigger fine). They violate the consent decree and the judge can basically send them to jail without even a trial and do other things like order a complete halt to all their operation and a suspension of all wifi services.
Saying they will just do it again is flippant and lacks understanding on how significant these actions are. Though the FCC doesn't have quite the authority the IRS does with their special courts, they still have broad regulatory and police authority and can absolutely ruin your life if they want to and you anger them at severe personal risk.
Ireland doesn't store the money, just launders it. The bulk of the money ends up in the Bahamas, primarily the banks on Grand Cayman.
Because the Earths rotational speed is slowing. The moon is slowing the planet down as it moves away from Earth. Because the rotational velocity is changing constantly if we want days/years to remain consistent we need to add a second every couple years. Keep in mind the number of days per year is defined by the number of rotations the planet makes in the time it takes to circle the sun one time.
The Junk dealers is ALWAYS going to know how much it's really worth (and if he's not sure he'll put it aside until he does know) and I highly doubt he's going to voluntarily hand it over without receiving a check for how much it's worth.
One of the prime profit opportunities in the junk business is to receive items that aren't junk. Dealers are always on the lookout for special non-junk items they can make a bundle on because some ignorant dumbass sold it to them for a few cents a pound. It's not that much different than the pawn business where they are always on the lookout for antiques and other items they know are worth far more than the owner believes.
When I heard this story I was at first incredulus that the guy didn't walk across the street and tell the neighbor what it was. Then I realized that the chances the Junk dealer wouldn't put it aside and determine the worth before melting it down was near zero. Then I realized the guy that didn't walk across the street basically screwed over the neighbor by not telling him how much it was worth with the side realization that he may have cut a side deal with the junk dealer by tipping him off.
We have better than 2 dozen scientifically confirmed speciation events fully documented and available in the literature in the less than 200 years we've been watching.
Evolution is a fact. There are entire branches of biological sciences based on it that would not be viable sciences without the existence of evolution. Those branches of science have a direct effect on you several times a year and one day they might cure your cancer. To deny evolution denies the reality around us every day.
Unless people act to stop it, we'll continue to whittle away the middle class, the economy will go from stagnation to deflation and eventual collapse as the only driving force in the economy evaporates.
As the economic differential spreads and grows the dollar will decline in value and collapse just like it does in so many banana republics where there is only a poor and ultra rich economic class.
The US economy is entirely based on the spending of the middle class and poor, this spending accounts for near 80% of the economy. The wealthy and upper middle class spend almost nothing in comparison. As middle class wages have declined due to a complete halt to wage growth so has their spending. The economic stagnation that has affected the country since the 2008 collapse is the direct result of this erosion of middle class spending power. Without an intervention by the government and a policy like the capital tax proposed by Thomas Piketty including a sharp increase in minimum wages this is almost an inevitable result.
Fortunately if the millennials stick to the policies they appear to be supporting now we'll reverse the political damage of the aging baby boomers before we have a catastrophic economic collapse but until that happens we'll only experience economic stagnation and erosion of middle class spending.
And get past the fact that warner/chappell was the only one that might have had a claim on it as they had rights going back to someone that claimed to be the original author.
Happy birthday was just found (by a court) the other day to be in the public domain. Just saying.
I like to thing one of my dogs is fairly average intelligence but she absolutely loves food. She would eat the parsley, both steaks, the plates and anything else that smelled like the meat. She will lick every inch of her dish three or four times after eating something like real meat just to make sure she got every ounce of scent out. She also eats so fast that I'm surprised she hasn't choked to death already.
The dog will go for whichever one is closer and then try to eat the second one, at least judging by all the dogs I've known. Dogs are not as particular as you imply.
The paper discusses the natural solutions that are possible. Though the more interesting solutions are the non-natural solutions. If you are willing to throw intelligence into the equation this could be any number of things from massive solar collectors or other large collections of produced objects down to dyson spheres under construction. Certainly an interesting finding nonetheless.
Is this the best you can do to try to keep the "scandal" alive? Just because the RDP port is open doesn't mean it's actually RDP running on the port. I used to run SSH on the telnet port. And just because the IP shows as from the same server doesn't mean it is. Lots of people use DMZ's with port forwarding to isolate servers.