Most HP-UX machines -were- tanks.. Designed to be fireproof with hard steel cases inside all the plastic outsides.. Those suckers weighed a ton!
I'm betting you could literally shoot one of those HP-UX machines at inches away several times and the computer would be in better shape than you after all the ricochets.
Those were some crazy computers. Aside from dead bios batteries that i've replaced, i have some ancient SGI gear thats still trucking away with all original hardware, they don't make em like they used to..
Micropolis and Seagate SCSI drives that had 10 year warranties (I still have several in operation outside of their warranties)..
Makes me think about lightbulbs in my grandmothers house that were there when they built it in the 30's and are still burning bright. I bougt a pack of two '2 year' bulbs that lasted all of a month and cost me $14 for the pack. And those are just frickin lightbulbs. Computers are way more complicated and yet most old computers outlast modern lightbulbs (due to intentional flaws in manufacturing to force turnover in both lighbulbs and computers). It's amazing how something so simple which can be made to last almost forever is made cheap and something made to run solidly for a few years is still kicking ass (a) decade(s) later.
Don't we have enough dead junk in space already? Why fill the orbits up with cheap, dead hardware that's more likely to bring down a space shuttle or destroy an important satellite as the dead piece of junk descends in orbit. Off the shelf is great for cost, but what's the bigger cost of having more chunks of metal in orbit than we already do.
Problem is, it's easy to see the path that would have happened if only that one variable changed (them letting him keep the gum versus what they did), it's very hard to see all the other what if's. What if he got away with the gum, then next time they didnt catch him stealing a DVD, then he learns about foil lined pockets, steals other stuff.. etc etc.. Then they're probably better off with the warning.
its a little different at a corporation or university, they have AUP's that expressly prohibit that sort of thing.. often they have detection mechanisms in their routers and shutdown your port as well. In any case they were probably breaking the 'university law' at the least.. and at 'best' portscanning a ton of ips would be like testing every door in your neighborhood and probably has some legal protection against the activity.
Yeah, then they call your upstream and send logs. That's something I'd like to do, but its risky. For a lot of kids it'll shut them up, for some in this sue-happy world, that'll just give them ammunition and they may end up owning your server in court.
Granted, but in this case its sort of apples and oranges. You were just walking in the parking lot.. in the analogy set up here, that would be more like connecting to other services (http) or something. So that would be some jackass admin calling up the FBI every time someone is legitimately using a part of his server (though not trying to use the unauthorized parts). What you experienced is annoying and the person who did it is probably a senior citizen and a) has nothing better to do and b) isnt used to kids with long hair and it incites the generation gap thing.. *shrugs*
Lately, controversial books have been drawing attention and press anyway.
Name recognition is name recognition.. good or bad.. People will hear about it in passing, get to a book store sometime and say 'hey wasnt that the book...' and pick it up for curiosity sake, maybe read the back and find it interesting.
there are some exceptions, extremely strong negative name recognition will push people away, but still does draw some curiosity buys.
yeah, but how many slashdotters are interested in reading 'A Girl's Life Online'? Unless it's about Jennicam, or some kind of peep show site, I doubt it.
I would rather not have voted for Nader either.. Its not the party I want to vote for that I have a problem with, its my choices for a candidate.
I have tendencies towards both liberal and conservative on different topics.. I tend to vote republican though.. This time around, I don't really like what either Kerry or Bush has to say but I don't think I personally would like a lot of the things the green party wants to do with things around here.
The problem is really a lack of choice. The guidelines to get to run aren't so bad, but the amount of ass kissing and money grubbing that has to be done just about spoils the vast majority of modern candidates, if they weren't already corrupted along the way.
I'm not talking about dirty cop kind of corrupt, but certainly morally corrupt on some fronts.
Personally, the whole lobbiest thing drives me crazy. Yes we need some organizations to have some influence on topics that wouldnt otherwise be heard.. But the amount of monetary or strings pulling influence is absurd.. Sometimes even so bad as "If you don't vote for my bill you'll lose $50 billion because we'll tell so and so about this skeleton in your closet"
There are a lot of things that could be fixed if you could be average among the smart americans (ie not have to have been congressman and governor along the way).. At that same time it is great that these people have political experience, I'd rather have someone in the seat who knows exactly what they want to change (and have some chance of changing in the forseeable future) but maybe doesnt know how to make it happen. That's what cabinets and advisors are for.
If there was even one average joe out there who really knew where he stood on these issues and didnt give a rats ass about this foundation pulling their donations from your campaign etc etc, I don't care if the biggest office he's ever held is the janitor's closet as long as his ideas are agreeable to the nation.
In any case, back to my original point.. Just voting for the green party because the other two candidates suck doesn't do anyone any good. Seems to me there shouldn't just be one final candidate for each party and there shouldnt be 2.1 parties (like dolby digital 5.1, the 6th channel is only about 30% of the bandwidth). I don't see why it has to get narrowed down much at all. What if there started out with 100 people for each party running (300 in total) and by some background checks and primaries you knocked it down to even 20 people per party. If the people get enough Net/Air/Road time, someone will certainly surface as the one people want to vote for. If we could fix this dangling chad crap, would it really matter if a president one by one vote since the votes got diluted by having more candidates? At that point, your vote really does matter and you get a choice in the matter as well. It should never come down to 'Well i like 30% of this guys platform and i only like 20% of this guys platform, I guess I'll vote for the 30% guy, or maybe I wont even bother'
There will always be a problem with electronic voting. Even if you print a ticket, who's to say that what's printed on the ticket is exactly what went in? Maybe whenever you vote republican it counts twice, maybe every third democrat vote counts twice, maybe your vote didnt count at all.
In the end, the only way to go is where the voter fills out some kind of media that can be read by a computer (and is not subject to dangling chads or other misinterpretation) and serves as a backup.. but even so.. say you use open source voting software, whose to say that at the last minute someone didnt swap identical looking software with the real software.. You'll have to do a manual count side by side with the electronic count if you want to be sure. Perhaps after 10 or 15 years of no fraud, you can do random auditing or something, but the manual count is a must for a while.
If its anything like how they regulate profanity, you'll be able to kick twice, but not three times. You can have blood spew when a kick/punch happens, but only if it's not a blow to the face. You can't show someone getting punched in the cojones but you can kick someone there... Etc..
My biggest pet peeve is when you hear music on the radio and ass by itself is ok, but not ass-h$@e.. Bitch is ok, but not s@*t, nig##$ is ok but not da@n. I mean come on, really. Either let it all go or really make it right. Current regulations are completely assinine, of course that's probably a bad word too.
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DHCP is an extended version of BOOTP. The underlying protocol is the same, DHCP has some extensions.. a lot more now than used to be -ala Sun.
martial arts is not just about the fighting and technique, it is about control. most well trained martial artists will not use it in a fight situation unless prepared to kill (excluding sparring/recreational use) and if you know you're outgunned (literally perhaps) to use the better out (giving up the stuff) without increasing your risk by fighting an unwinnable fight.
martial arts is mostly for working on yourself as a person, it is a way of life more than a way of fighting. in a fist fight, or perhaps a knife vs fist fight, martial arts can be very useful, but learning it is also learning how/when not to use it.
this is all over-simplification, but is basically the point.
so it's ok to steal the 100mpg cars from the manufactuer's lot because they dont sell them separately?
personally i hate the riaa, and want single song purchases as much as i want to pick which cable channels i get.
i hate the analogy to a car because a car has a ton of value in most cases and songs have so little, but when it really comes down to it, whether you steal a penny or a hundred dollar bill, its still stealing. and millions of people stealing a penny from you is a lot of money. deserved or not, they have established rights to that penny. we need to change their rights, not steal because of them.
not stealing by general definition, but certainly dodging your legal responsibility to pay the licensing. 'stealing intellectual property' has become a term that basically means you are committing a crime because you did not obtain the necessary license. it's not really 'stealing' as we think of it, but its the simplest way to explain it.
You have a choice. You can take the red pill or the blue pill. The red pill (fighting back) is not for everyone, has extra risks but also extra gain. The blue pill (giving up your stuff) has less risks but more loss. Both are 'solutions' in that both have a probability of success. The red pill depends on your read of the mugger and their read of you, the blue pill has no dependencies really. In most cases you will walk away safely if you give up the goods. For the people who were shot even after doing so, those same people probably would still have been shot if they fought back. It all depends on the mugger. Personally, I'd take the better odds and less dependencies.
i agree, women and men may be equals in brain (at least as an overall though men and women have different advantages/niches in general), men are on average stronger, and on average more violent/agressive. Men have a higher tendency to cause violence, and the types of men who do so tend to be the ones to do bad things to women. I hardly think sexism figures into an equation like that. We should all (men and women) admit our weaknesses and be smart, and not try and be something we're not, which could cause us great harm.
i understand perfectly about vonage, people just dont read things the same way the writer means them, or the writer has other context in their head that doesnt make it onto the page.
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Most HP-UX machines -were- tanks.. Designed to be fireproof with hard steel cases inside all the plastic outsides.. Those suckers weighed a ton!
I'm betting you could literally shoot one of those HP-UX machines at inches away several times and the computer would be in better shape than you after all the ricochets.
Those were some crazy computers. Aside from dead bios batteries that i've replaced, i have some ancient SGI gear thats still trucking away with all original hardware, they don't make em like they used to..
Micropolis and Seagate SCSI drives that had 10 year warranties (I still have several in operation outside of their warranties)..
Makes me think about lightbulbs in my grandmothers house that were there when they built it in the 30's and are still burning bright. I bougt a pack of two '2 year' bulbs that lasted all of a month and cost me $14 for the pack. And those are just frickin lightbulbs. Computers are way more complicated and yet most old computers outlast modern lightbulbs (due to intentional flaws in manufacturing to force turnover in both lighbulbs and computers). It's amazing how something so simple which can be made to last almost forever is made cheap and something made to run solidly for a few years is still kicking ass (a) decade(s) later.
Don't we have enough dead junk in space already? Why fill the orbits up with cheap, dead hardware that's more likely to bring down a space shuttle or destroy an important satellite as the dead piece of junk descends in orbit. Off the shelf is great for cost, but what's the bigger cost of having more chunks of metal in orbit than we already do.
It's like an easter egg hunt!
Problem is, it's easy to see the path that would have happened if only that one variable changed (them letting him keep the gum versus what they did), it's very hard to see all the other what if's. What if he got away with the gum, then next time they didnt catch him stealing a DVD, then he learns about foil lined pockets, steals other stuff.. etc etc.. Then they're probably better off with the warning.
its a little different at a corporation or university, they have AUP's that expressly prohibit that sort of thing.. often they have detection mechanisms in their routers and shutdown your port as well. In any case they were probably breaking the 'university law' at the least.. and at 'best' portscanning a ton of ips would be like testing every door in your neighborhood and probably has some legal protection against the activity.
Yeah, then they call your upstream and send logs. That's something I'd like to do, but its risky. For a lot of kids it'll shut them up, for some in this sue-happy world, that'll just give them ammunition and they may end up owning your server in court.
Granted, but in this case its sort of apples and oranges. You were just walking in the parking lot.. in the analogy set up here, that would be more like connecting to other services (http) or something. So that would be some jackass admin calling up the FBI every time someone is legitimately using a part of his server (though not trying to use the unauthorized parts). What you experienced is annoying and the person who did it is probably a senior citizen and a) has nothing better to do and b) isnt used to kids with long hair and it incites the generation gap thing.. *shrugs*
now -that- was funny!
Lately, controversial books have been drawing attention and press anyway.
Name recognition is name recognition.. good or bad.. People will hear about it in passing, get to a book store sometime and say 'hey wasnt that the book...' and pick it up for curiosity sake, maybe read the back and find it interesting.
there are some exceptions, extremely strong negative name recognition will push people away, but still does draw some curiosity buys.
Anyway, I think you're right.
it wouldnt have been so funny without the :(, but that made it absolutely classic
Seems that way, even how she works in 'As someone who was abused...' in her statement
yeah, but how many slashdotters are interested in reading 'A Girl's Life Online'? Unless it's about Jennicam, or some kind of peep show site, I doubt it.
I would rather not have voted for Nader either.. Its not the party I want to vote for that I have a problem with, its my choices for a candidate.
I have tendencies towards both liberal and conservative on different topics.. I tend to vote republican though.. This time around, I don't really like what either Kerry or Bush has to say but I don't think I personally would like a lot of the things the green party wants to do with things around here.
The problem is really a lack of choice. The guidelines to get to run aren't so bad, but the amount of ass kissing and money grubbing that has to be done just about spoils the vast majority of modern candidates, if they weren't already corrupted along the way.
I'm not talking about dirty cop kind of corrupt, but certainly morally corrupt on some fronts.
Personally, the whole lobbiest thing drives me crazy. Yes we need some organizations to have some influence on topics that wouldnt otherwise be heard.. But the amount of monetary or strings pulling influence is absurd.. Sometimes even so bad as "If you don't vote for my bill you'll lose $50 billion because we'll tell so and so about this skeleton in your closet"
There are a lot of things that could be fixed if you could be average among the smart americans (ie not have to have been congressman and governor along the way).. At that same time it is great that these people have political experience, I'd rather have someone in the seat who knows exactly what they want to change (and have some chance of changing in the forseeable future) but maybe doesnt know how to make it happen. That's what cabinets and advisors are for.
If there was even one average joe out there who really knew where he stood on these issues and didnt give a rats ass about this foundation pulling their donations from your campaign etc etc, I don't care if the biggest office he's ever held is the janitor's closet as long as his ideas are agreeable to the nation.
In any case, back to my original point.. Just voting for the green party because the other two candidates suck doesn't do anyone any good. Seems to me there shouldn't just be one final candidate for each party and there shouldnt be 2.1 parties (like dolby digital 5.1, the 6th channel is only about 30% of the bandwidth). I don't see why it has to get narrowed down much at all. What if there started out with 100 people for each party running (300 in total) and by some background checks and primaries you knocked it down to even 20 people per party. If the people get enough Net/Air/Road time, someone will certainly surface as the one people want to vote for. If we could fix this dangling chad crap, would it really matter if a president one by one vote since the votes got diluted by having more candidates? At that point, your vote really does matter and you get a choice in the matter as well. It should never come down to 'Well i like 30% of this guys platform and i only like 20% of this guys platform, I guess I'll vote for the 30% guy, or maybe I wont even bother'
*shrugs* my poorly explained $0.02.
There will always be a problem with electronic voting. Even if you print a ticket, who's to say that what's printed on the ticket is exactly what went in? Maybe whenever you vote republican it counts twice, maybe every third democrat vote counts twice, maybe your vote didnt count at all.
In the end, the only way to go is where the voter fills out some kind of media that can be read by a computer (and is not subject to dangling chads or other misinterpretation) and serves as a backup.. but even so.. say you use open source voting software, whose to say that at the last minute someone didnt swap identical looking software with the real software.. You'll have to do a manual count side by side with the electronic count if you want to be sure. Perhaps after 10 or 15 years of no fraud, you can do random auditing or something, but the manual count is a must for a while.
If its anything like how they regulate profanity, you'll be able to kick twice, but not three times. You can have blood spew when a kick/punch happens, but only if it's not a blow to the face. You can't show someone getting punched in the cojones but you can kick someone there... Etc..
My biggest pet peeve is when you hear music on the radio and ass by itself is ok, but not ass-h$@e.. Bitch is ok, but not s@*t, nig##$ is ok but not da@n. I mean come on, really. Either let it all go or really make it right. Current regulations are completely assinine, of course that's probably a bad word too.
DHCP is an extended version of BOOTP. The underlying protocol is the same, DHCP has some extensions.. a lot more now than used to be -ala Sun.
Who needs those applications to slow your machine down for playing old 286/386/486 games? Just install XP!
I think you read me exactly backwards. better odds and less dependencies = giving up your stuff.
martial arts is not just about the fighting and technique, it is about control. most well trained martial artists will not use it in a fight situation unless prepared to kill (excluding sparring/recreational use) and if you know you're outgunned (literally perhaps) to use the better out (giving up the stuff) without increasing your risk by fighting an unwinnable fight.
martial arts is mostly for working on yourself as a person, it is a way of life more than a way of fighting. in a fist fight, or perhaps a knife vs fist fight, martial arts can be very useful, but learning it is also learning how/when not to use it.
this is all over-simplification, but is basically the point.
so it's ok to steal the 100mpg cars from the manufactuer's lot because they dont sell them separately?
personally i hate the riaa, and want single song purchases as much as i want to pick which cable channels i get.
i hate the analogy to a car because a car has a ton of value in most cases and songs have so little, but when it really comes down to it, whether you steal a penny or a hundred dollar bill, its still stealing. and millions of people stealing a penny from you is a lot of money. deserved or not, they have established rights to that penny. we need to change their rights, not steal because of them.
not stealing by general definition, but certainly dodging your legal responsibility to pay the licensing. 'stealing intellectual property' has become a term that basically means you are committing a crime because you did not obtain the necessary license. it's not really 'stealing' as we think of it, but its the simplest way to explain it.
You have a choice. You can take the red pill or the blue pill. The red pill (fighting back) is not for everyone, has extra risks but also extra gain. The blue pill (giving up your stuff) has less risks but more loss. Both are 'solutions' in that both have a probability of success. The red pill depends on your read of the mugger and their read of you, the blue pill has no dependencies really. In most cases you will walk away safely if you give up the goods. For the people who were shot even after doing so, those same people probably would still have been shot if they fought back. It all depends on the mugger. Personally, I'd take the better odds and less dependencies.
"By losing control of one's own destiny."
if you go that route, who's to say it wasnt your destiny to be mugged? Maybe there was a lesson in it?
i agree, women and men may be equals in brain (at least as an overall though men and women have different advantages/niches in general), men are on average stronger, and on average more violent/agressive. Men have a higher tendency to cause violence, and the types of men who do so tend to be the ones to do bad things to women. I hardly think sexism figures into an equation like that. We should all (men and women) admit our weaknesses and be smart, and not try and be something we're not, which could cause us great harm.
i understand perfectly about vonage, people just dont read things the same way the writer means them, or the writer has other context in their head that doesnt make it onto the page.