$1800 really isn't all that much for a laptop. While the low end ones are reasonably cheap, once you get fancy the price shoots up amazingly fast. Even boring old Dell laptops get well over that.
As I understand it string theory proponents in general are getting disillusioned with the whole thing, but nothing better has come along to replace it yet. None of the alternative theories have panned out yet, and there is experimental evidence to support string theory.
The thing is overpriced and it won't work as advertised. Look at your big wall wart, it is considerably wider than the plug and usually hangs out below the ground plug on the bottom. Look how close together those side plugs are. You would think the operative mode would be to alternate between top and side to plug in the most, but if you have them turned all the way down to the side then the wall wart will smack on the floor (causing the whole strip to rest at an angle).
From what I see this strip won't be able to handle more than 5 oversized wall warts (two on each side, one on the top) without interfering with other plugs, which is not something I'd spend $120 on.
Frankly, the plugs look rather jammed together on there. I have some power strips like that were even regular three prong plugs occasionally have problems (some manufacturers go crazy on the plastic around the plugs).
For the next version of this strip, I suggest a few changes:
Forget this rotating stuff, just space the plugs out on the top and put two of them on each side.
Spread the plugs out a bit more
Drop the price by half, or let Monster rebrand your equipment
Ah the familiar refrain of the crackpot. I love the Internet. It sounds nice when you're all "those mean scientists won't even listen to me", but not so nice when you're talking about your n-dimensional timecube.
I have a suspicion that a lot of this third party resale equipment is the stuff that failed QA the first time around, but only barely. There's probably some overproduction in there as well, but it does make buying one of these discount routers a risky proposition.
Way to put such a condescending first sentence in your post when the second line is so laughably wrong. No C64 word processor that I ever saw did swapping to magnetic media (which by the way was only 170kb, a reasonable person could fill it up with a paper) for several reasons. The biggest of which is that the C64 had no MMU, so doing that was painful. The second reason is that the C64 floppy drive was slower than molasses in January, unless you're talking about swapping out to cassette tape (the only other mainstream magnetic media available to the C64).
Also, memory disks are far from uncommon, although they tend to be used for things like CD based installers that need some scratch space or for times when you want to benchmark some IO intensive operation but don't want to get the disks involved.
I'm not sure why you want to load a full DVD into RAM either. I can't think of any good reason to do that. There are people who need 4+GB of main memory (those people tend to buy 64bit machines to avoid the evil that is PAE though), but your average consumer does not, at least not yet. We aren't to the point on memory where we are on network technologies. There are still some consumer applications that can make use of 2GB fairly easily (mostly games), and it's not like your average Wal-mart machine ships with 16GB (which is what it feels like when you buy one that has Gig-E). Eventually we'll need to move past it, but right now Gig-E is pretty hard for your average consumer to fill with any regularity.
Maybe. One of the things that I've noticed is that as the bandwidth increases it becomes harder and harder to fill it up. Back in the Commodore 64 days it was not hard at all to run your machine out of memory by just typing a paper that was too long, and that's without graphics/charts/etc... These days there is no way a person would be able to type enough text to even make a noticeable dent in the main memory of any commodity machine. When everybody used 56k modems and serial lines it was trivially easy to fill up the link. However, when they moved to 10Mb Ethernet it got harder, but not impossible. Suddenly compressed music files were not a problem, although compressed video (DivX) still was. Then we went to 100Mb Ethernet and compressed video is no longer much of a bottleneck. Even now most modern machines come with Gigabit Ethernet ports that your average person can't fill with anything. Without new and bandwith intensive applications people won't be inclined to improve their bandwidth.
That's not to say someone won't come up with some application that requires a ton of bandwidth (distributed neural nets?), but none of our current applications would even really scale up to requiring 10GbE. The only realistic thing that comes to mind is some sort of Super HD video format, but anything like that is at least a decade away.
If you started kidnapping and killing your phone company employees and their family, along with bombing the cell towers, I bet you could get their attention.
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If by "awesome" you mean "grindy" then yeah, lets not import that.
Those are some rather extravagant claims for a technology that appears to be about half thought out (what if we put an engine of some kind on an air car!). My gut reaction is that they pulled that MPG number and top speed straight out of their ass.
Hydrazine is highly corrosive (in addition to being highly toxic, mutagenic, carcinogenic, and flammable. About the only thing it isn't is radioactive) and wouldn't be stored in steel tanks. Even tiny amounts of it are dangerous to humans. What's more, because it's so nasty it's likely stored in a rather sturdy container. Hydrazine containers were some of the larger chunks that survived the Columbia accident for example. Hydrazine is one of the big reasons NASA tells you never to handle any shuttle/satellite debris you might find.
Once you are root, there are dozens of ways to break out of a jail (all the way from modifying kernel memory structures directly to rewriting inodes to installing a kernel module that grants you access to whatever you need, etc...
They are probably better than giving semi-trusted users full filesystem access, even if they aren't perfect security. It's not even that chroot is inherently broken, it's just that people were using it incorrectly (setting it suid or letting the user become root inside of their jail). Most of the complaints seem to be "the user managed to get root and broke out of the jail", which is a problem with whatever allowed your user to become root in the first place, not the jail itself.
Basically, to break out of a chroot you need to be root. If you're root, then you've already defeated the security on the box anyway. Don't let untrusted users become root.
Isn't the proper terminology "law"? As in the "Law of Gravity" to related to observed and/or measured facts about the world? Theories are a description of why a law exists (Theories about gravity are actually surprisingly weak at this point. We don't really have a good understanding of why gravity works). We have observed that species change over time (short timescales with small and simple organisms like bacteria, longer timescales for larger and more complex life like Dinosaurs). Evolution is the theory that describes why we think that happens.
Before people go nuts however, I'd like to point out that Creationism is not a theory, or a law, or anything to do with science.
The way I read the description, all you have to do is file a counterclaim and then it is up to the VeRO user to get a federal order within 10 days or your auction goes back up. If they can get a federal judge to go along with them then VeRO is the least of your problems.
Filing a Copyright Counter Notice. For listings that have been removed at the request of the rights owner for copyright infringement, you may have the option of filing a Counter Notice with eBay if you feel that your listings were removed in error and you have not been able to come to an agreement with the rights owner.
A Counter Notice is a form provided by eBay in compliance with the requirements of the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The form is a legal document that requires you to, among other things, certify under sworn penalty of perjury that your listings were not infringing and were removed by mistake or misidentification. When you sign a Counter Notice, you will also have to consent to federal jurisdiction and service of process. Please read this form carefully, so you fully understand what you agree to if you choose to submit it to eBay.
Once a valid Counter Notice is submitted, eBay will provide a copy of the notice to the reporting party and will advise them that the listings will be reinstated after 10 business days if we do not hear from the reporting party that they have filed an action seeking a court order to restrain you from re-listing the items.
This part is interesting. Assuming eBay doesn't just file 13 these counterclaim notices, I wonder which way a Federal court would rule on it? I don't see where they have legal grounds for a copyright case on a hardware device that you're just reselling. I'm not sure many people want to deal with the CoS lawyers long enough to find out though.
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I wouldn't be surprised if holes were found in the DRM and had to be patched up at the last minute.
$1800 really isn't all that much for a laptop. While the low end ones are reasonably cheap, once you get fancy the price shoots up amazingly fast. Even boring old Dell laptops get well over that.
As I understand it string theory proponents in general are getting disillusioned with the whole thing, but nothing better has come along to replace it yet. None of the alternative theories have panned out yet, and there is experimental evidence to support string theory.
What if it was Jack Thompson's house?
From what I see this strip won't be able to handle more than 5 oversized wall warts (two on each side, one on the top) without interfering with other plugs, which is not something I'd spend $120 on.
Frankly, the plugs look rather jammed together on there. I have some power strips like that were even regular three prong plugs occasionally have problems (some manufacturers go crazy on the plastic around the plugs).
For the next version of this strip, I suggest a few changes:
Ah the familiar refrain of the crackpot. I love the Internet. It sounds nice when you're all "those mean scientists won't even listen to me", but not so nice when you're talking about your n-dimensional timecube.
I have a suspicion that a lot of this third party resale equipment is the stuff that failed QA the first time around, but only barely. There's probably some overproduction in there as well, but it does make buying one of these discount routers a risky proposition.
Because you could get the same mileage out of a car with a real back seat and enough power to get up to highway speed before you grow old and die?
That's probably right. I only vaguely remembered the quote and did a Google search for it, but only turned up the version I posted.
Way to put such a condescending first sentence in your post when the second line is so laughably wrong. No C64 word processor that I ever saw did swapping to magnetic media (which by the way was only 170kb, a reasonable person could fill it up with a paper) for several reasons. The biggest of which is that the C64 had no MMU, so doing that was painful. The second reason is that the C64 floppy drive was slower than molasses in January, unless you're talking about swapping out to cassette tape (the only other mainstream magnetic media available to the C64).
Also, memory disks are far from uncommon, although they tend to be used for things like CD based installers that need some scratch space or for times when you want to benchmark some IO intensive operation but don't want to get the disks involved.
I'm not sure why you want to load a full DVD into RAM either. I can't think of any good reason to do that. There are people who need 4+GB of main memory (those people tend to buy 64bit machines to avoid the evil that is PAE though), but your average consumer does not, at least not yet. We aren't to the point on memory where we are on network technologies. There are still some consumer applications that can make use of 2GB fairly easily (mostly games), and it's not like your average Wal-mart machine ships with 16GB (which is what it feels like when you buy one that has Gig-E). Eventually we'll need to move past it, but right now Gig-E is pretty hard for your average consumer to fill with any regularity.
Someone once said: The most profound scientific discoveries never begin with EUREKA! Usually they start with the words "now that's odd..."
Maybe. One of the things that I've noticed is that as the bandwidth increases it becomes harder and harder to fill it up. Back in the Commodore 64 days it was not hard at all to run your machine out of memory by just typing a paper that was too long, and that's without graphics/charts/etc... These days there is no way a person would be able to type enough text to even make a noticeable dent in the main memory of any commodity machine. When everybody used 56k modems and serial lines it was trivially easy to fill up the link. However, when they moved to 10Mb Ethernet it got harder, but not impossible. Suddenly compressed music files were not a problem, although compressed video (DivX) still was. Then we went to 100Mb Ethernet and compressed video is no longer much of a bottleneck. Even now most modern machines come with Gigabit Ethernet ports that your average person can't fill with anything. Without new and bandwith intensive applications people won't be inclined to improve their bandwidth.
That's not to say someone won't come up with some application that requires a ton of bandwidth (distributed neural nets?), but none of our current applications would even really scale up to requiring 10GbE. The only realistic thing that comes to mind is some sort of Super HD video format, but anything like that is at least a decade away.
If you started kidnapping and killing your phone company employees and their family, along with bombing the cell towers, I bet you could get their attention.
If by "awesome" you mean "grindy" then yeah, lets not import that.
Those are some rather extravagant claims for a technology that appears to be about half thought out (what if we put an engine of some kind on an air car!). My gut reaction is that they pulled that MPG number and top speed straight out of their ass.
That's everybody's assumption, which makes it a surprise when the cup burns away to the water line but is otherwise unharmed.
Hydrazine is highly corrosive (in addition to being highly toxic, mutagenic, carcinogenic, and flammable. About the only thing it isn't is radioactive) and wouldn't be stored in steel tanks. Even tiny amounts of it are dangerous to humans. What's more, because it's so nasty it's likely stored in a rather sturdy container. Hydrazine containers were some of the larger chunks that survived the Columbia accident for example. Hydrazine is one of the big reasons NASA tells you never to handle any shuttle/satellite debris you might find.
Yeah, every method I've seen starts with:
Step 1: Become root
Once you are root, there are dozens of ways to break out of a jail (all the way from modifying kernel memory structures directly to rewriting inodes to installing a kernel module that grants you access to whatever you need, etc...
They are probably better than giving semi-trusted users full filesystem access, even if they aren't perfect security. It's not even that chroot is inherently broken, it's just that people were using it incorrectly (setting it suid or letting the user become root inside of their jail). Most of the complaints seem to be "the user managed to get root and broke out of the jail", which is a problem with whatever allowed your user to become root in the first place, not the jail itself.
Basically, to break out of a chroot you need to be root. If you're root, then you've already defeated the security on the box anyway. Don't let untrusted users become root.
Isn't the proper terminology "law"? As in the "Law of Gravity" to related to observed and/or measured facts about the world? Theories are a description of why a law exists (Theories about gravity are actually surprisingly weak at this point. We don't really have a good understanding of why gravity works). We have observed that species change over time (short timescales with small and simple organisms like bacteria, longer timescales for larger and more complex life like Dinosaurs). Evolution is the theory that describes why we think that happens.
Before people go nuts however, I'd like to point out that Creationism is not a theory, or a law, or anything to do with science.
The way I read the description, all you have to do is file a counterclaim and then it is up to the VeRO user to get a federal order within 10 days or your auction goes back up. If they can get a federal judge to go along with them then VeRO is the least of your problems.
Yeah, the point is that you can get a webpage down in those first few seconds generally so browsing is much better than it would otherwise be.
Also, please don't buy one of those acoustic mosquito repellents, they don't work and annoy everybody near you.
Yeah, but what if they included jacking off in their definition of "sex"? Would you still be able to do it?