That's because your fuel doesn't need higher concentrations of oxygen to ignite. With other materials that is not necessarily the case.
Still, I've been out of breath plenty in datacenters after pulling long lengths of (heavy) SCSI cables. I can't imagine trying to do that in an O2 Poor environment.
Everybody knows Jack is a nut and all, but this smells like a hoax to me. The language doesn't feel right for a lawyer (even a crazy one) and I don't see the point of him sending a letter like this. However, if it turns out to be true then Jack has really gone off of the deep end.
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I actually have the opposite gripe (but usually about the power connectors), the connector is usually flush with the drive but the power cables come out the top and bottom of it. If you have anything adjascent to your drive (another drive, 8800GTX, etc...) the cables have to be bent at a sharper angle than I prefer. I actually still prefer using the Molex connectors most of the time because they fit snugly, are easy to access (they're on the right hand side of the drive), and the cables stick straight out the back.
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Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the current SATA connectors. They tend to fall off at the slightest provocation. I can't work in my case without having to check at the end that all of the SATA connectors are still in place (and at least one of them is usually loose or completely off). Because of this I've been reluctant to switch to SATA on external enclosures. If this new connector can prove itself resistant to falling off, it may in fact be a winner (I would even advocate unifying the connectors again under the new standard). I do like the fact that both the external and internal SATA connectors are currently the same, I just don't like the connector itself. It's rather nice to be able to take an old AT power supply (the kind where the power switch is hardwired to the supply) and plug in an off of the shelf SATA drive to the back of my case in a pinch. Plus, fewer connector types means fewer adapters I'll eventually have to own.
Wait, so ISP caches are ok because they'll probably be deleted fairly soon whereas Archive.org isn't because they hold on to it longer?
Personally, I've never understood why there is so much hate for archive.org on Slashdot. It's not like they're claiming it's their own work. If anything they're saving you some bandwidth! Granted if your site makes money through ads you'll miss out on a few clicks, but since people only tend to go to Archive.org when your site is down anyway, you were going to miss out on those clicks regardless.
I guess you do lose some ability to quickly retract all trace of your page from the internet (although even that is an illusion, unless your site was obscure chances are people have quoted from it and talked about it somewhere, and you can't erase other people's posts nearly as easily).
The problem with that is that if you release 50% of your game (with the intention of releasing the other 50% in chapters), then people will play it and say "it's too short, this sucks" and you'll never make your remaining chapters.
I think the argument is to use HTTP for all anonymous file transfers. I'm ambivalent on that solution because current HTTP clients don't support resume or directory listing (sometimes you just have a ton of files you want to make publicly accessible with a minimum of fuss) and have no standard way to upload. On the other hand, the way FTP manages the connection (not to mention the confusion over passive vs. non passive) leaves a lot to be desired on the current internet (FTP hates NAT).
That's what I'm saying. There is no doubt that it will put a lot of debris in the air and cause enormous local devastation, but it's not going to blot the sun out for years or anything like that. The last eruption tossed ash over most of the western US and Canada, which would cause crop shortages (but the US overproduces food already, so this isn't completely dire), but people are talking about complete environmental destruction which is just hyperbole. It will be a bigger disaster than Katrina though, so I hope we have someone competent at FEMA when it finally does happen.
Thankfully, the margin of error on the estimated time of the next eruption is measured in thousands of years, so the chances are pretty decent that we won't see this in our lifetime.
"Wipe out America" is a bit overstated. It would throw ash everywhere and cause food shortages, but it's not going to split the continent in half or anything.
Most corporate networks make sense when they were first deployed, but that was back in the 80s and the technology (not to mention corporate layout) has changed enough that it seems crazy today. I know our tech guys here work really hard to keep everything up to date, and for the most part our network is sane, but sometimes there are cases of legacy systems that really look out of place next to everything else.
I want to know how they're going to avoid the second system effect with their new internet. One of the big reasons the Internet works is because a lot of effort was spent in keeping everything reasonably simple. Time has shown that anything that start out highly complicated tends to be only very slowly adopted, if at all. IP may have terrible security but at least it doesn't require someone 10 man-years to build a fully compliant router.
The part in hell (did you see the island of lost souls? I'm guessing not) is interesting. If you don't basically clean out the school (which is a level grind, no doubt about it), you'll get your butt kicked in hell. But if you do kill most of the students in the school you will be able to hold your own against the demons in hell (I guess it makes you evil enough) and eventually you'll talk to some of the dead philosophers and thinkers that the boys agreed with. Eventually you even fight the devil himself (played by Satan from South Park) and if you win you get a bird to fly around hell with.
However, because it is Hell, you can never escape. Death is final.
I totally agree about IR Blasters, they just suck outright. The strange thing is, on my Tivo it never misses a digit, but a lot of times it will stall for a second or two between digits, causing my cable box to switch to the wrong channel (For instance, if it wants to go to channel 100, it will spam out 1 and 0, then pause long enough for the box to switch to channel 10 before spitting out the last 0). It drives me batty to see that happen on a show I like.
The worst part is that the cable box has a serial port in the back that theoretically a TiVo can use to change the channel instead. Unfortunately Verizon is evil and decided to disable that port for no reason. I even talked with one of the tech guys at Verizon and he said that they're asking the manufacturer to disable them in their new boxes. I'm guessing it's leftover hate of humanity they have from being a local phone company.
I can tell you didn't actually play the Columbine RPG. The game was packed with enough info to make a Biography for both of the boys, not to mention exploration into what made them do what they do and why they felt the way they did. It was pretty interesting for someone who got tired of the original media frenzy pretty quickly and tuned out.
I'm betting the added weight of the solar cells is going to make you burn more jet fuel to lift than you save by collecting sunlight to power the instruments/lights on the aircraft. Not to mention it would be incredibly expensive and I bet fairly hard on the solar cells (wings flex during flight).
Sure, you can read the text of the act yourself here, but the section you want is 501.d, which reads:
`(d) No person shall disclose to any other person (other than those persons necessary to produce the tangible things under this section) that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has sought or obtained tangible things under this section.
In fact that's part of the PATRIOT act: You're not even allowed to find out if they've been abusing the act. Whistleblowing abuses of the PATRIOT act is a crime under the PATRIOT act.
You don't have to go all "they're out to get you" on this issue. It's just the case that population density along I17 is too low and it hasn't been profitable for any of the existing cell companies to erect antennas across it yet. Solar power might actually be a good idea given the area though, especially since a lot of it is literally out in the middle of nowhere and it's expensive to run power lines out into the middle of nowhere.
That requires that the target computer connect to a host under the worm's control though. That's a much larger hurdle than just "scan 256 addresses". Since you're talking about ARP tables on stuff that's distant on the Internet, I'll assume it's just ignorance talking though.
Er, IPv6 for the most part kills traditional scanning worms. The address space is just too large for the worm to propagate through random chance. Worm developers will have to get a lot smarter when IPv6 finally (finally!) starts to take off.
Extended Tool Chest is a backronym if I ever heard one. Plus, it doesn't make sense because it isn't really a tool chest, rather it's the miscellaneous other stuff a system needs to run.
What they want is unfettered control over all you see an hear. Right now they're steamed because Apple took a bit of control away from them and they want it back. Unfortunately iTunes is large enough that Apple can dictate terms to a certain extent and they have to go along with it because they're inherently greedy.
So the preview could be boiled down to: Card still in development will be faster than cards currently available for sale.
It also included some pictures of the cooling solution that will completely dominate the card. Not that a picture of a microchip with "R600" written on it would be a lot better I guess. Although the pictures are fuzzy and hard to see, it looks like it might require two separate molex connections just like the 8800s.
It can be pretty hard to get your first job if you're trying to be a network engineer and you don't have any formal schooling beyond those 1 week certificate courses. While what you learn may not help you a whole lot directly with your job, it will help round you out and get you past the first layer of corporate HR.
If you know someone and you know your stuff sometimes you can skip that and go straight to work, and once you have 5 years of experiance under your belt that schooling doesn't matter quite as much (although it will stand out on your Resume when you decide to move on). Ultimately though, you're going for a job that traditionally requires a good 4 year degree, and you're going to really have to prove yourself if you want to try it without it.
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That's because your fuel doesn't need higher concentrations of oxygen to ignite. With other materials that is not necessarily the case.
Still, I've been out of breath plenty in datacenters after pulling long lengths of (heavy) SCSI cables. I can't imagine trying to do that in an O2 Poor environment.
Everybody knows Jack is a nut and all, but this smells like a hoax to me. The language doesn't feel right for a lawyer (even a crazy one) and I don't see the point of him sending a letter like this. However, if it turns out to be true then Jack has really gone off of the deep end.
I actually have the opposite gripe (but usually about the power connectors), the connector is usually flush with the drive but the power cables come out the top and bottom of it. If you have anything adjascent to your drive (another drive, 8800GTX, etc...) the cables have to be bent at a sharper angle than I prefer. I actually still prefer using the Molex connectors most of the time because they fit snugly, are easy to access (they're on the right hand side of the drive), and the cables stick straight out the back.
Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the current SATA connectors. They tend to fall off at the slightest provocation. I can't work in my case without having to check at the end that all of the SATA connectors are still in place (and at least one of them is usually loose or completely off). Because of this I've been reluctant to switch to SATA on external enclosures. If this new connector can prove itself resistant to falling off, it may in fact be a winner (I would even advocate unifying the connectors again under the new standard). I do like the fact that both the external and internal SATA connectors are currently the same, I just don't like the connector itself. It's rather nice to be able to take an old AT power supply (the kind where the power switch is hardwired to the supply) and plug in an off of the shelf SATA drive to the back of my case in a pinch. Plus, fewer connector types means fewer adapters I'll eventually have to own.
Wait, so ISP caches are ok because they'll probably be deleted fairly soon whereas Archive.org isn't because they hold on to it longer?
Personally, I've never understood why there is so much hate for archive.org on Slashdot. It's not like they're claiming it's their own work. If anything they're saving you some bandwidth! Granted if your site makes money through ads you'll miss out on a few clicks, but since people only tend to go to Archive.org when your site is down anyway, you were going to miss out on those clicks regardless.
I guess you do lose some ability to quickly retract all trace of your page from the internet (although even that is an illusion, unless your site was obscure chances are people have quoted from it and talked about it somewhere, and you can't erase other people's posts nearly as easily).
What if they put BASIC in the BIOS?
The problem with that is that if you release 50% of your game (with the intention of releasing the other 50% in chapters), then people will play it and say "it's too short, this sucks" and you'll never make your remaining chapters.
I think the argument is to use HTTP for all anonymous file transfers. I'm ambivalent on that solution because current HTTP clients don't support resume or directory listing (sometimes you just have a ton of files you want to make publicly accessible with a minimum of fuss) and have no standard way to upload. On the other hand, the way FTP manages the connection (not to mention the confusion over passive vs. non passive) leaves a lot to be desired on the current internet (FTP hates NAT).
That's what I'm saying. There is no doubt that it will put a lot of debris in the air and cause enormous local devastation, but it's not going to blot the sun out for years or anything like that. The last eruption tossed ash over most of the western US and Canada, which would cause crop shortages (but the US overproduces food already, so this isn't completely dire), but people are talking about complete environmental destruction which is just hyperbole. It will be a bigger disaster than Katrina though, so I hope we have someone competent at FEMA when it finally does happen.
Thankfully, the margin of error on the estimated time of the next eruption is measured in thousands of years, so the chances are pretty decent that we won't see this in our lifetime.
"Wipe out America" is a bit overstated. It would throw ash everywhere and cause food shortages, but it's not going to split the continent in half or anything.
Most corporate networks make sense when they were first deployed, but that was back in the 80s and the technology (not to mention corporate layout) has changed enough that it seems crazy today. I know our tech guys here work really hard to keep everything up to date, and for the most part our network is sane, but sometimes there are cases of legacy systems that really look out of place next to everything else.
I want to know how they're going to avoid the second system effect with their new internet. One of the big reasons the Internet works is because a lot of effort was spent in keeping everything reasonably simple. Time has shown that anything that start out highly complicated tends to be only very slowly adopted, if at all. IP may have terrible security but at least it doesn't require someone 10 man-years to build a fully compliant router.
The part in hell (did you see the island of lost souls? I'm guessing not) is interesting. If you don't basically clean out the school (which is a level grind, no doubt about it), you'll get your butt kicked in hell. But if you do kill most of the students in the school you will be able to hold your own against the demons in hell (I guess it makes you evil enough) and eventually you'll talk to some of the dead philosophers and thinkers that the boys agreed with. Eventually you even fight the devil himself (played by Satan from South Park) and if you win you get a bird to fly around hell with.
However, because it is Hell, you can never escape. Death is final.
I totally agree about IR Blasters, they just suck outright. The strange thing is, on my Tivo it never misses a digit, but a lot of times it will stall for a second or two between digits, causing my cable box to switch to the wrong channel (For instance, if it wants to go to channel 100, it will spam out 1 and 0, then pause long enough for the box to switch to channel 10 before spitting out the last 0). It drives me batty to see that happen on a show I like.
The worst part is that the cable box has a serial port in the back that theoretically a TiVo can use to change the channel instead. Unfortunately Verizon is evil and decided to disable that port for no reason. I even talked with one of the tech guys at Verizon and he said that they're asking the manufacturer to disable them in their new boxes. I'm guessing it's leftover hate of humanity they have from being a local phone company.
I can tell you didn't actually play the Columbine RPG. The game was packed with enough info to make a Biography for both of the boys, not to mention exploration into what made them do what they do and why they felt the way they did. It was pretty interesting for someone who got tired of the original media frenzy pretty quickly and tuned out.
I'm betting the added weight of the solar cells is going to make you burn more jet fuel to lift than you save by collecting sunlight to power the instruments/lights on the aircraft. Not to mention it would be incredibly expensive and I bet fairly hard on the solar cells (wings flex during flight).
In fact that's part of the PATRIOT act: You're not even allowed to find out if they've been abusing the act. Whistleblowing abuses of the PATRIOT act is a crime under the PATRIOT act.
You don't have to go all "they're out to get you" on this issue. It's just the case that population density along I17 is too low and it hasn't been profitable for any of the existing cell companies to erect antennas across it yet. Solar power might actually be a good idea given the area though, especially since a lot of it is literally out in the middle of nowhere and it's expensive to run power lines out into the middle of nowhere.
That requires that the target computer connect to a host under the worm's control though. That's a much larger hurdle than just "scan 256 addresses". Since you're talking about ARP tables on stuff that's distant on the Internet, I'll assume it's just ignorance talking though.
Er, IPv6 for the most part kills traditional scanning worms. The address space is just too large for the worm to propagate through random chance. Worm developers will have to get a lot smarter when IPv6 finally (finally!) starts to take off.
Extended Tool Chest is a backronym if I ever heard one. Plus, it doesn't make sense because it isn't really a tool chest, rather it's the miscellaneous other stuff a system needs to run.
What they want is unfettered control over all you see an hear. Right now they're steamed because Apple took a bit of control away from them and they want it back. Unfortunately iTunes is large enough that Apple can dictate terms to a certain extent and they have to go along with it because they're inherently greedy.
So the preview could be boiled down to: Card still in development will be faster than cards currently available for sale.
It also included some pictures of the cooling solution that will completely dominate the card. Not that a picture of a microchip with "R600" written on it would be a lot better I guess. Although the pictures are fuzzy and hard to see, it looks like it might require two separate molex connections just like the 8800s.
It can be pretty hard to get your first job if you're trying to be a network engineer and you don't have any formal schooling beyond those 1 week certificate courses. While what you learn may not help you a whole lot directly with your job, it will help round you out and get you past the first layer of corporate HR.
If you know someone and you know your stuff sometimes you can skip that and go straight to work, and once you have 5 years of experiance under your belt that schooling doesn't matter quite as much (although it will stand out on your Resume when you decide to move on). Ultimately though, you're going for a job that traditionally requires a good 4 year degree, and you're going to really have to prove yourself if you want to try it without it.
Um, your HTTP logs should should pretty clearly if they ignore robots.txt, assuming they don't masquerade their bot as something else (like IE).