Asus and Intel are the only vendors that score 10/10 for stability.
As far as I'm concerned, any board that causes a machine to crash, ever, is faulty.
Now, I may be misunderstanding the author's definition of stability, but I don't think so. As far as I'm concerned the primary requirement is that the board works. Features, performace, value for money are all subsidiary to that -- sure, they'll be the deciding factor amongst boards that work, but I just have no interest in buying unreliable products...
Intelligent Design. Old wine in new bottles, so to speak. It is creationism, but described in a way that removes the obvious Genesis references. In theory, ID could imply that aliens did the work. But it is really just the same old stuff, different day.
And such a theory would be of any interest to anyone why?
It loses in both worlds -- ignoring both scientific evidence and fundamental Christian faith...
This isn't a physical mutation any more than the change in the way I use my fingers to type since I learnt to touch type is a physical mutation.
I can see the advantage in learning to be able to be dextrous with your thumbs -- it very probably makes it easier to operate a small device one-handed...
Lets have just a modicum of creativity and problem solving here shall we? If you were going to try to setup a system to allow prioritzed traffic over a system that does not currently facilitate it (ignoring the ip flag since it's useless as is), you sure wouldn't have such a lame simplistic approach as simply marking a packet with a flag.
Well, that's essentially how DiffServ works.
One way off the top of my head would be to send an encrpyted packet that has some type of auth flag, and a stream identifier. Routers would see the packet, decrypt it, check it, what ever, and then any other packets that are a part of the stream would also be given priority.
Right. Some kind of cryptographic authentication is the only way I can see that you could do this. Unfortunately it involves replacing every backbone router with one with about 100 times as much processing power.
My initial though was that this is a good idea. However, after 30 seconds contemplation, this sounds completely unachievable...
. The parent poster didn't say or imply that you were a racist. Also, that poster's comment was to the effect that saying "his" and saying "her" are interchangeable in this day and age, and your finding it hard to read is your problem, not the author's.
I largely disagree. 'His' and 'her' are not generally used interchangeably. Standard practice is still to use 'his' as the common gender pronoun, and 'their' has gained significant usage. I dispute that 'her' is widely used as a common gender pronoun.
You can't support an artificial change to the English language, and then complain that the fact native readers of English find it hard to read -- if you do, you're just burying your head in the sand.
You can, however, promote an artifical change to the English language, and justify it on the basis that the anticipated social benefits outweigh the inconvenience to the reader unaccustommed to the new usage. But that's not the same thing.
I realize I'm in the minority here, but I can't believe I'm that unusual in leaving my home desktop running 24/7...
Maybe I won't replace that 9GB IBM Ultrastar (SCSI) drive with a large IDE drive just yet...
And in many corporate environments desktops do run 24/7, 'cos of things like backups (that typically run overnight). Yes, there are ways round this using ACPI, etc, but they're not universally deployed, particularly since many corporates are still running NT...
A package management system is the user's first and best defense against this type of thing. With it, a user can always determine which files are needed for which applications, and vice-versa.
But all useful package management systems I'm aware of support the notion of after-install scripts, which can be misused to subvert the whole process...
As far as I know the US is the only country on earth that has criminalized copyright violation. Land of the free.
At the risk of stating what you already know...
The US is certainly not the only country to have criminal copyright law. The UK has long made it a criminal offense to profit from copyright infrigement... The significance is not that there is criminal copyright law; the significance is the extension of its scope
glad to see someone else sees the other side here. how can they validate the doctot's papers? how can they know it's not a bomb? many make the point these security gaurds are generally dubm. and they are. too dumb to tell the difference between a wearable computing aparatus and something potentially dangerous.
Hmm, how can they tell the difference between a pacemaker, and someone who's had a bomb implanted within their body
Terrorism is bad -- no one will argue against that. But you have to be careful that the cure isn't worse than the disease.
Interesting that in the US copyright infringement can now be a criminal offense (rather than a civil matter) even when it's not for commercial gain. How recent is the No Electronic Theft Act? -- I don't recall having seen any coverage of it on the web, but maybe I missed it...
Anyone know whether similar things are happening (have happened?) in the UK/EU ?
Oh, please. How often do you reboot a firewall? Once every six months? Once a year? Once per power failure?
Actually, that's potentially a problem, though maybe less so than it used to be.
Floppy drives tend to die if they're left unused for really long periods of time.
This was first noticed when BIOSes started allowing you to disable booting from floppy -- the floppy drive was no longer exercised at power up, and if it wasn't otherwised used, it would likely be unusable after a few years of disuse.
Most modern BIOSes fix this by exercising the floppy drive even if they don't intend to try and boot from it, but that isn't really a solutions for machines that might go really long periods without a reboot.
I guess the solution for a linux firewall is to have a daemon that spins up the floppy drive and seeks the heads every couple of months...
I have to say that I would this really bizarre when I first found out about this.
In the UK (and the rest of Europe), there's a much shorter lag between a show being on TV and it coming to VHS or DVD.
It also leads to the bizarre situation that several seasons of a US show can have been released on VHS/DVD in Europe before even Season 1 is released in the US. (As is currently the case with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.)
And that's where TV is headed when broadband catches on. We'll be able to get a ton of content that interrests us without the commercial aspect. It'll kill their ratings and hopefully the cable networks
Unfortunately, you won't, since in the US most new content is largely funded by the networks.
Broadband (as opposed to baseband) means data is transmitted by modulated a (typically) RF carrier.
Broadband (as opposed to narrowband) means data is transmitted at high bitrates (where high bitrates, of course, is not well defined and to a large extent depends on context).
So far, the US Government has been pro-SPAM with the only legislation being introduced as "opt-out" systems.
But the FTC (US Federal Trade Commission) is planning to (try to) clamp down on senders of spam where the content is illegal or legally dubious (make money fast schemes, dodgy investment opportunities, etc).
They ask for such spam to be forwarded to uce@ftc.gov
I'm not sure if they really want those of us outside the US to forward spam, but I've recently taken to forwarding such spam to them if it seems legally dubious and seems to have a US connection.
I don't use my email on Usenet, I read follow-ups in the group
And the modern habit of using fake e-mail addresses in USENET posts irritates my sensibilities. (I was brought up in an era when such behaviour was most definitely contrary to accepted netiquette.)
Don't get me wrong, I understand why you and others do this. But the point is that people shouldn't have to.
When you receive an e-mail from China, entirely in Chinese, do you find someone to translate it for you, or just delete it assuming it's spam? After all, all your customers are in the US, and even if some of them are Chinese, certainly none of them would expect *you* to speak Chinese. The only Chinese e-mail you've ever received is (by all accounts, though you can't be sure) spam, and it's well known that lots of spam comes from China.
When an admin at a Chinese ISP receives an e-mail entirely in English, does he find someone to translate it for him, or just delete it assuming it's spam? After all, all his customers are in China, and even if some of them are American or British, certainly none of them would expect *him* to speak English. The only English e-mail he's ever received is (by all accounts, though he can't be sure) spam, and it's well known that lots of spam comes from the US...
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Asus and Intel are the only vendors that score 10/10 for stability.
As far as I'm concerned, any board that causes a machine to crash, ever, is faulty.
Now, I may be misunderstanding the author's definition of stability, but I don't think so. As far as I'm concerned the primary requirement is that the board works. Features, performace, value for money are all subsidiary to that -- sure, they'll be the deciding factor amongst boards that work, but I just have no interest in buying unreliable products...
And such a theory would be of any interest to anyone why?
It loses in both worlds -- ignoring both scientific evidence and fundamental Christian faith...
This isn't a physical mutation any more than the change in the way I use my fingers to type since I learnt to touch type is a physical mutation.
I can see the advantage in learning to be able to be dextrous with your thumbs -- it very probably makes it easier to operate a small device one-handed...
But the Internet does mandate the use of specific root servers.
Well, that's essentially how DiffServ works.
Right. Some kind of cryptographic authentication is the only way I can see that you could do this. Unfortunately it involves replacing every backbone router with one with about 100 times as much processing power.
My initial though was that this is a good idea. However, after 30 seconds contemplation, this sounds completely unachievable...
Hey, telepathy will only tell you whether (or what colour) underwear they (or someone else) think they are wearing.
Remote viewing is more reliable.
I largely disagree. 'His' and 'her' are not generally used interchangeably. Standard practice is still to use 'his' as the common gender pronoun, and 'their' has gained significant usage. I dispute that 'her' is widely used as a common gender pronoun.
You can't support an artificial change to the English language, and then complain that the fact native readers of English find it hard to read -- if you do, you're just burying your head in the sand.
You can, however, promote an artifical change to the English language, and justify it on the basis that the anticipated social benefits outweigh the inconvenience to the reader unaccustommed to the new usage. But that's not the same thing.
Hmm, doesn't patent law refer to 'a practitioner skilled in the art'? What does that mean then...
I realize I'm in the minority here, but I can't believe I'm that unusual in leaving my home desktop running 24/7...
Maybe I won't replace that 9GB IBM Ultrastar (SCSI) drive with a large IDE drive just yet...
And in many corporate environments desktops do run 24/7, 'cos of things like backups (that typically run overnight). Yes, there are ways round this using ACPI, etc, but they're not universally deployed, particularly since many corporates are still running NT...
With a decent Unix OS you should be able to keep it running for months or even years...
But all useful package management systems I'm aware of support the notion of after-install scripts, which can be misused to subvert the whole process...
At the risk of stating what you already know...
The US is certainly not the only country to have criminal copyright law. The UK has long made it a criminal offense to profit from copyright infrigement... The significance is not that there is criminal copyright law; the significance is the extension of its scope
Terrorism is bad -- no one will argue against that. But you have to be careful that the cure isn't worse than the disease.
Now, I don't think he/she misread the post, though he may have worded his/her response badly.
The question is, what could there be in a computer system that would be sensitive to X-rays...
Maybe flash memory is potentially vulnerable, but laptops contain that... can't think of much else...
Interesting that in the US copyright infringement can now be a criminal offense (rather than a civil matter) even when it's not for commercial gain. How recent is the No Electronic Theft Act? -- I don't recall having seen any coverage of it on the web, but maybe I missed it...
Anyone know whether similar things are happening (have happened?) in the UK/EU ?
Floppy drives tend to die if they're left unused for really long periods of time.
This was first noticed when BIOSes started allowing you to disable booting from floppy -- the floppy drive was no longer exercised at power up, and if it wasn't otherwised used, it would likely be unusable after a few years of disuse.
Most modern BIOSes fix this by exercising the floppy drive even if they don't intend to try and boot from it, but that isn't really a solutions for machines that might go really long periods without a reboot.
I guess the solution for a linux firewall is to have a daemon that spins up the floppy drive and seeks the heads every couple of months...
No one has any intention of trying every 170-bit key.
What they want to do is factor a 170-bit key (well, actually, a 512-bit key in your example).
In the UK (and the rest of Europe), there's a much shorter lag between a show being on TV and it coming to VHS or DVD.
It also leads to the bizarre situation that several seasons of a US show can have been released on VHS/DVD in Europe before even Season 1 is released in the US. (As is currently the case with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.)
Broadband has two meanings.
Broadband (as opposed to baseband) means data is transmitted by modulated a (typically) RF carrier.
Broadband (as opposed to narrowband) means data is transmitted at high bitrates (where high bitrates, of course, is not well defined and to a large extent depends on context).
They ask for such spam to be forwarded to uce@ftc.gov
I'm not sure if they really want those of us outside the US to forward spam, but I've recently taken to forwarding such spam to them if it seems legally dubious and seems to have a US connection.
Don't get me wrong, I understand why you and others do this. But the point is that people shouldn't have to.
That may be, but the point still stands.
.cn domains, for instance.
I've heard of people who drop all mail from
When you receive an e-mail from China, entirely in Chinese, do you find someone to translate it for you, or just delete it assuming it's spam? After all, all your customers are in the US, and even if some of them are Chinese, certainly none of them would expect *you* to speak Chinese. The only Chinese e-mail you've ever received is (by all accounts, though you can't be sure) spam, and it's well known that lots of spam comes from China.
When an admin at a Chinese ISP receives an e-mail entirely in English, does he find someone to translate it for him, or just delete it assuming it's spam? After all, all his customers are in China, and even if some of them are American or British, certainly none of them would expect *him* to speak English. The only English e-mail he's ever received is (by all accounts, though he can't be sure) spam, and it's well known that lots of spam comes from the US...