I suggest you be nice to those other 98%. When you get older, geeks rule the world -- and people who dismiss intelligence as unimportant pump the geeks' gas.
I have a cat who responds to what happens in a mirror: if I reach toward her from behind, she watches in the mirror and arches her neck or back to come in contact with my hand.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that my cat is self-aware -- but I *would* be surprised to learn that she's the lowest thing on the totem pole who is.
Second the Drobo comment... I have one and am reasonably happy with it.
Two caveats:
1) There's no security. More accurately, there's one single security policy that applies to the entire drive -- meaning that to get access to any of it, you have to be granted access to all of it. This is OK for most home installs (unless you want to keep your pr0n away from the kids) but hardly appropriate for business.
2) It's not fast. Now, it's not too slow, either -- it's perfectly OK as a media server (I use it with a Droboshare so it is actually a NAS, rather than a USB-connected box) but writing large quantities of data to it can take a while: loading up my 600+ GB of pre-existing stuff took the better part of two weeks. (This includes administrative time, i.e. time to make sure I had all the pieces, time to resolve permissions issues on the sources, etc. And I ran loading jobs overnight but not 24x7. YMMV. But it's not a speed demon.)
> I wonder if they where given a choice what they would decide? Maybe it is wrong to not give them the choice.
Think about it: in order for them to have made an informed choice, you have to give them the information on what they're deciding about -- destroying their choice.
Can't put the mushroom cloud back into the uranium.
> Please remember that, when using inflammatory rhetoric like that, the largest receivers of government welfare money happens to be large, multinational companies
And state-wise, the largest recipients of federal money are those red states who say they don't want any of their money going to help other states...
Except that you don't actually need to tether it. See some David Niven stories. Essentially you just make it a lot longer and the end of it beyond the balance point becomes its own anchor.
> Greatly offending the anti-birthcontrol crowd, no doubt.
Well, I will say that the newspaper article did come out after the spray-painting incident, rather than after the lawn-sign metamorphoses.:) In fairness, though, the article mentioned and condemned both. --
Tom Barringer
Candidate for State Representative from Derry, NH
www.ThatTallGuy.net
I know that one of the candidates works a night shift job. I also know most of the rest are retired -- heck, a few are past any mandatory retirement age you can name.
I agree that the time of the classic ideal of the citizen legislator has pretty much passed, at least as far as the state level is concerned. I think it would be appropriate to cut down the number of legislators by about 3/4ths, pay them a low but livable wage ($30K?), and call it full-time employment -- especially those who serve on lots of committees or who have positions that end up requiring all of their time in other ways.
Living in Nebraska you probably haven't heard that our Speaker of the House has recently been exposed to be taking gifts for personal use -- for simple things like car payments and such, amounting to about $13K a year. (See the NHPR report for details.) I have to say that I think this situation, the temptation to solicit and accept this kind of gift, is contributed to by the low salary. It's got to be hard to hold a regular job while going up to Concord every Thursday (and possibly other days for committee meetings.) --
Tom Barringer
Candidate for State Representative for Derry, NH
www.ThatTallGuy.net
Relax. It will always be that way. There will always have been no Democrats elected in that 25 years.:)
I wish such people had the courage of their convictions. Listen, AC, I've signed my name and staked my reputation on everything I've said or done in this town. If you're going to take a stand, do so publicly. If you want to have a debate, don't hide in the corners. Sniping from the wings means your position is based on fear, not reason.
Are you a candidate? (If you are, I think I know who you are.) Come debate me face-to-face. If you're not, then let's just talk -- tell me what your objections are and maybe we can come to some accommodation. Maybe we're not so far apart as you think -- or maybe you'll bring up points I haven't thought of, and convince me of something, or vice versa. It does happen.
You know where to find me.
--
Tom Barringer
Candidate for State Representative from Derry, NH
www.ThatTallGuy.net
That's just one house, the State House of Representatives. The State Senate has 24. We have the third largest legislative body in the English-speaking world (after federal-US and Britain.) And yes, we're pretty small -- 1.23M people, smaller as a state than a lot of major cities.
The interesting part is that State Rep is practically a volunteer job -- the salary is $100 a year. (I think the Speaker gets $150. The amount was set, by the way, in the 1880's.:) ) It also meets during the week. The combination of those means that most of the people who run are retired and/or independently wealthy -- which accounts for a lot of NH's conservative reputation.
(Me? If I'm elected, I'll be 40 when I take my seat. But even at that I'm going to skew the age demographic.)
--
Tom Barringer
Candidate for State Representative for Derry, NH
www.ThatTallGuy.net
> I don't live in your state, but good luck to you Tom.
Given the odds around here -- no Dems elected to any of the 11 seats in 25 years -- I'll take it even if you're out of state.:) Thanks.
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Tom Barringer
Candidate for State Representative from Derry, NH
www.ThatTallGuy.net
I'm a candidate for State Representative -- pretty low on the food chain in NH, there are 400 of them -- and even some of my signs are vandalized or stolen.
A couple of big 4x8 BC04 signs have been spray-painted with "LIARS" and "1000 DEAD" and they're now covering them with plastic wrap hoping the spray painters will be foiled (sorry) and the signs protected.
More commonly, Kerry signs are seen to metamorphose into BC signs overnight.
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Tom Barringer
Candidate for State Representative in Derry, NH
www.ThatTallGuy.net
> New Hampshire, Illinois and Oregon already have laws requiring paper backups.
Sorry, I believe your information on NH is incorrect also. What goes on in NH with electronic voting machines (they print a filled-out ballot which is then optical-scanned like any other ballot) is policy due to the intervention of the Asst Secretary of State, not law.
I'm running for State Representative in NH and safe electronic voting is one of my core issues. See www.ThatTallGuy.net.
--
ThatTallGuy
Most people don't have the truck/cones/equipment to do this and remain camouflaged.
This isn't a problem with wireless. Sit in the coffee shop with your laptop and hack away in perfect safety.
AU: Astronomical Unit, defined as the radius of the Earth's orbit, appprox 93M miles. Used for convenience and because when you get such large values that change all the time, people get sloppy.:)
Mars' orbit is ~1.6 AU from the sun. (See Bode's Law.)
This means that Mars can be as little as 0.6 AU's or as much as 2.6 AU's depending on where the planets are in their orbits relative to one another. Communication times therefore would range from about 4-5 mins to 20+, one-way.
The spacecraft are relatively slow to travel, since they coast the whole way. The path they take is a long leisurely curve so that less rocket fuel is required. There's a good animation of the path at Nasa (MPG, MOV.) So the timing of the launches is chosen for when the locations of Mars and Earth give the easiest launch (least energy required) and communications is secondary.
Hope this helps.
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(For those unfamiliar with the term, John's Fireflies describes the apparent swarming activity of debris around craft in space. One astronaut commented that NASA initially believed them to be living creatures. I'm not sure what their current view is on them.)
FYI: John Glenn's "fireflies" -- specks of light just outside his porthole during his ascent into orbit -- are now believed to be ice crystals shaken off from his craft.
Hehehehe...:)
Y'see, I don't have a problem with those fractions -- being a computer dweeb, the denominators ("demon-inators"?) are all convenient powers of two...
--TTG (whose answering machine repeats his phone number back in powers of two!)
... let's see... I make that out to be just under 3 and a quarter OS's per inch... or about.3 inches per OS. (That's 3/4ths cm for you metrics out there.)
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Beautiful pic, there, Tim
Moderate Slashdot. :)
I suggest you be nice to those other 98%. When you get older, geeks rule the world -- and people who dismiss intelligence as unimportant pump the geeks' gas.
I have a cat who responds to what happens in a mirror: if I reach toward her from behind, she watches in the mirror and arches her neck or back to come in contact with my hand. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that my cat is self-aware -- but I *would* be surprised to learn that she's the lowest thing on the totem pole who is.
I'm one of those people who doesn't use a KVM switch. VNC is better because it works on virtual machines as well as physical ones. :D
Two caveats:
1) There's no security. More accurately, there's one single security policy that applies to the entire drive -- meaning that to get access to any of it, you have to be granted access to all of it. This is OK for most home installs (unless you want to keep your pr0n away from the kids) but hardly appropriate for business.
2) It's not fast. Now, it's not too slow, either -- it's perfectly OK as a media server (I use it with a Droboshare so it is actually a NAS, rather than a USB-connected box) but writing large quantities of data to it can take a while: loading up my 600+ GB of pre-existing stuff took the better part of two weeks. (This includes administrative time, i.e. time to make sure I had all the pieces, time to resolve permissions issues on the sources, etc. And I ran loading jobs overnight but not 24x7. YMMV. But it's not a speed demon.)
> I wonder if they where given a choice what they would decide? Maybe it is wrong to not give them the choice.
Think about it: in order for them to have made an informed choice, you have to give them the information on what they're deciding about -- destroying their choice.
Can't put the mushroom cloud back into the uranium.
> Or just wipe your favourite cola onto the screen.
Of course, your software will soon appear to have bugs in it... crawling, six-legged ones.
> Please remember that, when using inflammatory rhetoric like that, the largest receivers of government welfare money happens to be large, multinational companies
And state-wise, the largest recipients of federal money are those red states who say they don't want any of their money going to help other states...
Oops -- of course that's Larry Niven. :)
Except that you don't actually need to tether it. See some David Niven stories. Essentially you just make it a lot longer and the end of it beyond the balance point becomes its own anchor.
Well, I will say that the newspaper article did come out after the spray-painting incident, rather than after the lawn-sign metamorphoses. :) In fairness, though, the article mentioned and condemned both.
--
Tom Barringer
Candidate for State Representative from Derry, NH
www.ThatTallGuy.net
I agree that the time of the classic ideal of the citizen legislator has pretty much passed, at least as far as the state level is concerned. I think it would be appropriate to cut down the number of legislators by about 3/4ths, pay them a low but livable wage ($30K?), and call it full-time employment -- especially those who serve on lots of committees or who have positions that end up requiring all of their time in other ways.
Living in Nebraska you probably haven't heard that our Speaker of the House has recently been exposed to be taking gifts for personal use -- for simple things like car payments and such, amounting to about $13K a year. (See the NHPR report for details.) I have to say that I think this situation, the temptation to solicit and accept this kind of gift, is contributed to by the low salary. It's got to be hard to hold a regular job while going up to Concord every Thursday (and possibly other days for committee meetings.)
--
Tom Barringer
Candidate for State Representative for Derry, NH
www.ThatTallGuy.net
I wish such people had the courage of their convictions. Listen, AC, I've signed my name and staked my reputation on everything I've said or done in this town. If you're going to take a stand, do so publicly. If you want to have a debate, don't hide in the corners. Sniping from the wings means your position is based on fear, not reason.
Are you a candidate? (If you are, I think I know who you are.) Come debate me face-to-face. If you're not, then let's just talk -- tell me what your objections are and maybe we can come to some accommodation. Maybe we're not so far apart as you think -- or maybe you'll bring up points I haven't thought of, and convince me of something, or vice versa. It does happen.
You know where to find me.
--
Tom Barringer
Candidate for State Representative from Derry, NH
www.ThatTallGuy.net
The interesting part is that State Rep is practically a volunteer job -- the salary is $100 a year. (I think the Speaker gets $150. The amount was set, by the way, in the 1880's. :) ) It also meets during the week. The combination of those means that most of the people who run are retired and/or independently wealthy -- which accounts for a lot of NH's conservative reputation.
(Me? If I'm elected, I'll be 40 when I take my seat. But even at that I'm going to skew the age demographic.)
--
Tom Barringer
Candidate for State Representative for Derry, NH
www.ThatTallGuy.net
Given the odds around here -- no Dems elected to any of the 11 seats in 25 years -- I'll take it even if you're out of state. :) Thanks.
--
Tom Barringer
Candidate for State Representative from Derry, NH
www.ThatTallGuy.net
A couple of big 4x8 BC04 signs have been spray-painted with "LIARS" and "1000 DEAD" and they're now covering them with plastic wrap hoping the spray painters will be foiled (sorry) and the signs protected.
More commonly, Kerry signs are seen to metamorphose into BC signs overnight.
--
Tom Barringer
Candidate for State Representative in Derry, NH
www.ThatTallGuy.net
Sorry, I believe your information on NH is incorrect also. What goes on in NH with electronic voting machines (they print a filled-out ballot which is then optical-scanned like any other ballot) is policy due to the intervention of the Asst Secretary of State, not law.
I'm running for State Representative in NH and safe electronic voting is one of my core issues. See www.ThatTallGuy.net.
--
ThatTallGuy
dealnews.com and its related sites
I'd have thought the first RFC would have been defining the structure of RFC's. :)
Most people don't have the truck/cones/equipment to do this and remain camouflaged. This isn't a problem with wireless. Sit in the coffee shop with your laptop and hack away in perfect safety.
AU: Astronomical Unit, defined as the radius of the Earth's orbit, appprox 93M miles. Used for convenience and because when you get such large values that change all the time, people get sloppy. :)
Mars' orbit is ~1.6 AU from the sun. (See Bode's Law.) This means that Mars can be as little as 0.6 AU's or as much as 2.6 AU's depending on where the planets are in their orbits relative to one another. Communication times therefore would range from about 4-5 mins to 20+, one-way.
The spacecraft are relatively slow to travel, since they coast the whole way. The path they take is a long leisurely curve so that less rocket fuel is required. There's a good animation of the path at Nasa (MPG, MOV.) So the timing of the launches is chosen for when the locations of Mars and Earth give the easiest launch (least energy required) and communications is secondary.
Hope this helps.
FYI: John Glenn's "fireflies" -- specks of light just outside his porthole during his ascent into orbit -- are now believed to be ice crystals shaken off from his craft.
Hehehehe... :)
Y'see, I don't have a problem with those fractions -- being a computer dweeb, the denominators ("demon-inators"?) are all convenient powers of two...
--TTG (whose answering machine repeats his phone number back in powers of two!)
Now that's impressive! :)