I think this refers to binary liquid-liquid explosives. There are lots of simple explosive mixtures which involve a relatively inert powder such as ammonium nitrate, plus a liquid sensitizer such as nitromethane (used in race car fuel). All of them that I know of require a blasting cap, which will show up on an x-ray and might trigger a magnetometer.
From the vague and incompetent description by the news media, the explosive device sounds like Kinepak or something similar. This is a little tube filled with ammonium nitrate, aluminum powder, plus proprietary stuff; to which you take a tube of red liquid (nitromethane and dye) and pour in the top. Eventually when the liquid soaks all the way through, you have a cap-sensitive blasting agent that's about as strong as dynamite when in a confined place. There's plenty of room for "operator error", though, as this material has to be handled properly if you want it to work. And it needs the right type of blasting cap. But even if he did everything right, I don't think it's powerful enought to bring down a jet unless it hit something critical.
Since the Google 10^100 contest has descended into obvious bullshit and has turned out to be a waste of time (silly us, thinking they were serious about this effort), I hereby propose that we use up Slashdot's storage and bandwidth by posting our rejected ideas here. My idea isn't anything special, but the rules were that it had to be done with a modest grant (I loved the ones about using VTOL aircraft and passenger airships, yeah, that sounds cheap). Anyway here is my idea:
After a severe or prolonged disaster most people will not have access to phones or internet, especially in poor areas, so re-connecting with loved ones is nearly impossible (think about all the missing persons posters after 9/11 and Katrina!) I therefore propose that we develop free software for use by NGO's, the Red Cross, and other volunteers which will quickly scan handwritten information forms, and upload them to an OCR back-end index and portal, hosted by Google. The blank forms will have a bar code -- the refugee returns to any connected terminal and scans or types the code to receive any information the indexing technology can find about loved ones. Any form that cannot be OCR'd will be posted on the internet in a "Mechanical Turk" arrangement so that volunteers can help index the data. A single laptop and inexpensive scanner connected via HAM radio, SatPhone, or CellPhone can easily process thousands of requests per day, which would be impossible if each refugee had to use the keyboard and navigate through a search site.
Blank forms will have language-selection tick boxes which match the country, plus a few major languages like English. If forms are not available, the software should accept regular paper and issue a unique serial number to the refugee which can be written down. There can also be a few "standard responses" like the Red Cross "Safe and Well List" website has (note that this website is useless unless each refugee has unfettered access to the Internet which is why my idea will re-unite families much more effectively). We could also establish a phone bank connected to volunteers.
I think the first stage should be to create an extensible communications spec, then write the code for PC's, then perhaps later design a solar-powered ruggedized appliance.
After reading the thread on a mirror, it's important to note that after the argument, Alan and Linus continued to debate the technical merits of how to patch the bugs. The ongoing conversation was civilized and concise. Of course Linus is too much of a pompous ass to apologize to Alan for completely misunderstanding the problem and proposing dangerous and useless ways of fixing it, then arguing about it ad nauseum. Oddly, this doesn't seem to bother Alan or maybe he's just used to it.
I don't personally care what happens to the linux kernel but let me suggest that any of you who depend on a stable USB stack need to take special note of whatever decision Linus finally makes.
That's not a very helpful calculation. The OP is concerned with the possibility of data loss due to drive failure, which is a function of MTBF of the drive and his MTTR of replacing a defective drive (MTTR includes the rebuild time for simplicity). In other words, he won't lose data unless the second drive fails during the vulnerable window of time before the first defective drive is replaced and rebuilt.
A better question to ask perhaps is what is the MTBF of Windows (and/or the application software and/or the user and/or malware...) not destroying the data partition (and it's mirror). Probably happens 1000 times as often as a dual-drive RAID-1 disk failure.
My suggestion would be to have good backups, and for really critical stuff store a copy in a USB drive at some other location.
Wow, that's an incredibly stupid thing for Lenovo to do. I was about to order a Lenovo for my next laptop and if it worked out I was going to ask our IT department to change from the current incumbents (Dell and Sony) to Lenovo for our sales and executive staff. I'm going to wait to see that this issue is fully resolved before making a move, and if they don't fix it, they can forget about 20 to 30 laptop orders a year from my company.
I don't think my emotion would be unique -- I'm sure 90% of IT managers would disqualify Lenovo if they knew about this spam pop-up problem and didn't have an easy way to disable it enterprise-wide. Billions of dollars are at risk for something that probably only brings them a few hundred K$ per year. Bone-headed.
The only reason I use tabbed browsing is because the BACK button is slow/unreliable/unpredictable. As far as I am concerned, the BACK button should instantaneously take me to the rendering of the most recent web page unless the page has some kind of meta tag which indicates that BACK requires either a refresh or is totally prohibited (e-commerce, banking, etc). But for ordinary surfing, the links on the previous BACK buffer are still valid and if only the browser remembered the previous page's contents we could have instant BACK functionality.
Why is it that Google doesn't have to worry about FCC, CE, or UL safety and EMC regulations? And why are they using a RoHS prohibited battery which uses lead???
The order of events is important here. The guy was minding his own business and getting on with his life. He was approached by the dutch company. So he cannot be accused
Actually, there are a lot of cases where the opposing lawyer "tricked" the seller by asking for a price. This was then used in the WIPO hearings as part of the bad faith proof, as I said in the prior post, if there are other factors such as a lack of a genuine interest in the trademark, a pattern of similar squatting/selling, lack of genuine use of the domain, and so forth.
The OP didn't say how he came to choose the domain name, for example, if it's his surname or the name of a mythical character or whatever. If he chose it because his bitch bought him a Zerba condom dispenser for his birthday, then quoting a price to Zerba will prove he's a squatter.
But make no mistake -- an IP lawyer will always ask you for a price as the first step in trying to take the domain away. A large corporation will generally have lawyers handling this kind of thing, so beware.
As others have noted, offering to sell your domain to them can be used as evidence of bad faith if there is other evidence you are cybersquatting.
However, you can write them a letter and say you aren't really interested in selling the domain, what with the heavy email use you've been making with it for years, but if they request it you will put a link on the front page which says "Looking for Zerba the fashion designer? Click: www.zerba.nl" You could also offer to forward email to specific accounts to them if applicable -- in my case I have the dot-com for a name which some bloodsucking lawyer has the dot-net for, and people are forever sending me his mail. I have set up auto-forwards for all the accounts that seem popular at his office (so that I'm not accused of looking at private legal mail).
Simple, just rename the file "Allahu_Akbar_Terror_Camp_Video.mpg" and email to anyone, anywhere. Then in 30 years file a FOIA request with NSA to retrieve a copy.
Almost three years ago EFF sent a detailed and thoughtful FOIA request to the Secret Service on this topic. Surely if they had responded EFF would have posted the information, so one must assume the SS is sandbagging on this one. Sucks when a law enforcement agency decides to ignore the law.
Funny coincidence. This was on Audible.com so I grabbed it last week. He makes a lot of sense. My favorite part was when some hopeful newspaper editor in the audience asked if he was thinking about buying any more newspapers. He burst the guy's bubble by saying "NO!" and going on to explain that it would be a bad investment. I guess that was really the whole point of the talk -- the antique news media better come up with something new or it's going to die.
Just so you guys are aware, Sypixx makes CCTV systems which are primarily sold into casinos as part of their government-mandated gaming regulation compliance. They don't seem to sell much if anything to Big Brother type markets.
When I hear stories about stuff like TIA and Echelon, I start to worry that the gubment is going to be all-seeing and all-knowing. Then, I hear a news story about how our leaders didn't even know a Arab country had bought an entire US port, then I relax a little bit. Incompetence trumps diabolical planning every time.
Judge Pumfrey is the same guy who ruled that Storage Computer didn't have a valid patent on parity-based RAID such as RAID 3 and RAID 5. I read the transcripts of that case -- he is very skeptical of patents which are obvious implementations of existing ideas. If you can give an average engineer the same problem and he comes up with the same solution, then there shouldn't be a patent.
So, does this mean I can bill Bell South for all the zombie PC's on their networks sending me spam? How about if Google charges Bell South a "delivery surcharge" to ensure that BS customers' searches are completed in an accurate and timely fashion? What if cnn.com only shows the first 50 words of each story to Bell South customers unless they receive an extra fee? Who is going to scream with pain first? If BS becomes an unusable paraiah network, where will BS be as a company in a couple of years?
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I haven't seen anyone else mention it, but for most switcher supplies sold to the PC market, you have to pay attention to the minimum loads as well. Typically, these are specified at 10% to 20% of the maximum continuous load. So, don't buy that 1000W PSU unless you are going to be using 100 to 200 watts at all times. If you drop below the minimum load, the regulation goes to hell and you could get unreliable operation. Sometimes, the design requires a mix of minimum loads on the different outputs; other designs have one primary output that needs the minimum loading.
More expensive designs have preload resistors or other design features which eliminate the minimum load requirement, but I don't think that's what we are talking about here.
There's also something odd about rating a PSU at 1100W peak and 1000W continuous. Based on the types of components that are likely to be in the system, if you keep below the 1100W peak value, it's unlikely that your continuous draw will be more than about 700W, possibly less if you have lots of hard drives.
Running IE6 and trying to moderate, it was a big mess. Lines overlaid other lines. Almost unreadable. Most of the problems were near the bottom of the page.
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I think this refers to binary liquid-liquid explosives. There are lots of simple explosive mixtures which involve a relatively inert powder such as ammonium nitrate, plus a liquid sensitizer such as nitromethane (used in race car fuel). All of them that I know of require a blasting cap, which will show up on an x-ray and might trigger a magnetometer.
Yeah, it's not right to kill captured terrorists, but I don't see anything wrong in ripping their eyes out with the silverware from First Class.
From the vague and incompetent description by the news media, the explosive device sounds like Kinepak or something similar. This is a little tube filled with ammonium nitrate, aluminum powder, plus proprietary stuff; to which you take a tube of red liquid (nitromethane and dye) and pour in the top. Eventually when the liquid soaks all the way through, you have a cap-sensitive blasting agent that's about as strong as dynamite when in a confined place. There's plenty of room for "operator error", though, as this material has to be handled properly if you want it to work. And it needs the right type of blasting cap. But even if he did everything right, I don't think it's powerful enought to bring down a jet unless it hit something critical.
I bet EMC is happy they just out-bid NetApp to the tune of $2.4 billion, for basically the same technology that Jeff Bonwick is giving away for free.
Since the Google 10^100 contest has descended into obvious bullshit and has turned out to be a waste of time (silly us, thinking they were serious about this effort), I hereby propose that we use up Slashdot's storage and bandwidth by posting our rejected ideas here. My idea isn't anything special, but the rules were that it had to be done with a modest grant (I loved the ones about using VTOL aircraft and passenger airships, yeah, that sounds cheap). Anyway here is my idea:
After a severe or prolonged disaster most people will not have access to phones or internet, especially in poor areas, so re-connecting with loved ones is nearly impossible (think about all the missing persons posters after 9/11 and Katrina!) I therefore propose that we develop free software for use by NGO's, the Red Cross, and other volunteers which will quickly scan handwritten information forms, and upload them to an OCR back-end index and portal, hosted by Google. The blank forms will have a bar code -- the refugee returns to any connected terminal and scans or types the code to receive any information the indexing technology can find about loved ones. Any form that cannot be OCR'd will be posted on the internet in a "Mechanical Turk" arrangement so that volunteers can help index the data. A single laptop and inexpensive scanner connected via HAM radio, SatPhone, or CellPhone can easily process thousands of requests per day, which would be impossible if each refugee had to use the keyboard and navigate through a search site.
Blank forms will have language-selection tick boxes which match the country, plus a few major languages like English. If forms are not available, the software should accept regular paper and issue a unique serial number to the refugee which can be written down. There can also be a few "standard responses" like the Red Cross "Safe and Well List" website has (note that this website is useless unless each refugee has unfettered access to the Internet which is why my idea will re-unite families much more effectively). We could also establish a phone bank connected to volunteers.
I think the first stage should be to create an extensible communications spec, then write the code for PC's, then perhaps later design a solar-powered ruggedized appliance.
After reading the thread on a mirror, it's important to note that after the argument, Alan and Linus continued to debate the technical merits of how to patch the bugs. The ongoing conversation was civilized and concise. Of course Linus is too much of a pompous ass to apologize to Alan for completely misunderstanding the problem and proposing dangerous and useless ways of fixing it, then arguing about it ad nauseum. Oddly, this doesn't seem to bother Alan or maybe he's just used to it. I don't personally care what happens to the linux kernel but let me suggest that any of you who depend on a stable USB stack need to take special note of whatever decision Linus finally makes.
I wonder if Linus visits Hans Reiser in prison... they seem to have compatible personalities.
That's not a very helpful calculation. The OP is concerned with the possibility of data loss due to drive failure, which is a function of MTBF of the drive and his MTTR of replacing a defective drive (MTTR includes the rebuild time for simplicity). In other words, he won't lose data unless the second drive fails during the vulnerable window of time before the first defective drive is replaced and rebuilt. A better question to ask perhaps is what is the MTBF of Windows (and/or the application software and/or the user and/or malware...) not destroying the data partition (and it's mirror). Probably happens 1000 times as often as a dual-drive RAID-1 disk failure. My suggestion would be to have good backups, and for really critical stuff store a copy in a USB drive at some other location.
Wow, that's an incredibly stupid thing for Lenovo to do. I was about to order a Lenovo for my next laptop and if it worked out I was going to ask our IT department to change from the current incumbents (Dell and Sony) to Lenovo for our sales and executive staff. I'm going to wait to see that this issue is fully resolved before making a move, and if they don't fix it, they can forget about 20 to 30 laptop orders a year from my company. I don't think my emotion would be unique -- I'm sure 90% of IT managers would disqualify Lenovo if they knew about this spam pop-up problem and didn't have an easy way to disable it enterprise-wide. Billions of dollars are at risk for something that probably only brings them a few hundred K$ per year. Bone-headed.
The only reason I use tabbed browsing is because the BACK button is slow/unreliable/unpredictable. As far as I am concerned, the BACK button should instantaneously take me to the rendering of the most recent web page unless the page has some kind of meta tag which indicates that BACK requires either a refresh or is totally prohibited (e-commerce, banking, etc). But for ordinary surfing, the links on the previous BACK buffer are still valid and if only the browser remembered the previous page's contents we could have instant BACK functionality.
Why is it that Google doesn't have to worry about FCC, CE, or UL safety and EMC regulations? And why are they using a RoHS prohibited battery which uses lead???
Not implying anything, but has anyone checked to see where Dick Cheney was this morning?
Amen, brother. How about a national "Chief Keep the Fucking Government the Hell Out of our Way Officer"?
The order of events is important here. The guy was minding his own business and getting on with his life. He was approached by the dutch company. So he cannot be accused
Actually, there are a lot of cases where the opposing lawyer "tricked" the seller by asking for a price. This was then used in the WIPO hearings as part of the bad faith proof, as I said in the prior post, if there are other factors such as a lack of a genuine interest in the trademark, a pattern of similar squatting/selling, lack of genuine use of the domain, and so forth. The OP didn't say how he came to choose the domain name, for example, if it's his surname or the name of a mythical character or whatever. If he chose it because his bitch bought him a Zerba condom dispenser for his birthday, then quoting a price to Zerba will prove he's a squatter. But make no mistake -- an IP lawyer will always ask you for a price as the first step in trying to take the domain away. A large corporation will generally have lawyers handling this kind of thing, so beware.
As others have noted, offering to sell your domain to them can be used as evidence of bad faith if there is other evidence you are cybersquatting. However, you can write them a letter and say you aren't really interested in selling the domain, what with the heavy email use you've been making with it for years, but if they request it you will put a link on the front page which says "Looking for Zerba the fashion designer? Click: www.zerba.nl" You could also offer to forward email to specific accounts to them if applicable -- in my case I have the dot-com for a name which some bloodsucking lawyer has the dot-net for, and people are forever sending me his mail. I have set up auto-forwards for all the accounts that seem popular at his office (so that I'm not accused of looking at private legal mail).
Simple, just rename the file "Allahu_Akbar_Terror_Camp_Video.mpg" and email to anyone, anywhere. Then in 30 years file a FOIA request with NSA to retrieve a copy.
Almost three years ago EFF sent a detailed and thoughtful FOIA request to the Secret Service on this topic. Surely if they had responded EFF would have posted the information, so one must assume the SS is sandbagging on this one. Sucks when a law enforcement agency decides to ignore the law.
Funny coincidence. This was on Audible.com so I grabbed it last week. He makes a lot of sense. My favorite part was when some hopeful newspaper editor in the audience asked if he was thinking about buying any more newspapers. He burst the guy's bubble by saying "NO!" and going on to explain that it would be a bad investment. I guess that was really the whole point of the talk -- the antique news media better come up with something new or it's going to die.
Just so you guys are aware, Sypixx makes CCTV systems which are primarily sold into casinos as part of their government-mandated gaming regulation compliance. They don't seem to sell much if anything to Big Brother type markets.
When I hear stories about stuff like TIA and Echelon, I start to worry that the gubment is going to be all-seeing and all-knowing. Then, I hear a news story about how our leaders didn't even know a Arab country had bought an entire US port, then I relax a little bit. Incompetence trumps diabolical planning every time.
Judge Pumfrey is the same guy who ruled that Storage Computer didn't have a valid patent on parity-based RAID such as RAID 3 and RAID 5. I read the transcripts of that case -- he is very skeptical of patents which are obvious implementations of existing ideas. If you can give an average engineer the same problem and he comes up with the same solution, then there shouldn't be a patent.
So, does this mean I can bill Bell South for all the zombie PC's on their networks sending me spam? How about if Google charges Bell South a "delivery surcharge" to ensure that BS customers' searches are completed in an accurate and timely fashion? What if cnn.com only shows the first 50 words of each story to Bell South customers unless they receive an extra fee? Who is going to scream with pain first? If BS becomes an unusable paraiah network, where will BS be as a company in a couple of years?
I haven't seen anyone else mention it, but for most switcher supplies sold to the PC market, you have to pay attention to the minimum loads as well. Typically, these are specified at 10% to 20% of the maximum continuous load. So, don't buy that 1000W PSU unless you are going to be using 100 to 200 watts at all times. If you drop below the minimum load, the regulation goes to hell and you could get unreliable operation. Sometimes, the design requires a mix of minimum loads on the different outputs; other designs have one primary output that needs the minimum loading.
More expensive designs have preload resistors or other design features which eliminate the minimum load requirement, but I don't think that's what we are talking about here.
There's also something odd about rating a PSU at 1100W peak and 1000W continuous. Based on the types of components that are likely to be in the system, if you keep below the 1100W peak value, it's unlikely that your continuous draw will be more than about 700W, possibly less if you have lots of hard drives.
Bottom line -- bigger is not always better.
Oddly, the following names are reserved:
1000-jaehriges-reich
1000jaehrigesreich
3-reich
3reich
4-reich
4reich
nazi-deutschland
nazi-reich
nazideutschland
nazireich
But why not simply nazi.eu?
Running IE6 and trying to moderate, it was a big mess. Lines overlaid other lines. Almost unreadable. Most of the problems were near the bottom of the page.