Maybe this is a good ad for mining the moon? I recall it's got a lot of silicon, not sure how good that is at blocking radiation, and no idea how much lead might be there, but at 1/6 the earth's gravity, lifting shielding materials up off the moon to an orbiting assembly platform might be a lot easier to do?
Though that probably depends on the fuel you need to get to the moon to get the heavy stuff off the surface, and lifting fuel is always a spiraling need issue. (if your figures say you need 20 more lbs of fuel, you really need 50, because you also have to lift 20 more lbs of fuel, and the fuel that you now need to carry to lift THAT additional fuel, etc)
That's a relief - I was assuming it just applied to anyone, anywhere, anytime. It makes sense that a company would have some say over what you do while in uniform. Rather than saying what the comapny can tell you that you have to do while in uniform, it would be better to look at this where the company can tell you to take OFF the uniform before you are considered on your own time, and at that point do as you please.
This is one of those "this has a one in 5,000 chance of causing any problem, and a 1 in 20,000, chance of being dangerous." Problem is, if you screw up AGAIN, on THIS mission, people are gonna be a lot more upset. So they are being extremely paranoid.
Now this is good that they are looking over things more closely and seeing problems like this, but they are reacting probably too much to the problem. I'd be willing to bet this has been an issue since the first shuttle flight, that they simply hadn't noticed before. We already have retarded paranoia here with the homeland security crap, (omigod a terrorist is going to bomb my SHED!) but now paranoia on the space shuttle. Sheesh... people, get a grip.
I have an open WAP. No strings attached. I even have my SSID changed to "call (my phone number)". Nobody's called yet, though I've seen several dlinks and other adapters tag the AP, and once or twice obtain an IP address.
The more legitimate open WAPs we have scattered around, the more difficult it will be for the law to judge any unapproved access to an open access point as a de facto illegal activity.
The new trick here is that the content is tied to GPS coordinates, something you can't get (very often) from wikipedia.
Also, wikepedia is an encyclopedia, not a tour guide. When I stop at a research lab I want interesting factoids about what important discoveries have been made there and some bios on the scientists, not a detailed description of the process of photosynthesis.
Wikipedia is also mostly text, and I got the impression that this toy was heavy on the video and images. I'd much rather a narrative with video and images or audio than just what amounts to one of those books on tape.
Wikipedia is a great source for information, but it's not necessarily an interesting/entertaining read, and that's what this little toy they're working on is all about. It's not an information tool, it's an entertainment tool.
It's been awhile so I can't quote the source, but I recall reading about one business that ran into problems as a result of this. It was a small restaurant/cafe with an outdoor cafe seating area. Not getting a lot of business, they decided to offer free wifi. This had an unexpected effect - customers would come over and sit down with their laptops and get to work. Often times they would not even order a coffee, or would bring their own food and beverege. Many of them would order a coffee (free refills) and that was it, they'd sit there for hours sipping on coffee and browsing the internet,. So now these squatters are taking up his valuable seating area and bringing no benefit to his cafe. Any restaurant owner will tell you that carry-out customers are much more valuable than eat-in because they don't take up your valuable resource of available seating space. Wifi squatters can take up seating that paying customers would have taken if the cafe were not so "busy" that they skip past it to the one down the block.
I talked with some friends about this problem, and the solution we came up with was a technology solution. Each customer receives a recipt when they purchase something. On that ticket is a 6 digit number that is a temporary code for the access point, good for an hour, or perhaps good for the entire day. That's required to login to the access point. Maybe just make it the ssid and turn off broadcast. (yes I know, you can sniff, we're talking average ppl) This makes wifi "free to paying customers". Really a business should not be offering perks to non paying customers.
Lots of truck stops around here have a pay wifi setup. You see their AP and login but it redirects you to their "stop into the counter to sign up!" screen. You go in, pay $5 and get a temp login that's good for an hour. That's the other way to go, but in that case I think they're using wifi not to attract business, but as a source of revenue. Depending on your market, that can also work. Truckers are a nice captive audience and will pay a premium for internet access from their rigs.
Well it's probably natural for someone that stands to get money to have a biased opinion.
I'd submit that by not being involved in the issue, my opinion is less biased?
Though I will certainly agree it's just a game to them. The idea is to wring some more money out of the consumer in such a way that they don't realize they've been bushwhacked until it's too late, and then to have it set up so everyone points a finger at someone else when you go looking to get your money back. I'll agree it's a scam, but I won't agree that it's an unusual scam, and I also won't agree that it's an illegal scam.
Well, it depends on who you think paid the levy. You could look at it as the consumer paying the levy, in which case the consumer should get the money back. You could also view it as the manufacturer paying the levi, and passing on the cost to the consumer.
The manufacturer passes on the cost of a lot of things to the consumer. If you see it the 2nd way, then the company should get the money. And in that case, it's entirely up to the company to decide if they want to give the money to the consumer.
Lets say a company is selling widgets for $2 each, and suddenly an accounting error at the widget plant is found and the company realizes they actually paid 10 cents less than they thought to make each widget. Does the consumer feel they are somehow entitled to a 10 cent refund for every widget they bought last year? Of course not, that's silly. The company will naturally chalk it up as a "revenue enhancement" and bump up their stock dividends oh.. something like 10 cents. If you're very lucky as a consumer, they might drop the price of new widgets by 5 or 6 cents, to increase sales of widgets and optimize their proffit. That's what it's all about.
I'm quite surprised that money's still sitting in a bank account, untouched. I thought by now they'd have descended on that cash like a flock of pidgeons after popcorn in a park, and you know after that there's no getting the money back.
Hot spares are nice, but they weren't in the budget at the time. It was a 5 bay RAID, with five 4gb drives, for a total of a whopping 16gb of protected space. (we had two of those units actually) That's been a few years ago though. I used to chuckle at it, becausse my laptop had more storage space than our server. But then my laptop wasn't raid5.
Your system was nice to beep continuously. All we got was a single beebeep as the message scrolled onto the console. That happened once when no one was in the room, it was several days before I realized that little amber light was on and investigated.
True, level 5 is nice, but very expensive, and not everyone can afford it. I don't even want to think about what a 2tb scsi raid5 would cost.
This is actually the 2nd incarnation of mirroring here - the first system worked ok but then started freaking out, with three failures in two weeks, the last of which required 4 hours on the phone with tech support and me to use a low level disk editor to install firewire drivers on a partitioned hard drive, without erasing it. That's what I call a "white knuckler".
Been running fine ever since the switch though. This is OS X btw, so viruses are not a concern. (before you attempt to argue that point, I require you to demonstrate the existance of one mac OS X virus)
Though I did get to work with a nice RAID5 a few jobs ago. When a drive failed, a little amber light turned on on the failed drive tray, and the console got a warning message. Pull out the drive, remove the drive from the carrier, stuff another one on, and shove the drive back in. Beep, and it would start reintegrating the new drive. Six hours later, all better. Zero downtime. I'm not a big fan of PCs, but wow that was nice. (Compaq ProLiant 2600) Wish that was in the budget here.... (actually, if I can dream, an xserve raid would be really sweet)
Vacuum is also dangerous to the eyes. They are a sealed unit that doesn't react well to dramatic changes in outside pressure.
I'm trying to remember the movie that demonstrated this effect... something about an area about to become depressurized, and one of the main characters (woman) is giving instructions to her daughter, to close her eyes very tightly and exhale.
The worst depiction of this was, oddly enough, in a Star Trek (TNG) episode. Geordi and Crusher were in a docking bay and had to depressurize it while inside it to put out a fire. After they depressurized, they had Geordi and Crusher walking like they were walking on the moon through mud, one step every 2 seconds or so, they looked like Frankenstein. That is simply silly.
You wouldn't be breathing (to any effect anyway), wouldn't be talking, and would probably have screwed up vision but other than that you should be functioning normally. (for the next couple minutes anyway) Though I hear small capilaries near the surface of the skin break, like the other poster was mentioning a giant hickie. I suppose your sense of touch might be dulled a bit also.
The gloves have to be able to maintain some pressure, and be flexible at the same time. It's a bit like having a flexible balloon. The air pressure inside tends to keep it in one shape, and it resists being bent. Same problem with the gloves. Bending a digit reduces the volume inside the glove, which increases pressure, so the glove doesn't "want" to let you bend your fingers, and the glove is constantly trying to return to the shape of maximum volume, usually meaning all digts extended. This really hurts a person's dexterity, making it difficult to make a fist or grab a tool.
Yep, been through that. I also walked someone else through "open heart massage" for hard drives, they thought I was out of my mind but they got their data back and were very thankful.
I also owned a hitachi travelstar (23gb!) in my wallstreet, years ago. Yep, they are intensely loud, and they tend to click loudly. 2 yrs later and it was still working when I sold it. Still noisy. Still clicked.
RAID has saved my bacon on several occasions actually. I would much rather have a drive smoke and swap it out and remirror and be done with it than to have to restore from backup. Even a good backup setup can have issues with restoring, and you always lose data between backup and failure. With mirrors, that doesn't happen. If you have a good raid controller, it'll remirror while online, and you don't even chalk up any downtime.
Now mirror doesn't protect from software/hardware controller malfunction, nor does it protect you from yourself in the case you delete something you needed, but the setup here prevents accidental deletion for the most part, and mirroring guards against drive failure which does happen from time to time, so it's doing its job, and isn't doing anything extra I don't need.
You have to pick the appropriate level of paranoia for what you're doing. To say your backup method is best for everyone is wrong no matter what you say.
I don't think I'd use that drive if you gave it to me. That's a deskstar, aka "deathstar" in the sysadmin circles. I have a STACK of those drives at work, all doing the same thing. Power them on, and you hear a chirp-click-chirp-click that just repeats. The drive never spins up. Tried replacing the controller card on them, that's not the problem, it's something inside. That stack is actually not all of them either - a class action suit was just recently settled and we submitted claims for another stack of deathstars.
We might have one deathstar in the building that still works, and if I find it I'm replacing it. Save yourself the headache, do not buy deathstars. When maxtor bought quantum, maxtor adopted quantum's designs, and now produces decent drives. Hitachi bought IBM's drive line, but they just inherited the crappy deathstar design and that's what they're selling.
The only model of drive I have seen perform as bad as a deathstar is the old Quantum Fireball 6.4gb's, which tended to smoke their spindle motor controller IC. At least those you could swap controller cards and save your data.
For those of us that run servers, rotation speed, seek time, transfer rate, these factors are really not that important. What counts in the trenches is how much space do you have, and how reliable is it?
Not everyone can afford a backup solution, some rely on raid protection, and others rely on a lucky rabbit's foot. Since I am in the 2nd category, (mirrors on anything that matters) I tend to actually look at cost per gb as the primary factor. If a drive fails, I send it in and get another one and resync the mirror. Every drive I buy has at least a 3 yr (if not 5) warranty. In the end, buying cheap drives is more cost effective than buying good drives, and is a lot more cost-effective than buying say a nice DLT drive and a pile of carts. (tho yes, mirror has pretty poor return on cost because of 50% usable space)
As long as I don't have to like swap out a drive more than once a year, I'm quite happy with reliability of even Maxtors. (though I still am not confident enough in my raids to install WD)
That being said, I wouldn't mind accquiring a pair of those 500's, though lately it's been getting a little tricky to find a FW bridge board that supports the really large drives. The last 300 pair I installed, (seagate even!) only one of the 14 bridge boards here would detect at 300. (instead of 128) Yes, they're all ATA6 and have up-to-date firmware, that doesn't seem to matter. WD uses their own "unique variation" on ATA6 for their big drives, so those are really fun to work with, I avoid them like plague.
feeding the troll... your statement is correct, but only when the set of numbers is an uneven distribution, as your example illustrates. Take a psych coarse and you'll find that the IQ of the world's population follows a standard bell curve, and that's anything but an uneven distribution. The average in a set that makes up a bell curve is precisely the median value. So my statement stands.;)
Spammers will continue their work as long as it is proffitable. Normally I'd als append "and legal", but it's been demonstrated ad nausium that the spammers really don't care about what's legal and what's not, so that's out. That leaves us with only two alternatives really - increase enforcement of the laws, (isn't that always a problem?) and make it not proffitable.
The problem with the proffitability is that the average consumer IQ is 100, and that means 1/2 of them are below 100, so you're not dealing with the brightest collection of people in the world. There will always be a ready supply of suckers to reply to the spammers, so we can't stop it that way.
If we can't stop their revenue, the only way to financially affect them is by costing them money. The most straightforward way to do this is by bandwidth charges and fake submissions. Is this vigilante action? You bet it is. But right now even though spam is hated by 95% of the world, there is no effective legal enforcement against it. (try to think of anything else that 95% of people in the world don't hate, that isn't illegal as a result?) The main reason this is the case is that there's so much money in spam - it's very proffitable if done correctly. As long as there is incentive in the form of lots of cash, the problem will never go away. It doesn't matter how many laws you make or any other actions you take - if it remains a very proffitable venture, people will continue to engage in it.
The only thing that makes spam different is that ONE person can annoy the piss out of hundreds of thousands of people at a time, and as far as social injustice is concerned, that's very impressive. Someone with that level of morals doing that degree of harm to the general public deserves no protection from society or its justice, even if vigilante.
Lets say I go driving around town spattering mud on people's houses. It's a nuisance, not really harmful per se, but I'm annoying the piss out of people. How long do you think I'd be allowed to continue to do that before the cops would come haul me away? Now imagine I was managing to do that TO AN ENTIRE CITY. There'd be an APB out on my carcass, you can be sure. The only reason spammers don't have this probelm is they can spatter mud on people's houses from another state or another country. For now this makes them safe. I look forward to the day this is no longer the case.
Check out Rsync, it's free. I've recently been playing with it, and it has my flash drive and my hard drive backed up nicely to my server. This is over TCP/IP, so you could set up a server at somebody's house on a DSL line and call it good. Cheap and you can host it yourself and not pay somebody. It's also surprisingly fast, and very simple to set up and install.
It's probably not well-suited to backing up a small number of large databases, but will do very very well with a large number of small to medium size files. My laptop has 460,000 files on it, for 53gb. I double click a one line script and it takes 4-5 minutes to catalog my HD, and another 30 seconds to sync any files that need syncing. That is simply awesome. My 4g flash drive (1gb used) took 10 minutes to drag and drop - now rsync syncs it with a folder on my laptop in 15 seconds flat.
And what are the limits of criminal liability in a case like this?"
Mentality like that is like trying to sue the telephone company for someone making a drug deal over a payphone.
Paranoia is not really an in-or-out kinda thing, it's a varying scale from slight caution to neurotic obsession. Some people just don't know where to draw the line, or even that the line exists.
To truly and completely protect the public, we must surrender 100% of our rights. It's already gone too far, we need to start digging ourselves out. The laws are becoming more harmful than the things which they are supposed to protect us from.
The crowd here seems to think that the purpose of the non-comp is to stop the guy from being able to work as some sort of twisted punishment for leaving or getting canned. Some employers may use it that way, (and legally it may give them that right) but that's not the purpose of the non-comp. There is only one basic reason for it... to stop you from taking new trade-secrets from your current job to a new job, possibly where the new company knows what you're working on and wants to "buy" the technology by stealing the employee.
Some companies may extend this concept to simply say they don't want you working for anyone in your field for awhile - this is more of a "prevent temptation" move because if you get a job in the same exact field it may be difficult to restrain yourself from using knowledge you have from your previous job that could be considered trade secret. (it's a very muddy line to try to draw)
I don't agree that it's necessarily a nice thing for the employee, but I can see the company's reasons behind it; wanting to protect their new IP from being stolen by their competitors before they have a chance to draw advantage from it. Unfortunately as many have pointed out, getting a "sign this or you're fired" agreement handed to you really sucks, but it's legal. The best way to look at it is that the employer is ammending the terms of your employment, and if you don't agree to the ammendments, your business arrangement (employment) with them is ended. If you go into a grocery store to buy your favorite snack and find it's now 25 cents more expensive, you have no right to cry foul. They have changed the terms of the business deal and if you want to continue to do business with them you have to agree to the new terms. If you don't like it, go somewhere else to do your business.
I don't like losing my job anymore than anyone else, but this is REALITY, this is how business works, even with employment. Too many ppl are scared to lose their job so they feel that someone should protect them from things that may cause them to lose their job. I can't say as I exactly blame them for feeling that way, but it's just not reasonable to expect such protection.
Well, if you assume that the contract is legally binding and that by taking the job he is committing a crime, AND you can show that Google was aware of this, then it's no different than driving the getaway car. Sure driving isn't illegal, but knowingly helping someone to commit a crime usually is, and for that they might have a case.
Of course though, if google says "we didn't know about the non-comp agreemtent", that pretty well sinks MS's case agains google anyway. (at which point I'm sure they'll turn their sharks on the employee, with whom they have a more legitimate gripe)
I was talking with one of my old managers awhile ago and was rather surprised to find out that when he interviewed, there were a number of things he didn't want to sign off on, at least a few of which were non-complete type clauses. He struck them out as he was reading through the agreement papers before signing them. Kinda surprised the guy doing the hiring, but in the end they agreed that the struck out terms were removed from his contract.
I don't know if I'd have the balls to do that, but it's certainly a good idea.
I suppose some companies stuff extra legal bindings on you for a "just in case" scenario, moreso than they actually require or feel they need at the time, to give them more leverage in case they want it later. (it's easier to say "nice doggie!" when you're holding a big stick)
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Maybe this is a good ad for mining the moon? I recall it's got a lot of silicon, not sure how good that is at blocking radiation, and no idea how much lead might be there, but at 1/6 the earth's gravity, lifting shielding materials up off the moon to an orbiting assembly platform might be a lot easier to do?
Though that probably depends on the fuel you need to get to the moon to get the heavy stuff off the surface, and lifting fuel is always a spiraling need issue. (if your figures say you need 20 more lbs of fuel, you really need 50, because you also have to lift 20 more lbs of fuel, and the fuel that you now need to carry to lift THAT additional fuel, etc)
That's a relief - I was assuming it just applied to anyone, anywhere, anytime. It makes sense that a company would have some say over what you do while in uniform. Rather than saying what the comapny can tell you that you have to do while in uniform, it would be better to look at this where the company can tell you to take OFF the uniform before you are considered on your own time, and at that point do as you please.
This is one of those "this has a one in 5,000 chance of causing any problem, and a 1 in 20,000, chance of being dangerous." Problem is, if you screw up AGAIN, on THIS mission, people are gonna be a lot more upset. So they are being extremely paranoid.
Now this is good that they are looking over things more closely and seeing problems like this, but they are reacting probably too much to the problem. I'd be willing to bet this has been an issue since the first shuttle flight, that they simply hadn't noticed before. We already have retarded paranoia here with the homeland security crap, (omigod a terrorist is going to bomb my SHED!) but now paranoia on the space shuttle. Sheesh... people, get a grip.
I have an open WAP. No strings attached. I even have my SSID changed to "call (my phone number)". Nobody's called yet, though I've seen several dlinks and other adapters tag the AP, and once or twice obtain an IP address.
The more legitimate open WAPs we have scattered around, the more difficult it will be for the law to judge any unapproved access to an open access point as a de facto illegal activity.
The new trick here is that the content is tied to GPS coordinates, something you can't get (very often) from wikipedia.
Also, wikepedia is an encyclopedia, not a tour guide. When I stop at a research lab I want interesting factoids about what important discoveries have been made there and some bios on the scientists, not a detailed description of the process of photosynthesis.
Wikipedia is also mostly text, and I got the impression that this toy was heavy on the video and images. I'd much rather a narrative with video and images or audio than just what amounts to one of those books on tape.
Wikipedia is a great source for information, but it's not necessarily an interesting/entertaining read, and that's what this little toy they're working on is all about. It's not an information tool, it's an entertainment tool.
It's been awhile so I can't quote the source, but I recall reading about one business that ran into problems as a result of this. It was a small restaurant/cafe with an outdoor cafe seating area. Not getting a lot of business, they decided to offer free wifi. This had an unexpected effect - customers would come over and sit down with their laptops and get to work. Often times they would not even order a coffee, or would bring their own food and beverege. Many of them would order a coffee (free refills) and that was it, they'd sit there for hours sipping on coffee and browsing the internet,. So now these squatters are taking up his valuable seating area and bringing no benefit to his cafe. Any restaurant owner will tell you that carry-out customers are much more valuable than eat-in because they don't take up your valuable resource of available seating space. Wifi squatters can take up seating that paying customers would have taken if the cafe were not so "busy" that they skip past it to the one down the block.
I talked with some friends about this problem, and the solution we came up with was a technology solution. Each customer receives a recipt when they purchase something. On that ticket is a 6 digit number that is a temporary code for the access point, good for an hour, or perhaps good for the entire day. That's required to login to the access point. Maybe just make it the ssid and turn off broadcast. (yes I know, you can sniff, we're talking average ppl) This makes wifi "free to paying customers". Really a business should not be offering perks to non paying customers.
Lots of truck stops around here have a pay wifi setup. You see their AP and login but it redirects you to their "stop into the counter to sign up!" screen. You go in, pay $5 and get a temp login that's good for an hour. That's the other way to go, but in that case I think they're using wifi not to attract business, but as a source of revenue. Depending on your market, that can also work. Truckers are a nice captive audience and will pay a premium for internet access from their rigs.
Well it's probably natural for someone that stands to get money to have a biased opinion.
I'd submit that by not being involved in the issue, my opinion is less biased?
Though I will certainly agree it's just a game to them. The idea is to wring some more money out of the consumer in such a way that they don't realize they've been bushwhacked until it's too late, and then to have it set up so everyone points a finger at someone else when you go looking to get your money back. I'll agree it's a scam, but I won't agree that it's an unusual scam, and I also won't agree that it's an illegal scam.
Well, it depends on who you think paid the levy. You could look at it as the consumer paying the levy, in which case the consumer should get the money back. You could also view it as the manufacturer paying the levi, and passing on the cost to the consumer.
The manufacturer passes on the cost of a lot of things to the consumer. If you see it the 2nd way, then the company should get the money. And in that case, it's entirely up to the company to decide if they want to give the money to the consumer.
Lets say a company is selling widgets for $2 each, and suddenly an accounting error at the widget plant is found and the company realizes they actually paid 10 cents less than they thought to make each widget. Does the consumer feel they are somehow entitled to a 10 cent refund for every widget they bought last year? Of course not, that's silly. The company will naturally chalk it up as a "revenue enhancement" and bump up their stock dividends oh.. something like 10 cents. If you're very lucky as a consumer, they might drop the price of new widgets by 5 or 6 cents, to increase sales of widgets and optimize their proffit. That's what it's all about.
I'm quite surprised that money's still sitting in a bank account, untouched. I thought by now they'd have descended on that cash like a flock of pidgeons after popcorn in a park, and you know after that there's no getting the money back.
Hot spares are nice, but they weren't in the budget at the time. It was a 5 bay RAID, with five 4gb drives, for a total of a whopping 16gb of protected space. (we had two of those units actually) That's been a few years ago though. I used to chuckle at it, becausse my laptop had more storage space than our server. But then my laptop wasn't raid5.
Your system was nice to beep continuously. All we got was a single beebeep as the message scrolled onto the console. That happened once when no one was in the room, it was several days before I realized that little amber light was on and investigated.
True, level 5 is nice, but very expensive, and not everyone can afford it. I don't even want to think about what a 2tb scsi raid5 would cost.
This is actually the 2nd incarnation of mirroring here - the first system worked ok but then started freaking out, with three failures in two weeks, the last of which required 4 hours on the phone with tech support and me to use a low level disk editor to install firewire drivers on a partitioned hard drive, without erasing it. That's what I call a "white knuckler".
Been running fine ever since the switch though. This is OS X btw, so viruses are not a concern. (before you attempt to argue that point, I require you to demonstrate the existance of one mac OS X virus)
Though I did get to work with a nice RAID5 a few jobs ago. When a drive failed, a little amber light turned on on the failed drive tray, and the console got a warning message. Pull out the drive, remove the drive from the carrier, stuff another one on, and shove the drive back in. Beep, and it would start reintegrating the new drive. Six hours later, all better. Zero downtime. I'm not a big fan of PCs, but wow that was nice. (Compaq ProLiant 2600) Wish that was in the budget here.... (actually, if I can dream, an xserve raid would be really sweet)
Vacuum is also dangerous to the eyes. They are a sealed unit that doesn't react well to dramatic changes in outside pressure.
I'm trying to remember the movie that demonstrated this effect... something about an area about to become depressurized, and one of the main characters (woman) is giving instructions to her daughter, to close her eyes very tightly and exhale.
The worst depiction of this was, oddly enough, in a Star Trek (TNG) episode. Geordi and Crusher were in a docking bay and had to depressurize it while inside it to put out a fire. After they depressurized, they had Geordi and Crusher walking like they were walking on the moon through mud, one step every 2 seconds or so, they looked like Frankenstein. That is simply silly.
You wouldn't be breathing (to any effect anyway), wouldn't be talking, and would probably have screwed up vision but other than that you should be functioning normally. (for the next couple minutes anyway) Though I hear small capilaries near the surface of the skin break, like the other poster was mentioning a giant hickie. I suppose your sense of touch might be dulled a bit also.
The gloves have to be able to maintain some pressure, and be flexible at the same time. It's a bit like having a flexible balloon. The air pressure inside tends to keep it in one shape, and it resists being bent. Same problem with the gloves. Bending a digit reduces the volume inside the glove, which increases pressure, so the glove doesn't "want" to let you bend your fingers, and the glove is constantly trying to return to the shape of maximum volume, usually meaning all digts extended. This really hurts a person's dexterity, making it difficult to make a fist or grab a tool.
Yep, been through that. I also walked someone else through "open heart massage" for hard drives, they thought I was out of my mind but they got their data back and were very thankful.
I also owned a hitachi travelstar (23gb!) in my wallstreet, years ago. Yep, they are intensely loud, and they tend to click loudly. 2 yrs later and it was still working when I sold it. Still noisy. Still clicked.
RAID has saved my bacon on several occasions actually. I would much rather have a drive smoke and swap it out and remirror and be done with it than to have to restore from backup. Even a good backup setup can have issues with restoring, and you always lose data between backup and failure. With mirrors, that doesn't happen. If you have a good raid controller, it'll remirror while online, and you don't even chalk up any downtime.
Now mirror doesn't protect from software/hardware controller malfunction, nor does it protect you from yourself in the case you delete something you needed, but the setup here prevents accidental deletion for the most part, and mirroring guards against drive failure which does happen from time to time, so it's doing its job, and isn't doing anything extra I don't need.
You have to pick the appropriate level of paranoia for what you're doing. To say your backup method is best for everyone is wrong no matter what you say.
I don't think I'd use that drive if you gave it to me. That's a deskstar, aka "deathstar" in the sysadmin circles. I have a STACK of those drives at work, all doing the same thing. Power them on, and you hear a chirp-click-chirp-click that just repeats. The drive never spins up. Tried replacing the controller card on them, that's not the problem, it's something inside. That stack is actually not all of them either - a class action suit was just recently settled and we submitted claims for another stack of deathstars.
We might have one deathstar in the building that still works, and if I find it I'm replacing it. Save yourself the headache, do not buy deathstars. When maxtor bought quantum, maxtor adopted quantum's designs, and now produces decent drives. Hitachi bought IBM's drive line, but they just inherited the crappy deathstar design and that's what they're selling.
The only model of drive I have seen perform as bad as a deathstar is the old Quantum Fireball 6.4gb's, which tended to smoke their spindle motor controller IC. At least those you could swap controller cards and save your data.
For those of us that run servers, rotation speed, seek time, transfer rate, these factors are really not that important. What counts in the trenches is how much space do you have, and how reliable is it?
Not everyone can afford a backup solution, some rely on raid protection, and others rely on a lucky rabbit's foot. Since I am in the 2nd category, (mirrors on anything that matters) I tend to actually look at cost per gb as the primary factor. If a drive fails, I send it in and get another one and resync the mirror. Every drive I buy has at least a 3 yr (if not 5) warranty. In the end, buying cheap drives is more cost effective than buying good drives, and is a lot more cost-effective than buying say a nice DLT drive and a pile of carts. (tho yes, mirror has pretty poor return on cost because of 50% usable space)
As long as I don't have to like swap out a drive more than once a year, I'm quite happy with reliability of even Maxtors. (though I still am not confident enough in my raids to install WD)
That being said, I wouldn't mind accquiring a pair of those 500's, though lately it's been getting a little tricky to find a FW bridge board that supports the really large drives. The last 300 pair I installed, (seagate even!) only one of the 14 bridge boards here would detect at 300. (instead of 128) Yes, they're all ATA6 and have up-to-date firmware, that doesn't seem to matter. WD uses their own "unique variation" on ATA6 for their big drives, so those are really fun to work with, I avoid them like plague.
Since it's written based on Linux, isn't there some obligation to provide source code? Is it available anywhere?
feeding the troll... your statement is correct, but only when the set of numbers is an uneven distribution, as your example illustrates. Take a psych coarse and you'll find that the IQ of the world's population follows a standard bell curve, and that's anything but an uneven distribution. The average in a set that makes up a bell curve is precisely the median value. So my statement stands. ;)
Spammers will continue their work as long as it is proffitable. Normally I'd als append "and legal", but it's been demonstrated ad nausium that the spammers really don't care about what's legal and what's not, so that's out. That leaves us with only two alternatives really - increase enforcement of the laws, (isn't that always a problem?) and make it not proffitable.
The problem with the proffitability is that the average consumer IQ is 100, and that means 1/2 of them are below 100, so you're not dealing with the brightest collection of people in the world. There will always be a ready supply of suckers to reply to the spammers, so we can't stop it that way.
If we can't stop their revenue, the only way to financially affect them is by costing them money. The most straightforward way to do this is by bandwidth charges and fake submissions. Is this vigilante action? You bet it is. But right now even though spam is hated by 95% of the world, there is no effective legal enforcement against it. (try to think of anything else that 95% of people in the world don't hate, that isn't illegal as a result?) The main reason this is the case is that there's so much money in spam - it's very proffitable if done correctly. As long as there is incentive in the form of lots of cash, the problem will never go away. It doesn't matter how many laws you make or any other actions you take - if it remains a very proffitable venture, people will continue to engage in it.
The only thing that makes spam different is that ONE person can annoy the piss out of hundreds of thousands of people at a time, and as far as social injustice is concerned, that's very impressive. Someone with that level of morals doing that degree of harm to the general public deserves no protection from society or its justice, even if vigilante.
Lets say I go driving around town spattering mud on people's houses. It's a nuisance, not really harmful per se, but I'm annoying the piss out of people. How long do you think I'd be allowed to continue to do that before the cops would come haul me away? Now imagine I was managing to do that TO AN ENTIRE CITY. There'd be an APB out on my carcass, you can be sure. The only reason spammers don't have this probelm is they can spatter mud on people's houses from another state or another country. For now this makes them safe. I look forward to the day this is no longer the case.
Check out Rsync, it's free. I've recently been playing with it, and it has my flash drive and my hard drive backed up nicely to my server. This is over TCP/IP, so you could set up a server at somebody's house on a DSL line and call it good. Cheap and you can host it yourself and not pay somebody. It's also surprisingly fast, and very simple to set up and install.
It's probably not well-suited to backing up a small number of large databases, but will do very very well with a large number of small to medium size files. My laptop has 460,000 files on it, for 53gb. I double click a one line script and it takes 4-5 minutes to catalog my HD, and another 30 seconds to sync any files that need syncing. That is simply awesome. My 4g flash drive (1gb used) took 10 minutes to drag and drop - now rsync syncs it with a folder on my laptop in 15 seconds flat.
And what are the limits of criminal liability in a case like this?"
Mentality like that is like trying to sue the telephone company for someone making a drug deal over a payphone.
Paranoia is not really an in-or-out kinda thing, it's a varying scale from slight caution to neurotic obsession. Some people just don't know where to draw the line, or even that the line exists.
To truly and completely protect the public, we must surrender 100% of our rights. It's already gone too far, we need to start digging ourselves out. The laws are becoming more harmful than the things which they are supposed to protect us from.
The crowd here seems to think that the purpose of the non-comp is to stop the guy from being able to work as some sort of twisted punishment for leaving or getting canned. Some employers may use it that way, (and legally it may give them that right) but that's not the purpose of the non-comp. There is only one basic reason for it... to stop you from taking new trade-secrets from your current job to a new job, possibly where the new company knows what you're working on and wants to "buy" the technology by stealing the employee.
Some companies may extend this concept to simply say they don't want you working for anyone in your field for awhile - this is more of a "prevent temptation" move because if you get a job in the same exact field it may be difficult to restrain yourself from using knowledge you have from your previous job that could be considered trade secret. (it's a very muddy line to try to draw)
I don't agree that it's necessarily a nice thing for the employee, but I can see the company's reasons behind it; wanting to protect their new IP from being stolen by their competitors before they have a chance to draw advantage from it. Unfortunately as many have pointed out, getting a "sign this or you're fired" agreement handed to you really sucks, but it's legal. The best way to look at it is that the employer is ammending the terms of your employment, and if you don't agree to the ammendments, your business arrangement (employment) with them is ended. If you go into a grocery store to buy your favorite snack and find it's now 25 cents more expensive, you have no right to cry foul. They have changed the terms of the business deal and if you want to continue to do business with them you have to agree to the new terms. If you don't like it, go somewhere else to do your business.
I don't like losing my job anymore than anyone else, but this is REALITY, this is how business works, even with employment. Too many ppl are scared to lose their job so they feel that someone should protect them from things that may cause them to lose their job. I can't say as I exactly blame them for feeling that way, but it's just not reasonable to expect such protection.
If this guy only has one job skill, then I say let him sell pencils on the corner until he gets some training for like... doing dishes or something.
What is it with society in general lately seeming to think everyone deserves all sorts of favors and special treatment?
Well, if you assume that the contract is legally binding and that by taking the job he is committing a crime, AND you can show that Google was aware of this, then it's no different than driving the getaway car. Sure driving isn't illegal, but knowingly helping someone to commit a crime usually is, and for that they might have a case.
Of course though, if google says "we didn't know about the non-comp agreemtent", that pretty well sinks MS's case agains google anyway. (at which point I'm sure they'll turn their sharks on the employee, with whom they have a more legitimate gripe)
A company can prevent you from working in the same field - it's been supported in quite a few court cases.
The two key points that make non-comps legal are (1) you can do something else, and if all you know how to do is x, (2) get retrained.
You can't convict me of murder if I throw you in two feet of water and you drown, just because you're either too stupid or too stubborn to stand up.
I was talking with one of my old managers awhile ago and was rather surprised to find out that when he interviewed, there were a number of things he didn't want to sign off on, at least a few of which were non-complete type clauses. He struck them out as he was reading through the agreement papers before signing them. Kinda surprised the guy doing the hiring, but in the end they agreed that the struck out terms were removed from his contract.
I don't know if I'd have the balls to do that, but it's certainly a good idea.
I suppose some companies stuff extra legal bindings on you for a "just in case" scenario, moreso than they actually require or feel they need at the time, to give them more leverage in case they want it later. (it's easier to say "nice doggie!" when you're holding a big stick)