Yep, like the human ear on a rat research that eventually might lead to a way to grow body parts for burn victims. Or the research that injects human insulin genes into pigs so they produce and urinate human insulin for diabetics, etc. Promoting oversight, review and even contemplation is good, outright banning before we even fully understand the science is just reactionary superstition ala the ludites.
Setting up your own server is not the same as using a public store and forward delivery system. In fact the two are quite distinct. Email and ftp both have their places. If I am going to widely distribute something, or if I am sending out large files (>10MB) I use ftp, otherwise I use email. Hell I have my email client open all the time, I almost never have an ftp client open.
Exactly. It's not like submitting a FISA warrant is a hard or onerous task. Hell the agent has up to 72 hours after the fact to obtain the warrant! Only ONE warrant has ever been turned down by the FISC, so the problem is either that they are doing actions which they know even a rubber stamp court would not grant OR they are spying on so many people that the court can't keep up with the volume of warrants that would be required. Either prospect should be scary to any freedom loving American.
Actually legal bullying without cause is called Barretry. Now Starforce probably has a case because his statements about system instability are libelous so it probably is NOT Barretry, but that is the term =)
Actually I don't believe that Starforce makes peoples PC's unstable. Starforce has for the last couple years had a large bounty out for anyone that can show a reproducible system error caused by their software, sofar there have been no takers. I dislike Starforce as much as anyone as I am notorious for losing physical cd's, but let's bash them for what they actually do, not for what someone whispered about them in the dark.
Mod this up. This is the simple cause of the issue and a direct result of the people adding adsense not understanding how SSL and browser security work.
iSCSI would seem to be your answer. Here's a quote from Netapps whitepaper on iSCSI:
NetApp FC performs and scales somewhat better than
iSCSI
o FC had 11% more OLTP throughput
o FC had 25% better OLTP response times
So FC-AL on 2Gbps links has only 11% more bandwidth available and 25% faster response time. While that might be important to an enterprise it also points out that iSCSI over 1Gbps ethernet is really damn fast =)
It could be, I personally haven't noticed any decrease in speed on the three machines that I've installed it on. You should write them letting them know your specs and then try uninstalling the addon and see if the speed returns.
I like some of the tradeskill items. The Devilsaurs set is a good example, two-three level 55-60's can hunt Devilsaurs for a couple of hours and while there is a significant chance of death along the way it really doesn't significantly impact your progress. Once you have accumulated enough skins you are guarenteed to get a pair of decent items (assuming you know a leatherworker with the patterns) that can be used to progress through tougher content. On the other end of the scale is the swiftflight bracers, while they are a good item the sheer amount of time required to get the materials for them is absurd. I think that for the vast majority of players not having to do each piece of content a bazillion times would take very little from the game and in fact would increase their enjoyment of the game. They could always make some PvP competitions into the ultimate endgame for those people with gobs of time on their hands. I mean how much joy is there in being in 40 man raids time and again without getting any item better than those you already posses because there's only 1-2 great items each time and they inevitably aren't for your class or go to someone who's spent several times as much time raiding because they do nothing but play the game.
They already do it with the highest level PvP rewards, hell I believe the top tier is only occupied by two people on each server, the highest ranked PvP'er on each faction.
How about something a bit more realistic. Pentium M based blade servers. Soon you will be able to get Core Duo based blade servers which should pack enough density for anyones tastes. The thing are designed for mobile applications but they beat the snot out of the P4 in most server tasks.
The way he can raise the bar is to turn Disney around. If he turns two large companies around AND starts a sucessful company then he will be even more of a legend then he already is.
Did you even read the quoted section of the opinion? Because it quite clearly states that a police officer asking you for identification is legal. Further from the opinion:
The officer responded that he was conducting an investigation and needed to see some
identification
The Fifth Amendment prohibits only compelled testimony
that is incriminating.
Basically the court is saying that refusing to give your identity to the officer is not a protected freedom under either the fourth or fifth amendment, the fact that the specific Nevada statute was interpreted by the Nevada supreme court as being limited in scope only to the suspects name has little bearing on the outcome of the courts opinion. The fact that you cannot be compelled to produce physical papers which you may or may not posses is of little consequence when the officers have instant access to those same papers through their own means given the information which is compelled under the opinion.
Actually you can be compelled to present ID by an office for any reason, or no reason at all. We really do have a "papers please" state at present. This is after the Supreme Court case Hiibel v. Nevada in 2004. Kennedy in his majority opinion stated"
"Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment."
Hiibel was arrested for the mere action of standing mute when asked for his name. It's not only the legislature and the executive which are eroding our rights, it's also the judiciary.
No, you pay for the software, you pay for a per device license, and if you want you pay per device per year for support. If you do not need/want support then there is no ongoing revenue stream for RIM.
Because the pseudorandom patterns combined with specially crafted patterns are more likely to actually change the magnetic domain to an unreadable state. Of course if your attacker is serious enough then you CAN'T make it impossible to read all of the old data without physically destroying the drive. This has been true ever since giant magneto-resistive HDD's came out in the 90's.
I recently downloaded a Firefox addon from siteadvisor (they have an addon for IE too) that shows me a color coded rating for the current site and for sites in google searches. They used an automated bot in a VM which went and auto-downloaded software from from millions of sites and reported any known spyware. They also auto filled forms with email addresses and tracked the amount of email recieved over a certain period. This is the kind of academic research that makes spyware tools fairly irrelevant because in theory you never get the infection.
I work for a midsized company, we have about 600GB of online data which is not that large for a firm with around 200 employees. 4.8TB is only 8 monthly backups of our entire systems if you assume zero data growth. So in less than a year LTO3 becomes cheaper than the HDD solution and is a vastly superior solution. Not only that but we take our daily tapes offsite which would probably lead to eventual failure of the HDD's as they are not designed to be carried like that on a regular basis. Plus startup and spindown is by far the hardest on HDD's, I've seen about 10x as many failures on HDD's during power up then on running systems.
That's a Price/Revenue of only 10, which is a freaking phenominal buy for a healthy company in a non-cyclical industry! I think Disney got a steal even if it was only to make Pixar a wholely owned subsidiary with no Disney oversight. As it is they are getting something much more valuable, they are getting the personell that can turn the entire company around.
Just so you know WOW has 5 million subscribers worldwide. That's a LOT of money on a per month basis, in fact their monthly revenue is equivilant to many fortune 500 companies entire annual technology budget.
It's possible but extremely frustrating. All of my users run the majority of their software off our central Citrix servers. They run as unprivlidged users. Whenever we get a new app from some clueless software company we have to educate them in basic security practices and let them know that "Just run it as an administrator" isn't an acceptable solution. Hell I had to pull teeth and call back 3 times and ask for a supervisor before Intuit would even TRY to give me a list of the registry keys that a non-power user would need to run Quickbooks ENTERPRISE 6.0! They finally gave them to me, which I later found out was compiled by a USER of the product and posted to an unofficial support board! The whole culture of Windows software development just sucks. The funny thing to me is NT actually has one of the BEST security mechanisms (policy based fine-grained ACL's) of about any common OS yet it basically goes unused because of lack of care on the part of all the lazy developers.
I don't know about that. Cisco for example had an engineer that worked almost full time on a Linux port of their client softare and extending an open source driver that was based on specs they released. He was ocassionally pulled off his main work to get critical software projects completed when they got down to crunch time and needed to throw bodies at the problem, but his main job was writing and maintaining Linux tools. The main problem as far as what I have heard is that as radios become more software controlled the regulatory agencies world wide look unfavorably on having easily modifiable drivers because it can lead to intentional and unintentional interference with other services from what should be a licensed device.
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Yep, like the human ear on a rat research that eventually might lead to a way to grow body parts for burn victims. Or the research that injects human insulin genes into pigs so they produce and urinate human insulin for diabetics, etc. Promoting oversight, review and even contemplation is good, outright banning before we even fully understand the science is just reactionary superstition ala the ludites.
Setting up your own server is not the same as using a public store and forward delivery system. In fact the two are quite distinct. Email and ftp both have their places. If I am going to widely distribute something, or if I am sending out large files (>10MB) I use ftp, otherwise I use email. Hell I have my email client open all the time, I almost never have an ftp client open.
Exactly. It's not like submitting a FISA warrant is a hard or onerous task. Hell the agent has up to 72 hours after the fact to obtain the warrant! Only ONE warrant has ever been turned down by the FISC, so the problem is either that they are doing actions which they know even a rubber stamp court would not grant OR they are spying on so many people that the court can't keep up with the volume of warrants that would be required. Either prospect should be scary to any freedom loving American.
Actually legal bullying without cause is called Barretry. Now Starforce probably has a case because his statements about system instability are libelous so it probably is NOT Barretry, but that is the term =)
Actually I don't believe that Starforce makes peoples PC's unstable. Starforce has for the last couple years had a large bounty out for anyone that can show a reproducible system error caused by their software, sofar there have been no takers. I dislike Starforce as much as anyone as I am notorious for losing physical cd's, but let's bash them for what they actually do, not for what someone whispered about them in the dark.
Mod this up. This is the simple cause of the issue and a direct result of the people adding adsense not understanding how SSL and browser security work.
iSCSI would seem to be your answer. Here's a quote from Netapps whitepaper on iSCSI:
NetApp FC performs and scales somewhat better than iSCSI
o FC had 11% more OLTP throughput
o FC had 25% better OLTP response times
So FC-AL on 2Gbps links has only 11% more bandwidth available and 25% faster response time. While that might be important to an enterprise it also points out that iSCSI over 1Gbps ethernet is really damn fast =)
It could be, I personally haven't noticed any decrease in speed on the three machines that I've installed it on. You should write them letting them know your specs and then try uninstalling the addon and see if the speed returns.
I like some of the tradeskill items. The Devilsaurs set is a good example, two-three level 55-60's can hunt Devilsaurs for a couple of hours and while there is a significant chance of death along the way it really doesn't significantly impact your progress. Once you have accumulated enough skins you are guarenteed to get a pair of decent items (assuming you know a leatherworker with the patterns) that can be used to progress through tougher content. On the other end of the scale is the swiftflight bracers, while they are a good item the sheer amount of time required to get the materials for them is absurd. I think that for the vast majority of players not having to do each piece of content a bazillion times would take very little from the game and in fact would increase their enjoyment of the game. They could always make some PvP competitions into the ultimate endgame for those people with gobs of time on their hands. I mean how much joy is there in being in 40 man raids time and again without getting any item better than those you already posses because there's only 1-2 great items each time and they inevitably aren't for your class or go to someone who's spent several times as much time raiding because they do nothing but play the game.
They already do it with the highest level PvP rewards, hell I believe the top tier is only occupied by two people on each server, the highest ranked PvP'er on each faction.
How about something a bit more realistic. Pentium M based blade servers. Soon you will be able to get Core Duo based blade servers which should pack enough density for anyones tastes. The thing are designed for mobile applications but they beat the snot out of the P4 in most server tasks.
Diable (1 and 2)
Civ (the original)
Masters of Magic
Masters of Orion
XCOM (most of them)
Continumm (formerly Subspace)
Heroes of Might & Magic
WoW
Most of them are games from the ealry 90's and their sequels.
The way he can raise the bar is to turn Disney around. If he turns two large companies around AND starts a sucessful company then he will be even more of a legend then he already is.
Did you even read the quoted section of the opinion? Because it quite clearly states that a police officer asking you for identification is legal. Further from the opinion:
The officer responded that he was conducting an investigation and needed to see some identification
The Fifth Amendment prohibits only compelled testimony that is incriminating.
Basically the court is saying that refusing to give your identity to the officer is not a protected freedom under either the fourth or fifth amendment, the fact that the specific Nevada statute was interpreted by the Nevada supreme court as being limited in scope only to the suspects name has little bearing on the outcome of the courts opinion. The fact that you cannot be compelled to produce physical papers which you may or may not posses is of little consequence when the officers have instant access to those same papers through their own means given the information which is compelled under the opinion.
Actually you can be compelled to present ID by an office for any reason, or no reason at all. We really do have a "papers please" state at present. This is after the Supreme Court case Hiibel v. Nevada in 2004. Kennedy in his majority opinion stated"
"Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment."
Hiibel was arrested for the mere action of standing mute when asked for his name. It's not only the legislature and the executive which are eroding our rights, it's also the judiciary.
No, you pay for the software, you pay for a per device license, and if you want you pay per device per year for support. If you do not need/want support then there is no ongoing revenue stream for RIM.
Because the pseudorandom patterns combined with specially crafted patterns are more likely to actually change the magnetic domain to an unreadable state. Of course if your attacker is serious enough then you CAN'T make it impossible to read all of the old data without physically destroying the drive. This has been true ever since giant magneto-resistive HDD's came out in the 90's.
I recently downloaded a Firefox addon from siteadvisor (they have an addon for IE too) that shows me a color coded rating for the current site and for sites in google searches. They used an automated bot in a VM which went and auto-downloaded software from from millions of sites and reported any known spyware. They also auto filled forms with email addresses and tracked the amount of email recieved over a certain period. This is the kind of academic research that makes spyware tools fairly irrelevant because in theory you never get the infection.
I work for a midsized company, we have about 600GB of online data which is not that large for a firm with around 200 employees. 4.8TB is only 8 monthly backups of our entire systems if you assume zero data growth. So in less than a year LTO3 becomes cheaper than the HDD solution and is a vastly superior solution. Not only that but we take our daily tapes offsite which would probably lead to eventual failure of the HDD's as they are not designed to be carried like that on a regular basis. Plus startup and spindown is by far the hardest on HDD's, I've seen about 10x as many failures on HDD's during power up then on running systems.
I've always calculated that if the data is valuable enough to do RAID-51 then you're better off going with an offsite mirrored system.
what incredibly stupid moderation.
That's a Price/Revenue of only 10, which is a freaking phenominal buy for a healthy company in a non-cyclical industry! I think Disney got a steal even if it was only to make Pixar a wholely owned subsidiary with no Disney oversight. As it is they are getting something much more valuable, they are getting the personell that can turn the entire company around.
Just so you know WOW has 5 million subscribers worldwide. That's a LOT of money on a per month basis, in fact their monthly revenue is equivilant to many fortune 500 companies entire annual technology budget.
It's possible but extremely frustrating. All of my users run the majority of their software off our central Citrix servers. They run as unprivlidged users. Whenever we get a new app from some clueless software company we have to educate them in basic security practices and let them know that "Just run it as an administrator" isn't an acceptable solution. Hell I had to pull teeth and call back 3 times and ask for a supervisor before Intuit would even TRY to give me a list of the registry keys that a non-power user would need to run Quickbooks ENTERPRISE 6.0! They finally gave them to me, which I later found out was compiled by a USER of the product and posted to an unofficial support board! The whole culture of Windows software development just sucks. The funny thing to me is NT actually has one of the BEST security mechanisms (policy based fine-grained ACL's) of about any common OS yet it basically goes unused because of lack of care on the part of all the lazy developers.
I don't know about that. Cisco for example had an engineer that worked almost full time on a Linux port of their client softare and extending an open source driver that was based on specs they released. He was ocassionally pulled off his main work to get critical software projects completed when they got down to crunch time and needed to throw bodies at the problem, but his main job was writing and maintaining Linux tools. The main problem as far as what I have heard is that as radios become more software controlled the regulatory agencies world wide look unfavorably on having easily modifiable drivers because it can lead to intentional and unintentional interference with other services from what should be a licensed device.