All I see is a troubling increase in society's inability to make natural room for persons with neurological "disorders" (personality types having a hard time living up to society's expectations).
Previously, most non-neurotypical persons could live pretty normal lives. They could get monotonous jobs in factories, work as mechanics or work as programmers/engineers/mathematicans/scientists without needing much social interaction. There was no real need for a diagnosis.
Nowadays however, most of those physical jobs have been replaced by robots and to get a job as a programmer you usually need good social skills and it will be expected of you to be unshy and be able to hold presentations in front of people. Few will hire "goofy" persons for anything anymore unless they already have a proven track record. Also, the expected level of continous, non-stop productivity per person has risen to whole new levels compared to just a decade ago.
This makes people with Asperger's and other neurological "disorders" no longer able to find somewhere where they can naturally fit in. This will cause them to think "what the hell is wrong with me?" and seek for answers. Naturally, this will get a lot of them a diagnosis.
This is what I think is the true cause of the increase in the number of diagnoses.
Encryption only prevents middleman snooping. They can still connect to the same BitTorrent swarm as you, put up bait files and log who is connecting and they can try downloading from you to get your IP and verify the data.
You don't need encryption, you need anonymity.
There are a few networks like OneSwarm and GNUnet and you can run a Gnutella network or BitTorrent on top of I2P. Don't expect to find much, though.
You can also sign up for an anonymous VPN service like Relakks and continue to use whatever you are used to.
My home computer is a Hackintosh simply because I like MacOS X, the software.
I don't think I am morally wrong and I seriously don't think that I cause Apple any harm.
On the contrary, me buying a copy of Snow Leopard and installing it on a home built PC gives Apple a positive net win compared to the alternative: Me not buying Snow Leopard at all.
Apple gets more money, I save money by getting a much cheaper computer. I also sometimes help Open Source projects with OSX-specific patches. It's a true win-win situation!
This talk about rights is just narrow minded bureaucratic nonsense, IMHO. Apple should just shut up and enjoy the money!
My full-disk encrypted Linux-ISO-serving file server uses LUKS with a key stored on a USB stick I keep off-site (but easily accessible when needed). On boot, it tries to mount the USB stick by its ext2 label and then use the content of/key.txt as password. The key.txt file is a salted SHA512 hash of a specific revision of a specific file in the CVS repository of a semi-popular OSS project so I CAN recreate it if the USB stick breaks. I only have to remember the salt and which file and revision to use. If it gets stolen I can just change the key to another one (LUKS supports this). Since it's a headless server it's much easier to boot than if I had to type in a password. I reboot the server very seldom and reboots are about always planned so it's not a problem that I have to walk a couple of minutes to get it every second month or so.
All modern NVidia cards use automatic scaling on the GPU. My 2560x1600 monitor doesn't have any scaling at all. It can display only 2560x1600 and 1280x800, period. However, I never notice this limitation because the graphics card can scale any resolution so even if I try some obscure OS like AROS, all VESA resolutions just work. Other modern cards probably also do this, but I haven't tried it. The PS3 doesn't, however so if I connect my PS3 to it, I get a picture in the middle and black borders around it.
Samsung SyncMaster 2343BWX and Dell SP2309W are two very cheap (around $230) 23" monitors with 2048x1152 resolution.
You can run them at 1024x576 with razor-sharp picture.
/* I went on a vodka bender last night, and this was on my screen when I woke up. I don't know what it is,
Done that. About 10 years ago I drank about a litre (~34 oz) of 40% booze (moonshine), passed out at around 9 pm in the rain in a shrubbery. A remote acquaintance found me and helped me home at around midnight (I was told, I don't remember a second of it).
I woke up around noon and on my computer screen, vim (on Linux) was up with some code I couldn't recognise. It was about three screens of gibberish programming code. I had written things like "if exec.library then STA $A000,X" and other random references to C64 and Amiga programming, something I had not touched or even thought about for at least 4 years (Amiga) or 10 years (C64) by then. It was a really, really scary experience.
I rewatched the original Alien movie just yesterday and that image looks like it could be a pause picture from the base at the planetoid where they discover the aliens.
To anyone who actually needs this kind of uninterrupted HA the cost of a VMware license is an insignificant irrelevance.
But now, we who don't actually need completely uninterrupted HA can have it anyway and as a bonus it will probably be easier to setup and maintain than a semi-custom "only one minute downtime"-HA solution.
This is a good thing indeed.
What do you get when you cross an Elephant, and a FAT ELF who takes his bat and ball and goes running home to mummy the first time someone gives him lip?
Well, I have no idea. I was hoping someome here might know. But I bet it's one UGLY abomination of an animal. The kind that other animals laugh and poke fun at.
My main computer is a Hackintosh. It's a Core i7-920 (clocked at 3,2 Ghz) with 6 GB DDR3-1866 RAM, GeForce GTX 285 graphics, Intel X58 chipset, 2x1 TB HDD, a large 100% aluminium case (ATCS 840, silver) and a 30" 2560x1600 monitor (HP LP3065). Running Snow Leopard on it and it works like a charm! Total price was around 1800 USD for the computer and 1130 USD for the monitor. This is in Sweden where prices on tech stuff are about 30% higher than in the US on average.
I've used Linux as my primary desktop OS since 1996 (Red Hat 4.2) without dual-booting. I still run Linux (Arch) on my home server, which doubles as a XBMC HTPC. I have been using Macs at work for 5 years and I have learned to love how well it works for the non-nerdy stuff I occasionally have to deal with. I also want to create music and the offerings on MacOS X, although somewhat expensive, are on a whole other level than Linux.
The main reason are the non-nerdy friends/family/partner though. I always have several terminals running (even in MacOS X) and I do almost everything I do on the command line or in Firefox. I just grew tired that every time someone visited and brought a USB stick or some MP3 player I had to pray a little that it would work, or say "excuse me", bring up a terminal, restart some background process and issue some manual mount commands. All the obscure "look at this, lolz!" videos, flash games and java applets work. I can just say to a friend "please make a playlist while I make some food" and I can go and start make food without fear that some hanging java applet has locked the sound card so I must go there and help them.
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All I see is a troubling increase in society's inability to make natural room for persons with neurological "disorders" (personality types having a hard time living up to society's expectations).
Previously, most non-neurotypical persons could live pretty normal lives. They could get monotonous jobs in factories, work as mechanics or work as programmers/engineers/mathematicans/scientists without needing much social interaction. There was no real need for a diagnosis.
Nowadays however, most of those physical jobs have been replaced by robots and to get a job as a programmer you usually need good social skills and it will be expected of you to be unshy and be able to hold presentations in front of people. Few will hire "goofy" persons for anything anymore unless they already have a proven track record. Also, the expected level of continous, non-stop productivity per person has risen to whole new levels compared to just a decade ago.
This makes people with Asperger's and other neurological "disorders" no longer able to find somewhere where they can naturally fit in. This will cause them to think "what the hell is wrong with me?" and seek for answers. Naturally, this will get a lot of them a diagnosis.
This is what I think is the true cause of the increase in the number of diagnoses.
Enable DHT and it will work. The Pirate Bay is trackerless nowadays.
Even the pirate bay got shut down once they got big enough that everyone felt they were making significant profits.
Huh?
The Pirate Bay is as alive and kicking as ever.
Do you honestly believe that the average user has done that?
Here you are.
Encryption only prevents middleman snooping. They can still connect to the same BitTorrent swarm as you, put up bait files and log who is connecting and they can try downloading from you to get your IP and verify the data.
You don't need encryption, you need anonymity.
There are a few networks like OneSwarm and GNUnet and you can run a Gnutella network or BitTorrent on top of I2P. Don't expect to find much, though.
You can also sign up for an anonymous VPN service like Relakks and continue to use whatever you are used to.
My home computer is a Hackintosh simply because I like MacOS X, the software. I don't think I am morally wrong and I seriously don't think that I cause Apple any harm. On the contrary, me buying a copy of Snow Leopard and installing it on a home built PC gives Apple a positive net win compared to the alternative: Me not buying Snow Leopard at all. Apple gets more money, I save money by getting a much cheaper computer. I also sometimes help Open Source projects with OSX-specific patches. It's a true win-win situation! This talk about rights is just narrow minded bureaucratic nonsense, IMHO. Apple should just shut up and enjoy the money!
He's dead, GIM...
My full-disk encrypted Linux-ISO-serving file server uses LUKS with a key stored on a USB stick I keep off-site (but easily accessible when needed). /key.txt as password.
On boot, it tries to mount the USB stick by its ext2 label and then use the content of
The key.txt file is a salted SHA512 hash of a specific revision of a specific file in the CVS repository of a semi-popular OSS project so I CAN recreate it if the USB stick breaks. I only have to remember the salt and which file and revision to use. If it gets stolen I can just change the key to another one (LUKS supports this).
Since it's a headless server it's much easier to boot than if I had to type in a password.
I reboot the server very seldom and reboots are about always planned so it's not a problem that I have to walk a couple of minutes to get it every second month or so.
A large number of people rating MP3 higher than FLAC would then suggest that a large number of people chose randomly
No, they chose the one that sounded most differently from the other one.
All modern NVidia cards use automatic scaling on the GPU. My 2560x1600 monitor doesn't have any scaling at all. It can display only 2560x1600 and 1280x800, period. However, I never notice this limitation because the graphics card can scale any resolution so even if I try some obscure OS like AROS, all VESA resolutions just work. Other modern cards probably also do this, but I haven't tried it. The PS3 doesn't, however so if I connect my PS3 to it, I get a picture in the middle and black borders around it.
Samsung SyncMaster 2343BWX and Dell SP2309W are two very cheap (around $230) 23" monitors with 2048x1152 resolution. You can run them at 1024x576 with razor-sharp picture.
/* I went on a vodka bender last night, and this was on my screen when I woke up. I don't know what it is,
Done that. About 10 years ago I drank about a litre (~34 oz) of 40% booze (moonshine), passed out at around 9 pm in the rain in a shrubbery. A remote acquaintance found me and helped me home at around midnight (I was told, I don't remember a second of it).
I woke up around noon and on my computer screen, vim (on Linux) was up with some code I couldn't recognise. It was about three screens of gibberish programming code. I had written things like "if exec.library then STA $A000,X" and other random references to C64 and Amiga programming, something I had not touched or even thought about for at least 4 years (Amiga) or 10 years (C64) by then. It was a really, really scary experience.
Maybe you meant the piano stairs commercial? That one is amazing! The Swedish ISP Comhem is also running a hilarious commercial right now!
I rewatched the original Alien movie just yesterday and that image looks like it could be a pause picture from the base at the planetoid where they discover the aliens.
I'm caught in between here :-(
To anyone who actually needs this kind of uninterrupted HA the cost of a VMware license is an insignificant irrelevance.
But now, we who don't actually need completely uninterrupted HA can have it anyway and as a bonus it will probably be easier to setup and maintain than a semi-custom "only one minute downtime"-HA solution. This is a good thing indeed.
ROFLMAO
Victim in fatal car accident tragically not Glenn Beck :-(
I don't think it's THAT far fetched to say that a troll looks like a cross between an elephant and a fat elf, do you?
What do you get when you cross an Elephant, and a FAT ELF who takes his bat and ball and goes running home to mummy the first time someone gives him lip? Well, I have no idea. I was hoping someome here might know. But I bet it's one UGLY abomination of an animal. The kind that other animals laugh and poke fun at.
A troll with score -1?
My main computer is a Hackintosh. It's a Core i7-920 (clocked at 3,2 Ghz) with 6 GB DDR3-1866 RAM, GeForce GTX 285 graphics, Intel X58 chipset, 2x1 TB HDD, a large 100% aluminium case (ATCS 840, silver) and a 30" 2560x1600 monitor (HP LP3065). Running Snow Leopard on it and it works like a charm! Total price was around 1800 USD for the computer and 1130 USD for the monitor. This is in Sweden where prices on tech stuff are about 30% higher than in the US on average.
I've used Linux as my primary desktop OS since 1996 (Red Hat 4.2) without dual-booting. I still run Linux (Arch) on my home server, which doubles as a XBMC HTPC. I have been using Macs at work for 5 years and I have learned to love how well it works for the non-nerdy stuff I occasionally have to deal with. I also want to create music and the offerings on MacOS X, although somewhat expensive, are on a whole other level than Linux.
The main reason are the non-nerdy friends/family/partner though. I always have several terminals running (even in MacOS X) and I do almost everything I do on the command line or in Firefox. I just grew tired that every time someone visited and brought a USB stick or some MP3 player I had to pray a little that it would work, or say "excuse me", bring up a terminal, restart some background process and issue some manual mount commands. All the obscure "look at this, lolz!" videos, flash games and java applets work. I can just say to a friend "please make a playlist while I make some food" and I can go and start make food without fear that some hanging java applet has locked the sound card so I must go there and help them.
It's the sum of the little things.
... strategically populate the available space with duplicates of commonly read blocks, for increased fault tolerance and performance?
yes, it can.
He's worse than dead! His brain is gone!