Figure out how much downtime costs, and how much downtime you prevent due to increased numbers of people, or special skill sets. If your webserver goes down, will it potentially hurt your business or not? Are your internal servers more important? Do printers really need 99% uptime? Everything gets weighted.
Overall, it seems like a pain in the ass to figure out, but might be quite useful in the future to justify spending for new equipment, software, or support, or even your own employment.
I couldn't ignore the anal-retentive troll inside of me.
which could mean either 0 or 1 virus (funny how everything always works out to binary in some way or another:).
That is not binary, but rather only could be binary, but could be any m-ary. True, it could be binary, if you assume two viruses would be represented by 01, three by 11, four by 001, and so forth. As it is, it's ambiguous, as are all numbers. 234 viruses could be decimal, hexadecimal, or a higher base, just as X amount of something does not denote the actual base. Now, if there was a subscript "1," that could mean it was binary, but that's obviously not there, now is it, hmm.
On another tangent, I have seen a similar analog-digital converter in a PIC program quite a few years back. Basically, if I had an analog value that I knew were only going to be 0 or 1, I could convert it to a digital 0 or 1. For some reason the label of the value mattered more than the actual value in the application. What a fun program in school. I was able to use the free 15-step limited program to do what I wanted, while everyone else had to resort to some ungodly large amount of logic that required the paid program.
However, do you cross the line with academia? These are two very separate concepts that apparantly conflict in only a few very specific ways, with this being one of them. One is for the furtherence of education, the other for openness of life, including, but not limited to, government, celebrities, public occurances, and businesses. How you can compare the rights and needs of the two is quite difficult, given their lack of a direct relation. It's like the Wired.com poll recently ranking technological gadgets. How do you compare a electric toothbrush with a portable cassette player anyway?
Anyway, this is a private event, with very specific protections that are agreed to by the registered journalists. This is not a public event, where the 1st amendment's protections fully apply. Just as someone might break contract by reporting something after signing an NDA, this reporter was being quite questionable in her information gathering tactics. Therefore, I would have to say DefCon handled this admirably, by doing what needed to be done without sacraficing their own reputation (and perhaps adding to it).
DefCon treats itself as an academic approach to hacking. They want to protect the identities of those at the event in order to enable many to discuss hacking openly, without fear of being outed. Thus, their anonymity is of the utmost importance. So, they ban filming anyone who does not agree to being filmed. She basically went in with her hidden camera, filming anyone and everyone. This is why she was rightfully outed, not any other reason.
IMHO, Dateline has always been a POS. Its crap journalism got carried over to the Nightly News, starting with Brockaw's "Fleecing of America" series, and has since dragged that news program into the ground. Though I find their Catching a Predator series interesting, some incidents have brought up very pertinent questions regarding the safety (or lack thereof) of the accused/tricked individuals.
Basically, the gov'ner is bringing a backbone for internet to every county. There are quite a few counties, mainly in the SouthEast, that are very rural and poor. They basically are more like WV than the rest of Ohio. But, they'll have at least one pipe run to each county.
Now, the distribution of those services aren't necessarily run by the state. Individual telcos may use them once the main line is run, which will probably include companies like Time Warner, Verizon, etc, because they have the capital to build these networks.
So yeah, it's just more of the same, but only this time the State gov't is partially funding these monopolies.
This is ridiculous. A $3.8 billion expansion and they can't afford to clean up the mess that they're creating?
Do you realize that increasing production will increase the pollution created? They're also switching to a dirtier raw material, which inherently creates more nasty pollutants. Simply bitching that they should magically make pollution disappear because they spent money doesn't help much. You buy a car, it doesn't mean you have the ability to make its pollution nil.
At which point will the Indiana legislators start realising that their duty is to all the people of Indiana, not just the few that work for BP?
Not much of Indiana is even in the Lake Michigan watershed. Ironcially, the Great Lakes drain relatively little land. Most goes either south to the Ohio River, west to the Mississippi, northwest to the Great Slave/Bear Canadian thing, or north to the Hudson. However, an increase of 100 tones of ammonia and 230 tones of sludge over a year doesn't seem like it'll kill off their enormous toursism industry in Gary. I'm doubting those few desperate souls could be dissuaded easily at all at this point.
I bet if you asked people if they would want their laws bent or even waived to allow a polluter to pollute their water even more that 99 percent of them would say no. So how the hell does the Indiana Department of Environmental Management have the balls to try to justify and defend their decision?
I bet if you had people vote, it wouldn't be 99%. I also bet that if you had people vote on free cold fusion power, they'd vote for that too. Not that they can affect reality in such a way, but it's unreasonable to assume everything can be solved by a vote.
What's next? Indiana cops giving drug dealers the green light to push crack in schools?
Wait, what? Industry and its consequences just turned into an illicit government run drug cartel for children? I'm confused here.
Ok, I don't like pollution as much as the next guy, but this story's obviously been blown out of proportion to an extent. Just take it with a pinch of salt, or whatever that saying is.
Copying and blatantly selling your copyrighted works is just plain stupid. I don't hope he gets prison time, but this kind of thing isn't something we should condone. I hope you are able to continue working on future releases of your products.
Now on the other hand, if you were arguing that your scripts for moving into a missionary position should be copyrighted for your lifetime+70 years, I think you'd need a smackdown.
The problem here is that a person may download and install the program with no intention of copyright violations. However, their computer is scanned likely without their knowledge for other, very possibly legal, files. You'd have to read the agreement, rather than click-through it like usual to know this. If they did not warn of complete scans and information being sent back to their servers, then they probably have committed some sort of computer crime.
I've ripped my CDs into.mp3 files, as have millions of others with movies and other media. What is their reaction to seeing these files? Are you going to receive their threatening letters in the near future? God only knows, but frankly, it shouldn't be tolerated in the least.
Hell, if they want to charge you with "theft," charge them back with breaking and entering.
We only have to look at the comparison between Vertabrates and Invertabrates to see how evolution favors certain characteristics.
Animals tend to have heads, at the leading end of the body. This head contains sensory organs, often eyes, but not limited to them. Antennae/trunks/feelers are also common, as well as ears (though ears may be elsewhere as well).
Also the head tends to contain a mouth-like orgain for feeding/drinking that often includes teeth or other specialized feeding aparatus. There is also a digestive tract throughout the body and abdomen, leading to a rectum or exit hole. There is also a kind of circulation system to move the necessities of life through the body.
Appendages such as arms or legs are common, as well as wings. They tend to have claws or appendages at the ends for grasping or manipulation.
There may be some things unique to intelligent species, such as a large brain organ, or nimble appendages.
But, then again, their life forms may be so much different as to be unimaginable. Nucular powered instead of solar/chemical powered? Non-Carbon based? Who knows.
My point was, that voting being the only path to freedom isn't valid in a two-party system. All that is required to corrupt it is a handshake between two entities. That happens, and we're all serfs. And don't tell me Dems and Reps don't
talk.
Though you're correct, it's our own lazy ass faults for not changing it.
There's nothing loving, forgiving or compassionate about a committee with a purpose.
The only question is how to prevent them from killing our freedoms. Democracy hasn't seemed to work all that well lately, at least in a two party system.
Anyway, we have so many specific macros that, while not overly complicated, would take entirely way too long to rewrite. And, they perform such specific functions with specific software that it'd be almost insane to rewrite everything, as it'd only help our company, and pretty much no one else, as we don't even sell them or distribute them.
[p]Macros that have worked even back in Office97 are now broken. A contractor at work tried to go buy Office at any Brick n' Mortar place, and since 2007 is the only one available, he's pretty much screwed...
[p]I wish OOo had really good macro compatibility. If it does, let me know (email shown)
I wrote a script of their script. I now own any number bewteen 0 and any 1000 digit number. Pwnz0r!
Actually, this is a good idea. If there is any future "copyright" on a number, I can claim previous copyright of that number, preventing those future idiotic uses.
Using this idea, I now release all numbers that I've created and henceforth copyrighted under the GPL v2.0 license.
Why in the world would you have this video? I doubt 99% of those familiar with goatse are aware it exists, if it in fact does, and here you are talking about it in open conversation in an unrelated topic.
Comparing compatibility to MS Office is the same as articles claiming something was "as large as a VW car," "as heavy as two schoolbuses," or "as long as two and a half football fields." It's not a freaking standard, and we shouldn't have to abide by it.
The home user is. XM can't sell the ability to recieve(broadcast) + record signals. They can sell the ability to recieve, but not to record them at the same time. Only individuals are allowed to record, and apparantly only by using third party hardware.
In the world of licensing, they've paid for the rights to broadcast that music, the same as FM/AM stations. However, they're also selling the ability to record that same music, which isn't something they have license to do. The end-user has that right, but not the broadcaster
That would be like iPods allowing streaming music (which you can do on a network), and then also allowing you to record that music for your personal playlist without paying for it. That's not something that's allowed under their licensing
My sister lives in Indiana about 1 mile from a city of 11,000 people. She can't get cable or DSL either. In fact, they haven't even upgraded the switchboards for DSL there, except for one in the middle of the city.
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Figure out how much downtime costs, and how much downtime you prevent due to increased numbers of people, or special skill sets. If your webserver goes down, will it potentially hurt your business or not? Are your internal servers more important? Do printers really need 99% uptime? Everything gets weighted.
Overall, it seems like a pain in the ass to figure out, but might be quite useful in the future to justify spending for new equipment, software, or support, or even your own employment.
I couldn't ignore the anal-retentive troll inside of me.
which could mean either 0 or 1 virus (funny how everything always works out to binary in some way or another :).
That is not binary, but rather only could be binary, but could be any m-ary. True, it could be binary, if you assume two viruses would be represented by 01, three by 11, four by 001, and so forth. As it is, it's ambiguous, as are all numbers. 234 viruses could be decimal, hexadecimal, or a higher base, just as X amount of something does not denote the actual base. Now, if there was a subscript "1," that could mean it was binary, but that's obviously not there, now is it, hmm.
On another tangent, I have seen a similar analog-digital converter in a PIC program quite a few years back. Basically, if I had an analog value that I knew were only going to be 0 or 1, I could convert it to a digital 0 or 1. For some reason the label of the value mattered more than the actual value in the application. What a fun program in school. I was able to use the free 15-step limited program to do what I wanted, while everyone else had to resort to some ungodly large amount of logic that required the paid program.
However, do you cross the line with academia? These are two very separate concepts that apparantly conflict in only a few very specific ways, with this being one of them. One is for the furtherence of education, the other for openness of life, including, but not limited to, government, celebrities, public occurances, and businesses. How you can compare the rights and needs of the two is quite difficult, given their lack of a direct relation. It's like the Wired.com poll recently ranking technological gadgets. How do you compare a electric toothbrush with a portable cassette player anyway?
Anyway, this is a private event, with very specific protections that are agreed to by the registered journalists. This is not a public event, where the 1st amendment's protections fully apply. Just as someone might break contract by reporting something after signing an NDA, this reporter was being quite questionable in her information gathering tactics. Therefore, I would have to say DefCon handled this admirably, by doing what needed to be done without sacraficing their own reputation (and perhaps adding to it).
DefCon treats itself as an academic approach to hacking. They want to protect the identities of those at the event in order to enable many to discuss hacking openly, without fear of being outed. Thus, their anonymity is of the utmost importance. So, they ban filming anyone who does not agree to being filmed. She basically went in with her hidden camera, filming anyone and everyone. This is why she was rightfully outed, not any other reason.
IMHO, Dateline has always been a POS. Its crap journalism got carried over to the Nightly News, starting with Brockaw's "Fleecing of America" series, and has since dragged that news program into the ground. Though I find their Catching a Predator series interesting, some incidents have brought up very pertinent questions regarding the safety (or lack thereof) of the accused/tricked individuals.
Basically, the gov'ner is bringing a backbone for internet to every county. There are quite a few counties, mainly in the SouthEast, that are very rural and poor. They basically are more like WV than the rest of Ohio. But, they'll have at least one pipe run to each county.
Now, the distribution of those services aren't necessarily run by the state. Individual telcos may use them once the main line is run, which will probably include companies like Time Warner, Verizon, etc, because they have the capital to build these networks.
So yeah, it's just more of the same, but only this time the State gov't is partially funding these monopolies.
Hexus PiFast Challenge! They stopped updating the scores a couple years back, but it's interesting to see the sheer speed increases through the years.
And yes, that is me near the bottom with an old laptop (that still runs).
This is ridiculous. A $3.8 billion expansion and they can't afford to clean up the mess that they're creating?
Do you realize that increasing production will increase the pollution created? They're also switching to a dirtier raw material, which inherently creates more nasty pollutants. Simply bitching that they should magically make pollution disappear because they spent money doesn't help much. You buy a car, it doesn't mean you have the ability to make its pollution nil.
At which point will the Indiana legislators start realising that their duty is to all the people of Indiana, not just the few that work for BP?
Not much of Indiana is even in the Lake Michigan watershed. Ironcially, the Great Lakes drain relatively little land. Most goes either south to the Ohio River, west to the Mississippi, northwest to the Great Slave/Bear Canadian thing, or north to the Hudson. However, an increase of 100 tones of ammonia and 230 tones of sludge over a year doesn't seem like it'll kill off their enormous toursism industry in Gary. I'm doubting those few desperate souls could be dissuaded easily at all at this point.
I bet if you asked people if they would want their laws bent or even waived to allow a polluter to pollute their water even more that 99 percent of them would say no. So how the hell does the Indiana Department of Environmental Management have the balls to try to justify and defend their decision?
I bet if you had people vote, it wouldn't be 99%. I also bet that if you had people vote on free cold fusion power, they'd vote for that too. Not that they can affect reality in such a way, but it's unreasonable to assume everything can be solved by a vote.
What's next? Indiana cops giving drug dealers the green light to push crack in schools?
Wait, what? Industry and its consequences just turned into an illicit government run drug cartel for children? I'm confused here.
Ok, I don't like pollution as much as the next guy, but this story's obviously been blown out of proportion to an extent. Just take it with a pinch of salt, or whatever that saying is.
Copying and blatantly selling your copyrighted works is just plain stupid. I don't hope he gets prison time, but this kind of thing isn't something we should condone. I hope you are able to continue working on future releases of your products.
Now on the other hand, if you were arguing that your scripts for moving into a missionary position should be copyrighted for your lifetime+70 years, I think you'd need a smackdown.
The problem here is that a person may download and install the program with no intention of copyright violations. However, their computer is scanned likely without their knowledge for other, very possibly legal, files. You'd have to read the agreement, rather than click-through it like usual to know this. If they did not warn of complete scans and information being sent back to their servers, then they probably have committed some sort of computer crime.
I've ripped my CDs into .mp3 files, as have millions of others with movies and other media. What is their reaction to seeing these files? Are you going to receive their threatening letters in the near future? God only knows, but frankly, it shouldn't be tolerated in the least.
Hell, if they want to charge you with "theft," charge them back with breaking and entering.
Animals tend to have heads, at the leading end of the body. This head contains sensory organs, often eyes, but not limited to them. Antennae/trunks/feelers are also common, as well as ears (though ears may be elsewhere as well).
Also the head tends to contain a mouth-like orgain for feeding/drinking that often includes teeth or other specialized feeding aparatus. There is also a digestive tract throughout the body and abdomen, leading to a rectum or exit hole. There is also a kind of circulation system to move the necessities of life through the body.
Appendages such as arms or legs are common, as well as wings. They tend to have claws or appendages at the ends for grasping or manipulation.
There may be some things unique to intelligent species, such as a large brain organ, or nimble appendages.
But, then again, their life forms may be so much different as to be unimaginable. Nucular powered instead of solar/chemical powered? Non-Carbon based? Who knows.
Remember, they're still a for profit company.
My point was, that voting being the only path to freedom isn't valid in a two-party system. All that is required to corrupt it is a handshake between two entities. That happens, and we're all serfs. And don't tell me Dems and Reps don't talk.
Though you're correct, it's our own lazy ass faults for not changing it.
Governments want control, businesses want money.
There's nothing loving, forgiving or compassionate about a committee with a purpose.
The only question is how to prevent them from killing our freedoms. Democracy hasn't seemed to work all that well lately, at least in a two party system.
Ouch, I just realized my poor formatting.
Anyway, we have so many specific macros that, while not overly complicated, would take entirely way too long to rewrite. And, they perform such specific functions with specific software that it'd be almost insane to rewrite everything, as it'd only help our company, and pretty much no one else, as we don't even sell them or distribute them.
[p]Macros that have worked even back in Office97 are now broken. A contractor at work tried to go buy Office at any Brick n' Mortar place, and since 2007 is the only one available, he's pretty much screwed... [p]I wish OOo had really good macro compatibility. If it does, let me know (email shown)
I wrote a script of their script. I now own any number bewteen 0 and any 1000 digit number. Pwnz0r!
Actually, this is a good idea. If there is any future "copyright" on a number, I can claim previous copyright of that number, preventing those future idiotic uses.
Using this idea, I now release all numbers that I've created and henceforth copyrighted under the GPL v2.0 license.
They were recently bought by Best Buy, to the chagrin of many.
I said "crap."
That three billion people die a year from hunger. HOLY CRAP!
Why in the world would you have this video? I doubt 99% of those familiar with goatse are aware it exists, if it in fact does, and here you are talking about it in open conversation in an unrelated topic.
Just... odd.
Comparing compatibility to MS Office is the same as articles claiming something was "as large as a VW car," "as heavy as two schoolbuses," or "as long as two and a half football fields." It's not a freaking standard, and we shouldn't have to abide by it.
Unfortunately, though, we do. :/
The home user is. XM can't sell the ability to recieve(broadcast) + record signals. They can sell the ability to recieve, but not to record them at the same time. Only individuals are allowed to record, and apparantly only by using third party hardware.
In the world of licensing, they've paid for the rights to broadcast that music, the same as FM/AM stations. However, they're also selling the ability to record that same music, which isn't something they have license to do. The end-user has that right, but not the broadcaster
That would be like iPods allowing streaming music (which you can do on a network), and then also allowing you to record that music for your personal playlist without paying for it. That's not something that's allowed under their licensing
My sister lives in Indiana about 1 mile from a city of 11,000 people. She can't get cable or DSL either. In fact, they haven't even upgraded the switchboards for DSL there, except for one in the middle of the city.
For the last decade or so, small telcos have been bought up by the likes of Verizon. I know just a town over this had happened only last year.
Now, rather than being in the mentality of conglomeration, they're improving profit margins. Eh, it's all business dealings.
I agree with the parent though, this will not hurt, if not greatly benefit, the customers in those areas, despite not having FiOS "guaranteed."
If I had a username irc.goatse.cx troll, the last thing I would be worried about is what people thought of me.