Just use email to send stories to people who are interested. No web server needed. Problem solved. New subscribers from word of mouth. Cheap, easy, effective.
Useless. Without the ability for someone to link to the story it can't get large-scale play - going viral can't really happen via e-mail these days.
Unless you're talking about tabs versus spaces. If a compiler encounters one or more spaces at the beginning of a line, it should throw a fatal error. Four spaces my ass... learn to indent properly, dammit.
Krebs' site had the full backing of Akamai until it became too expensive for them to continue fending off the attacks. If it's too expensive for Akamai to do this, it means that the attackers can take any site offline, no matter how big or how powerful. So, no, it's not just about one site. How long until Akamai itself can't keep up with attacks and has to shut down?
In this day of anti-vax, anti-science nonsense, it warms my heart to see parents taking appropriate precautions for the health and safety of their children. Kudos to you, sir or madame.
Theoretically, I can create a single network for home WiFi with more than one AP by giving all of them the same SSID but using different channels for the ones nearest each other (to prevent interference). Clients should then automatically connect to whichever AP signal is strongest and then, as the client roams the network area, re-connect to stronger APs. In practice, clients do not do that. They stay associated with whichever AP it connected to first until it loses the signal altogether. Only then will it re-connect to a closer AP. This results in a less than optimal experience.
What I do instead is create a separate SSID for each AP and the user can select and re-select the ones that suits their needs at any given time. In practice, people don't roam all over the house all that much.
> Also you don't have to pell off all those Windows stickers that are present on the other laptops. Just wish they had changed the keyboard to get rid of the Windows meta key but a sticker fixed that.
I do that, too! Here's my current setup. Ne'er an OEM sticker to be found aside from the important ones on the bottom of the chassis, though I still need a sticker for the meta key and something to cover the Dell logo.
It's a decidedly middle-of-the-road Inspiron; I can only lust for an XPS at this point. Being designed for Windows, it has had its share of problems, though nothing I can't solve or work around. The most serious of which is an annoying screen flicker with the latest kernels (4.5 and newer) that I've yet to find a solution for. Until I figure that out I'm sticking with 4.4 kernels.
My point was that perhaps it is not religion that provides the benefits, but community. I argue that religion merely piggybacks on community and provides no real benefit on its own. For instance, our shared sense of responsibility and empathy comes not from a higher authority, as religions claim, but from our shared reliance on each other. We don't need religion for that. Nor do we need religion to explain basic facts about the universe; religion has been wrong on that subject far more often that it has been right. (Has any religion ever been right about basic physics?)
I would further argue that religion is a tool for societal control and not, as its proponents claim, a valid way of understanding our place in the universe. It is a tool that is most often wielded for the benefit of the few to the detriment of the many.
> Virtually all societies have independently birthed religions. That doesn't happen by chance, or by virtue of a scheme. That happens because there is a real social benefit.
One could also argue, as some have, that religion springs from a natural tendency to place agency in random events. That is, to find meaning where there is none. So religions may not arise by chance, but it does not follow that they always result in a social benefit. To the extent that religious communities provide a benefit to their members, that benefit might also accrue to any community due to the positive social effects of community itself, regardless of religious content. This is to say that humans are social creatures who benefit from social structures and religious constructs are not necessary for those benefits.
So the fact that all societies independently create religions does not, in itself, argue that religion is axiomatically good. Indeed, sometimes religions work against societal good. One example among many, if extreme, is the Jim Jones cult. Another example would be the intentional retardation of scientific progress by the early Catholic Church.
What makes the difference between the XPS DE and the regular XPS, aside from the OS? Why wouldn't I want to order the cheaper model and just ditch Windows in favor of my favorite distro?
I am happy to hear that you take internet security seriously. Since you seem like a kind and generous person, I would like to share with you an opportunity to make money on the internet. You could earn up to $50,000 (FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!) just by following a few easy steps. If you'll kindly send me your email address, I'd be happy to provide you with details.
But do they know the reckoning will come? Will the reckoning, in fact, come in any meaningful way? Personally, I'm not convinced; as the old Wall Street maxim says, past results are no guarantee of future returns.
What does the ACLU have to do with this case? As far as I'm aware, they weren't involved at all. The ACLU does valuable work that should be important to every American. Like any organization, they will occasionally do things that you may not like, but they are there to protect you and everyone else from overreaching government intrusion into your civil rights. They have defended atheists, Muslims, and Christians in many religions liberty cases. They have defended African-American activists and the KKK in civil rights cases.
Of course, you are free to have a poor opinion of the ACLU. You'd be wrong but, ironically, the ACLU would defend your right to your opinion in the unlikely event you faced official persecution because of it.
> Intel seems fixated on having the sdcard be the one and only storage device on these dev boards. Personally, i feel putting a real ssd on here, or a spspiny disk for swap/temp file userver makes the offering far more robust.
Perhaps, but the eight gig model is enough to run an OS and a few chosen applications, which is what something like this is designed for. For more data intensive applications, there is a sixteen gig version. If you need extra storage (for video, maybe) then you could add an external USB SSD.
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Just use email to send stories to people who are interested. No web server needed. Problem solved. New subscribers from word of mouth. Cheap, easy, effective.
Useless. Without the ability for someone to link to the story it can't get large-scale play - going viral can't really happen via e-mail these days.
My crazy uncle's inbox would beg to differ.
>.<
Unless you're talking about tabs versus spaces. If a compiler encounters one or more spaces at the beginning of a line, it should throw a fatal error. Four spaces my ass... learn to indent properly, dammit.
Quick, someone get the spare Earth! We need a control group.
Krebs' site had the full backing of Akamai until it became too expensive for them to continue fending off the attacks. If it's too expensive for Akamai to do this, it means that the attackers can take any site offline, no matter how big or how powerful. So, no, it's not just about one site. How long until Akamai itself can't keep up with attacks and has to shut down?
They won't suffer from asthma anymore, so at least they'll have that going for them.
In this day of anti-vax, anti-science nonsense, it warms my heart to see parents taking appropriate precautions for the health and safety of their children. Kudos to you, sir or madame.
Theoretically, I can create a single network for home WiFi with more than one AP by giving all of them the same SSID but using different channels for the ones nearest each other (to prevent interference). Clients should then automatically connect to whichever AP signal is strongest and then, as the client roams the network area, re-connect to stronger APs. In practice, clients do not do that. They stay associated with whichever AP it connected to first until it loses the signal altogether. Only then will it re-connect to a closer AP. This results in a less than optimal experience.
What I do instead is create a separate SSID for each AP and the user can select and re-select the ones that suits their needs at any given time. In practice, people don't roam all over the house all that much.
I think it's more likely they want to make it harder for media and watchdog organizations to report on their activities.
Thanks! That's the answer I was hoping for.
> Also you don't have to pell off all those Windows stickers that are present on the other laptops. Just wish they had changed the keyboard to get rid of the Windows meta key but a sticker fixed that.
I do that, too! Here's my current setup. Ne'er an OEM sticker to be found aside from the important ones on the bottom of the chassis, though I still need a sticker for the meta key and something to cover the Dell logo.
It's a decidedly middle-of-the-road Inspiron; I can only lust for an XPS at this point. Being designed for Windows, it has had its share of problems, though nothing I can't solve or work around. The most serious of which is an annoying screen flicker with the latest kernels (4.5 and newer) that I've yet to find a solution for. Until I figure that out I'm sticking with 4.4 kernels.
My point was that perhaps it is not religion that provides the benefits, but community. I argue that religion merely piggybacks on community and provides no real benefit on its own. For instance, our shared sense of responsibility and empathy comes not from a higher authority, as religions claim, but from our shared reliance on each other. We don't need religion for that. Nor do we need religion to explain basic facts about the universe; religion has been wrong on that subject far more often that it has been right. (Has any religion ever been right about basic physics?)
I would further argue that religion is a tool for societal control and not, as its proponents claim, a valid way of understanding our place in the universe. It is a tool that is most often wielded for the benefit of the few to the detriment of the many.
> Virtually all societies have independently birthed religions. That doesn't happen by chance, or by virtue of a scheme. That happens because there is a real social benefit.
One could also argue, as some have, that religion springs from a natural tendency to place agency in random events. That is, to find meaning where there is none. So religions may not arise by chance, but it does not follow that they always result in a social benefit. To the extent that religious communities provide a benefit to their members, that benefit might also accrue to any community due to the positive social effects of community itself, regardless of religious content. This is to say that humans are social creatures who benefit from social structures and religious constructs are not necessary for those benefits.
So the fact that all societies independently create religions does not, in itself, argue that religion is axiomatically good. Indeed, sometimes religions work against societal good. One example among many, if extreme, is the Jim Jones cult. Another example would be the intentional retardation of scientific progress by the early Catholic Church.
What makes the difference between the XPS DE and the regular XPS, aside from the OS? Why wouldn't I want to order the cheaper model and just ditch Windows in favor of my favorite distro?
I am happy to hear that you take internet security seriously. Since you seem like a kind and generous person, I would like to share with you an opportunity to make money on the internet. You could earn up to $50,000 (FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!) just by following a few easy steps. If you'll kindly send me your email address, I'd be happy to provide you with details.
They guys from the Hydraulic Press Channel should send them a book.
"Try to read this, suckers!"
But do they know the reckoning will come? Will the reckoning, in fact, come in any meaningful way? Personally, I'm not convinced; as the old Wall Street maxim says, past results are no guarantee of future returns.
If it does, it'll require a proprietary driver that comes packaged with a confusing management console that rarely works well, if at all.
Somewhere small and uncomfortable, I'll bet.
[citation needed]
That's, like, just your opinion, man!
To paraphrase George Carlin, imagine the intelligence of the average American. Now consider that half of America is dumber than that.
Money is the best buzz word. It's the buzziest of words. They should just use that.
I love Randall Munroe as much as the next guy, but that comic is no longer correct. Please don't take it seriously
What does the ACLU have to do with this case? As far as I'm aware, they weren't involved at all. The ACLU does valuable work that should be important to every American. Like any organization, they will occasionally do things that you may not like, but they are there to protect you and everyone else from overreaching government intrusion into your civil rights. They have defended atheists, Muslims, and Christians in many religions liberty cases. They have defended African-American activists and the KKK in civil rights cases.
Of course, you are free to have a poor opinion of the ACLU. You'd be wrong but, ironically, the ACLU would defend your right to your opinion in the unlikely event you faced official persecution because of it.
> Intel seems fixated on having the sdcard be the one and only storage device on these dev boards. Personally, i feel putting a real ssd on here, or a spspiny disk for swap/temp file userver makes the offering far more robust.
Perhaps, but the eight gig model is enough to run an OS and a few chosen applications, which is what something like this is designed for. For more data intensive applications, there is a sixteen gig version. If you need extra storage (for video, maybe) then you could add an external USB SSD.
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