You're thinking of a big robot. We have also invented many types of small, flying robots that wouldn't have to walk on the floor, climb ropes or move rocks to get into a space. Sure, they can't do as much as a human, but they could take some pictures and maybe collect some samples. Even if they only have a few minutes of battery power, they could still go a lot of places that a human can't. These could easily be carried by a human into the cave and then deployed from a "forward position".
My point was that just because a battery can power a laptop for several hours doesn't mean a single battery can supply a server for 5 minutes. So, the GP was claiming that because: (laptop power consumption) * (2-3 hours) == (server power consumption) * (5 minutes) it shouldn't be hard for the same battery to power both. The point I was trying to make is that a device that provides a certain range of performance, (in this case the car at 70 MPH), doesn't mean it is easy for it to perform well outside that range, (operating at 420 MPH).
And how is this making war against the United States or giving Aid and Comfort to it's enemies in time of war?
Well, in the military, your oath is to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign, and domestic. Someone subverting the voting process, which is set forth in the Constitution, could be seen as an attack on the Constitution. Since the primary purpose of the military is to wage war, and their foremost oath is to defend the Constitution, it could follow that this act could be considered making war against the United States.
Another way to look at it is the act of changing the votes could change who has control of Congress, removing the "winning" party from power. This would be an unconstitutional method of changing government, which would be an act of war against the "true government" of the United States.
But, if Hiro was willing to work for North Korea, he, too, could have a nuclear sidecar on his motorcycle, which would them make him the baddest motherfucker in the world.
Or, once Uncle Enzo takes down Raven, does that make Uncle Enzo the baddest motherfucker in the world? And what happens to Raven's nuke? Was it on The Raft, and just solved that whole mess in one giant fireball?
You just have to hope that he hasn't modified something so it checks the root password and wipes, encrypts or otherwise messes with the system when it detects a change in the password.
I think the rental program will be a big hit with groups that need to open an office and operate for a relatively short period of time. Perfect example: Campaign Offices. The offices are only needed until November, then they will shut down for 3 years and kick it back up in 2012. They can save 50-60% by renting office for one year instead of purchasing it.
In that vein, what about computer forensics? It takes a good in-depth knowledge of hardware/software to preserve data sufficiently to be used in court, and it's something a bit 'different', which is always good in a job.
Actually, it's pretty easy to preserve the data. The commercial hardware and applications that are out there do all the work (of preserving evidence) for you. It takes a smart individual to determine what's important and what isn't, but preserving the data is much easier than it used to be. Also, if you have something like EnCase, finding all the data isn't that hard - sorting through it is still a pain.
It is impossible to account for the H+ and OH- ions that are floating around in your liter of "pure" H2O, which will throw off the density of the liquid by a small, but non-trivial, amount.
Aren't modern day iris scanners bad for your eyes. Sending crazy bright light directly into a person's eye will obviously damage it if it's done enough times.
It won't be any worse than staring at a computer monitor all day. Or going outside when the sun is shining. I've been doing both for decades and my eyes are still fine.
3. As a researcher with over 20 unique research trials under my belt I've never seen evidence of "Fudging" data by any of the 30 or so other grad-students I've worked with over the past 6 years.
Then you aren't looking very hard. I think this type of behavior is running rampant in higher education. A report on academic dishonesty at Ohio University, (where a large number of students were found plagiarizing on their theses), found that 84% of undergrads and 55% of grad students had cheated within the last year. The report also mentions that 45% of undergrads and 18% of the grad students had engaged in serious forms of cheating, (they call it academic misconduct), in the last year.
Of course, if an owner has cosmetic surgery or a really nasty accident, it's the owner who'll get locked out of the machine.
It doesn't even require something traumatic. What about if someone decides to shave their beard. (Or their friends decide to do it for them while the are asleep.) Now we are talking about regular situations like: "I need to look presentable for my job interview. Oh no! I can't get my resume off the computer!"
The only thing you can do is ask people who are using your local WiMAX service.
There have been people who have been really happy with the technology and those who have terrible service. Here is a story where an early adopter in Australia has abandoned WiMAX because of poor range - less than 400m indoor and 2km for non-line-of-sight outside - poor latency and jitter. The same story also talks about another provider that has had nothing but success with it.
So, talk to local users and see what performance they get. If it is good performance, make sure you check what equipment and settings they are using. Also, check what range they are operating at and make sure that there aren't any large buildings in your way.
Two decades ago he predicted that "early in the 21st century" blind people would be able to read anything anywhere using a handheld device. In 2002 he narrowed the arrival date to 2008. On Thursday night at the festival, he pulled out a new gadget the size of a cellphone, and when he pointed it at the brochure for the science festival, it had no trouble reading the text aloud.
I'm guessing that 20 years ago he was thinking of a handheld device that would actually allow blind people to literally "see" the text - not have it read to them. In 1976 Kurzweil invented the Kurzweil Reading machine that could read text to the blind. It covered an entire table top. With an exponential decrease in size, this would have been projected to be a handheld device in the early 90s. So why add the extra 10-20 years to the prediction?
I'm guessing, and I could be wrong, that he added the extra time to allow for the development of the required neural link for visualizing the text. So, this really isn't the device he envisioned, but a simpler concept that does a similar thing. Kind of like a rocket belt is like a jet pack, but doesn't let you fly from New York to L.A. at 300 MPH.
Sounds like you have dust in your cables. I would recommend you clean the inside of your cables with compressed air so the bits don't get stuck on the lint and other stuff in there. The bits travel very fast, so even small dust particles can be a problem.
Maybe one day the wars could be settled with a good game of Guitar Hero.../
Good luck playing Guitar Hero after I break your fingers. In our physical universe, physical violence will trump virtual violence. For example, if a country decided to DDoS U.S. government servers, the U.S. government could DoS their electrical grid. (Cruise missiles, air strikes, special forces, etc.) Now, the U.S. government might not go that route, but they could. Who do you think would win?
It kind of confuses me though. We're already capped on our upload/download rates and since we pay them like a service we should pay them based on the rate of that service. Garbage, Cable TV and Water are rates I pay monthly that never change. Power is different but Cable TV is pretty much equivalent to cable internet... are they going to limit the total amount of TV I can air in my home?
My garbage rate is fixed, but I can only put out a certain amount of trash each week. If I want to put out more, I need to buy extra tags from city hall. For water, I have to read my water meter and send that reading in with my check so they can bill me for my usage. For cable, if you add channels or use pay-per-view, (consume more), your monthly cost goes up.
I'm wondering why you compare cable Internet to cable TV, instead of power. For TV, they know exactly how much data (# of channels) you are going to consume for that month. For power, the bill changes based on how much you use. Internet usage seems more like the electric bill - it changes depending on what you are doing.
The sandtrout come from the worms themselves. They are the next stage in the life cycle. The real question is how did we get the giant worms without the sandtrout and without a large amount of spice as a catalyst.
They seem to have pretty good service - and it's free. If you want to cremate the leftover parts, they will do that, too. You can pick the ashes up for free, or have them sent to you through certified mail for only $15. (Way cheaper than your local crematorium.) Either way, someone gets some use out of your leftover meat.
I'm guessing that most of the drives will be vulnerable to a dictionary attack. Every user will have to know the password, (and be able to enter it correctly), to boot up their machine, and if you forget the password, your hard drive becomes a brick. Enough people will be paranoid about forgetting their password that they will pick something short, simple, easy to remember and easy to type. In other words, they will likely choose a dictionary word of some sort.
If an organization has their IT staff assign passwords to the drive, so they are hard to crack, users will just keep the Post-it note with the password glued to their machine. Either way, a great idea that someone will screw up.
Users - making products insecure since the dawn of time.
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You're thinking of a big robot. We have also invented many types of small, flying robots that wouldn't have to walk on the floor, climb ropes or move rocks to get into a space. Sure, they can't do as much as a human, but they could take some pictures and maybe collect some samples. Even if they only have a few minutes of battery power, they could still go a lot of places that a human can't. These could easily be carried by a human into the cave and then deployed from a "forward position".
Why should I listen to your opinion? You can't even spell Cthulhu correctly.
I agree with you.
My point was that just because a battery can power a laptop for several hours doesn't mean a single battery can supply a server for 5 minutes. So, the GP was claiming that because: (laptop power consumption) * (2-3 hours) == (server power consumption) * (5 minutes) it shouldn't be hard for the same battery to power both. The point I was trying to make is that a device that provides a certain range of performance, (in this case the car at 70 MPH), doesn't mean it is easy for it to perform well outside that range, (operating at 420 MPH).
Apples and oranges. I'll use a car analogy since they are always appropriate.
If my car can run 6 or 7 hours at 70 MPH, it should not be that difficult to use the same car to run at 420 MPH for 1 hour.
No. I believe his friend is making $85k in his full-time job as a nurse manager but has so much part-time nursing work that his overall pay is $145k.
And how is this making war against the United States or giving Aid and Comfort to it's enemies in time of war?
Well, in the military, your oath is to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign, and domestic. Someone subverting the voting process, which is set forth in the Constitution, could be seen as an attack on the Constitution. Since the primary purpose of the military is to wage war, and their foremost oath is to defend the Constitution, it could follow that this act could be considered making war against the United States.
Another way to look at it is the act of changing the votes could change who has control of Congress, removing the "winning" party from power. This would be an unconstitutional method of changing government, which would be an act of war against the "true government" of the United States.
But, if Hiro was willing to work for North Korea, he, too, could have a nuclear sidecar on his motorcycle, which would them make him the baddest motherfucker in the world.
Or, once Uncle Enzo takes down Raven, does that make Uncle Enzo the baddest motherfucker in the world? And what happens to Raven's nuke? Was it on The Raft, and just solved that whole mess in one giant fireball?
It will be just impossible to build those old components today. [Emphasis mine]
It isn't impossible. More expensive - probably. But I challenge anyone to point to a single part and say it is no longer possible to build it.
You just have to hope that he hasn't modified something so it checks the root password and wipes, encrypts or otherwise messes with the system when it detects a change in the password.
I think the rental program will be a big hit with groups that need to open an office and operate for a relatively short period of time. Perfect example: Campaign Offices. The offices are only needed until November, then they will shut down for 3 years and kick it back up in 2012. They can save 50-60% by renting office for one year instead of purchasing it.
In that vein, what about computer forensics? It takes a good in-depth knowledge of hardware/software to preserve data sufficiently to be used in court, and it's something a bit 'different', which is always good in a job.
Actually, it's pretty easy to preserve the data. The commercial hardware and applications that are out there do all the work (of preserving evidence) for you. It takes a smart individual to determine what's important and what isn't, but preserving the data is much easier than it used to be. Also, if you have something like EnCase, finding all the data isn't that hard - sorting through it is still a pain.
It is impossible to account for the H+ and OH- ions that are floating around in your liter of "pure" H2O, which will throw off the density of the liquid by a small, but non-trivial, amount.
Aren't modern day iris scanners bad for your eyes. Sending crazy bright light directly into a person's eye will obviously damage it if it's done enough times.
It won't be any worse than staring at a computer monitor all day. Or going outside when the sun is shining. I've been doing both for decades and my eyes are still fine.
3. As a researcher with over 20 unique research trials under my belt I've never seen evidence of "Fudging" data by any of the 30 or so other grad-students I've worked with over the past 6 years.
Then you aren't looking very hard. I think this type of behavior is running rampant in higher education. A report on academic dishonesty at Ohio University, (where a large number of students were found plagiarizing on their theses), found that 84% of undergrads and 55% of grad students had cheated within the last year. The report also mentions that 45% of undergrads and 18% of the grad students had engaged in serious forms of cheating, (they call it academic misconduct), in the last year.
Here is the report.
Take a look. It could be that people know you believe strongly in doing the right thing so hide their cheating from you as well.
Unless it gets it right, my friend. Unless it gets it right.
Of course, if an owner has cosmetic surgery or a really nasty accident, it's the owner who'll get locked out of the machine.
It doesn't even require something traumatic. What about if someone decides to shave their beard. (Or their friends decide to do it for them while the are asleep.) Now we are talking about regular situations like: "I need to look presentable for my job interview. Oh no! I can't get my resume off the computer!"
The only thing you can do is ask people who are using your local WiMAX service.
There have been people who have been really happy with the technology and those who have terrible service. Here is a story where an early adopter in Australia has abandoned WiMAX because of poor range - less than 400m indoor and 2km for non-line-of-sight outside - poor latency and jitter. The same story also talks about another provider that has had nothing but success with it.
So, talk to local users and see what performance they get. If it is good performance, make sure you check what equipment and settings they are using. Also, check what range they are operating at and make sure that there aren't any large buildings in your way.
From TFA:
Two decades ago he predicted that "early in the 21st century" blind people would be able to read anything anywhere using a handheld device. In 2002 he narrowed the arrival date to 2008. On Thursday night at the festival, he pulled out a new gadget the size of a cellphone, and when he pointed it at the brochure for the science festival, it had no trouble reading the text aloud.
I'm guessing that 20 years ago he was thinking of a handheld device that would actually allow blind people to literally "see" the text - not have it read to them. In 1976 Kurzweil invented the Kurzweil Reading machine that could read text to the blind. It covered an entire table top. With an exponential decrease in size, this would have been projected to be a handheld device in the early 90s. So why add the extra 10-20 years to the prediction?
I'm guessing, and I could be wrong, that he added the extra time to allow for the development of the required neural link for visualizing the text. So, this really isn't the device he envisioned, but a simpler concept that does a similar thing. Kind of like a rocket belt is like a jet pack, but doesn't let you fly from New York to L.A. at 300 MPH.
Sounds like you have dust in your cables. I would recommend you clean the inside of your cables with compressed air so the bits don't get stuck on the lint and other stuff in there. The bits travel very fast, so even small dust particles can be a problem.
Maybe one day the wars could be settled with a good game of Guitar Hero.../
Good luck playing Guitar Hero after I break your fingers. In our physical universe, physical violence will trump virtual violence. For example, if a country decided to DDoS U.S. government servers, the U.S. government could DoS their electrical grid. (Cruise missiles, air strikes, special forces, etc.) Now, the U.S. government might not go that route, but they could. Who do you think would win?
It kind of confuses me though. We're already capped on our upload/download rates and since we pay them like a service we should pay them based on the rate of that service. Garbage, Cable TV and Water are rates I pay monthly that never change. Power is different but Cable TV is pretty much equivalent to cable internet ... are they going to limit the total amount of TV I can air in my home?
My garbage rate is fixed, but I can only put out a certain amount of trash each week. If I want to put out more, I need to buy extra tags from city hall. For water, I have to read my water meter and send that reading in with my check so they can bill me for my usage. For cable, if you add channels or use pay-per-view, (consume more), your monthly cost goes up.
I'm wondering why you compare cable Internet to cable TV, instead of power. For TV, they know exactly how much data (# of channels) you are going to consume for that month. For power, the bill changes based on how much you use. Internet usage seems more like the electric bill - it changes depending on what you are doing.
The sandtrout come from the worms themselves. They are the next stage in the life cycle. The real question is how did we get the giant worms without the sandtrout and without a large amount of spice as a catalyst.
Why not donate your body to science?
They seem to have pretty good service - and it's free. If you want to cremate the leftover parts, they will do that, too. You can pick the ashes up for free, or have them sent to you through certified mail for only $15. (Way cheaper than your local crematorium.) Either way, someone gets some use out of your leftover meat.
I'm guessing that most of the drives will be vulnerable to a dictionary attack. Every user will have to know the password, (and be able to enter it correctly), to boot up their machine, and if you forget the password, your hard drive becomes a brick. Enough people will be paranoid about forgetting their password that they will pick something short, simple, easy to remember and easy to type. In other words, they will likely choose a dictionary word of some sort.
If an organization has their IT staff assign passwords to the drive, so they are hard to crack, users will just keep the Post-it note with the password glued to their machine. Either way, a great idea that someone will screw up.
Users - making products insecure since the dawn of time.
1. The bad guys are also smart.
2. The reward is higher for the bad guys than the good guys.
3. The risk for the bad guys isn't that high - they operate from different jurisdictions and with many cutouts between them and their operation.
4. They have cookies.