While I was de-lousing a computer for a friend, he said he didn't need a firewall " 'cause there isn't anything on his computer worth a hacker taking the effort to steal."
Then I went into my long winded explanation about botnets, spammers and other internet headaches. He still didn't think that his 'lil ol' computer was important enough to anyone else to be at risk.
At which point my consulting fees increased by many more beers.
*sigh*
Proper spacing is, of course, not the same as leaving a whole car length in front of you.
Conversely, 1 car length is way too close while moving.
And I don't care how impatient you are, I'm not going to increase my risk of an accident just to make you get where you're going 12 seconds sooner.
Apparently you missed the part in my post about "moved into another lane/median/ditch to avoid being rear-ended", which I have done, as I said
And on 1 occasion, the car that I avoided being hit by rammed into the stopped car that was in front of me before I moved.
Also, are you implying that an attentive driver, especially in a city known for it's bad drivers, shouldn't glance around, even while stopped at a traffic light?
One of the standard things taught in driver school is leaving enough room between you and the car in front of you in case you need to avoid a rear collision.
And how exactly does this work? You pull forward a few feet and the car coming at you still hits you, only it hits you a little bit later than otherwise.
It gives you manoeuvring room to turn into the next lane.
I have seen each of the parent's scenarios multiple times in my almost 30 years of driving (10 of those as a "professional driver").
It appears that you are luck enough to drive in a location where the other drivers are all of above average ability, and where all the streets are well designed and well maintained. and possibly where it doesn't snow and remain well below freezing for over half of the year.
I have been rear-ended 3 different ties while stopped in a line of traffic. I have also moved into another lane/median/ditch to avoid being rear-ended more times than I can remember.
And I see stalled cars at intersections on a weekly basis. Either because the engines were not properly warmed up, or not properly maiintained. Or both.
The open source model is already being applied to disease control
Scientists are able to see the benefits of working together without The Economist telling them that it's a good idea.
I wouldn't worry about charting the signal strength for 3G. You can be in a densely populated area showing five bars of 3G and your speed and latency can still be dog shit depending on how many people are hitting the tower, similar to your cable modem. It might be worth it to record whether or not you have 3G just to help map out your general coverage, but that doesn't mean you'll have great speed.
Also, if your 3G network is based on CDMA (WCDMA, HSPA, HSDPA) then signal-to-noise ratio is as important as raw signal strength. SNR in both the downlink (what you receive from the base station) path - which you might be able to measure, and the uplink (what the base station receives from you) -which you have no way of measuring directly.
And while you might be able to control the signal level somewhat, you have very little control over the noise part of the equation.
You may go around sampling receive performance, (which would be interesting) but I don't think you'll be able to map how well the cellular system is receiving from you.
Which is most often the limiting factor.
The base station is transmitting at 50-100 watts ERP, but your handset (modem) is transmitting at less than a watt.
Sure the base station has pretty efficient recieve antennas, possibly with tower mounted pre-amps, but if it can't see your signal, it can't do much with it.
And a signal path needs to work in both directions to be able to do something useful with it.
I've noticed this more often on the reality shows (when I catch glimpses on talk soup), the reality stars are constantly doing that, replacing the wrong word for the word they mean.
What is a person that suffers from this linguistical malady called? There must be a more clinical and less pejorative term than 'idiot.'
In the case of "reality" shows and daytime talk TV, I expect there is no more accurate word than idiot.
Who cares about pejorative? The truth hurts.
My Guess: you either look like someone they have a specific interest in, or your name is similar to (or being used by) someone that they have a specific interest in.
Just because things have moved so far away from the way it's supposed to work, doesn't mean that I am wrong to get upset that they aren't even trying to do what they are supposed to be doing.
Umm... you do realize that elections are generally held every year in most municipalities? (And certainly every two years everywhere in the U.S.).....
It's a sad fact in the U.S. that so many people only show up to vote in Presidential elections every 4 years. There are a lot of local offices that might have a lot more direct impact on your life or your community which are also a critical part of the government.
It's an equally sad fact that voter turnout is declining rapidly here in Canada as well.
I place a portion of the blame on the un-inspiring selection of candidates and their ideas. And of course the lazy-assed public deserves their share of the blame as well.
Really, how hard is it to show up and mark an X once in a while
And, yes, when I said every 4 years, I was referring to any specific office, not the entire government apparatus in all it's myriad permutations.
And one last thing I wonder about: Is humanity's fear of extraterrestrial intelligence based on humanity's own instinct of survival of the fittest?
I think we, as a species, may fear others because we have lived our entire history beating the hell out of each other over very minor (on a cosmological scale) differences.
Any aliens we encounter will be much more different from us than we are from each other.
Therefore, we as a species fear that those so much different and more powerful (they got here before we got there, right?) will be belligerent (as we are) because of those differences.
The majority of PS3 owners don't know or care about these things. They bought the console to play games and/or bluray movies and as long as it does that they are happy.
And what if that changes, because Sony wants it to?
As has already been stated, what happens when the PS4 comes out, and sales aren't as hot as Sony likes?
What happens when the new version of a game comes out? Will the old one loose features? Or even keep working?
What happens if Sony fucks up (again) a firmware update and bricks a random number of consoles?
What happens Sony wants there to be a packet sniffer inside your firewall?
I suspect that even in the UK (which has a much higher population density than the US) the majority of people live more than 1km from an exchange...and this assumes that the copper is relatively new and has clean connections....
It's not distance from the CO building that matters, but from the DSLAM, which are easy to deploy in any densely populated area, and relatively cost effective.
The ~1.5 Km range is from one of these
As for your "no login" requirement, do you mean you want something like LDAP integration, or are you just planning to run the whole thing wide open with no access control?
From the submitter's post:
share documents easily with people from outside the team without any software installation or login required
Sounds like he wants the read-only users to have no login. Obviously read/write users need to login. Otherwise how could you track changes properly?
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You do NOT need to give the phone company an ID for a landline.
How did you not give them your address?
While I was de-lousing a computer for a friend, he said he didn't need a firewall " 'cause there isn't anything on his computer worth a hacker taking the effort to steal."
Then I went into my long winded explanation about botnets, spammers and other internet headaches.
He still didn't think that his 'lil ol' computer was important enough to anyone else to be at risk.
At which point my consulting fees increased by many more beers.
*sigh*
Proper spacing is, of course, not the same as leaving a whole car length in front of you.
Conversely, 1 car length is way too close while moving.
And I don't care how impatient you are, I'm not going to increase my risk of an accident just to make you get where you're going 12 seconds sooner.
Apparently you missed the part in my post about "moved into another lane/median/ditch to avoid being rear-ended", which I have done, as I said
And on 1 occasion, the car that I avoided being hit by rammed into the stopped car that was in front of me before I moved.
Also, are you implying that an attentive driver, especially in a city known for it's bad drivers, shouldn't glance around, even while stopped at a traffic light?
And how exactly does this work? You pull forward a few feet and the car coming at you still hits you, only it hits you a little bit later than otherwise.
It gives you manoeuvring room to turn into the next lane.
I'll see your anecdotes, and raise with my own
I have seen each of the parent's scenarios multiple times in my almost 30 years of driving (10 of those as a "professional driver").
It appears that you are luck enough to drive in a location where the other drivers are all of above average ability, and where all the streets are well designed and well maintained. and possibly where it doesn't snow and remain well below freezing for over half of the year.
I have been rear-ended 3 different ties while stopped in a line of traffic. I have also moved into another lane/median/ditch to avoid being rear-ended more times than I can remember.
And I see stalled cars at intersections on a weekly basis. Either because the engines were not properly warmed up, or not properly maiintained. Or both.
The open source model is already being applied to disease control
Scientists are able to see the benefits of working together without The Economist telling them that it's a good idea.
Telling people “no, we only have enough real products for you to buy two, sorry” is an example of real scarcity, not artificial scarcity.
Only if they are honest.
You believe everything the nice corporate retailer tells you, don't you.
I wouldn't worry about charting the signal strength for 3G. You can be in a densely populated area showing five bars of 3G and your speed and latency can still be dog shit depending on how many people are hitting the tower, similar to your cable modem. It might be worth it to record whether or not you have 3G just to help map out your general coverage, but that doesn't mean you'll have great speed.
Also, if your 3G network is based on CDMA (WCDMA, HSPA, HSDPA) then signal-to-noise ratio is as important as raw signal strength. SNR in both the downlink (what you receive from the base station) path - which you might be able to measure, and the uplink (what the base station receives from you) -which you have no way of measuring directly.
And while you might be able to control the signal level somewhat, you have very little control over the noise part of the equation.
You may go around sampling receive performance, (which would be interesting) but I don't think you'll be able to map how well the cellular system is receiving from you.
Which is most often the limiting factor.
The base station is transmitting at 50-100 watts ERP, but your handset (modem) is transmitting at less than a watt.
Sure the base station has pretty efficient recieve antennas, possibly with tower mounted pre-amps, but if it can't see your signal, it can't do much with it.
And a signal path needs to work in both directions to be able to do something useful with it.
By making one up?
What if the thief put added his own money (ID, whatever) to your wallet before you stole it back?
/devil's advocate
I've noticed this more often on the reality shows (when I catch glimpses on talk soup), the reality stars are constantly doing that, replacing the wrong word for the word they mean.
What is a person that suffers from this linguistical malady called? There must be a more clinical and less pejorative term than 'idiot.'
In the case of "reality" shows and daytime talk TV, I expect there is no more accurate word than idiot.
Who cares about pejorative? The truth hurts.
My Guess:
you either look like someone they have a specific interest in, or your name is similar to (or being used by) someone that they have a specific interest in.
Or the dice landed wrong for you that day.
Just because things have moved so far away from the way it's supposed to work, doesn't mean that I am wrong to get upset that they aren't even trying to do what they are supposed to be doing.
Umm... you do realize that elections are generally held every year in most municipalities? (And certainly every two years everywhere in the U.S.) .....
It's a sad fact in the U.S. that so many people only show up to vote in Presidential elections every 4 years. There are a lot of local offices that might have a lot more direct impact on your life or your community which are also a critical part of the government.
It's an equally sad fact that voter turnout is declining rapidly here in Canada as well.
I place a portion of the blame on the un-inspiring selection of candidates and their ideas.
And of course the lazy-assed public deserves their share of the blame as well.
Really, how hard is it to show up and mark an X once in a while
And, yes, when I said every 4 years, I was referring to any specific office, not the entire government apparatus in all it's myriad permutations.
... thought he could get away with murder because he was smart and the police is dumb, they must be because they ain't him.
Actually, that seems to be the mindset of most criminals.
Which ultimately makes the police's job easier.
The fact that some of it once belonged to you (even if only on paper) does not entitle you to a stake in deciding how it is used.
Actually, you do.
Every 4 years, at the ballot box.
At least you get to say who you want making those proxy decisions on your behalf.
It's not like no one has thought about what might go wrong with a plan like this in the past.
And one last thing I wonder about: Is humanity's fear of extraterrestrial intelligence based on humanity's own instinct of survival of the fittest?
I think we, as a species, may fear others because we have lived our entire history beating the hell out of each other over very minor (on a cosmological scale) differences.
Any aliens we encounter will be much more different from us than we are from each other.
Therefore, we as a species fear that those so much different and more powerful (they got here before we got there, right?) will be belligerent (as we are) because of those differences.
Thank you.
I am a bit disappointed that I had to scroll this far down for someone to make this point.
There are lots of reasons to not want everybody to know what you do, yet it not be something that "you shouldn't be doing"
The majority of PS3 owners don't know or care about these things. They bought the console to play games and/or bluray movies and as long as it does that they are happy.
And what if that changes, because Sony wants it to?
As has already been stated, what happens when the PS4 comes out, and sales aren't as hot as Sony likes? What happens when the new version of a game comes out? Will the old one loose features? Or even keep working?
What happens if Sony fucks up (again) a firmware update and bricks a random number of consoles?
What happens Sony wants there to be a packet sniffer inside your firewall?
The last console I bought was a Super Pong.
In 1997.
New in box!
I suspect that even in the UK (which has a much higher population density than the US) the majority of people live more than 1km from an exchange ...and this assumes that the copper is relatively new and has clean connections ....
It's not distance from the CO building that matters, but from the DSLAM, which are easy to deploy in any densely populated area, and relatively cost effective.
The ~1.5 Km range is from one of these
As for your "no login" requirement, do you mean you want something like LDAP integration, or are you just planning to run the whole thing wide open with no access control?
From the submitter's post:
share documents easily with people from outside the team without any software installation or login required
Sounds like he wants the read-only users to have no login.
Obviously read/write users need to login. Otherwise how could you track changes properly?