When you designate capacity and use the name of a standard unit of volume, it is unreasonable to expect readers to know that they are using a non-standard definition of the measurement. "12 serving" would be acceptable. If the unit size is arbitrary, they should use a different unit name. You notice they specify mass of gold in "troy ounces", not just plain "ounces". To do otherwise would be deceptive, even if insiders are in on the fiction. "Economy" as a descriptor on a product package, is universally used to signify extra capacity, usually for a larger, but proportionally smaller, price. Except in cases of intentional deception, like this one, it never means lower payload. Whaddya know? I went back on topic!
I'm going to be charitable, and assume you don't think we have any evidence that there is intelligent (or any) life on Mars. Like you, I don't deny the possibility, any more than I deny the possiblilty that there really is an "energy vortex" near Sonoma, that charges rocks with its energy and gives people magic powers, or that placing furniture in the northeast corner of your house weighs down your "wealth corner" and keeps you from making money. The rational assumption, however, would be negative on all three of these ideas, pending actual evidence, and to discount the intelligence of anyone who allows his wishful thinking to guide his beliefs.
One thing that troubles me about this is their definition of that 1%. Is that the same 1% over the course of a month, or the course of a day?
When Slackware 8.1 is ready for prime time, I'll probably do it as an ISO. For 15 minutes, I'm going to be the biggest bandwidth user on the entire Eldorado Mountain Sprint Broadband Direct cell. The rest of the month, I use maybe 2 MB/day - 10Mb if I visit The Hun (no link - inappropriate content, don't you know). Does that make me one of the 1%? Remember. They're looking for excuses. If they're going to hold me down to 10Gb/month, like New Zealand, I can live with it. If they're going to ding me because I deviate from the mean for 15 minutes.... I'll... I'll... nevermind. I won't go back to dialup. I WON'T! I'll put up with it, and be a good little sheep.
I flipped the DirecTV to "Mick" instead of "Nick" and suddenly, my tv began showing my kids "Hot Shemales who love Goatsex - Part XVII", removed all my programming restrictions, tried to subscribe me to all the pay-per-views, and every time I tried to change the channel or turn off the TV, it came back.
If he's got time to do that, he's got time to open the case and reset the bios. That's why physical security is so important. They make systems that are watchdogged over the network, that send an alarm if the case is open, that have a key in nvram that is the crypto for the hard drives, which is reset by a bios reset, all this in case the site is physically penetrated. It just depends much protection you need, based on your environment and what you're protecting.
Oh, not at all. I would like to make the world a better place, but that's not the point. I would just like to do something mean, cruel, inhumane to them.
I've got the bandwidth. If we all set up something like this, maybe it'd hurt a little bit, and compromised systems will be slowed more, and maybe be noticed. /etc/services:1433 1433/tcp wormstomper #crapflood /etc/inetd.conf:wormstomper stream tcp nowait dd if=/dev/katz wormstomper
I'm glad to know why the log full of probes on 1433. I had found it was SQL, but i didn't know it was a new worm. Can't we track down these jerks privately, and give them blanket parties, ala Full Metal Jacket? They won't find any vulnerabilities in my systems, but the extra traffic on my network and cost in disk usage from the logs is as bad as spam. IANAS(I Am Not A Sadist), but I think I would experience actual pleasure in witnessing spammers and virus/worm writers suffering severe physical pain. I don't mean polite shadenfreude, but sick, sadistic glee. I'm just sick of their puerile crap.
In the real world, there are political relationships which dictate that he write the code the way they told him to, and make it work. He succeeded on both counts, and left his variable behind so anyone examining the code would understand what it was for. I hope he left in a full narrative comment explaining it. I've been in his boat, and took your approach. I raised the warning bells, was told I was wrong, I escalated the issue until it was understood and fixed. This made a few people in power angry, and one day after being called in to be thanked for my good work and told what a valuable asset I was to the team, I was told that I wasn't fitting in to the way they work, and fired. Now I work for smart people.
Do what your bosses tell you(customers are also bosses). Make their stupidest ideas look like gold. Document the necessary kludges (don't use the variablename "workAroundFuckups", but make it clear what it's for). Live long and prosper.
You're not going to have it the way the guys graduating in '99 did, with employers standing in line at your commencement. I hope you don't yet have family obligations, because the only thing you can do with this is get an IT job... ANY IT job that you are capable of doing and can keep body and soul together. Mind: I don't mean jump on the first one you find, unless it's really good. Hit job websites - especially dice... at least in fall 2000, dice was where the serious IT recruiting was going on. Be willing to relocate - ANYWHERE, and mean it. Try to get several good prospects on the table at one time, and take the best one (criteria - stability, pay, learning). Stay with the job until things pick up, and if it will help, move to a better one when the rise starts. You won't be the newbie when the big hiring starts again. You'll be a leader, and in a much better situation to exploit the next boom.
creating a uid with your standard throwaway data works fine. This doesn't. Here's what I got when I pasted the url into the service:
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If the NYT really wants to know that I'm a pterosexual zoroastrian from Moldova who makes flatulence for a living (1500 quatloos/second), they're welcome to the it.
been there, done that. quit worrying about it. I'm not hemos, cmdrtaco, jonkatz, or... well, ok, I am Timothy, but not on slashdot.
In fact, this alphabet26 guy is the first I can remember that isn't one of the above, so I guess there is some permeability. Nonetheless, submitting a nicely-presented article with good links, getting rejected, and then seeing essentially the same thing posted by an insider 40 minutes later would hurt my feelings, if I had any. High karma might give me an ego boost, but the crap(positive sense) I learn here is so useful, I can live with the silly power-madness of those in charge. As long as the service stays up, they can take credit for anything I bring to their attention, especially if it makes them feel good and inclined to keep the service up. Now, if I can just sell another 11 pints of blood, I can afford to subscribe.
I don't think any reasonable person can support Pinochet's evil. The phrase "relatively benign dictator" can make sense only in the sense that for a dictator, he was relatively benign. That doesn't mean he wasn't(isn't? Is he dead yet?) the scum of the earth.
I just checked, and mine aren't checked.
And yes, I am using my callsign as a username. Go ahead and look me up, and come by for a visit, if it means that much to you. Just make it a friendly visit, as my other president is Charlton Heston.
The springboard is available at Intel, and it uses an internal rechargeable LiON - 2h worth, so it won't suck your visor's batteries. It's funny, though, that at least for the Visors, unless you go to the top-end handheld, the modules cost more than the handheld... 269USD in this case (I probably should have bought a standalone GPS instead of the Magellan GPS Companion).
Internet options>"Advanced" tab>scroll to "Search from the address bar" radio button set, choose "Do not search from the address bar".
Note: Mine had been set back to "Just go to the most likely site".... I wonder which windows update did that.(yeah, yeah... I'm using my daughter's win2k box because I bought her a better monitor than mine)
Little magnets mounted on the spring, in little coils, changing the light path to the spring by their own movement? I like it. A huge field (huge=1cm**2) all making high-frequency AC, rectified and combined. DC with a blue-noise component. Unfortunately, at a working life under 24h, they'd be even less cost-effective than modern silicon cells.
I would expect that at that scale, the electrostatic attraction of even a single-electron imbalance would be stronger than gravity, and keep the balls from rolling or sliding.
I think I've had these for a long time. Whenever i'm working in a dark room by the light of the CRT and my wife suddenly flips the light switch , I jump.
I don't have the movie handy, but i seem to recall that Uncle Will in his brief appearance in #4 looks a lot like the Anakin spirit with Yoda and Obiwan at the end of #6. I don't remember Uncle Will and Aunt Beru called by their last name, but with the faces, I figured they were dad-side relatives.
Disclaimer: I don't have the movies memorized, and I'm not checking my facts against the dvd. I might be wrong. YMMV. AFAIK. IANAL. SNAFU. FUBAR. SOS. OK.
Everybody knows the havoc Carly leaves in her wake, and this just lets her kill two dinosaurs with one stone, so to speak. My hope is that somehow, The good basic infrastructure of the PA-RISC systems gets the Alpha processor, HP-UX dies an slow, painful death, then goes to hell, to be replaced by OSF/1(Digital UNIX(Tru64 UNIX)) or Linux, and the unit escapes before the rest goes away. It could happen. The test unit escaped, so you can still get a decent O-scope... why not the unix side?
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When you designate capacity and use the name of a standard unit of volume, it is unreasonable to expect readers to know that they are using a non-standard definition of the measurement. "12 serving" would be acceptable. If the unit size is arbitrary, they should use a different unit name. You notice they specify mass of gold in "troy ounces", not just plain "ounces". To do otherwise would be deceptive, even if insiders are in on the fiction.
"Economy" as a descriptor on a product package, is universally used to signify extra capacity, usually for a larger, but proportionally smaller, price. Except in cases of intentional deception, like this one, it never means lower payload. Whaddya know? I went back on topic!
I'm going to be charitable, and assume you don't think we have any evidence that there is intelligent (or any) life on Mars. Like you, I don't deny the possibility, any more than I deny the possiblilty that there really is an "energy vortex" near Sonoma, that charges rocks with its energy and gives people magic powers, or that placing furniture in the northeast corner of your house weighs down your "wealth corner" and keeps you from making money. The rational assumption, however, would be negative on all three of these ideas, pending actual evidence, and to discount the intelligence of anyone who allows his wishful thinking to guide his beliefs.
If those top 1% left, they could have 30% more
One thing that troubles me about this is their definition of that 1%. Is that the same 1% over the course of a month, or the course of a day? When Slackware 8.1 is ready for prime time, I'll probably do it as an ISO. For 15 minutes, I'm going to be the biggest bandwidth user on the entire Eldorado Mountain Sprint Broadband Direct cell. The rest of the month, I use maybe 2 MB/day - 10Mb if I visit The Hun (no link - inappropriate content, don't you know).
Does that make me one of the 1%? Remember. They're looking for excuses. If they're going to hold me down to 10Gb/month, like New Zealand, I can live with it. If they're going to ding me because I deviate from the mean for 15 minutes.... I'll... I'll... nevermind. I won't go back to dialup. I WON'T! I'll put up with it, and be a good little sheep.
More like...
I flipped the DirecTV to "Mick" instead of "Nick" and suddenly, my tv began showing my kids "Hot Shemales who love Goatsex - Part XVII", removed all my programming restrictions, tried to subscribe me to all the pay-per-views, and every time I tried to change the channel or turn off the TV, it came back.
tell the BIOS not to boot from a floppy
If he's got time to do that, he's got time to open the case and reset the bios. That's why physical security is so important. They make systems that are watchdogged over the network, that send an alarm if the case is open, that have a key in nvram that is the crypto for the hard drives, which is reset by a bios reset, all this in case the site is physically penetrated. It just depends much protection you need, based on your environment and what you're protecting.
Oh, not at all. I would like to make the world a better place, but that's not the point. I would just like to do something mean, cruel, inhumane to them.
I've got the bandwidth. If we all set up something like this, maybe it'd hurt a little bit, and compromised systems will be slowed more, and maybe be noticed.
/etc/services:1433 1433/tcp wormstomper #crapflood
/etc/inetd.conf:wormstomper stream tcp nowait dd if=/dev/katz wormstomper
I'm glad to know why the log full of probes on 1433. I had found it was SQL, but i didn't know it was a new worm.
Can't we track down these jerks privately, and give them blanket parties, ala Full Metal Jacket? They won't find any vulnerabilities in my systems, but the extra traffic on my network and cost in disk usage from the logs is as bad as spam.
IANAS(I Am Not A Sadist), but I think I would experience actual pleasure in witnessing spammers and virus/worm writers suffering severe physical pain. I don't mean polite shadenfreude, but sick, sadistic glee. I'm just sick of their puerile crap.
In the real world, there are political relationships which dictate that he write the code the way they told him to, and make it work. He succeeded on both counts, and left his variable behind so anyone examining the code would understand what it was for. I hope he left in a full narrative comment explaining it.
I've been in his boat, and took your approach. I raised the warning bells, was told I was wrong, I escalated the issue until it was understood and fixed. This made a few people in power angry, and one day after being called in to be thanked for my good work and told what a valuable asset I was to the team, I was told that I wasn't fitting in to the way they work, and fired. Now I work for smart people.
Do what your bosses tell you(customers are also bosses). Make their stupidest ideas look like gold. Document the necessary kludges (don't use the variablename "workAroundFuckups", but make it clear what it's for). Live long and prosper.
You're not going to have it the way the guys graduating in '99 did, with employers standing in line at your commencement.
I hope you don't yet have family obligations, because the only thing you can do with this is get an IT job... ANY IT job that you are capable of doing and can keep body and soul together. Mind: I don't mean jump on the first one you find, unless it's really good. Hit job websites - especially dice... at least in fall 2000, dice was where the serious IT recruiting was going on. Be willing to relocate - ANYWHERE, and mean it. Try to get several good prospects on the table at one time, and take the best one (criteria - stability, pay, learning).
Stay with the job until things pick up, and if it will help, move to a better one when the rise starts. You won't be the newbie when the big hiring starts again. You'll be a leader, and in a much better situation to exploit the next boom.
creating a uid with your standard throwaway data works fine.
This doesn't.
Here's what I got when I pasted the url into the service:
Welcome to The New York Times on the Web!
For full access to our site, please complete this simple registration form.
As a member, you'll enjoy:
SaharaYemenYugoslaviaZaireZambiaZimbabwe
Household Income Range: Industry in which you work:
----Select One---- Less than $20,000 $20K to $29,999 $30K to $39,999 $40K to $49,999 $50K to $59,999 $60K to $69,999 $70K to $79,999 $80K to $89,999 $90K to $99,999 $100K to $149,999 $150K or more ----Select One---- Accounting Agriculture Architecture/Design Arts/Entertainment Wholesale Homemaker Student Retired Other
Job Title: Job Function:
----Select One---- Accountant/Auditor Administrative Assistant Analyst Artist/Musician/Actor/Entertainer Architect Associate Writer/Editor Professional Services Purchasing Sales Skilled Labor Other
Please select your usage of The New York Times newspaper:
----Select One---- I Subscribe I Read it Regularly But Don't Subscribe I Read it Occasionally But Don't Subscribe I Rarely or Never Read it
Today's Headlines
The day's top headlines delivered every day in a customized newsletter (see sample). @Times - Inside NYTimes.com
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If the NYT really wants to know that I'm a pterosexual zoroastrian from Moldova who makes flatulence for a living (1500 quatloos/second), they're welcome to the it.
Damn! This is going to cost me a karma point!
been there, done that. quit worrying about it. ... well, ok, I am Timothy, but not on slashdot.
In fact, this alphabet26 guy is the first I can remember that isn't one of the above, so I guess there is some permeability.
I'm not hemos, cmdrtaco, jonkatz, or
Nonetheless, submitting a nicely-presented article with good links, getting rejected, and then seeing essentially the same thing posted by an insider 40 minutes later would hurt my feelings, if I had any.
High karma might give me an ego boost, but the crap(positive sense) I learn here is so useful, I can live with the silly power-madness of those in charge. As long as the service stays up, they can take credit for anything I bring to their attention, especially if it makes them feel good and inclined to keep the service up.
Now, if I can just sell another 11 pints of blood, I can afford to subscribe.
I don't think any reasonable person can support Pinochet's evil.
The phrase "relatively benign dictator" can make sense only in the sense that for a dictator, he was relatively benign. That doesn't mean he wasn't(isn't? Is he dead yet?) the scum of the earth.
I just checked, and mine aren't checked. And yes, I am using my callsign as a username. Go ahead and look me up, and come by for a visit, if it means that much to you. Just make it a friendly visit, as my other president is Charlton Heston.
The springboard is available at Intel, and it uses an internal rechargeable LiON - 2h worth, so it won't suck your visor's batteries.
It's funny, though, that at least for the Visors, unless you go to the top-end handheld, the modules cost more than the handheld... 269USD in this case (I probably should have bought a standalone GPS instead of the Magellan GPS Companion).
Note: Mine had been set back to "Just go to the most likely site".... I wonder which windows update did that.(yeah, yeah... I'm using my daughter's win2k box because I bought her a better monitor than mine)
At the molecular scale, there is no difference between chemistry and physics. That's what chemistry is - moving around atoms and groups thereof.
Little magnets mounted on the spring, in little coils, changing the light path to the spring by their own movement? I like it. A huge field (huge=1cm**2) all making high-frequency AC, rectified and combined. DC with a blue-noise component.
Unfortunately, at a working life under 24h, they'd be even less cost-effective than modern silicon cells.
I would expect that at that scale, the electrostatic attraction of even a single-electron imbalance would be stronger than gravity, and keep the balls from rolling or sliding.
I think I've had these for a long time. Whenever i'm working in a dark room by the light of the CRT and my wife suddenly flips the light switch , I jump.
I don't have the movie handy, but i seem to recall that Uncle Will in his brief appearance in #4 looks a lot like the Anakin spirit with Yoda and Obiwan at the end of #6. I don't remember Uncle Will and Aunt Beru called by their last name, but with the faces, I figured they were dad-side relatives.
Disclaimer: I don't have the movies memorized, and I'm not checking my facts against the dvd. I might be wrong. YMMV. AFAIK. IANAL. SNAFU. FUBAR. SOS. OK.
What about professional in a 3rd world country
.pro.fr, nor any of the other third-world contries, do they? I think it's just for .pro.us.
I don't think RegistryPro controls
Everybody knows the havoc Carly leaves in her wake, and this just lets her kill two dinosaurs with one stone, so to speak.
My hope is that somehow, The good basic infrastructure of the PA-RISC systems gets the Alpha processor, HP-UX dies an slow, painful death, then goes to hell, to be replaced by OSF/1(Digital UNIX(Tru64 UNIX)) or Linux, and the unit escapes before the rest goes away.
It could happen. The test unit escaped, so you can still get a decent O-scope... why not the unix side?
Since when does competition, feigned or otherwise,
Real competition does help keep prices low. The point was that this is only the appearance of competition.
Slartibartfast: Hurry, or you'll be late.
Arthur:Late? Late how?
Slartibartfast:Late, as in "The late Dentarthurdent".
(I know it's not perfect, but it's been ~20y since I read it.)