Good call: I have an iopener hacked into an mp3 player, and the 30~ sec boot is a bitch. However, I think alot of that time is spent waiting for slow hardware to start X and various session programs.
Speeding up boot would be very welcome, but I wonder whether there are any spare cycles to harvest: remember that parallelizing tasks only speeds them up if they need different resources.
Playing the devil's advocate, H-2 could -> H + Neutron, if you whacked it with a bit of energy. It's actually not that stupid an assertion: To get fusion, you want
E_0 + 2H-2 -> E_1 + He, where (E_1 > E_0).
Since his plasma is at low pressure and temperature and E_0 is only rarely high enough to overcome repulsion (I'm guessing this is the obstacle), so this reaction is rare. Why couldn't the same collision be
E_0 + 2H-2 -> E_2 + H-1 + H-2 + N, where (E_2 E_0)
? Here we're taking kinetic energy and breaking the proton-neutron bond.
To figure out how likely either of these reactions are, you need to look at the energy needed to acheive fusion vs cleaving off the neutron.
I always thought of this ass the particle getting larger: I thought a bose-einstein condensate was when the particles in a gas started overlapping with each other.
An interesting side-effect would be that the size of the chamber limits the temperature. Perhaps someone with access to the constants involved could calculate what size (ie delta x) 9 nanokelvin represents?
wireless trackman fx. Best input device I've ever used. I tend to not use pointer that much, so I change the battery _perhaps_ twice a year. likely less than that. Best $40 bucks I ever spent.
Never did get the adverised scroll functionality woking tho, so I while the thing has four buttons, X sees only three.
Before that, I tried the optical thumb trackball they have... talk about sore hands. I guess some people's thumbs go in/out easier, but my thumb has a much easier time working the buttons. Returned that sucker to the store the same day.
True. But there is a large difference between all countries and many countries. While I would choose the US over, say, most of the third world, Canada/US clearly goes the other way, as does Europe/US.
only single people will be working
That wasn't the assertion (and if you read it that way my writing skills are going down-hill). Rather, the assertion was that aliens have a more positive net effect on the economy than the population average.
Their lower likelyhood of having/bringing children (thus contributing to the school system without using it) was cited as one cause, but a very minor point, and one in retrospect appears to have detracted from my point. Even if they have children, they still remain net positives as long as they are paying enough taxes to cover their costs.
doesn't qualify you for H1B
Are you deliberately trying to misinterpret me? I never implied that it did. However, many schools help their graduates, both domestic and foreign, find jobs. The employer requests a visa for you.
In general, you seem fixated on foreigners flocking to these shores to spawn like rabbits. I assure you: few people consider neither marriage nor children to be acceptable ways to achieve permanent residency. At least among the people I meet.
If you are offered a fun job in a far-away country, you are more likely to take it if you are single, than if you need to bring along spouse and shorts.
Likewise, taking the risk to go to a country with the intent of finding a job while there, or going to school and staying of afterwards, are both activities I'd judge more likely for the single person.
If you are paid in a different country, then that money is hard for the US to get their hands on.
However, if you file taxes in the US, you are required to estimate the fraction of time spent in the state and are taxed on that fraction of the income. At least that's how I read the tax forms.
suprise! other coutries also require almost-impossible-to-get visas to work there. Even for americans.
As someone currently trying to decide on which of my feet to put this particular shoe, this fills me with a certain schadenfreude (amazing that this word seems not to exist in english)
you do realise that everyone who works in the US (regardless of where they LIVE) pays taxes in the US.
A more accurate statement is that aliens give up their ability to vote or get government support for inelegibility for the draft, which is pretty much dismantled anyway. Many aliens are leaving significantly better social security nets behind when they come "visit".
So I think the US comes out WAY ahead on all aliens working inside its borders. Especially as the aliens are less likely to have children and more likely to be highly skilled, so they are pretty much always a net gain for the economy, both locally and nationally.
I would suggest you revisit some of those conceptions and think about how free markets tend to perform compared to protectionist markets, but I'm sure you were just being smarmy to make a point. Which I missed.
Are you saying that M$ and linux and all software IS under some implied warranty? That M$ is liable for security flaws?
Or is the liability only in what people percieve, and that since M$ is widely percieved to be chock-a-block with bugs, they are fine, while linux, which is percieved to be bullet proof, is a much greater risk to its developers? WHO is liable for community-developed software then? You can't go arresting society even if they are to blame...
Incidentally, this is why putting commercial off-the-shelf software in life-critical situations is a bad idea.
I was going to say something about Navy Warships and BSOD, but I'm not sure that was a critical system. Still, the ship had to be towed back to port, so maybe it was.
I thought that ATM was basically uncompetetive compared to gigabit ethernet, and that you could afford to overspecify an ethernet solution with wide-enough a margin so that you could provide reasonable QoS guarantees, and still have money left over for lunch, compared to the comparable ATM solution.
Most virii spread through user stupidity ("click on this executable" -- how many times will people fall for this?). So hold them accountable for virii they spread.
Schnier (sp) has been singing this song (from a corporate standpoint) for a while: the only way M$ will secure their products, and the only way companies will think about secure networks will be if they are held accountable for damage they cause.
He argues that security will be forced not by laws, but by insurance premiums. You (big corporation) are liable for propagating virii (civil claims of contributory negligence), thus take out liability insurance; Run an insecure OS, and you get higher premiums. Thus, you tolerate less shit from M$, and they have to shape up.
Notice that he isn't claiming that M$ will be held directly responsible (Would make as much sense as holding Cox responisible for local exploits in the kernel), but that companies with eqv. of ISO-9001 security practices will get lower premiums, and the choice of OS will factor into those premiums. So in order to remain attractive OS choice, pretty icons and talking paperclips will no longer suffice.
I wonder if Billg did sense a change in the wind towards something like this, and thus sent out his famous security above all else memo.
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nah.
Just tell them that the virus did it. If you make sure to run your firewall on an insecure OS, you can also claim that the virus ate your data, or that it was lost in your weekly reinstallation of said os.
heh. for once, a good excuse NOT to run a secure os.
Does anyone know how chicken wire is made? The best I could come up with grows it one strand at a time widthwise (ie, along the ground, given its eventual orientation).
I'm in the market for a cheap 100+GB drive. Given that I can get a 160GB for ~ $100, and a 100GB for about the same, and either capacity will do, can you give me any guidelines for what to buy, and what to stay away from?
For example, ever since the IBM fiasco, I've been leery of their drives, but I also just had a maxtor 20GB go bye-bye on me.
So I'm willing to pay a little bit more for data integrity: unfortunately I have no intuition of how much safety per buck the various manufacturers get me.
I suggested on/. a few years back to use this as a solution to webbugs in email. Of course, I was unaware of the RFC at the time. The idea is that if you restrict email readers to only read attached files, you make webbugs ineffective.
typically, there is a way for the sender to get onto the whitelist, without the recipient needing to take special action.
Alternatives are confiriming the email (respond with this specially crafted string as subject) or running some computationally expensive operation For example, postmasters of well adminstered machines may run a number factoring service: to prove that a non-whitelisted message isn't spam, they are willing to spend their computational resources to factor a largish number for you.
The idea for both of these is that the main difference between spam and legit mail is that a legit sender will have just a few recipients but many messages, and thus can afford a one-time-per-recipient hassle to get on a whitelist, while a spammer cannot.
Neither address distributed compromised senders, which is effectively a way for spammers to make others pay to get on whitelists. If whitelists become wide-spread, a worm-based mass-compromise is the only option left to spammers.
I want to like wily. Proportional fonts, funky window handling (like Oberon, back in the day)...
But each time I build it (about once a year), I find that I like nifty, but I need control keys, being able to use it without a mouse, fontification of code...
I've written a few emacs functions to mimick the column layout of wily, so I've got that aspect. I believe the users when they say you can get used or even addicted to mouse chording, but I like having control keys in muscle memory.
now, if only emacs-devel would get off their asses (not that I'm lifting a finger to help) and add Xrender support, I'd be happy as a hog in shit.
I guess the moral of the story is that it just isn't efficent to have backup power unless you HAVE to have backup power, in which case it is worth whatever people want to charge for it.
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Good call: I have an iopener hacked into an mp3 player, and the 30~ sec boot is a bitch. However, I think alot of that time is spent waiting for slow hardware to start X and various session programs.
Speeding up boot would be very welcome, but I wonder whether there are any spare cycles to harvest: remember that parallelizing tasks only speeds them up if they need different resources.
Playing the devil's advocate, H-2 could -> H + Neutron, if you whacked it with a bit of energy. It's actually not that stupid an assertion: To get fusion, you want
E_0 + 2H-2 -> E_1 + He, where (E_1 > E_0).
Since his plasma is at low pressure and temperature and E_0 is only rarely high enough to overcome repulsion (I'm guessing this is the obstacle), so this reaction is rare. Why couldn't the same collision be
E_0 + 2H-2 -> E_2 + H-1 + H-2 + N, where (E_2 E_0)
? Here we're taking kinetic energy and breaking the proton-neutron bond.
To figure out how likely either of these reactions are, you need to look at the energy needed to acheive fusion vs cleaving off the neutron.
I always thought of this ass the particle getting larger: I thought a bose-einstein condensate was when the particles in a gas started overlapping with each other.
An interesting side-effect would be that the size of the chamber limits the temperature. Perhaps someone with access to the constants involved could calculate what size (ie delta x) 9 nanokelvin represents?
wireless trackman fx. Best input device I've ever used. I tend to not use pointer that much, so I change the battery _perhaps_ twice a year. likely less than that. Best $40 bucks I ever spent.
Never did get the adverised scroll functionality woking tho, so I while the thing has four buttons, X sees only three.
Before that, I tried the optical thumb trackball they have... talk about sore hands. I guess some people's thumbs go in/out easier, but my thumb has a much easier time working the buttons. Returned that sucker to the store the same day.
a better place to raise your children
True. But there is a large difference between all countries and many countries. While I would choose the US over, say, most of the third world, Canada/US clearly goes the other way, as does Europe/US.
only single people will be working
That wasn't the assertion (and if you read it that way my writing skills are going down-hill). Rather, the assertion was that aliens have a more positive net effect on the economy than the population average.
Their lower likelyhood of having/bringing children (thus contributing to the school system without using it) was cited as one cause, but a very minor point, and one in retrospect appears to have detracted from my point. Even if they have children, they still remain net positives as long as they are paying enough taxes to cover their costs.
doesn't qualify you for H1B
Are you deliberately trying to misinterpret me? I never implied that it did. However, many schools help their graduates, both domestic and foreign, find jobs. The employer requests a visa for you.
In general, you seem fixated on foreigners flocking to these shores to spawn like rabbits. I assure you: few people consider neither marriage nor children to be acceptable ways to achieve permanent residency. At least among the people I meet.
... but with partial headers, so there is no way for me to figure out which of my friends has been compromised.
that's what gets me. Either don't bounce, or bounce with enough information to fix the problem.
If you are offered a fun job in a far-away country, you are more likely to take it if you are single, than if you need to bring along spouse and shorts.
Likewise, taking the risk to go to a country with the intent of finding a job while there, or going to school and staying of afterwards, are both activities I'd judge more likely for the single person.
If you are paid in a different country, then that money is hard for the US to get their hands on.
However, if you file taxes in the US, you are required to estimate the fraction of time spent in the state and are taxed on that fraction of the income. At least that's how I read the tax forms.
suprise! other coutries also require almost-impossible-to-get visas to work there. Even for americans.
As someone currently trying to decide on which of my feet to put this particular shoe, this fills me with a certain schadenfreude (amazing that this word seems not to exist in english)
erm.
you do realise that everyone who works in the US (regardless of where they LIVE) pays taxes in the US.
A more accurate statement is that aliens give up their ability to vote or get government support for inelegibility for the draft, which is pretty much dismantled anyway. Many aliens are leaving significantly better social security nets behind when they come "visit".
So I think the US comes out WAY ahead on all aliens working inside its borders. Especially as the aliens are less likely to have children and more likely to be highly skilled, so they are pretty much always a net gain for the economy, both locally and nationally.
I would suggest you revisit some of those conceptions and think about how free markets tend to perform compared to protectionist markets, but I'm sure you were just being smarmy to make a point. Which I missed.
I see you made it past my cow... you must be stronger than I thought.
Fantastic mooovie.
*blink*
Your _school_ uses a closed proprietary solution, rather than open standards?
Ouch!
I'm really confused now.
Are you saying that M$ and linux and all software IS under some implied warranty? That M$ is liable for security flaws?
Or is the liability only in what people percieve, and that since M$ is widely percieved to be chock-a-block with bugs, they are fine, while linux, which is percieved to be bullet proof, is a much greater risk to its developers? WHO is liable for community-developed software then? You can't go arresting society even if they are to blame...
Incidentally, this is why putting commercial off-the-shelf software in life-critical situations is a bad idea.
I was going to say something about Navy Warships and BSOD, but I'm not sure that was a critical system. Still, the ship had to be towed back to port, so maybe it was.
ever read any of the fine print on any software? "Makes no guarantee for suitability for any purpose..." or somesuch.
Cars come with both warrantees, implied fitness for purpose, AND with mandated safety requirements (such as not blowing up).
I thought that ATM was basically uncompetetive compared to gigabit ethernet, and that you could afford to overspecify an ethernet solution with wide-enough a margin so that you could provide reasonable QoS guarantees, and still have money left over for lunch, compared to the comparable ATM solution.
Not assertions, questions!
Most virii spread through user stupidity ("click on this executable" -- how many times will people fall for this?). So hold them accountable for virii they spread.
Schnier (sp) has been singing this song (from a corporate standpoint) for a while: the only way M$ will secure their products, and the only way companies will think about secure networks will be if they are held accountable for damage they cause.
He argues that security will be forced not by laws, but by insurance premiums. You (big corporation) are liable for propagating virii (civil claims of contributory negligence), thus take out liability insurance; Run an insecure OS, and you get higher premiums. Thus, you tolerate less shit from M$, and they have to shape up.
Notice that he isn't claiming that M$ will be held directly responsible (Would make as much sense as holding Cox responisible for local exploits in the kernel), but that companies with eqv. of ISO-9001 security practices will get lower premiums, and the choice of OS will factor into those premiums. So in order to remain attractive OS choice, pretty icons and talking paperclips will no longer suffice.
I wonder if Billg did sense a change in the wind towards something like this, and thus sent out his famous security above all else memo.
nah.
Just tell them that the virus did it. If you make sure to run your firewall on an insecure OS, you can also claim that the virus ate your data, or that it was lost in your weekly reinstallation of said os.
heh. for once, a good excuse NOT to run a secure os.
Does anyone know how chicken wire is made? The best I could come up with grows it one strand at a time widthwise (ie, along the ground, given its eventual orientation).
This just seems a bit slow.
I'm in the market for a cheap 100+GB drive. Given that I can get a 160GB for ~ $100, and a 100GB for about the same, and either capacity will do, can you give me any guidelines for what to buy, and what to stay away from?
For example, ever since the IBM fiasco, I've been leery of their drives, but I also just had a maxtor 20GB go bye-bye on me.
So I'm willing to pay a little bit more for data integrity: unfortunately I have no intuition of how much safety per buck the various manufacturers get me.
I suggested on /. a few years back to use this as a solution to webbugs in email. Of course, I was unaware of the RFC at the time. The idea is that if you restrict email readers to only read attached files, you make webbugs ineffective.
OT:
flutter away little butterfly... just flutter away.
I saw that again yesterday, after finding it on the net. Fantastic movie.
typically, there is a way for the sender to get onto the whitelist, without the recipient needing to take special action.
Alternatives are confiriming the email (respond with this specially crafted string as subject) or running some computationally expensive operation For example, postmasters of well adminstered machines may run a number factoring service: to prove that a non-whitelisted message isn't spam, they are willing to spend their computational resources to factor a largish number for you.
The idea for both of these is that the main difference between spam and legit mail is that a legit sender will have just a few recipients but many messages, and thus can afford a one-time-per-recipient hassle to get on a whitelist, while a spammer cannot.
Neither address distributed compromised senders, which is effectively a way for spammers to make others pay to get on whitelists. If whitelists become wide-spread, a worm-based mass-compromise is the only option left to spammers.
I want to like wily. Proportional fonts, funky window handling (like Oberon, back in the day)...
But each time I build it (about once a year), I find that I like nifty, but I need control keys, being able to use it without a mouse, fontification of code...
I've written a few emacs functions to mimick the column layout of wily, so I've got that aspect. I believe the users when they say you can get used or even addicted to mouse chording, but I like having control keys in muscle memory.
now, if only emacs-devel would get off their asses (not that I'm lifting a finger to help) and add Xrender support, I'd be happy as a hog in shit.
great links. Thanks.
I guess the moral of the story is that it just isn't efficent to have backup power unless you HAVE to have backup power, in which case it is worth whatever people want to charge for it.