" Yes, but from that point they have a short period of time to bring you to a judge where they must convince him why they want to keep you."
I'm certain that's a comforting thought to Jose Padilla who's been imprisoned since May without a trial, access to a lawyer, a telephone call, or one moment without bright lights shining down on him. Yes, the man has to learn how to sleep with the lights on in his tiny cell in a military brig. Anyone who's read 1984 will recognize the rooms with the brights always on with no windows as belonging to the Ministry of Love. I've got news for you; our rights have been eroding for some time, and Sept 11 gave the resident president all the power he needed to bring about a landslide. I hope to God there's a major backlash and soon, or there won't be much left of this country for our children. They'll have to read about it in books, so long as the books they're reading don't make the government suspicious. Perhaps my children will one day turn me in to the FBI for being unamerican.
"You want to do more, you pay more. Simple as that."
I do pay more; about two and a half times what regular home users pay. And if they place this silly cap on my connection, then I'll start bugging Covad to get off their butts and start bringing SDSL to my area.
So then my ISP should decide what is and is not ok for me to download? One of the major problems with caps like this is content restriction; the idea that the ISP decides what content the user may or may not view. Sure, it doesn't stop you from looking at most web pages, but forget running that webcam; you can't afford it. Personally, I have a 3.5mbps download speed cap (business cable). Now just how in the hell am I supposed to get any use out of that? That's about what, 12 seconds at my peek bandwidth? Actually, not even that as I've clocked it at upwards of 4mbps.
Now, that's not to say that I'm running the thing at 3mbit all the time, in fact I'm rarely up over 1mbps for very long as I don't do a ton of downloading. My problem is that I move tons of data back and forth between 3 different locations other than home; mainly databases and.iso's for a diagnostic disc I'm developing. What ends up happening is that I can run as much as 3GB per day in either direction with completely legitimate traffic. Caps on the system (which might only affect regular comcast subscribers) would effectively kill my work, or force me onto something else like satellite; something I'd hate to mess with.
As for your claim about the infrastructure not being there; that's ridiculous. The infrastructure is there, it's just that much of it isn't turned on. All that fibre laid in the late 90's, and more than half of it dark? The problem here is that no one is willing to put some extra effort in for their customers. I can understand a small ISP being loathe to throw tons of money into lighting up fibre, but Comcast easily has the resources and the money to light up tons of it, thereby making traffic across their network MUCH cheaper. Now that they own much of the broadband market in the US, perhaps their revenue-saving ideas should be geared towards reducing the costs of intra-network traffic between Comcast subscribers, instead of pissing off those who pay them money each month. If Comcast was hurting so bad because of the so-called bandwidth hogs, how on Earth did they manage to buy out so much of US broadband? Is it Enron accounting or corporate greed? Because something just doesn't add up here.
"If the government was to let the free market allocate the spectrum, an entire new universe of wireless network services could become available"
And they'd all conflict with one another. Company A would blame it on company B's product interferring and vice versa. One thing companies are not very good at is agreeing with one another. Therefore, a free market with a small, but necessary regulation is what we have. As for the UHF stations, you simply blink them out of existence? Far be it from them to broadcast their signals (read: be in business) if it causes static in your call to Aunt Martha, so you'd basically have to wipe them out to bring on your new 'universe'.
Does the Federal government do a lot of messed up stuff? Absolutely. Is dividing up the spectrum in such a way as to ensure the quality of each signal one of those messed up things? Well, I don't think it is, but why don't you ask whales what happens when you let just anyone start tossing around any signal they like.
"I think this article [msn.com] does a great job of explaining why Harry Potter is a fraud. "
You mean aside from the fact that he's a wizard learning how to use magic at a magic school at which he arrived via a mythical train platform (9 3/4) that requires you to walk through walls?
Come on, it's a fun little entertaining story; lighten up.;)
"Way I see it, He had the plan, every atomic and particle collision, beginning to end already set and then went "GO!""
Which begs the question, if you know the location and velocity of every single particle in the universe at a given moment in time, all the forces acting upon each of them, and all the laws governing matter and energy, could you not predict as far into the future as you like? How about figuring out the past?
If this is so, then do we have free will, or is every single particle in our bodies simply acting according to the laws of physics based on the forces acting upon them? Let the debate begin...
"I believe that God created the Heavens, Earth, and everything else. Life then evolved into what it is now. There is evidence of evolution all around us but there is no concrete evidence that proves or disproves creation."
Now why not take this one step further and say, "I believe that God created the energy of the universe and the laws of physics, and that since the Big Bang, things have evolved as they may." At that point, I don't think you'll have very many (if any) people arguing with you, especially physicists. Who can argue what caused the energy of the universe to come into being? And it still preserves the creationist part of you that believes everything was created by God. In this view, what makes up everything was created by God, but it's specific configuration is the result of evolutionary changes throughout billions of years. I think if creationists were to retreat to this point (instead of advocating hardline "if you see it, God made it just like it is" ideas), there would be much less of a debate, and yet creationism as a whole would be preserved. I'm just curious on your perspective on this; certainly not looking for a flamewar by any regards.
Considering the fact that bacteria can survive in boiling-hot acid, I'm not entirely certain that your hand-washing habits have a significant effect on the bacterial population of our planet. That being said, natural selection makes it quite clear that if you kill off all the bacteria you can with one drug, the ones that are left are resistant to it. For any given substance, there can and will be some form of life that not only survives in it, but thrives in it. It's simply a fact of life and a part of the game we live every day.
"As opposed to what it'll cost me to get my data back should the system be hosed in a non-RAID configuration..."
Actually, if you use 2k or XP on NTFS, there are lovely tools for recovering data should the drive take a dump. In all honesty, if it's important enough to require a second drive, it's important enough to be backed up regularly on tapes or (better yet) CD-RW's. A second drive won't help you if you encounter a viral infection or accidentally delete needed things; whereas a regular schedule of backups to a remote medium will protect you from almost anything. Since most people already have a CD-RW (commonly preinstalled on newer systems), the costs is only that of the CD-RW discs themselves, which are quite cheap.
One other thing...
"I'm thinking of doing a RAID-1"
RAID-1 would be a mirror, not a stripe. A stripped array wouldn't protect your data at all, only make I/O operations faster. On that note, RAID-1 (mirroring) will also somewhat improve read operation speed, as it'll read from both, but won't affect writes.
"does it even make sense not to install drives in pairs with RAID/0 mirroring?"
Well, in all honesty, that statement doesn't make much sense as is.;)
RAID-0 is striping, meaning there's no redundancy. RAID-1 is what you're looking for; that's mirroring. As for your question, it makes sense if you have valuable data and need maximum uptime to run a RAID-1 array. Extra costs are somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 for the card and the extra drive, unless you go el-ultracheapo, in which case you probably don't care anyway.
The short answer is for the vast majority of home users, it doesn't make sense. For anyone running a home office, it should be one of a couple different backup methods, as it only guards against physical failure.
"supposedly designed with DOS attacks etc... in mind" "it apparently suffered from/. effect"
So it handles DoS's, just not very well?:)
I hopped in with the rest of the/. crowd after 0.5, and even now it's not the least bit of a practical solution. Look at the usability for the non-technical community. Do you really think your average Kazaa user can just hop on over to Freenet and have the slightest clue what to do? From all I've seen so far, Freenet is much like how the early WWW was (in late 80's early 90's); hard to navigate, tough to find something unless you know what you're looking for. When there's a fast, reliable search engine that's easy to use, then Freenet will be close to ready. When there's no more data lose on the network, then it will be just about complete. When it's much, much faster (takes upwards of 3 or 4 minutes for a freesite sometimes), then and only then will it be a replacement. Until then, we best hope the research yields usable results for the kazaa/gnutella developers.
Is Microsoft Paint. Not only does it start quickly and have low overhead (unlike some other graphics programs *cough*Maya*cough* *cough*Lightwave*cough*), but just look at all the features! With MSPaint, you can draw straight lines, curvy lines, make them different colors, or even add text! It's even got something that lets you fill in big areas in seconds with a single color, and it allows you to zoom up to like 8x!
I mean, holy shit; with all that, how can you go wrong?
"It is my understanding that last summer ('01) the geographical North Pole was open water."
Indeed, Santa lost 3 reindeer and threatened to "sue the sh*t out of the motherf*cking c*cksuckers who f*cked up the godd*mn ice cap."
With the workshop flooded and a good portion of the reindeer out of commission, looks like parents might actually have to go out and spend money this year. Sorry, folks, now get movin'.
And all this time, I figured that cheap property I bought just east of the San Andreas fault line would be beach-front property in an unpredictable amount of time due to a catastrophic earthquake. Now I find out that it's not only going to happen within my lifetime, but in a predictable fashion and due to human influence? Amazing...
I suppose this is how one feels after seeing one's lottery number called on TV! Yahoooo!
"...and if there is no shift, what then? Who are you going to prosecute? God Allmighty?:)"
I'll lobby your congresscritters of course. Obviously, if my business model isn't working, it HAS to be the fault of those dirty rotten hackers/file traders/terrorists/communists/pick-whatever-group- you-like's.
With problems like this, legislation should always be the solution.
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" Yes, but from that point they have a short period of time to bring you to a judge where they must convince him why they want to keep you."
I'm certain that's a comforting thought to Jose Padilla who's been imprisoned since May without a trial, access to a lawyer, a telephone call, or one moment without bright lights shining down on him. Yes, the man has to learn how to sleep with the lights on in his tiny cell in a military brig. Anyone who's read 1984 will recognize the rooms with the brights always on with no windows as belonging to the Ministry of Love. I've got news for you; our rights have been eroding for some time, and Sept 11 gave the resident president all the power he needed to bring about a landslide. I hope to God there's a major backlash and soon, or there won't be much left of this country for our children. They'll have to read about it in books, so long as the books they're reading don't make the government suspicious. Perhaps my children will one day turn me in to the FBI for being unamerican.
Alright, that's it; Vulcans are no longer allowed to post on /.
;)
You all just have no sense of humor
"What operating system were they running?"
/.
:(
Quake-based OS, and their web server's been fragged by
Too many users... blah blah blah
Probable cause: http://www.slashdot.org
Try again in a few seconds...
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"Sorry , I would show you but that would volatile the DMCA...."
Sounds like Fight Club...
"The first rule of DMCA is you do not talk about DMCA.
The Second rule of DMCA is you do not talk about..."
"Please, Deep Blue is not AI, chess is a limited (Score:4, Troll)"
They modding up for trolling now? Uh Oh..
"You want to do more, you pay more. Simple as that."
I do pay more; about two and a half times what regular home users pay. And if they place this silly cap on my connection, then I'll start bugging Covad to get off their butts and start bringing SDSL to my area.
So then my ISP should decide what is and is not ok for me to download? One of the major problems with caps like this is content restriction; the idea that the ISP decides what content the user may or may not view. Sure, it doesn't stop you from looking at most web pages, but forget running that webcam; you can't afford it. Personally, I have a 3.5mbps download speed cap (business cable). Now just how in the hell am I supposed to get any use out of that? That's about what, 12 seconds at my peek bandwidth? Actually, not even that as I've clocked it at upwards of 4mbps.
.iso's for a diagnostic disc I'm developing. What ends up happening is that I can run as much as 3GB per day in either direction with completely legitimate traffic. Caps on the system (which might only affect regular comcast subscribers) would effectively kill my work, or force me onto something else like satellite; something I'd hate to mess with.
Now, that's not to say that I'm running the thing at 3mbit all the time, in fact I'm rarely up over 1mbps for very long as I don't do a ton of downloading. My problem is that I move tons of data back and forth between 3 different locations other than home; mainly databases and
As for your claim about the infrastructure not being there; that's ridiculous. The infrastructure is there, it's just that much of it isn't turned on. All that fibre laid in the late 90's, and more than half of it dark? The problem here is that no one is willing to put some extra effort in for their customers. I can understand a small ISP being loathe to throw tons of money into lighting up fibre, but Comcast easily has the resources and the money to light up tons of it, thereby making traffic across their network MUCH cheaper. Now that they own much of the broadband market in the US, perhaps their revenue-saving ideas should be geared towards reducing the costs of intra-network traffic between Comcast subscribers, instead of pissing off those who pay them money each month. If Comcast was hurting so bad because of the so-called bandwidth hogs, how on Earth did they manage to buy out so much of US broadband? Is it Enron accounting or corporate greed? Because something just doesn't add up here.
"If the government was to let the free market allocate the spectrum, an entire new universe of wireless network services could become available"
And they'd all conflict with one another. Company A would blame it on company B's product interferring and vice versa. One thing companies are not very good at is agreeing with one another. Therefore, a free market with a small, but necessary regulation is what we have. As for the UHF stations, you simply blink them out of existence? Far be it from them to broadcast their signals (read: be in business) if it causes static in your call to Aunt Martha, so you'd basically have to wipe them out to bring on your new 'universe'.
Does the Federal government do a lot of messed up stuff? Absolutely. Is dividing up the spectrum in such a way as to ensure the quality of each signal one of those messed up things? Well, I don't think it is, but why don't you ask whales what happens when you let just anyone start tossing around any signal they like.
"I think this article [msn.com] does a great job of explaining why Harry Potter is a fraud. "
;)
You mean aside from the fact that he's a wizard learning how to use magic at a magic school at which he arrived via a mythical train platform (9 3/4) that requires you to walk through walls?
Come on, it's a fun little entertaining story; lighten up.
You really want a 2 foot microwave antenna broadcasting right next to your head?
"Way I see it, He had the plan, every atomic and particle collision, beginning to end already set and then went "GO!""
Which begs the question, if you know the location and velocity of every single particle in the universe at a given moment in time, all the forces acting upon each of them, and all the laws governing matter and energy, could you not predict as far into the future as you like? How about figuring out the past?
If this is so, then do we have free will, or is every single particle in our bodies simply acting according to the laws of physics based on the forces acting upon them? Let the debate begin...
"These bacteriophage (or phage for short) can sometimes be used as treatment for bacterial infection."
Oh no, not The Phage! The Vidiians will harvest our organs; please, not the phage!
"I believe that God created the Heavens, Earth, and everything else. Life then evolved into what it is now. There is evidence of evolution all around us but there is no concrete evidence that proves or disproves creation."
Now why not take this one step further and say, "I believe that God created the energy of the universe and the laws of physics, and that since the Big Bang, things have evolved as they may." At that point, I don't think you'll have very many (if any) people arguing with you, especially physicists. Who can argue what caused the energy of the universe to come into being? And it still preserves the creationist part of you that believes everything was created by God. In this view, what makes up everything was created by God, but it's specific configuration is the result of evolutionary changes throughout billions of years. I think if creationists were to retreat to this point (instead of advocating hardline "if you see it, God made it just like it is" ideas), there would be much less of a debate, and yet creationism as a whole would be preserved. I'm just curious on your perspective on this; certainly not looking for a flamewar by any regards.
Considering the fact that bacteria can survive in boiling-hot acid, I'm not entirely certain that your hand-washing habits have a significant effect on the bacterial population of our planet. That being said, natural selection makes it quite clear that if you kill off all the bacteria you can with one drug, the ones that are left are resistant to it. For any given substance, there can and will be some form of life that not only survives in it, but thrives in it. It's simply a fact of life and a part of the game we live every day.
"As opposed to what it'll cost me to get my data back should the system be hosed in a non-RAID configuration..."
Actually, if you use 2k or XP on NTFS, there are lovely tools for recovering data should the drive take a dump. In all honesty, if it's important enough to require a second drive, it's important enough to be backed up regularly on tapes or (better yet) CD-RW's. A second drive won't help you if you encounter a viral infection or accidentally delete needed things; whereas a regular schedule of backups to a remote medium will protect you from almost anything. Since most people already have a CD-RW (commonly preinstalled on newer systems), the costs is only that of the CD-RW discs themselves, which are quite cheap.
One other thing...
"I'm thinking of doing a RAID-1"
RAID-1 would be a mirror, not a stripe. A stripped array wouldn't protect your data at all, only make I/O operations faster. On that note, RAID-1 (mirroring) will also somewhat improve read operation speed, as it'll read from both, but won't affect writes.
"does it even make sense not to install drives in pairs with RAID/0 mirroring?"
;)
Well, in all honesty, that statement doesn't make much sense as is.
RAID-0 is striping, meaning there's no redundancy. RAID-1 is what you're looking for; that's mirroring. As for your question, it makes sense if you have valuable data and need maximum uptime to run a RAID-1 array. Extra costs are somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 for the card and the extra drive, unless you go el-ultracheapo, in which case you probably don't care anyway.
The short answer is for the vast majority of home users, it doesn't make sense. For anyone running a home office, it should be one of a couple different backup methods, as it only guards against physical failure.
Not bad slashdot, only missed the boat by 2 months this time. The Register has been following this for a good long while now.
"supposedly designed with DOS attacks etc... in mind" /. effect"
:)
/. crowd after 0.5, and even now it's not the least bit of a practical solution. Look at the usability for the non-technical community. Do you really think your average Kazaa user can just hop on over to Freenet and have the slightest clue what to do? From all I've seen so far, Freenet is much like how the early WWW was (in late 80's early 90's); hard to navigate, tough to find something unless you know what you're looking for. When there's a fast, reliable search engine that's easy to use, then Freenet will be close to ready. When there's no more data lose on the network, then it will be just about complete. When it's much, much faster (takes upwards of 3 or 4 minutes for a freesite sometimes), then and only then will it be a replacement. Until then, we best hope the research yields usable results for the kazaa/gnutella developers.
"it apparently suffered from
So it handles DoS's, just not very well?
I hopped in with the rest of the
Is Microsoft Paint. Not only does it start quickly and have low overhead (unlike some other graphics programs *cough*Maya*cough* *cough*Lightwave*cough*), but just look at all the features! With MSPaint, you can draw straight lines, curvy lines, make them different colors, or even add text! It's even got something that lets you fill in big areas in seconds with a single color, and it allows you to zoom up to like 8x!
I mean, holy shit; with all that, how can you go wrong?
"It is my understanding that last summer ('01) the geographical North Pole was open water."
Indeed, Santa lost 3 reindeer and threatened to "sue the sh*t out of the motherf*cking c*cksuckers who f*cked up the godd*mn ice cap."
With the workshop flooded and a good portion of the reindeer out of commission, looks like parents might actually have to go out and spend money this year. Sorry, folks, now get movin'.
And all this time, I figured that cheap property I bought just east of the San Andreas fault line would be beach-front property in an unpredictable amount of time due to a catastrophic earthquake. Now I find out that it's not only going to happen within my lifetime, but in a predictable fashion and due to human influence? Amazing...
I suppose this is how one feels after seeing one's lottery number called on TV! Yahoooo!
Polar ice caps?
We don't need no steenking polar ice caps...
" ...and if there is no shift, what then? :)"
- you-like's.
Who are you going to prosecute? God Allmighty?
I'll lobby your congresscritters of course. Obviously, if my business model isn't working, it HAS to be the fault of those dirty rotten hackers/file traders/terrorists/communists/pick-whatever-group
With problems like this, legislation should always be the solution.
1. Buy 10,000 compasses
2. Scratch out N, S, E, W
3. Replace with (in same order) S, N, W, E
4. Sell on eBay
5. Profit!!!