No prob, seems like those with mod points are having a similar conversation.
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That's two whole sets of mod-points poured into my silly one-liner...
C'mon people - it's a politics flamewar! You know what you should be doing with those mod-points - find people expressing their views in a rational, cohesive and polite fashion and mod them to '-1 Troll'!
Alright, I'll turn the sarcasm off, and give a straight reply - I agree with you 100%, I'm sick of hearing it too. I think Al Gore is great (has anyone used the term 'Al Gore-some' before?), and of course he never actually claimed to invent the internet.
But c'mon, insisting that he did actually invent the internet should have the been the tip off. It was a clear joke, and given the parent's attempt at a rhetorical question, I couldn't help making it. I actually drafted a disclaimer in the original post saying that I hated the meme but had to use it, then I thought better of it, since if your disclaimer is longer than the joke, something is wrong.
Could a valid and perfect ruler not be made in the form of 0,1,3,6,10,15,21,28,36,etc to infinity?
No. Because the ruler looks at the distances between ALL the various makes on it. So in your example, it's invalid because the distance between 0 and 3 is 3 and the distance between 3 and 6 is 3. (Same issues with 0,6 and 15,21, etc.) You're aiming to find something where no two points are the same distance apart, not just adjacent points.
That said, I'm just going off the wikipedia article myself too, so if someone who knows better than me cares to comment, feel free to jump in.
There's more to economic calculations than replacement cost. Even assuming everything is backed up, changing the computer system that you store your personal life on is a major hassle.
But that's what you were suggesting doing by getting a cheap laptop to travel with. At least with my suggestion, you don't have to set yourself up again if you don't have your laptop confiscated.
Security people (properly trained ones, anyway)
Now I know you haven't flown anywhere lately. All I see at US airports by way of security are TSA security drones. And they're not exactly rocket surgeons.
But you are right about one's laptop getting seized and disappearing forever. The possibility of that happening would keep me from ever taking my main laptop outside the U.S., period. The existence of an encrypted file system might raise their suspicions, but they manage to get suspicious even without that.
If you have to take a laptop abroad, go out and buy a cheapie you won't mind losing.
What sort of percentage of laptops that go through US customs do you believe get seized? If it's a lower percentage than the cost of a 'cheapie laptop' divided by the cost of replacing your current laptop, then your advice doesn't make economic sense
Besides which, I'm seeing a lot of advice here which seems to assume that laptop confiscation is par for the course when you enter/leave the US. Now, I hate to defend the US customs and immigration officers, but it's simply not the case. I and those I know have flown many, many times in and out of the US with laptops, and never had issues. But since the plural of anecdote is not data, consider this - wouldn't large multi-nationals which send people out with laptops have sued by now if they were losing laptops to the US government on an even remotely occasional basis?
My suggestion would be to just go and take your laptop. If you're really worried, then put a password at boot and consider having a 'blank' user space account that you can load to show that it's a working laptop.
Sounds like the second answer - it's some sort of variation on one of Zeno's paradoxes. I would suggest that the part where you're going wrong is 'instantly'. Things don't actually happen instantly, they just happen over periods of time that are too small for us to measure. (There are various exceptions for quantum effects, but they get weirder than I can bothered discussing now.)
...No space elevator is going anywhere without the necessary nanotube manufacturing breakthrough, and that includes the Japanese.
If only someone would throw billions of dollars into research to try and find such a breakthrough. That someone would have to engage a whole bunch of people and research organisations. Maybe a sovereign nation could get behind it.
But which? I mean, it would have to a country with a solid background in technological innovation, and it would be good if they weren't currently in the throes of an economic meltdown. Maybe someone in Asia? Hmmm...
Nope, can't think of anyone. Guess it'll never happen. What a shame.
i am sure everyone here remembers the code red worm.. few remember the code green worm (the one that spread the same way the code red did but it patched the infection and prevented further infection once it made it in)
i honestly thing it would be a good idea to start doing this - to have a group write patchs that spread in the same way the viruses do
I'd never heard of Code Green, but I do recall Welchia.
And that was terrible. It did bizarre things to some people's computers, crushed LANs as it tried to spread, and as bonus made up a substantial amount of net's traffic for a while.
While it's a cool idea in theory, in practice it ends up very inelegant, very fast.
I used to have Time Warner service in Brooklyn, and had the same thing happen - all service would die every few minutes for between 30 seconds to one minute while I was uploading.
Seriously, how many connectors out there do you know of that let you plug it in any way you feel like? All connectors have to be oriented so that the signals and power goes to the right place.
Actually, that's not true. As much as it seems fanboyish to say, Apple solved this problem perfectly with their MagSafe connectors. They connect equally well in either orientation, and the magnetic connection is fantastic (and has saved me from numerous nasty accidents).
I'd love a version of this for the next version of USB.
Absolutely. I've paused playback from computer to take personal calls and then accidentally started it playing again (stupid me for making my play/pause keybindings something easy to reflexively push).
Not a problem for my personal calls, but it would be totally unacceptable for business calls.
What use would a piece of studio equipment (rack mounted, at that) have in his setup?
Because you can? I mean, come on, this is slashdot, we'd come up with a remote controlled robotic flyswatter that runs Linux and is also a webserver given the slightest opportunity.
And the OP only suggested using a sidechain "if you wanted to get really fancy". And it is really quite fancy. Also, it would make for an extremely elegant solution to the original question.
How is this ANY different than Chris Hansen on Dateline NBC in "To Catch a Predator." Other than the "bait" not pretending to be 17, what's the difference?
Well, for one thing, BDSM is legal.
But I agree with you in principle. The whole 'To Catch a Predator' thing seemed to be a step away from mob "justice" to me.
There's a reason why the image representing justice (the one holding the scales) is blindfolded.
Apparently this administration thinks that reason is because she's being hauled off to Gitmo with all the other terrorists/people who get in their way.
Isn't it the whole point of SETI@Home to use the normally unused cycles which you are already spending electricity and therefore money on?
The thing is that idle CPU time uses minimal electricity and generates minimal heat. The HLT command means that you're using less energy. This is particularly noticeable in laptops. Run something that uses 100% CPU time (SETI@home/video conversion/etc) and see how long your battery lasts compared to simply having the machine sit at idle (turn off screen saver and power management software).
While it's not huge on a minute to minute basis, the cost of power adds up over the course of a year. I found this out when I had a roommate that ran distributed computing software. When he moved out, our power bills dropped by about a third. In my opinion, that much money is not worth searching for intelligent life.
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No prob, seems like those with mod points are having a similar conversation.
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That's two whole sets of mod-points poured into my silly one-liner...
C'mon people - it's a politics flamewar! You know what you should be doing with those mod-points - find people expressing their views in a rational, cohesive and polite fashion and mod them to '-1 Troll'!
Alright, I'll turn the sarcasm off, and give a straight reply - I agree with you 100%, I'm sick of hearing it too. I think Al Gore is great (has anyone used the term 'Al Gore-some' before?), and of course he never actually claimed to invent the internet.
But c'mon, insisting that he did actually invent the internet should have the been the tip off. It was a clear joke, and given the parent's attempt at a rhetorical question, I couldn't help making it. I actually drafted a disclaimer in the original post saying that I hated the meme but had to use it, then I thought better of it, since if your disclaimer is longer than the joke, something is wrong.
Did Clinton actually do anything to make the internet revolution happen?
I do have to point out that his Vice President did invent the internet.
Could a valid and perfect ruler not be made in the form of 0,1,3,6,10,15,21,28,36,etc to infinity?
No. Because the ruler looks at the distances between ALL the various makes on it. So in your example, it's invalid because the distance between 0 and 3 is 3 and the distance between 3 and 6 is 3. (Same issues with 0,6 and 15,21, etc.) You're aiming to find something where no two points are the same distance apart, not just adjacent points.
That said, I'm just going off the wikipedia article myself too, so if someone who knows better than me cares to comment, feel free to jump in.
Yeah, but the West left most of their worst religious-nutball-inspired-violence behind hundreds of years ago.
Oh really?
There's more to economic calculations than replacement cost. Even assuming everything is backed up, changing the computer system that you store your personal life on is a major hassle.
But that's what you were suggesting doing by getting a cheap laptop to travel with. At least with my suggestion, you don't have to set yourself up again if you don't have your laptop confiscated.
Security people (properly trained ones, anyway)
Now I know you haven't flown anywhere lately. All I see at US airports by way of security are TSA security drones. And they're not exactly rocket surgeons.
But you are right about one's laptop getting seized and disappearing forever. The possibility of that happening would keep me from ever taking my main laptop outside the U.S., period. The existence of an encrypted file system might raise their suspicions, but they manage to get suspicious even without that.
If you have to take a laptop abroad, go out and buy a cheapie you won't mind losing.
What sort of percentage of laptops that go through US customs do you believe get seized? If it's a lower percentage than the cost of a 'cheapie laptop' divided by the cost of replacing your current laptop, then your advice doesn't make economic sense
Besides which, I'm seeing a lot of advice here which seems to assume that laptop confiscation is par for the course when you enter/leave the US. Now, I hate to defend the US customs and immigration officers, but it's simply not the case. I and those I know have flown many, many times in and out of the US with laptops, and never had issues. But since the plural of anecdote is not data, consider this - wouldn't large multi-nationals which send people out with laptops have sued by now if they were losing laptops to the US government on an even remotely occasional basis?
My suggestion would be to just go and take your laptop. If you're really worried, then put a password at boot and consider having a 'blank' user space account that you can load to show that it's a working laptop.
Sounds like the second answer - it's some sort of variation on one of Zeno's paradoxes. I would suggest that the part where you're going wrong is 'instantly'. Things don't actually happen instantly, they just happen over periods of time that are too small for us to measure. (There are various exceptions for quantum effects, but they get weirder than I can bothered discussing now.)
This is really interesting. I'm a lapsed WoW player, but always wondered about stuff like this.
How does the bot handle combat for various classes? Can it buy skills/talents/etc? Does it select gear automatically?
Do you have any more info about this that you'd be willing to share? Especially screenshots etc.
...No space elevator is going anywhere without the necessary nanotube manufacturing breakthrough, and that includes the Japanese.
If only someone would throw billions of dollars into research to try and find such a breakthrough. That someone would have to engage a whole bunch of people and research organisations. Maybe a sovereign nation could get behind it.
But which? I mean, it would have to a country with a solid background in technological innovation, and it would be good if they weren't currently in the throes of an economic meltdown. Maybe someone in Asia? Hmmm...
Nope, can't think of anyone. Guess it'll never happen. What a shame.
He also endorsed Ron Paul's candidacy for president in 2008.
Well, I was on the edge till I read that, but now I know he's nuts.
Is there some kind of rule that if it's in a hyperlink, it's spelled 'DCMA', but if it's plain text, it's 'DMCA'?
Get with the program. Today is Transposed Tuesday.
I think you mean 'Trassponed Tuedsay'.
Modded down as troll and a link going to Photobucket. How could I resist the temptation to click on a link like that?
I was expecting something eye-scarringly horrific, instead I came out vaguely disappointed, yet also somewhat relieved.
Well played, sir.
Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
I knew you'd say that.
i am sure everyone here remembers the code red worm.. few remember the code green worm (the one that spread the same way the code red did but it patched the infection and prevented further infection once it made it in)
i honestly thing it would be a good idea to start doing this - to have a group write patchs that spread in the same way the viruses do
I'd never heard of Code Green, but I do recall Welchia.
And that was terrible. It did bizarre things to some people's computers, crushed LANs as it tried to spread, and as bonus made up a substantial amount of net's traffic for a while.
While it's a cool idea in theory, in practice it ends up very inelegant, very fast.
Unless you pay me $9000
You left the word 'not' out of your subject.
Mod parent up!
I used to have Time Warner service in Brooklyn, and had the same thing happen - all service would die every few minutes for between 30 seconds to one minute while I was uploading.
I'm surprised more hasn't been made of it.
Seriously, how many connectors out there do you know of that let you plug it in any way you feel like? All connectors have to be oriented so that the signals and power goes to the right place.
Actually, that's not true. As much as it seems fanboyish to say, Apple solved this problem perfectly with their MagSafe connectors. They connect equally well in either orientation, and the magnetic connection is fantastic (and has saved me from numerous nasty accidents).
I'd love a version of this for the next version of USB.
Oh yes, here we are on slashdot, where no one has EVER done anything on work time except work diligently.
Absolutely. I've paused playback from computer to take personal calls and then accidentally started it playing again (stupid me for making my play/pause keybindings something easy to reflexively push). Not a problem for my personal calls, but it would be totally unacceptable for business calls.
What use would a piece of studio equipment (rack mounted, at that) have in his setup?
Because you can? I mean, come on, this is slashdot, we'd come up with a remote controlled robotic flyswatter that runs Linux and is also a webserver given the slightest opportunity.
And the OP only suggested using a sidechain "if you wanted to get really fancy". And it is really quite fancy. Also, it would make for an extremely elegant solution to the original question.
How is this ANY different than Chris Hansen on Dateline NBC in "To Catch a Predator." Other than the "bait" not pretending to be 17, what's the difference?
Well, for one thing, BDSM is legal.
But I agree with you in principle. The whole 'To Catch a Predator' thing seemed to be a step away from mob "justice" to me.
There's a reason why the image representing justice (the one holding the scales) is blindfolded.
Apparently this administration thinks that reason is because she's being hauled off to Gitmo with all the other terrorists/people who get in their way.
Yeah, I have no idea what happened there. Still people have modded me 'overrated' now, so feel free to mod me back up. :P
Isn't it the whole point of SETI@Home to use the normally unused cycles which you are already spending electricity and therefore money on?
The thing is that idle CPU time uses minimal electricity and generates minimal heat. The HLT command means that you're using less energy. This is particularly noticeable in laptops. Run something that uses 100% CPU time (SETI@home/video conversion/etc) and see how long your battery lasts compared to simply having the machine sit at idle (turn off screen saver and power management software).
While it's not huge on a minute to minute basis, the cost of power adds up over the course of a year. I found this out when I had a roommate that ran distributed computing software. When he moved out, our power bills dropped by about a third. In my opinion, that much money is not worth searching for intelligent life.