>> If all DVDs purchased in 2011 were streamed instead, the energy savings would have been enough to meet the electricity demands of roughly 200,000 households.
Or, if you're like my family, the energy "saved" from spinning up DVDs on two different TVs has now gone into a more powerful wireless router (to support better streaming), bigger TVs (bought with money saved from cancelling cable), a digital antenna booster (so we can watch HD network TV without cable), and personal tablets that none my three kids had in 2011.
>> 47% to 70% of physicians and medical students admitting to using [Wikipedia] as a reference.' At issue in the study is the small sample size the researchers used: 10 medical conditions.
Uh...between 47% and 70% of people means you surveyed what - 3 people? 4? (OK, I looked - it's a range of numbers from OTHER people's surveys.)
Here's just one possible flaw with that conclusion: If I was a doctor, I would look up what Wikipedia says about a condition just to see what my patient is going to read when they get home, so I could arm him or her with the right information (rather than Wiki's).
>> how many scammers will use this as a guidebook for looting
Probably zero.
>> Gomzin shows that credit card numbers are rather predictable in that their number space is in truth rather small, even though they may be 15-19 digits in length. This is due to the fact that PCI allows the first 6 and last 4 digits to be exposed in plaintext, so it's only 6 digits that need to be guessed. This enables a relatively easy brute force attack, and even easier if rainbow tables are used.
Yeah...try brute forcing credit card numbers through a provider from a single (even small number) of terminals and see what happens to you.
If you're interested in grabbing credit cards, walking through an outdoor cafe with a video camera, hacking ATM OS'es (maybe through a "hidden" USB), and looking at trace log files on obscure web servers (especially those that log everything coming through as they're talking to remote providers) are still probably more effective methods than what's covered in the book.
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>> My IDE commits code changes automatically.
Really? Checks into source control as you type? Builds if you stop typing? What? (I know what Visual Studio and Eclipse do...what ARE you using?)
>> the ISPs have argued that it is not their responsibility to police users
And this is one of the reasons established user policers, particularly cable and dish companies, continue to push out traditional ISPs (and are being encouraged by content providers to continue to do so). Similarly, it's no coincidence that the same parties line up where they do on net neutrality: once you're OK with metering certain types of provider content, all you need to do is meter the hell out of any non-whitelisted providers and you've essentially banned a large chunk of the Internet.
We switched to a pure NetFlix and HD antenna environment and couldn't think of going back. We even upgraded all the TVs in the house with the first year savings. Even the ESPN "exclusive" stuff (college basketball and football) can be streamed from somewhere for free.
>> Does anyone here have a recommendation for the best AV software?
The built-in Windows AV on modern OS's works OK. (We don't have any machines except test machines older than Windows 7.) I guess I haven't even thought about Symantec or McAfee for the past few years.
>> What about ClamAV? Is this as good as the closed source AV products?
IMHO, it's slower and not as thorough. I wouldn't use it on Windows.
>> by accident, just as the Mac eventually superseded the Apple II
Um...do you realize that the Mac was the benefit of one of the largest and most expensive marketing efforts aimed at personal computer (lower case) consumers of all time (at the time)? And that the marketing hype culminated in a famous 1984 Superbowl commercial? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I)
>> Actually, because that million is earning interest while you are drawing down on it, even at 5%API, you should be able to draw around $80K/yr for 20 years
Most advisors recommend calculating return at 4% (not that you can get that today in CDs)...and trying to avoid completely eroding the principal in twenty years. By the time you get through that math, you end up with the popular "rule-of-twenty". E.g., http://www.getrichslowly.org/b... http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/2...
>> The neoconservatives know better than to let a perfectly good crisis go to waste
Does that make Obama a "neocon"? (If he really wanted us out of those places, he'd have done it by now.)
BTW, the "never let a good crisis go to waste" quote is frequently attributed to Obama's former chief of staff and long-time Chicago associate Rahm Emanuel: http://www.brainyquote.com/quo...
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>> Every team has someone who at the bottom of its bell curve: an individual who has a hard time keeping up with other team members
The manager. Badoom-cha!
>> That's especially true for open source projects, where you can't really reject someone's help
New to open source, are we?
>> How LEDs Are Made
Because SlashDot is news for 10-year-old nerds. (New Editors: WTF do you think SlashDot is - the text version of the Discovery channel?)
>> If all DVDs purchased in 2011 were streamed instead, the energy savings would have been enough to meet the electricity demands of roughly 200,000 households.
Or, if you're like my family, the energy "saved" from spinning up DVDs on two different TVs has now gone into a more powerful wireless router (to support better streaming), bigger TVs (bought with money saved from cancelling cable), a digital antenna booster (so we can watch HD network TV without cable), and personal tablets that none my three kids had in 2011.
It's spelled "baguette" - the French were in on the whole crusty but tasty conspiracy from the beginning.
>> 47% to 70% of physicians and medical students admitting to using [Wikipedia] as a reference.' At issue in the study is the small sample size the researchers used: 10 medical conditions.
Uh...between 47% and 70% of people means you surveyed what - 3 people? 4? (OK, I looked - it's a range of numbers from OTHER people's surveys.)
Here's just one possible flaw with that conclusion: If I was a doctor, I would look up what Wikipedia says about a condition just to see what my patient is going to read when they get home, so I could arm him or her with the right information (rather than Wiki's).
Go to country where I can get my hand cut off for offending the authorities? No.
>> how many scammers will use this as a guidebook for looting
Probably zero.
>> Gomzin shows that credit card numbers are rather predictable in that their number space is in truth rather small, even though they may be 15-19 digits in length. This is due to the fact that PCI allows the first 6 and last 4 digits to be exposed in plaintext, so it's only 6 digits that need to be guessed. This enables a relatively easy brute force attack, and even easier if rainbow tables are used.
Yeah...try brute forcing credit card numbers through a provider from a single (even small number) of terminals and see what happens to you.
If you're interested in grabbing credit cards, walking through an outdoor cafe with a video camera, hacking ATM OS'es (maybe through a "hidden" USB), and looking at trace log files on obscure web servers (especially those that log everything coming through as they're talking to remote providers) are still probably more effective methods than what's covered in the book.
>> My IDE commits code changes automatically.
Really? Checks into source control as you type? Builds if you stop typing? What? (I know what Visual Studio and Eclipse do...what ARE you using?)
>> Oops -- I missed this earlier, substantially similar story
At SlashDot, that's called "par for the course."
WTF is a "X out of 10" programmer? Is there a stamp on me somewhere I can check to see my level?
>> just how good does one actually have to BE to get hired?
Depends who you know, really. (Or whether a posted position is just legalese so they can get their pre-approved candidate through, etc.)
>> perhaps we can agree that a level 2/10 would not likely get hired anywhere
Actually, these are the people I would typically talk up to get other companies to "steal" - saves termination expenses.
Maybe it defected. Is the protocol officer still alive?
I expect this will be as successful as the UN's 1990-era anti-mine treaty (the Ottawa Treaty - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...), with over a hundred signatories, but not Russia, China or the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
>> the ISPs have argued that it is not their responsibility to police users
And this is one of the reasons established user policers, particularly cable and dish companies, continue to push out traditional ISPs (and are being encouraged by content providers to continue to do so). Similarly, it's no coincidence that the same parties line up where they do on net neutrality: once you're OK with metering certain types of provider content, all you need to do is meter the hell out of any non-whitelisted providers and you've essentially banned a large chunk of the Internet.
Before we cut the cable, our family watched:
PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, E and A&E
We switched to a pure NetFlix and HD antenna environment and couldn't think of going back. We even upgraded all the TVs in the house with the first year savings. Even the ESPN "exclusive" stuff (college basketball and football) can be streamed from somewhere for free.
>> equates to about $18 million in real world money
Yessir, Eve Online is just a like a business - creating real value from spreadsheet jockeying since 2003!
>> Another Year of LinuxFest Northwest...is still helping...hasn't seemed to lose a bit of his enthusiasm in all that time
I hope you realize your intro makes this thing sound like the local cat show for computing.
>> Does anyone here have a recommendation for the best AV software?
The built-in Windows AV on modern OS's works OK. (We don't have any machines except test machines older than Windows 7.) I guess I haven't even thought about Symantec or McAfee for the past few years.
>> What about ClamAV? Is this as good as the closed source AV products?
IMHO, it's slower and not as thorough. I wouldn't use it on Windows.
>> by accident, just as the Mac eventually superseded the Apple II
Um...do you realize that the Mac was the benefit of one of the largest and most expensive marketing efforts aimed at personal computer (lower case) consumers of all time (at the time)? And that the marketing hype culminated in a famous 1984 Superbowl commercial? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I)
That was no accident, my friend.
...everything kills you.
wouldn't they really want to charge on # of viewers? (no one cares about size of screen anymore; my kids watch everything on their tablets)
also, $2 seems pretty high for a movie in the days of Netflix...
Never has. There been a. Greater spokesperson for the. Exploration of fictional. Space than. Mr. William. Shatner.
It does if you're a government contractor, apparently...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/je...
http://www.computerworld.com/s...
(and thousands more...)
>> Many third world countries will soon be more free than the USSA - time to emigrate.
"Freer" until you're killed by an executive-ordered, zero-oversight drone strike.
Oh wait, that can happen here too.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.motherjones.com/moj...
>> Actually, because that million is earning interest while you are drawing down on it, even at 5%API, you should be able to draw around $80K/yr for 20 years
Most advisors recommend calculating return at 4% (not that you can get that today in CDs)...and trying to avoid completely eroding the principal in twenty years. By the time you get through that math, you end up with the popular "rule-of-twenty". E.g.,
http://www.getrichslowly.org/b...
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/2...
>> The neoconservatives know better than to let a perfectly good crisis go to waste
Does that make Obama a "neocon"? (If he really wanted us out of those places, he'd have done it by now.)
BTW, the "never let a good crisis go to waste" quote is frequently attributed to Obama's former chief of staff and long-time Chicago associate Rahm Emanuel:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quo...