Japan has short runs and good quality cables. The US has long runs and bad quality cables. Most "Broadband" DSL rates I have seen quoted (And this is in Metropolitan Seattle; Not a luddite town) are "Up to" 5Mb/s "In Qualified Areas", and when you actually call they try to sell you on a 768/128 line because that's the max they can actually get to you (unless you live right next to their junction box).
It depends.
Just like with any issue, this is far from black and white. New homes need to be built: Houses have a half-life, a wear and tear limit. Further, the population is constantly increasing. Just to house everybody, we've got to be constantly building new homes.
Certainly, there are plenty of unoccupied residences. But over the 30-100 years that the average new, energy efficient residence will last, it may well pay off it's energy cost as compared to continuing to power and heat the old, leaky houses.
Holy crap. I just gave it the mac of my parent's router, on a private road in the forests ~30 minutes outside Seattle, and it gave back the correct street address.
Then again, what use does this have? Maybe a disoriented traveller could use it to find his way, but other than that I see no reason anyone would be able to abuse mapping MAC address to location. It's a new form of phone book; nothing more.
Modern video cards already have TV out hardware; DVI -> HDMI adapters come in the box of nearly ever video card I've seen in the past 2 years. Seeing more computer manufacturers go out of their way to make certain they've also got sound cards with S/PDIF digital out and that such are attached to the video cards for full HDMI awesomeness is the important step
That's why the smart money is based on node-based storage: Multiple boxes that are interchangeable. It's a shameless product plug, but I work for Isilon Systems, and our solution is that the whole system is considered replaceable: We don't sell a configuration that doesn't allow you to yank an entire box transparently. A drive failure is rebuilt and ready for swapping as soon as it comes up: Most of our admins don't know about disk failures until their data is already reprotected.
Granted, our smallest config is 9TB; We're somewhat overkill for a home user. But if you need a company-wide NAS...
Commodity hardware, standard networking (Gig and 10Gig Ethernet frontend, Infiniband backend), and a very smart filesystem (Capable of protecting from up to 4 simultaneous whole-node failures) == a killer combination; It takes some seriously bad luck for data-loss to become a problem.
In addition to the issues artemis67 pointed out above, the GPL requires that you redistribute not only binaries, but the source to build those binaries.
Generally, that should be obvious based on what it's returning; If it's returning a copy, it should return a static User object, if it's returning a the original it will be a pointer to it. That's also what the documentation is for, in the event that it is returning a reference to a copy it needs to make clear that it's the caller's job to destroy the object. In Java, you refer to that as an "implementation detail"; In C++, you generally realize that/you are the implementer/ and need to pay attention to details.
Those that operate above the normal legal standards also need to be held to a higher moral standard: Being a military serviceman is not something to take lightly. I don't agree with all the policies (Seriously, no porn? Yeah, right, get right on that), but the reduced freedom of speech, the need to verify potential associates, etc, are part of the tradeoffs that come with the position.
It used to be a quality issue, but modern digital cameras can surpass the quality. And computers have always had more range of contrast than film. The only real reasons for it now are because it's FUN to develop your own film, and it's is historical.
There's a distinction between a theoretical crack and a real one. Theoretically, I could try every 1024 bit key against my GAIM-Encryption messages, and I would eventually find the proper key to decrypt them. It's even possible that there are simpler ways to do it. However, what matters is that it will take sufficently long that the data is no-longer so sensitive. Knowing about next months troop deployments in Iraq is of little use to terrorists in the year 2010.
True, you could go through all that hassle and testing to set up a list of "Approved" ActiveX controls. Or, you could set up Firefox, which is quick, painless, and works better in most cases. Why pull teeth with MSIE when the competition is faster, more secure, and more featureful?
I'm also a high school student and I find your faith misplaced. My school, which is ranked number one in the state, is terrible at teaching people how to write. It's opportunities to write, like my blog here at slashdot, that build writing skills. Even the school sponsored opportunites, like the newspaper, don't reward good writing, instead falling into a nasty cycle of formulae. If you know how to write, it's because you taught yourself or you had an overpriced tutor.
Sacred Pie has been one of my favorites for a while. It's kind funny, though, you're posting anon, but I found a pic of your face from the little bit of info in about 30 seconds.
Oddly enough, Death Treats did exist: In an early version of Gauntlet, there were "Death Treats" that you could give to death to have it go away without taking any damage. Unfortunetly, these were removed before the final version of the game.
I have yet to know anyone, newbie or hardened veteran, who has used those. But the idea of being a few clicks away from Mouse Gestures has caused plenty of people to switch.
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Japan has short runs and good quality cables. The US has long runs and bad quality cables. Most "Broadband" DSL rates I have seen quoted (And this is in Metropolitan Seattle; Not a luddite town) are "Up to" 5Mb/s "In Qualified Areas", and when you actually call they try to sell you on a 768/128 line because that's the max they can actually get to you (unless you live right next to their junction box).
It depends. Just like with any issue, this is far from black and white. New homes need to be built: Houses have a half-life, a wear and tear limit. Further, the population is constantly increasing. Just to house everybody, we've got to be constantly building new homes. Certainly, there are plenty of unoccupied residences. But over the 30-100 years that the average new, energy efficient residence will last, it may well pay off it's energy cost as compared to continuing to power and heat the old, leaky houses.
Holy crap. I just gave it the mac of my parent's router, on a private road in the forests ~30 minutes outside Seattle, and it gave back the correct street address. Then again, what use does this have? Maybe a disoriented traveller could use it to find his way, but other than that I see no reason anyone would be able to abuse mapping MAC address to location. It's a new form of phone book; nothing more.
Modern video cards already have TV out hardware; DVI -> HDMI adapters come in the box of nearly ever video card I've seen in the past 2 years. Seeing more computer manufacturers go out of their way to make certain they've also got sound cards with S/PDIF digital out and that such are attached to the video cards for full HDMI awesomeness is the important step
That's why the smart money is based on node-based storage: Multiple boxes that are interchangeable. It's a shameless product plug, but I work for Isilon Systems, and our solution is that the whole system is considered replaceable: We don't sell a configuration that doesn't allow you to yank an entire box transparently. A drive failure is rebuilt and ready for swapping as soon as it comes up: Most of our admins don't know about disk failures until their data is already reprotected.
Granted, our smallest config is 9TB; We're somewhat overkill for a home user. But if you need a company-wide NAS...
Commodity hardware, standard networking (Gig and 10Gig Ethernet frontend, Infiniband backend), and a very smart filesystem (Capable of protecting from up to 4 simultaneous whole-node failures) == a killer combination; It takes some seriously bad luck for data-loss to become a problem.
Consequently, both the product quality suffers and the conditions under which the product is manufactured suffer (e.g., factory farms, slave labor).
Fixed that for you :)
Fixed that for you :)
In addition to the issues artemis67 pointed out above, the GPL requires that you redistribute not only binaries, but the source to build those binaries.
Generally, that should be obvious based on what it's returning; If it's returning a copy, it should return a static User object, if it's returning a the original it will be a pointer to it. That's also what the documentation is for, in the event that it is returning a reference to a copy it needs to make clear that it's the caller's job to destroy the object. In Java, you refer to that as an "implementation detail"; In C++, you generally realize that /you are the implementer/ and need to pay attention to details.
Those that operate above the normal legal standards also need to be held to a higher moral standard: Being a military serviceman is not something to take lightly. I don't agree with all the policies (Seriously, no porn? Yeah, right, get right on that), but the reduced freedom of speech, the need to verify potential associates, etc, are part of the tradeoffs that come with the position.
Thank you, though, for making them.
Yes, mapping a windows network share would indeed cause autorun.inf to be read.
Isn't everyone?
Take a look at Joe Jobs to see the problems inherent in that.
What he's referring to are Tidal generators. Rarer, but still in use. You're generally right, though.
There was a whole story and shirt about swallowing an MP3 player, and now you can!
It used to be a quality issue, but modern digital cameras can surpass the quality. And computers have always had more range of contrast than film. The only real reasons for it now are because it's FUN to develop your own film, and it's is historical.
There's a distinction between a theoretical crack and a real one. Theoretically, I could try every 1024 bit key against my GAIM-Encryption messages, and I would eventually find the proper key to decrypt them. It's even possible that there are simpler ways to do it. However, what matters is that it will take sufficently long that the data is no-longer so sensitive. Knowing about next months troop deployments in Iraq is of little use to terrorists in the year 2010.
Sunbird is still beta. They're working on it. Heck, now that you say so, I think I'm gonna go get the latest source and start tweaking.
It's enabled by default to allow installation of extensions. Unfortunatley, most people don't have the expertiese to disable it.
Phrase it another way: Which USB key allows you to store your whole desktop enviroment, plus ~58.5 gb of data?
True, you could go through all that hassle and testing to set up a list of "Approved" ActiveX controls. Or, you could set up Firefox, which is quick, painless, and works better in most cases. Why pull teeth with MSIE when the competition is faster, more secure, and more featureful?
I'm just waiting for someone to really make those Catgirls you see in anime. Me-YOW!
I'm also a high school student and I find your faith misplaced. My school, which is ranked number one in the state, is terrible at teaching people how to write. It's opportunities to write, like my blog here at slashdot, that build writing skills. Even the school sponsored opportunites, like the newspaper, don't reward good writing, instead falling into a nasty cycle of formulae. If you know how to write, it's because you taught yourself or you had an overpriced tutor.
Sacred Pie has been one of my favorites for a while. It's kind funny, though, you're posting anon, but I found a pic of your face from the little bit of info in about 30 seconds.
Oddly enough, Death Treats did exist: In an early version of Gauntlet, there were "Death Treats" that you could give to death to have it go away without taking any damage. Unfortunetly, these were removed before the final version of the game.
I have yet to know anyone, newbie or hardened veteran, who has used those. But the idea of being a few clicks away from Mouse Gestures has caused plenty of people to switch.