I was thinking, perhaps incorrectly, the poster has a bootable linux on USB, and he wants to boot up different computers with it, and access his home directory on those computers, but is having trouble because his files have a different UID on each computer. The idea was the bootable USB linux could adapt to different disks by having a different passwd file for each, which his username mapping to the appropriate UID on each.
OK, that was probably too much to assume, but I have been facing this particular problem a lot lately with accessing the host filesystem on VMs that I move around.
This is probably part of the reason the value of black-market CC info is "shockingly" low - 95% of what you get is probably fake. But that's the black market for you.
That doesn't help if you want to access the file on different systems with appropriate permissions though. One way or another, there has to be a mapping between different IDs on different systems.
How do you handle the uid issue raised in the summary? I'm thinking a different passwd file for each system might work. You'd probably need an/etc/shadow for each, at least.
How is being limited to 5 any better than having the option for 5 or 6?
I have a multi-seat linux setup, so driving 6 screens from a board is an excellent alternative to this (not how all the expansion slots are filled with nothing but graphics cards).
Or, instead of using 6 30" screens, it would be great to have a single screen "merely" 40 inches across with higher resolution. LCDs have been growing nicely, but not in the pixels-per-inch department.
Yes, I agree with Microsoft's argument on that. At least, in principle I do. Pragmatically, I worry that Congress is a crapshoot, likely to induce years of delay, and we might end up with horribly crippled online libraries, if any at all.
I am actually in favor of some "overriding" agreement of this nature, since otherwise it will be impossible to make a digital archive of all books. Individually negotiating with every rights own, ever, is not realistic. And the rights weren't granted in the current technological environment anyways, so while you can argue this grants google new rights the authors never intended, you could also argue that prohibiting the digital library grants authors new rights that were never intended, either.
So far, the only thing that troubles me is that agreement only applies to google. I would like other competitors to be able to create comparable digital libraries, too.
I am also very worried about the deficit. But I think the deficit would probably be even worse without the bailout spending. As it is, most of the increase in deficit is from decreased tax revenues rather than increased spending, and the tax base would have been eroded far worse if the banking system had collapsed. Also I think we will get most of that bank bailout money back, with interest. We have been living beyond our means and will have to cut back, but paying interest on the debt over time is less damaging than a giant economic collapse would have been.
It's harder to make the same arguments for NASA spending, and even moreso for manned space exploration. I just don't see the payoff from the ISS, nor the Shuttle whose main purpose is to staff it.
It's as if people care more about their lifes' savings and having jobs than they do about space exploration. Imagine that.
Sure it would have been much more convenient not to have a fiscal crisis, but it did happen. We were hours away from collapse of the US banking system. You think that would have freed up lots of funds for space exploration do you?
It would have been much cheaper to consider the Hubble disposable and replace as necessary. Just like the re-usable aspect of the Shuttle itself, which was supposed to save money but never did.
Under the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the federal government will spend $1.4 billion in New York state alone over the next four years to help health care providers digitize their operations.
So, the money spent modernizing New York's health care records system over the course of the next 4 years will be less than what it keeps NASA going for one month. (Not that 1.4e9 isn't a lot of money!)
Backlit screens are useless outdoors. In my recent quest to replace an aging mp3 player, I found everything has color screens now, which suck because a) they're hard to read outdoors and b) they burn power, so you have to push a button to turn them on. E-ink seems fine, but I also think there is a large, unjustified bias against good old black & white LCD - yeah, like a Casio digital watch, or a PDA from 1999 - but so what? Those screens were/are very useful.
Am I the only one who always gives their birthday as 01/01/1970 and their zip code as 20500?
I guess that's better than not trying at all, but everybody knows unverified, volunteered information is garbage.
More to the point, do you anonymize your grocery store purchases by going through the checkout separately for each aisle, or buying one of everything and throwing out the "chaff?" Do you rent movies selected at random to conceal your true preferences, and randomize your street address monthly? Avoid prescriptions you need and instead take different drugs at random to conceal your maladies?
Information you volunteer is the tip of the iceberg.
academics can't rely on Google Books to make their bibliographies, because the publication date and authorship information, which are used in all citation styles (MLA, Harvard, etc.) are incorrect on Google Books for an apparently large amount of books.
What you mean is, they have to bother to pull up the book's title page for that information, rather than simiply pulling off google's metadata. Boo hoo.
To read the article, it is mostly a problem for people who are essentially studying trends in metadata itself, such as the emergence of some particular word over time. The "oddball" categorizations, I agree, why would anybody browse the "technology" section of a collection with millions of titles?
The odd thing about complaining about this is, what are they comparing to? A hypothetical perfect online database that doesn't exist anyways? The article says google got it wrong in some cases where, e.g. the Harvard Library got it right. OK, that's an issue for all of us deciding whether to search on our nearest computer, or at the Harvard library.
To me, google's project was a long time coming - somebody had to scan the world's back catalog. Maybe it would be better if governments had done it, but (and this is the point) they didn't. Google is.
Sheesh, that was my first thought. An AK47 just sprays some bullets a relatively short distance. A.50 cal sniper rifle can kill somebody from 1km away. Nevertheless, it is still legal to own them. I guess the Secret Service must have some defense against them, but I don't know what it is. They can penetrate an engine block, so I certainly wouldn't trust so-called bullet-proof glass against one.
Religions or their underdeveloped little brothers the Cults all have one aim, control. They seek to be the gatekeeper between their God and the believer. They manipulate people's emotions to get and maintain that control.
You are saying, or at least implying, there are people at the top of every religion who are cynically driven by a lust for power and control. Having been deeply involved in the religion of my parents for my first few decades (but no longer), I never saw that. What I saw is a bunch of people caught up into a set of beliefs that is self-reinforcing, mainly self-consistent, and highly virulent. But the people themselves are very sincere, and the more self-sacrificing ones were those who gained higher positions in the church. In my experience, it was only the ideas (doctrines) of organized religion that selfishly devour everything and demand more and more. The ideas induce people to manipulate each other with only the best of intent. Nobody was getting rich, in fact I never knew anybody who wouldn't have benefited in a material sense by quitting. Granted, there were shades of appeal to gaining "authority" (power), but less so than in any business I have seen, or in government, and the authority obtained was really just to carry out the established will of the church anyways.
I have heard Scientology is different in that Hubbard knowingly made up CoS as a get-rich-quick scheme. I don't know if that's true, but if it is, it still isn't necessarily true of all churches.
With all those retired folks having lost much of their retirement in the stock market (wtf were retired or soon to be retired folks STILL in the market is beyond me),
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March 6, 2000: 6:08 p.m. ET
Expert suggests a combination of stocks and bonds as an ideal strategy
With ten years before you retire, you still have a fairly long time horizon. While there is never a guarantee, the odds are well in your favor that a heavy exposure to equities will pay off handsomely. Think how you would feel if you had missed out on the last ten years in the market.
But as you approach retirement you probably will want to scale back to your preferred retirement asset allocation.
Even if you were going to retire tomorrow, you still might be wise to hold at least 50 to 60 percent of your plan in stocks. With earlier retirement, longer life expectancies, and persistent inflation, the retiree must invest to supply both a reliable income and a hedge against inflation. Stocks alone could be far too volatile. Bonds alone will not generate enough total return. But a combination of stocks and bonds offers the highest probability of meeting both needs successfully.
Sorry, no. Property crimes are not inherently violent crimes.
As for "they should be thrown in jail," obviously. Everybody thinks that. And if the can be caught, they will be, and they will be thrown in jail. So take it easy.
I don't drive a Lexus either. But I think Tesla's approach of working down from the high end makes more sense than the other way around, simply due to economics of developing groundbreaking products.
When will the purchase price of an EV be comparable to a gas car? Probably not soon - but then, they don't have to be. At $4/gallon, it costs 20 cents per mile for gas for a 20 mpg car, vs about 3 cents per mile for an electric car. 17 cents * 150,000 miles is $25,000. I repeat, 25 thousand dollars difference.
Since gas is under $4/gallon right now, you might argue that's too high an estimate. But I think gas prices are almost sure to go back up as the recession eases.
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OK, that was probably too much to assume, but I have been facing this particular problem a lot lately with accessing the host filesystem on VMs that I move around.
This is probably part of the reason the value of black-market CC info is "shockingly" low - 95% of what you get is probably fake. But that's the black market for you.
That doesn't help if you want to access the file on different systems with appropriate permissions though. One way or another, there has to be a mapping between different IDs on different systems.
How do you handle the uid issue raised in the summary? I'm thinking a different passwd file for each system might work. You'd probably need an /etc/shadow for each, at least.
I have a multi-seat linux setup, so driving 6 screens from a board is an excellent alternative to this (not how all the expansion slots are filled with nothing but graphics cards).
Or, instead of using 6 30" screens, it would be great to have a single screen "merely" 40 inches across with higher resolution. LCDs have been growing nicely, but not in the pixels-per-inch department.
Yes, I agree with Microsoft's argument on that. At least, in principle I do. Pragmatically, I worry that Congress is a crapshoot, likely to induce years of delay, and we might end up with horribly crippled online libraries, if any at all.
I am actually in favor of some "overriding" agreement of this nature, since otherwise it will be impossible to make a digital archive of all books. Individually negotiating with every rights own, ever, is not realistic. And the rights weren't granted in the current technological environment anyways, so while you can argue this grants google new rights the authors never intended, you could also argue that prohibiting the digital library grants authors new rights that were never intended, either.
So far, the only thing that troubles me is that agreement only applies to google. I would like other competitors to be able to create comparable digital libraries, too.
But still no Netflix Watch Instantly for Linux, right?
It's harder to make the same arguments for NASA spending, and even moreso for manned space exploration. I just don't see the payoff from the ISS, nor the Shuttle whose main purpose is to staff it.
Sure it would have been much more convenient not to have a fiscal crisis, but it did happen. We were hours away from collapse of the US banking system. You think that would have freed up lots of funds for space exploration do you?
It would have been much cheaper to consider the Hubble disposable and replace as necessary. Just like the re-usable aspect of the Shuttle itself, which was supposed to save money but never did.
So, the money spent modernizing New York's health care records system over the course of the next 4 years will be less than what it keeps NASA going for one month. (Not that 1.4e9 isn't a lot of money!)
He must have meant "exploration." We can make chemical rockets cheaper, but they ain't gunna take us very far in this big ol' universe.
Backlit screens are useless outdoors. In my recent quest to replace an aging mp3 player, I found everything has color screens now, which suck because a) they're hard to read outdoors and b) they burn power, so you have to push a button to turn them on. E-ink seems fine, but I also think there is a large, unjustified bias against good old black & white LCD - yeah, like a Casio digital watch, or a PDA from 1999 - but so what? Those screens were/are very useful.
I guess that's better than not trying at all, but everybody knows unverified, volunteered information is garbage.
More to the point, do you anonymize your grocery store purchases by going through the checkout separately for each aisle, or buying one of everything and throwing out the "chaff?" Do you rent movies selected at random to conceal your true preferences, and randomize your street address monthly? Avoid prescriptions you need and instead take different drugs at random to conceal your maladies?
Information you volunteer is the tip of the iceberg.
What you mean is, they have to bother to pull up the book's title page for that information, rather than simiply pulling off google's metadata. Boo hoo.
The odd thing about complaining about this is, what are they comparing to? A hypothetical perfect online database that doesn't exist anyways? The article says google got it wrong in some cases where, e.g. the Harvard Library got it right. OK, that's an issue for all of us deciding whether to search on our nearest computer, or at the Harvard library.
To me, google's project was a long time coming - somebody had to scan the world's back catalog. Maybe it would be better if governments had done it, but (and this is the point) they didn't. Google is.
Well, that's a pity. Maybe you've got some defective ammo.
Sheesh, that was my first thought. An AK47 just sprays some bullets a relatively short distance. A .50 cal sniper rifle can kill somebody from 1km away. Nevertheless, it is still legal to own them. I guess the Secret Service must have some defense against them, but I don't know what it is. They can penetrate an engine block, so I certainly wouldn't trust so-called bullet-proof glass against one.
You are saying, or at least implying, there are people at the top of every religion who are cynically driven by a lust for power and control. Having been deeply involved in the religion of my parents for my first few decades (but no longer), I never saw that. What I saw is a bunch of people caught up into a set of beliefs that is self-reinforcing, mainly self-consistent, and highly virulent. But the people themselves are very sincere, and the more self-sacrificing ones were those who gained higher positions in the church. In my experience, it was only the ideas (doctrines) of organized religion that selfishly devour everything and demand more and more. The ideas induce people to manipulate each other with only the best of intent. Nobody was getting rich, in fact I never knew anybody who wouldn't have benefited in a material sense by quitting. Granted, there were shades of appeal to gaining "authority" (power), but less so than in any business I have seen, or in government, and the authority obtained was really just to carry out the established will of the church anyways.
I have heard Scientology is different in that Hubbard knowingly made up CoS as a get-rich-quick scheme. I don't know if that's true, but if it is, it still isn't necessarily true of all churches.
It's hard to remember how people talked in different times, isn't it:
"WMD" is a marketing slogan anyways. Its job is to scare people about ICBMs on the basis of nothing more than gas (ala WWI).
The question about bios settings is a good one though, and I don't know.
As for "they should be thrown in jail," obviously. Everybody thinks that. And if the can be caught, they will be, and they will be thrown in jail. So take it easy.
When will the purchase price of an EV be comparable to a gas car? Probably not soon - but then, they don't have to be. At $4/gallon, it costs 20 cents per mile for gas for a 20 mpg car, vs about 3 cents per mile for an electric car. 17 cents * 150,000 miles is $25,000. I repeat, 25 thousand dollars difference.
Since gas is under $4/gallon right now, you might argue that's too high an estimate. But I think gas prices are almost sure to go back up as the recession eases.