I always figured the command would be something like:
~/deity@cosmos# make world
checking for omnipotence in use... yes
checking whether to support http... yes
enable greed exploit check... no
# Building reality
# Creating universe
# Generating E.A.R.T.H.
Seen it. I fail to see how it justifies breaking the promises he made to his supports, and not having a backbone when it came to busting this bill.
The prior system, with FISA, worked fine. Not supporting this bill wouldn't have made that any worse. Warrants came with what was equivalently a post-dated-cheque as it is, so WTF is it in this bill that improves the situation? warrantless wiretapping was already illegal. What the telcos were doing by supporting it was already illegal. Retroactively changing laws is also illegal according to that beloved piece of paper that your government is wiping it's butt with, so what please explain to me how this law is in any way benefiting the people of the US?
I'd say at most that they might grow slower, and that's only until they get enough power to reach the level of contempt for their fellows that makes them a "greater evil"
If somebody is put in a situation where they fear for their personal safety (or that of their offspring, etc), then it may be somewhat of a valid defense.
From what I can tell, this doesn't apply in this case.
The fact that the crazy then-boyfriend admitted to a bunch of murders, as well as a bunch of other weirdness, likely contributed as well. That he was a geek no doubt gained attention, no doubt. However, there were a lot of frankly *weird* things going on that cast a lot of doubt on what actually happened.
to make him compensate the victim (when possible, which it isn't in this case)
There are many victims in a murder case. Nina was one, but anyone who knew and cared for her is also a victim of a crime such as this, especially her family and children.
While nothing can replace her, how about having murderers - rather than just being locked up - do work with the proceeds/pay going towards restitution/relief for the victims?
Under a lot of the "old ways", the punishment for killing was death. Some of these were somewhat inclusive of torture, as they were rather painful ways to die. In many cases, though - other than the unavoidably unpleasant expectation of the end - the pain itself was rather brief. Beheading/guillotine, sepuku (doesn't look pleasant, but if done right should be quick), poison, execution by firing squad, etc, are they more or less humane than 20+ years in prison, to be released into a world where you have no place and a record that almost guarantees unemployment or future criminal activities?
However, in avoidance of sentencing innocents, even those on death row have a very lengthy wait. It takes up space, it takes up time, and it takes up money. It even gives some - up until before the end - the chance to come to terms with what they've done and possibly change themselves... just in time for it all to end anyhow.
So who is being tortured there?
As for those that administer the execution, in many it depends on mindset. How about the cops that deal with child-abuse cases? Yes, it's a terrible job, and no doubt damaging, but if they put an abuser away and possibly save others from a similar fate, isn't there also a sense of justice and personal satisfaction? How different would it be for an executioner. How about those in the military, do they think of themselves as "killers" or "defenders of freedom?" Is there a huge line between enemy combatants and convicted criminals (other than that the enemy is trying to kill you or your friends, and the criminal is killing or killed others)?
Just some food for thought, at any rate. I'm rather torn on the issue myself, as I believe that there are some people (serial rapists/child-abusers/etc) that have no place in this world, but there are others who might end up on the row undeservingly.
While some divorces or separations are understandably less amicable than others, am I the only one wondering how this one ended in murder. Now I don't really want to see it is a book by Hans entitled "My Story" or an ABC special, but I'd like to know how this whole thing ended in a murder (a few pages of summary would be fine for me). Is Hans just that out-of-control? Was it a crime of passion? Was it premeditated?
The common opinion is that Hans is a smart guy, but arrogant. How did those two play into it, and what led up to the fatal end. Maybe knowing that could avoid a similar situation in the future.
Agreed. As most of the case to me has been heard through third-parties, I held somewhat of a belief that it was possible he was not guilty (stupidity and arrogance does not equal guilt). From what I heard, there was no body and a lot of circumstancial evidence, not enough to clear reasonable doubt (I'm guessing the judge/jury heard a more substantial evidence though).
However, he got convicted. I can't argue with it, I wasn't there. There was just a small inkling of "did he really do it" left.
However, I'd say that that little inkling died handily with the knowledge that Hans knows the whereabouts of the wife's body. *Now* we have a body folks, and Hans is tied to it. Let it go folks, the guy's guilty.
Pay somebody with some skill to make it not suck? Use some pre-existing software (gallery2) to handle the photos in a nice way?
WTF does not getting visitors to your site have to do with freedom?
People can go where they want. If they want to go to "corporate site X" because it has a nicer layout, that's a part of being free. What's the alternative, forcing people at gunpoint to visit your site?
Seriously, if I take a crap on a canvas an call it art, it's not likely anyone will buy it. That's their choice (and a smart one). If *famous artist X* does the same, and names it a masterpiece called "fecalartopia," (look at the soulful placement of corn nuggets) then if somebody buys it they're still free... just not very bright.
Yup. Also, in the win9x days, using a.JPG file for a background would require enabling "Active Desktop," which was a pretty big resource hog in the earlier periods of windows.
Of course, loading a 32-bit 1500x1100 BMP file tended to use a fair bit of memory as well. I seem to remember watching some low-RAM machines/w crappy graphics cards go to town just trying to clear a window and repaint the background with those in place.
Once one company does it and succeeds, then patents everything related to the process, others will be unable to follow without paying huge sums which will be passed along to the consumer
CPU speed is far outstripping bus and memory bandwidth
One the the issues I'm continually faced with at work is not so much CPU horsepower anymore, but disk IO. Even with a good RAID setup, there's only so many clients you can service off a single machine at a given time. Removed storage capabilities like iSCSI and other forms of storage arrays can help this, but I'm not sure that even those are ready for 1000-core machines running as superservers.
I'd say that it could have a rather hefty impact on the graphics industry (though to be fair, both tend to share tech fairly regularly as it is) as well as many others.
How about servers? If you have 1000 cores, and 1000 clients connecting through the network, then each core could service a client (though depending on what they're doing, IO and other issues also rear their heads). Another nice aspect would be that if you could fix a process to a certain # of cores, you could always be sure that it wouldn't max out your entire CPU capacity.
The major providers in Canada are Telus, Rogers, and Bell. I can't speak for Bell, but I believe that when I was with Telus a year or so ago I got charges for both incoming/outgoing texts, while with Rogers my bill shows that only outgoing texts are counted towards my limit/charges.
Checking Telus' site, it looks like they're not currently charging for incoming text anymore, but are planning to change back to doing so on Text messages received from another mobile phone are free to receive until August 24, 2008.
It seems to me that a large portion of "licensed" professions are ones where lives are at stake, or the stakes are high. If an operation is botched, a bridge collapses, or many other things, then people can die. Others, such as lawyers, simple require a hefty amount of skill/knowledge.
Plugging a stick of RAM into a computer, or many other computer tasks, doesn't require a whole lot of skill in many cases.
Yes, a botched child-pr0n case can have serious repercussions, but rather than require *all* computer techs to be licensed, why not have a requirement that suspicious incidents require the consultation of a licensed investigator, and leave the general tech-work alone?
In other news, people pay for service. Seriously, I don't know many places at all that charge less than $40-50 min for a lot of simple things like putting in a stick of RAM. I do charge less - which most private clients comment on - but I only do that when I have the time to bother.
You are paying for the service. It's not a new thing. Have a look at internet hosting providers, where many will charge you an extra $60/month for an extra gig stick of RAM, or $600 outright to have it installed.
As for the quality of components, it's well known that Dell - and many others - use shit components. The last few Dell's I serviced (and I avoid them if at all possible now) had cheap, no-name brand BS boards, bargain-basement RAM, and feather-light cruddy PSU's. On top of this, oft-times stock components (floppy drives, etc) would not work in them, due to special case-configurations (such as the drive-screws being on top instead of bottom) that worked only with Dell components. The dell components were still genero-brand crap, but higher priced and altered enough that they were the only ones that fit.
So is it ripping off customers? Well, they're definitely paying more. But I'd consider a long-lasting, reliable PC at $1500+ a deal compared to a $500 unit that runs like crap and may decide to die (and take my data with it) anytime.
I haven't disassembled any of the newer macs in awhile though, but why not buy the parts and - if you don't want to pay Apple to install them - get a local geek to do the job?
On top of everything, everybody seems to think it's their job to carry the Internet on its back and figure it out somehow. The end customer likes to have huge amounts of bandwidth for pennies.
Damn, those lousy cellular customers are making a lot of calls on our unlimited rates plan. Let's just cut off their calls or make the service so distorted that they hang up themselves.
Damn, those idiotic customers are all watching hi-dev TV on their cable. Maybe we should switch the output signal to low-def.
Stupid drivers, since the population of the city has grown this roadway has been plugged. Let's give them a lesson by dropping speed limits and closing lanes.
Darnit, people are actually using our long-distance plan to call relatives in the other side of the country more... let's just block their calls randomly with a busy signal.
Too many nerds are visiting slashdot these days, it's getting bogged down. We're tired of upgrading servers, so let's just leave them with these Pentium III's and delete the account of anyone who posts too often.
We don't put up with this shit in other marketplaces, why should we put up with it in regards to the internet? Part of a company's planning procedures should be to map out weak areas in infrastructure, predict where/when capacity increases need to be made, and make improvements where necessary.
Not a Bell customer, but stuck using the Bell network (because they have the DSL last-mile monopoly here)...
Bell doesn't even seem to bother inspecting my packets. As soon as I open up an SSH connection to my box (during peak hours, during off-time when they're known to relax throttling it's fine), things go slow as shit. Not just the encrypted traffic either... there seems to be an overall slowdown that hangs up other connections.
And I'm 99% sure it's not my settings, because everything worked fine until Bell's throttling kicked in (no such issues pre-throttling, with my previous ISP, or when I only SSH to that box from the LAN).
My ex was like this. I drove in the car with her dad once, and he drove like a complete moron. Too fast, short stops, close-cut-corners, etc. And all in bad weather with a car that didn't exactly have spectacular tires.
The saddest part was that my ex would rant about how he managed to do all that and had never had an accident, so he was an "excellent driver" (she would say this with stars in her eyes).
My reply that he was a shitty driver, and just lucky so far, tended to result in fights. One day a short stop or tight turn during winter seasons is going to surprise him with a little bit of black ice on the road, and so far the only thing that has kept him from crashing is luck.
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I always figured the command would be something like:
...
~/deity@cosmos# make world
checking for omnipotence in use... yes
checking whether to support http... yes
enable greed exploit check... no
# Building reality
# Creating universe
# Generating E.A.R.T.H.
Seen it. I fail to see how it justifies breaking the promises he made to his supports, and not having a backbone when it came to busting this bill.
The prior system, with FISA, worked fine. Not supporting this bill wouldn't have made that any worse. Warrants came with what was equivalently a post-dated-cheque as it is, so WTF is it in this bill that improves the situation? warrantless wiretapping was already illegal. What the telcos were doing by supporting it was already illegal. Retroactively changing laws is also illegal according to that beloved piece of paper that your government is wiping it's butt with, so what please explain to me how this law is in any way benefiting the people of the US?
the evils would diminish instead of grow
I'd say at most that they might grow slower, and that's only until they get enough power to reach the level of contempt for their fellows that makes them a "greater evil"
Stop right there. There is no such thing as "making X kill Y"
Self-defense is about the only valid reason (and defense of another, in some cases). Neither of those seem to apply here, though.
There are sometimes excuses for killing. There are none for murder.
If somebody is put in a situation where they fear for their personal safety (or that of their offspring, etc), then it may be somewhat of a valid defense.
From what I can tell, this doesn't apply in this case.
The fact that the crazy then-boyfriend admitted to a bunch of murders, as well as a bunch of other weirdness, likely contributed as well. That he was a geek no doubt gained attention, no doubt. However, there were a lot of frankly *weird* things going on that cast a lot of doubt on what actually happened.
to make him compensate the victim (when possible, which it isn't in this case)
There are many victims in a murder case. Nina was one, but anyone who knew and cared for her is also a victim of a crime such as this, especially her family and children.
While nothing can replace her, how about having murderers - rather than just being locked up - do work with the proceeds/pay going towards restitution/relief for the victims?
Under a lot of the "old ways", the punishment for killing was death. Some of these were somewhat inclusive of torture, as they were rather painful ways to die. In many cases, though - other than the unavoidably unpleasant expectation of the end - the pain itself was rather brief. Beheading/guillotine, sepuku (doesn't look pleasant, but if done right should be quick), poison, execution by firing squad, etc, are they more or less humane than 20+ years in prison, to be released into a world where you have no place and a record that almost guarantees unemployment or future criminal activities?
However, in avoidance of sentencing innocents, even those on death row have a very lengthy wait. It takes up space, it takes up time, and it takes up money. It even gives some - up until before the end - the chance to come to terms with what they've done and possibly change themselves... just in time for it all to end anyhow.
So who is being tortured there?
As for those that administer the execution, in many it depends on mindset. How about the cops that deal with child-abuse cases? Yes, it's a terrible job, and no doubt damaging, but if they put an abuser away and possibly save others from a similar fate, isn't there also a sense of justice and personal satisfaction? How different would it be for an executioner. How about those in the military, do they think of themselves as "killers" or "defenders of freedom?" Is there a huge line between enemy combatants and convicted criminals (other than that the enemy is trying to kill you or your friends, and the criminal is killing or killed others)?
Just some food for thought, at any rate. I'm rather torn on the issue myself, as I believe that there are some people (serial rapists/child-abusers/etc) that have no place in this world, but there are others who might end up on the row undeservingly.
While some divorces or separations are understandably less amicable than others, am I the only one wondering how this one ended in murder. Now I don't really want to see it is a book by Hans entitled "My Story" or an ABC special, but I'd like to know how this whole thing ended in a murder (a few pages of summary would be fine for me). Is Hans just that out-of-control? Was it a crime of passion? Was it premeditated?
The common opinion is that Hans is a smart guy, but arrogant. How did those two play into it, and what led up to the fatal end. Maybe knowing that could avoid a similar situation in the future.
Agreed. As most of the case to me has been heard through third-parties, I held somewhat of a belief that it was possible he was not guilty (stupidity and arrogance does not equal guilt). From what I heard, there was no body and a lot of circumstancial evidence, not enough to clear reasonable doubt (I'm guessing the judge/jury heard a more substantial evidence though).
However, he got convicted. I can't argue with it, I wasn't there. There was just a small inkling of "did he really do it" left.
However, I'd say that that little inkling died handily with the knowledge that Hans knows the whereabouts of the wife's body. *Now* we have a body folks, and Hans is tied to it. Let it go folks, the guy's guilty.
Pay somebody with some skill to make it not suck? Use some pre-existing software (gallery2) to handle the photos in a nice way?
WTF does not getting visitors to your site have to do with freedom?
People can go where they want. If they want to go to "corporate site X" because it has a nicer layout, that's a part of being free. What's the alternative, forcing people at gunpoint to visit your site?
Seriously, if I take a crap on a canvas an call it art, it's not likely anyone will buy it. That's their choice (and a smart one). If *famous artist X* does the same, and names it a masterpiece called "fecalartopia," (look at the soulful placement of corn nuggets) then if somebody buys it they're still free... just not very bright.
Yup. Also, in the win9x days, using a .JPG file for a background would require enabling "Active Desktop," which was a pretty big resource hog in the earlier periods of windows.
/w crappy graphics cards go to town just trying to clear a window and repaint the background with those in place.
Of course, loading a 32-bit 1500x1100 BMP file tended to use a fair bit of memory as well. I seem to remember watching some low-RAM machines
Kinda like how being kicked in the ass is an acceptable compromise over being kicked in the balls (for those that have them)?
Doesn't sound very acceptable to me.
Once one company does it and succeeds, then patents everything related to the process, others will be unable to follow without paying huge sums which will be passed along to the consumer
There, fixed it for you...
CPU speed is far outstripping bus and memory bandwidth
One the the issues I'm continually faced with at work is not so much CPU horsepower anymore, but disk IO. Even with a good RAID setup, there's only so many clients you can service off a single machine at a given time. Removed storage capabilities like iSCSI and other forms of storage arrays can help this, but I'm not sure that even those are ready for 1000-core machines running as superservers.
I'd say that it could have a rather hefty impact on the graphics industry (though to be fair, both tend to share tech fairly regularly as it is) as well as many others.
How about servers? If you have 1000 cores, and 1000 clients connecting through the network, then each core could service a client (though depending on what they're doing, IO and other issues also rear their heads). Another nice aspect would be that if you could fix a process to a certain # of cores, you could always be sure that it wouldn't max out your entire CPU capacity.
Apparently they aren't anymore though, the product is listed as discontinued...
PPI (Price Per Inch) seems a bit steep too, but I'd have to check my comparisons.
The major providers in Canada are Telus, Rogers, and Bell. I can't speak for Bell, but I believe that when I was with Telus a year or so ago I got charges for both incoming/outgoing texts, while with Rogers my bill shows that only outgoing texts are counted towards my limit/charges.
Checking Telus' site, it looks like they're not currently charging for incoming text anymore, but are planning to change back to doing so on Text messages received from another mobile phone are free to receive until August 24, 2008.
It seems to me that a large portion of "licensed" professions are ones where lives are at stake, or the stakes are high. If an operation is botched, a bridge collapses, or many other things, then people can die. Others, such as lawyers, simple require a hefty amount of skill/knowledge.
Plugging a stick of RAM into a computer, or many other computer tasks, doesn't require a whole lot of skill in many cases.
Yes, a botched child-pr0n case can have serious repercussions, but rather than require *all* computer techs to be licensed, why not have a requirement that suspicious incidents require the consultation of a licensed investigator, and leave the general tech-work alone?
In other news, people pay for service. Seriously, I don't know many places at all that charge less than $40-50 min for a lot of simple things like putting in a stick of RAM. I do charge less - which most private clients comment on - but I only do that when I have the time to bother.
You are paying for the service. It's not a new thing. Have a look at internet hosting providers, where many will charge you an extra $60/month for an extra gig stick of RAM, or $600 outright to have it installed.
As for the quality of components, it's well known that Dell - and many others - use shit components. The last few Dell's I serviced (and I avoid them if at all possible now) had cheap, no-name brand BS boards, bargain-basement RAM, and feather-light cruddy PSU's. On top of this, oft-times stock components (floppy drives, etc) would not work in them, due to special case-configurations (such as the drive-screws being on top instead of bottom) that worked only with Dell components. The dell components were still genero-brand crap, but higher priced and altered enough that they were the only ones that fit.
So is it ripping off customers? Well, they're definitely paying more. But I'd consider a long-lasting, reliable PC at $1500+ a deal compared to a $500 unit that runs like crap and may decide to die (and take my data with it) anytime.
I haven't disassembled any of the newer macs in awhile though, but why not buy the parts and - if you don't want to pay Apple to install them - get a local geek to do the job?
On top of everything, everybody seems to think it's their job to carry the Internet on its back and figure it out somehow. The end customer likes to have huge amounts of bandwidth for pennies.
Damn, those lousy cellular customers are making a lot of calls on our unlimited rates plan. Let's just cut off their calls or make the service so distorted that they hang up themselves.
Damn, those idiotic customers are all watching hi-dev TV on their cable. Maybe we should switch the output signal to low-def.
Stupid drivers, since the population of the city has grown this roadway has been plugged. Let's give them a lesson by dropping speed limits and closing lanes.
Darnit, people are actually using our long-distance plan to call relatives in the other side of the country more... let's just block their calls randomly with a busy signal.
Too many nerds are visiting slashdot these days, it's getting bogged down. We're tired of upgrading servers, so let's just leave them with these Pentium III's and delete the account of anyone who posts too often.
We don't put up with this shit in other marketplaces, why should we put up with it in regards to the internet? Part of a company's planning procedures should be to map out weak areas in infrastructure, predict where/when capacity increases need to be made, and make improvements where necessary.
Not a Bell customer, but stuck using the Bell network (because they have the DSL last-mile monopoly here)...
Bell doesn't even seem to bother inspecting my packets. As soon as I open up an SSH connection to my box (during peak hours, during off-time when they're known to relax throttling it's fine), things go slow as shit. Not just the encrypted traffic either... there seems to be an overall slowdown that hangs up other connections.
And I'm 99% sure it's not my settings, because everything worked fine until Bell's throttling kicked in (no such issues pre-throttling, with my previous ISP, or when I only SSH to that box from the LAN).
In which case you bend the photo a bit?
As obviously it's already suffered some form of damage.
My ex was like this. I drove in the car with her dad once, and he drove like a complete moron. Too fast, short stops, close-cut-corners, etc. And all in bad weather with a car that didn't exactly have spectacular tires.
The saddest part was that my ex would rant about how he managed to do all that and had never had an accident, so he was an "excellent driver" (she would say this with stars in her eyes).
My reply that he was a shitty driver, and just lucky so far, tended to result in fights. One day a short stop or tight turn during winter seasons is going to surprise him with a little bit of black ice on the road, and so far the only thing that has kept him from crashing is luck.