We're om/. here so why do you use wattage? Of course you mean power
consumption. To any half clued techie, Wattage sounds just as silly
as Ampereage, Faradage, Ohmage and Voltage. (current, capacitance,
resistance and potential)
This might be a fact. But what does it mean? Should women now be encouraged or
discouraged in math and science? IMHO both encouraging and discouraging
have very bad side effects. Encouraging leads to disillusions and
discouraging is generally bad and may deprive society from brilliant
women.
IMHO women are better suited for management positions. Most women I met
are more socially engaged and far better at multi tasking. The politics
that come at higher management levels require deviousness that is not
uncommonly found in women. Again, this doesn't mean anything specific.
How much real estate is your TV using? If your house is small (and expensive
like in most metropolis down town areas), you value the real estate your TV
takes up higher than picture quality or the extra price of a flat TV.
I love my CLI. My idea of a GUI is xterm. I cherish the way the X copy buffer works. Other than that I don't need no steeeenkin' pictures on my desktop. Honestly.
In fact, let's organize a posse... and go out and lynch the bastard that invented the frivolous curses. And let's get Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs too. They started it all. And, and, and....
That's a funny white jacket. Why are there no buttons on the front? What's the syringe?
You'd say.erot would be the most sensible tld. The adult industry
would approve of this and pay for it. Eventually most adult content
would move and it would make both searching and blocking pr0n a
easier.
Then again, the puritans in the US government would probably get
involved with BS like "Tax money shouldn't be used to support an
immoral system".
Programming 80+ hours is a walk in the park. Afterwards you olny need 80+ hours
-spread over 4 weeks- to redesign the crap you wrote and 8 more hours to re-program it.
So, the artists who will be executed if their
works are discovered... they don't need good
crypto?
You are subclassing Artist with ArtistInNonFreeCountry. That's a different thing altogether. Generally artists need to protect their work from being copied before publishing but not against a raid where they will be tortured etc... This may not be valid for people in non free societies but that's not the "normal" issue in a US oriented forum like/.
Who, I ask,
the fuck are you to decide for others that they
don't need crypto?
My god, why are you turning into a vicious bastard? The discussion was good enough to start with.
To answer your question, people who need MGS include health, financial, political, artistic, literary, and just about every other endeavor.
In health you protect patient privacy. In finance you protect client privacy. Both
very important but definitively not MGS. For artistic and literary work MGS is
overkill.
Any medium sized and larger organization will differentiate their data in security classes. The MGS class typically holds a tiny bit of the total data.
Military grade security
on
Sun-isms Debunked
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
How many of us need military grade security (MGS)? Sure MGS gets Sun bonus
points with intelligence and defense but the rest of the market looks at
it very differently.
I'm about to finish a report that compares a Linux i686 and a Solaris SPARC III/IV
solution.
CPU power is the issue here (not I/O or FS quality) and the costs for the
Linux solution (in my specific case) are almost negligible compared to the
Solaris solution.
Don't get me wrong, I have a long history with Solaris (started with
SunOS 4.1.3 and even developed for and administered SunOS 4.0.x) and I think
they were great to universities in late 80s and begin 90s. But they lost the
commodity hardware race. Or did they actually compete there?
So intelligence and defense will support Sun the current and next decade. Does
that mean Jeb Bush should be the next president? Lucky for me I'm not a US
citizen:)
A program like a browser being fed random crap should never crash!!! It should
either report syntax errors and/or do its best in correcting syntax errors
because many/most bad HTML writers are not easily persuaded to correct their
errors.
Come one, this time IE is more stable than our beloved Mozilla.
With such a powerful parsing engine you would thing IE could parse web standards a little better.
Has it ever occurred to you that it is in MS interest to parse bad HTML? Maybe
even to encourage bad HTML so IE is considered the best browser by the man in
the street. Now where's my tin foil hat?
Let's all setup our own download services that keyword scanners will recognize
as being illegal -or at least dodgy. Make pages containing words of popular
artists ( e.g. Bony M, The Sweet, Mud, Showadywady, Pat Boon, Engelbert
Humperdinck etc... ( Oh shit I just gave away that I'm an old fart in a
wheelchair. So shoot me! ) ). Then make mp3s/oggs/whatever named like song
titles ( e.g. "by-the-rivers-of-babylon.mp3", "dynamite.ogg" etc... ) but
which contain the sound of you monotonously repeating the words like in a
meditation.
Then let's see how many "human errors" are made by the*AA. And let's also
see whether the *AA can cope with this. And let's see how long until they
have to change tactics.
This is a geek site. You're a geek, I'm a geek, we're all...
As a geek you need body activity because sitting behind the screen just doesn't
get you any. So get yourself a regular/racing/mountain bike.
Within a couple of weeks you notice a better condition and an increasing average
speed. And, if you really need to, you can add a cardio/speedometer to increase
the geeky factor.
As a real geek you could also get into the details of bike training. The different
body types and their specialties, the different goals in training (muscle
building, endurance, agility, fat burning etc...), the food to take etc, etc...
buy geekstuff without paying big taxes when buying outside EU as you don't pay taxes when buying from other European countries
Trust me, in the EU you always pay sales tax/VAT/MWST/IVA/BTW (whatever you cal lit) in the country you order your product. Geek goods will almost always be taxed
at a rate varying between 14 and 20%.
And then there are sooo many shops out there that don't care to go through the
hassle of not charging taxes for countries outside the EU (like.ch). So
sometimes you wind up being taxed twice and not wanting to go through the pain
to get your own money back.
I have a.ch plated car for which I don't need to pay IVA for service in Italy.
How many times have I explained this to the garages I went to?! And these
garages are not even aware of the fact that they actually gain a new happy
client.
Europeans! Don't let the sales taxes bring you down and don't wind up screwed!
I forgot to mention that the Google drone even refused to tell us which database
they use. What's the best bang for the buck in databases? (But they are hiring.)
I attended a Google presentation at
SUCON where a Google
drone held a very shallow presentation of the tech stuff behind Google.
In a nutshell, he hinted that they use Linux, that they have loads of
cheap systems which 1) they expect will break down and 2) are cheap to fix,
that a large part of the systems indexes content and that another large part
of the systems serves content. And Google is hiring.
He constantly repeated that because they went public he was not allowed to
be specific. And he wasn't. There was a watchful Google woman that apparently
took note of everything that went on and assisted at the proclamations of
secrecy. And Google is hiring.
Then he touched the Google policy and hinted that Google has a sort of
principle of
"not being evil". In my words, this means Google has considered being evil
and decided not to be (maybe for the time being). Did I mention that Google
is hiring?
Oh yes and they were hiring. Yes hiring, hiring and hiring. There were
even forms (as if the audience didn't know where to look for them on
Google). And of course he couldn't say anything about the rates, due
to... But Google is hiring.
At the end of the presentation I thought:
Google kicks ass in low cost high performance computing.
Gmail will give them experience in how to handle confidentially in low cost high performance computing.
They (and not RedHat) have everything in order to become the next MS.
(Monopoly on a technology and loads of quickly earned bucks.)
I guess that their going public results in less fun at the company.
Why do they need/want more money? They are doing OK as it is!
I decided to let Google have loads of fun with their money and not to take anything of that away from them by applying.
Oh yeah, they probably want the best for the lowest price. Both in HW and HR.
Slashdot Mirror
...a higher wattage CPU...
/. here so why do you use wattage? Of course you mean power
consumption. To any half clued techie, Wattage sounds just as silly
as Ampereage, Faradage, Ohmage and Voltage. (current, capacitance,
resistance and potential)
We're om
We're on Slashdot, genius. You're assumed to be a man unless you can prove otherwise.
Who modded this guy down? And why?! I kinda liked the remark (which was made as a reaction to my posting.)
women lack natural ability in math and science
This might be a fact. But what does it mean? Should women now be encouraged or discouraged in math and science? IMHO both encouraging and discouraging have very bad side effects. Encouraging leads to disillusions and discouraging is generally bad and may deprive society from brilliant women.
IMHO women are better suited for management positions. Most women I met are more socially engaged and far better at multi tasking. The politics that come at higher management levels require deviousness that is not uncommonly found in women. Again, this doesn't mean anything specific.
In case you wonder, I'm a man.
How much real estate is your TV using? If your house is small (and expensive like in most metropolis down town areas), you value the real estate your TV takes up higher than picture quality or the extra price of a flat TV.
I love my CLI. My idea of a GUI is xterm. I cherish the way the X copy buffer works. Other than that I don't need no steeeenkin' pictures on my desktop. Honestly.
... and go out and lynch the bastard that invented the frivolous curses. And let's get Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs too. They started it all. And, and, and....
In fact, let's organize a posse
That's a funny white jacket. Why are there no buttons on the front? What's the syringe?
You'd say .erot would be the most sensible tld. The adult industry
would approve of this and pay for it. Eventually most adult content
would move and it would make both searching and blocking pr0n a
easier.
Then again, the puritans in the US government would probably get involved with BS like "Tax money shouldn't be used to support an immoral system".
It's GNU/RedHat's Linux!!!
Programming 80+ hours is a walk in the park. Afterwards you olny need 80+ hours -spread over 4 weeks- to redesign the crap you wrote and 8 more hours to re-program it.
I'd rather cut off my penis with a rusty bread knife.
Pal this is a oportunity! Take it!
Yeah, why isn't this a poll?
This might be flaimbait. Anyway
/.
So, the artists who will be executed if their works are discovered... they don't need good crypto?
You are subclassing Artist with ArtistInNonFreeCountry. That's a different thing altogether. Generally artists need to protect their work from being copied before publishing but not against a raid where they will be tortured etc... This may not be valid for people in non free societies but that's not the "normal" issue in a US oriented forum like
Who, I ask, the fuck are you to decide for others that they don't need crypto?
My god, why are you turning into a vicious bastard? The discussion was good enough to start with.
To answer your question, people who need MGS include health, financial, political, artistic, literary, and just about every other endeavor.
In health you protect patient privacy. In finance you protect client privacy. Both very important but definitively not MGS. For artistic and literary work MGS is overkill.
Any medium sized and larger organization will differentiate their data in security classes. The MGS class typically holds a tiny bit of the total data.
How many of us need military grade security (MGS)? Sure MGS gets Sun bonus points with intelligence and defense but the rest of the market looks at it very differently.
:)
I'm about to finish a report that compares a Linux i686 and a Solaris SPARC III/IV solution. CPU power is the issue here (not I/O or FS quality) and the costs for the Linux solution (in my specific case) are almost negligible compared to the Solaris solution.
Don't get me wrong, I have a long history with Solaris (started with SunOS 4.1.3 and even developed for and administered SunOS 4.0.x) and I think they were great to universities in late 80s and begin 90s. But they lost the commodity hardware race. Or did they actually compete there?
So intelligence and defense will support Sun the current and next decade. Does that mean Jeb Bush should be the next president? Lucky for me I'm not a US citizen
Shit my profile doesn't match. I'll switch distro instantly.
Like there are people not modchipping x-boxes and not upgrading the disk??? It's a strange world (best line in Blue Velvet by Jeffrey.)
"A" city under siege??
Bagdad or Pyongyang? (I hate non-specific discussions.)
So, if you feed IE random crap it doesn't crash?
A program like a browser being fed random crap should never crash!!! It should either report syntax errors and/or do its best in correcting syntax errors because many/most bad HTML writers are not easily persuaded to correct their errors.
Come one, this time IE is more stable than our beloved Mozilla.
With such a powerful parsing engine you would thing IE could parse web standards a little better.
Has it ever occurred to you that it is in MS interest to parse bad HTML? Maybe even to encourage bad HTML so IE is considered the best browser by the man in the street. Now where's my tin foil hat?
Fellow /.ers unite!
Let's all setup our own download services that keyword scanners will recognize as being illegal -or at least dodgy. Make pages containing words of popular artists ( e.g. Bony M, The Sweet, Mud, Showadywady, Pat Boon, Engelbert Humperdinck etc... ( Oh shit I just gave away that I'm an old fart in a wheelchair. So shoot me! ) ). Then make mp3s/oggs/whatever named like song titles ( e.g. "by-the-rivers-of-babylon.mp3", "dynamite.ogg" etc... ) but which contain the sound of you monotonously repeating the words like in a meditation.
Then let's see how many "human errors" are made by the*AA. And let's also see whether the *AA can cope with this. And let's see how long until they have to change tactics.
This is a geek site. You're a geek, I'm a geek, we're all...
As a geek you need body activity because sitting behind the screen just doesn't get you any. So get yourself a regular/racing/mountain bike.
Within a couple of weeks you notice a better condition and an increasing average speed. And, if you really need to, you can add a cardio/speedometer to increase the geeky factor.
As a real geek you could also get into the details of bike training. The different body types and their specialties, the different goals in training (muscle building, endurance, agility, fat burning etc...), the food to take etc, etc...
buy geekstuff without paying big taxes when buying outside EU as you don't pay taxes when buying from other European countries
.ch). So
sometimes you wind up being taxed twice and not wanting to go through the pain
to get your own money back.
.ch plated car for which I don't need to pay IVA for service in Italy.
How many times have I explained this to the garages I went to?! And these
garages are not even aware of the fact that they actually gain a new happy
client.
Trust me, in the EU you always pay sales tax/VAT/MWST/IVA/BTW (whatever you cal lit) in the country you order your product. Geek goods will almost always be taxed at a rate varying between 14 and 20%.
And then there are sooo many shops out there that don't care to go through the hassle of not charging taxes for countries outside the EU (like
I have a
Europeans! Don't let the sales taxes bring you down and don't wind up screwed!
Automatic notices based on blind keyword searches constitute in 80% of /. posts and this one is not an exception.
Sorry for replying to my own post.
I forgot to mention that the Google drone even refused to tell us which database they use. What's the best bang for the buck in databases? (But they are hiring.)
In a nutshell, he hinted that they use Linux, that they have loads of cheap systems which 1) they expect will break down and 2) are cheap to fix, that a large part of the systems indexes content and that another large part of the systems serves content. And Google is hiring.
He constantly repeated that because they went public he was not allowed to be specific. And he wasn't. There was a watchful Google woman that apparently took note of everything that went on and assisted at the proclamations of secrecy. And Google is hiring.
Then he touched the Google policy and hinted that Google has a sort of principle of "not being evil". In my words, this means Google has considered being evil and decided not to be (maybe for the time being). Did I mention that Google is hiring?
Oh yes and they were hiring. Yes hiring, hiring and hiring. There were even forms (as if the audience didn't know where to look for them on Google). And of course he couldn't say anything about the rates, due to... But Google is hiring.
At the end of the presentation I thought:
- Google kicks ass in low cost high performance computing.
- Gmail will give them experience in how to handle confidentially in low cost high performance computing.
- They (and not RedHat) have everything in order to become the next MS.
(Monopoly on a technology and loads of quickly earned bucks.)
- I guess that their going public results in less fun at the company.
- Why do they need/want more money? They are doing OK as it is!
- I decided to let Google have loads of fun with their money and not to take anything of that away from them by applying.
- Oh yeah, they probably want the best for the lowest price. Both in HW and HR.
And not to forget: Google is hiring.