Suppose you have 100 machines with 100 IBM hard drives and they've been working for 5 years and 2 drives crash hard today.
You wouldn't get a bad opinion of IBM hard drives from that.
Now, suppose you swap in two drives from some company you've never heard of before and BOTH those drives crash hard within 48 hours.
It would seem to me that IBM and Company X have different fail rates for this hardware. Here's why:
Out of 100 drives, running for five years, two fail.
Assume the period for this failure is two days, since that was the shortest life of any experimental sample (Brand X drives). So, out of 100 drives, running for 913.125 periods, 2% fail. However, out of two drives, in one period, 100% fail.
Apple's technical and customer support is top-notch. Serving on the hell-desk my fair share, and placing my own fair share of calls, I can safely say with confidence that Apple has far surpassed ANY other customer service model ever before seen on the market. They have a truly no-BS, almost-no-waiting policy on dealing with problems. And for most things, you don't even have to mail your machine somewhere if you're nearby to an Apple store (we have one in our local mall - GREAT place).
This works for Apple because they actually produce QUALITY products - their level of attrition/triage isn't as high as... say... Dell. Or Gateway (God fucking forbid...)
A lot of their applications are released as betas to allow the customer audience detect bugs and shit before official 'final' release (this works because the audience mostly understands what they're getting themselves into) and freely offers to help (and because it's seemingly less damaging to have bugs in Betas than in Finals).
No, it really couldn't be used on someone without their knowledge, as the target would have to remain seated, very very still, and have regular breathing. I think it'd be quite obvious what you, the patient, could do about it.
Of, engaging in, or given to armed aggression: an invasive military force.
Marked by the tendency to spread, especially into healthy tissue: an invasive carcinoma.
Of or relating to a medical procedure in which a part of the body is entered, as by puncture or incision.
Tending to intrude or encroach, as upon privacy.
Polygraphs have consisted of blood-pressure monitors, pulse/respiration monitors/graphing, temperature, relative humidity/condensation on the epidermis, and as of late, retinal imaging. These are usually accomplised by a series of patches attached to the EXTERIOR of the patient's skin. No where, no how, is anything poked, prodded, or inserted.
If my invasive, you mean, less cumbersome, then sure, maybe. The patient would still have to breathe normally, and hold perfectly still (as to not alter the readings taken by the IR), which is really the only cumbersome thing about it.
Earth. Ozone layer allows birth and flourishment of homo sapiens. Homo sapiens irradicate ozone layer through flourishment. Loss of ozone layer results in irradication of homo sapien population. Ozone layer returns gradually after eons of non-interference by now-extinct homo sapiens.
However, I do suppose this is excluding whatever damage the gradual decay of our structures and chemical shit (sun no longer stopped by now non-existant ozone - what will react?) will do to retard the reintroduction of the ozone layer after we're all long toasty.
A friend of mine contracted tinnitus after going to an Orgy concert. From what I last heard, she's in the opening stages of dementia, because of the noise in her head. It's really, really sad. She's a great girl, too.:-\
I just... cannut... dooo it, kaptain!... the damned server j'st dunnit have the POWAH!!! Filthy cyrix piece of jun'k. I've seen Klingon garbage scows with bet'er processin' units than theeeze. Ah mean, you cannut really expect meh to be able to run a business on THIS kind of processor!
That's a fundamental paradox, as the Earth's core can not necessarily be ON itself (or it's crust). The driest place IN Earth, is, therefore, it's core.
I'm not certain on the fesability of this...
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...but it's a telescope, right?
Why not just weld it (not literally) to the Space Station? I mean... it could be maintained, and, still used. We've got some damned interesting information from that thing in the past, IIRC. Upgrades and fixes would be a lot freaking easier if we didn't have to yank it out of orbit every time. I mean, if it's attached to the station, we know right where it is. Parts could be delivered via shuttle to the space station, so repairs could be done through airlocks there. Wouldn't add TOO much mass to the equation - I mean, the Hubble is no bigger than any of the other modules (it fit in the shuttle...). Also, the downlink and power requirements are easily met.
So, go ahead, debunk my idea? I know Slashdot is chock-full of certified NASA Engineers.:-p
Or theoretically, you could change your password from something the brute-force program hasn't yet tried, to something that has already been tried and rejected, on pure luck and incidence.
...password phr4c|
The point of the article is to show off a faster, new time-memory trade-off technique, not to just down-play Windows security. The manner in which Window's password security is built simply provided an error-free sandbox for this method to be tested, and exemplified.
Then, a week after they limped away from my machine room, off my property, after being shot, I'll sue THEM for theft of property - the guy left with two of my bullets!
They can take away our alleged legal turpitude, but they can never take... AAAR FREEEDOM!
The CCTV cameras in parking lots, espicially Wal*Marts, is to protect the shopping carts, oddly enough. A member of my family helped develop the system that Wal*Mart uses for just that task.
You are correct sir - even burning is not 100% post-mortem-read-proof.
However, there is an easier way than a dual shredding/printer device. Wet the ashes (from the incinerator scenario). If you mix the ash with water, and gum it up a bit, the carbon from the paper mixes with the ink, and it basically becomes this thick paste, completely detaching ink from paper in any readable form. At that point, the ink and paper are just two coexisting blobs.
...on a really good television show that had far too short a life.
The Lone Gunmen - Those three 'nerds' from the X-Files; Frohicke, Langly, and Byers. Great guys. Great show.
There was one episode in which a rather critical clue was found in a shredded document; Langly and Frohicke were seen pressing the strips of paper between two pieces of contact paper and then scanning the sheet. A program therein sorted the strips, and matched them up. Voila, un-shredded document.
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Middle class, USA-style, or middle class India-style?
(The difference being one is a touch more third-world than the US)
And no, I haven't been there. Thus the question.
Almost sounds to me like your .sig answered your own question.
...completely.
Suppose you have 100 machines with 100 IBM hard drives and they've been working for 5 years and 2 drives crash hard today.
You wouldn't get a bad opinion of IBM hard drives from that.
Now, suppose you swap in two drives from some company you've never heard of before and BOTH those drives crash hard within 48 hours.
It would seem to me that IBM and Company X have different fail rates for this hardware. Here's why:
Out of 100 drives, running for five years, two fail.
Assume the period for this failure is two days, since that was the shortest life of any experimental sample (Brand X drives).
So, out of 100 drives, running for 913.125 periods, 2% fail.
However, out of two drives, in one period, 100% fail.
How do they have the exact same fail-rate?
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Hey.
;) It's excellent. Perfectly suited just for that task. :D
Just went out wardriving last night. With exactly that rig.
Actually got my girlfriend into it, too. Fun shit.
Apple's technical and customer support is top-notch. Serving on the hell-desk my fair share, and placing my own fair share of calls, I can safely say with confidence that Apple has far surpassed ANY other customer service model ever before seen on the market. They have a truly no-BS, almost-no-waiting policy on dealing with problems. And for most things, you don't even have to mail your machine somewhere if you're nearby to an Apple store (we have one in our local mall - GREAT place).
This works for Apple because they actually produce QUALITY products - their level of attrition/triage isn't as high as... say... Dell. Or Gateway (God fucking forbid...)
A lot of their applications are released as betas to allow the customer audience detect bugs and shit before official 'final' release (this works because the audience mostly understands what they're getting themselves into) and freely offers to help (and because it's seemingly less damaging to have bugs in Betas than in Finals).
No, it really couldn't be used on someone without their knowledge, as the target would have to remain seated, very very still, and have regular breathing. I think it'd be quite obvious what you, the patient, could do about it.
Alright, points made.
But did they stick you with anything, at any time? Skin penetration is the whole 'invasive' thing.
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Polygraphs have consisted of blood-pressure monitors, pulse/respiration monitors/graphing, temperature, relative humidity/condensation on the epidermis, and as of late, retinal imaging. These are usually accomplised by a series of patches attached to the EXTERIOR of the patient's skin. No where, no how, is anything poked, prodded, or inserted.
If my invasive, you mean, less cumbersome, then sure, maybe. The patient would still have to breathe normally, and hold perfectly still (as to not alter the readings taken by the IR), which is really the only cumbersome thing about it.
...and only 2GB of RAM. (Or can RedHat support 3?)
It's cyclic.
Earth. Ozone layer allows birth and flourishment of homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens irradicate ozone layer through flourishment.
Loss of ozone layer results in irradication of homo sapien population.
Ozone layer returns gradually after eons of non-interference by now-extinct homo sapiens.
However, I do suppose this is excluding whatever damage the gradual decay of our structures and chemical shit (sun no longer stopped by now non-existant ozone - what will react?) will do to retard the reintroduction of the ozone layer after we're all long toasty.
A friend of mine contracted tinnitus after going to an Orgy concert. From what I last heard, she's in the opening stages of dementia, because of the noise in her head. It's really, really sad. She's a great girl, too. :-\
Made me turn my headphones down, it did.
I just... cannut... dooo it, kaptain!... the damned server j'st dunnit have the POWAH!!! Filthy cyrix piece of jun'k. I've seen Klingon garbage scows with bet'er processin' units than theeeze. Ah mean, you cannut really expect meh to be able to run a business on THIS kind of processor!
Tho I may be able to give ya' warp three...
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> The driest place on Earth is it's core...
That's a fundamental paradox, as the Earth's core can not necessarily be ON itself (or it's crust). The driest place IN Earth, is, therefore, it's core.
...but it's a telescope, right?
:-p
Why not just weld it (not literally) to the Space Station? I mean... it could be maintained, and, still used. We've got some damned interesting information from that thing in the past, IIRC. Upgrades and fixes would be a lot freaking easier if we didn't have to yank it out of orbit every time. I mean, if it's attached to the station, we know right where it is. Parts could be delivered via shuttle to the space station, so repairs could be done through airlocks there. Wouldn't add TOO much mass to the equation - I mean, the Hubble is no bigger than any of the other modules (it fit in the shuttle...). Also, the downlink and power requirements are easily met.
So, go ahead, debunk my idea? I know Slashdot is chock-full of certified NASA Engineers.
Or theoretically, you could change your password from something the brute-force program hasn't yet tried, to something that has already been tried and rejected, on pure luck and incidence.
Just a thought.
...or even a result of the aforementioned driver optimization hacking?
...password phr4c|
The point of the article is to show off a faster, new time-memory trade-off technique, not to just down-play Windows security. The manner in which Window's password security is built simply provided an error-free sandbox for this method to be tested, and exemplified.
Don't feed the trolls.
Agreed.
Then, a week after they limped away from my machine room, off my property, after being shot, I'll sue THEM for theft of property - the guy left with two of my bullets!
They can take away our alleged legal turpitude, but they can never take... AAAR FREEEDOM!
The CCTV cameras in parking lots, espicially Wal*Marts, is to protect the shopping carts, oddly enough. A member of my family helped develop the system that Wal*Mart uses for just that task.
You are correct sir - even burning is not 100% post-mortem-read-proof.
However, there is an easier way than a dual shredding/printer device. Wet the ashes (from the incinerator scenario). If you mix the ash with water, and gum it up a bit, the carbon from the paper mixes with the ink, and it basically becomes this thick paste, completely detaching ink from paper in any readable form. At that point, the ink and paper are just two coexisting blobs.
...on a really good television show that had far too short a life.
The Lone Gunmen - Those three 'nerds' from the X-Files; Frohicke, Langly, and Byers. Great guys. Great show.
There was one episode in which a rather critical clue was found in a shredded document; Langly and Frohicke were seen pressing the strips of paper between two pieces of contact paper and then scanning the sheet. A program therein sorted the strips, and matched them up. Voila, un-shredded document.
Great idea. Really.
Thank you. Couldn't have said it better myself.
Truth, not troll.
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