I'm quite familiar with git - I think it is great and use it preferentially. Even if he didn't lose any code, he lost _work_. He also lost other people's work. If he had Crashplan running, he could just scurry over to his laptop, do a quick restore into a directory of his choosing, and pretty much carry on where he left off. Depending on the size of the backup, we might be talking about a few minutes.
And I won't trust a single USB thumb drive to hold my most important stuff. And how do you hold onto family pictures and such? It's amazing how much crap can accumulate, but also how important it can be to have good backups that are remote. If the house burns down, don't matter how many machines the stuff is spread across if it's not local.
I've been a good little monkey when it comes to backups and I've STILL been bitten. Once, lightning got both my main drive and my backup - it took me a week to recover little bits from each drive and get it all pieced back together. Another time my backup drive mount failed (it was basically a rubber band... bad design) and fell onto my running main drive, killing both and requiring another major effort for recovery. At that point, I started rsycing (or similar, like Unison) across the network to another machine so that there was some physical distance.
Then Unison noticed some file differences between the backup and the main drive... my hard drive (or maybe OS) was silently corrupting files! And in my family pictures directory, no less. By this point, I'd had enough. Now I run Crashplan (which keeps file history and checks hashes on every file OFFSITE) on all of my computers. I also run the native backup program (Windows Backup, TimeMachine, etc) in parallel (to a local fileserver running ZFS, which has a number of data integrity features). So far, no disasters and a successful recovery or two.
I'm a dumbass compared to Linus... no idea what he's thinking.
Crashplan even runs on Linux (and Windows and Mac, and with some nudging FreeBSD). Dropbox (or Sparkleshare if you want to stay Open Source). My goodness, the carelessness here is crazy.
Those kids didn't prove the sciences wrong, they investigated and called out the marketing department.
Look, I'm sure that somewhere a 14-year-old is capable of running a tightly controlled scientific experiment rigorous enough for a peer-reviewed journal. But the WiFi study doesn't look like it. They grew seeds on a sponge in the open air, and seem to only have only one control and one variable.
Of course it does. So does energy. Fortunately, we are talking about mW of gigahertz frequency radio waves and not full-on sunlight, which is demonstrably harmful every time you get a sunburn.
Good, God man. You have a 4 digit Slashdot ID. I was hoping for something remotely scientific. Your first link shows something that looks like my kid would do for science fair, and indeed the first sentence is: "A Danish science experiment by a group of 9th-graders..."
But let's give them the benefit of the doubt. Let's say their experiment was scientifically sound. It took them 12 days to run it, and these stories are from May. Don't you think that someone might have reproduced their findings by now?
It just bounces around for an infinite period of time. Sometimes I wait a few minutes and then jump in the room with my laptop and get insanely high transfer speeds for a short time, just for the kick of it.
Why the fuck he's talking about "image quality"? Until we get 4k displays the quality differences are non-existent.
There have been big advances in LCD technology. 7 years ago I would not even have considered LCD, but today I'm hard pressed to justify the heat and power draw of plasmas since the LCDs have improved so much.
For reasons I dont claim to understand a very powerful section of those who hold the power in the USA want a war.
If Assad goes down, so does Hezbollah. And of course, it puts Iran in a difficult position and gets rid of a Russian ally on NATO's border. But I think Israeli security would be the key benefit they are chasing.
Yup! And you can't even apply Occam's Razor here, because either side could be motivated. It could also be a mistaken release. We mere proles simply don't have enough information... this is all speculation.
I will say, though, that there are some indications that rockets were used to deliver the chemicals, and the rebels do not seem to have much heavy weaponry.
I'm curious, why do you take this as a confession, on the part of Assad's regime, that they were responsible for the August attacks?
I think you mistake my speculation for some firm belief. On one side, we have a brutal dictatorship with a history of disregard for human life. On the other, we have leaked and shared intelligence from sources with a very spotty track record. I honestly have no idea what is going on, and you don't either. I'm just having some fun speculating, but I don't think my speculation is too far-fetched.
The aversion to poisoning is not a Western tendency. Poison is the tool of the bad guy in stories from all over the globe. We seem to have an innate distaste for it.
I wonder if this was his plan all along - a way to keep the West out of his civil war. Do something completely outrageous, seemingly capitulate to a demand that you didn't really want to violate anyway, and then be left off in a better position than you were before you used the chemical weapons. As a bonus, you no longer have to worry about guarding these things against the rebels.
Having thought about this for exactly 5 minutes, I have an opinion:)
Set up a no-fault insurance system where everyone is required to have insurance. Let the insurance companies set the rates per car, so that better automated systems will have lower insurance rates. Print the average insurance cost on the window sticker for the car, same way mileage is set now.
The most obvious unintended incentive with my proposal is that drivers and self-driving car manufacturers would focus on protecting their own car from damage, damage to the other car be dammed. Still, I think most of the techniques used to reduce the cost of damage to one's car will also protect other people's cars.
Overdrive manages library lending through various e-readers, so I know it is technically possible. Kindles have "Active Content", but I have no idea how much capability these apps are allowed to have - my impression is that they are quite limited. My rooted Kindle can run anything you compile for it, but they certainly can't depend on that.
Like I said, I agree that the law is stupid - I just don't agree with the implication that we need to rely on good parenting when making social policy... and I say this as someone with strong libertarian leanings. I just have an even stronger pragmatic streak:)
Yes, my apologies - I was being very US-centered. Copyright is obviously different everywhere. In the US, public libraries have something of a religious quality associated with them.
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I'm quite familiar with git - I think it is great and use it preferentially. Even if he didn't lose any code, he lost _work_. He also lost other people's work. If he had Crashplan running, he could just scurry over to his laptop, do a quick restore into a directory of his choosing, and pretty much carry on where he left off. Depending on the size of the backup, we might be talking about a few minutes.
I like the response to him:
I've been a good little monkey when it comes to backups and I've STILL been bitten. Once, lightning got both my main drive and my backup - it took me a week to recover little bits from each drive and get it all pieced back together. Another time my backup drive mount failed (it was basically a rubber band... bad design) and fell onto my running main drive, killing both and requiring another major effort for recovery. At that point, I started rsycing (or similar, like Unison) across the network to another machine so that there was some physical distance.
Then Unison noticed some file differences between the backup and the main drive... my hard drive (or maybe OS) was silently corrupting files! And in my family pictures directory, no less. By this point, I'd had enough. Now I run Crashplan (which keeps file history and checks hashes on every file OFFSITE) on all of my computers. I also run the native backup program (Windows Backup, TimeMachine, etc) in parallel (to a local fileserver running ZFS, which has a number of data integrity features). So far, no disasters and a successful recovery or two.
I'm a dumbass compared to Linus... no idea what he's thinking.
Crashplan even runs on Linux (and Windows and Mac, and with some nudging FreeBSD). Dropbox (or Sparkleshare if you want to stay Open Source). My goodness, the carelessness here is crazy.
Those kids didn't prove the sciences wrong, they investigated and called out the marketing department.
Look, I'm sure that somewhere a 14-year-old is capable of running a tightly controlled scientific experiment rigorous enough for a peer-reviewed journal. But the WiFi study doesn't look like it. They grew seeds on a sponge in the open air, and seem to only have only one control and one variable.
Frequency matters.
Of course it does. So does energy. Fortunately, we are talking about mW of gigahertz frequency radio waves and not full-on sunlight, which is demonstrably harmful every time you get a sunburn.
Good, God man. You have a 4 digit Slashdot ID. I was hoping for something remotely scientific. Your first link shows something that looks like my kid would do for science fair, and indeed the first sentence is: "A Danish science experiment by a group of 9th-graders..."
But let's give them the benefit of the doubt. Let's say their experiment was scientifically sound. It took them 12 days to run it, and these stories are from May. Don't you think that someone might have reproduced their findings by now?
Thank God someone around here picked up on that.
My attempts at humor are feeble.
It just bounces around for an infinite period of time. Sometimes I wait a few minutes and then jump in the room with my laptop and get insanely high transfer speeds for a short time, just for the kick of it.
It's 5.8 GHz... nothing absorbs that!
there are evidences of plants under WIFI frequency bombardments having retarded growth
Links or it didn't happen.
Why the fuck he's talking about "image quality"? Until we get 4k displays the quality differences are non-existent.
There have been big advances in LCD technology. 7 years ago I would not even have considered LCD, but today I'm hard pressed to justify the heat and power draw of plasmas since the LCDs have improved so much.
I keep my smart TV directly on the public internet.
My suspicion is that this horrible act was actually done by rebels
I agree that - given the tiny bit of information we are working with - that is also a reasonable possibility.
For reasons I dont claim to understand a very powerful section of those who hold the power in the USA want a war.
If Assad goes down, so does Hezbollah. And of course, it puts Iran in a difficult position and gets rid of a Russian ally on NATO's border. But I think Israeli security would be the key benefit they are chasing.
Yup! And you can't even apply Occam's Razor here, because either side could be motivated. It could also be a mistaken release. We mere proles simply don't have enough information... this is all speculation.
I will say, though, that there are some indications that rockets were used to deliver the chemicals, and the rebels do not seem to have much heavy weaponry.
I'm curious, why do you take this as a confession, on the part of Assad's regime, that they were responsible for the August attacks?
I think you mistake my speculation for some firm belief. On one side, we have a brutal dictatorship with a history of disregard for human life. On the other, we have leaked and shared intelligence from sources with a very spotty track record. I honestly have no idea what is going on, and you don't either. I'm just having some fun speculating, but I don't think my speculation is too far-fetched.
The aversion to poisoning is not a Western tendency. Poison is the tool of the bad guy in stories from all over the globe. We seem to have an innate distaste for it.
I wonder if this was his plan all along - a way to keep the West out of his civil war. Do something completely outrageous, seemingly capitulate to a demand that you didn't really want to violate anyway, and then be left off in a better position than you were before you used the chemical weapons. As a bonus, you no longer have to worry about guarding these things against the rebels.
Then you'd probably find Southern Alabaman even easier :)
Having thought about this for exactly 5 minutes, I have an opinion :)
Set up a no-fault insurance system where everyone is required to have insurance. Let the insurance companies set the rates per car, so that better automated systems will have lower insurance rates. Print the average insurance cost on the window sticker for the car, same way mileage is set now.
The most obvious unintended incentive with my proposal is that drivers and self-driving car manufacturers would focus on protecting their own car from damage, damage to the other car be dammed. Still, I think most of the techniques used to reduce the cost of damage to one's car will also protect other people's cars.
Overdrive manages library lending through various e-readers, so I know it is technically possible. Kindles have "Active Content", but I have no idea how much capability these apps are allowed to have - my impression is that they are quite limited. My rooted Kindle can run anything you compile for it, but they certainly can't depend on that.
Like I said, I agree that the law is stupid - I just don't agree with the implication that we need to rely on good parenting when making social policy... and I say this as someone with strong libertarian leanings. I just have an even stronger pragmatic streak :)
Yes, my apologies - I was being very US-centered. Copyright is obviously different everywhere. In the US, public libraries have something of a religious quality associated with them.
I think you can be taken for an extra $20 in third world countries as well. Swindlers exist everywhere.