IMHO if the Cisco exec gets the appointment, other equipment suppliers will be out in the cold. Hiring an executive from one of the suppliers of the equipment the executive will be specifying strikes me as a massive conflict of interest.
In the interest of full disclosure: I currently work for one of Cisco's major competitors. B-)
I think your point is right but you expressed it wrong.
This study DOES examine the effect of violence (and several other content aspects) on the player. But it's measuring how they affect the player's reported enjoyment of the game, not their tendency to out-of-game violent behavior.
Gives a whole new meaning to "Old Boys' Club", don't it?
Quite.
Also: If the majority of executive suite jobs actually WERE filled with gays it would give educated heterosexuals with lower-level jobs an incentive to do all they can to run the gays out of the state, if they could manage it without driving the company out, too.
Opening up half or more of the higher-level positions would vastly improve their chances for job advancement.
So I suspect that such claims of high gay representation in high-level positions, if believed, will hurt, not help, the cause of those making them.
Dude, it's even better than that. She dropped out of technical college because she couldn't figure out how to make her computer work.
Wait a minute...
Last time I looked you go to technical college to LEARN things like "how to make my computer work".
It's not fair to ding somebody who's ENTERING it for not yet knowing what she's going there to LEARN. If she already knew it all she wouldn't need to go (except for the certification).
All you need to do is write gibberish to a file until the device is full then unlink the file, and do that repeatedly until your paranoia is satisfied.
Which risks hanging things every time the partition fills up.
You know when germany went through hyperinflation and had to use wheelbarrows to carry around money, i'm sure you've seen pictures.
Precisely.
I particularly liked the one with the kids' snow fort built out of bales of money. Though the woman feeding her furnace with bundles of money because it produced more heat than the fuel it could buy was classic.
It's also hard to find experts in a field to hire for the regulatory board that DON'T have a history of employment in the companies he'll be regulating. (What kind of "expert" hasn't actually worked in the field, after all?)
At my work, I'm actually not allowed to have a vested interest in a competitor.
Governments generally have a similar prohibition on having a vested interest in THEIR competitors: Other governments and organized crime. B-)
(Of course this doesn't affect your point about such conflicts of interest contributing to governments doing worse than private enterprise when attempting to operate businesses.)
Also: Does "shred" work with it? (It works with EXT3 but only if journaling is disabled - which seems to defeat the purpose of the filesystem...)
Alternatively: Is there a replacement or upgrade for "shred" that would work with EXT4 and/or other journaling filesystems, or a "shred the free blocks" IOCTL?
... [Al Gore] puts money in to carbon offset funds.
Don't you mean Al Gore operates carbon offset funds as a business and gets OTHERS to put money into them?
And while we're at it, what evidence do we have that these "carbon offset" operations actually sequester any significant amount of carbon for geologic time?
Checkouts with signature pads can usually print a hardcopy as an alternative - even if the transaction has proceeded to the point where the pad is asking for the signature. The clerks often aren't aware of what keys to press - but ask for the supervisor.
In those cases where they can't do it (or can't figure out how) I make a dot or (if that doesn't work) a short slanted line. (Never an X, which is often used as "his mark" by illiterates.)
My concern is not so much forged TRANSACTIONS (which would have to go through the usual chargeback process anyhow) but the use of a signature obtained by cracking the database, either electronically or through informing a skilled signature forger, to forge OTHER DOCUMENTS, such as credit card applications, big-ticket sales contracts, mortgages, etc.
He's using a waveguide coupling to launch the wave to an external hunk of waveguide, rather than running it through pins, wires, PC board traces, etc. The latter are very lossy at cellphone frequencies.
(I'm working on something similar right now and lose virtually all my signal going through about 6" of PC board wiring. B-( )
What they do at home or otherwise off school grounds, once they figure out how to hook up to the home LAN or make the internal modem do dialup, is their parents' problem, not yours.
But do send a letter to the parents giving them a heads-up that the kids will have a non-restricted laptop so it's the parents' job to monitor their out-of-school network use of it if that's what they want done.
(And feel free to get a site license for some cybernanny product and for the poor-but-fascist parents who want to impose it on their kid. The kids will just bypass it, of course. But this will cover you when they do. B-) )
- Do any government-mandated censorship on the school's network, not on the kids' laptops.
What they do at home or otherwise off school grounds, once they figure out how to hook up to the home LAN or make the internal modem do dialup, is their parents' problem, not yours.
Unless you're trying to teach them to circumvent computer security you give them a laptop with no restrictions whatsoever.
- If you put ANY restrictions on it, they will immediately start trying to break them. You'll be giving them an early start on a life of cybercrime.
- And if you punish them (the ones that get caught) for doing it, you'll also be giving them an early start on a criminal record.
Here's what I'd do in your place:
- Include a standard load on each laptop.
- Provide a backup facility on the school's network for those files they want to back up.
- Have the standard load preconfigured to automatically back up a particular subfolder. Tell them to store their schoolwork (and anything else they want preserved) there until they learn how to configure it to back up additional folders.
- Provide a facility for reloading the laptop with the standard load and restoring the backed up folder(s). No penalty for the kid to reload it to stock, even repeatedly.
- Explicitly grant permission for the kids to experiment with their laptops, loading what they want, trying other op systems, etc. (Warn them about only loading stuff they have rights to: Purchased software, FOSS software, their own stuff, stuff they have the author's permission to load, etc.)
- Let them try to run with alternate OSes, dual-booted, etc. (Warn them that the school personnel probably can't help them much with other configurations, but if they help each other or find help on the web that's fine.) Let them access the backup tools from alternate OSes if they can figure out how.
- Do any government-mandated censorship on the school's network, not on the kids' laptops.
Then the kids can reconfigure their laptops all they want and experiment all they want. When (not if) they break the configuration they can go to the school's lab and restore it to a known starting point with the latest backup of their important files
THIS way, instead of starting them on a life of cybercrime, you'll start them on a life of computer literacy and skill. You'll quickly find yourself with a herd of little geniuses, with some of them running a computing club and most of them - even those whose primary interests are something other than computers - displaying exceptional computer literacy.
... the lazy mail carrier who drives down the street, sits in his truck for half an hour, then drives off without actually delivering any mail...
He has to pick up and deliver at certain times. If he a stop early it may delay outgoing mail by an extra day. The route is timed for the heavily loaded days, so he sits around waiting for his next schedule-specified action on typical days.
It's similar to buses having to stay at the stop until it's time to depart. If they leave as soon as the passengers have all gotten on and off it creates a positive-feedback effect that causes the buses to bunch up with long gaps between them. (Longer gap - extra passenger gets to stop - delays next bus - lengthens gap further. Shorter gap - takes less time to load - bus leaves earlier - shortens gap further.)
First, you need to consider how much suction would be necessary just to move one packet over more than a few dozen yards. You'd have to set up repeaters at evenly-spaced points throughout the tube network just to keep up the necessary pressure.
Pressure, actually. Suction is limited to about 15 PSI at sea level. Pressure can go up until the air liquefies or the pipes burst.
A mechanical device to airlock the capsule from one tube to another is pretty basic stuff. It can be pneumatically powered, too.
With those repeaters in place, you'd still need someone on each end to receive the packet then route it to the next appropriate tube for further transmission.
Or some THING. Again a mechanical device can do the job even without electronics. Code the destination with an array of raised or lowered levers or forward-aft positioned raised rings on the side of the capsule (within the diameter of the end seals so it doesn't scrape against the walls). Again this can be read mechanically and route the capsule into the proper outgoing tube.
Heck: with the rings it's a mechanical sorting problem analogous to Hollerith cards. Pop the tube out into a ramp and let it roll down. When a ring hits an interposer the cylinder gets diverted to another ramp. After a small number of such decisions it has selected its output tube and off it goes. The ring settings amount to a specification of a route through the network, analogous to bang-ist routing in UUCP Mailnet. And there is room for a LOT of rings on a standard-sized pneumatic tube capsule.
... how is it not like a truck? Data flow is not continuous, it's sent in discreet packets of variable sizes, it can take multiple routes to get to a destination, and every so often at a switching point there's a collision so the data never arrives and has to be resent. Honestly, I think roads and trucks is a much better analogy.
And we're back to the "Information Superhighway" analogy and terminology. Which, while accurate, was coined to prepare the public for government entry into network construction - and from there, to content control.
Fortunately private enterprise stayed ahead of government attempts to run and control the show - at least in the urban areas. So the government tried to get its camel's nose into the tent by wiring the schools - then censoring the net to "protect the children".
But rural areas are underserved. And the Democrats are back in power. So watch for another try in the next couple years predicated on the "information gap" of inadequate broadband internet service in rural areas.
Will the WISPs will head off THAT effort at the pass? Stay tuned...
Wind isn't the panacea because it needs back-up generation which needs to be running all of the time. What do you do when the wind isn't blowing?
A) Storage works just fine. (Do a search on "vanadium redox" to see how that's handled with some recently deployed technology. For large power companies pumping water from a low reservoir to a high one when there's extra power and running gennies as it comes back down when power is short is also practical - and already deployed.)
B) Wind at any given point on the Earth's surface is quite variable. (This is why home-power mills need storage.) Wind averaged over a number of mills spread out over a larger area is much better behaved. Hooking several scattered wind farms together in a grid fills in the holes from local weather patterns quite nicely.
C) A major fraction of the wind power comes from "lake effect" winds: Periodic flows from bodies of water toward land during the afternoon and from land to water during the predawn morning. These occur because the temperature of the land changes rapidly with the day/night cycle while the temperature of water is virtually unchanged. Some of the best wind sites are in mountain passes where such lake-effect winds are funneled. Example: The farms at Altamont Pass in California uses the lake effect with the Pacific Ocean as the "lake", California's Central Valley as the "island", and the Pacific Coast Mountain Ranges as the funnel with the San Francisco Bay, Sacremento River Delta, and Altamont Pass as the funnel's stem.
Another major chunk comes from the prevailing wind flow.
Weather patterns are on top of this. But in many areas the prevailing flows are dominant.
D) Wind power tracks heating/air conditioning load peaks (because wind reduces the effectiveness of building insulation) and the strong afternoon peak of the lake effect coincides almost exactly with the afternoon peak of the electrical load.
Result: You don't need to have anywhere near equivalent capacity of the windmills in hot standby power. In fact, several geographically diverse wind farms are actually more reliable statistically than the power plants that would "back" them.
Unfortunately, such information is relevant to constructing nuclear bombs. (For instance you REALLY need to know how to protect yourself from workplace exposure - at least well enough to live to complete the project - if you want to make one.)
So the real story tends to be closely held. And because a "terrorist operation" working on a bomb or a foreign government wanting to join the "nuclear club" would be looking for this info, the government will be looking into anyone showing too much interest in it to see if they're from one of those groups.
Question authority - and the authorities will question YOU!
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IMHO if the Cisco exec gets the appointment, other equipment suppliers will be out in the cold. Hiring an executive from one of the suppliers of the equipment the executive will be specifying strikes me as a massive conflict of interest.
In the interest of full disclosure: I currently work for one of Cisco's major competitors. B-)
I think your point is right but you expressed it wrong.
This study DOES examine the effect of violence (and several other content aspects) on the player. But it's measuring how they affect the player's reported enjoyment of the game, not their tendency to out-of-game violent behavior.
How do you explain the fact that the Columbine kids along with multiple other child criminals played video games?!?!
How do you explain the fact that the Columbine kids along with multiple other child criminals drank milk?!?!
While we're at it:
How do you explain the fact that the Columbine kids along with multiple other child criminals breathed air?!?!
THAT'S IT! If you cut off all children's access to air you'll completely end school shootings!
FINALLY a workable solution!
Gives a whole new meaning to "Old Boys' Club", don't it?
Quite.
Also: If the majority of executive suite jobs actually WERE filled with gays it would give educated heterosexuals with lower-level jobs an incentive to do all they can to run the gays out of the state, if they could manage it without driving the company out, too.
Opening up half or more of the higher-level positions would vastly improve their chances for job advancement.
So I suspect that such claims of high gay representation in high-level positions, if believed, will hurt, not help, the cause of those making them.
Gays are a minority in America. They're not a minority in higher-level jobs requiring an education.
That's a very strong assertion.
What evidence is there that more than half of the people in "higher-level jobs requiring an education" are homosexual?
Dude, it's even better than that. She dropped out of technical college because she couldn't figure out how to make her computer work.
Wait a minute ...
Last time I looked you go to technical college to LEARN things like "how to make my computer work".
It's not fair to ding somebody who's ENTERING it for not yet knowing what she's going there to LEARN. If she already knew it all she wouldn't need to go (except for the certification).
All you need to do is write gibberish to a file until the device is full then unlink the file, and do that repeatedly until your paranoia is satisfied.
Which risks hanging things every time the partition fills up.
You know when germany went through hyperinflation and had to use wheelbarrows to carry around money, i'm sure you've seen pictures.
Precisely.
I particularly liked the one with the kids' snow fort built out of bales of money. Though the woman feeding her furnace with bundles of money because it produced more heat than the fuel it could buy was classic.
It's also hard to find experts in a field to hire for the regulatory board that DON'T have a history of employment in the companies he'll be regulating. (What kind of "expert" hasn't actually worked in the field, after all?)
At my work, I'm actually not allowed to have a vested interest in a competitor.
Governments generally have a similar prohibition on having a vested interest in THEIR competitors: Other governments and organized crime. B-)
(Of course this doesn't affect your point about such conflicts of interest contributing to governments doing worse than private enterprise when attempting to operate businesses.)
Is EXT4 backwards compatible with EXT2 and EXT3?
Also: Does "shred" work with it? (It works with EXT3 but only if journaling is disabled - which seems to defeat the purpose of the filesystem...)
Alternatively: Is there a replacement or upgrade for "shred" that would work with EXT4 and/or other journaling filesystems, or a "shred the free blocks" IOCTL?
Well my TABLE LAMP boots in 50ms! Beat THAT!
Not using those new-fangled compact fluorescents, are you sonny?
... [Al Gore] puts money in to carbon offset funds.
Don't you mean Al Gore operates carbon offset funds as a business and gets OTHERS to put money into them?
And while we're at it, what evidence do we have that these "carbon offset" operations actually sequester any significant amount of carbon for geologic time?
Checkouts with signature pads can usually print a hardcopy as an alternative - even if the transaction has proceeded to the point where the pad is asking for the signature. The clerks often aren't aware of what keys to press - but ask for the supervisor.
In those cases where they can't do it (or can't figure out how) I make a dot or (if that doesn't work) a short slanted line. (Never an X, which is often used as "his mark" by illiterates.)
My concern is not so much forged TRANSACTIONS (which would have to go through the usual chargeback process anyhow) but the use of a signature obtained by cracking the database, either electronically or through informing a skilled signature forger, to forge OTHER DOCUMENTS, such as credit card applications, big-ticket sales contracts, mortgages, etc.
He's using a waveguide coupling to launch the wave to an external hunk of waveguide, rather than running it through pins, wires, PC board traces, etc. The latter are very lossy at cellphone frequencies.
(I'm working on something similar right now and lose virtually all my signal going through about 6" of PC board wiring. B-( )
What they do at home or otherwise off school grounds, once they figure out how to hook up to the home LAN or make the internal modem do dialup, is their parents' problem, not yours.
But do send a letter to the parents giving them a heads-up that the kids will have a non-restricted laptop so it's the parents' job to monitor their out-of-school network use of it if that's what they want done.
(And feel free to get a site license for some cybernanny product and for the poor-but-fascist parents who want to impose it on their kid. The kids will just bypass it, of course. But this will cover you when they do. B-) )
- Do any government-mandated censorship on the school's network, not on the kids' laptops.
What they do at home or otherwise off school grounds, once they figure out how to hook up to the home LAN or make the internal modem do dialup, is their parents' problem, not yours.
Unless you're trying to teach them to circumvent computer security you give them a laptop with no restrictions whatsoever.
- If you put ANY restrictions on it, they will immediately start trying to break them. You'll be giving them an early start on a life of cybercrime.
- And if you punish them (the ones that get caught) for doing it, you'll also be giving them an early start on a criminal record.
Here's what I'd do in your place:
- Include a standard load on each laptop.
- Provide a backup facility on the school's network for those files they want to back up.
- Have the standard load preconfigured to automatically back up a particular subfolder. Tell them to store their schoolwork (and anything else they want preserved) there until they learn how to configure it to back up additional folders.
- Provide a facility for reloading the laptop with the standard load and restoring the backed up folder(s). No penalty for the kid to reload it to stock, even repeatedly.
- Explicitly grant permission for the kids to experiment with their laptops, loading what they want, trying other op systems, etc. (Warn them about only loading stuff they have rights to: Purchased software, FOSS software, their own stuff, stuff they have the author's permission to load, etc.)
- Let them try to run with alternate OSes, dual-booted, etc. (Warn them that the school personnel probably can't help them much with other configurations, but if they help each other or find help on the web that's fine.) Let them access the backup tools from alternate OSes if they can figure out how.
- Do any government-mandated censorship on the school's network, not on the kids' laptops.
Then the kids can reconfigure their laptops all they want and experiment all they want. When (not if) they break the configuration they can go to the school's lab and restore it to a known starting point with the latest backup of their important files
THIS way, instead of starting them on a life of cybercrime, you'll start them on a life of computer literacy and skill. You'll quickly find yourself with a herd of little geniuses, with some of them running a computing club and most of them - even those whose primary interests are something other than computers - displaying exceptional computer literacy.
I have a bunch of old floppies I'd like to access... B-)
Sounds like you should mention this to the local postmaster.
... the lazy mail carrier who drives down the street, sits in his truck for half an hour, then drives off without actually delivering any mail ...
He has to pick up and deliver at certain times. If he a stop early it may delay outgoing mail by an extra day. The route is timed for the heavily loaded days, so he sits around waiting for his next schedule-specified action on typical days.
It's similar to buses having to stay at the stop until it's time to depart. If they leave as soon as the passengers have all gotten on and off it creates a positive-feedback effect that causes the buses to bunch up with long gaps between them. (Longer gap - extra passenger gets to stop - delays next bus - lengthens gap further. Shorter gap - takes less time to load - bus leaves earlier - shortens gap further.)
First, you need to consider how much suction would be necessary just to move one packet over more than a few dozen yards. You'd have to set up repeaters at evenly-spaced points throughout the tube network just to keep up the necessary pressure.
Pressure, actually. Suction is limited to about 15 PSI at sea level. Pressure can go up until the air liquefies or the pipes burst.
A mechanical device to airlock the capsule from one tube to another is pretty basic stuff. It can be pneumatically powered, too.
With those repeaters in place, you'd still need someone on each end to receive the packet then route it to the next appropriate tube for further transmission.
Or some THING. Again a mechanical device can do the job even without electronics. Code the destination with an array of raised or lowered levers or forward-aft positioned raised rings on the side of the capsule (within the diameter of the end seals so it doesn't scrape against the walls). Again this can be read mechanically and route the capsule into the proper outgoing tube.
Heck: with the rings it's a mechanical sorting problem analogous to Hollerith cards. Pop the tube out into a ramp and let it roll down. When a ring hits an interposer the cylinder gets diverted to another ramp. After a small number of such decisions it has selected its output tube and off it goes. The ring settings amount to a specification of a route through the network, analogous to bang-ist routing in UUCP Mailnet. And there is room for a LOT of rings on a standard-sized pneumatic tube capsule.
... how is it not like a truck? Data flow is not continuous, it's sent in discreet packets of variable sizes, it can take multiple routes to get to a destination, and every so often at a switching point there's a collision so the data never arrives and has to be resent. Honestly, I think roads and trucks is a much better analogy.
And we're back to the "Information Superhighway" analogy and terminology. Which, while accurate, was coined to prepare the public for government entry into network construction - and from there, to content control.
Fortunately private enterprise stayed ahead of government attempts to run and control the show - at least in the urban areas. So the government tried to get its camel's nose into the tent by wiring the schools - then censoring the net to "protect the children".
But rural areas are underserved. And the Democrats are back in power. So watch for another try in the next couple years predicated on the "information gap" of inadequate broadband internet service in rural areas.
Will the WISPs will head off THAT effort at the pass? Stay tuned...
Wind isn't the panacea because it needs back-up generation which needs to be running all of the time. What do you do when the wind isn't blowing?
A) Storage works just fine. (Do a search on "vanadium redox" to see how that's handled with some recently deployed technology. For large power companies pumping water from a low reservoir to a high one when there's extra power and running gennies as it comes back down when power is short is also practical - and already deployed.)
B) Wind at any given point on the Earth's surface is quite variable. (This is why home-power mills need storage.) Wind averaged over a number of mills spread out over a larger area is much better behaved. Hooking several scattered wind farms together in a grid fills in the holes from local weather patterns quite nicely.
C) A major fraction of the wind power comes from "lake effect" winds: Periodic flows from bodies of water toward land during the afternoon and from land to water during the predawn morning. These occur because the temperature of the land changes rapidly with the day/night cycle while the temperature of water is virtually unchanged. Some of the best wind sites are in mountain passes where such lake-effect winds are funneled. Example: The farms at Altamont Pass in California uses the lake effect with the Pacific Ocean as the "lake", California's Central Valley as the "island", and the Pacific Coast Mountain Ranges as the funnel with the San Francisco Bay, Sacremento River Delta, and Altamont Pass as the funnel's stem.
Another major chunk comes from the prevailing wind flow.
Weather patterns are on top of this. But in many areas the prevailing flows are dominant.
D) Wind power tracks heating/air conditioning load peaks (because wind reduces the effectiveness of building insulation) and the strong afternoon peak of the lake effect coincides almost exactly with the afternoon peak of the electrical load.
Result: You don't need to have anywhere near equivalent capacity of the windmills in hot standby power. In fact, several geographically diverse wind farms are actually more reliable statistically than the power plants that would "back" them.
Unfortunately, such information is relevant to constructing nuclear bombs. (For instance you REALLY need to know how to protect yourself from workplace exposure - at least well enough to live to complete the project - if you want to make one.)
So the real story tends to be closely held. And because a "terrorist operation" working on a bomb or a foreign government wanting to join the "nuclear club" would be looking for this info, the government will be looking into anyone showing too much interest in it to see if they're from one of those groups.
Question authority - and the authorities will question YOU!