It likely wouldn't work, as it could be redirected around/through the target, though perhaps you might be able to tell due to the laser light diffusing from a crisp point. In any case, a well placed pebble should also work as it would bounce off in a very obvious way.
I have always wondered how it worked for the jury tho.. they are citizens..
Speaking of citizens. A while back, working for a large hosting provider, my dept handled the documenting, and backing up, of sites that had child porn (as well as massive credit card fraud, and serious phishing / hacking) before sending it off to some other group that notified the FBI. We had to check, visually check, and confirm if a site was truly child porn before we could proceed with the steps needed in order to send it along to the FBI. Since we were understaffed and needed 24/7 coverage, we worked the shifts alone more often than not. Generally speaking, once we notified the FBI we would ask them if they wanted the site shutdown, but they almost always wanted it left untouched with it up and running so they had more time to get logs, investigate, and I'm unsure where it went from there (generally the sites were purchased with stolen CC's, and had no real contact information, so they would have to monitor the site to find out who was behind it, at least that was my take on it). All that said it all made me highly concerned as my browser cache and hdd no doubt had lifetimes worth of prison sentences hidden away (and I had access to a lockbox full of 'evidence'), and that everything could go terribly wrong if HR or my boss decided they really didn't like me.
The things I've seen... ugh... only time helps fade certain memories.
I cannot find the article that goes over it, but I recall reading about him some time ago. During the interview he was quite aware of his condition, after all he remembers everything that happened prior to his surgery to help control his seizures. He basically said that he wanted to help the doctors better understand his condition in any way that could be beneficial because that information could help other people. Wish I could find the article, as I do believe he had enough understanding and did give permission.
Regarding computer replacement parts -- not really. Those machines are going to sit there no matter what, and they will fail at the same rates regardless of what software is running on them. OTOH, if they were running 24/7 and that was being done only so SETI@Home could run, then yes -- replacement costs of fans and harddrives would have gone up.
I agree with everything that you said, but what about electromigration? Wouldn't that be a concern when dealing with 5000 computers over 10 years of 24/7 usage? I'd hate to be the one who rebooted them and waited to see if they came back up. Just curious what you think on this. Thanks:)
Doh, yeah, I meant figuratively... as for nice 19, I wish. I was directly ordered that these 'had' to be Windows machines, and that the browsers 'had' to be IE. The only reason he noticed that they were running at 100% util was because... if you've ever had to run a browser for months on a single webpage, one day that meta refresh will stop working, and then it stops updating the page. Generally closing IE and restarting it solves the issue for a few more months, however he was sure that it was happening this time because of this rogue 100% CPU eatter that he had so cleverly discovered. That said, back to the the nice 19 comment, basically yes. They all ran at a base priority of low, which is the lowest under Windows.
I almost lost my job when I was working in a NOC at a previous company. I was in charge of maintaining the monitoring and the machines that ran them. Really, these were workstations that were connected to a handful of monitors, all with webpages up that would refresh once a minute, they were not the servers that were running our actual monitoring software (firehunter, whatsup, big brother, etc) so since they were just running a few browsers they were never under any load. So I tossed SETI@Home on all these workstations, that no one uses, that just display browser windows, and it was all fine for several months.
One day I came to work, and my boss was breathless (I wished physically, not just literally), he couldn't figure out why all these boxes were all running at 100% CPU. After several hours (he was SOOO slow) he figured out it was SETI. He tried in vain to prove it was me, I wasn't going to admit it, I knew that between him and HR they would hang me, over at best the theft of some company power (which is stupid because every linux admin had super shiny screensavers that their computers couldn't quite handle, and they had to be running at 100% util for 16+ hours each day once they went home). It's been a while since I've ran SETI, but what I recall is he could have figured out it was me if he knew to check the ID it was uploading the results under, then went to SETI's site and check the ID, which would have at least pointed him to the name Tynin, which since my personal email address uses tynin in it, it should have been the nail in my coffin. Luckly, he was incompetent, and missed that detail, and I sail past what would have been one of the more silly disasters of my life.
If you are reading this Ed, please know your staff will celebrate the day you die, pizza and beer in the hallways!
Agreed. On top of that the idea of writing out more than an single page of paper makes my hand want to cramp up, just thinking about it. My poor wussy untrained writing skills simply fail on endurance, but man can I type wicked fast for hours.
Besides all that, if you've never seen a woman shooting an rifle, you've never lived. Their is just something insanely hot about a good looking woman using a rifle, and using it well. Wish I could find one of my wife, not sure where they are at the moment.;)
The thing about the Wild West, is it was never wild. That was a myth told to, I suppose in a way, romanticize cow boys and some of the crooks of that time.
From the book Frontier Violence: Another Look, author W. Eugene Hollon, provides us with these facts:
* In Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and Caldwell, for the years from 1870 to 1885, there were only 45 total homicides. This equates to a rate of approximately 1 murder per 100,000 residents per year.
* In Abilene, supposedly one of the wildest of the cow towns, not a single person was killed in 1869 or 1870.
We have much higher levels of homicide now compaired to the Wild West although I'm glad to see that violent crime is at an all time low, that is a great thing.
As for the criminal on Gangland, yeah he has a point, however if you are truly carrying concealed, then no one should see even so much as the outline of your piece even under a jacket, otherwise it isn't considered concealed, and you can lose your CCW over that. I have an FN-9 with a short grip that is invisible on me, that said I also opt to carry pepper spray at times when I don't think a gun is needed.
So I think we are going to have to respectfully agree to disagree. The Boy Scout in me wants to be prepared for the worse case scenario, be it from a robber, or my gov (I pray not), or even straight up rioting/looters (I live in an area that in the last 4 years I've lost power for over 3 weeks on one time, 2 weeks another time due to hurricanes), and both my wife and I have the common sense not to shoot at each other in pitch of night without having the unknown shadow declare itself, and both of us have put in the time training ourselves how to handle them properly. I'm sure an accident could happen, just like I'm sure I could accidentally wipe out drive on a production server with a mistaken command, but I'm professional enough to know to take slow calculated steps when I'm dealing with things in my life that could potentially cause me problems. I realize not everyone may be this way, which is where your side of the argument makes more sense.
...small cities in the 5,000 to 100,000 population range. And they most don't have links to them of any grade one would call "backbone."
True enough, as a city dweller I often forget that. I suppose I was commenting on getting from NYC (which definitely has a tier one backbone going into it) to a city in CA sounds like it should be going over a major pipe that can handle the load, at least until it gets to CA and has to possibly route into a tiny town, which goes back to my comment of the problem being local POPs with low capacity. Granted you are entirely correct that some low population ranged places are likely not going to have nearby links into a backbone.
You're not allowed to drive drunk either, but it still happens. I pose that it's less likely for a drunk to have gun, if the person didn't have the gun with them before they had one too many.
True enough, hard to refute that. Although I don't think it is a particularly good argument against gun rights. Since their will always be drunks, and since drunks do not think logically, we must ban [insert object] in order to save lives. That could be anything from knives, to cars, to even glass beer bottles. Since anything can be used as a weapon, somethings more effectively (cars), it shouldn't be grounds to ban simply because people could get drunk and misuse them.
I personally know if I'm going to have a drink when I go out, I leave mine at home to avoid losing my CCW.
Real men show how virile they are with a mini gun. (Which I must admit, looks pretty damn fun.);)
Looks like it could be fun. I know when I leave the range after a match I feel like a proverbial 400 lb gorilla full of adrenaline... although I do leave a little butt sore every time my wife out shoots me;)
Or peering with a solid tier one backbone, although I do suppose that would be considered nationwide infrastructure. Don't get me wrong though, I realize and have seen OC-192 links get saturated, it can and does happen, but I don't think the problem is on the backbone as much as it is a problem in individual cities that have low capacity to their local POPs.
You aren't allowed to have a gun in a bar. At least not in Florida. Generally speaking, you aren't allowed to be drunk and carrying a weapon either, even if you have a CCW. To refute your last sentence, I choice to carry because, at least in the USA, the police have no duty to protect individuals. So for me, I value my right to carry and protect my family since I know the police may not be able to. Even my wife has a CCW as you are correct, she is a bit scared about going out of the house at night as we do live in a moderately bad area of town. Now excuse me, I need to get back to making reloads and cleaning my AR-15 as their is a match this weekend:)
As a CCW holder in FL, I'd like to say hello to everyone:)
That said, I know more gun owners in FL that do not have a CCW than that do. I'd say at least 10% of the population of FL owns a gun based on my off the cuff math. Yes yes, the plural of anecdote isn't data, but still. Lots, hell, TONS of guns are in FL without causing much of a problem.
Sorry for replying to myself. After some more research I found a ruling by the DoJ (discussed on/. here) that what Sprint is giving the police is protected by the 4th Amendment and would need a warrant to be issued before providing that data. Yet that isn't happening. I read the article, I'm still not sure how this could be legal.
I just don't understand how this could be legal. The fact that Sprint is being open about this seems to suggest that they have done nothing wrong, and this is business as usual. If so, is this standard with other cell providers as well? I could have sworn I've read an article elsewhere, where someone was trying to locate a missing person and contacted the cell provider to have them give them GPS coords and they refused to turn them over without a court order (cannot find it after some searching)... yet they give the police unlimited access without so much as a court provided rubber stamp machine?!
Sometimes less is more, I know that is exactly why I starting using Google search was its minimalistic approach to its front page. Most people that this would be targeting aren't going to be Linux OS nerds, yet I imagine if anyone can pull off the Year of the Linux Desktop, it would be Google. I just don't think it will be the Linux Desktop most of us had envisioned.
As a thought experiment, going along with your example...
If you could slow down time enough and watch that laser pointers light, the light from it would likely be bending as you moved it from friend A to friend B as a function of the time it took you to move it. At all points, the laser would never go faster than light, although from your location, point C, it might seem to, but both friend A and friend B would experience the event at the speed of light and not faster. When you flick your wrist from friend A to friend B, the moment you finally point at friend B, the laser light would, in current time, still be shining farther down the wall, racing to catch up and focus on friend B, but only as fast as the speed of light.
The more I think about it, the more like a lighthouse, or neutron star, your example is, and obviously neither is producing light at FTL speeds regardless of how many observers in various locations.
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It likely wouldn't work, as it could be redirected around/through the target, though perhaps you might be able to tell due to the laser light diffusing from a crisp point. In any case, a well placed pebble should also work as it would bounce off in a very obvious way.
I have always wondered how it worked for the jury tho.. they are citizens..
Speaking of citizens. A while back, working for a large hosting provider, my dept handled the documenting, and backing up, of sites that had child porn (as well as massive credit card fraud, and serious phishing / hacking) before sending it off to some other group that notified the FBI. We had to check, visually check, and confirm if a site was truly child porn before we could proceed with the steps needed in order to send it along to the FBI. Since we were understaffed and needed 24/7 coverage, we worked the shifts alone more often than not. Generally speaking, once we notified the FBI we would ask them if they wanted the site shutdown, but they almost always wanted it left untouched with it up and running so they had more time to get logs, investigate, and I'm unsure where it went from there (generally the sites were purchased with stolen CC's, and had no real contact information, so they would have to monitor the site to find out who was behind it, at least that was my take on it). All that said it all made me highly concerned as my browser cache and hdd no doubt had lifetimes worth of prison sentences hidden away (and I had access to a lockbox full of 'evidence'), and that everything could go terribly wrong if HR or my boss decided they really didn't like me.
The things I've seen... ugh... only time helps fade certain memories.
Maybe because it is a world wide web, and some people who live in the US may not have as limited of interests as you?
No, but it might help the next patient.
Thanks for sharing. Good story. :)
I cannot find the article that goes over it, but I recall reading about him some time ago. During the interview he was quite aware of his condition, after all he remembers everything that happened prior to his surgery to help control his seizures. He basically said that he wanted to help the doctors better understand his condition in any way that could be beneficial because that information could help other people. Wish I could find the article, as I do believe he had enough understanding and did give permission.
Regarding computer replacement parts -- not really. Those machines are going to sit there no matter what, and they will fail at the same rates regardless of what software is running on them. OTOH, if they were running 24/7 and that was being done only so SETI@Home could run, then yes -- replacement costs of fans and harddrives would have gone up.
I agree with everything that you said, but what about electromigration? Wouldn't that be a concern when dealing with 5000 computers over 10 years of 24/7 usage? I'd hate to be the one who rebooted them and waited to see if they came back up. Just curious what you think on this. Thanks :)
Ah true enough. I will say it made me momentarily disturbed that Ed was trolling /. (that actually would have surprised me), but I got a LOL out of it.
Doh, yeah, I meant figuratively... as for nice 19, I wish. I was directly ordered that these 'had' to be Windows machines, and that the browsers 'had' to be IE. The only reason he noticed that they were running at 100% util was because... if you've ever had to run a browser for months on a single webpage, one day that meta refresh will stop working, and then it stops updating the page. Generally closing IE and restarting it solves the issue for a few more months, however he was sure that it was happening this time because of this rogue 100% CPU eatter that he had so cleverly discovered. That said, back to the the nice 19 comment, basically yes. They all ran at a base priority of low, which is the lowest under Windows.
Holy crap! Sorry sir, I'll get right back to work sir! ::hides the beer::
I almost lost my job when I was working in a NOC at a previous company. I was in charge of maintaining the monitoring and the machines that ran them. Really, these were workstations that were connected to a handful of monitors, all with webpages up that would refresh once a minute, they were not the servers that were running our actual monitoring software (firehunter, whatsup, big brother, etc) so since they were just running a few browsers they were never under any load. So I tossed SETI@Home on all these workstations, that no one uses, that just display browser windows, and it was all fine for several months.
One day I came to work, and my boss was breathless (I wished physically, not just literally), he couldn't figure out why all these boxes were all running at 100% CPU. After several hours (he was SOOO slow) he figured out it was SETI. He tried in vain to prove it was me, I wasn't going to admit it, I knew that between him and HR they would hang me, over at best the theft of some company power (which is stupid because every linux admin had super shiny screensavers that their computers couldn't quite handle, and they had to be running at 100% util for 16+ hours each day once they went home). It's been a while since I've ran SETI, but what I recall is he could have figured out it was me if he knew to check the ID it was uploading the results under, then went to SETI's site and check the ID, which would have at least pointed him to the name Tynin, which since my personal email address uses tynin in it, it should have been the nail in my coffin. Luckly, he was incompetent, and missed that detail, and I sail past what would have been one of the more silly disasters of my life.
If you are reading this Ed, please know your staff will celebrate the day you die, pizza and beer in the hallways!
Agreed. On top of that the idea of writing out more than an single page of paper makes my hand want to cramp up, just thinking about it. My poor wussy untrained writing skills simply fail on endurance, but man can I type wicked fast for hours.
Besides all that, if you've never seen a woman shooting an rifle, you've never lived. Their is just something insanely hot about a good looking woman using a rifle, and using it well. Wish I could find one of my wife, not sure where they are at the moment. ;)
The thing about the Wild West, is it was never wild. That was a myth told to, I suppose in a way, romanticize cow boys and some of the crooks of that time.
From the book Frontier Violence: Another Look, author W. Eugene Hollon, provides us with these facts:
* In Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and Caldwell, for the years from 1870 to 1885, there were only 45 total homicides. This equates to a rate of approximately 1 murder per 100,000 residents per year.
* In Abilene, supposedly one of the wildest of the cow towns, not a single person was killed in 1869 or 1870.
We have much higher levels of homicide now compaired to the Wild West although I'm glad to see that violent crime is at an all time low, that is a great thing.
As for the criminal on Gangland, yeah he has a point, however if you are truly carrying concealed, then no one should see even so much as the outline of your piece even under a jacket, otherwise it isn't considered concealed, and you can lose your CCW over that. I have an FN-9 with a short grip that is invisible on me, that said I also opt to carry pepper spray at times when I don't think a gun is needed.
So I think we are going to have to respectfully agree to disagree. The Boy Scout in me wants to be prepared for the worse case scenario, be it from a robber, or my gov (I pray not), or even straight up rioting/looters (I live in an area that in the last 4 years I've lost power for over 3 weeks on one time, 2 weeks another time due to hurricanes), and both my wife and I have the common sense not to shoot at each other in pitch of night without having the unknown shadow declare itself, and both of us have put in the time training ourselves how to handle them properly. I'm sure an accident could happen, just like I'm sure I could accidentally wipe out drive on a production server with a mistaken command, but I'm professional enough to know to take slow calculated steps when I'm dealing with things in my life that could potentially cause me problems. I realize not everyone may be this way, which is where your side of the argument makes more sense.
...small cities in the 5,000 to 100,000 population range. And they most don't have links to them of any grade one would call "backbone."
True enough, as a city dweller I often forget that. I suppose I was commenting on getting from NYC (which definitely has a tier one backbone going into it) to a city in CA sounds like it should be going over a major pipe that can handle the load, at least until it gets to CA and has to possibly route into a tiny town, which goes back to my comment of the problem being local POPs with low capacity. Granted you are entirely correct that some low population ranged places are likely not going to have nearby links into a backbone.
You're not allowed to drive drunk either, but it still happens. I pose that it's less likely for a drunk to have gun, if the person didn't have the gun with them before they had one too many.
True enough, hard to refute that. Although I don't think it is a particularly good argument against gun rights. Since their will always be drunks, and since drunks do not think logically, we must ban [insert object] in order to save lives. That could be anything from knives, to cars, to even glass beer bottles. Since anything can be used as a weapon, somethings more effectively (cars), it shouldn't be grounds to ban simply because people could get drunk and misuse them.
I personally know if I'm going to have a drink when I go out, I leave mine at home to avoid losing my CCW.
Real men show how virile they are with a mini gun. (Which I must admit, looks pretty damn fun.) ;)
Looks like it could be fun. I know when I leave the range after a match I feel like a proverbial 400 lb gorilla full of adrenaline... although I do leave a little butt sore every time my wife out shoots me ;)
Or peering with a solid tier one backbone, although I do suppose that would be considered nationwide infrastructure. Don't get me wrong though, I realize and have seen OC-192 links get saturated, it can and does happen, but I don't think the problem is on the backbone as much as it is a problem in individual cities that have low capacity to their local POPs.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/02/0415209
You aren't allowed to have a gun in a bar. At least not in Florida. Generally speaking, you aren't allowed to be drunk and carrying a weapon either, even if you have a CCW. To refute your last sentence, I choice to carry because, at least in the USA, the police have no duty to protect individuals. So for me, I value my right to carry and protect my family since I know the police may not be able to. Even my wife has a CCW as you are correct, she is a bit scared about going out of the house at night as we do live in a moderately bad area of town. Now excuse me, I need to get back to making reloads and cleaning my AR-15 as their is a match this weekend :)
As a CCW holder in FL, I'd like to say hello to everyone :)
That said, I know more gun owners in FL that do not have a CCW than that do. I'd say at least 10% of the population of FL owns a gun based on my off the cuff math. Yes yes, the plural of anecdote isn't data, but still. Lots, hell, TONS of guns are in FL without causing much of a problem.
Sorry for replying to myself. After some more research I found a ruling by the DoJ (discussed on /. here) that what Sprint is giving the police is protected by the 4th Amendment and would need a warrant to be issued before providing that data. Yet that isn't happening. I read the article, I'm still not sure how this could be legal.
I just don't understand how this could be legal. The fact that Sprint is being open about this seems to suggest that they have done nothing wrong, and this is business as usual. If so, is this standard with other cell providers as well? I could have sworn I've read an article elsewhere, where someone was trying to locate a missing person and contacted the cell provider to have them give them GPS coords and they refused to turn them over without a court order (cannot find it after some searching)... yet they give the police unlimited access without so much as a court provided rubber stamp machine?!
Thank you, that was informative. I've been meaning to do some research on this and you've saved me some time and answered many of my questions.
Sometimes less is more, I know that is exactly why I starting using Google search was its minimalistic approach to its front page. Most people that this would be targeting aren't going to be Linux OS nerds, yet I imagine if anyone can pull off the Year of the Linux Desktop, it would be Google. I just don't think it will be the Linux Desktop most of us had envisioned.
As a thought experiment, going along with your example...
If you could slow down time enough and watch that laser pointers light, the light from it would likely be bending as you moved it from friend A to friend B as a function of the time it took you to move it. At all points, the laser would never go faster than light, although from your location, point C, it might seem to, but both friend A and friend B would experience the event at the speed of light and not faster. When you flick your wrist from friend A to friend B, the moment you finally point at friend B, the laser light would, in current time, still be shining farther down the wall, racing to catch up and focus on friend B, but only as fast as the speed of light.
The more I think about it, the more like a lighthouse, or neutron star, your example is, and obviously neither is producing light at FTL speeds regardless of how many observers in various locations.