Employers don't seek out recessions so they can fire people.
Too funny, my company told me point blank that recessions are used exactly for that purpose. Sure they don't go out of their way to cause a recession, but when one comes around they take advantage of it. Here they have been going over everyone's yearly reviews, and if you have been 'just' average or worse, look out. We've been axing bad employee's left and right. Some good employee's end up getting let go to, but by in large the head count of people who would just roam the building all day doing nothing, or the people who somehow got promoted into a job they cannot handle, they are getting shown the door like it's a stampede.
No doubt there is a TON of them. So I'd guess they are banning him, he just keeps making new uids (and siphoning a ton of moderation points to keep him marked at troll / offtopic). I know I've used many mod points keeping this bastard down.
Excellent points. I find myself wishing to turn my computer off but have to leave it on for days to seed back to 1:1 ratio. It really would be awesome to allow for this kind of micro transactions. I'd just be concerned they would end up getting greedy and over charging to the point where the benefit would be lost on the end users, driving us frugal bastards back to leaving our bandwidth starved computers on all night.
I don't think anyone would be subject to a search warrant over electrical usage (I'd like to hope). You'd never be able to tell if someone was using a kilo watt of power to run grow lights, or to power and run a heat element on an electric oven range. I guess that is a bad example since the oven would only be on for a little bit whereas the lights would be always on, but the same principle applies. You'd have so much noise with various things plugged in using in some cases fluctuating amounts of power, it would be hard to get much of a signal that would conclusively point to some illegal activity. I really don't think Kyllo vs US is a good reference in this case, although they do have some overlap.
ARGH! Sorry, mismoderated. Meant to give you insightful, somehow my mouse wheel clicked over just enough to have it jump to underrated. Posting to correct that. Great post, thank you.
A protip that doesn't suggest a wooden volume knob?! Any audiophile worth his Monster cables knows that micro vibrations created by the volume pots and knobs find their way into the delicate signal path and cause audio degradation. I imagine you knew this, but the fact you omitted it is a disservice to this great community!
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Up-to-the-minute online data about where any police checkpoints and speed traps are would be nice.
I have an ATI X800 that fits nicely in a single slot (although it does want a 6 pin molex to power it). The cards do exist, you just have to do your homework and find the manufacture who is making them.
Just for giggles a few weeks ago I tried my still working Voodoo Banshee card which is 3D accelerated with its 16mb of RAM... but wow Windows 7 was a slideshow with Aero on. Mind you it was running in a VM, but still. Turn off Aero and it was pretty responsive. Great card for just 2D stuff.
Same boat as you, just bought a 4870 for $130 which is MASSIVELY more powerful than this card, only for a little bit more cash. I guess if all you did was 2D then the card would be OK, but at that point, why not buy a cheapo $20 card (which would still be better than most integrated graphics). Crazy market.
Mostly agreed, but you are thinking short term. The longer term problem is we continue to borrow from China, and they would no longer be lending to us. So where would we get the money, or how would we restructure our government gracefully so they spend less money, without the whole house of cards falling down? So not only would the dollar be massively devalued all at once, but we would also have to contend with the lack of funding China gives us. It would suck in the short term for China (but they have a cash surplus, so they'd bounce back without much effort), but America would be in recovery for a _long_ time. Hopefully China continues to see us as a good investment (otherwise my Libertarian ideals might come true in a painfully fast form. i.e. small gov, isolationist)
Well, which is it? Parents don't care, or they care too much? Ever stop to consider the possibility that maybe it's not all the parents in the world who are screwed up, but you?
You misunderstood him. Parents don't care, in both cases listed.
Your cited examples of parents caring, that parents calling to complain at a teacher, when they should be reprimanding their child and teaching their child to do better. Calling your kids teacher/professor to say my child deserves a better grade is not caring, it is setting that child up for failure later in life. You speak without having experience in this matter. My own accedotal evidence, having a mother and 2 aunts who are teachers, and listening to them talk with other teacher friends is that everything Registered Coward v2 said is 100% accurate. A mix of teachers run into problems with the administration, some don't get along with other teachers, and all of them listen to more crap from parents than is acceptable (be it related to the grades or behavior of the student). It isn't all the parents, but when you have 6 classes of 30 kids each, you are bound to have a handful of fantastically horrid parents.
As another data point, my mother has been teaching in elementary schools for 31 years now (in south Florida). She makes $67k a year at this point in time. (as a side note (rant) she cannot retire because my dad would be unable to get health insurance due to a plethora of preexisting conditions mostly related to back injuries, so she continues to work to keep him insured)
I fail to see that this will do much good when the bittorrent protocol is blcked on many ISPs (including mine).
I was under the impression it uses the TCP protocol (maybe UDP under some of the new versions IIRC). They wouldn't be blocking TCP on you. Just encrypt your traffic and lower the number of connections you allow, and you'll be back in business. They cannot "block" bittorrent, not possible, but they can make it slow, that is for sure.
It is more like 3 to 20 minutes IIRC. I see your point on the delay, but the moon isn't always viewable to bounce messages off of. Of course, neither is Mars. Still an interesting idea.
I guess my post was entirely about work logins, so yes, if you were the one running the auth DB here at work, you'd have all my information... all on products / servers / apps that our company runs. But then since you'd also be a co-worker with privelged access, I would hope you would be more trust worthy. In any case, my comment is more than secure enough if it is confined to one environment that is already protected by layers of security. i.e. single company work logins.
None of my personal passwords would be guessable based off my work passwords. Nor do any of my personal passwords share any common factor that would allow you to being working to crack any of my others. That would be dumb. If you are root, and a password is stored on the server, then a competent admin can get it no matter what. I don't trust ALL the admins I work with, so it goes without saying I've protected myself from "the enemy within". I have 5 personal passwords, so it isn't too hard to keep track of them, even though they are quite strong. I do know exactly what you are saying, and I feel you are correct, but your solution isn't the only one, but it is a good one.
the role of a democracy is to serve the citizens of a country
As an American, I have to ask, are we citizens being well served by waging ongoing wars? I wish we would go back to being more of an isolationist country. It makes no sense to keep pumping upwards of 2.5 billion a week into the war in Iraq. None. It isn't helping Iraq, it isn't helping us. I'm still waiting on this democracy you are talking about to serve the interests of its citizens.
Ah, the bastards. Well, at least they are likely keeping their network from spewing spam out to the world. But I agree with your paranoia, they wouldn't need to scan your outgoing mail to determine spam, just monitoring network traffic patterns (although I guess a low intensity spammer could avoid detection). Thanks for the clarification.
Continuing on the lines of using your brain to remember your password. Here is a post I did a while ago that I think is apropos, as I have a ton of passwd's to remember and change every 3 months.
Say you have 50 passwords, each needs to be diff, and they change every so often. Make all your passwords start with p455W0rd (or whatever), then the next 2 (or more if you are so inclined) characters you could use to signify which server / app / product it is to be used with, and then have the next 2 characters increment for each time you are mandated to change your password.
i.e.[base password][few character to identify the system you are logging into][few character to increment your password for reoccuring passwd changes]
and really it can be in any order you are comfortable with and can be massaged into working with some crazy password requirements.
Password 1 = p455W0rd0101
In 3 months, or whatever the policy is, you'd change it to Password 1 = p455W0rd0102
And for your next password, you'd have it start as Password 2 = p455W0rd0201
and next time you change it, increment the last 2 digits. p455W0rd0202
Bottom line is if you never tell anyone that your base password starts with p455W0rd, then I don't think having a personalize system of 2+ characters to distinguish which system the password is for, and another 2+ characters to allow to reoccurring password changes would make your password any less secure, with the benefit of making them easier to remember. For extra security, add some ! _ - @ % etc characters to break up the 3 parts to your password. i.e. p455W0rd#02!01
I have an ungodly number of passwd's to remember, and I used to feel your pain until I started doing this. Good luck!
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Too funny, my company told me point blank that recessions are used exactly for that purpose. Sure they don't go out of their way to cause a recession, but when one comes around they take advantage of it. Here they have been going over everyone's yearly reviews, and if you have been 'just' average or worse, look out. We've been axing bad employee's left and right. Some good employee's end up getting let go to, but by in large the head count of people who would just roam the building all day doing nothing, or the people who somehow got promoted into a job they cannot handle, they are getting shown the door like it's a stampede.
This is the sixth spam message this user has posted, will SLASHDOT please BAN this guy already? Come on.
He must be making new logins. I've seen him posting for a few weeks, he surely has more than 6 spams that I've seen alone. Going on that idea... lets see:
http://slashdot.org/~coolforsale117
http://slashdot.org/~coolforsale116
http://slashdot.org/~coolforsale115
http://slashdot.org/~coolforsale114
http://slashdot.org/~coolforsale112
http://slashdot.org/~coolforsale110
No doubt there is a TON of them. So I'd guess they are banning him, he just keeps making new uids (and siphoning a ton of moderation points to keep him marked at troll / offtopic). I know I've used many mod points keeping this bastard down.
Excellent points. I find myself wishing to turn my computer off but have to leave it on for days to seed back to 1:1 ratio. It really would be awesome to allow for this kind of micro transactions. I'd just be concerned they would end up getting greedy and over charging to the point where the benefit would be lost on the end users, driving us frugal bastards back to leaving our bandwidth starved computers on all night.
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I don't think anyone would be subject to a search warrant over electrical usage (I'd like to hope). You'd never be able to tell if someone was using a kilo watt of power to run grow lights, or to power and run a heat element on an electric oven range. I guess that is a bad example since the oven would only be on for a little bit whereas the lights would be always on, but the same principle applies. You'd have so much noise with various things plugged in using in some cases fluctuating amounts of power, it would be hard to get much of a signal that would conclusively point to some illegal activity. I really don't think Kyllo vs US is a good reference in this case, although they do have some overlap.
Wish I hadn't posted in this discussion, I'd love to toss you an interesting mod. This will no doubt steal hours of my life, thanks :-)
Care to elaborate?
ARGH! Sorry, mismoderated. Meant to give you insightful, somehow my mouse wheel clicked over just enough to have it jump to underrated. Posting to correct that. Great post, thank you.
You didn't cry during Wall-E? I mean, didn't either, it was just I hadn't dusted the room in a while and it was irritating my eyes.
A protip that doesn't suggest a wooden volume knob?! Any audiophile worth his Monster cables knows that micro vibrations created by the volume pots and knobs find their way into the delicate signal path and cause audio degradation. I imagine you knew this, but the fact you omitted it is a disservice to this great community!
Up-to-the-minute online data about where any police checkpoints and speed traps are would be nice.
I have an ATI X800 that fits nicely in a single slot (although it does want a 6 pin molex to power it). The cards do exist, you just have to do your homework and find the manufacture who is making them.
Aero will run fine. The key being 3d accelerated.
Just for giggles a few weeks ago I tried my still working Voodoo Banshee card which is 3D accelerated with its 16mb of RAM... but wow Windows 7 was a slideshow with Aero on. Mind you it was running in a VM, but still. Turn off Aero and it was pretty responsive. Great card for just 2D stuff.
Same boat as you, just bought a 4870 for $130 which is MASSIVELY more powerful than this card, only for a little bit more cash. I guess if all you did was 2D then the card would be OK, but at that point, why not buy a cheapo $20 card (which would still be better than most integrated graphics). Crazy market.
Mostly agreed, but you are thinking short term. The longer term problem is we continue to borrow from China, and they would no longer be lending to us. So where would we get the money, or how would we restructure our government gracefully so they spend less money, without the whole house of cards falling down? So not only would the dollar be massively devalued all at once, but we would also have to contend with the lack of funding China gives us. It would suck in the short term for China (but they have a cash surplus, so they'd bounce back without much effort), but America would be in recovery for a _long_ time. Hopefully China continues to see us as a good investment (otherwise my Libertarian ideals might come true in a painfully fast form. i.e. small gov, isolationist)
Well, which is it? Parents don't care, or they care too much? Ever stop to consider the possibility that maybe it's not all the parents in the world who are screwed up, but you?
You misunderstood him. Parents don't care, in both cases listed.
Your cited examples of parents caring, that parents calling to complain at a teacher, when they should be reprimanding their child and teaching their child to do better. Calling your kids teacher/professor to say my child deserves a better grade is not caring, it is setting that child up for failure later in life. You speak without having experience in this matter. My own accedotal evidence, having a mother and 2 aunts who are teachers, and listening to them talk with other teacher friends is that everything Registered Coward v2 said is 100% accurate. A mix of teachers run into problems with the administration, some don't get along with other teachers, and all of them listen to more crap from parents than is acceptable (be it related to the grades or behavior of the student). It isn't all the parents, but when you have 6 classes of 30 kids each, you are bound to have a handful of fantastically horrid parents.
As another data point, my mother has been teaching in elementary schools for 31 years now (in south Florida). She makes $67k a year at this point in time. (as a side note (rant) she cannot retire because my dad would be unable to get health insurance due to a plethora of preexisting conditions mostly related to back injuries, so she continues to work to keep him insured)
Other fields like ID/creationism have been evolving their arguments over time?
I fail to see that this will do much good when the bittorrent protocol is blcked on many ISPs (including mine).
I was under the impression it uses the TCP protocol (maybe UDP under some of the new versions IIRC). They wouldn't be blocking TCP on you. Just encrypt your traffic and lower the number of connections you allow, and you'll be back in business. They cannot "block" bittorrent, not possible, but they can make it slow, that is for sure.
It is more like 3 to 20 minutes IIRC. I see your point on the delay, but the moon isn't always viewable to bounce messages off of. Of course, neither is Mars. Still an interesting idea.
I guess my post was entirely about work logins, so yes, if you were the one running the auth DB here at work, you'd have all my information... all on products / servers / apps that our company runs. But then since you'd also be a co-worker with privelged access, I would hope you would be more trust worthy. In any case, my comment is more than secure enough if it is confined to one environment that is already protected by layers of security. i.e. single company work logins.
None of my personal passwords would be guessable based off my work passwords. Nor do any of my personal passwords share any common factor that would allow you to being working to crack any of my others. That would be dumb. If you are root, and a password is stored on the server, then a competent admin can get it no matter what. I don't trust ALL the admins I work with, so it goes without saying I've protected myself from "the enemy within". I have 5 personal passwords, so it isn't too hard to keep track of them, even though they are quite strong. I do know exactly what you are saying, and I feel you are correct, but your solution isn't the only one, but it is a good one.
the role of a democracy is to serve the citizens of a country
As an American, I have to ask, are we citizens being well served by waging ongoing wars? I wish we would go back to being more of an isolationist country. It makes no sense to keep pumping upwards of 2.5 billion a week into the war in Iraq. None. It isn't helping Iraq, it isn't helping us. I'm still waiting on this democracy you are talking about to serve the interests of its citizens.
Ah, the bastards. Well, at least they are likely keeping their network from spewing spam out to the world. But I agree with your paranoia, they wouldn't need to scan your outgoing mail to determine spam, just monitoring network traffic patterns (although I guess a low intensity spammer could avoid detection). Thanks for the clarification.
Continuing on the lines of using your brain to remember your password. Here is a post I did a while ago that I think is apropos, as I have a ton of passwd's to remember and change every 3 months.
Say you have 50 passwords, each needs to be diff, and they change every so often. Make all your passwords start with p455W0rd (or whatever), then the next 2 (or more if you are so inclined) characters you could use to signify which server / app / product it is to be used with, and then have the next 2 characters increment for each time you are mandated to change your password.
i.e.[base password][few character to identify the system you are logging into][few character to increment your password for reoccuring passwd changes]
and really it can be in any order you are comfortable with and can be massaged into working with some crazy password requirements.
Password 1 = p455W0rd0101
In 3 months, or whatever the policy is, you'd change it to Password 1 = p455W0rd0102
And for your next password, you'd have it start as Password 2 = p455W0rd0201
and next time you change it, increment the last 2 digits. p455W0rd0202
Bottom line is if you never tell anyone that your base password starts with p455W0rd, then I don't think having a personalize system of 2+ characters to distinguish which system the password is for, and another 2+ characters to allow to reoccurring password changes would make your password any less secure, with the benefit of making them easier to remember. For extra security, add some ! _ - @ % etc characters to break up the 3 parts to your password. i.e. p455W0rd#02!01
I have an ungodly number of passwd's to remember, and I used to feel your pain until I started doing this. Good luck!