I mostly agree, however I believe much of the initial push to move processing out to the 'cloud' was because clients likely had limited hardware. Now days client hardware is rather beefy and could handle some more of the load that the server doesn't need.
That said, I think a web browser that opens ports and is listening for connections on my computer would make me more than slightly wary.
...as soon as it hits a P2P sharing program, it is no longer an individual. It is potentially everyone on the planet.
Except for a little limitation called upstream bandwidth. She very likely only shared these files maybe a few hundred times, well out of proportion for the financial life sentence she was handed.
I have a T-Mobile pre-paid plan. $100 for 1000 minutes, good for 1 year. I got the phone for free with a promo they were doing, and seem to do quite often for new customers. If you don't talk much and just need a cell phone for its abilities to be just a phone, it is really hard to beat this price.
Professional soldiers who have trained extensively with firearms tend to average a couple thousand rounds per kill.
Honest question as this blew me away (no pun). Does this average include going to the shooting range, or just shooting at the "bad" guy?
I cannot image even carrying thousands of rounds into a battle and only mortally wounding one or two "enemies". So yeah, citation please, as I'm interested in how this number was derived.
If this is true, no wonder we are going with warbots, as they must have better ratio than 2000 bullets:1 kill. Makes me want to go look up how much 2000 bullets would weigh, as I suspect you could crush someone just dropping it on them.
YOu do ralize that since they own the OS(MS) they can have it do whatever they want, and not let you know.
First MS would have to breech a firewall, possibly disable an IDS they likely have little clue how it is configured or if they are even bumping into it, and then circumvent the OS. There will be tracks.
And you do realize, it is trivial to examine what is going across a network you own and disallow these kind of conspiracy theory shenanigans. If MS ever did this, you can bet your paycheck that between a few competent Windows / Networking admins they could and would determine what was going on and would have a field day with the lawsuit their company could milk MS over.
I dislike MS as much as the next/.er but if your company allows your Exchange server to call home to Microsoft, for anything other than patching, your network admin needs to be fired.
Thanks for clearing this up, it just didn't sit well with me that this was being called a major new function, when we already knew of the function, just not the mechanics behind how it supports the immune system. After all my sister-in-law had this operation almost 20 years ago now and they knew any further surgeries or injuries she has in life were a major risk due to an infection.
I guess I assumed that if we knew removing it could cause bad infections should any infection arise, that it shouldn't be that hard to further track down what in the spleen was facilitating our recovery, at least over almost 20 years. But I imagine I assumed that because I'm rather ignorant to what goes on with human biology research.
Exactly, my sister-in-law had her spleen removed when she was 9 as it was enlarging itself beyond the ability for her body to continue to house it. One of the first things they told the family was that she would be more likely to suffer from infections. Perhaps I am not understanding the meaning of this "major new function" as it seemed like we already understood this. Can anyone clear this up?
Agreed, the battery life for the "winner" for surfing the web was 96 minutes!!! That is just horribly short for a basic task. Of course that is only for the 3-cell battery, but still, it doesn't do that great with the 6-cell battery either.
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As someone who took 10 years off school and never took a cert until this year. I can tell you that so far I've earned my A+, Net+, Security+, Linux+, Project+, Server+, MCP (Win2k8 Server Admin), and passed the first half of my CCNA and will take the 2nd half later this month. I know that CompTIA tests don't hold much water, but if you want to look better in your interviews and on your resume, grab a few easy certs. So far the only test I've needed to study for is this next CCNA test. If you have been doing these kind of jobs for a reasonable amount of time, you should be able to walk in and pass them with very little effort.
Likewise, maybe consider going (back?) to school. There online schools that are accredited. If you are getting passed over, like I feel I have been as well, get your bachelors. It really is much easier than you think if you have a brain on your shoulders. Or, keep getting passed by, and if you are anything like me, one of these days you will finally see your friends who you brought into the field and taught what you know, by pass you with there career, all because they have a piece of paper that says they have schooling and certs. It helped me see I was stagnating and gave me the motivation to get my ass back to school and bang out some certs.
And, as always, when a company incurs new taxes on maintaining their IP, these will be passed along to the customer. I could see the upside if instead of going up for auction, it would instead going into public domain. At least then the people who would really be paying the tax would get something out of it.
Or on the other side of the coin, this app could have been written by a bunch of hormone fueled teens looking to help other young males find that special older female offender that has been missing from their life.
Thanks for the insight. I did forget about the foreign auto plants that do employee a meaningful number of people in the US. It would seem that it is very easy to overlook the local workers as you examine the money trail that leads to oversea's.
In regards to passing State Emissions Tests as being the bar before buying a new car. Here in Florida we did away with these tests about 10 years ago. I assumed we did away with them because it was so easy to cheat on them to get your car to pass emissions for a day or 2 with a little bottle of fuel additives. I'm unsure how many other States no longer have these tests as well.
Perhaps this is just an anecdote, but the few people I know that took advantage of this program bought a Honda or Toyota as they have pretty good gas mileage comparatively. I do find it comical that this is being floated as a stimulus plan when it seems to be going to foreign car companies. But I suppose as long as more people end up driving efficient cars, this is a worthy goal. I'm just unsure if it is do-it-right-in-the-middle-of-a-recession worthy.
Unless I'm confused, disk size doesn't relate to transfer speeds. I'd assume it is near the same speed as the 500GB. You'd never hit the 3 GB/s transfer rate that SATA2 is capable of unless you were running several of these in a RAID.
With a 2.5" drive via USB you don't need to provide it power, it gets it from the USB port. With a 3.5" drive you need an external power source and a wall wart.
Looks like you shouldn't have said that you flamebaiter;) But yes, I agree, an extremely large number of posts are marked troll and flamebait, much more than usual.
Seems like this would be ripe for abuse. Get a group of people together like the/b/ group on 4chan, have them start labeling mundane links with porn terms, and porn links with mundane terms. I don't think it would work if only a few people did it, but if you had a large enough group I would think you could make a ton of the data they are gathering useless.
We don't, we just have been conditioned to think we do. We could get rid of a large percentage of laws and still be a civil society. But trying to talk about that objectively to the masses is a quick way to be marginalized and silenced to the deafening roar of those that want others to save them from themselves.
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I mostly agree, however I believe much of the initial push to move processing out to the 'cloud' was because clients likely had limited hardware. Now days client hardware is rather beefy and could handle some more of the load that the server doesn't need. That said, I think a web browser that opens ports and is listening for connections on my computer would make me more than slightly wary.
Exactly, if she would have physically stolen hundreds (thousands?) of CD's, the damages against her would be several orders of magnitude less.
...as soon as it hits a P2P sharing program, it is no longer an individual. It is potentially everyone on the planet.
Except for a little limitation called upstream bandwidth. She very likely only shared these files maybe a few hundred times, well out of proportion for the financial life sentence she was handed.
I have a T-Mobile pre-paid plan. $100 for 1000 minutes, good for 1 year. I got the phone for free with a promo they were doing, and seem to do quite often for new customers. If you don't talk much and just need a cell phone for its abilities to be just a phone, it is really hard to beat this price.
Professional soldiers who have trained extensively with firearms tend to average a couple thousand rounds per kill.
Honest question as this blew me away (no pun). Does this average include going to the shooting range, or just shooting at the "bad" guy?
I cannot image even carrying thousands of rounds into a battle and only mortally wounding one or two "enemies". So yeah, citation please, as I'm interested in how this number was derived.
If this is true, no wonder we are going with warbots, as they must have better ratio than 2000 bullets:1 kill. Makes me want to go look up how much 2000 bullets would weigh, as I suspect you could crush someone just dropping it on them.
YOu do ralize that since they own the OS(MS) they can have it do whatever they want, and not let you know.
First MS would have to breech a firewall, possibly disable an IDS they likely have little clue how it is configured or if they are even bumping into it, and then circumvent the OS. There will be tracks.
And you do realize, it is trivial to examine what is going across a network you own and disallow these kind of conspiracy theory shenanigans. If MS ever did this, you can bet your paycheck that between a few competent Windows / Networking admins they could and would determine what was going on and would have a field day with the lawsuit their company could milk MS over.
I dislike MS as much as the next /.er but if your company allows your Exchange server to call home to Microsoft, for anything other than patching, your network admin needs to be fired.
Thanks for clearing this up, it just didn't sit well with me that this was being called a major new function, when we already knew of the function, just not the mechanics behind how it supports the immune system. After all my sister-in-law had this operation almost 20 years ago now and they knew any further surgeries or injuries she has in life were a major risk due to an infection.
I guess I assumed that if we knew removing it could cause bad infections should any infection arise, that it shouldn't be that hard to further track down what in the spleen was facilitating our recovery, at least over almost 20 years. But I imagine I assumed that because I'm rather ignorant to what goes on with human biology research.
Exactly, my sister-in-law had her spleen removed when she was 9 as it was enlarging itself beyond the ability for her body to continue to house it. One of the first things they told the family was that she would be more likely to suffer from infections. Perhaps I am not understanding the meaning of this "major new function" as it seemed like we already understood this. Can anyone clear this up?
Agreed, the battery life for the "winner" for surfing the web was 96 minutes!!! That is just horribly short for a basic task. Of course that is only for the 3-cell battery, but still, it doesn't do that great with the 6-cell battery either.
Like most such in-depth reviews, this one is spread across 10 pages.
I highly suggest checking out the Firefox Autopager add on. It nicely formats this into a single page for easy reading. Although I do suggest turning off the "Show AutoPager Refinements" as it will give you suggestions on search pages that try to redirect you to some other search engine. Otherwise it is EXCELLENT and fixed a lot of my hatred of viewing this 10 page articles that should be on one page.
He's no different (legally anyway) from guys selling pirated movies.
I would agree if he was selling pirated games, but what he was doing is more akin to selling a DVD player that is region unlocked.
As someone who took 10 years off school and never took a cert until this year. I can tell you that so far I've earned my A+, Net+, Security+, Linux+, Project+, Server+, MCP (Win2k8 Server Admin), and passed the first half of my CCNA and will take the 2nd half later this month. I know that CompTIA tests don't hold much water, but if you want to look better in your interviews and on your resume, grab a few easy certs. So far the only test I've needed to study for is this next CCNA test. If you have been doing these kind of jobs for a reasonable amount of time, you should be able to walk in and pass them with very little effort.
Likewise, maybe consider going (back?) to school. There online schools that are accredited. If you are getting passed over, like I feel I have been as well, get your bachelors. It really is much easier than you think if you have a brain on your shoulders. Or, keep getting passed by, and if you are anything like me, one of these days you will finally see your friends who you brought into the field and taught what you know, by pass you with there career, all because they have a piece of paper that says they have schooling and certs. It helped me see I was stagnating and gave me the motivation to get my ass back to school and bang out some certs.
And, as always, when a company incurs new taxes on maintaining their IP, these will be passed along to the customer. I could see the upside if instead of going up for auction, it would instead going into public domain. At least then the people who would really be paying the tax would get something out of it.
Or on the other side of the coin, this app could have been written by a bunch of hormone fueled teens looking to help other young males find that special older female offender that has been missing from their life.
Then of course we will have a community of sex offenders, who will have children, who by law must attend school.
So a school is built, and all of the children move away.
I never took that thought to its logical end, thanks for posting it. It is saddening how we burden ourselves with laws that do so little good overall.
Thanks for the insight. I did forget about the foreign auto plants that do employee a meaningful number of people in the US. It would seem that it is very easy to overlook the local workers as you examine the money trail that leads to oversea's.
In regards to passing State Emissions Tests as being the bar before buying a new car. Here in Florida we did away with these tests about 10 years ago. I assumed we did away with them because it was so easy to cheat on them to get your car to pass emissions for a day or 2 with a little bottle of fuel additives. I'm unsure how many other States no longer have these tests as well.
Perhaps this is just an anecdote, but the few people I know that took advantage of this program bought a Honda or Toyota as they have pretty good gas mileage comparatively. I do find it comical that this is being floated as a stimulus plan when it seems to be going to foreign car companies. But I suppose as long as more people end up driving efficient cars, this is a worthy goal. I'm just unsure if it is do-it-right-in-the-middle-of-a-recession worthy.
Unless I'm confused, disk size doesn't relate to transfer speeds. I'd assume it is near the same speed as the 500GB. You'd never hit the 3 GB/s transfer rate that SATA2 is capable of unless you were running several of these in a RAID.
With a 2.5" drive via USB you don't need to provide it power, it gets it from the USB port. With a 3.5" drive you need an external power source and a wall wart.
Looks like you shouldn't have said that you flamebaiter ;) But yes, I agree, an extremely large number of posts are marked troll and flamebait, much more than usual.
Likely crazy, but I'd suggest drinking more water.
Seems like this would be ripe for abuse. Get a group of people together like the /b/ group on 4chan, have them start labeling mundane links with porn terms, and porn links with mundane terms. I don't think it would work if only a few people did it, but if you had a large enough group I would think you could make a ton of the data they are gathering useless.
We don't, we just have been conditioned to think we do. We could get rid of a large percentage of laws and still be a civil society. But trying to talk about that objectively to the masses is a quick way to be marginalized and silenced to the deafening roar of those that want others to save them from themselves.