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The Navy says that they're cheaper than equivalent boards from IBM.
Though a single 3.2 GHz cell processor can deliver over 200 GFLOPS, whereas the Sony PS3 configuration delivers approximately 150 GFLOPS, the approximately tenfold cost difference per GFLOP makes the Sony PS3 the only viable technology for HPC applications.
In an age that multiple gigabytes of information can fit in a card the size of a fingernail, sneakernet is alive and well. Even if the government starts policing the internet, the underground will still live on in the shadows as it does in China today.
He saw him put in a burned disk into the Xbox that had what he assumed was a game on it. That doesn't mean the game was pirated. Assuming that its even a game (and not a Linux CD for instance), you still have to prove that he didn't already own a copy of the game and the burned copy was a duplicate of a game he already owned, which is allowed under fair use.
I hate driving. There was a bus stop within walking distance of my work and a bus stop within walking distance of where I lived. I worked about 15 minutes from where I lived and had to be at work by 8AM. I decided to check the schedule and found the following:
The first bus that passes my house is at 6:15AM. I can get on a bus at 6:45AM. The next bus to pass by my home is at 9:15AM. The 6:45 bus takes me to my next bus stop at 7:15AM where I can get on the 7:20AM bus to arrive within walking distance of my work at 7:40AM.
Soon after I looked at the bus schedule, my workplace moved to a new building even closer (~10 minutes from where I live). I would need to take another bus at 7:45 another 15 minutes, getting me to within walking distance at 8:00AM.
So instead of sleeping until 7:30, getting ready, and leaving to go to work at 7:50, I would have had to get up at 6AM just so that I wouldn't have to drive to work. Honestly, it just wasn't worth it.
What I find interesting is that Chris Metzen, Blizzard's senior VP of creative development and writer for much of the Warcraft universe is listed as a co-producer of the movie.
The original Final Fantasy was actually supposed to be the last one ever produced. The company was facing bankruptcy and the lead designer was planning on retiring from the games industry altogether if the game didn't do well. It did so well though, that they were able to produce a second Final Fantasy within less than a year. The tradition has continued since then:) Wiki Link
Because there have been a couple people who don't understand the reference from Clerks...
Randal: So they build another Death Star, right? Dante: Yeah. Randal: Now the first one they built was completed and fully operational before the Rebels destroyed it. Dante: Luke blew it up. Give credit where it's due. Randal: And the second one was still being built when they blew it up. Dante: Compliments of Lando Calrissian. Randal: Something just never sat right with me the second time they destroyed it. I could never put my finger on it-something just wasn't right. Dante: And you figured it out? Randal: Well, the thing is, the first Death Star was manned by the Imperial army-storm troopers, dignitaries- the only people onboard were Imperials. Dante: Basically. Randal: So when they blew it up, no prob. Evil is punished. Dante: And the second time around...? Randal: The second time around, it wasn't even finished yet. They were still under construction. Dante: So? Randal: A construction job of that magnitude would require a helluva lot more manpower than the Imperial army had to offer. I'll bet there were independent contractors working on that thing: plumbers, aluminum siders, roofers. Dante: Not just Imperials, is what you're getting at. Randal: Exactly. In order to get it built quickly and quietly they'd hire anybody who could do the job. Do you think the average storm trooper knows how to install a toilet main? All they know is killing and white uniforms. Dante: All right, so even if independent contractors are working on the Death Star, why are you uneasy with its destruction? Randal: All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed- casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. (notices Dante's confusion) All right, look-you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia-this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living.
(The Blue-Collar Man (Thomas Burke) joins them.)
Blue-Collar Man: Excuse me. I don't mean to interrupt, but what were you talking about? Randal: The ending of Return of the Jedi. Dante: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels. Blue-Collar Man: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer... (digs into pocket and produces business card) Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements. And speaking as a roofer, I can say that a roofer's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs. Randal: Like when? Blue-Collar Man: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was. Dante: Whose house was it? Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's. Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster? Blue-Collar Man: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine. Dante: Based on personal politics. Blue-Collar Man: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling. Randal: No way! Blue-Collar Man: (paying for coffee) I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. (pauses to reflect) You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this... (taps his heart) not his wallet.
This is the answer he should be looking for. If you want to move from QA to development, first move from a QA tester to a QA Engineer/Developer. You can begin writing code using your experience as a QA tester with a better understanding of just what a QA tester needs. You may even be able to move into the position within your current company. You could be writing programs to load test your current programs or a test harness for any current projects and any future ones. Just because you have QA in your title, shouldn't mean that you don't write code.
To your other account that they just created. According to the document, they created a new account in your name and put themselves as someone who could write checks on the checking account. They could then transfer all the money out they wanted to.
Yes, its possible to determine what one person's accent is, however, that does not necessarily correlate to that person's background or race. Some people will change accents merely by being around others with that accent. You can't determine with 100% certainty someone's background or race by their accent.
He's stereotyping based on accent and inflection in their tone of voice. Its not even close to 100% accurate, but depending on how bad their accent is it may be possible to guess with some accuracy where they're from or from what class and culture they belong to. He's possibly assuming that "lower class inner city with African roots" accent means "black" or "Indian accent" means "Indian" when in reality it just means someone who's been in or around that same culture.
Some people have indeterminate accents, change accents, or pick up new accents really really easily which is why this isn't close to 100% accurate.
That depends on how geeky you want to be. Though not necessarily tech oriented, you may want to check out the local D&D / LARP crowd. LARP is extremely popular in South Florida, with each major city (except Naples) having a Camarilla presence. Gamer geeks and tech geeks can and do mix, and I've found several tech geeks through gaming. The local gaming shops typically have D&D or miniatures regulars coming in, and if you ask the shop owner of your local store, they might give you a heads up about the local groups.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(x) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(x) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(x) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
(x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for:
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
(x) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
(x) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
(x) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
(x) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
(x) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
(x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
(x) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
(x) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
(x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
An example along the lines of "if the network is under heavy use, then going over X Mbps is excessive and will be cause for cutoff" would suffice.
The problem is, they don't know what X Mbps is. What they'll likely do is when load gets to the point where its interrupting service to other users, they'll start cutting off the ones with the highest amount of usage. Its not a set Mbps that they'll cut people off so they can't give you a number or time. Its done arbitrarily by network load.
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http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/09/military-purchases-2200-ps3s/
I read that acronym as "Not Safe For Health" and agreed with you.
In an age that multiple gigabytes of information can fit in a card the size of a fingernail, sneakernet is alive and well. Even if the government starts policing the internet, the underground will still live on in the shadows as it does in China today.
http://xkcd.com/678/
He saw him put in a burned disk into the Xbox that had what he assumed was a game on it. That doesn't mean the game was pirated. Assuming that its even a game (and not a Linux CD for instance), you still have to prove that he didn't already own a copy of the game and the burned copy was a duplicate of a game he already owned, which is allowed under fair use.
http://advice.cio.com/shane_oneill/bing_search_tainted_by_pro_microsoft_results
This has been around for a while, and was referenced on Slashdot.
Welcome to most of the United States.
I hate driving. There was a bus stop within walking distance of my work and a bus stop within walking distance of where I lived. I worked about 15 minutes from where I lived and had to be at work by 8AM. I decided to check the schedule and found the following:
The first bus that passes my house is at 6:15AM. I can get on a bus at 6:45AM. The next bus to pass by my home is at 9:15AM. The 6:45 bus takes me to my next bus stop at 7:15AM where I can get on the 7:20AM bus to arrive within walking distance of my work at 7:40AM.
Soon after I looked at the bus schedule, my workplace moved to a new building even closer (~10 minutes from where I live). I would need to take another bus at 7:45 another 15 minutes, getting me to within walking distance at 8:00AM.
So instead of sleeping until 7:30, getting ready, and leaving to go to work at 7:50, I would have had to get up at 6AM just so that I wouldn't have to drive to work. Honestly, it just wasn't worth it.
Some Slashdotters browse Slashdot at work on Lynx because it looks like a terminal to the PHB walking by.
How in the hell did you get modded off topic? This is one of the few stories where being off topic is actually on topic.
What I find interesting is that Chris Metzen, Blizzard's senior VP of creative development and writer for much of the Warcraft universe is listed as a co-producer of the movie.
The original Final Fantasy was actually supposed to be the last one ever produced. The company was facing bankruptcy and the lead designer was planning on retiring from the games industry altogether if the game didn't do well. It did so well though, that they were able to produce a second Final Fantasy within less than a year. The tradition has continued since then :) Wiki Link
You can get that achievement by posting in an obvious April Fool's story, of course.
Interstellar Kredit is what the original abreviation was for, but seeing as CCP, the company that makes EVE Online is from Iceland I would say yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zekiZYSVdeQ
Because there have been a couple people who don't understand the reference from Clerks...
Randal: So they build another Death Star, right?
Dante: Yeah.
Randal: Now the first one they built was completed and fully operational before the Rebels destroyed it.
Dante: Luke blew it up. Give credit where it's due.
Randal: And the second one was still being built when they blew it up.
Dante: Compliments of Lando Calrissian.
Randal: Something just never sat right with me the second time they destroyed it. I could never put my finger on it-something just wasn't right.
Dante: And you figured it out?
Randal: Well, the thing is, the first Death Star was manned by the Imperial army-storm troopers, dignitaries- the only people onboard were Imperials.
Dante: Basically.
Randal: So when they blew it up, no prob. Evil is punished.
Dante: And the second time around...?
Randal: The second time around, it wasn't even finished yet. They were still under construction.
Dante: So?
Randal: A construction job of that magnitude would require a helluva lot more manpower than the Imperial army had to offer. I'll bet there were independent contractors working on that thing: plumbers, aluminum siders, roofers.
Dante: Not just Imperials, is what you're getting at.
Randal: Exactly. In order to get it built quickly and quietly they'd hire anybody who could do the job. Do you think the average storm trooper knows how to install a toilet main? All they know is killing and white uniforms.
Dante: All right, so even if independent contractors are working on the Death Star, why are you uneasy with its destruction?
Randal: All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed- casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. (notices Dante's confusion) All right, look-you're a roofer, and some juicy government contract comes your way; you got the wife and kids and the two-story in suburbia-this is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. All of a sudden these left-wing militants blast you with lasers and wipe out everyone within a three-mile radius. You didn't ask for that. You have no personal politics. You're just trying to scrape out a living.
(The Blue-Collar Man (Thomas Burke) joins them.)
Blue-Collar Man: Excuse me. I don't mean to interrupt, but what were you talking about?
Randal: The ending of Return of the Jedi.
Dante: My friend is trying to convince me that any contractors working on the uncompleted Death Star were innocent victims when the space station was destroyed by the rebels.
Blue-Collar Man: Well, I'm a contractor myself. I'm a roofer... (digs into pocket and produces business card) Dunn and Reddy Home Improvements. And speaking as a roofer, I can say that a roofer's personal politics come heavily into play when choosing jobs.
Randal: Like when?
Blue-Collar Man: Three months ago I was offered a job up in the hills. A beautiful house with tons of property. It was a simple reshingling job, but I was told that if it was finished within a day, my price would be doubled. Then I realized whose house it was.
Dante: Whose house was it?
Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.
Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
Blue-Collar Man: The same. The money was right, but the risk was too big. I knew who he was, and based on that, I passed the job on to a friend of mine.
Dante: Based on personal politics.
Blue-Collar Man: Right. And that week, the Foresci family put a hit on Babyface's house. My friend was shot and killed. He wasn't even finished shingling.
Randal: No way!
Blue-Collar Man: (paying for coffee) I'm alive because I knew there were risks involved taking on that particular client. My friend wasn't so lucky. (pauses to reflect) You know, any contractor willing to work on that Death Star knew the risks. If they were killed, it was their own fault. A roofer listens to this... (taps his heart) not his wallet.
This is the answer he should be looking for. If you want to move from QA to development, first move from a QA tester to a QA Engineer/Developer. You can begin writing code using your experience as a QA tester with a better understanding of just what a QA tester needs. You may even be able to move into the position within your current company. You could be writing programs to load test your current programs or a test harness for any current projects and any future ones. Just because you have QA in your title, shouldn't mean that you don't write code.
To your other account that they just created. According to the document, they created a new account in your name and put themselves as someone who could write checks on the checking account. They could then transfer all the money out they wanted to.
Yes, its possible to determine what one person's accent is, however, that does not necessarily correlate to that person's background or race. Some people will change accents merely by being around others with that accent. You can't determine with 100% certainty someone's background or race by their accent.
He's stereotyping based on accent and inflection in their tone of voice. Its not even close to 100% accurate, but depending on how bad their accent is it may be possible to guess with some accuracy where they're from or from what class and culture they belong to. He's possibly assuming that "lower class inner city with African roots" accent means "black" or "Indian accent" means "Indian" when in reality it just means someone who's been in or around that same culture.
Some people have indeterminate accents, change accents, or pick up new accents really really easily which is why this isn't close to 100% accurate.
Its not Cobol on Rails. Its Cobol on Cogs
That depends on how geeky you want to be. Though not necessarily tech oriented, you may want to check out the local D&D / LARP crowd. LARP is extremely popular in South Florida, with each major city (except Naples) having a Camarilla presence. Gamer geeks and tech geeks can and do mix, and I've found several tech geeks through gaming. The local gaming shops typically have D&D or miniatures regulars coming in, and if you ask the shop owner of your local store, they might give you a heads up about the local groups.
I think you missed a couple, since this is specifically about a client side blacklist.
Your post advocates a
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(x) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(x) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(x) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
(x) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
(x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for:
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
(x) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
(x) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
(x) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
(x) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
(x) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
(x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
(x) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
(x) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
(x) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Why wait, when you can get one now?
The problem is, they don't know what X Mbps is. What they'll likely do is when load gets to the point where its interrupting service to other users, they'll start cutting off the ones with the highest amount of usage. Its not a set Mbps that they'll cut people off so they can't give you a number or time. Its done arbitrarily by network load.