He raised comparisons with the former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's famous claim that Britain had "never had it so good" by saying "our citizens have never been so wealthy".
In other good news, the weekly chocolate ration has been increased to 20 grams!
Scientific studies have shown that people almost always think the results of scientific studies are obvious, but are terrible at predicting those same results without being told first.
My TRS-80 can run one program just fine with 16 kB of memory, so I reckon it could run 2 or 3 fine with 48 kB. What the heck is a GB, anyway? A million kB? That's crazy.
Lke I said in the comment you didn't quote, your spam detector is going to get it wrong sometimes and send error messages to innocent bystanders. Don't make the spam problem worse by amplifying it with backscatter.
I have my mail software set up so it bounces html-only email (that it doesn't think is spam) back to the sender with an error message
It's pretty much never OK to send errors "back" to the "sender" unless the sender is securely authenticated somehow. Due to the mathematics of spam automated bounces will almost always result in some backscatter. I don't want to get error messages from you (and thousands of others like you) just because some bozo somewhere forged my email address on a spam that happens not to set off your spam detector.
Yeah, the Internet has evolved to the point where sending each other HTML+multimedia messages has become reasonable. But using traditional wide-open email to do so causes far more problems than it solves.
I'd gladly forsake all formatted email from friends and family to prevent one corporate tracking image or one flash advert from a spammer getting through. For that matter I'd gladly skip my sister's gratuitously colored, befonted text and my cousin's baby videos popping up unrequested too. Send me a link, and I'll endure your noisy, your overly-decorated message when I'm ready for them, if ever.
I'd also prefer that extra level of human filtering to decide when it's worthwhile to invoke the extra-complicated and bug-prone renderer and when it isn't. A full modern HTML renderer is a complicated beast and I'd rather not let anybody in the world send me something that might crash or exploit it. A simple text renderer is a dead simple, stationary target and relatively easy to make secure.
I'm sure there's some good way for people to send each other arbitrarily large formatted mixed-media messages safely, but conventional email is not it. Overloading any simple system with too many features tends to ruin it.
Movies use forced perspective, which makes a lot of things very easy to fake. Games are a lot more fun when they don't force a perspective, which makes a lot of things much harder to fake. "Fake" in this context means that the simulation fails obviously under some conditions. So far game players have been very tolerant of visual artifacts, paying more attention to things like playability, but that doesn't mean they don't appreciate higher quality graphics. All other things being equal, the game with better graphics sells better.
The Oklahoma City bombing used 2.5 tons of chemical explosives with a 0.002 kt yield, and it took a pretty big truck to carry it around. You cannot, no way, forget it, not even close, "pick up the ingredients to make a 1kt bomb from home depot."
Your hypothetical "only 0.1 kt" backpack nuke is the explosive equivalent of 100 tons (100000 kilos) of TNT, which at ground level could easily do more physical damage than the WTC attack, which itself was nearly enough to initiate the complete self-immolation of the USA. Factor in the eek! radiation! and the terrorist's Mission is Accomplished.
Clearly we're not talking total obliteration of a large city, but geez, when you're correcting someone's orders-of-magnitude misconceptions, try to get your own orders of magnitude right. It's very, very difficult to imagine just how big a 1 kt explosion is. Nothing in your experience can really compare unless you've seen a nuke go off.
As others have also pointed out, multiple kt yields are easily possible from devices that would fit inside personal luggage. If for some strange reason terrorists really did want to level a city, a few of those bombs set off in the right locations could probably do a pretty good job of it.
I agree that it's not worth trying to build a hundred-obsolete-drive array, but I strongly disagree with turning them into garbage prematurely. Sell or give away on ebay/craigslist/freecycle/whatever instead. There are lots of people who can make good use of a few end-of-life-but-still-working medium capacity drives. Just make sure you erase them thoroughly first. Realistically 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda' is plenty; to be absolutely sure give them one pass with a fast random number generator first.
If you want magnets you can take them from failed drives.
Congress wants to look like it's doing something - actually doing it is hard.
True, politicians make firey speeches full of righteous indignation about whatever might scare the constituency into electing them, then to show they're really doing something they wave a big gun around blindly and shoot themselves in the feet. Unfortunately, we're the feet.
I don't necessarily agree that the US government has the legitimate Contitutional power to spy on anyone. The 4th amendment says, "The right of the people... against unreasonable searches... shall not be violated," and collateral documents, i.e. the Declaration of Independence, assert that such rights are inherent in all human beings rather than being granted to citizens by government or contract. IMHO the Bill of Rights applies to all people everywhere, and the US government should need a warrant to search anybody, citizen or foreigner, domestic or abroad.
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If ten million Americans took up arms against their government, there would be dozens of foreign powers lining up to get a piece of that action.
"http://mycompany"?
What is the point of http, :, and //? None of them have any meaning. They just make the address longer, harder to use, and add confusion.
It should just be mycompany
He raised comparisons with the former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's famous claim that Britain had "never had it so good" by saying "our citizens have never been so wealthy".
In other good news, the weekly chocolate ration has been increased to 20 grams!
http://drilledrotor.net/
..., .com, ...
Think of the confusion if someone registered a "dot-net" TLD. I guess Microsoft would automatically get it based on their trademark.
I can't think of any way in which the 8088 was inferior to the 6809. Do you have something particular in mind?
Scientific studies have shown that people almost always think the results of scientific studies are obvious, but are terrible at predicting those same results without being told first.
(Obviously.)
There has never been 40-pin SCSI. SCSI-1 was 50 pins, or, in some non-standards-compliant implementations, 25 pins.
Uncompressed 1920x1080 24 bpp video at 30 fps is about 10 GB per minute.
Are you saying that it's not appropriate to save more than 10 minutes a year of baby videos?
If so, I agree.
That's a pretty lame version of geohashing. Real Nerds meet at a location given only the MD5 hash of its co-ordinates.
My TRS-80 can run one program just fine with 16 kB of memory, so I reckon it could run 2 or 3 fine with 48 kB. What the heck is a GB, anyway? A million kB? That's crazy.
Lke I said in the comment you didn't quote, your spam detector is going to get it wrong sometimes and send error messages to innocent bystanders. Don't make the spam problem worse by amplifying it with backscatter.
Yeah, the Internet has evolved to the point where sending each other HTML+multimedia messages has become reasonable. But using traditional wide-open email to do so causes far more problems than it solves.
I'd gladly forsake all formatted email from friends and family to prevent one corporate tracking image or one flash advert from a spammer getting through. For that matter I'd gladly skip my sister's gratuitously colored, befonted text and my cousin's baby videos popping up unrequested too. Send me a link, and I'll endure your noisy, your overly-decorated message when I'm ready for them, if ever.
I'd also prefer that extra level of human filtering to decide when it's worthwhile to invoke the extra-complicated and bug-prone renderer and when it isn't. A full modern HTML renderer is a complicated beast and I'd rather not let anybody in the world send me something that might crash or exploit it. A simple text renderer is a dead simple, stationary target and relatively easy to make secure.
I'm sure there's some good way for people to send each other arbitrarily large formatted mixed-media messages safely, but conventional email is not it. Overloading any simple system with too many features tends to ruin it.
Movies use forced perspective, which makes a lot of things very easy to fake. Games are a lot more fun when they don't force a perspective, which makes a lot of things much harder to fake. "Fake" in this context means that the simulation fails obviously under some conditions. So far game players have been very tolerant of visual artifacts, paying more attention to things like playability, but that doesn't mean they don't appreciate higher quality graphics. All other things being equal, the game with better graphics sells better.
Whew, good thing nobody's making fully programmable cell phones.
The Oklahoma City bombing used 2.5 tons of chemical explosives with a 0.002 kt yield, and it took a pretty big truck to carry it around. You cannot, no way, forget it, not even close, "pick up the ingredients to make a 1kt bomb from home depot."
Your hypothetical "only 0.1 kt" backpack nuke is the explosive equivalent of 100 tons (100000 kilos) of TNT, which at ground level could easily do more physical damage than the WTC attack, which itself was nearly enough to initiate the complete self-immolation of the USA. Factor in the eek! radiation! and the terrorist's Mission is Accomplished.
Clearly we're not talking total obliteration of a large city, but geez, when you're correcting someone's orders-of-magnitude misconceptions, try to get your own orders of magnitude right. It's very, very difficult to imagine just how big a 1 kt explosion is. Nothing in your experience can really compare unless you've seen a nuke go off.
As others have also pointed out, multiple kt yields are easily possible from devices that would fit inside personal luggage. If for some strange reason terrorists really did want to level a city, a few of those bombs set off in the right locations could probably do a pretty good job of it.
I agree that it's not worth trying to build a hundred-obsolete-drive array, but I strongly disagree with turning them into garbage prematurely. Sell or give away on ebay/craigslist/freecycle/whatever instead. There are lots of people who can make good use of a few end-of-life-but-still-working medium capacity drives. Just make sure you erase them thoroughly first. Realistically 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda' is plenty; to be absolutely sure give them one pass with a fast random number generator first.
If you want magnets you can take them from failed drives.
True, politicians make firey speeches full of righteous indignation about whatever might scare the constituency into electing them, then to show they're really doing something they wave a big gun around blindly and shoot themselves in the feet. Unfortunately, we're the feet.
I don't necessarily agree that the US government has the legitimate Contitutional power to spy on anyone. The 4th amendment says, "The right of the people ... against unreasonable searches ... shall not be violated," and collateral documents, i.e. the Declaration of Independence, assert that such rights are inherent in all human beings rather than being granted to citizens by government or contract. IMHO the Bill of Rights applies to all people everywhere, and the US government should need a warrant to search anybody, citizen or foreigner, domestic or abroad.
They had the choice not to bother with system architecture at all.
Yes, they are cheaper, but their selection is very limited, usually just one or two brands in each category.
Cogent: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the TOS."