There isn't any irony; the commenter was being ironic. Get it? Maybe it would help if you imagine, "Oh the irony," being said in a very sarcastic voice. Clearer now?
This is what killed ORBS and other services of that type. Easy to add domains / addresses to the blocklist, but difficult to remove them. Eventually the list becomes useless...
What killed them was their negligence and indifference.
What killed ORBS was that the people running it got tired of doing it and weren't getting paid. The vast majority of RBLs are volunteer efforts, which only last as long as the volunteers feel like putting in the effort. Fortunately, for every one that dies two more are born to take its place, and most operators seem to be learning from the mistakes of their predecessors.
I take "free will" to mean "decision in the absence of coersion." It is only meaningful in a social or political context, where the individual is treated as an irreducible "black box", an atomic constituent of society. What it is supposed to mean in the context of the experiment in TFA, I have no idea.
People holding doors open for each other is a game I just don't enjoy playing. You're doing me a "favor" by holding the door, so I'm obligated to acknowledge the "good deed" even though it hasn't helped me at all. I'd rather open my own doors, thanks, just get out of the way, let me go through the door on my own schedule instead of on yours. Also, it being the "polite" thing to do, when I don't do it for others I'm perceived as "rude". Holding an outside door open for a few extra seconds in cold winter or hot summer is a lot more rude to the people inside, uselessly letting their heat or air conditioning escape.
you have a huge team of hardware designers (who don't really understand software) and a huge team of driver developers (who don't really understand software)
This is only true at ATI. At other companies, understanding software is a job requirement for driver developers.
All the motherboards and adapter cards I bought last year came with Windows 2000 drivers. Has everything become XP/Vista only in the last 3 months or so?
Ideally I would run the scan by unplugging the network cable and booting from directly the malware-scanner CD. Unfortunately nobody makes such a thing -- it's like the "antivirus" companies don't really care about reliability. Running the scan on the target system itself is pointless, since some system-level malware could be tampering with the results. That's why I take the hard drives out of the target systems and attach them to a known-clean system (fresh OS+scanner install, no network) to run the scan.
But really the elaborate malware scan is just window dressing so I can provide some tangible evidence that my systems aren't infected; I know they're clean because I keep them clean on a day-to-day basis by not installing tons of random crap I found in the net.toilet, keeping applications and plug-ins (and pointless upgrades!) to a bare minimum, and keeping an eye on the security bulletins. It's not rocket science, but it is kind of computer science.
Heh, still have one of those on the network too: a 486 running DOS 6.2 and Windows for Workgroups with TCP/IP drivers. It gets booted up once a year or so to make sure it still works.:)
Nope, Windows 2000 native on Opterons and Athlon64s, with a variety of Nvidia video cards, works fine and runs plenty fast. There is no malware of any kind. Seriously, I've audited the crap out of everything, it's clean. (Auditing in this case means: Hard drives physically removed and attached to non-networked machines with fresh OS installs, run the latest malware scanners from the CDs. Always comes up clean.) The Windows machines are behind Linux firewalls and basically get nothing installed beyond a few commercial 2000-era applications, plus the latest Firefox.
Every modern laptop has at least one fan built into it.
Panasonic Toughbooks don't. At least mine doesn't.
Every single video chipset has it's own cooling system
If by "cooling system" you mean "heatsink" then that may be true. It's still possible to get video cards somewhat off the bleeding edge without fans on them.
Sure they do -- the wiper is a strip of suede or similar material on the back of thumb of the left glove. Works pretty well in mist; in heavy rain you don't need to wipe at all. Something about the orientation of the visor and its proximity to the eyes makes the water not obstruct vision significantly. I've ridden in rain so hard that every car pulled off the road because their wipers couldn't keep up, but I could see just fine.
Anyway, this new four-layer conductive glass technology certainly would not work in a motorcycle helmet. Helmet visors are thin flexible plastic.
1 pound of chocolate candy killed my 25-pound dog. (Nobody fed it to her; she crawled up onto a counter where the box had been carelessly left.) The kidneys failed and she was dead a few hours later. So yeah, it might take a few pounds of chocolate to kill your 100-pound dog, but why risk it? It really is a lot worse for them than for us, and there are other healthier treats they like better (e.g. raw beef -- yum yum!).
The cost of trapping and storing helium released by natural gas "mining" is much much much lower than the cost of extracting helium from the atmosphere or producing it by nuclear reactions. Right now we're depleting irreplaceable underground helium reserves at a very rapid rate because the current cost of helium is so low -- the small fraction that we do bother to capture is plenty to supply all our needs. Eventually the "free" helium supply will dry up and the cost of helium will skyrocket. It would be much cheaper in the long term to capture and store all helium currently being wasted, but there is no short-term economic incentive. (Ultimately, of course, (very long term) all helium reserves will be depleted and we'll have to live without plentiful helium. The planet does not produce helium anywhere near as quickly as we like to consume it.) Once we use the helium, it's effectively gone. It's not like consumed minerals which sit on the ground waiting to be recycled. That's why we have to be careful -- what's trapped in accessible underground pockets now is effectively all we'll ever have, and we're throwing it away permanently because we don't need it right now.
It's much easier to see if you look at the full size photo rather than the reduced webpage embed. It's still not clear to me that that's an "optical lens" but there's definitely more going on there than a plain old audio jack.
I think it means that the ISP cannot assign packet priority based on remote (non-customer) IP address. That is, the ISP is neutral with respect to the Internet. The idea is to keep ISPs from forming "trusts" with content providers, like the railroad trusts of the 19th century.
...to deny that atheism is not a form of religion...
... is therefore false, so...
...to deny that atheism is not a form of religion is false.
is therefore true and correct, though a rather roundabout way of saying that atheism is not a form of religion. Why use three negatives when a single one would do the job?
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That's $345 million for the whole company, not just a domain name. Still ridiculously overpriced but not directly comparable.
There isn't any irony; the commenter was being ironic. Get it? Maybe it would help if you imagine, "Oh the irony," being said in a very sarcastic voice. Clearer now?
Also with physical access you can backdoor the FDE bootloader, which is of course not encrypted. That may be easier than backdooring the firmware.
Excellent comment. Thanks for taking the time to write it.
What killed ORBS was that the people running it got tired of doing it and weren't getting paid. The vast majority of RBLs are volunteer efforts, which only last as long as the volunteers feel like putting in the effort. Fortunately, for every one that dies two more are born to take its place, and most operators seem to be learning from the mistakes of their predecessors.
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Argh! "Coercion," not "coersion." Duh.
I take "free will" to mean "decision in the absence of coersion." It is only meaningful in a social or political context, where the individual is treated as an irreducible "black box", an atomic constituent of society. What it is supposed to mean in the context of the experiment in TFA, I have no idea.
People holding doors open for each other is a game I just don't enjoy playing. You're doing me a "favor" by holding the door, so I'm obligated to acknowledge the "good deed" even though it hasn't helped me at all. I'd rather open my own doors, thanks, just get out of the way, let me go through the door on my own schedule instead of on yours. Also, it being the "polite" thing to do, when I don't do it for others I'm perceived as "rude". Holding an outside door open for a few extra seconds in cold winter or hot summer is a lot more rude to the people inside, uselessly letting their heat or air conditioning escape.
Awesome. Thanks, AC!
All the motherboards and adapter cards I bought last year came with Windows 2000 drivers. Has everything become XP/Vista only in the last 3 months or so?
I only upgraded to 2000 for the USB support. It was probably a mistake.
Ideally I would run the scan by unplugging the network cable and booting from directly the malware-scanner CD. Unfortunately nobody makes such a thing -- it's like the "antivirus" companies don't really care about reliability. Running the scan on the target system itself is pointless, since some system-level malware could be tampering with the results. That's why I take the hard drives out of the target systems and attach them to a known-clean system (fresh OS+scanner install, no network) to run the scan.
But really the elaborate malware scan is just window dressing so I can provide some tangible evidence that my systems aren't infected; I know they're clean because I keep them clean on a day-to-day basis by not installing tons of random crap I found in the net.toilet, keeping applications and plug-ins (and pointless upgrades!) to a bare minimum, and keeping an eye on the security bulletins. It's not rocket science, but it is kind of computer science.
Heh, still have one of those on the network too: a 486 running DOS 6.2 and Windows for Workgroups with TCP/IP drivers. It gets booted up once a year or so to make sure it still works. :)
Nope, Windows 2000 native on Opterons and Athlon64s, with a variety of Nvidia video cards, works fine and runs plenty fast. There is no malware of any kind. Seriously, I've audited the crap out of everything, it's clean. (Auditing in this case means: Hard drives physically removed and attached to non-networked machines with fresh OS installs, run the latest malware scanners from the CDs. Always comes up clean.) The Windows machines are behind Linux firewalls and basically get nothing installed beyond a few commercial 2000-era applications, plus the latest Firefox.
Ha, still using Windows 2000 here.
Sure they do -- the wiper is a strip of suede or similar material on the back of thumb of the left glove. Works pretty well in mist; in heavy rain you don't need to wipe at all. Something about the orientation of the visor and its proximity to the eyes makes the water not obstruct vision significantly. I've ridden in rain so hard that every car pulled off the road because their wipers couldn't keep up, but I could see just fine.
Anyway, this new four-layer conductive glass technology certainly would not work in a motorcycle helmet. Helmet visors are thin flexible plastic.
1 pound of chocolate candy killed my 25-pound dog. (Nobody fed it to her; she crawled up onto a counter where the box had been carelessly left.) The kidneys failed and she was dead a few hours later. So yeah, it might take a few pounds of chocolate to kill your 100-pound dog, but why risk it? It really is a lot worse for them than for us, and there are other healthier treats they like better (e.g. raw beef -- yum yum!).
The cost of trapping and storing helium released by natural gas "mining" is much much much lower than the cost of extracting helium from the atmosphere or producing it by nuclear reactions. Right now we're depleting irreplaceable underground helium reserves at a very rapid rate because the current cost of helium is so low -- the small fraction that we do bother to capture is plenty to supply all our needs. Eventually the "free" helium supply will dry up and the cost of helium will skyrocket. It would be much cheaper in the long term to capture and store all helium currently being wasted, but there is no short-term economic incentive. (Ultimately, of course, (very long term) all helium reserves will be depleted and we'll have to live without plentiful helium. The planet does not produce helium anywhere near as quickly as we like to consume it.) Once we use the helium, it's effectively gone. It's not like consumed minerals which sit on the ground waiting to be recycled. That's why we have to be careful -- what's trapped in accessible underground pockets now is effectively all we'll ever have, and we're throwing it away permanently because we don't need it right now.
It's much easier to see if you look at the full size photo rather than the reduced webpage embed. It's still not clear to me that that's an "optical lens" but there's definitely more going on there than a plain old audio jack.
I think it means that the ISP cannot assign packet priority based on remote (non-customer) IP address. That is, the ISP is neutral with respect to the Internet. The idea is to keep ISPs from forming "trusts" with content providers, like the railroad trusts of the 19th century.
Finally, a non-non-lethal taser. Hit 'em with that and the hydrofluoric acid spray and there won't even be a body to dispose of.