I've always wondered...when a site is slashdotted, it implies that the site has been hit by high referrals from slashdot, causing it to become slow or go down totally.
But how does slashdot itself cope with the high traffic?
It's quite simple, really - Slashdot just doesn't link to itself.
Please help! I just found out that my computer is broadcasting my IP address. Every time I connect to the Internet, send email or submit private information to a web site, I am broadcasting this unique address. With this address, someone can immediately begin attacking my computer. If only there were something I could download to protect myself.
if only playboy did something similiar, I'd be all set.
Ah yes, the famous "Hef's Law" prediction: your penis will double in size for every 18 issues you buy. It sounds good in theory until your realize that logistical limitations will eventually force you to grow a dual-core penis.
its really hard to power anything of a 98.6 F thermal power source.
So what you are saying is that we need to overclock the humans? That shouldn't be a problem if we suspend them in liquid - I'm thinking a red-ish goo would work well.
You could do the exact same thing by overwriting the original files with encrypted versions that only you have the decryption key for. In fact, that would let you put arbitrarily strong encryption on the data rather than relying on the relatively weak protection of a hard drive password. I fail to see how hard drive passwords allow you to do anything worse that what you could otherwise do (e.g., via deletion or encryption).
They have kindly set the level for the quantum of damages.
Let me get this straight... are you saying that they can collect damages, but they can't know what the amount of the damages is because if they do so the damages will be destroyed? Sounds fair to me.
You're right. In fact, the house I currently own is about to go on the market, but our equity is about to get reinvested in building a house. Once the project is done, we'll have a good bit more equity than we have now, with approximately the same mortgage balance and payment.
OK, but that raises plenty of other issues. I addressed this in a reply to your original post rather than here since I felt that there were some other clarifications that needed to be made as well.
Your analysis only factored in closing costs and other costs associated with a singe purchase/sale. Given that the average time for owning a home in the US is 7 years and that your post deeper in this thread assumes that you will always buy a new home when you sell, you need to go back and re-run your numbers with 4 sales and 5 purchases. That's more than $39K that you need to spend on transaction costs - it would actually be substantially more if you buy a more expensive house each time, as you say you are doing.
Furthermore, you are totally ignoring the opportunity cost of investing in a house. It looks like you are assuming a $37K down payment. If you rent for those 30 years, you could apply that $37K to some other investment. Let's say you invest in an index fund in order to avoid taxes until you sell. At an average annual return of 11%, you will have $847K at the end of 30 years, and that's just from saving the down payment! If you are paying more on your mortgage and expenses than you would be on rent for an equivalent place, then you also need to consider the opportunity cost of that money as if you had invested it in something with an optimal return. It will easily beat out the equity appreciation of $864K that you listed, and that is even before you factor in the multiple transaction costs that you left out.
All of this is using your questionable assumption that your equity appreciation will out pace inflation. Even so, renting is a pretty good deal. However, if your home appreciates at less than inflation, the numbers get much, much worse for owning. Historically low interest rates have allowed people to pay more for homes that they could in the past, but now that the Fed is returning interest rates to a neutral level at a measured pace, people are already unable to secure the same magnitude of loans they could not too long ago. Every single indicator points to prices being overinflated (which a fall in prices would resolve): historically low interest rates, historically high P/E ratios (purchase/rent), historically low savings, percent increase in median income falling (way) short of percent increase in median house prices, first time buyers priced out of the market, etc.
No, it was March 10th, 2000 when the NASDAQ peaked. Was this story submitted yesterday and the editors didn't bother to update the reference to the anniversary being today? The anniversary was yesterday.
Yes! What a great team! Linux is free and open to EVERYBODY... Just like Paris!!
I was going to say that Paris is free as in beer, not free as in speech, but that got me thinking. Linux is free as in speech because you can do what you want with it. Similarly, Paris will let you have your way with her, so maybe she is like Linux. The thing is, RMS hasn't told me to call her GNU/Paris, so I'm not really sure. Maybe we need a new saying just for people: free as in Paris Hilton or free as in Kevin Mitnick?
Even weirder: Pokey The Penguin. Be sure to check out the archives (the one currently on the main page isn't as bizarre as some of the earlier ones). And hey, it's a penguin so you are automatically required to love it, being a Slashdot reader and all.
There was a guy named "lenticular" on the old Motley Fool message board for TIVO that would relentlessly do the same thing.
Oops! My bad - it was not"lenticular" who was astroturfing on the Motley Fool TIVO board. I believe that the poster I was thinking of was "mojodeal". If you're reading this lenticular, sorry about the mix-up. I don't know why your username came to mind, but I think it may have been because I found some of your posts on technical analysis interesting.
Whoever this ChipGuy fellow is, he sure hates Tivo! Not only is this story a dupe, but ChipGuy submitted both of them.
It sounds to me like a short seller of TIVO stock who is trying to drive the price down. There was a guy named "lenticular" on the old Motley Fool message board for TIVO that would relentlessly do the same thing.
Either that or it's just somebody with a chip on his shoulder.
Linus' picture actually made the cover of the magazine (along with 4 others)! Click on the "photo essays" graphic at the top of the article and then look at the magazine cover on the right hand side. The second person from the right looks like Linus to me. Awesome.
I wonder who the other people are on the cover - I can't quite make them out.
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Hilf? As in "hacker I'd like to fuck"?
We must act now. I propose that we scorch the sky so that the Sony lawyers can no longer find their way to the patent office.
You could do the exact same thing by overwriting the original files with encrypted versions that only you have the decryption key for. In fact, that would let you put arbitrarily strong encryption on the data rather than relying on the relatively weak protection of a hard drive password. I fail to see how hard drive passwords allow you to do anything worse that what you could otherwise do (e.g., via deletion or encryption).
How is this any worse than if a virus were to erase the hard drive?
Furthermore, you are totally ignoring the opportunity cost of investing in a house. It looks like you are assuming a $37K down payment. If you rent for those 30 years, you could apply that $37K to some other investment. Let's say you invest in an index fund in order to avoid taxes until you sell. At an average annual return of 11%, you will have $847K at the end of 30 years, and that's just from saving the down payment! If you are paying more on your mortgage and expenses than you would be on rent for an equivalent place, then you also need to consider the opportunity cost of that money as if you had invested it in something with an optimal return. It will easily beat out the equity appreciation of $864K that you listed, and that is even before you factor in the multiple transaction costs that you left out.
All of this is using your questionable assumption that your equity appreciation will out pace inflation. Even so, renting is a pretty good deal. However, if your home appreciates at less than inflation, the numbers get much, much worse for owning. Historically low interest rates have allowed people to pay more for homes that they could in the past, but now that the Fed is returning interest rates to a neutral level at a measured pace, people are already unable to secure the same magnitude of loans they could not too long ago. Every single indicator points to prices being overinflated (which a fall in prices would resolve): historically low interest rates, historically high P/E ratios (purchase/rent), historically low savings, percent increase in median income falling (way) short of percent increase in median house prices, first time buyers priced out of the market, etc.
No, it was March 10th, 2000 when the NASDAQ peaked. Was this story submitted yesterday and the editors didn't bother to update the reference to the anniversary being today? The anniversary was yesterday.
Even weirder: Pokey The Penguin. Be sure to check out the archives (the one currently on the main page isn't as bizarre as some of the earlier ones). And hey, it's a penguin so you are automatically required to love it, being a Slashdot reader and all.
Either that or it's just somebody with a chip on his shoulder.
Linus' picture actually made the cover of the magazine (along with 4 others)! Click on the "photo essays" graphic at the top of the article and then look at the magazine cover on the right hand side. The second person from the right looks like Linus to me. Awesome. I wonder who the other people are on the cover - I can't quite make them out.