While I'm glad to see advances being made in storage media, I'd prefer to see these guys working to make a '100-year DVD+-R/RW'.
After all, who wants to spend one week a year doing quality assurance on media. And even if you do QA, what if you find something is bad. While you can re-download your warez and pr0n, the photos and videos of your family vacation will be lost forever.
We had a team come in to examine our NOC. The first thing they wanted when they came in was valid IPs and subnet listings. In front of my boss, I told them to get stuffed. If they want to do a test, let them come. But I'm not giving them any help at all.
In any event, they charged a lot and found little. In the outbrief, they made even the smallest problems seem huge. I guess they may have had a point.
IMHO, the team that came to see us charged a lot and did not really acomplish anything.
Probably has something to do with electrical interference. I know most mobos power 12v fans via onboard headers, but the power requirements for a HD might be too much for the small traces on PCBs.
>Terrorists commit suicide as part of an attack. Why would they care about getting caught after they've completed an attack?
They don't care about being caught. The people who fund them do care about being caught.
How will you know who funded them unless you can track them?
Prying into our lives is expensive and stupid. However, I think the government should literally track every foreigner from the second he steps foot onto our soil till he departs. In order to do that, we need some way of tracking them. You can't track them without tracking us.
If we trusted those in power, tracking wouldn't be an issue. But we have to have confidince that the police will be on our side. I don't have that now, but I hope that day will come.
I agree that pretty much everyone breaks the law constantly.
What people on here seem to want is privacy. Let me break the law and as long as I have privacy, no one will ever know.
It'd be nice if we each lived in our own little country, wouldn't it?
But we don't.
I will acknowledge that I like my privacy. Having said that...
My biggest issue is dirty politicians. Privacy is a symptom of that problem. You cannot fix the problem by fighting a minor symptom. Stop wasting effort on bullshit like privacy and abortion and fix the way politics is run.
I'm not a "let's defend the government type". But we do need to find what's broken and fix it. Trying to fix a side issue (privacy) while a larger problem (campaign finance reform) is staring you in the face is just dumb. Why would you be willing to let an asshole that takes millions of dollars from Disney make a law about your privacy?
What you don't get is that privacy, terrorism, abortion, free speech, flag burning, school vouchers, and health care are not the problem. The problem is corrupt politicians. The only way to fix that is to band together and fix the broken election system.
Fix politics first, let the smaller issues get fixed after you can trust those in office.
The thing is, Bin Laden is not willing to blow himself up. If he were, he'd have stood on a line and fought vice hiding in a cave.
In any event, it's not the guys on the plane, or even BinLaden who funded the attacks. We need to find the money and kill those people.
Or maybe not. Maybe me giving money to a terrorist is covered by free speech.
Who knows?
But I'd say find anyone donating to terrorist groups and put them in prison for a very long time. Once you do that a few times, people would quiet down.
Why are people on here so frictional? You got modded as insightful, but all you do is flame me.
In any event...
You are right about point 1. Everyone is doing something illegal right now. What you want is privacy so cops can't call you on it. What I want is better politicians willing to get rid of stupid laws. Lack of privacy is just a symptom of a bigger problem. We need campaign finance reform. Once we have good politicians, we can work on the smaller things.
Point 2. The point isn't to stop a terrorist. You can't do that! Ever! The point is to have a good paper train back to his funding. Then you assasinate the man with the money. The next guy with money MAY have second thoughts. Sure, there will always be some way around having an ID card. Let's try and make that system better. We need a way to track people from the time they enter the country till they leave. This won't be a problem as long as we can trust those in office. We can trust those in office if we know they are working for us vice Disney/Exxon-Mobil.
As for point 3, I think it's valid. I hate giving my Drivers License to a hotel clerk. I fly a lot more than most. In fact, I was due to fly internationally on Sep 12. I spent an extra 3 weeks overseas because of terrorism. I really hate having to show my ID and have my bags searched 5 times between the curb and the gate. I know it adds nothing to security. However, as much as I travel, it's still a small hastle. If the voters would focus on finance reform, we could take care of a much larger hastle. Choose your battles and only fight the important ones. We can get election reforms as long as we fight hard and under the same banner. Abortion, prayer, school vouchers, privacy, health care; these are all side issues to keep us distracted from the fact that our representatives take millions of dollars in bribes.
Who is the sucker? I can join with my enemies to fight the good fight. Could you?
We invaded Iraq so that GWB could get more money. How is your not showing an ID card gonna stop that?
I was educated in public school. I still have a valid point: All the privacy in the world does not fix your politicians.
I do have a clue. It just seems that I'm choosing to fight a much more important fight.
BTW, don't be so quick to flame. Take a breath before you hit 'submit'. We are all on the same side here.
I'm not apathetic, I just have different priorities. Privacy is important, but it's not in my top ten. Neither is abortion.
If you had a choice between a politician who wanted privacy, but didn't want campaign finance reform, and one who was agianst privacy, bot for finance reform, who would you pick?
Is privacy that big of a deal right now? Are there other problems we should focus on? I think there are other, bigger problems that need solving.
How is it apathetic to ignore the things that don't matter to me?
You talk about corrupt politicians. How does debate about privacy work to get rid of them? It doesn't. Campaign finance reform will at least help fix the problem (corruption in government) rather than fight the symptoms (manditory minimums, school vouchers, privacy).
Fix the politicans first! Solve the little things later.
The problem with privacy is that 90% of the people will never have an issue with it. Really, as long as my neghbor does not spy on me, I'm OK. The reason?
1. I'm not going to do anything illegal. Sure, the government could make something I do now illegal and then come after me. If it's a small thing, I'll stop it. If it's a big thing, I'll use the soap box, ballot box, and ammo box.
2. It makes it slightly harder to get away with something. If you are required to use ID everywhere, tracking you back to your source quickly can give other possible sources a moment of pause before they try anything else. If we could attack the terrorist heads within hours of a major attack, we might be able to keep them from trying anything.
3. There are more important things to worry about. Education, health care, campaign finance reform...those are things I choose to focus on. Privacy, while it is on my list, does not even make the top 10. Review your priorities and decide what's important. Realize that if you are focused on 20 different things, not a single one will ever get done. Attack the problem and, when it is solved, move to the next thing.
Really, do you travel on a plane enough to really give a shit?
Do you disagree that small changes have big impacts?
100 years ago, no one suspected that unchecked coal burning could change the climate. After all, it's a big atmosphere and we really aren't burning that much stuff.:)
In any event, I'm not trying to be anti-green or anti-technology. I'm just looking for answers that don't involve killing off 75% of the population of the planet. Do we really have any answers? I don't. And everything I've heard will affect the Earth to some extent.
How much it will affect and how long we can tolerate the effects is for others to research.
Oh, and why the tone? Nothing I said in any way was directed at you. Rather than attacking the speaker, try attacking the points of the speach.
Here are a few things that I've always wondered about so-called 'free energy' sources:
1. Solar.
We put up solar panels everywhere we possibly could. We get unlimited free energy. After a few years, the temprature of the Earth begins to drop due to the fact that the energy which would have been converted to heat is now used for other things. Even if those things produce heat as a biproduct, some heat will still be lost. We all freeze.
We put solar panels in space and beam the energy to the surface. Exact oppisite problem. The Earth begins to heat up due to extra evergy in the system. We all burn.
2. Wind.
We put up big windmils everywhere. All the birds fly into them. We are all eaten by insect plagues. Even if the insects don't kill us, shifting weather paterns due to disrupted wind system wreak havoc on the planet. We all die.
3. Waves.
Same prob as wind. We either kill off all the fish, or disrupt the ocean's currents to the point that we all die.
4. Geothermal.
Let's take heat from the crust that escapes anyway and use it to drive turbines. Turbines need pressure. Pressure that would have been released naturally is now stored in the crust till peak hours. Pressure in the crust causes massive earthquakes. We all die.
So, here is my question: How do we get the things we need without causing harm? Fussion seems like the only easy answer. There really isn't anything else for us...is there?
I have been working in telecom for about 10 years, but this is still no indication of knowledge. Here goes:
Normal voice phones in just about every country in the world use 8-bit encoding at 8,000 times per second. So a normal voice conversation is 64kb/s. This can be compressed down to 32kb/s with no loss of quality by removing the samples unless you are actually talking. When we first started doing that, people got creeped out. They were used to hearing noise from the other room. We got around it by inserting noise back in the conversation at the other end.
I just want to know: Did you read the entire comment, or just the rant about taking from the rich and giving to the poor?
In my last paragraph, I clearly state that I know giving to the poor is the best for everyone. I stated that if Bill G. gets a $300M tax cut, he doesn't really spend it. If 300M people get a $1 tax cut, most of them will spend it. Over all, distribution of wealth leads to a better economy.
Of course, since you can't be bothered to read the entire thing, you probably never saw that part.
> I take high taxes any time over country where families live in cars.
Social Darwinism. Fuck them. If you can't get an education, why should soceity support you while your reproduce your defunct genes? If you can't get or keep a job, that does not automatically entitle you to my money that I worked for.
Reward the smart, punish the stupid.
Actually, I think social services are a good thing. If a family has no money, they can't buy my products. If they do have money, they'll spend it. Giving Bill G. another $300M isn't going to mean that he will buy more stuff. Give 300M people $1 and they will spend it.
I don't mind most social programs. I just wish that they were more work related. Want food stamps? Go pick up trash from the city streets. Want housing? Go cut grass along the interstate highways. If you are going to live off my money via social services, then you should have to work in a social service that I'll bennifit from.
Most places in EU have a VAT tax. Take whatever price you'd expect to see, and add 20% to it...and that's the price EUians pay. Most EU countries also have an insanely high income tax rate. When I worked in Italy (as a US contractor on a US contract), my Italian counterparts paid more than half of their income to taxes. Something like 52% income tax. Stamp on top of that the fact that they pay between 3 and 5 euros for a gallon of unleaded gasoline.
But that's the price they choose to pay. In exchange, they can get free (shitty) health care, free education, nice retirement checks, and other things people expect in socialized soceities.
EUians will throw social service into the USian's faces at any chance they get. But then they grumble about high prices, high taxes, and the fact that their gas tank is 1/3 the size of mine and costs twice as much to fill up.
In a 'normal' helio, the main rotor is driven from the center. Because of all that action-reaction stuff, you need another rotor in the rear to keep the fuslage from spinning one way as the rotors spin the other.
As for a lightweight, low-power helio, the best bet is to drive both rotors from the tips. If you affix small propellers to the tips of the blades, the only rotation you'll get in the fuselage is from friction in the main bearings.
I saw a design several years ago where they used a drum in the rotor tips. This drum was wound with several hundred yards of thin kevlar string. The drum was also attached to a gearing system that went to small props on the tips of the blades. The other end of the kevlar went to a drum at the rotor hub. When the pilot pedaled, the kevlar unwound from the tips and wound to the drum in the center. It looked to be a nifty design, but it took them too long (both in time and kevlar string) to get up to speed.
My point is this: If you drive from the tips vice the hub, there is no real need to have a tail rotor.
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While I'm glad to see advances being made in storage media, I'd prefer to see these guys working to make a '100-year DVD+-R/RW'.
After all, who wants to spend one week a year doing quality assurance on media. And even if you do QA, what if you find something is bad. While you can re-download your warez and pr0n, the photos and videos of your family vacation will be lost forever.
I've thought about this too. I bought TFotR boxed set with the book-ends and all the other stuff. I thought about getting TTT just for the figurine.
If they do release an uber edition, it will probably be different from those boxes.
If you are interested, there is a script that generates dummy *.mp3 and *.avi files with names that would get you some attention from those groups.
We had a team come in to examine our NOC. The first thing they wanted when they came in was valid IPs and subnet listings. In front of my boss, I told them to get stuffed. If they want to do a test, let them come. But I'm not giving them any help at all.
In any event, they charged a lot and found little. In the outbrief, they made even the smallest problems seem huge. I guess they may have had a point.
IMHO, the team that came to see us charged a lot and did not really acomplish anything.
We all know it's more important to dedicate funds to putting people on Mars vice curing social problems. :/
Probably has something to do with electrical interference. I know most mobos power 12v fans via onboard headers, but the power requirements for a HD might be too much for the small traces on PCBs.
>Terrorists commit suicide as part of an attack. Why would they care about getting caught after they've completed an attack?
They don't care about being caught. The people who fund them do care about being caught.
How will you know who funded them unless you can track them?
Prying into our lives is expensive and stupid. However, I think the government should literally track every foreigner from the second he steps foot onto our soil till he departs. In order to do that, we need some way of tracking them. You can't track them without tracking us.
If we trusted those in power, tracking wouldn't be an issue. But we have to have confidince that the police will be on our side. I don't have that now, but I hope that day will come.
He who complains about privacy to dirty politicans is an idiot. -- Bios Hakr
I agree that pretty much everyone breaks the law constantly.
What people on here seem to want is privacy. Let me break the law and as long as I have privacy, no one will ever know.
It'd be nice if we each lived in our own little country, wouldn't it?
But we don't.
I will acknowledge that I like my privacy. Having said that...
My biggest issue is dirty politicians. Privacy is a symptom of that problem. You cannot fix the problem by fighting a minor symptom. Stop wasting effort on bullshit like privacy and abortion and fix the way politics is run.
I'm not a "let's defend the government type". But we do need to find what's broken and fix it. Trying to fix a side issue (privacy) while a larger problem (campaign finance reform) is staring you in the face is just dumb. Why would you be willing to let an asshole that takes millions of dollars from Disney make a law about your privacy?
Fix the problem first, then work on the symptoms.
What you don't get is that privacy, terrorism, abortion, free speech, flag burning, school vouchers, and health care are not the problem. The problem is corrupt politicians. The only way to fix that is to band together and fix the broken election system.
Fix politics first, let the smaller issues get fixed after you can trust those in office.
The thing is, Bin Laden is not willing to blow himself up. If he were, he'd have stood on a line and fought vice hiding in a cave.
In any event, it's not the guys on the plane, or even BinLaden who funded the attacks. We need to find the money and kill those people.
Or maybe not. Maybe me giving money to a terrorist is covered by free speech.
Who knows?
But I'd say find anyone donating to terrorist groups and put them in prison for a very long time. Once you do that a few times, people would quiet down.
Why are people on here so frictional? You got modded as insightful, but all you do is flame me.
In any event...
You are right about point 1. Everyone is doing something illegal right now. What you want is privacy so cops can't call you on it. What I want is better politicians willing to get rid of stupid laws. Lack of privacy is just a symptom of a bigger problem. We need campaign finance reform. Once we have good politicians, we can work on the smaller things.
Point 2. The point isn't to stop a terrorist. You can't do that! Ever! The point is to have a good paper train back to his funding. Then you assasinate the man with the money. The next guy with money MAY have second thoughts. Sure, there will always be some way around having an ID card. Let's try and make that system better. We need a way to track people from the time they enter the country till they leave. This won't be a problem as long as we can trust those in office. We can trust those in office if we know they are working for us vice Disney/Exxon-Mobil.
As for point 3, I think it's valid. I hate giving my Drivers License to a hotel clerk. I fly a lot more than most. In fact, I was due to fly internationally on Sep 12. I spent an extra 3 weeks overseas because of terrorism. I really hate having to show my ID and have my bags searched 5 times between the curb and the gate. I know it adds nothing to security. However, as much as I travel, it's still a small hastle. If the voters would focus on finance reform, we could take care of a much larger hastle. Choose your battles and only fight the important ones. We can get election reforms as long as we fight hard and under the same banner. Abortion, prayer, school vouchers, privacy, health care; these are all side issues to keep us distracted from the fact that our representatives take millions of dollars in bribes.
Who is the sucker? I can join with my enemies to fight the good fight. Could you?
We invaded Iraq so that GWB could get more money. How is your not showing an ID card gonna stop that?
I was educated in public school. I still have a valid point: All the privacy in the world does not fix your politicians.
I do have a clue. It just seems that I'm choosing to fight a much more important fight.
BTW, don't be so quick to flame. Take a breath before you hit 'submit'. We are all on the same side here.
I'm not apathetic, I just have different priorities. Privacy is important, but it's not in my top ten. Neither is abortion.
If you had a choice between a politician who wanted privacy, but didn't want campaign finance reform, and one who was agianst privacy, bot for finance reform, who would you pick?
Is privacy that big of a deal right now? Are there other problems we should focus on? I think there are other, bigger problems that need solving.
How is it apathetic to ignore the things that don't matter to me?
You talk about corrupt politicians. How does debate about privacy work to get rid of them? It doesn't. Campaign finance reform will at least help fix the problem (corruption in government) rather than fight the symptoms (manditory minimums, school vouchers, privacy).
Fix the politicans first! Solve the little things later.
The problem with privacy is that 90% of the people will never have an issue with it. Really, as long as my neghbor does not spy on me, I'm OK. The reason?
1. I'm not going to do anything illegal. Sure, the government could make something I do now illegal and then come after me. If it's a small thing, I'll stop it. If it's a big thing, I'll use the soap box, ballot box, and ammo box.
2. It makes it slightly harder to get away with something. If you are required to use ID everywhere, tracking you back to your source quickly can give other possible sources a moment of pause before they try anything else. If we could attack the terrorist heads within hours of a major attack, we might be able to keep them from trying anything.
3. There are more important things to worry about. Education, health care, campaign finance reform...those are things I choose to focus on. Privacy, while it is on my list, does not even make the top 10. Review your priorities and decide what's important. Realize that if you are focused on 20 different things, not a single one will ever get done. Attack the problem and, when it is solved, move to the next thing.
Really, do you travel on a plane enough to really give a shit?
Do you disagree that small changes have big impacts?
:)
100 years ago, no one suspected that unchecked coal burning could change the climate. After all, it's a big atmosphere and we really aren't burning that much stuff.
In any event, I'm not trying to be anti-green or anti-technology. I'm just looking for answers that don't involve killing off 75% of the population of the planet. Do we really have any answers? I don't. And everything I've heard will affect the Earth to some extent.
How much it will affect and how long we can tolerate the effects is for others to research.
Oh, and why the tone? Nothing I said in any way was directed at you. Rather than attacking the speaker, try attacking the points of the speach.
Here are a few things that I've always wondered about so-called 'free energy' sources:
1. Solar.
We put up solar panels everywhere we possibly could. We get unlimited free energy. After a few years, the temprature of the Earth begins to drop due to the fact that the energy which would have been converted to heat is now used for other things. Even if those things produce heat as a biproduct, some heat will still be lost. We all freeze.
We put solar panels in space and beam the energy to the surface. Exact oppisite problem. The Earth begins to heat up due to extra evergy in the system. We all burn.
2. Wind.
We put up big windmils everywhere. All the birds fly into them. We are all eaten by insect plagues. Even if the insects don't kill us, shifting weather paterns due to disrupted wind system wreak havoc on the planet. We all die.
3. Waves.
Same prob as wind. We either kill off all the fish, or disrupt the ocean's currents to the point that we all die.
4. Geothermal.
Let's take heat from the crust that escapes anyway and use it to drive turbines. Turbines need pressure. Pressure that would have been released naturally is now stored in the crust till peak hours. Pressure in the crust causes massive earthquakes. We all die.
So, here is my question: How do we get the things we need without causing harm? Fussion seems like the only easy answer. There really isn't anything else for us...is there?
I have a .bat file that does a 'net send * J00 got 0wn3d'. When I go to LAN parties, I run it at random times when I'm bored.
Funny watching 30 people suddenly lose mouse focus in their FPS games.
Funnier still if you set your computer name to someone doing poorly in the game.
I have been working in telecom for about 10 years, but this is still no indication of knowledge. Here goes:
Normal voice phones in just about every country in the world use 8-bit encoding at 8,000 times per second. So a normal voice conversation is 64kb/s. This can be compressed down to 32kb/s with no loss of quality by removing the samples unless you are actually talking. When we first started doing that, people got creeped out. They were used to hearing noise from the other room. We got around it by inserting noise back in the conversation at the other end.
I do this to my boss all the time. The Hell-Desk thinks he is an idiot. Not too far from the truth, truth be told.
Duly noted...
I just want to know: Did you read the entire comment, or just the rant about taking from the rich and giving to the poor?
In my last paragraph, I clearly state that I know giving to the poor is the best for everyone. I stated that if Bill G. gets a $300M tax cut, he doesn't really spend it. If 300M people get a $1 tax cut, most of them will spend it. Over all, distribution of wealth leads to a better economy.
Of course, since you can't be bothered to read the entire thing, you probably never saw that part.
> I take high taxes any time over country where families live in cars.
Social Darwinism. Fuck them. If you can't get an education, why should soceity support you while your reproduce your defunct genes? If you can't get or keep a job, that does not automatically entitle you to my money that I worked for.
Reward the smart, punish the stupid.
Actually, I think social services are a good thing. If a family has no money, they can't buy my products. If they do have money, they'll spend it. Giving Bill G. another $300M isn't going to mean that he will buy more stuff. Give 300M people $1 and they will spend it.
I don't mind most social programs. I just wish that they were more work related. Want food stamps? Go pick up trash from the city streets. Want housing? Go cut grass along the interstate highways. If you are going to live off my money via social services, then you should have to work in a social service that I'll bennifit from.
Most places in EU have a VAT tax. Take whatever price you'd expect to see, and add 20% to it...and that's the price EUians pay. Most EU countries also have an insanely high income tax rate. When I worked in Italy (as a US contractor on a US contract), my Italian counterparts paid more than half of their income to taxes. Something like 52% income tax. Stamp on top of that the fact that they pay between 3 and 5 euros for a gallon of unleaded gasoline.
But that's the price they choose to pay. In exchange, they can get free (shitty) health care, free education, nice retirement checks, and other things people expect in socialized soceities.
EUians will throw social service into the USian's faces at any chance they get. But then they grumble about high prices, high taxes, and the fact that their gas tank is 1/3 the size of mine and costs twice as much to fill up.
In a 'normal' helio, the main rotor is driven from the center. Because of all that action-reaction stuff, you need another rotor in the rear to keep the fuslage from spinning one way as the rotors spin the other.
As for a lightweight, low-power helio, the best bet is to drive both rotors from the tips. If you affix small propellers to the tips of the blades, the only rotation you'll get in the fuselage is from friction in the main bearings.
I saw a design several years ago where they used a drum in the rotor tips. This drum was wound with several hundred yards of thin kevlar string. The drum was also attached to a gearing system that went to small props on the tips of the blades. The other end of the kevlar went to a drum at the rotor hub. When the pilot pedaled, the kevlar unwound from the tips and wound to the drum in the center. It looked to be a nifty design, but it took them too long (both in time and kevlar string) to get up to speed.
My point is this: If you drive from the tips vice the hub, there is no real need to have a tail rotor.