Do I need to point out that the recent incident with FlashBack would have been impossible without gaping holes in Adobe's Flash, Oracle's Java and Microsoft Office?
Microsoft makes a office-suite with no easy way to notify users of available updates and blames Apple for the gaping holes in Office?
"The iPhone is nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks. In terms of its impact on the industry, the iPhone is less relevant."
America and Europe are confronted with an aging population. In the Netherlands (where I live) there's about 40.000 men in the age-group of 40-45. There are 30.000 in the age-group of 20-25. Assuming that being a good programmer is something a certaint percentage of the population has, there are a lot less younger programmers available. 25%, to be exact. Market mechanisms mean these young whippersnappers will ask for more money, but the product they deliver will not necessarily be more valuable. In ten year times it will be cheaper to hire a bunch of us old farts instead of one of those young bright sparks.
I'm not sure this works the same for programmers, but/me as a sysadmin has no trouble finding a new job every 1.5-3 years. Experience and insight in what I do gets me higher up the ladder every time for the last 25 years.
You didn't read the question asked in the dialog? The one asking *your* permission to download and install updates and reboot your computer? You didn't understand that 'Continue' means 'yeah, go ahead, install and reboot'? You didn't see the 'not now' button next to it, allowing you to continue working without interruption?
Helpful tip: read the dialog and make sure you understand the question asked before clicking any button.
(You can configure Software Update to download updates in the background, in which case the wording of the question is slightly different and since you get prompted when everything is sucessfully downloaded, the interruption will be shorter. But the default is to prompt before downloading, so you can postpone downloading, perhaps saving you a huge mobile data bill.)
The gun has a peak beam-current of 1 mA, in a 24" monitor, and that's at 28.5kV, so, 28.5W peak to start with. Add in another 6W for the kathode which is heated.
Assuming perfect electronics, which you don't have.
Driving the deflector-coils is something in the orde of 10-15W.
I've lost a number of friends, collegues and aquaintices who were driving cars. It not like a car is a cloak of invulnerability.
About the worst place to spend your commute is in a car driven by a 18-25 year old male who's had a license for 1-2 years. Even a Hayabusa isn't as dangerous.
There is sufficient information in my post to answer that question. The only thing lacking is that the train makes 4 stops on the way and each stop is a 3 minute delay, including stopping and accelerating.
I probably won't get hit by a car. Most of the route I cycle has a dedicated bike-'road', separated from the cars by a curb and two feet of grass. Half of it has trees as additional reminders for stubborn drivers. The rest is a dedicated bikelane. Lines, markings, red asphalt and nice fines for drivers who ignore the markings (120 or 220 euro ($157 or $288) depending on the situation). See http://g.co/maps/cq3ab
Should I irritate you further with stories about EURO NCAP 5-star rated cars (where pedestrian/cyclist safety is a significant factor) and Dutch healthcare?
(I've been hit by cars five times. Bruises and bent bikeparts is the worst, sofar.)
> In fact most DDOS attacks rely on causing heavy load on the server.
If that's the case you are far worse off using nginx. 'Untuned' apache will limit your poor webserver to 256 running threads. With defaults nginx will start 1000 processes, which makes your site four times as dead. And if you are clueless but know how to google you can easily get at 10.000.
The kind of attack that relies on high load preys on clueless admins who think that 'tuning a webserver' is maxing out all limits.
It also only costs about $25k, with plenty of standard equipment.
And I was thinking my $1k folding bike was expensive.
(My daily commute consists of a mile on said bike, 40 miles in a 100-mph train and 2 miles on the same bike. You can beat that, once. After one go you'll find your license revoked and your car impounded.)
The UK government is probably close to doing this already.
You're sure of this? Because they need a million camera's to solve a thousand crimes per year, and Burroughs without CCTV do better when it comes to solving crimes. (Google it! Find your own facts!)
We don't. Not always. Take the German AVR. The, where it comes to beta-radation, most contaminated place in the world. The fuel is partly still in the reactor, because it's jammed in cracks in the bottom of the reactorvessel. It's filled with concrete and labeled 'do not open until 2100' in the hope our great-grandchildren might know what to do with it.
Did you consider the lack of availability of resources to T.C. Mits in Uganda?
Trees are owned by rich people. Animals are owned by rich people. Land, especially areable land is owned by rich people. Even stupid shit like copper and magnets is owned by rich people.
You are tolerated to 'occupy' a hundred square feet of land and some garbage on it, because evicting you would be more expensive than tolerating you.
Can you imagine living of the equivalent of 20 dollars per month? Less than two tall latte's a week?
Please point us to an actual working OS-X virus (or, perhaps safer: a recent, serious story about one..) I have yet to see one, despite 10 years of warnings I should buy expensive and intrusive crap from less-than-honest vendors.
I do scan for virusses, but mostly to protect my boss and his bookkeeper who insists on running windows.
Hamaoka survived despite being closer to the epicenter
Dude, what kind of bullshit are you spreading? Fukushima is 156 kilometers from the epicenter, and Hamaoka 565 kilometer. Ignoring costal geometry completely. (Fukushima is close to the epicenter, on the eastcoast of Honshu, Hamaoka is far away, sheltered on the southcoast of Honshu.)
Apart from that, Hamaoka 1 and 2 are permanently shut down since 2009 because of failures in the emergency cooling system in one of the units. Units 3, 4 and 5 are shut down since may 2011, because of very serious concerns over their safety in case of an earthquake. Not helping in convincing otherwise are the 16 incidents in which leaks led to unplanned shutdowns. Hamaoka has been called the most dangerous nuclear plant in Japan. 2 days after their final (?) shutdown CEPC had to announce that 400 tons of seawater has leaked into the primary condensor of unit 5, and five days later they had to announce that seawater has leaked into the primary containment (the reactor vessel itself). Hamaoka has a sand dune as protection, able to withstand a 26 ft tsunami. Fukushima was hit by a 43–49 ft tsunami.
No links, google it yourself, and find your own opinion.;)
Assuming that TEPCO kept the basic BWR Mark 1 layout, one of the generators would be high up inside the 'heavy' part of the building, opposite the spent fuel pool. In the hydrogen-explosions Units 1, 2 and 3 lost their 'top' which is a relative thin structure (secondary containment). The bottom half of the building (the environmental shield) is much stronger, and houses one of the backup generators, high up in the building. As far as I know the second generator is next to the piping well, underground, between the reactor-building and the generator-hall. The thirteenth generator was located landsite from the high voltage switching area, some distance from the sea.
After the fact there's no shortage of people telling you they told you so.
But if somebody tells me a grand total of 13 different backup-generators dotted around the site and five battery-backups might all simultaneously fail due to various reasons he would have an extreremly hard time convincing me.
Engineer or not, if his story depends on assuming a whole chain of unlikely events I'm probably not going to believe him. It's just human nature.
at least three linux flavours, at least two BSD flavours, and add in an additional 'classic' UNIX, like Solaris, IRIX, AIX, True64 or HP/UX, and don't forget OS-X.
focus on the differences, not on the similarities. Genetic differentiation is what counts, not the similarities.
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But let's whine about Fukushima instead. Because radiation is scarier then big ass waves and earthquakes
The locals seem to think so, and their are on the receiving end of earthquakes, tsunami's and radioactive pollution.
You aren't advocating invading Japan and switching on their nuclear plants, aren't you?
Do I need to point out that the recent incident with FlashBack would have been impossible without gaping holes in Adobe's Flash, Oracle's Java and Microsoft Office?
Microsoft makes a office-suite with no easy way to notify users of available updates and blames Apple for the gaping holes in Office?
They asked the owner where he had it repaired.
"Authorized repairs" are done to a plan, designed to minimize costs and risks, and to maximize succes-rate.
Bloomberg, the same one that predicted that the iPhone would be an utter failure?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aRelVKWbMAv0
"The iPhone is nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks. In terms of its impact on the industry, the iPhone is less relevant."
America and Europe are confronted with an aging population. In the Netherlands (where I live) there's about 40.000 men in the age-group of 40-45. There are 30.000 in the age-group of 20-25. Assuming that being a good programmer is something a certaint percentage of the population has, there are a lot less younger programmers available. 25%, to be exact. Market mechanisms mean these young whippersnappers will ask for more money, but the product they deliver will not necessarily be more valuable. In ten year times it will be cheaper to hire a bunch of us old farts instead of one of those young bright sparks.
I'm not sure this works the same for programmers, but /me as a sysadmin has no trouble finding a new job every 1.5-3 years. Experience and insight in what I do gets me higher up the ladder every time for the last 25 years.
Yes, you are very much incorrect:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10.8+TWh+times+0.126+dollar%2FkWh
I'd say about a thousand times.
You didn't read the question asked in the dialog? The one asking *your* permission to download and install updates and reboot your computer? You didn't understand that 'Continue' means 'yeah, go ahead, install and reboot'? You didn't see the 'not now' button next to it, allowing you to continue working without interruption?
Helpful tip: read the dialog and make sure you understand the question asked before clicking any button.
(You can configure Software Update to download updates in the background, in which case the wording of the question is slightly different and since you get prompted when everything is sucessfully downloaded, the interruption will be shorter. But the default is to prompt before downloading, so you can postpone downloading, perhaps saving you a huge mobile data bill.)
The gun has a peak beam-current of 1 mA, in a 24" monitor, and that's at 28.5kV, so, 28.5W peak to start with. Add in another 6W for the kathode which is heated.
Assuming perfect electronics, which you don't have.
Driving the deflector-coils is something in the orde of 10-15W.
> friend of a friend got killed while on a bike
I've lost a number of friends, collegues and aquaintices who were driving cars. It not like a car is a cloak of invulnerability.
About the worst place to spend your commute is in a car driven by a 18-25 year old male who's had a license for 1-2 years. Even a Hayabusa isn't as dangerous.
> Of course Grand Parent post is clearly a pussy for needed an electric bike for a 3 mile commute.
How did you get from 'folding' to 'electric'? Found you a snazzy video with irritating music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXTVBu4JL9o
> And how long does the total trip take?
There is sufficient information in my post to answer that question. The only thing lacking is that the train makes 4 stops on the way and each stop is a 3 minute delay, including stopping and accelerating.
I probably won't get hit by a car. Most of the route I cycle has a dedicated bike-'road', separated from the cars by a curb and two feet of grass. Half of it has trees as additional reminders for stubborn drivers. The rest is a dedicated bikelane. Lines, markings, red asphalt and nice fines for drivers who ignore the markings (120 or 220 euro ($157 or $288) depending on the situation). See http://g.co/maps/cq3ab
Should I irritate you further with stories about EURO NCAP 5-star rated cars (where pedestrian/cyclist safety is a significant factor) and Dutch healthcare?
(I've been hit by cars five times. Bruises and bent bikeparts is the worst, sofar.)
> In fact most DDOS attacks rely on causing heavy load on the server.
If that's the case you are far worse off using nginx. 'Untuned' apache will limit your poor webserver to 256 running threads. With defaults nginx will start 1000 processes, which makes your site four times as dead. And if you are clueless but know how to google you can easily get at 10.000.
The kind of attack that relies on high load preys on clueless admins who think that 'tuning a webserver' is maxing out all limits.
It also only costs about $25k, with plenty of standard equipment.
And I was thinking my $1k folding bike was expensive.
(My daily commute consists of a mile on said bike, 40 miles in a 100-mph train and 2 miles on the same bike. You can beat that, once. After one go you'll find your license revoked and your car impounded.)
Pity it's a copy/paste-job from another site, and at least a year and a half old: http://gombessa.tripod.com/scienceleadstheway/id9.html
Time for tinfoil overalls.
At least it will be a shiny future.
Hardware, contract (Apple gets a kickback), Apps and services.
For what started out as a hippie-outfit they've become quite adept at the ways of the Capitalist.
(Lots of Apple gadgets around me so obviously I don't care about the success of others. Good for them, enjoy it to the most..)
The UK government is probably close to doing this already.
You're sure of this? Because they need a million camera's to solve a thousand crimes per year, and Burroughs without CCTV do better when it comes to solving crimes. (Google it! Find your own facts!)
We don't. Not always. Take the German AVR. The, where it comes to beta-radation, most contaminated place in the world. The fuel is partly still in the reactor, because it's jammed in cracks in the bottom of the reactorvessel. It's filled with concrete and labeled 'do not open until 2100' in the hope our great-grandchildren might know what to do with it.
A nice gift to future generations.
Where are all of the resources going?
Did you consider the lack of availability of resources to T.C. Mits in Uganda?
Trees are owned by rich people. Animals are owned by rich people. Land, especially areable land is owned by rich people. Even stupid shit like copper and magnets is owned by rich people.
You are tolerated to 'occupy' a hundred square feet of land and some garbage on it, because evicting you would be more expensive than tolerating you.
Can you imagine living of the equivalent of 20 dollars per month? Less than two tall latte's a week?
Strike.
Please point us to an actual working OS-X virus (or, perhaps safer: a recent, serious story about one..) I have yet to see one, despite 10 years of warnings I should buy expensive and intrusive crap from less-than-honest vendors.
I do scan for virusses, but mostly to protect my boss and his bookkeeper who insists on running windows.
Hamaoka survived despite being closer to the epicenter
Dude, what kind of bullshit are you spreading? Fukushima is 156 kilometers from the epicenter, and Hamaoka 565 kilometer. Ignoring costal geometry completely. (Fukushima is close to the epicenter, on the eastcoast of Honshu, Hamaoka is far away, sheltered on the southcoast of Honshu.)
Apart from that, Hamaoka 1 and 2 are permanently shut down since 2009 because of failures in the emergency cooling system in one of the units. Units 3, 4 and 5 are shut down since may 2011, because of very serious concerns over their safety in case of an earthquake. Not helping in convincing otherwise are the 16 incidents in which leaks led to unplanned shutdowns. Hamaoka has been called the most dangerous nuclear plant in Japan. 2 days after their final (?) shutdown CEPC had to announce that 400 tons of seawater has leaked into the primary condensor of unit 5, and five days later they had to announce that seawater has leaked into the primary containment (the reactor vessel itself). Hamaoka has a sand dune as protection, able to withstand a 26 ft tsunami. Fukushima was hit by a 43–49 ft tsunami.
No links, google it yourself, and find your own opinion. ;)
The last one was some time ago, but it separated the UK from mainland Europe, some 8000 years ago.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide)
"all the in the same basement"
Assuming that TEPCO kept the basic BWR Mark 1 layout, one of the generators would be high up inside the 'heavy' part of the building, opposite the spent fuel pool. In the hydrogen-explosions Units 1, 2 and 3 lost their 'top' which is a relative thin structure (secondary containment). The bottom half of the building (the environmental shield) is much stronger, and houses one of the backup generators, high up in the building. As far as I know the second generator is next to the piping well, underground, between the reactor-building and the generator-hall. The thirteenth generator was located landsite from the high voltage switching area, some distance from the sea.
After the fact there's no shortage of people telling you they told you so.
But if somebody tells me a grand total of 13 different backup-generators dotted around the site and five battery-backups might all simultaneously fail due to various reasons he would have an extreremly hard time convincing me.
Engineer or not, if his story depends on assuming a whole chain of unlikely events I'm probably not going to believe him. It's just human nature.
based on my current experience:
at least three linux flavours, at least two BSD flavours, and add in an additional 'classic' UNIX, like Solaris, IRIX, AIX, True64 or HP/UX, and don't forget OS-X.
focus on the differences, not on the similarities. Genetic differentiation is what counts, not the similarities.
'Distro-agnosicm' is what counts.