Yeah, sounds stupid. However, not having to argue hours with Cisco tech support that "yes, our non-Cisco cables are working perfectly fine" also has a price, unfortunately...
Speaking from experience, you only need one genuine Cisco cable per facility, to swap it in and prove its not the cable. It only takes a couple minutes. Also speaking from experience, you can get into arguments with mgmt about that "only a couple of minutes" of downtime costing the company about a thousand genuine cisco cables, so just buy the darn cisco cable.
And Cisco used to smartnet the cables, sorta, such that a failed genuine cisco cable would be replaced by the smartnet tech if necessary, so stocking and managing spares at remote sites becomes sorta irrelevant.
I've been out of that line of work over 6 years now, don't know if any of this is still accurate.
That's why one should use Cat5E becuase it is specced to 1gbps
Not really.
Homemade cable runs can be 5E, if you own a "real" cable scanner (if it doesn't cost four figures and report numerical results that only the EEs understand, its not a real tester).
There is exactly one cable factory in China that makes all the premade cables, and then the marketing guys stuff some in "cat 5" bags, some in "cat 5E" bags, some in "Cat 6" bags, some probably in "cat 7" bags for the best buy type of customer. No testing is done only marketing.
Also spec'd is the wrong terminology as all (real) cables have specifications, they just might or might not meet the standards.
Because they are all the time revising their models and theories in order to make them more acurate? What a stupid thing for a scientist to do!
The stupid thing they do, is not gather climate data and theorize on it, but use their gathered data to come up with ridiculous insane social engineering / economic failures / central govt neo-catholic original sin control via guilt.
Let me provide the Standard/. Car Analogy:
My 14 year old car engine has a leaky valve cover gasket that drips out about a tablespoon of oil per month.
Denier #1: No one can prove the oil on the floor comes from my car. Could be someone elses car, or a enviroterrorist dumping oil trying to make me look bad.
Fearmonger #1: At present rate, the world will fill with dripped oil and we will all drown. Vote for me!
Denier #2: Oil stain on garage floor could be stains from greasy mcdonalds food.
Scientist #1: Clearly, the evidence of leaking oil proves the only solution is for the "workers of the world unite, you only have your chains to lose!" If hugo chavez's government owned the factory that built my car, surely it would never have dripped oil.
Denier #3: You have less than 14 years of garage floor data. How certain are you its not a natural crude oil seep underneath the garage?
Scientist #2: Perhaps the best way to prevent the world from filling with dripped oil, drowning us all, would be to genocide 90% of the population. After all, people = cars = dripped oil, unless you're an illiterate heathen from flyover country who would argue with math and equations. Because everyone who whines about overpopulation is a coward, I as a scientist, scientifically suggest that the 90% to be disappeared be from "not my family" and "not my culture/ethnic group" and "not my country".
Scummy financial industry economist type #1 (is there any other kind?): Hmm, maybe I can make some dough off a futures market of the rate increase of the oil drip rate from VLMs car. I could get insider information, or I could front run the retail investors trades, or maybe implement some high freq trading voodoo.
Denier #4: Used motor oil is mostly hydrocarbons. Sometimes, some people, occasionally, like hydrocarbons on their floors, either for temporary comic relief, or the closely related, yet entirely different situation of hydrocarbon based floor waxes and wood floor finishes and floor paints. Therefore all spilled oil is desired by all people all the time.
Scummy financial industry economist type #2 (but I repeat myself...): maybe I could convince VLM to pay me twice for the oil, once when he pours it in, and once when it drips out. We'll call it a "tax" because americans always roll over and play dead whenever someone increases their taxes; they think it inevitable that their middle class be destroyed and that taxes MUST always increase, so calling it a carbon tax is excellent marketing.
Scientist #3: I'm really proud of how we talked about this all day and wrote papers about cars that drip oil, which from a middle management perspective is equally effective as actually doing something. Excuse me, while I commute back to my ivory tower in my Prius.
Denier #5: My holy book does not discuss "cars" or "motor oil", and my holy book is all I need to get into heaven, therefore I'm sticking my fingers in my ears. These scientists should have been studying my holy book in sunday school, not learning all this calculus stuff, especially since calculus, and learning in general, is tool of the devil. Would you like to hear a hymn, or perhaps a completely out of context quote from my holy book?
Scientist #4: I'll say anything for money. Anyone who denies will never get any money again. What a happy coincidence for me that that I am a trustworthy supporter of popular groupthink! Now that I've said that, where's my grant money to study these oil drippy "car" things?
The problem is my parodies above are all completely accurate, all the players are morons not worth listening to.
My only hope is we don't accidentally cause an Ice Age trying to fix this.
Why? The most important question about "climate change" is the one never asked. The "debate" is exclusively non-scientific in application and is solely used as rationalization for either full on central govt control, or rationalization for full on libertarianism. One thing carefully kept quiet and out of the debate, is that regardless of which method the hairless apes select to justify controlling each other, every 75Kyears, where I'm sitting right now will be covered with two miles of ice alternating with a nice limestone producing inland sea.
The important part of the "world is gonna end unless we..." is not the "world is gonna end" part, because thru natural geological processes its gonna do that anyway. The important part is the "unless we..." part, where the answers are political garbage.
I found it impossibly hard to believe that it's cheaper to move your entire operation than install scrubbers
The point is, you can ignore a whole heck of a lot more regulations than just the scrubber requirements.
Fly ash can be dumped onto the lawn until it blows away or is washed away. No need to capture and recycle mercury, or anything else, unless you'll make a profit off it. No need for those pesky worker safety regulations. Boiler inspections, what are they? Have a barrel of used lubricating oil, and coincidentally a barrel sized hole in the ground?
Why the limitation to only 10 gold coins? That seems stupid. It would seem to me that given that you can have unlimited characters under the cap anyway, that the more gold you accumulate, the more you're going to want to go out, spend it, become well-equipped, and then break through the cap and rise in the game. That means $$$ for Blizzard, so why the gold cap?
It seems like every time I look at my computer something else is asking to be updated. Flash, Java, Adobe, Firefox, Windows itself, etc. Can we just knock it off already and update once every 6 months or so? That would be nice..
Too late. I already found that with Bing I get primary sources rather than the first search result being Wikipedia followed by a bunch of blogs, so I switched. (And I hate Microsoft.)
You've been powned, Bing got caught plagarizing Google's results.
The same way that Google caught Bing ripping off search results a while ago: find some idiosyncratic behaviors (e.g. bugs) that serve no practical purpose and are highly unlikely to end up in two independent projects, and demonstrate the same weirdness in each.
Some examples: A game of 17 pawns vs a guy with two white bishops? A data set implying one square actually holds three pieces? Long rows of vertical pawns? One side somehow has not one, but two kings?
spot copied code, and it shouldn't matter if he's copied algorithms.
Isn't copied algorithms the stereotypical way to catch programming school plagiarizers? Why look, one smart-ish guy, and his three moron drinking buddies, all had exactly the same picket fence error in exactly the same place... What a coincidence? This does not work on tiny toy programs, but something big enough to win at chess is probably big enough.
I have an honest question. I'm going to assume the program is compiled into an executable, and not a scripting language like python. How do they determine if code from an open source program was used from the binary program?
Compile it with debugging symbols and compare to the open source program compiled with debugging symbols and compare the symbol tables. How odd that so many functions are exactly the same length and have exactly the same arguments. Run both thru a profiler and notice any identical control flow loops. I suspect there's a way to ask the GCC optimizer to compare the psuedocode before it gets assembled. Heck, just rub the raw binaries against each other and look for matches. It would be hilarious to ask/force him to compile and/or link mixmaster style
Ask a "windows security researcher" dude how he identifies a file with a virus. If he says, "use norton" then fire him and repeat. Eventually you'll find someone who knows how to use the binary equivalent of "substr".
But to exonerate himself he doesn't have to release the source-code to the world; he simply needs to arrange for the source code to be shown to the expert panel.
Alternately, they could deploy several classic crypto solutions, which means they're easy to half ass and screw up.
There's a couple good crypto algorithms to hash the unknown and known source code, compare the hashes, etc. No need to let anyone directly read the unknown source code.
To prove he's not handing you hashes of/dev/random you can compile the code, see if it matches his binary.
Besides simple hash comparisons, there are some digital cash algos oriented around detecting double spending... You could probably hack that into working.
Run the comparison on a neutral ground virtual machine with no mass storage just a huge amount of ramdisk. Tell both sides how to prepare the VM (probably via a script) and trade hashes of parts of the VM with each other to verify neither side modified anything.
Whoops, I suppose I should have checked todays offers before posting.
We have a $50 basic car detailing marked up to $210 then back down as a deal to $75 a mere 25 miles from my house in a scary neighborhood, a "detoxifying foot bath" sounds like just a step above patent medicines and faith healing, and a speed reading class 30 miles from home that normally retails for a mere $40/hour (WTF? $40/hr for a reading class?) and now is "on sale" for a mere $10/hr.
I guess they pulled the sun tan salons when they realized its warm enough to... just lay outside.
The customer database of Groupon's Indian subsidiary was published
Does Groupon-India offer good deals or just junk like we get around here? All we have around here is suntanning offers (hello, look at my skin color?, they should filter for stuff like that) and waxing salons (uuh, no) and some restaurant over 40 miles away that probably isn't any different than the other 2000 restaurants I'd have to drive past to get there.
My guess is Groupon-India would probably offer real popular deals like genuine grass-fed beef hamburgers and Pakistani restaurant special offers.
but I don't think I know of an OS that won't just work if you plug in a keyboard or mouse. You could just as easily make a USB stick that opens up a terminal and runs 'rm -rf ~';
Windows key, up arrow, up arrow, enter, "run something nasty.exe", enter, "boom"
Someone needs to start dropping USB sticks that physically destroy hardware when plugged in
I'm surprised no one in the sandbox has tried IEDs like this.. Or at least no declassified or wikileaked reports, so far. Maybe it depends on the audience, soldiers aren't dumb enough, but cube dwellers are?
That's what I would like to see, let's have someone put that metal jewelry and ink to use, attach a battery to your nose ring, embed an LED in your face, other cool stuff.
Then there's the pr0n-industrial complex applications, that industry is always a leader in technology, at least behind the scenes. One person wears the battery, the other wears the cellphone motor, etc.
Don't ignore the effect of printing staggering quantities of money... The "value" of an ounce of gold has always been about the cost of a man's suit or a really decent new handgun, and the "value" of an ounce of silver has always been about one unskilled laborers days pay or about a weeks groceries or about one box of ammo.
Due to inflation, both long term and recently, both have skyrocketed numerically, but the value hasn't changed much.
We as a society need to more carefully consider the reasons for which we take away someone's freedoms.
In an economy with over 25% un- or under- employment, any reason to "thin the herd" seems acceptable by the (rapidly shrinking) majority that still have jobs... That's what gives this story a twist, rather than being thinned from the herd, they actually got jobs.
If we don't "thin the herd" using the questionable justice system, we'll either have to admit the situation is worse than it appears, which certainly isn't going to happen, or find another way to thin the herd, perhaps stealth ageism by grade inflation filtration? Is there a way to thin the herd that is more ethical or less unethical than the justice system? Maybe, but right now it sounds like the old one liner about democracy, its a terrible system but all the others are even worse...
I just gave something to a co-worker this morning. Nobody tell Facebook that I did that or I might get sued for patent infringement.
Speaking of that, is this a back door for suing people who give others the common cold or a STD? Not just civil proceedings, but criminal patent violation?
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Yeah, sounds stupid. However, not having to argue hours with Cisco tech support that "yes, our non-Cisco cables are working perfectly fine" also has a price, unfortunately...
Speaking from experience, you only need one genuine Cisco cable per facility, to swap it in and prove its not the cable. It only takes a couple minutes. Also speaking from experience, you can get into arguments with mgmt about that "only a couple of minutes" of downtime costing the company about a thousand genuine cisco cables, so just buy the darn cisco cable.
And Cisco used to smartnet the cables, sorta, such that a failed genuine cisco cable would be replaced by the smartnet tech if necessary, so stocking and managing spares at remote sites becomes sorta irrelevant.
I've been out of that line of work over 6 years now, don't know if any of this is still accurate.
That's why one should use Cat5E becuase it is specced to 1gbps
Not really.
Homemade cable runs can be 5E, if you own a "real" cable scanner (if it doesn't cost four figures and report numerical results that only the EEs understand, its not a real tester).
There is exactly one cable factory in China that makes all the premade cables, and then the marketing guys stuff some in "cat 5" bags, some in "cat 5E" bags, some in "Cat 6" bags, some probably in "cat 7" bags for the best buy type of customer. No testing is done only marketing.
Also spec'd is the wrong terminology as all (real) cables have specifications, they just might or might not meet the standards.
These 'scientists' really make me laugh...
Because they are all the time revising their models and theories in order to make them more acurate? What a stupid thing for a scientist to do!
The stupid thing they do, is not gather climate data and theorize on it, but use their gathered data to come up with ridiculous insane social engineering / economic failures / central govt neo-catholic original sin control via guilt.
Let me provide the Standard /. Car Analogy:
My 14 year old car engine has a leaky valve cover gasket that drips out about a tablespoon of oil per month.
Denier #1: No one can prove the oil on the floor comes from my car. Could be someone elses car, or a enviroterrorist dumping oil trying to make me look bad.
Fearmonger #1: At present rate, the world will fill with dripped oil and we will all drown. Vote for me!
Denier #2: Oil stain on garage floor could be stains from greasy mcdonalds food.
Scientist #1: Clearly, the evidence of leaking oil proves the only solution is for the "workers of the world unite, you only have your chains to lose!" If hugo chavez's government owned the factory that built my car, surely it would never have dripped oil.
Denier #3: You have less than 14 years of garage floor data. How certain are you its not a natural crude oil seep underneath the garage?
Scientist #2: Perhaps the best way to prevent the world from filling with dripped oil, drowning us all, would be to genocide 90% of the population. After all, people = cars = dripped oil, unless you're an illiterate heathen from flyover country who would argue with math and equations. Because everyone who whines about overpopulation is a coward, I as a scientist, scientifically suggest that the 90% to be disappeared be from "not my family" and "not my culture/ethnic group" and "not my country".
Scummy financial industry economist type #1 (is there any other kind?): Hmm, maybe I can make some dough off a futures market of the rate increase of the oil drip rate from VLMs car. I could get insider information, or I could front run the retail investors trades, or maybe implement some high freq trading voodoo.
Denier #4: Used motor oil is mostly hydrocarbons. Sometimes, some people, occasionally, like hydrocarbons on their floors, either for temporary comic relief, or the closely related, yet entirely different situation of hydrocarbon based floor waxes and wood floor finishes and floor paints. Therefore all spilled oil is desired by all people all the time.
Scummy financial industry economist type #2 (but I repeat myself...): maybe I could convince VLM to pay me twice for the oil, once when he pours it in, and once when it drips out. We'll call it a "tax" because americans always roll over and play dead whenever someone increases their taxes; they think it inevitable that their middle class be destroyed and that taxes MUST always increase, so calling it a carbon tax is excellent marketing.
Scientist #3: I'm really proud of how we talked about this all day and wrote papers about cars that drip oil, which from a middle management perspective is equally effective as actually doing something. Excuse me, while I commute back to my ivory tower in my Prius.
Denier #5: My holy book does not discuss "cars" or "motor oil", and my holy book is all I need to get into heaven, therefore I'm sticking my fingers in my ears. These scientists should have been studying my holy book in sunday school, not learning all this calculus stuff, especially since calculus, and learning in general, is tool of the devil. Would you like to hear a hymn, or perhaps a completely out of context quote from my holy book?
Scientist #4: I'll say anything for money. Anyone who denies will never get any money again. What a happy coincidence for me that that I am a trustworthy supporter of popular groupthink! Now that I've said that, where's my grant money to study these oil drippy "car" things?
The problem is my parodies above are all completely accurate, all the players are morons not worth listening to.
My only hope is we don't accidentally cause an Ice Age trying to fix this.
Why? The most important question about "climate change" is the one never asked. The "debate" is exclusively non-scientific in application and is solely used as rationalization for either full on central govt control, or rationalization for full on libertarianism. One thing carefully kept quiet and out of the debate, is that regardless of which method the hairless apes select to justify controlling each other, every 75Kyears, where I'm sitting right now will be covered with two miles of ice alternating with a nice limestone producing inland sea.
The important part of the "world is gonna end unless we ..." is not the "world is gonna end" part, because thru natural geological processes its gonna do that anyway. The important part is the "unless we ..." part, where the answers are political garbage.
I found it impossibly hard to believe that it's cheaper to move your entire operation than install scrubbers
The point is, you can ignore a whole heck of a lot more regulations than just the scrubber requirements.
Fly ash can be dumped onto the lawn until it blows away or is washed away. No need to capture and recycle mercury, or anything else, unless you'll make a profit off it. No need for those pesky worker safety regulations. Boiler inspections, what are they? Have a barrel of used lubricating oil, and coincidentally a barrel sized hole in the ground?
No chat, no auction houses, no guilds (basically no social interaction of any kind, which kind of defeats the whole point of an MMO)
Allow that, and it'll be spam bot hell for the paying players.
Why the limitation to only 10 gold coins? That seems stupid. It would seem to me that given that you can have unlimited characters under the cap anyway, that the more gold you accumulate, the more you're going to want to go out, spend it, become well-equipped, and then break through the cap and rise in the game. That means $$$ for Blizzard, so why the gold cap?
Limiting the usefulness for gold farmers.
Does anyone really uses HTML in emails?
Embedded pictures. Which of course is why spammers exclusively use HTML email.
It seems like every time I look at my computer something else is asking to be updated. Flash, Java, Adobe, Firefox, Windows itself, etc. Can we just knock it off already and update once every 6 months or so? That would be nice..
You'd like Debian Stable.
Too late. I already found that with Bing I get primary sources rather than the first search result being Wikipedia followed by a bunch of blogs, so I switched. (And I hate Microsoft.)
You've been powned, Bing got caught plagarizing Google's results.
The same way that Google caught Bing ripping off search results a while ago: find some idiosyncratic behaviors (e.g. bugs) that serve no practical purpose and are highly unlikely to end up in two independent projects, and demonstrate the same weirdness in each.
Some examples:
A game of 17 pawns vs a guy with two white bishops? A data set implying one square actually holds three pieces? Long rows of vertical pawns? One side somehow has not one, but two kings?
spot copied code, and it shouldn't matter if he's copied algorithms.
Isn't copied algorithms the stereotypical way to catch programming school plagiarizers? Why look, one smart-ish guy, and his three moron drinking buddies, all had exactly the same picket fence error in exactly the same place... What a coincidence? This does not work on tiny toy programs, but something big enough to win at chess is probably big enough.
I have an honest question. I'm going to assume the program is compiled into an executable, and not a scripting language like python. How do they determine if code from an open source program was used from the binary program?
Compile it with debugging symbols and compare to the open source program compiled with debugging symbols and compare the symbol tables. How odd that so many functions are exactly the same length and have exactly the same arguments. Run both thru a profiler and notice any identical control flow loops. I suspect there's a way to ask the GCC optimizer to compare the psuedocode before it gets assembled. Heck, just rub the raw binaries against each other and look for matches. It would be hilarious to ask/force him to compile and/or link mixmaster style
Ask a "windows security researcher" dude how he identifies a file with a virus. If he says, "use norton" then fire him and repeat. Eventually you'll find someone who knows how to use the binary equivalent of "substr".
But to exonerate himself he doesn't have to release the source-code to the world; he simply needs to arrange for the source code to be shown to the expert panel.
Alternately, they could deploy several classic crypto solutions, which means they're easy to half ass and screw up.
There's a couple good crypto algorithms to hash the unknown and known source code, compare the hashes, etc. No need to let anyone directly read the unknown source code.
To prove he's not handing you hashes of /dev/random you can compile the code, see if it matches his binary.
Besides simple hash comparisons, there are some digital cash algos oriented around detecting double spending... You could probably hack that into working.
Run the comparison on a neutral ground virtual machine with no mass storage just a huge amount of ramdisk. Tell both sides how to prepare the VM (probably via a script) and trade hashes of parts of the VM with each other to verify neither side modified anything.
Whoops, I suppose I should have checked todays offers before posting.
We have a $50 basic car detailing marked up to $210 then back down as a deal to $75 a mere 25 miles from my house in a scary neighborhood, a "detoxifying foot bath" sounds like just a step above patent medicines and faith healing, and a speed reading class 30 miles from home that normally retails for a mere $40/hour (WTF? $40/hr for a reading class?) and now is "on sale" for a mere $10/hr.
I guess they pulled the sun tan salons when they realized its warm enough to ... just lay outside.
The customer database of Groupon's Indian subsidiary was published
Does Groupon-India offer good deals or just junk like we get around here? All we have around here is suntanning offers (hello, look at my skin color?, they should filter for stuff like that) and waxing salons (uuh, no) and some restaurant over 40 miles away that probably isn't any different than the other 2000 restaurants I'd have to drive past to get there.
My guess is Groupon-India would probably offer real popular deals like genuine grass-fed beef hamburgers and Pakistani restaurant special offers.
Different hardware, specialty drivers, default settings vs tweaked settings...
Virus, worm, and trojan installs on the windows box ....
but I don't think I know of an OS that won't just work if you plug in a keyboard or mouse. You could just as easily make a USB stick that opens up a terminal and runs 'rm -rf ~';
Windows key, up arrow, up arrow, enter, "run something nasty.exe", enter, "boom"
Someone needs to start dropping USB sticks that physically destroy hardware when plugged in
I'm surprised no one in the sandbox has tried IEDs like this.. Or at least no declassified or wikileaked reports, so far. Maybe it depends on the audience, soldiers aren't dumb enough, but cube dwellers are?
What benefit does a ball point have over felt tip? I have no idea.
Doesn't dry out as quick when the cap is off. You get to use it for more than 15 minutes.
The more important reason is probably to avoid patents.
That's what I would like to see, let's have someone put that metal jewelry and ink to use, attach a battery to your nose ring, embed an LED in your face, other cool stuff.
Then there's the pr0n-industrial complex applications, that industry is always a leader in technology, at least behind the scenes. One person wears the battery, the other wears the cellphone motor, etc.
Don't ignore the effect of printing staggering quantities of money... The "value" of an ounce of gold has always been about the cost of a man's suit or a really decent new handgun, and the "value" of an ounce of silver has always been about one unskilled laborers days pay or about a weeks groceries or about one box of ammo.
Due to inflation, both long term and recently, both have skyrocketed numerically, but the value hasn't changed much.
They invented a product that has been available for over 20 years....
http://www.mgchemicals.com/products/pens.html
What's next from these ingenious companies?
That product in general has been around something in excess of 40 years. Mostly used to repair scratched car rear-view mirrors.
We as a society need to more carefully consider the reasons for which we take away someone's freedoms.
In an economy with over 25% un- or under- employment, any reason to "thin the herd" seems acceptable by the (rapidly shrinking) majority that still have jobs... That's what gives this story a twist, rather than being thinned from the herd, they actually got jobs.
If we don't "thin the herd" using the questionable justice system, we'll either have to admit the situation is worse than it appears, which certainly isn't going to happen, or find another way to thin the herd, perhaps stealth ageism by grade inflation filtration? Is there a way to thin the herd that is more ethical or less unethical than the justice system? Maybe, but right now it sounds like the old one liner about democracy, its a terrible system but all the others are even worse...
I just gave something to a co-worker this morning. Nobody tell Facebook that I did that or I might get sued for patent infringement.
Speaking of that, is this a back door for suing people who give others the common cold or a STD? Not just civil proceedings, but criminal patent violation?