And oh, carry a flashlight and a Swiss army knife. Both always come in useful.
Never, ever, ever, EVER carry a knife, Swiss army or not, into Mexico. I'm not sure about European countries or the like but in Mexico they want to put you in jail so that some of your American dollars can help out their budget. I have a former friend who went that I specifically told not to bring anything remotely considered a weapon and he, like the 'tard he is, brought a swiss army knife and sure enough he got searched and landed himself in a Mexican jail. Cost him over $1500 to get out..for a swiss army knife.
I'm hip to traffic shaping according to the port being used but I'd never heard of NBAR. I also don't see the point in using it when it is more customer-oriented, easier and cheaper to identify people who max their bandwidth usage first rather than identify the protocol and then block/shape it because you don't approve of the service itself. I mean our normal setup was to identify heavy usage BEFORE identifying what service they were using because we figured that if we shut someone down for the service they were using and all they were doing was downloading some text files from Emule(it DOES happen..I do it all the time), they might get pissed off enough to complain and leave. I KNOW I wouldn't pay an ISP to tell me I couldn't use a service simply because they took the MAFIAA/BSA's stance that all p2p services are illegal.
From the ISP's POV, not at all the same as a lot of movies. Not all content moves across the 'net in a similar manner.
Those ISOs are relatively light-weight in terms of xfer overhead. You can pull them down all day and not get any attention, but if you start anything that even barely reeks of streaming or multi-media, you'll trigger a flag that puts you in line for being throttled back.
I call shenanigans. I've worked for an ISP on more than one occasion and the method you speak of consists of analyzing every single byte of every single user in real time and that's simply not going to happen.
Do you have a good cite for the risks of STDs being "staggering" because most of my wife's family is in medicine and that's never been brought up even once. As a matter of fact, I've never once seen any so-called facts on this proven since most of the time the "facts" revolve around whether the person has any concept of personal hygiene.
The drawbacks of being circumcised? I could enjoy sex a lot more than I already do, I might not have the scarring that I do, I might not have problems with oil glands on my penis....I might have had this thing we call a choice. That last one is plenty.
This has less to do with SI and more to do with a way to approximate the values in semi-easy-to-understand binary/hexadecimal representations. Since 1,024 was close to 1,000, the idea of 1024 bytes being a binary equivalent to a "kilo" was not a large leap and it's easier to remember 0x400 bytes equals a kilobyte than 0x3E8 bytes, or that 0x100000 bytes instead of 0xF4240 equals a meg. As programmers(or at least us low level language programmers) we live and breath in the binary world and rarely have to think in decimal terms comparatively.
What kills me is that I'm betting that a large majority of people who argue for the 1,000 byte kilobyte will gladly accept "ginormous", "omgwtfbbq" "aiiiggghttt"and "teh" and all the other language abuses and will see absolutely nothing wrong with their use. I'm sure that whoever dreamed up the "mebi" thing thinks they are making things easier but until us older programmers and hardware engineers die, that's not gonna take hold very well. Of course it speaks volumes that the term "mebi" is almost 10 years old now and still hasn't taken hold.
One might also note that memory is the reason we use these terms in the first place since hard drives and the like didn't come about for a long while so trying to make the language even more confusing, and garbled, because hard drive manufacturers want to skimp on drive size seems asinine, and they DO want to skimp on drive since formatting 160Gb, whether it's 160,000,000,000 bytes or 160x1024x1024x1024 bytes, only yields about 140,000,000,000 bytes.
This is OT but I'm glad SOMEONE is trying to fight the tidal wave of idiot doctors and nurses who automatically assume that your brand new baby boy is in need of circumcision. We literally had to tell the doctors about 15 times before we left the hospital that we did not want our son to have one and they kept insisting that he'd be healthier and all that other garbage. I heard one man sued the doctor who circumcised him and I've been tempted to do the same especially since I've started experiencing some problems that are likely caused by mine.
From the summary: "Wrong. Matter cannot touch the speed of light in vacuum; energy (e.g. light) cannot exceed it; and information cannot be transferred faster than this limit."
That's wrong. They proved information travels (almost) instantly in the quantum realm about 12 years ago, IIRC, by using two quantum entangled photons and changing the spin on one and the spin on the other changed faster than light could have reached it.
The fact that they can't keep the Wii on the shelves seems to say exactly the opposite: the Wii is VERY popular. Sheesh, next someone will say that the PS3 is uber-popular cause nobody's buying them and they're still found on the shelves.
Hmm.. reply to article link is missing. That's weird. This isn't a response to ubuntudupe...
I found it on mine on the control panel thingy on the left, the one that scrolls down with you, not the static one. But you're right, it is missing from its normal spot.
Speakin' of the batteries, I heard these things have some form of crank-generator so you don't need to plug-in. I'd KILL to have that on my $1500 lappy....no worries if I forgot to charge before I left the house or forgot the charger somewhere...just crank it a bit and I'm operational. If I had a $1500 lappy and I saw someone with a $100 lappy with a hand crank, they'd have a hard time keeping it for that reason alone..heh.
It's been said before, but good and evil are not the same as legal and illegal.
Absolutely, because "illegal" is a sick bird. Now "against the law" is a much deeper subject and then it all depends on where you derive your law; mine personally comes from natural law, not these words written on paper.
They use "direct human intervention" all the time to remove websites or else some people wouldn't have their sites delisted/banned for gateway pages, or whatever other factors that they don't like.
Statutes about speed limits don't say anything about police officers breaking them but the courts interpret it as a necessary thing under many circumstances. And the courts ARE allowed to "make up and read things into statutes", they call that "interpretation" and that is almost specifically the SOLE purpose for our Supreme Court and appellate courts.
Someone needs to mod the parent UP and hopefully whoever the Dee-Dee-Dee was that modded it as off-topic will find the system of meta-moderation to their disliking.
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Never, ever, ever, EVER carry a knife, Swiss army or not, into Mexico. I'm not sure about European countries or the like but in Mexico they want to put you in jail so that some of your American dollars can help out their budget. I have a former friend who went that I specifically told not to bring anything remotely considered a weapon and he, like the 'tard he is, brought a swiss army knife and sure enough he got searched and landed himself in a Mexican jail. Cost him over $1500 to get out..for a swiss army knife.
I'm hip to traffic shaping according to the port being used but I'd never heard of NBAR. I also don't see the point in using it when it is more customer-oriented, easier and cheaper to identify people who max their bandwidth usage first rather than identify the protocol and then block/shape it because you don't approve of the service itself. I mean our normal setup was to identify heavy usage BEFORE identifying what service they were using because we figured that if we shut someone down for the service they were using and all they were doing was downloading some text files from Emule(it DOES happen..I do it all the time), they might get pissed off enough to complain and leave. I KNOW I wouldn't pay an ISP to tell me I couldn't use a service simply because they took the MAFIAA/BSA's stance that all p2p services are illegal.
Those ISOs are relatively light-weight in terms of xfer overhead. You can pull them down all day and not get any attention, but if you start anything that even barely reeks of streaming or multi-media, you'll trigger a flag that puts you in line for being throttled back.
I call shenanigans. I've worked for an ISP on more than one occasion and the method you speak of consists of analyzing every single byte of every single user in real time and that's simply not going to happen.
Do you have a good cite for the risks of STDs being "staggering" because most of my wife's family is in medicine and that's never been brought up even once. As a matter of fact, I've never once seen any so-called facts on this proven since most of the time the "facts" revolve around whether the person has any concept of personal hygiene.
The drawbacks of being circumcised? I could enjoy sex a lot more than I already do, I might not have the scarring that I do, I might not have problems with oil glands on my penis....I might have had this thing we call a choice. That last one is plenty.
Did you not learn anything? It's almost 0x0A years old. Sheesh. Everyone's trying to be a comedian.
This has less to do with SI and more to do with a way to approximate the values in semi-easy-to-understand binary/hexadecimal representations. Since 1,024 was close to 1,000, the idea of 1024 bytes being a binary equivalent to a "kilo" was not a large leap and it's easier to remember 0x400 bytes equals a kilobyte than 0x3E8 bytes, or that 0x100000 bytes instead of 0xF4240 equals a meg. As programmers(or at least us low level language programmers) we live and breath in the binary world and rarely have to think in decimal terms comparatively.
What kills me is that I'm betting that a large majority of people who argue for the 1,000 byte kilobyte will gladly accept "ginormous", "omgwtfbbq" "aiiiggghttt"and "teh" and all the other language abuses and will see absolutely nothing wrong with their use. I'm sure that whoever dreamed up the "mebi" thing thinks they are making things easier but until us older programmers and hardware engineers die, that's not gonna take hold very well. Of course it speaks volumes that the term "mebi" is almost 10 years old now and still hasn't taken hold.
One might also note that memory is the reason we use these terms in the first place since hard drives and the like didn't come about for a long while so trying to make the language even more confusing, and garbled, because hard drive manufacturers want to skimp on drive size seems asinine, and they DO want to skimp on drive since formatting 160Gb, whether it's 160,000,000,000 bytes or 160x1024x1024x1024 bytes, only yields about 140,000,000,000 bytes.
This is OT but I'm glad SOMEONE is trying to fight the tidal wave of idiot doctors and nurses who automatically assume that your brand new baby boy is in need of circumcision. We literally had to tell the doctors about 15 times before we left the hospital that we did not want our son to have one and they kept insisting that he'd be healthier and all that other garbage. I heard one man sued the doctor who circumcised him and I've been tempted to do the same especially since I've started experiencing some problems that are likely caused by mine.
Let me clarify that by saying that the change in spin is considered to be the information.
So, when the distant particle also changes its spin to match the local particle, you don't consider that to be information?
The parent's post doesn't seem a troll to me. How about some mods with common sense getting it off of that.
From the summary: "Wrong. Matter cannot touch the speed of light in vacuum; energy (e.g. light) cannot exceed it; and information cannot be transferred faster than this limit."
That's wrong. They proved information travels (almost) instantly in the quantum realm about 12 years ago, IIRC, by using two quantum entangled photons and changing the spin on one and the spin on the other changed faster than light could have reached it.
Sorry, no "pop" culture to it unless your version of pop is over 20 years old.
The fact that they can't keep the Wii on the shelves seems to say exactly the opposite: the Wii is VERY popular. Sheesh, next someone will say that the PS3 is uber-popular cause nobody's buying them and they're still found on the shelves.
I found it on mine on the control panel thingy on the left, the one that scrolls down with you, not the static one. But you're right, it is missing from its normal spot.
"It's not like I'm using, It's like my body's developed this massive drug deficiency." --every geek better know where that came from.
Speakin' of the batteries, I heard these things have some form of crank-generator so you don't need to plug-in. I'd KILL to have that on my $1500 lappy....no worries if I forgot to charge before I left the house or forgot the charger somewhere...just crank it a bit and I'm operational. If I had a $1500 lappy and I saw someone with a $100 lappy with a hand crank, they'd have a hard time keeping it for that reason alone..heh.
Yes, they do have a product: http://www.linksys.com/iphone/
Absolutely, because "illegal" is a sick bird. Now "against the law" is a much deeper subject and then it all depends on where you derive your law; mine personally comes from natural law, not these words written on paper.
They use "direct human intervention" all the time to remove websites or else some people wouldn't have their sites delisted/banned for gateway pages, or whatever other factors that they don't like.
Statutes about speed limits don't say anything about police officers breaking them but the courts interpret it as a necessary thing under many circumstances. And the courts ARE allowed to "make up and read things into statutes", they call that "interpretation" and that is almost specifically the SOLE purpose for our Supreme Court and appellate courts.
Someone needs to mod the parent UP and hopefully whoever the Dee-Dee-Dee was that modded it as off-topic will find the system of meta-moderation to their disliking.
FYI, the quote you're alluding to was never said by Bill, which sucks cause it's one less thing I can pick on him about.
Thanks for that link. Someone needs to mod you up for the info.
Flamebait? Sounds like some M$ fanboys got mod points today.
Remember that the next time you talk on your cell phone while driving. ;)