You are new here aren't you? The dead have been voting in Chicago since the 1960s. Amazingly they all voted for the same candidate too! Obviously, the dead vote so every campaign needs a "Speaker For The Dead";)
There is such a thing as an "implied contract" when a Sale is made. The contract terms such as "All Sales Final" must be clearly stated, the price, any warranty, return periods, etc. Anything someone on EITHER side does to dishonor the terms is breach and possible fraud. I run a small business (actually it is the spouse business) and one time I sold an expensive item (jewely) for about 80% of what it should have sold for, it was a credit card sale so we COULD have ran a seperate charge for the difference. The honest thing to do (and legal) was to EAT the difference. Amazon should do the same. If they don't they just lost me as a customer. And hopefully those they tried to re-bill are no longer customers. Barnes & Noble dot com here I come!
Your analog to the money at the bank is flawed, it's not at all the same thing. The product belongs to you as you honored your side of the contract. The money bag you knew clearly was the property of someone else which you had no rights either stated or implied to possess. That makes it theft.
What I wonder is how they got the chicken in the space suit!
As for cooking the omelette you make a solar oven (yes this does exist...backpackers use them)
I think I read somewhere UDP is by default given lower priority as it (as you said) must use static routes. It's the "oddball" protocol so it gets modded down:)
There are also ways to force static routing of TCP packets that are perfectly legal according to the RFCs. That starts to get into QoS management via "Traffic Shaping" and I'm not sure WHAT really goes other than some packets are dropped, some are queued and some are given priority.
Correct, unless they have to for some reason route a UDP packet. UDP packets cannot be reassembled at the destination if they arrive out of order as they have no internal ordering scheme, so the routing has to be the same for every packet. The Internet is a dynamic place, routers go down for many reasons and the upstream routers have to work around those points of failure by re-routing packets.
The major routers on the Internet are setup to provide many alternative paths based on congestion or other sorts of delays. Yes, they always try shortest path first. But, they don't just try one route and say "I give up, lets queue these packets". Some in fact have very clever algorithms to meet QoS standards via many different alternative routes. Some corporate networks do as well. You also can assume that while most of Europe is relaxing at night (lower-bandwidth) most of North & South America is working, and when the Americas are off-work Asia-Pac is in prime work hours. So there will only be a few times when everyone who is a heavy hitter is online together. Also high bandwidth sites can implement throttling where they don't feed as many users or they feed less packets to users to help bandwidth usage. I'd worry a lot more about the external interfaces to corporate networks choking before I would worry about the entire Internet. Plus the telcos have massive amounts of dark fiber they can turn on within a very few days (left over from the dot bomb build it and they will come days). Worse case the congestion lasts a few weeks, but it won't bring the world to a halt. This article is not well thought out, in fact it may have even been funded by bandwidth providers. Mod post down.
Actually Clint Eastwood has become a very good director in recent years winning quite a few awards. But yes, in general good actors don't make good directors.
Great idea..sign me up for the Astronaut screening program! No more centrifuge rides at High-G's, I'll be doing a different kind of riding!
However the idea of ranking sexual performance, wouldn't that imply status? And if a high-ranking officer was "unable to perform" would that lead to mutiny?
To offset the costs we could have Mission Sponsors like Viagara, Cialis, Male Enhancement products like "Bob" takes, Astroglide, Condom companies, Porn Web Sites (I call dibs on SpacePorn.com), etc.
There are no normal IT people. We are all "special", and DON"T YOU FORGET THAT !!;) Management doesn't really trust IT a lot because they don't understand what IT does, and that's partly our fault for not explaining our job to them in terms they can grasp.
Anyone who broadcasts they are going to cause harm is quite stupid because when harm occurs they get the blame, even if they didn't do it. Perfect cover for the guy who really did the dirty deed.
That technology already exists and has for decades. Dummy warheads, faked heat signatures, electronic countermeasures and others exist as defenses to the ABMs. THAAD has counter-counter-measures built into the terminal phase package. Countermeasures and how to defeat them are some of the most sensitive aspects of any missile program.
THAAD has been around for about 15 yrs now, and is just getting to the testing stage.At one time, back in the mid-90's I worked on this program for about 6 months designed simulation software for a very early version. Cool software, we used a software message passing "bus" to interface all the parts of system (C4I, Launcher, GBR, Missile, Seeker). Basically it was what would be called an ESB/SOA technology today.
This should be modded down as you don't have any clue what you are talking about. STS will NOT be around after 2010. First there is the funding issue, then there is the parts issue...they don't make STS parts anymore! Specifically, the STS main engines can no longer be rebuilt and/or upgraded, the program to do that was cancelled several years ago. Rocket Engines don't last forever. The engines must be rebuilt every 5 or so launches or they risk losing 1 or more of them during a launch. If any systems break there are few spares and soon the other shuttles will be cannibilized to keep the most current one going. The other two will be Hanger Queens. There is funding (minimal) for the launches but not much for anything else. Why do you think NASA was so worried last launch that the shuttle may have landed at White Sands or Edwards costing NASA millions of bucks they dont have in he budget to get in back to the Cape for refurb/relaunch.
There is a shuttle replacement on the drawing board but don't expect that for a long time. ISS missions will be via Soyuz or by the new manned launcher NASA is building which will also power the Mission to Mars. After ISS is built and Hubble serviced one more time the Shuttle really doesn't have a role anymore and it should be retired. They were never meant to be flown this long anyhow. They have not exceeded the number of launches planned but have exceeded the lifetime plannned.
If you RTFA you find this: "Winners worldwide lived 1.4 years longer on average, and winners from the same country as non-winning nominees lived another two-thirds of a year, on average." Of course with no standard deviations or confidence intervals published we don't know IF 1.4 or 2/3 is really good or just so-so and how that lifetime compares to the population in general.
The REAL trick is to win an Oscar, you live 3.6 yrs longer than the nominees that didn't win. Now considering to get to the point you are considered for an Oscar you got be a pretty decent movie star and already by reaping the benefits from the mega-$$$ So I conclude that NOT winning an Oscar crushed the nominees so bad they died SOONER from the emotional trauma!!
The Fed Govt #1 job is to provide for the National Defense. But if you look at things the Defense budget is only at the most 20% of the Federal Budget. The combined Social programs account for about 45% and if you add Social Security that figure jumps to 60%. That leaves only 20% for everything else including facilities and payroll. Defense is NOT the killer of budgets.
See thats the problem, "deserves" has nothing to do with what the law says. I'll bet dollars to donuts the station got waivers. If I tell you I'm going to have a contest where you have to abuse your body in some way I'm damn sure going to have a waiver. If they didn't get ones from the contestants they were damned stupid. It was unfortunate someone got hurt but she COULD have stopped but her own free will caused her to NOT stop. So she has some culpability as well.
Neither party has been sucessful at reducing the size of the Government. In reality, it's a dream. As the population grows the number of Gov't workers will grow too in order to provide the services needed. Plus you have the Gov't workers union which has a very strong lobby.
The size of the military is pretty small compared to the number of Gov't workers in other jobs, plus the majority of the military right now are Reservists who go back to public sector jobs after serving so you can't count them as permanent.
Both are Democrats in reality, just running as Republicans in states that are "conservative". The problem with the Senate is you get SIX years of crap from whoever you send up there. If they are a massive screw-up you just have to suffer for six years. The House you only suffer two years.
Umm..yea it does. Remember the Dems hold the House now, and a Bill Sponsor (Fienstein) and House Speaker Pelosi are close political buddies and both come from California where Hollywood calls the shots. And Hollywood wants this.
That is absurd. Typical drivel that everyone has to be protected/informed of the risks of everything. Doing to much anything can kill you even if it is normally good for you. Should we warn people about excessive exercise (does your gym have liability if you die on the treadmill?), excessive sex?, excessive eating (McD's has been sued about too many Big Macs causing some guy to be really fat...they won!)?, etc. There is nothing to prevent her family from suing, but I suspect they won't win. I hope/. does a followup on this case (doubtful). It also is NOT to say the Station may settle out of court to prevent bad press, the risk and cost of a trial and appeals. Settling (normally) admits no liability, it's just a way to move on.
Wait and see. I have a pretty darn good understanding of the law. They can sue and they may win something but it won't be a lot. As for absolute limits in a contest that's just silly. No one has sucessfully sued the Guiness Book of World Records when they hurt/killed themselves trying to set a record. Several people tried this about the movie Jackass and also the TV show "Myth Busters", so far no one has won a case. In countries OTHER than the USA I have no idea how this case would be handled.
They are NOT Negligent, they did WARN the contestants, and I also suspect that had a liability release that was signed by the lady as well. The only negligent person in this case was the deceased. If someone through stupidity or whatever helps cause the harm to themselves it is called "contributory negligence" and depending on the state and the finding of how much the injured party helped cause thier demise it can eliminate or greatly reduce any damages. In some states if the "contribution" was more than 50% the case is tossed out.
If the station had NOT warned her then there is a real issue, or if the station didn't call 911 when she suffered harm THEN her heirs may have a case.
Yes, it's virtualization of a sort. It's not the same type of virtualization as say VMWare is though.
Nope, Solaris 10 runs on SPARC and X86 hardware just fine and containers and ZFS are standard items not added "tricks".
It's about 30% faster at a minimum in most scenarios. The wire is often blamed for what is really a router problem or poor network config.
Security in Solaris is the best there is, and it's better at just the plain stuff (/etc/passwd shadowing, password encyption, strong password requirements) and the fancy multilevel stuff too.
If you run a BSD server you can run a Solaris box with no problems.
The drawback for you as a small biz will be the price of Sun servers is usually easy to bet with ones from HP & Dell that offer pretty much the same features and performance.
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Depends on the time of the month, it's either there isn't enough money or she's free for the asking! All Sales Final too.
I dunno, I've been married over 20 yrs so I know the cost of a FREE spouse. Any man who can handle two has my admiration!
You are new here aren't you? The dead have been voting in Chicago since the 1960s. Amazingly they all voted for the same candidate too! Obviously, the dead vote so every campaign needs a "Speaker For The Dead" ;)
There is such a thing as an "implied contract" when a Sale is made. The contract terms such as "All Sales Final" must be clearly stated, the price, any warranty, return periods, etc. Anything someone on EITHER side does to dishonor the terms is breach and possible fraud. I run a small business (actually it is the spouse business) and one time I sold an expensive item (jewely) for about 80% of what it should have sold for, it was a credit card sale so we COULD have ran a seperate charge for the difference. The honest thing to do (and legal) was to EAT the difference. Amazon should do the same. If they don't they just lost me as a customer. And hopefully those they tried to re-bill are no longer customers. Barnes & Noble dot com here I come! Your analog to the money at the bank is flawed, it's not at all the same thing. The product belongs to you as you honored your side of the contract. The money bag you knew clearly was the property of someone else which you had no rights either stated or implied to possess. That makes it theft.
What I wonder is how they got the chicken in the space suit! As for cooking the omelette you make a solar oven (yes this does exist...backpackers use them)
I think I read somewhere UDP is by default given lower priority as it (as you said) must use static routes. It's the "oddball" protocol so it gets modded down :)
There are also ways to force static routing of TCP packets that are perfectly legal according to the RFCs. That starts to get into QoS management via "Traffic Shaping" and I'm not sure WHAT really goes other than some packets are dropped, some are queued and some are given priority.
Correct, unless they have to for some reason route a UDP packet. UDP packets cannot be reassembled at the destination if they arrive out of order as they have no internal ordering scheme, so the routing has to be the same for every packet. The Internet is a dynamic place, routers go down for many reasons and the upstream routers have to work around those points of failure by re-routing packets.
The major routers on the Internet are setup to provide many alternative paths based on congestion or other sorts of delays. Yes, they always try shortest path first. But, they don't just try one route and say "I give up, lets queue these packets". Some in fact have very clever algorithms to meet QoS standards via many different alternative routes. Some corporate networks do as well. You also can assume that while most of Europe is relaxing at night (lower-bandwidth) most of North & South America is working, and when the Americas are off-work Asia-Pac is in prime work hours. So there will only be a few times when everyone who is a heavy hitter is online together. Also high bandwidth sites can implement throttling where they don't feed as many users or they feed less packets to users to help bandwidth usage. I'd worry a lot more about the external interfaces to corporate networks choking before I would worry about the entire Internet. Plus the telcos have massive amounts of dark fiber they can turn on within a very few days (left over from the dot bomb build it and they will come days). Worse case the congestion lasts a few weeks, but it won't bring the world to a halt. This article is not well thought out, in fact it may have even been funded by bandwidth providers. Mod post down.
Actually Clint Eastwood has become a very good director in recent years winning quite a few awards. But yes, in general good actors don't make good directors.
Great idea..sign me up for the Astronaut screening program! No more centrifuge rides at High-G's, I'll be doing a different kind of riding!
However the idea of ranking sexual performance, wouldn't that imply status? And if a high-ranking officer was "unable to perform" would that lead to mutiny?
To offset the costs we could have Mission Sponsors like Viagara, Cialis, Male Enhancement products like "Bob" takes, Astroglide, Condom companies, Porn Web Sites (I call dibs on SpacePorn.com), etc.
There are no normal IT people. We are all "special", and DON"T YOU FORGET THAT !! ;) Management doesn't really trust IT a lot because they don't understand what IT does, and that's partly our fault for not explaining our job to them in terms they can grasp.
Anyone who broadcasts they are going to cause harm is quite stupid because when harm occurs they get the blame, even if they didn't do it. Perfect cover for the guy who really did the dirty deed.
That technology already exists and has for decades. Dummy warheads, faked heat signatures, electronic countermeasures and others exist as defenses to the ABMs. THAAD has counter-counter-measures built into the terminal phase package. Countermeasures and how to defeat them are some of the most sensitive aspects of any missile program. THAAD has been around for about 15 yrs now, and is just getting to the testing stage.At one time, back in the mid-90's I worked on this program for about 6 months designed simulation software for a very early version. Cool software, we used a software message passing "bus" to interface all the parts of system (C4I, Launcher, GBR, Missile, Seeker). Basically it was what would be called an ESB/SOA technology today.
This should be modded down as you don't have any clue what you are talking about. STS will NOT be around after 2010. First there is the funding issue, then there is the parts issue...they don't make STS parts anymore! Specifically, the STS main engines can no longer be rebuilt and/or upgraded, the program to do that was cancelled several years ago. Rocket Engines don't last forever. The engines must be rebuilt every 5 or so launches or they risk losing 1 or more of them during a launch. If any systems break there are few spares and soon the other shuttles will be cannibilized to keep the most current one going. The other two will be Hanger Queens. There is funding (minimal) for the launches but not much for anything else. Why do you think NASA was so worried last launch that the shuttle may have landed at White Sands or Edwards costing NASA millions of bucks they dont have in he budget to get in back to the Cape for refurb/relaunch.
There is a shuttle replacement on the drawing board but don't expect that for a long time. ISS missions will be via Soyuz or by the new manned launcher NASA is building which will also power the Mission to Mars. After ISS is built and Hubble serviced one more time the Shuttle really doesn't have a role anymore and it should be retired. They were never meant to be flown this long anyhow. They have not exceeded the number of launches planned but have exceeded the lifetime plannned.
If you RTFA you find this: "Winners worldwide lived 1.4 years longer on average, and winners from the same country as non-winning nominees lived another two-thirds of a year, on average." Of course with no standard deviations or confidence intervals published we don't know IF 1.4 or 2/3 is really good or just so-so and how that lifetime compares to the population in general.
The REAL trick is to win an Oscar, you live 3.6 yrs longer than the nominees that didn't win. Now considering to get to the point you are considered for an Oscar you got be a pretty decent movie star and already by reaping the benefits from the mega-$$$ So I conclude that NOT winning an Oscar crushed the nominees so bad they died SOONER from the emotional trauma!!
I wish I had mod points today..I'd give you ALL of them.
The Fed Govt #1 job is to provide for the National Defense. But if you look at things the Defense budget is only at the most 20% of the Federal Budget. The combined Social programs account for about 45% and if you add Social Security that figure jumps to 60%. That leaves only 20% for everything else including facilities and payroll. Defense is NOT the killer of budgets.
See thats the problem, "deserves" has nothing to do with what the law says. I'll bet dollars to donuts the station got waivers. If I tell you I'm going to have a contest where you have to abuse your body in some way I'm damn sure going to have a waiver. If they didn't get ones from the contestants they were damned stupid. It was unfortunate someone got hurt but she COULD have stopped but her own free will caused her to NOT stop. So she has some culpability as well.
Neither party has been sucessful at reducing the size of the Government. In reality, it's a dream. As the population grows the number of Gov't workers will grow too in order to provide the services needed. Plus you have the Gov't workers union which has a very strong lobby.
The size of the military is pretty small compared to the number of Gov't workers in other jobs, plus the majority of the military right now are Reservists who go back to public sector jobs after serving so you can't count them as permanent.
APL? Gag..I remember that... IIRC, Algol60 was the first block structured language? Been about 28 yrs since Programming Languages class...
Both are Democrats in reality, just running as Republicans in states that are "conservative". The problem with the Senate is you get SIX years of crap from whoever you send up there. If they are a massive screw-up you just have to suffer for six years. The House you only suffer two years.
Umm..yea it does. Remember the Dems hold the House now, and a Bill Sponsor (Fienstein) and House Speaker Pelosi are close political buddies and both come from California where Hollywood calls the shots. And Hollywood wants this.
That is absurd. Typical drivel that everyone has to be protected/informed of the risks of everything. Doing to much anything can kill you even if it is normally good for you. Should we warn people about excessive exercise (does your gym have liability if you die on the treadmill?), excessive sex?, excessive eating (McD's has been sued about too many Big Macs causing some guy to be really fat...they won!)?, etc. There is nothing to prevent her family from suing, but I suspect they won't win. I hope /. does a followup on this case (doubtful). It also is NOT to say the Station may settle out of court to prevent bad press, the risk and cost of a trial and appeals. Settling (normally) admits no liability, it's just a way to move on.
Wait and see. I have a pretty darn good understanding of the law. They can sue and they may win something but it won't be a lot. As for absolute limits in a contest that's just silly. No one has sucessfully sued the Guiness Book of World Records when they hurt/killed themselves trying to set a record. Several people tried this about the movie Jackass and also the TV show "Myth Busters", so far no one has won a case. In countries OTHER than the USA I have no idea how this case would be handled.
They are NOT Negligent, they did WARN the contestants, and I also suspect that had a liability release that was signed by the lady as well. The only negligent person in this case was the deceased. If someone through stupidity or whatever helps cause the harm to themselves it is called "contributory negligence" and depending on the state and the finding of how much the injured party helped cause thier demise it can eliminate or greatly reduce any damages. In some states if the "contribution" was more than 50% the case is tossed out. If the station had NOT warned her then there is a real issue, or if the station didn't call 911 when she suffered harm THEN her heirs may have a case.
Yes, it's virtualization of a sort. It's not the same type of virtualization as say VMWare is though. Nope, Solaris 10 runs on SPARC and X86 hardware just fine and containers and ZFS are standard items not added "tricks". It's about 30% faster at a minimum in most scenarios. The wire is often blamed for what is really a router problem or poor network config. Security in Solaris is the best there is, and it's better at just the plain stuff (/etc/passwd shadowing, password encyption, strong password requirements) and the fancy multilevel stuff too. If you run a BSD server you can run a Solaris box with no problems. The drawback for you as a small biz will be the price of Sun servers is usually easy to bet with ones from HP & Dell that offer pretty much the same features and performance.