Thought the kids were still in the USA.
I really hope he didn't get fucked over.
The guy might be odd. In another post, I just read " The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town". That guy was odd as well and is innocent, but spent years in prison.
I think a lot of us that hang out at/. fall into a similar category ("odd" by the average person's standards). We could get screwed because people do not understand.
I just read " The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town" by John Grisham (true story)
ISBN13: 9780440243830
ISBN10: 0440243831
This guy was sent to death row on *FAR* less "evidence". It's an interesting read and kind of scary. Eventually, he was cleared and released, but totally messed up.
There isn't a lot of similarity in his case and this one, Reiser has far more circumstancial evidence against him, he's certainly suspicious. It shows how "justice" can be served with a jury of your "peers".
I don't know if this is widespread, but I do know some Canadians who bristle when I call myself an American, responding, "yeah, us too."
Most Canadians that I know do not want to be called Americans. We're Canadian and North American. As someone else wrote, "American == USA". North American is totally different, meaning Canadian, American or Mexican.
We do use subdomains a lot, but we're a wholesale hosting company. We usually register something like somecompanyhosting.com for the bigger prospects.
It's not really usefull for spammers, the domain does not get used for the public. The domain points to a login page. It is a "personal touch" for new customers, then if they sign on, most of the time their customers use it to log on to the control panel or they use it for sales to new customers.
As for "waste of money", the $10 or so for a domain name is nothing. Just a guess, but I'm sure it costs us way more than $10k to get a larger customer.
I agree, there are legit reasons to register a lot of domains. My company has probably around 1000 domains registered. We register new domains for marketing purposes to demonstrate what potential customers "portal" will look like. When they sign on, we keep re-registering the name and their customers use it to access the service.
If the potential customer does not like the name or does not sign on, we either give them the domain or let it expire. This is a small cost of doing business and is used for legitimate purposes.
The "grace period" should go, if you can't afford a few bucks on a mistake, don't register.
Regarding publicly funded education. I don't have kids, but I went to school in Canada for "free", my parents paid their share along with everyone else. Why shouldn't I pay something back into something that I used?
I have no problem paying into the school system (well, our two school system setup is stupid and wasteful, but that's another issue) I benefitted from it and I should pay back into it, the same as the kids who are in it now will pay into it later in their lives. It benefits the public interest to pay for base schooling.
Exactly. I'd gladly pay $5 a month to download all the music I want, as long as the supply and quality is there. I would take full advantage of it. The industry would get less money from me, since I probably wouldn't buy CDs anymore. Well, maybe the odd one to rip to flac and share (assuming it covers "sharing", we can pretty much already download without worrying much. I buy a lot of data CDs that subsidize the music industry for some reason;-)
This would not be fair to people who do not want to buy music, this is not like healthcare. You won't die if you don't get some music...
Even if you don't drive, you need roads to keep the cost of shipping of whatever you do use down, public transit working, emergency services working, etc. Infrastructure cannot be compared to this either.
I mostly buy stuff from local bands and from the few signed artists that I really like.
Actually hemp has very little THC. It's in the same family, but it's not much use as medicine/recreation. You'd likely get a headache from it, if anything;-)
It is a very useful plant, but the cotton industry doesn't much like it. From what I've heard, hemp is a much better fiber for making clothes, etc. So, between corn and cotton interests, hemp's done...
So, Linux more than doubled it's share and Apple almost doubled. I don't see where Apple is killing Linux here. Linux is still not mainstream. I've gotten a few friends, who are somewhat technical, to use it and they love it. When the average user asks me what to get for a new computer, I tell them to get a Mac. They can do all they want and not have problems that they would on Windows or Linux. (different problems, obviously)
Not really, I accidently killed an Intel CPU doing this. We had to replace the CPU, only option. It may be different depending on the board, this was a specialty server board.
You can distribute a binary *kernel module* and not be in violation of any licenses. I don't think you can patch the kernel itself and not distribute source. I don't know which Red Hat is doing.
I grew up back in a time when we didn't have computers. When I was at university, we used computers, but certainly not for most of our education. I do know calculus (or did, I don't use it much now other than understanding physics stuff that I read about). I do not see how a computer helps. If you get it, for the most part a calculator cannot help. If you learn how to plug an equation into a computer and get an answer, you are not learning anything. Anyone can do that, but they will not understand the results. In my exams, we where allowed to use a calculator that could not store formulas, etc. I didn't even use it. If I figure out the answer, but ultimately mistakenly do 1+1=3, it doesn't really matter. What matters is that you understand it. As per usual for a/. reader, I didn't read TFA, but if they are holding this thing back with patent shit, they should go fuck themselves. Is MS behind it? (That was my first thought)
There was an "accident" in Toronto on the 427 (major highway) about a month ago. It was 8 or 9 AM and the highway stops when it gets near the 401 interchange at rush hour times. A truck was moving "at highway speed" and plowed right into the slow/stopped traffic. The first guy that was hit had no chance, I saw pictures of his minivan and it looked like a smart car that got hit. There was only one idiot in this case. I try to stay away from other vehicles, I assume that people are going to do something stupid and drive that way.
I have a friend that was paranoid about people "hacking" her. She's pretty good with computers. not afraid to reinstall an OS, but nowhere near a geek/techie. I gave her an Ubuntu CD. She called one night and I helped her through the disk partitioning thing (she wanted to make sure not to destroy her Windows system). Turned out that she would have done the right thing, but once I figured out where she was at and that it seemed that she wasn't going to destroy the existing system, she was off. Talked to her a week later and she was pretty much off of Windows, said it was pretty easy.
Ubuntu is pretty good, I think that any medium-skilled person won't have a problem with it at all. Using Linux has come a long way.
I have another experiment who hasn't found the time to do it yet...
Moved from crappy PHP to JSP and only the manager and lead developer got canned, maybe a bad choice somewhere...
Interesting...
Some people wanted to do that at our place a few years back, we stuck with crappy PHP and nobody got canned, we still don't use JSP and the company has grown a lot bigger since then (close to 100x), we still use crappy PHP and it works great.
Won't say much more, but it's how you use the tools, I find PHP a lot easier to deal with on the backend, JSP is too closed, convoluted and it is slower. Mostly a pain in the ass for admins.
You know, you have a good idea (that the sheeple and politicians won't use). Run our "clean" power stations (hydroelectric and nuclear) at 100% all the time and use any excess production to generate H2. That would be a start until we find something better.
Problem with ethanol is how much oil is used in creating it. Diesel for tractors and trucks. Oil products for heat for fermentation, fertilizer, etc. You have to add all the environmental costs in to make a proper judgement. If we used ethanol as the sole outside energy source and it produced energy, then it might be a good source of storage for solar energy and be "carbon neutral". If we have to use oil in the production chain, it isn't carbon neutral, so is it more efficient?
Of course, when you ferment things, the yeast gives off CO2 and ethanol... Add that in as well. Now, that CO2 probably doesn't count, since it was already "on the ground".
I'd be interested in knowing what the net CO2 output vs. end energy is.
Also, add in the environmental cost of any subsidies as well. If I'm paying some of my tax dollars to any production, I've probably used some oil doing it...
No shit, the "green" people don't seem to get that the "greenest" solution we currently have that is practical is nuclear power. We should be building LOTS of safe reactors. Obviously, there's a bit of an issue with the spent fuel, but it is a relatively small quantity that we should be able to deal with. We have to come up with some "hot spot" that we're going to destroy by storing our waste there. I'm sure we could find a place up north in Canada or Russia to do this. (I'm Canadian, I know the arguments;-) I think we'd be better off killing a few thousand km^2 than Earth though.
Last post was right, they measure peak HP. Similar to most consumer grade stereo equipment manufacturers measuring peak wattage (although I think the amplifier manufacturers are much worse, some measure RMS wattage, but insanely high distortion; gettin off-topic -). You have to look at torque and HP at various RPM to get a real picture. A lot of heavy trucks are rated 300HP, but they can put out 300HP all the time, your 200HP car's motor will break if it puts out it's rated HP for more than a short period of time. Put a 300HP car against a 300HP heavy truck, supposedly the same power output, but the truck will have way more power over time.
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Thought the kids were still in the USA. /. fall into a similar category ("odd" by the average person's standards). We could get screwed because people do not understand.
I really hope he didn't get fucked over.
The guy might be odd. In another post, I just read " The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town". That guy was odd as well and is innocent, but spent years in prison.
I think a lot of us that hang out at
ISBN13: 9780440243830
ISBN10: 0440243831
This guy was sent to death row on *FAR* less "evidence". It's an interesting read and kind of scary. Eventually, he was cleared and released, but totally messed up.
There isn't a lot of similarity in his case and this one, Reiser has far more circumstancial evidence against him, he's certainly suspicious. It shows how "justice" can be served with a jury of your "peers".
I don't think the kids disappeared. Aren't they with relatives or something?
Sometimes, we're just not too bright...
Most Canadians that I know do not want to be called Americans. We're Canadian and North American. As someone else wrote, "American == USA". North American is totally different, meaning Canadian, American or Mexican.
We do use subdomains a lot, but we're a wholesale hosting company. We usually register something like somecompanyhosting.com for the bigger prospects.
It's not really usefull for spammers, the domain does not get used for the public. The domain points to a login page. It is a "personal touch" for new customers, then if they sign on, most of the time their customers use it to log on to the control panel or they use it for sales to new customers.
As for "waste of money", the $10 or so for a domain name is nothing. Just a guess, but I'm sure it costs us way more than $10k to get a larger customer.
I agree, there are legit reasons to register a lot of domains. My company has probably around 1000 domains registered. We register new domains for marketing purposes to demonstrate what potential customers "portal" will look like. When they sign on, we keep re-registering the name and their customers use it to access the service.
If the potential customer does not like the name or does not sign on, we either give them the domain or let it expire. This is a small cost of doing business and is used for legitimate purposes.
The "grace period" should go, if you can't afford a few bucks on a mistake, don't register.
Regarding publicly funded education. I don't have kids, but I went to school in Canada for "free", my parents paid their share along with everyone else. Why shouldn't I pay something back into something that I used?
I have no problem paying into the school system (well, our two school system setup is stupid and wasteful, but that's another issue) I benefitted from it and I should pay back into it, the same as the kids who are in it now will pay into it later in their lives. It benefits the public interest to pay for base schooling.
Exactly. I'd gladly pay $5 a month to download all the music I want, as long as the supply and quality is there. I would take full advantage of it. The industry would get less money from me, since I probably wouldn't buy CDs anymore. Well, maybe the odd one to rip to flac and share (assuming it covers "sharing", we can pretty much already download without worrying much. I buy a lot of data CDs that subsidize the music industry for some reason ;-)
This would not be fair to people who do not want to buy music, this is not like healthcare. You won't die if you don't get some music... Even if you don't drive, you need roads to keep the cost of shipping of whatever you do use down, public transit working, emergency services working, etc. Infrastructure cannot be compared to this either.
I mostly buy stuff from local bands and from the few signed artists that I really like.
I think not. look at your /. UID ;-)
It is a very useful plant, but the cotton industry doesn't much like it. From what I've heard, hemp is a much better fiber for making clothes, etc. So, between corn and cotton interests, hemp's done...
So, Linux more than doubled it's share and Apple almost doubled. I don't see where Apple is killing Linux here. Linux is still not mainstream. I've gotten a few friends, who are somewhat technical, to use it and they love it. When the average user asks me what to get for a new computer, I tell them to get a Mac. They can do all they want and not have problems that they would on Windows or Linux. (different problems, obviously)
Not really, I accidently killed an Intel CPU doing this. We had to replace the CPU, only option. It may be different depending on the board, this was a specialty server board.
You can distribute a binary *kernel module* and not be in violation of any licenses. I don't think you can patch the kernel itself and not distribute source. I don't know which Red Hat is doing.
I grew up back in a time when we didn't have computers. When I was at university, we used computers, but certainly not for most of our education. I do know calculus (or did, I don't use it much now other than understanding physics stuff that I read about). I do not see how a computer helps. If you get it, for the most part a calculator cannot help. If you learn how to plug an equation into a computer and get an answer, you are not learning anything. Anyone can do that, but they will not understand the results. In my exams, we where allowed to use a calculator that could not store formulas, etc. I didn't even use it. If I figure out the answer, but ultimately mistakenly do 1+1=3, it doesn't really matter. What matters is that you understand it. As per usual for a /. reader, I didn't read TFA, but if they are holding this thing back with patent shit, they should go fuck themselves. Is MS behind it? (That was my first thought)
There was an "accident" in Toronto on the 427 (major highway) about a month ago. It was 8 or 9 AM and the highway stops when it gets near the 401 interchange at rush hour times. A truck was moving "at highway speed" and plowed right into the slow/stopped traffic. The first guy that was hit had no chance, I saw pictures of his minivan and it looked like a smart car that got hit. There was only one idiot in this case. I try to stay away from other vehicles, I assume that people are going to do something stupid and drive that way.
I have a friend that was paranoid about people "hacking" her. She's pretty good with computers. not afraid to reinstall an OS, but nowhere near a geek/techie. I gave her an Ubuntu CD. She called one night and I helped her through the disk partitioning thing (she wanted to make sure not to destroy her Windows system). Turned out that she would have done the right thing, but once I figured out where she was at and that it seemed that she wasn't going to destroy the existing system, she was off. Talked to her a week later and she was pretty much off of Windows, said it was pretty easy. Ubuntu is pretty good, I think that any medium-skilled person won't have a problem with it at all. Using Linux has come a long way. I have another experiment who hasn't found the time to do it yet...
It's more like 2 trailers, but still pretty big. About the same volume as an 850 ft^2 house with 8 foot ceilings.
53*8*8/3.3^3
94
53 feet long and about 8x8, then convert to cubic metres.
Moved from crappy PHP to JSP and only the manager and lead developer got canned, maybe a bad choice somewhere...
Interesting...
Some people wanted to do that at our place a few years back, we stuck with crappy PHP and nobody got canned, we still don't use JSP and the company has grown a lot bigger since then (close to 100x), we still use crappy PHP and it works great.
Won't say much more, but it's how you use the tools, I find PHP a lot easier to deal with on the backend, JSP is too closed, convoluted and it is slower. Mostly a pain in the ass for admins.
First thing I thought, me needs a few of these liver producing mice ;-) I'll even make a nice home for them as long as they make more liver for me.
You know, you have a good idea (that the sheeple and politicians won't use). Run our "clean" power stations (hydroelectric and nuclear) at 100% all the time and use any excess production to generate H2. That would be a start until we find something better.
Problem with ethanol is how much oil is used in creating it. Diesel for tractors and trucks. Oil products for heat for fermentation, fertilizer, etc. You have to add all the environmental costs in to make a proper judgement. If we used ethanol as the sole outside energy source and it produced energy, then it might be a good source of storage for solar energy and be "carbon neutral". If we have to use oil in the production chain, it isn't carbon neutral, so is it more efficient?
Of course, when you ferment things, the yeast gives off CO2 and ethanol... Add that in as well. Now, that CO2 probably doesn't count, since it was already "on the ground".
I'd be interested in knowing what the net CO2 output vs. end energy is.
Also, add in the environmental cost of any subsidies as well. If I'm paying some of my tax dollars to any production, I've probably used some oil doing it...
No shit, the "green" people don't seem to get that the "greenest" solution we currently have that is practical is nuclear power. We should be building LOTS of safe reactors. Obviously, there's a bit of an issue with the spent fuel, but it is a relatively small quantity that we should be able to deal with. We have to come up with some "hot spot" that we're going to destroy by storing our waste there. I'm sure we could find a place up north in Canada or Russia to do this. (I'm Canadian, I know the arguments ;-) I think we'd be better off killing a few thousand km^2 than Earth though.
Last post was right, they measure peak HP. Similar to most consumer grade stereo equipment manufacturers measuring peak wattage (although I think the amplifier manufacturers are much worse, some measure RMS wattage, but insanely high distortion; gettin off-topic -). You have to look at torque and HP at various RPM to get a real picture. A lot of heavy trucks are rated 300HP, but they can put out 300HP all the time, your 200HP car's motor will break if it puts out it's rated HP for more than a short period of time. Put a 300HP car against a 300HP heavy truck, supposedly the same power output, but the truck will have way more power over time.
Exactly what I thought. I actually had to look ast TFA and the sample size is 18. 5.55% is 6%