If the balloon inflates faster than the ant can walk, the ant can never walk all the way around the balloon. If unable to walk very far around the balloon, the ant could not even estimate its curvature.
In human (non-ant) terms, we would never see the same thing on opposite sides of the sky, or see our own backsides way out there in all directions.
Does a road train start off from an initial parked group and stop and separate at a single terminus?
Or are these trains dynamic? Can you join up to the tail of a train-in-progress? Can you depart from the train while it is in motion? Even if you are in the middle?
The static version has some operational overheads, much like taking the bus (with your car).
The dynamic version has all sorts of interesting issues.
Just asking. -- If brute force isn't working, you aren't strong enough.
Just lie. Get/make a Firefox add-in, an Opera widget, whatever, that generates tons of false information. Poison the well for these suckers.
BTW, if they allow someone to look at the data, what authentication do they use? Can I change or block any random mis-identification data that is presented to me? Can a robot walk the data and harvest even more throw-away email addresses? Targeted spam - its no longer a contradiction in terms.
Sounds like a bad idea that makes trouble for all concerned.
The biggest problem I see with using this for OS updates is the whole 'verified source' and 'untrusted communications' problems. Basically, many people aren't trusting of checksums, and many others don't want the OS doing any unauthorized network communication, as they're afraid that the bittorrent system 'could' be shipping personal data.
Why can't security professionals (Comodo, I'm looking at you) learn how to sign their installers and updates? Botnet commanders have done this for years.
Personal rant: My copy of Comodo 3 scans and flags the Comodo 4 installation download as infected. Impressive performance, and a little bit funny. I clicked on the button to send this result to Comodo for analysis, but haven't heard back.
My general purpose city-supplied and emptied (weekly) wheeled bin was made in 1983. There are some signs of wear and tear, but no cracks or signs of imminent failure.
Three strikes. If the bot can't guess the password in a few attempts, it is not a sober user on a good connection. Lock the account and make them beg for reconnection via their known email address or some such.
This is VERY old technology. -- The alternative to trial and error is usually error.
We need something that can filter small bits of submerged debris. Something is the ocean.
We need to train baleen whales for the job....with lasers!
Besides, this is old news. The Pacific Vortex [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Pitt] was written up 25 years ago. -- Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
There is a lot more heat than light observable in this discussion.
My own 2 cents worth:
(1) The system is too complex to model. Perhaps the planet will get hotter for a while.
(2) AGW may contribute to that warming. Should the early European explorers have taken the Amerind attitudes home and converted Eurasia back to neolithic hunter-gathering? Perhaps the industrial revolution has contributed to the issue. Perhaps slash and burn agriculture could be implicated a bit father back.
(3) We can't fix it. To these egomaniacs that think destroying our technological civilization will make a difference: let me see you stop ONE hurricane, ONE tornado. You have no grasp of the energy levels involved in the system. You cannot placate the climate gods.
(4) We should focus on surviving any possible warming/climate change. We might have that capability, if we stop the placation nonsense.
My first guess is that the approximations suitable for calculating the behaviour of the electron-proton system (mass ratio 1800:1)are not good enough for a muon-proton system (mass ratio 9:1). -- Waking Up - There must be a better way to start the day.
First GNUALMAFUERTE said "I do believe, like many other creators, that our creations are like our childs. You don't own your children. You have to feed them, care for them, and protect them until they are mature enough to have a life on their own. And then they are gone. They are as free as you are."
Then matzahboy replied "Yes, you are right. And that is why copyrights expire, just like children grow up."
And when did you last see a copyright expire? 1998? -- All laws exist for a reason. It usually isn't a good one.
Slashdot Mirror
Beauty is just a light switch away....
how did you know it wasn't doing what it was supposed to do
It's supposed to do what I mean. Sometimes if doesn't even do what I say.
--
You must use your power of low standards -- Wally
There are two main reasons to reboot a server:
(1) because you don't know what's wrong, or
(2) because you do know what's wrong.
A good admin may not be told enough about a Windows system.
A poor admin may not be able to understand enough about a unix system.
The "my servers been up 3 years" e-pene days are gone folks.
How right you are.
My cluster has been up for fifteen years....
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If you are looking for insight, you've come to the wrong place.
Unless you're streaming from a server on a nearby unsecured network
FTFY
If the balloon inflates faster than the ant can walk, the ant can never walk all the way around the balloon. If unable to walk very far around the balloon, the ant could not even estimate its curvature.
In human (non-ant) terms, we would never see the same thing on opposite sides of the sky, or see our own backsides way out there in all directions.
Google Images. FAIL.
Does a road train start off from an initial parked group and stop and separate at a single terminus?
Or are these trains dynamic? Can you join up to the tail of a train-in-progress? Can you depart from the train while it is in motion? Even if you are in the middle?
The static version has some operational overheads, much like taking the bus (with your car).
The dynamic version has all sorts of interesting issues.
Just asking.
--
If brute force isn't working, you aren't strong enough.
Aha! It's a plot to sell us more screens and keyboards.
Will there be a VNC server alternative?
--
Advice is a form of nostalgia.
Please do a little [re]search before posting a meme:
"I find your ideas interesting and wish to subscribe to your NEWSLETTER."
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Advice is a form of nostalgia. - KV
email address?
Javascript!
FLASH!!!
The horror! The horror!
Just lie. Get/make a Firefox add-in, an Opera widget, whatever, that generates tons of false information. Poison the well for these suckers.
BTW, if they allow someone to look at the data, what authentication do they use?
Can I change or block any random mis-identification data that is presented to me?
Can a robot walk the data and harvest even more throw-away email addresses?
Targeted spam - its no longer a contradiction in terms.
Sounds like a bad idea that makes trouble for all concerned.
Internet laws all start with "RFC".
Some of the finest are dated 1st April.
A does naughty things with its shit. Bad A!
B promises not to do naughty things with its shit. Good B!
B subcontracts its shit to A. Oh, shit!
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I am not a pretentious idiot, but I play one on the internet.
The biggest problem I see with using this for OS updates is the whole 'verified source' and 'untrusted communications' problems. Basically, many people aren't trusting of checksums, and many others don't want the OS doing any unauthorized network communication, as they're afraid that the bittorrent system 'could' be shipping personal data.
Why can't security professionals (Comodo, I'm looking at you) learn how to sign their installers and updates? Botnet commanders have done this for years.
Personal rant: My copy of Comodo 3 scans and flags the Comodo 4 installation download as infected. Impressive performance, and a little bit funny. I clicked on the button to send this result to Comodo for analysis, but haven't heard back.
Yeah, the 026 is the way to go. These new-fangled 029's with their la-di-da EBCDIC are so flimsy compared to the solid workmanship in the 026.
And what percentage of sales do ebooks have in the second-hand market?
--
Sometimes technology is not the answer you have been looking for.
Mom had a Coldspot cooker and a Hotpoint refrigerator.
My general purpose city-supplied and emptied (weekly) wheeled bin was made in 1983. There are some signs of wear and tear, but no cracks or signs of imminent failure.
This is just an intermediate stage of a fusion power plant, using the only working fusion reactor in the vicinity.
Three strikes. If the bot can't guess the password in a few attempts, it is not a sober user on a good connection. Lock the account and make them beg for reconnection via their known email address or some such.
This is VERY old technology.
--
The alternative to trial and error is usually error.
We need something that can filter small bits of submerged debris. Something is the ocean.
We need to train baleen whales for the job. ...with lasers!
Besides, this is old news. The Pacific Vortex [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Pitt] was written up 25 years ago.
--
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
"More light!"
There is a lot more heat than light observable in this discussion.
My own 2 cents worth:
(1) The system is too complex to model. Perhaps the planet will get hotter for a while.
(2) AGW may contribute to that warming. Should the early European explorers have taken the Amerind attitudes home and converted Eurasia back to neolithic hunter-gathering? Perhaps the industrial revolution has contributed to the issue. Perhaps slash and burn agriculture could be implicated a bit father back.
(3) We can't fix it. To these egomaniacs that think destroying our technological civilization will make a difference: let me see you stop ONE hurricane, ONE tornado. You have no grasp of the energy levels involved in the system. You cannot placate the climate gods.
(4) We should focus on surviving any possible warming/climate change. We might have that capability, if we stop the placation nonsense.
end rant.
Look at the relative masses of the particles
1 = electron
200 = muon
1836 = proton
My first guess is that the approximations suitable for calculating the behaviour of the electron-proton system (mass ratio 1800:1)are not good enough for a muon-proton system (mass ratio 9:1).
--
Waking Up - There must be a better way to start the day.
First GNUALMAFUERTE said "I do believe, like many other creators, that our creations are like our childs. You don't own your children. You have to feed them, care for them, and protect them until they are mature enough to have a life on their own. And then they are gone. They are as free as you are."
Then matzahboy replied "Yes, you are right. And that is why copyrights expire, just like children grow up."
And when did you last see a copyright expire? 1998?
--
All laws exist for a reason. It usually isn't a good one.