With that much space they could have software that automagically stores some parity bits somewhere else. Or write the data twice. If you are storing 100 GB (a shit ton) you could write it on the disc about 10 times.
Or have a backup. i'd use these disks as a backup, rather than primary storage.
Either we do or we don't. Figure out that first before calling it a lie. i'm pretty confident that driving is not one of the rights enumerated anywhere. Pretty sure it's a privilege. If it can be revoked, it's not much of right. You might have a right to drive *where* you want (barring a conflict with trespassing), that's not the same as having a right to drive. Maybe the word "right" is part of the problem.
If it is a right, it should be impossible to deny it (legally), yet we do deny people licenses. Either to children who aren't responsible enough or to adults who have proven or to not be responsible enough. Given that operating a car creates a burden on society (wear an tear on public assets) and puts self and others (and their property) at risk, it seems like something we should be able to deny. Felons and people who have a history of mental instability can be denied their "right" to legally own a gun. Some states also deny people the right to live if they are convicted of certain crimes. If someone is a danger to themselves or others, we get to stop them (social contract). If you get wasted and total my car, you've proven yourself to be irresponsible with that privilege. So we revoke that privilege. Unless of course you thought your parents were fascists because they grounded you after you broke curfew.
Freedom of movement, sure, i can back you on that. You should have the right to move about the states freely. But how you move about (transportation) is another issue.
Even if you're not using the roads, you benefit from them. Society benefits from it even if you live your entire life on a hill. As for you paying, how much you pay will vary depending on what you spend and own. If you don't own a car, you can't be charged property tax for it. If you buy no gas, you're not paying any sort of gas tax. If you live on your hill and commute by walking or horseback your contribution is minimal. Yet, you'd still be likely to benefit from it. If only because somethings are made more than a horse ride away.
Replace DWI(ntoxicated) and all of these rules with one rule: Driving While Impaired. If the a cop/judge/court decides what you were doing to impair your ability to drive, you are charged with DWI: Driving While Impaired.
You might be impaired by depression, legal or illegal drugs, talking on a cell phone, adjusting the screen of your Canyonero's DVD player or hooting and hollering with your friends after the big game. If you allow something to distract you, making your vehicle a threat to others or yourself, you're DWI.
The cause doesn't matter. It's the behavior. Running over a pedestrian because you're drunk is just as bad as running over a pedestrian because you're an egomaniac. i also don't care if anything bad came of it. Taking the risk is crime enough.
We should also do away with fines as punishment and replace it with community service, license suspension or jail time. Fines are relative, time is not. Once a few BWM driving assholes start talking about losing their licenses for a month because they didn't put down their crackberry, or teens because they were giggling about how awesome $band is, you'll see these problems go away very quickly.
otoH, if you are in a Windows environment, you likely have IE installed. And if you're on a domain with Exchange... SharePoint is fantastically powerful and flexible.
For the typical/.er that's all bad news, but for the rest of the working world, it's pretty damn awesome. i work at a major university that is moving TO SharePoint, despite many of the dev and manager types here being mac fanbois and linux fans.
Most of your post is saying "but if you're left handed and wear a blind fold cars suck because the stick shift is at your right hand and you need to see the road and other cars". Take off the blind fold and get an automatic.
SHUT UP! As soon as your company converts to FOSS all will be rainbows and unicorns! Your secretary will automagically know Thunderbird. Your graphics team will pick up GIMP in a day. Your sys admins experience and training on Windows servers will make him an instant Red Hat server guru. There's no learning curve, just awesomeness and freedom to change the software as you please!
Excellent post! i don't have points for you but this is +1 insightful. There's so much knee-jerk paranoia and cynicism on/. It's heartening to see such sanity.
Terrorists have chatter... we have people investigating and listening in. There's also OpSec. When a cell changes behavior it can be an indicator that they're up to something. Militaries and gov'ts do the same. When the Pentagon starts ordering more pizza all the sudden... something's up. Kidnappers generally don't give such signals. Nor do we have the CIA/FBI tailing them or the NSA listening to them.
If there was a string of robberies in your neighborhood and the cops stopped by to inform you of this... would that be fear mongering?
To me fear mongering would be:
"You're going to be robbed if you don't vote for me and let me double the police force" "Your soul will burn in hell forever if you don't send me money or if you love someone of the same sex"
Indications suggest likely attack + No warning given to public + *boom* = Why didn't you warn us? No warning + *boom* = Why weren't you looking into this? Warning given + no *boom* = FEAR MONGERING!1! FASCISMS! LoL! Money spent on CIA and NSA + No terrorist attack = Why are we spending all this money? Give warning + *boom* = You didn't do enough to prevent it.
There is no winning in security, just managing the value of the asset against the likelihood of attack to determine the level/cost of securing it. The money you spent on Schlage locks was a waste... unless someone tries to break in and FAILS. If they succeed or no one tries, the lock was a waste, right?
i suppose the CIA and NSA *could* reveal their sources and methods and give us a break down of why they think an attack is more likely today than yesterday. "Jeff, our agent in Kabul overhead a conversation between Abdul and Habeeb. Jeff will be staying at the Kuwait Marriott for the rest of the week, his family lives in Arlington. Abdul and Habeeb, please change your target or time table, enjoy the head start." Great idea.
The lack of "what we're supposed to do" is a fault in the system (which can be changed). But calling it tea-leaf weather report assumes a great deal of incompetence or malice in the gov't... or indicates a great deal of paranoia.
Having lived with and worked with the people who do this kind of work for my entire life and having been an intel analyst with a clearance i can't name here... i think you're either very uninformed (which isn't entirely your fault), or you're letting paranoia/partisanship do your thinking. Yeah, W was an evil idiot, but he wasn't an all powerful mastermind nor as bad as we wish him to be.
My parents did the same with me. Always making sure i was home before dark, that i didn't reach for boiling pots of water on the stove, trading my lunch money for toys, telling me to not get in cars with strangers. i was far more likely to be hurt playing tag than to be kidnapped if i got in a car with a stranger. What the hell did my parents know? It wasn't any of their business anyway where i was or who was holding me for ransom. Fascist fear mongering assholes.
And don't get me started about "locking" the doors to my house. Like someone is gonna steal my TV while i'm at work or on vacation. That would be totally rude.
Then there are the cops, telling me to "slow down" because i'm going "die in a ball of fire and steel". What do the cops know?
My doctor invented something he called "cholesterol", to scare me away from all the eggs and cheese. i bet he has stock in cereal companies. More of W's trying to pad the pockets of his cronies. If there really was any threat from this "cholesterol" someone would tell me, right? Maybe warn me about the "risks" or tell me how to "control" it. But they just want to control me! Well screw them!
"We can already see the effects of ongoing attempts to make learning 'fun' and 'relevant'. We don't need to turn ideas known to be stupid up to 11.'
Who/what are you replying to here?
Why would it be "stupid" to make education fun and/or relevant? If a child wants to learn, rather than merely avoid punishment they might learn more, or at least be less troublesome. What is the down side of 'better educated kids'?
To what ongoing effect are you referring? i wasn't in such a program, nor have i heard of any (besides this article).
"It's not how you do in school that matters - its how you do in the real world."
Thank heavens you've arrived, Capt Obvious. Is that water wet?
There is a strong correlation (and perhaps causation) between performance in school and in life/working life. It's certainly not 1:1, but there is a tendency. Lack of education is the main contributor to generational poverty. How one does in the real world might be affected by one's experience in school. It's 12 of the first 18 years of your life, that's pretty damn formative. If your experience of school was that it is a glorified day care or prison as opposed to being say... instilling confidence, hope, ambition, well rounded learning, critical thinking and desire for self improvement.... how will those possibility steers a kid's life? How many great artists, scientists, managers, philosophers etc do we have coming out of schools where kids are more worried about being shot than about the implications of the Treaty of Versailles?
Hell, i don't care about the grades as much as what their experience was. Did they learn how to learn, or how to skate by? Did they learn how to balance a check book or that the man is keeping them down? Did they learn how to think for themselves, or how to make fun of kids with poor parents?
i did poorly in school until my junior year (aside from the two years at the self paced school). But i did well in college and i'm doing well now (in the real world). Had i been in the right school, one that saw me as an individual rather than a sprocket coming down an assembly line, my life might be drastically different. Maybe i could have earned scholarships to go to school for free (instead of $30K), maybe i could have gone to a "better" school. Maybe i could have gone into a program i enjoyed more.
By improving how kids do in school (in terms of grades and overall education ), we just might improve how they do in the real world.
It's broke. It needs fixin. i'm not saying this program is TEH solution, but it might help us find it. Even if only by finding another way that doesn't work.
You don't even have to look to McJobs. Most professional jobs also have some drudgery (which is part of why we're paid to do them).
However, it might be nice to see if this sort of learning could cause a cultural shift that might alleviate that drudgery. Hrm.
When i was in a self paced program i was almost a full year ahead of my peers. When i went back to the regular school system i was a D student. i wonder what i could have done in a system that accommodated me.
i live outside of DC. Driving in that cluster frak is a pain. Street names are confusing, they don't align from block to block, it's not remotely grid like, few places to u-turn. As much as i dislike taking the metro in, driving is just painful.
Giving credit isn't my point. My concern is hardware that installs and software that runs the games i want and MSO that will let me get work done. i don't care about open as much as "works with minimal effort on my part". Winblows does that. Yeah i'm lazy, but that's why i have a computer in the first place. Yeah, it's a self perpetuating problem, but i care more about playing PlanetSide and a working video card than about sticking it to the man.
When Wine or another distro can do all that, i will gleefully switch. Until then, the Linux fanboi smugness just annoys me.
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Storage is always in bytes. Bits would be transmission rate (because it correlates to frequency). tFA was consistent in using TB.
Good job at pretending to be confused by a typo, though.
(if you really were confused and not being pedantic, fork over your geek'n chit so we can tear off a corner)
With that much space they could have software that automagically stores some parity bits somewhere else. Or write the data twice. If you are storing 100 GB (a shit ton) you could write it on the disc about 10 times.
Or have a backup. i'd use these disks as a backup, rather than primary storage.
Pick one OS and stick with it. Simplify, man!
Either we do or we don't. Figure out that first before calling it a lie. i'm pretty confident that driving is not one of the rights enumerated anywhere. Pretty sure it's a privilege. If it can be revoked, it's not much of right. You might have a right to drive *where* you want (barring a conflict with trespassing), that's not the same as having a right to drive. Maybe the word "right" is part of the problem.
If it is a right, it should be impossible to deny it (legally), yet we do deny people licenses. Either to children who aren't responsible enough or to adults who have proven or to not be responsible enough. Given that operating a car creates a burden on society (wear an tear on public assets) and puts self and others (and their property) at risk, it seems like something we should be able to deny. Felons and people who have a history of mental instability can be denied their "right" to legally own a gun. Some states also deny people the right to live if they are convicted of certain crimes. If someone is a danger to themselves or others, we get to stop them (social contract). If you get wasted and total my car, you've proven yourself to be irresponsible with that privilege. So we revoke that privilege. Unless of course you thought your parents were fascists because they grounded you after you broke curfew.
Freedom of movement, sure, i can back you on that. You should have the right to move about the states freely. But how you move about (transportation) is another issue.
Even if you're not using the roads, you benefit from them. Society benefits from it even if you live your entire life on a hill. As for you paying, how much you pay will vary depending on what you spend and own. If you don't own a car, you can't be charged property tax for it. If you buy no gas, you're not paying any sort of gas tax. If you live on your hill and commute by walking or horseback your contribution is minimal. Yet, you'd still be likely to benefit from it. If only because somethings are made more than a horse ride away.
Replace DWI(ntoxicated) and all of these rules with one rule: Driving While Impaired. If the a cop/judge/court decides what you were doing to impair your ability to drive, you are charged with DWI: Driving While Impaired.
You might be impaired by depression, legal or illegal drugs, talking on a cell phone, adjusting the screen of your Canyonero's DVD player or hooting and hollering with your friends after the big game. If you allow something to distract you, making your vehicle a threat to others or yourself, you're DWI.
The cause doesn't matter. It's the behavior. Running over a pedestrian because you're drunk is just as bad as running over a pedestrian because you're an egomaniac. i also don't care if anything bad came of it. Taking the risk is crime enough.
We should also do away with fines as punishment and replace it with community service, license suspension or jail time. Fines are relative, time is not. Once a few BWM driving assholes start talking about losing their licenses for a month because they didn't put down their crackberry, or teens because they were giggling about how awesome $band is, you'll see these problems go away very quickly.
Driving isn't a right.
NSFW, amiright?
otoH, if you are in a Windows environment, you likely have IE installed. And if you're on a domain with Exchange... SharePoint is fantastically powerful and flexible.
For the typical /.er that's all bad news, but for the rest of the working world, it's pretty damn awesome. i work at a major university that is moving TO SharePoint, despite many of the dev and manager types here being mac fanbois and linux fans.
Most of your post is saying "but if you're left handed and wear a blind fold cars suck because the stick shift is at your right hand and you need to see the road and other cars". Take off the blind fold and get an automatic.
SHUT UP! As soon as your company converts to FOSS all will be rainbows and unicorns! Your secretary will automagically know Thunderbird. Your graphics team will pick up GIMP in a day. Your sys admins experience and training on Windows servers will make him an instant Red Hat server guru. There's no learning curve, just awesomeness and freedom to change the software as you please!
Everyone worthwhile, then.
On a macro-level, capitalism allocates the resources to those who seize and hold on to them (deserving has nothing to do with it).
i should get my girlfriend to use silicon to overcome her size barrier.
Excellent post! i don't have points for you but this is +1 insightful. There's so much knee-jerk paranoia and cynicism on /. It's heartening to see such sanity.
Terrorists have chatter... we have people investigating and listening in. There's also OpSec. When a cell changes behavior it can be an indicator that they're up to something. Militaries and gov'ts do the same. When the Pentagon starts ordering more pizza all the sudden... something's up. Kidnappers generally don't give such signals. Nor do we have the CIA/FBI tailing them or the NSA listening to them.
If there was a string of robberies in your neighborhood and the cops stopped by to inform you of this... would that be fear mongering?
To me fear mongering would be:
"You're going to be robbed if you don't vote for me and let me double the police force"
"Your soul will burn in hell forever if you don't send me money or if you love someone of the same sex"
Indications suggest likely attack + No warning given to public + *boom* = Why didn't you warn us?
No warning + *boom* = Why weren't you looking into this?
Warning given + no *boom* = FEAR MONGERING!1! FASCISMS! LoL!
Money spent on CIA and NSA + No terrorist attack = Why are we spending all this money?
Give warning + *boom* = You didn't do enough to prevent it.
There is no winning in security, just managing the value of the asset against the likelihood of attack to determine the level/cost of securing it. The money you spent on Schlage locks was a waste... unless someone tries to break in and FAILS. If they succeed or no one tries, the lock was a waste, right?
i suppose the CIA and NSA *could* reveal their sources and methods and give us a break down of why they think an attack is more likely today than yesterday. "Jeff, our agent in Kabul overhead a conversation between Abdul and Habeeb. Jeff will be staying at the Kuwait Marriott for the rest of the week, his family lives in Arlington. Abdul and Habeeb, please change your target or time table, enjoy the head start." Great idea.
The lack of "what we're supposed to do" is a fault in the system (which can be changed). But calling it tea-leaf weather report assumes a great deal of incompetence or malice in the gov't... or indicates a great deal of paranoia.
Having lived with and worked with the people who do this kind of work for my entire life and having been an intel analyst with a clearance i can't name here... i think you're either very uninformed (which isn't entirely your fault), or you're letting paranoia/partisanship do your thinking. Yeah, W was an evil idiot, but he wasn't an all powerful mastermind nor as bad as we wish him to be.
My parents did the same with me. Always making sure i was home before dark, that i didn't reach for boiling pots of water on the stove, trading my lunch money for toys, telling me to not get in cars with strangers. i was far more likely to be hurt playing tag than to be kidnapped if i got in a car with a stranger. What the hell did my parents know? It wasn't any of their business anyway where i was or who was holding me for ransom. Fascist fear mongering assholes.
And don't get me started about "locking" the doors to my house. Like someone is gonna steal my TV while i'm at work or on vacation. That would be totally rude.
Then there are the cops, telling me to "slow down" because i'm going "die in a ball of fire and steel". What do the cops know?
My doctor invented something he called "cholesterol", to scare me away from all the eggs and cheese. i bet he has stock in cereal companies. More of W's trying to pad the pockets of his cronies. If there really was any threat from this "cholesterol" someone would tell me, right? Maybe warn me about the "risks" or tell me how to "control" it. But they just want to control me! Well screw them!
Have you paranoiacs figured out how Google is going to use this to spy on you or otherwise do evil?
"We can already see the effects of ongoing attempts to make learning 'fun' and 'relevant'. We don't need to turn ideas known to be stupid up to 11.'
Who/what are you replying to here?
Why would it be "stupid" to make education fun and/or relevant? If a child wants to learn, rather than merely avoid punishment they might learn more, or at least be less troublesome. What is the down side of 'better educated kids'?
To what ongoing effect are you referring? i wasn't in such a program, nor have i heard of any (besides this article).
"It's not how you do in school that matters - its how you do in the real world."
Thank heavens you've arrived, Capt Obvious. Is that water wet?
There is a strong correlation (and perhaps causation) between performance in school and in life/working life. It's certainly not 1:1, but there is a tendency. Lack of education is the main contributor to generational poverty. How one does in the real world might be affected by one's experience in school. It's 12 of the first 18 years of your life, that's pretty damn formative. If your experience of school was that it is a glorified day care or prison as opposed to being say... instilling confidence, hope, ambition, well rounded learning, critical thinking and desire for self improvement.... how will those possibility steers a kid's life? How many great artists, scientists, managers, philosophers etc do we have coming out of schools where kids are more worried about being shot than about the implications of the Treaty of Versailles?
Hell, i don't care about the grades as much as what their experience was. Did they learn how to learn, or how to skate by? Did they learn how to balance a check book or that the man is keeping them down? Did they learn how to think for themselves, or how to make fun of kids with poor parents?
i did poorly in school until my junior year (aside from the two years at the self paced school). But i did well in college and i'm doing well now (in the real world). Had i been in the right school, one that saw me as an individual rather than a sprocket coming down an assembly line, my life might be drastically different. Maybe i could have earned scholarships to go to school for free (instead of $30K), maybe i could have gone to a "better" school. Maybe i could have gone into a program i enjoyed more.
By improving how kids do in school (in terms of grades and overall education ), we just might improve how they do in the real world.
It's broke. It needs fixin. i'm not saying this program is TEH solution, but it might help us find it. Even if only by finding another way that doesn't work.
You don't even have to look to McJobs. Most professional jobs also have some drudgery (which is part of why we're paid to do them).
However, it might be nice to see if this sort of learning could cause a cultural shift that might alleviate that drudgery. Hrm.
When i was in a self paced program i was almost a full year ahead of my peers. When i went back to the regular school system i was a D student. i wonder what i could have done in a system that accommodated me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law#United_States
i think they invented that system to help SCUBA divers navigate in the dark (and plant explosives on enemy boats at night).
i live outside of DC. Driving in that cluster frak is a pain. Street names are confusing, they don't align from block to block, it's not remotely grid like, few places to u-turn. As much as i dislike taking the metro in, driving is just painful.
On Slashdot? Yes. The paranoia of some of the folks here is stunning.
"OMG they want to know how far I drove last year. They can use calculus to find out that I went to the 7/11!"
Enjoy your self imposed exile!
News for Paranoid Cynics!
GERMS! GERMS! GERMS!
Germs that cause colds, bad breath... DIARRHEA!
Germs that flourish in YOUR family bathroom!
Giving credit isn't my point. My concern is hardware that installs and software that runs the games i want and MSO that will let me get work done. i don't care about open as much as "works with minimal effort on my part". Winblows does that. Yeah i'm lazy, but that's why i have a computer in the first place. Yeah, it's a self perpetuating problem, but i care more about playing PlanetSide and a working video card than about sticking it to the man.
When Wine or another distro can do all that, i will gleefully switch. Until then, the Linux fanboi smugness just annoys me.