Third, separate logical partitions for the page file is a bad idea because it significantly lowers the performance of paging operations.
No, it's a good idea because it increases performance. My root is on a RAID1 volume group. My swap (what you call page) is on a RAID0 volume group (along with my/tmp). Let me use the right tool for each job. Why the fuck would I want to RAID1 something so ephemeral, when I can have it be faster instead?
Now you're just wasting vast amounts of hard drive space for no particularly good reason.
Look at prices some time. Wasting vast amounts of hard drive space is in.
I guess you'll only accept that the US has a problem once the stream of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border is going reverse, hmm?
I try to be a good redneck American, and when I sing "America, Fuck Yeah!" I try not to let people see my ironic smirk. But even I know we have problems.
And yet, the grandparent has a point: a lot of people want to move here. Maybe that means we only "win" a dick-size competition with the lands to the south, but still, it means we don't have the smallest dick. And that makes us winners. The people of the western hemisphere have chosen: they want to live in USA.
It's not bout denying a problem. It's about knowing that in spite of our problems, we're still best. Heh. We're number one! We're number one! Go ahead and laugh and point at America. We'll point right back at ya, laughing even louder. Yeah, we're all fools. You too, fool.
If you let the helium out, it will stop floating up in the sky. Guess where it will fall.
Screw volcanoes; some people say the dinosaurs died because they had no space program. Maybe they died because they did have one, and made the same type of arrogant mistake.
Now, along with several other European countries, Germany is seeking authority to plant secret Trojan viruses into the computers of suspects that could scan files, photos, diagrams and voice recordings, record every keystroke typed and possibly even turn on webcams and microphones in an attempt to gain knowledge of attacks before they happen.
With a warrant, I bet cops can legally do that in USA too. Probably just about any country.
If there's due process, it isn't unusual for courts to grant LE special surveillance privs against a specific suspect.
Note the qualifiers: due process, warrants. The article doesn't say this new authority is an end-run around the usual barriers. (Doesn't say it's not, either.)
It sounds like you don't have what it takes to be a big-boss-battler. Oh sure, everyone thinks they're cut out to be the most awesome badass freedom fighter. But when the going gets tough, they wimp out. You live in a fantasy world where it's all about the glory of battle. Forgotten, is the drudgery and hard work. Feared (by wimps!), is the mind-numbing repetition that Evil overlords so often uses to discourage Good's weakest and least disciplined so-called "warriors."
I can just imagine your whiny voice: "But I've seen this movie seven times!" Let me tell you something: when grampa played his video games against the Nazis, he sometimes had to watch the same cut-scene two dozen times! And that was just one of the scenes!
Those make my urge to kill rise, and rise, and rise...
Urge to kill, sure. What about your urge to endure? What about your urge to make a sacrifice, to Do Whatever It Takes to finally defeat the ultra-hard Boss at the end of the level?
Do you think others haven't failed before you? The Boss keeps a trophy from each one. So many answer the call. So few are worthy.
[And how do they propose] that website owners pay for bandwidth since this would kill adsense, pretty much?
They're not proposing anything. Paying for bandwidth is somebody else's problem. They're just (ostensibly) trying to protect rights, not plan the economy.
Of course, a paranoid person could read something interesting into this. Perhaps it is a "good thing" if the government can make web publishing more economically hard. It would help shut up troublemakers. There's too much independent media; some of them even question (or mock!!) our leaders' wisdom.
The alternative to tracking via cookies is micropayments where you have to pay a fraction of a cent for each web page you view.
There ya go. Looks like you have a proposal.
It's not even you that's being tracked. It's your browser. Unless you constantly use your real name online..
Or rather, unless you use your real name once online, you can't be tracked. If I don't know who gambolt on Slashdot is, but I do know he sends the same cookies with his 1x1 pixel image requests as leatherfetish69 on a certain sex discussion board (you know which one, gambolt), and that user has the same registration email address as repealamendment16 on a politics discussion board, and that user sends the same cookies for 1x1 pixel image requests as John Smith at the Atlantic City Professional Gamblers Federal Credit Union's website, then I suspect gambolt is John Smith.
Yes, I know about your gambling problem ("professional" my ass) and leather fetish. See the privacy risks of using the internet?
The "race" isn't over, but it's about aiming the weapon at the target, instead of trying to have a blast radius that is big enough to hopefully include the target. You might say the race for penis size is over, because the focus is now on "how you use it."
If you're prosecuted and the only "evidence" is radar-based, contest it.
Be advised about the new fad in speed "enforcement": civil citations. Proof of guilt is not required. Contesting the fine costs more money than paying the fine.
Also, are you implying that today you CAN return software with the shrink wrap broken? I find that surprising, but I haven't tried to return software in a long time.
I tried returning software a few months ago, but ibiblio.org wouldn't let me upload the damned unstable Gentoo packages back to the ftp server. Bastards!
Are you talking about Thomas Riley Marshall (VP of US nearly a hundred years ago) or John Marshall (chief justice of SCOTUS about two hundred years ago)? They're both dead; I don't see how the current president could use either one for legal advice. Ah... Is this some kind of seance thing? (I heard Reagan was into that stuff. But why not just channel Reagan? Having died more recently, he would be closer to the mortal realms, anyway.)
And there were only two things I can't get. One is a "Kohjinsha SH8 Series UMPC". They didn't bother defining their acronyms so I have no clue what a UMPC is so it gets a big yawn from me.
I don't know what a UMPC is either, so it just isn't as drool-worthy as a goodcountersink flange.
Nation's been asleep and nobody has done anything in all that time, huh?
Computers sure seem better than they were 35 years ago. I carry a phone in my pocket. Apartheid has ended in South Africa. Disco music has been successfully crushed, tainted as "no longer cool." Lead has been vanquished from our gasoline, resulting in the virtual elimination of all crime. Wal-Mart distribution has efficiency that people couldn't even dream about 35 years ago. And last, but not least, The breakfast burrito has been perfected.
We didn't piss away the years; we just didn't use the years the way you want. Technology (and more generally: the inventive capabilities of the human spirit) carried on, its passion at odds with an uncaring universe. It developed what it wanted to, solved problems that it thought needed solving.
And now we have the most literally awesome breakfast burrito mankind has ever seen. I'm sure those who enjoy the fruits of that burrito research and development (yeah, like any of them actually eat fruit, when such a lusciously filling burrito is around), had the resources been spent on continuing the Apollo program continued instead, would say,
We had a good start on the breakfast burrito problem, 35 years ago. And we PISSED IT AWAY, developing space applications instead. What good is a glass of Tang, if not used to wash down the perfect burrito? Why is burrito technology languishing, while pie-in-the-sky ideas capture Joe Sixpack's imagination?
Think about it. Life is what you make it, and we made something. You just don't like it.
So go ahead, eat your fruit and drink your Tang, and live in willful ignorance of (and spite for) Hardee's groundbreaking Country Breakfast Burrito. Daydream of a renewed Apollo program. Meanwhile, the Prime Movers of human progress -- the people who make the world turn! -- will continue to work on what they think is important. Is the Monster ThickBurger really the upper end of burger thickness? Is there a barrier that cannot be crossed? The intrepid human spirit screams, "No! There are no limits! With passion and ingenuity, anything is possible!"
This is just the try-out round for the Darwin playoffs. It would be senseless to get killed or castrated and then find out that what he did wasn't dumb enough to win the award. He's saving the spectacularly stupid death for later. "Stupid done smart": motto for the high tech criminal.
What is the threshold where people should start to take-up arms?
When televisions stop working, and they can't get their football games and "reality" shows anymore.
But seriously, The People haven't even tried voting yet, so it's way too early for guns. The Rs and Ds still get 99% of the vote. No matter how bad you think things are, overall, America approves, and keeps demonstrating that approval every two years. Our leaders are pretty safe.
That's one of the more amusing things about the last few years. Conservative Republicans have continued to vote for the radical far-left Republicans that we currently have in power. Put a Democrat executive in place, though, and the conservatives should (?) wake up. (Hopefully, forming a new party or joining the Libertarians, but that's a pretty far-fetched hope. More likely, there will be some sort of Republican reform.)
The question is: will they still have voting rights, so that they can do something about it in 2010/2012?;)
So far, I have avoided digital TV because I just ass/u/me it is plagued by interoperability problems (i.e. DRM) so that you can't just do whatever the hell you need with it, in order to be able to watch it.
Is that still the case (in USA)? Can I timeshift using third-party equipment/software that doesn't have any particular entity's blessing?
it would be hard to argue that you weren't intending someone to die when you send a van full of armed men to their house.
Interesting. The fact that the armed men are cops, doesn't change that? Is there an expectation that cops should shoot someone?
If a jury were to agree that sending cops to someone shows intent to kill (rather that, say, detain (or if you wanna spin it this way: kidnap)) then I would reluctantly have to argue for the abolishment of cops.
Cops are weapons, but they're supposed to be thinking weapons, safe to have around in society. Even if this hadn't been a malicious false-alarm, it's still quite possible for SWAT to be deployed against innocents. Authentication is of course important, but it must not be the only thing that protects people from getting killed by cops. No matter what second-hand "intell" a cop has that they are facing a dangerous suspect, each individual cop damn well better have a first-hand-verified reason to kill someone, before they shoot.
they could theoretically destroy the brazilian economy with the flick of a switch (if Cisco put backdoors in the hardware), so brazil is crazy for taking such extreme action.
It's not the same thing, but they're related. Whenever I get a speeding ticket (though it's typically for something like 42MPH in a 30MPH zone), it's because I wasn't paying enough attention to spot the guy-in-black standing at the side of the road, pointing his laser thingie at the traffic. I always think the same thing: "If I had been paying attention (i.e. a safe driver) instead of daydreaming, I would have seen him and slowed down in time."
These are alert drivers, possibly to the point of mental exhaustion by the end of their trip (and that might be something to think about). When you're looking out to protect yourself, you're less likely to crash into someone else (ruining their day in addition to your own).
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No, it's a good idea because it increases performance. My root is on a RAID1 volume group. My swap (what you call page) is on a RAID0 volume group (along with my /tmp). Let me use the right tool for each job. Why the fuck would I want to RAID1 something so ephemeral, when I can have it be faster instead?
Look at prices some time. Wasting vast amounts of hard drive space is in.I find your ideas intriguing, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Great pics!
I try to be a good redneck American, and when I sing "America, Fuck Yeah!" I try not to let people see my ironic smirk. But even I know we have problems.
And yet, the grandparent has a point: a lot of people want to move here. Maybe that means we only "win" a dick-size competition with the lands to the south, but still, it means we don't have the smallest dick. And that makes us winners. The people of the western hemisphere have chosen: they want to live in USA.
It's not bout denying a problem. It's about knowing that in spite of our problems, we're still best. Heh. We're number one! We're number one! Go ahead and laugh and point at America. We'll point right back at ya, laughing even louder. Yeah, we're all fools. You too, fool.
If you let the helium out, it will stop floating up in the sky. Guess where it will fall.
Screw volcanoes; some people say the dinosaurs died because they had no space program. Maybe they died because they did have one, and made the same type of arrogant mistake.
With a warrant, I bet cops can legally do that in USA too. Probably just about any country.
If there's due process, it isn't unusual for courts to grant LE special surveillance privs against a specific suspect.
Note the qualifiers: due process, warrants. The article doesn't say this new authority is an end-run around the usual barriers. (Doesn't say it's not, either.)
It sounds like you don't have what it takes to be a big-boss-battler. Oh sure, everyone thinks they're cut out to be the most awesome badass freedom fighter. But when the going gets tough, they wimp out. You live in a fantasy world where it's all about the glory of battle. Forgotten, is the drudgery and hard work. Feared (by wimps!), is the mind-numbing repetition that Evil overlords so often uses to discourage Good's weakest and least disciplined so-called "warriors."
I can just imagine your whiny voice: "But I've seen this movie seven times!" Let me tell you something: when grampa played his video games against the Nazis, he sometimes had to watch the same cut-scene two dozen times! And that was just one of the scenes!
Urge to kill, sure. What about your urge to endure? What about your urge to make a sacrifice, to Do Whatever It Takes to finally defeat the ultra-hard Boss at the end of the level?
Do you think others haven't failed before you? The Boss keeps a trophy from each one. So many answer the call. So few are worthy.
They're not proposing anything. Paying for bandwidth is somebody else's problem. They're just (ostensibly) trying to protect rights, not plan the economy.
Of course, a paranoid person could read something interesting into this. Perhaps it is a "good thing" if the government can make web publishing more economically hard. It would help shut up troublemakers. There's too much independent media; some of them even question (or mock!!) our leaders' wisdom.
There ya go. Looks like you have a proposal.
Or rather, unless you use your real name once online, you can't be tracked. If I don't know who gambolt on Slashdot is, but I do know he sends the same cookies with his 1x1 pixel image requests as leatherfetish69 on a certain sex discussion board (you know which one, gambolt), and that user has the same registration email address as repealamendment16 on a politics discussion board, and that user sends the same cookies for 1x1 pixel image requests as John Smith at the Atlantic City Professional Gamblers Federal Credit Union's website, then I suspect gambolt is John Smith.
Yes, I know about your gambling problem ("professional" my ass) and leather fetish. See the privacy risks of using the internet?
The "race" isn't over, but it's about aiming the weapon at the target, instead of trying to have a blast radius that is big enough to hopefully include the target. You might say the race for penis size is over, because the focus is now on "how you use it."
You're ignoring all the subtle strategy.
Are you talking about Thomas Riley Marshall (VP of US nearly a hundred years ago) or John Marshall (chief justice of SCOTUS about two hundred years ago)? They're both dead; I don't see how the current president could use either one for legal advice. Ah... Is this some kind of seance thing? (I heard Reagan was into that stuff. But why not just channel Reagan? Having died more recently, he would be closer to the mortal realms, anyway.)
I don't know what a UMPC is either, so it just isn't as drool-worthy as a good countersink flange.
Nation's been asleep and nobody has done anything in all that time, huh?
Computers sure seem better than they were 35 years ago. I carry a phone in my pocket. Apartheid has ended in South Africa. Disco music has been successfully crushed, tainted as "no longer cool." Lead has been vanquished from our gasoline, resulting in the virtual elimination of all crime. Wal-Mart distribution has efficiency that people couldn't even dream about 35 years ago. And last, but not least, The breakfast burrito has been perfected.
We didn't piss away the years; we just didn't use the years the way you want. Technology (and more generally: the inventive capabilities of the human spirit) carried on, its passion at odds with an uncaring universe. It developed what it wanted to, solved problems that it thought needed solving.
And now we have the most literally awesome breakfast burrito mankind has ever seen. I'm sure those who enjoy the fruits of that burrito research and development (yeah, like any of them actually eat fruit, when such a lusciously filling burrito is around), had the resources been spent on continuing the Apollo program continued instead, would say,
Think about it. Life is what you make it, and we made something. You just don't like it.
So go ahead, eat your fruit and drink your Tang, and live in willful ignorance of (and spite for) Hardee's groundbreaking Country Breakfast Burrito. Daydream of a renewed Apollo program. Meanwhile, the Prime Movers of human progress -- the people who make the world turn! -- will continue to work on what they think is important. Is the Monster ThickBurger really the upper end of burger thickness? Is there a barrier that cannot be crossed? The intrepid human spirit screams, "No! There are no limits! With passion and ingenuity, anything is possible!"
This is just the try-out round for the Darwin playoffs. It would be senseless to get killed or castrated and then find out that what he did wasn't dumb enough to win the award. He's saving the spectacularly stupid death for later. "Stupid done smart": motto for the high tech criminal.
When televisions stop working, and they can't get their football games and "reality" shows anymore.
But seriously, The People haven't even tried voting yet, so it's way too early for guns. The Rs and Ds still get 99% of the vote. No matter how bad you think things are, overall, America approves, and keeps demonstrating that approval every two years. Our leaders are pretty safe.
That's one of the more amusing things about the last few years. Conservative Republicans have continued to vote for the radical far-left Republicans that we currently have in power. Put a Democrat executive in place, though, and the conservatives should (?) wake up. (Hopefully, forming a new party or joining the Libertarians, but that's a pretty far-fetched hope. More likely, there will be some sort of Republican reform.)
The question is: will they still have voting rights, so that they can do something about it in 2010/2012? ;)
I guess that makes sense.
So far, I have avoided digital TV because I just ass/u/me it is plagued by interoperability problems (i.e. DRM) so that you can't just do whatever the hell you need with it, in order to be able to watch it.
Is that still the case (in USA)? Can I timeshift using third-party equipment/software that doesn't have any particular entity's blessing?
Interesting. The fact that the armed men are cops, doesn't change that? Is there an expectation that cops should shoot someone?
If a jury were to agree that sending cops to someone shows intent to kill (rather that, say, detain (or if you wanna spin it this way: kidnap)) then I would reluctantly have to argue for the abolishment of cops.
Cops are weapons, but they're supposed to be thinking weapons, safe to have around in society. Even if this hadn't been a malicious false-alarm, it's still quite possible for SWAT to be deployed against innocents. Authentication is of course important, but it must not be the only thing that protects people from getting killed by cops. No matter what second-hand "intell" a cop has that they are facing a dangerous suspect, each individual cop damn well better have a first-hand-verified reason to kill someone, before they shoot.
It's not the same thing, but they're related. Whenever I get a speeding ticket (though it's typically for something like 42MPH in a 30MPH zone), it's because I wasn't paying enough attention to spot the guy-in-black standing at the side of the road, pointing his laser thingie at the traffic. I always think the same thing: "If I had been paying attention (i.e. a safe driver) instead of daydreaming, I would have seen him and slowed down in time."
These are alert drivers, possibly to the point of mental exhaustion by the end of their trip (and that might be something to think about). When you're looking out to protect yourself, you're less likely to crash into someone else (ruining their day in addition to your own).