An Acer fingerprint reader... hmmmm... it probably won't work to begin with... might make a good coaster to go along with my Acer Desktop, er, i mean end table.... right there next to my Macintosh Door Stop
Now What if i'm trying to copycat the psycho from Se7in and have been cutting my fingerprints off of the tips of my fingers... will it recognize me or just report me to the FBI via spyware??
"No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed." -- Homer Simpson
This appeared in ERRI Risk Assessment Services-DAILY INTELLIGENCE REPORT-Friday, July 25, 1997 Vol. 3 - 206
"Kenneth Katzman, the terrorism analyst for the U.S. Congress, said, 'I think you have an "atomic bomb" brewing between bin Laden, Hezbollah and the Iranians. If these two huge forces are married, either could set off the spark. Sooner or later you are going to see more from these people.' "
Hey Coward... grow some BALLS... or better yet.. come to the ATL and say that garbage to my face... that's what I thought... I just hope you're there to be on the recieving end of our Country's backhanded-bitch-slap... and oh yes... it's coming...
Well you can all forget arguing about whether it's good or not, because we're going to do it. If we don't, then the terrorists will gain confidence, hence, we will make an example out of who did this AND whoever harbors them.
A main reason for this thing being blown out of proportion is that the government's computer security people were brought in front of the Senate not too long ago and asked what good are you really doing now? Lo and behold, along comes Code Red! Now they'll be saying, look guys we have a purpose! Keep giving us money! Hey we need even MORE now! This could be good or bad (a little more security on a server is usually a good idea), but Code Red in the end will basically be a tool for getting more gov funding.
My question is where do we draw the line between cells we should claim, and those we shouldn't. Do we claim all of our cells? If so then we waste our time on skin cells, blood from nicks and scrapes, etc., and who knows what happens in terms of search and seziure when related to using cells for DNA criminal evidence. Do we only claim living cells (like He La)? If so, then what's living? Are eggs and sperm living or does the government come up with some law about them being in a special "suspended animation" state? If a big deal were made about this issue then we could be in for our government wasting it's time worrying about this crap instead of working on worthwhile things like education and poverty... stuff that really matters.
The UltraSPARCIII chips running at "only" 900mhz is still much faster than a Pentium class chip running at equivalent speeds.
Based on what data? Are they faster all around... in every type of computation? I doubt it. I'm sure they are much faster at some types of instructions, and I'd take a Sun over an Intel machine any day, but the performance depends on what types of programs you're running (and how many people are going to be running them at the same time.)
The best method in comparing these things is to take the applications you're going to be running, and run them on the different machines. It won't show a comparison between processors, but systems as a whole. Then you can decide which machine runs fast enough for you at the price you want. Benchmarks and the math involved rarely shows a true advantage in all cases. One set of benchmarks might tell you that such-and-such a pocessor is faster becase of its floating point scores, while another might use formulas to showcase particular features of another processor. There are simply too many variables that go into "speed".
I don't find the internet depressing at all... if anything it's enlightening. It's the most easily available, vast source of information EVER. The only downer I find is when sometimes i've looked at all the pages I want and Ihave nothing better to do, I can't think of a good site to go to. That's just boring!
The use of the word random when referring to Pi may be somewhat of a misnomer. It's not that the number Pi itself is random... it's the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. The randomness (or random-like behavior) is in the digits, specifically, predicting the next one. There seems to be no pattern, much less a repeated pattern in the digits of Pi that is consistent throughout the number.
Ok Einstein... the comparison IS with Win2k... I have a linux server at home that has an uptime of over 7 months. My Windows 2k machine has never made it more than 3 weeks, and it mostly just sits in the corner. Now what's so hard about remaining idle? Aparently Windows 2k hasn't figured it out yet!
Is downloading music that you haven't paid for (like when you don't own the CD, or the right to posses the music) illegal? Yes. Is the same true for movies? Yes. Then why are so many people breaking the law? Because it's easy and CHEAP! To add to it, we know how inexpensive making CD's is, and we know what WE must pay for them. This is a demonstration that record companies have been greedy for a LONG time. I'm not saying they shouldn't make money, but the price gouging involved with CD's is insane! If CD's suddenly dropped in price by half, sales would SKYROCKET! They'd make more money off of me, because I'd actually buy the CD's that only have one good song on them, instead of only buying the 2-3 CD's per year that are worth it to me to buy. Until then, there's Radio and internet streaming radio stations. The record companies won't be seeing my money anytime soon.
Microsoft is getting bold now that Bush has people in place who will avoid going to court over monopoly issues and what-not in order to "promote business" so that it can "improve the economy." So, now Microsoft is less afraid of legal action and is becoming more bold in it's practices. First of all, Microsoft's general way of doing busniess is foul... instead of trying to please customers by giving them what they want... they skirt the limits of the law as closely as possible to try to cheat the customer as much as possible, hopefully without them knowing. What's sad is that the general user has no idea of what's going on, so they believe what MS says... blindly. What got MS in trouble to begin with is using such practices against more tech-savvy customers such as Dell, Gateway, Compaq, etc. They almost got fried, so now they focus their efforts on the people that don't know what's going on.. This really bites!
You forget about all the jocks and athletes who LOVE fighting games. Step foot inside a freshman college residence hall on a weeknight and count the number of people sitting in rooms waiting for their turn at Tekken or MKx. Then go out the next afternoon to the intramural fields and you'll see many of the same faces.
This is pretty obvious stuff. (I like drawing my own conclusions, thak you very much, Katz). Athletes and astronauts spend hours practicing what they do, and therefore are good at it and can concentrate on it more and in a different way than the average Joe. Kids who spend hours gaming become good at it and can concentrate on it in a similar way that athletes and astronauts concentrate on their tasks. The reason why they have better coordination and concentration than the average kids of the recent past is that spending hours in front of a TV makes you good at watching TV, which requires minimal concentration and coordination. It's good to see that a study... the spending of a lot of money... can yield common sense results.
Legally, they cannot require you to give them your SSN. That number if for use by the government only, but we've let business in general have access to it by giving it when they ask. A Credit Card application, for example cannot REQUIRE you to give your social security number. If they do, it's illegal
My problem with the book is that it only covers RedHat 6.0! First of all, as far as RedHat releases go, the.0 versions are the least stable. 6.0 = the most unstable 6.x version. 7.0 = the most unstable 7.x version (or as 'unstable' as linux can be) Granted, they're all EXTREMELY stable when compared to windows. Also, RedHat has changed since 6. The locations of some of the crucial files needed by sysadmins has changed, and a person using a 6.x book will be thrown-off when trying to find some of the stuff in 7.0 or 7.1.
Beowulf has nothing to do with Rambus, Intel, AMD, or any other specific hardware company. You can use any group of PC's (not all the same, even) to build a beowulf cluster. I've seen DEC Alpha clusters, Pentium clusters, and yes, Dual-PIII clusters.
This is GREAT! Now maybe we'll see some more of the types of drivers only a handfull of ppl will use. Like Drivers for my USB HomePNA Adapter. It's a shame to have to use a Windoze machine as the gateway to the rest of the network for my linux box.:-( Looks like i have a new project:-)
Integrating this sound into cell phones may not have as great an effect as forseen. First of all, a cell phone "feature" is being able to choose your ringer song, and on some models, write your own. Also, most cell phones have this feature called "Vibrate." Such a feature makes your phone "vibrate" letting you "feel" that it is YOUR phone that is ringing, not someone else's. Also, with vibrate on, and your "ringer" off, no one is compelled to turn and look at your crotch. On a different, note, who's to say that this urge to turn and look for the source of the "new" noise won't fade as we are immersed by it. People no longer react the same way as they used to to sirens. We don't even react as harshly to crime and death since we see it everyday. What happens when our attention is no longer captured by this sound... find another?... and another?... and another?...
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An Acer fingerprint reader... hmmmm... it probably won't work to begin with... might make a good coaster to go along with my Acer Desktop, er, i mean end table.... right there next to my Macintosh Door Stop
"No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed." -- Homer Simpson
Um... North America is not a country
Token Ring gets another "Check" on the Chalkboard for being bad and mischevious during class!!!
Hey Coward... grow some BALLS... or better yet.. come to the ATL and say that garbage to my face... that's what I thought... I just hope you're there to be on the recieving end of our Country's backhanded-bitch-slap... and oh yes... it's coming...
Well you can all forget arguing about whether it's good or not, because we're going to do it. If we don't, then the terrorists will gain confidence, hence, we will make an example out of who did this AND whoever harbors them.
Based on what data? Are they faster all around... in every type of computation? I doubt it. I'm sure they are much faster at some types of instructions, and I'd take a Sun over an Intel machine any day, but the performance depends on what types of programs you're running (and how many people are going to be running them at the same time.)
The best method in comparing these things is to take the applications you're going to be running, and run them on the different machines. It won't show a comparison between processors, but systems as a whole. Then you can decide which machine runs fast enough for you at the price you want. Benchmarks and the math involved rarely shows a true advantage in all cases. One set of benchmarks might tell you that such-and-such a pocessor is faster becase of its floating point scores, while another might use formulas to showcase particular features of another processor. There are simply too many variables that go into "speed".
I don't find the internet depressing at all... if anything it's enlightening. It's the most easily available, vast source of information EVER. The only downer I find is when sometimes i've looked at all the pages I want and Ihave nothing better to do, I can't think of a good site to go to. That's just boring!
The use of the word random when referring to Pi may be somewhat of a misnomer. It's not that the number Pi itself is random... it's the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. The randomness (or random-like behavior) is in the digits, specifically, predicting the next one. There seems to be no pattern, much less a repeated pattern in the digits of Pi that is consistent throughout the number.
Ok Einstein... the comparison IS with Win2k... I have a linux server at home that has an uptime of over 7 months. My Windows 2k machine has never made it more than 3 weeks, and it mostly just sits in the corner. Now what's so hard about remaining idle? Aparently Windows 2k hasn't figured it out yet!
Is downloading music that you haven't paid for (like when you don't own the CD, or the right to posses the music) illegal? Yes. Is the same true for movies? Yes. Then why are so many people breaking the law? Because it's easy and CHEAP! To add to it, we know how inexpensive making CD's is, and we know what WE must pay for them. This is a demonstration that record companies have been greedy for a LONG time. I'm not saying they shouldn't make money, but the price gouging involved with CD's is insane! If CD's suddenly dropped in price by half, sales would SKYROCKET! They'd make more money off of me, because I'd actually buy the CD's that only have one good song on them, instead of only buying the 2-3 CD's per year that are worth it to me to buy. Until then, there's Radio and internet streaming radio stations. The record companies won't be seeing my money anytime soon.
Microsoft is getting bold now that Bush has people in place who will avoid going to court over monopoly issues and what-not in order to "promote business" so that it can "improve the economy." So, now Microsoft is less afraid of legal action and is becoming more bold in it's practices. First of all, Microsoft's general way of doing busniess is foul... instead of trying to please customers by giving them what they want... they skirt the limits of the law as closely as possible to try to cheat the customer as much as possible, hopefully without them knowing. What's sad is that the general user has no idea of what's going on, so they believe what MS says... blindly. What got MS in trouble to begin with is using such practices against more tech-savvy customers such as Dell, Gateway, Compaq, etc. They almost got fried, so now they focus their efforts on the people that don't know what's going on.. This really bites!
You forget about all the jocks and athletes who LOVE fighting games. Step foot inside a freshman college residence hall on a weeknight and count the number of people sitting in rooms waiting for their turn at Tekken or MKx. Then go out the next afternoon to the intramural fields and you'll see many of the same faces.
This is pretty obvious stuff. (I like drawing my own conclusions, thak you very much, Katz). Athletes and astronauts spend hours practicing what they do, and therefore are good at it and can concentrate on it more and in a different way than the average Joe. Kids who spend hours gaming become good at it and can concentrate on it in a similar way that athletes and astronauts concentrate on their tasks. The reason why they have better coordination and concentration than the average kids of the recent past is that spending hours in front of a TV makes you good at watching TV, which requires minimal concentration and coordination. It's good to see that a study... the spending of a lot of money... can yield common sense results.
None of South Carolina, Georgia, and New Jersey use SSNs for DL numbers. It might be easier (and a shorter list) to find states that actually DO.
Legally, they cannot require you to give them your SSN. That number if for use by the government only, but we've let business in general have access to it by giving it when they ask. A Credit Card application, for example cannot REQUIRE you to give your social security number. If they do, it's illegal
My problem with the book is that it only covers RedHat 6.0! First of all, as far as RedHat releases go, the .0 versions are the least stable. 6.0 = the most unstable 6.x version. 7.0 = the most unstable 7.x version (or as 'unstable' as linux can be) Granted, they're all EXTREMELY stable when compared to windows. Also, RedHat has changed since 6. The locations of some of the crucial files needed by sysadmins has changed, and a person using a 6.x book will be thrown-off when trying to find some of the stuff in 7.0 or 7.1.
Beowulf has nothing to do with Rambus, Intel, AMD, or any other specific hardware company. You can use any group of PC's (not all the same, even) to build a beowulf cluster. I've seen DEC Alpha clusters, Pentium clusters, and yes, Dual-PIII clusters.
This is GREAT! Now maybe we'll see some more of the types of drivers only a handfull of ppl will use. Like Drivers for my USB HomePNA Adapter. It's a shame to have to use a Windoze machine as the gateway to the rest of the network for my linux box. :-( Looks like i have a new project :-)
Integrating this sound into cell phones may not have as great an effect as forseen. First of all, a cell phone "feature" is being able to choose your ringer song, and on some models, write your own. Also, most cell phones have this feature called "Vibrate." Such a feature makes your phone "vibrate" letting you "feel" that it is YOUR phone that is ringing, not someone else's. Also, with vibrate on, and your "ringer" off, no one is compelled to turn and look at your crotch. On a different, note, who's to say that this urge to turn and look for the source of the "new" noise won't fade as we are immersed by it. People no longer react the same way as they used to to sirens. We don't even react as harshly to crime and death since we see it everyday. What happens when our attention is no longer captured by this sound... find another?... and another?... and another?...