9 consonants vs 5 vowels: he would have been flagged too! Hrmm, I think I see a pattern here: most names actually do have more consonants than vowels, so 't looks as if the profile is maybe a leettle bit too all-inclusive...
So, can you get Windows XP's remote product activation to work on that isolated network?
Good question. I don't really know, I quit that job two years ago, but from what I've heard you can actually get XP activated by phone (you just read the support person a couple of numbers displayed by XP, and they read you back a key)
Need I mention the incongruity of isolating the network for security and then installing highly insecure software?
It's a bank... Those guys are not actually known for their technical expertise. And they've been coached by Anderson Consulting (now known as Accenture), so you can figure it out...
If I'm forced to use Windows at work, (which has never happened), I will use Putty to make an SSH connection to my box.
Erhm, this may be pretty useless if you work at a place without net connectivity. Think "bank". Indeed, banks often have a completely isolated company network out of security concerns.
IBM's problem is that they consider Linux solely as a server platform. We've had a speaker from IBM Belgium at our last Linux days, who was presenting IBM's commitment to Linux. After his presentation, every single question somehow involved Lotus client ports for Linux. The guy was amazed at the thought that anybody would seriously consider using Linux on the desktop...
Aluminium isn't transparent and it's quite hard to change a metal's transparency property (I think it involved some time space continua). so forget about that.
Think cristalline structure. Think additives (it does not need to be 100% pure). After all, we also have transparent graphite, whereas the usual variant is pitch black;-)
(For the chemically impaired: that's diamond that I'm talking about, which is almost pure carbon, just as is graphite. And as has been pointed out by another poster, transparent aluminium oxyde already exists, it's a synthetic sapphire.)
Is WINE really necessary for Linux growth in the desktop area? I believe that Linux has enough of it's own apps native to the OS that we don't need to go out and run all the windows apps out there.
One reason: Lotus Notes. Granted, there are also open source alternatives out there (such as for instance Tutos),
but that doesn't help you much if you are an employee at a company which uses Notes. Wine allows you to run Linux on your workstation while still being able to access the corporate document and discussion databases.
Of course, it is in IBM's power to show their true commitment to Linux by making this point moot with a native Linux Notes client, but for some weird reason they don't want to, despite their Linux commitment in many other areas...
Give me a 5GB cap and charge me a set amount for every 1GB after that. But, DO NOT tell me you're going to charge me per month for every PC I hook up on my connection.
And please do not get the idea of charging the additional GB's at ten times the price than the first 5. Economies of scale, please. Yes, one large ISP in Luxembourg did attempt to pull such a stunt: it would have been cheaper for power users to just get several subscriptions, rather than to risk going over the cap... Fortunately, in the end, common sense prevailed...
And, the kind folks at AMD even created a simple patch for Windows 2000 that disables extended paging by tweaking the registry.
Cache coherency aside, what about logic coherency? These were posts in the same article. To me, it seems as if the Linux guys and gals are ready to blame everyone else but themselves (sounds like the phone company!).
Ermh, the bit about that windows registry tweak actually speaks in favor of Linux (i.e. t'is indeed a hardware bug). Indeed, the following questions come to mind:
Wow, Windows and Linux stricken by the same bug. What's the probability of that?
Why didn't they simply tweak the registry to make that 4MB AGP section non-cacheable, rather than switching off 4MB paging altogether?
The problem with your analogy is that the original content stays still accessible by entering the URL directly, or by going through other search engines, such as google.
A more useful analogy would be if somebody constructed a toll road leading to some nice-to-be place. People could still get there for free by using the old roads.
Depends, if a spammer is trying to sell a real product they should be perfectly possible to track down.
Exactly. Just ask their credit-card processing company, they must have some place where they credit the money to.
And even without this, on most spams, you have a sender IP to work with, which leads to an ISP, which theoretically has logs about who used that IP at the time the spam was sent. However, the problem is, many, ISPs don't really care, and consider it more cost efficient to just file mails to abuse into /dev/null.
But I imagine, a court order would really help to encourage them to act, unless of course they didn't keep any logs in the first place. However, spam is often such a minor offense that nobody bothers to intend legal action against the offenders.
We compiled the code and ran it ourselves (well our scripts did, anyway:))
And what if somebody was smart enough to submit a Trojan?
We checked correctness with our test cases.
Meaning that you won't judge style and clarity of the programs, items which will be important later in professional life (cleanly written programs are easyer to maintain).
Well, unless you'll also do a manual correction along with the automatic one. But then, why would you need the automatic correction?
Isn't English wonderfully ambiguous? On Slashdot, we know that the world "free" can take different meanings, which are not at all the same. However, there are other words like this as well: for instance, solid
can mean "not liquid or gaseous", but it can also mean "Not hollowed out: a solid block of wood". I obviously meant the latter, as should have been clear by context (solid spheres, vs. hollow spheres as in gravastars). Moreover, in order to make myself clearer, I even put "full" in parenthesis after the words "solid speres".
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No, black holes are not solid. They are vacuum solutions. There is no matter at the horizon,
True, but I never claimed that (at least not for black holes)
there is no matter inside the horizon
That depends on your definition of matter. It's not matter in the classical sense, but rather severely degenerated (collapsed) matter. And concentrated in one point (the singularity). Then of course, there's also the philosophical question about whether it is legitimate to talk about what goes on inside the event horizon. After all, there is no way that we could possibly see what's inside (no light and no information gets out).
(Incidentally, gravistars, as described, aren't really hollow. Inside the "outer shell of gravitational energy" is a dense condensate.)
Maybe, I misread the article, but I understood it to mean that the condensate was on the shell.
Emil Mottola of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Pawel Mazur of the University of South Carolina in Columbia think gravastars are cold, dense shells supported by a springy, weird space inside.
So what is this springy, weird space? Some special kind of "vacuum"? The condenstate?
Because of this, infalling matter inside the shell would do a U-turn and head back out to the shell, while matter outside the shell would still rain down on it.
But if all matter is expelled towards the shell, wouldn't we end up with a "hollow" sphere? Hollow, except for the weird field, that is.
I hate "+5 Insightful" ratings for wrong answers...
And I hate self-righteous ACs.
Your own reference seems to contradict you
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Go to the smoke experiment, and scroll down to the bottom of the page, to see what happens when the angle of attack becomes too big. Yes, the upper and the lower flow no longer meet. Hence the reasoning that the top flow must be faster simply because it has a longer way to do is not really correct. Conceivably it could come out behind the bottom stream, or, as observed, ahead.
Hey, it even says so, in bold: Stating that the fluid flowing above the airfoil is accelerated with respect to the fluid flowing below it ``because it must travel for a longer route in the same time'' is then definitely wrong. Betrayed but your own reference texts, eh?
As harlows_monkey says, in order to understand why the streams do meet if there is a correct angle of attack, you do need deeper insight into aerodynamics than is spelled out in the simple "lay-man's" explanation.
A black hole is just a place where the escape velocity exceed the speed of light. There is no dispute over whatever such a thing can actually exist, as all you need is enough mass for it to happen.
Escape velocity not only depends on the mass, but also on the distance from the center. In a black hole, escape velocity only exceeds the speed of light if you get closer than the event horizon.
Now, if for some reason the necessary mass would not fit into the event horizon, no black hole could occur. This new theory stipulates that if you have such a huge mass, it will actually form a hollow sphere where much of the mass is actually concentrated outside of the event horizon. Now, a hollow sphere has the following "interesting" properties (or would have, in classical mechanics):
outside the spere it is the same as for a point mass: mM/r^2
within the shell it would be approximately linear in r: mM*(r-r_inner)/r_outer^2/(r_outer-r_inner)
(approximative formula, for "thin" shells)
inside, it would be zero
Probably this is not 100% exact, as we're in a relativistic context here, rather than a classical one, but we can still presume that gravity inside the sphere would be much weaker than outside.
This would basically mean that you would not have an escape velocity exceeding the speed of light anywhere:
not outside of the sphere, because you'd be outside of the event horizon
not inside either, because inside a hollow spere gravity caused by the sphere is basically zero.
The only difference is that there's no actual hole in the center, just a very dense lump of matter.
Actually, it is rather the contrary. These "gravastarts" are like giant hollow spheres, so technically, they would have a (huge) hole in the center.
"Real" black holes on the other hand, are solid (full) spheres, and thus have no hole, at least not in the classical sense (they do deform space-time continuum in very interesting ways though)
Regardless of the end goal (research?), SETI is effectively entertainment software from the client side. It serves no useful function for the company whose machines he ran it on.
Just like dnetc, it serves the useful purpose of measuring the load of the machine. Just observe how much CPU time it takes: that's the amount not needed by anything else. However, smart people call it idle, rather than dnetc in order not to needlessly scare the suits;-)
But for the love of Pete, people, stop using "laws can always be broken" as an argument against making laws.
The point here is that making a law against a minor offence (using crypto) in order to protect against a bigger offence (terrorism) is pointless, as the larger offence is:
already against the law
punishable by much higher terms than the minor offence
Thus, somebody who is already determined to commit the larger offence wouldn't be bothered at all that in the process he is also committing one minor offence or two.
The same article could be used to make the point that we should make a law that makes it mandatory that you take off your shoes when going to the loo... After all, the only way the attempted attentat was stopped was because Reid tried to light his shoes in the cabin, rather than in the toilet, and thus could be stopped by crew & fellow travellers.
Not to mention that it far more time to go to the shop in the first place, than to fill out the form. Even if you fill out plenty of details.
Thus, the requirement to fill out a form is not really a deterrent for customers who have already shown that they are eager to invest some of their personal time to the furtherment of a goal;-)
And who says he wasn't he really the seventh sysadmin to quit, trying to get number sixth into trouble? Or maybe he's just a personal friend^H^H^H^H^H^Henemy of Eddie Kessler (and Shawn Fanning), but otherwise unrelated to the Napster business, just makeing the whole thing up? As long as his own name is not on the post, no way he would get sued. To sue for libel, you have to prove that the defendant actually uttered the libelous statements that are attributed to him... And without CmdrTaco's co-operation, that proof is rather hard to obtain... unless you are The Church of Scientology.
Actually the earth's shape changes daily, due to tidal forces. Indeed, the moon's attraction does not only influence the water but also the rocks. Granted, due to their rigidity, the rocks move less than the water, but it's still two feet.
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_i_o__y ___ei__ = 5
9 consonants vs 5 vowels: he would have been flagged too! Hrmm, I think I see a pattern here: most names actually do have more consonants than vowels, so 't looks as if the profile is maybe a leettle bit too all-inclusive...
_ya__ Ea__ = 4 letters
==> more consonants than vowels. And if you consider the y as a consonant, it's even worse.
Good question. I don't really know, I quit that job two years ago, but from what I've heard you can actually get XP activated by phone (you just read the support person a couple of numbers displayed by XP, and they read you back a key)
Need I mention the incongruity of isolating the network for security and then installing highly insecure software?
It's a bank... Those guys are not actually known for their technical expertise. And they've been coached by Anderson Consulting (now known as Accenture), so you can figure it out...
Erhm, this may be pretty useless if you work at a place without net connectivity. Think "bank". Indeed, banks often have a completely isolated company network out of security concerns.
Advantage: being heavy as concrete, nobody would be able to steal it.
IBM's problem is that they consider Linux solely as a server platform. We've had a speaker from IBM Belgium at our last Linux days, who was presenting IBM's commitment to Linux. After his presentation, every single question somehow involved Lotus client ports for Linux. The guy was amazed at the thought that anybody would seriously consider using Linux on the desktop...
Think cristalline structure. Think additives (it does not need to be 100% pure). After all, we also have transparent graphite, whereas the usual variant is pitch black ;-)
(For the chemically impaired: that's diamond that I'm talking about, which is almost pure carbon, just as is graphite. And as has been pointed out by another poster, transparent aluminium oxyde already exists, it's a synthetic sapphire.)
One reason: Lotus Notes. Granted, there are also open source alternatives out there (such as for instance Tutos), but that doesn't help you much if you are an employee at a company which uses Notes. Wine allows you to run Linux on your workstation while still being able to access the corporate document and discussion databases.
Of course, it is in IBM's power to show their true commitment to Linux by making this point moot with a native Linux Notes client, but for some weird reason they don't want to, despite their Linux commitment in many other areas...
And please do not get the idea of charging the additional GB's at ten times the price than the first 5. Economies of scale, please. Yes, one large ISP in Luxembourg did attempt to pull such a stunt: it would have been cheaper for power users to just get several subscriptions, rather than to risk going over the cap... Fortunately, in the end, common sense prevailed...
A more useful analogy would be if somebody constructed a toll road leading to some nice-to-be place. People could still get there for free by using the old roads.
What have you been smoking? That's spelled cannibalism...
Exactly. Just ask their credit-card processing company, they must have some place where they credit the money to.
And even without this, on most spams, you have a sender IP to work with, which leads to an ISP, which theoretically has logs about who used that IP at the time the spam was sent. However, the problem is, many, ISPs don't really care, and consider it more cost efficient to just file mails to abuse into /dev/null .
But I imagine, a court order would really help to encourage them to act, unless of course they didn't keep any logs in the first place. However, spam is often such a minor offense that nobody bothers to intend legal action against the offenders.
And what if somebody was smart enough to submit a Trojan?
We checked correctness with our test cases.
Meaning that you won't judge style and clarity of the programs, items which will be important later in professional life (cleanly written programs are easyer to maintain).
Well, unless you'll also do a manual correction along with the automatic one. But then, why would you need the automatic correction?
Isn't English wonderfully ambiguous? On Slashdot, we know that the world "free" can take different meanings, which are not at all the same. However, there are other words like this as well: for instance, solid can mean "not liquid or gaseous", but it can also mean "Not hollowed out: a solid block of wood". I obviously meant the latter, as should have been clear by context (solid spheres, vs. hollow spheres as in gravastars). Moreover, in order to make myself clearer, I even put "full" in parenthesis after the words "solid speres".
True, but I never claimed that (at least not for black holes)
there is no matter inside the horizon
That depends on your definition of matter. It's not matter in the classical sense, but rather severely degenerated (collapsed) matter. And concentrated in one point (the singularity). Then of course, there's also the philosophical question about whether it is legitimate to talk about what goes on inside the event horizon. After all, there is no way that we could possibly see what's inside (no light and no information gets out).
(Incidentally, gravistars, as described, aren't really hollow. Inside the "outer shell of gravitational energy" is a dense condensate.)
Maybe, I misread the article, but I understood it to mean that the condensate was on the shell.
So what is this springy, weird space? Some special kind of "vacuum"? The condenstate? But if all matter is expelled towards the shell, wouldn't we end up with a "hollow" sphere? Hollow, except for the weird field, that is.I hate "+5 Insightful" ratings for wrong answers...
And I hate self-righteous ACs.
Hey, it even says so, in bold: Stating that the fluid flowing above the airfoil is accelerated with respect to the fluid flowing below it ``because it must travel for a longer route in the same time'' is then definitely wrong. Betrayed but your own reference texts, eh?
As harlows_monkey says, in order to understand why the streams do meet if there is a correct angle of attack, you do need deeper insight into aerodynamics than is spelled out in the simple "lay-man's" explanation.
Escape velocity not only depends on the mass, but also on the distance from the center. In a black hole, escape velocity only exceeds the speed of light if you get closer than the event horizon.
Now, if for some reason the necessary mass would not fit into the event horizon, no black hole could occur. This new theory stipulates that if you have such a huge mass, it will actually form a hollow sphere where much of the mass is actually concentrated outside of the event horizon. Now, a hollow sphere has the following "interesting" properties (or would have, in classical mechanics):
- outside the spere it is the same as for a point mass: mM/r^2
- within the shell it would be approximately linear in r: mM*(r-r_inner)/r_outer^2/(r_outer-r_inner)
- inside, it would be zero
Probably this is not 100% exact, as we're in a relativistic context here, rather than a classical one, but we can still presume that gravity inside the sphere would be much weaker than outside.(approximative formula, for "thin" shells)
This would basically mean that you would not have an escape velocity exceeding the speed of light anywhere:
Actually, it is rather the contrary. These "gravastarts" are like giant hollow spheres, so technically, they would have a (huge) hole in the center.
"Real" black holes on the other hand, are solid (full) spheres, and thus have no hole, at least not in the classical sense (they do deform space-time continuum in very interesting ways though)
Just like dnetc, it serves the useful purpose of measuring the load of the machine. Just observe how much CPU time it takes: that's the amount not needed by anything else. However, smart people call it idle, rather than dnetc in order not to needlessly scare the suits ;-)
The point here is that making a law against a minor offence (using crypto) in order to protect against a bigger offence (terrorism) is pointless, as the larger offence is:
- already against the law
- punishable by much higher terms than the minor offence
Thus, somebody who is already determined to commit the larger offence wouldn't be bothered at all that in the process he is also committing one minor offence or two.The same article could be used to make the point that we should make a law that makes it mandatory that you take off your shoes when going to the loo... After all, the only way the attempted attentat was stopped was because Reid tried to light his shoes in the cabin, rather than in the toilet, and thus could be stopped by crew & fellow travellers.
Actually, most winmodems are supported now: Linmodems
Thus, the requirement to fill out a form is not really a deterrent for customers who have already shown that they are eager to invest some of their personal time to the furtherment of a goal ;-)
And who says he wasn't he really the seventh sysadmin to quit, trying to get number sixth into trouble? Or maybe he's just a personal friend^H^H^H^H^H^Henemy of Eddie Kessler (and Shawn Fanning), but otherwise unrelated to the Napster business, just makeing the whole thing up? As long as his own name is not on the post, no way he would get sued. To sue for libel, you have to prove that the defendant actually uttered the libelous statements that are attributed to him... And without CmdrTaco's co-operation, that proof is rather hard to obtain... unless you are The Church of Scientology.
Actually the earth's shape changes daily, due to tidal forces. Indeed, the moon's attraction does not only influence the water but also the rocks. Granted, due to their rigidity, the rocks move less than the water, but it's still two feet.