I thought they liked using porn websites, showing a few minutes of tired old porn for the viewer's effort in breaking the redirected CAPTCHA from the target webserver?
Welcome to "Sturgeon's Law". When confronted by new reader of science fiction that 90% of science fiction is shit, the famous author Ted Sturgeion is quoted as "90% of *everything* is shit".
It's a helpful rule to remember when at a meeting with lots of Powerpoint slides and Gant charts and software development schedules.
Or at least they should turn off images before loading the page. (I'm only half-kidding.) This isn't a classic "dancing bears" website, it's a "the dancing bear reaches out and pokes you in the eyeball with a jagged claw every 3 seconds" web page.
It is literally painful to try to read the article's text within the images. Slowing down the reload to every 10 seconds would make it tolerable.
Without the anger, I agree with you. You and I can also avoid the "Peter Principle" by refusing to be promoted beyond our level of competence, and not worrying if some younger person who couldn't shell script their way of file names with spaces in them winds up at the meeting that gets budget for your department.
The trick is to keep communications open with those managers, so that you help them get what they need to do their work (such as QA records, work records, and cooperation with silly corporate policies) and you get what they need (backup tapes, redundant power supplies, compensation time to sleep after doing the all-night server replacement, enough bandwidth for your corporate website, etc.)
I've seen both: ties are a safety hazard if you have to put your head inside server racks or do lifting to get equipment into the right place. But they're a dress standard in many corporate cultures, just as a tidy desk is. Like doctors wearing scrubs in the hospital, they identify you as professional staff rather than as service staff, even though we often are service staff.
Yet. What Comcast has been doing is cheap, and nasty: they're not traffic throttling, they're traffic poisoning by forging RST packets. I doubt Verizon's staff want to start down that road, but they're in a better fiscal position to do real traffic monitoring, and with their new fiber infrastructure, they'd better do something to shape it or the kids with the external Terabyte hard drives sharing warez and movie collections and trying to mirror PirateBay are going to flood their most critical connections.
Interestingly, it's going to be a problem overseas, too. An acquaintance in London is complaining about how the release of Iplayer has sucked up all the bandwidth in his neighborhood, and it's interfering with his on-line games. I wonder how the Brits will deal with their tax-funded television stations getting bandwidth shaped?
*OH*. That may help explain it: the ability of Linux, UNIX, and Macintosh administrators to talk to the server with a remote deskitop application andn do their configuration work goes away if they have to use different remote Windows application GUI's for each service.
You're reaching. Laser stands for "Light Amplificaton and Stimulation by Electromagnetic Radiation", which includes the word radiation, so by your reasoning a laser must be some form of electromagnet.
As it turns out, the prosecution screwed up that presentation. The gloves had been blood-soaked and water soaked, and that kind of thin high-quality leather glove is going to shrink if you do that and just leave it sitting out. They should have brought a brand new pair of identical gloves and had him try on the new or a slightly worn, broken-in pair, not that tattered pair, because those gloves were, according to a later report I saw, his size.
Hans Reiser managed to have children. Somehow, I don't think you've ever achieved the necessary "position" to do that, even if you also bought a mail-order bride.
He didn't just take the seat out: he "threw it in a dumpster". OK, the car is a 20 year-old beater, but if you're that broke, you don't throw away the seat, you stash it in your storage space or you wrap it in a few garbage bags and keep it in your yard, etc.
I may be mistaken, I Am Not A Lawyer. But I think they can no more expect truth in the face of such a question than they can expect obedience to an unjust law. And it's quite reasonable to say "I changed my mind, your honor: this case made crystal clear that the law itself is unjust".
And if convicted of perjury, well, who can afford the time or the money better: me, who works and whose resume in such a matter would benefit from demonstrating my morality? Or the poor bastard being convicted of selling pot to a cancer sufferer? Or the gay couple convicted of sodomy? Or the farmer who helped run an Underground Railroad before the Civil War? Or the neighbor who brewed a bit of wine during Prohibition?
Jury Nullification has a long and proud history of being used to trump unjust laws. It's occasionally misused as well, to refuse to convict someone who abused someone of "another" race or culture.
The refusal to prosecute someone for an unjust law is called "jury nullification". It is *NOT* grounds for mistrial, it a long-standing right of any jury. The judge and prosecutor will look for any excuse to avoid it, including many that border on the unconstitutional, and look for grounds to punish defense attorneys who even mentions the concept. But it is, in fact, legal.
Go look it up. The Wikipedia entry on it is pretty good, although it fails to convey the harshness of sanctions used against defense attorneys who encourage its use.
I've also heard from my friends in BDSM that there's no link between BDSM and mental illness or misbehavior in and of itself. I have to admit, from watching them, that they're lying to themselves. The level of cheating on each other, emotionally abusive and destructive relationships, and preying on the innocent and getting them involved deeper than they can handle is notably higher among them than it is in other social communities. It's almost as bad as that of the wealthier college frat boys.
What would be more effective in disrupting a bad law? Your up-front refusal, which can be and will be ignored by the judge as an instrument of policy, or someone letting them spend their time and work on setting up a trial and screwing it up by refusing to convict because the law is bad? Better yet, someone willing to stand up and say it during and after the trial?
Actually, my geek friends have enjoyed jury duty. We all hated going to the courthouse and having the defendants plead out or settle after we spent the time and money and work getting there, but my friends who've actually sat on jury duty appreciated doing so.
You've clearly not read the evidence. They found blood in his house and his car (too washed out to do good DNA on? I suspect Hans used bleach on it to clean up.) and the passenger seat of his car is missing, along with his ex-wife's body. He'd borrowed his mother's car for driving, without explaining why he needed it.
Frankly, he's behaving like ReiserFS behaves with files it has corrupted, trying to pretend innocence while deleting the evidence.
Sturgeon is an interesting problem, but how could Hans not know what happened to the seat of his car? And why did the police have to tail him to find out where it really was? That's not the evidence of a super-geek, that's tan idiot who hasn't figured out how to fully get rid of the evidence of his guilt.
Your point is good: Emacs is famous for doing bad things to people's hands, especially people who have bad typing habits. Richard's own hands are pretty messed up, from what I've heard, and he's hired people to basically act as human voice-text synthesizers for this reason.
You're right, I don't have NiMH in my laptop or any laptops I ws ever thought was a good idea. NiMH was temporarily popular in a few brands of laptops about, let's see: 8 years ago now, before lithium-ion batteries became so popular? That's when I looked into their recharge characteristics. And someone tried to sell the company I worked with around that time a smaller, higher power-density, UPS for modest usage that I also thought was a bad idea on the basis of the self-discharge behavior.
What makes you think that first day discharge isn't in *addition* to that first day of use's actual consumption? In which case you've still paying for an extra 20% every time you recharge the vehicle, just to replace that first day self-discharge, and a vehicle used every day becomes the worst case for wastage for NiMH batteries.
You see, technologies with that kind of flaw don't need patent encumbrance to keep them from becoming popular rechnologies.
"Beating the fuck out of people" covers such a wide range of physical trauma that I'd like to get some kind of scale of damage for comparison. And there have certainly been long term, destructive effects of LSD based questioning, reported from some of the Vietnam vets and Vietnamese prisoners during that conflict. So I don't think it's a fair "eitheor/or" question, especially because sometimes both were used.
I got my numbers from personal experience, vetting them for UPS and laptop use. But this is what I get for being antique: they've apparently improved quite a lot in the last 5 years.
But hop over to Wikipedia. It's still a 20% self-discharge the first day, and 30% a month. There are some "low self-discharge" NiMH batteries out there, but they're only available in AA and AAA sizes. I somehow think that running a car on that is a bad idea, although I'd be happy for the technology to become cheapre.
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I thought they liked using porn websites, showing a few minutes of tired old porn for the viewer's effort in breaking the redirected CAPTCHA from the target webserver?
Welcome to "Sturgeon's Law". When confronted by new reader of science fiction that 90% of science fiction is shit, the famous author Ted Sturgeion is quoted as "90% of *everything* is shit".
It's a helpful rule to remember when at a meeting with lots of Powerpoint slides and Gant charts and software development schedules.
Or at least they should turn off images before loading the page. (I'm only half-kidding.) This isn't a classic "dancing bears" website, it's a "the dancing bear reaches out and pokes you in the eyeball with a jagged claw every 3 seconds" web page.
It is literally painful to try to read the article's text within the images. Slowing down the reload to every 10 seconds would make it tolerable.
Without the anger, I agree with you. You and I can also avoid the "Peter Principle" by refusing to be promoted beyond our level of competence, and not worrying if some younger person who couldn't shell script their way of file names with spaces in them winds up at the meeting that gets budget for your department.
The trick is to keep communications open with those managers, so that you help them get what they need to do their work (such as QA records, work records, and cooperation with silly corporate policies) and you get what they need (backup tapes, redundant power supplies, compensation time to sleep after doing the all-night server replacement, enough bandwidth for your corporate website, etc.)
I've seen both: ties are a safety hazard if you have to put your head inside server racks or do lifting to get equipment into the right place. But they're a dress standard in many corporate cultures, just as a tidy desk is. Like doctors wearing scrubs in the hospital, they identify you as professional staff rather than as service staff, even though we often are service staff.
Yet. What Comcast has been doing is cheap, and nasty: they're not traffic throttling, they're traffic poisoning by forging RST packets. I doubt Verizon's staff want to start down that road, but they're in a better fiscal position to do real traffic monitoring, and with their new fiber infrastructure, they'd better do something to shape it or the kids with the external Terabyte hard drives sharing warez and movie collections and trying to mirror PirateBay are going to flood their most critical connections.
Interestingly, it's going to be a problem overseas, too. An acquaintance in London is complaining about how the release of Iplayer has sucked up all the bandwidth in his neighborhood, and it's interfering with his on-line games. I wonder how the Brits will deal with their tax-funded television stations getting bandwidth shaped?
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*OH*. That may help explain it: the ability of Linux, UNIX, and Macintosh administrators to talk to the server with a remote deskitop application andn do their configuration work goes away if they have to use different remote Windows application GUI's for each service.
That seems quite nasty.
It's an interesting question. What happened to his books and furniture after the divorce?
You're reaching. Laser stands for "Light Amplificaton and Stimulation by Electromagnetic Radiation", which includes the word radiation, so by your reasoning a laser must be some form of electromagnet.
As it turns out, the prosecution screwed up that presentation. The gloves had been blood-soaked and water soaked, and that kind of thin high-quality leather glove is going to shrink if you do that and just leave it sitting out. They should have brought a brand new pair of identical gloves and had him try on the new or a slightly worn, broken-in pair, not that tattered pair, because those gloves were, according to a later report I saw, his size.
Hans Reiser managed to have children. Somehow, I don't think you've ever achieved the necessary "position" to do that, even if you also bought a mail-order bride.
He didn't just take the seat out: he "threw it in a dumpster". OK, the car is a 20 year-old beater, but if you're that broke, you don't throw away the seat, you stash it in your storage space or you wrap it in a few garbage bags and keep it in your yard, etc.
I may be mistaken, I Am Not A Lawyer. But I think they can no more expect truth in the face of such a question than they can expect obedience to an unjust law. And it's quite reasonable to say "I changed my mind, your honor: this case made crystal clear that the law itself is unjust".
And if convicted of perjury, well, who can afford the time or the money better: me, who works and whose resume in such a matter would benefit from demonstrating my morality? Or the poor bastard being convicted of selling pot to a cancer sufferer? Or the gay couple convicted of sodomy? Or the farmer who helped run an Underground Railroad before the Civil War? Or the neighbor who brewed a bit of wine during Prohibition?
Jury Nullification has a long and proud history of being used to trump unjust laws. It's occasionally misused as well, to refuse to convict someone who abused someone of "another" race or culture.
The refusal to prosecute someone for an unjust law is called "jury nullification". It is *NOT* grounds for mistrial, it a long-standing right of any jury. The judge and prosecutor will look for any excuse to avoid it, including many that border on the unconstitutional, and look for grounds to punish defense attorneys who even mentions the concept. But it is, in fact, legal.
Go look it up. The Wikipedia entry on it is pretty good, although it fails to convey the harshness of sanctions used against defense attorneys who encourage its use.
I've also heard from my friends in BDSM that there's no link between BDSM and mental illness or misbehavior in and of itself. I have to admit, from watching them, that they're lying to themselves. The level of cheating on each other, emotionally abusive and destructive relationships, and preying on the innocent and getting them involved deeper than they can handle is notably higher among them than it is in other social communities. It's almost as bad as that of the wealthier college frat boys.
What would be more effective in disrupting a bad law? Your up-front refusal, which can be and will be ignored by the judge as an instrument of policy, or someone letting them spend their time and work on setting up a trial and screwing it up by refusing to convict because the law is bad? Better yet, someone willing to stand up and say it during and after the trial?
Actually, my geek friends have enjoyed jury duty. We all hated going to the courthouse and having the defendants plead out or settle after we spent the time and money and work getting there, but my friends who've actually sat on jury duty appreciated doing so.
You've clearly not read the evidence. They found blood in his house and his car (too washed out to do good DNA on? I suspect Hans used bleach on it to clean up.) and the passenger seat of his car is missing, along with his ex-wife's body. He'd borrowed his mother's car for driving, without explaining why he needed it.
Frankly, he's behaving like ReiserFS behaves with files it has corrupted, trying to pretend innocence while deleting the evidence.
Sturgeon is an interesting problem, but how could Hans not know what happened to the seat of his car? And why did the police have to tail him to find out where it really was? That's not the evidence of a super-geek, that's tan idiot who hasn't figured out how to fully get rid of the evidence of his guilt.
Your point is good: Emacs is famous for doing bad things to people's hands, especially people who have bad typing habits. Richard's own hands are pretty messed up, from what I've heard, and he's hired people to basically act as human voice-text synthesizers for this reason.
You're right, I don't have NiMH in my laptop or any laptops I ws ever thought was a good idea. NiMH was temporarily popular in a few brands of laptops about, let's see: 8 years ago now, before lithium-ion batteries became so popular? That's when I looked into their recharge characteristics. And someone tried to sell the company I worked with around that time a smaller, higher power-density, UPS for modest usage that I also thought was a bad idea on the basis of the self-discharge behavior.
Really? You don't use gcc, which he helped create, or other GPL licensed code, for which he helped create the GPL?
A lot of us use Emacs extensively for code writing. It's a helpful tool.
What makes you think that first day discharge isn't in *addition* to that first day of use's actual consumption? In which case you've still paying for an extra 20% every time you recharge the vehicle, just to replace that first day self-discharge, and a vehicle used every day becomes the worst case for wastage for NiMH batteries.
You see, technologies with that kind of flaw don't need patent encumbrance to keep them from becoming popular rechnologies.
"Beating the fuck out of people" covers such a wide range of physical trauma that I'd like to get some kind of scale of damage for comparison. And there have certainly been long term, destructive effects of LSD based questioning, reported from some of the Vietnam vets and Vietnamese prisoners during that conflict. So I don't think it's a fair "eitheor/or" question, especially because sometimes both were used.
I got my numbers from personal experience, vetting them for UPS and laptop use. But this is what I get for being antique: they've apparently improved quite a lot in the last 5 years.
But hop over to Wikipedia. It's still a 20% self-discharge the first day, and 30% a month. There are some "low self-discharge" NiMH batteries out there, but they're only available in AA and AAA sizes. I somehow think that running a car on that is a bad idea, although I'd be happy for the technology to become cheapre.