DVDisaster'd dvds are better than duplicate dvds. If you have part of the original, and enough recovery data, you can reconstruct the original.
With mirrored copies, if the original gets damage, the mirror better not have damage in the same area. With recovery files, you only need an amount of recovery data equal to the missing data. You can lose half the original disk and as long as you can find half-a-disk worth of recovery files *anywhere* on the recovery disk, you're golden.
Frankly, I'm extremely disappointed that the DVD and CD specs were finalized with fixed amounts of ECC. With write-once media, there's no reason (other than up-front cpu time) why a disk with less than the max amount of data shouldn't have the remaining capacity filled up with ECC spread throughout the disk.
FYI, if you do ever visit the US, the "standard" tipping percentage here is 15 to 20% for table servers. They aren't paid adequate salary (current minimum for table servers is about a third of regular minimum wage, and because of the tipping expectation even high-priced restaurants pay low wages): they make their money on tips. In fact, it's best to think of your server as an independent contractor who delivers your food and beverages. By money, they work for you more than the restaurant.
Other service industry types also want tips, but really don't have the same kind of a claim to them: tip only if you feel like it (except pizza delivery. They really get screwed without tips.)
Didn't you see the handle? It's clearly meant to be a "luggable." A full-sized computer that you can move about the house when you want. Do you want to have to fish cat 5 through all the convenient locations in your house just to take full advantage of it? Wired ethernet has its own security problems btw.
Rather than a standard aluminum box, the Thermaltake Level 10 would incorporate a central pillar, with individual compartments hanging from it for the motherboard...
Now, I don't know what definition of "central pillar" they're using, but I would think that, at the very least, it would mean that components wouldn't all be mounted on one side of a giant panel that stretches from front to back and top to bottom.
It definitely looks "cool" but it also looks gigantic, heavy, and poorly balanced â" if you actually attempt to use that handle they stuck on there, I can't see how you don't cut up your shins on the razor-sharp flared base as 50 pounds of steel swings inconveniently towards you.
Why didn't you just go to the university printing office and have them do it? It would've probably either been free or reimbursed by the University's activities fund.
You got that in writing, right? So you have some lawsuit insurance when someone figures out how easy it would be to steal some identifying information and they blame the IT guy?
The only downside is that Paypal is not a bank. So they charge usury rates and aren't FDIC insured and have a whole host of banking regulations they somehow aren't bound by.
They would drink whatever Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh told them to without so much as a second thought. We haven't grown up yet, so we might as well accept the necessity of a babysitter.
The information leaked included social security numbers. If those get out, they're screwed whether they change them or not. And it's not exactly easy to change them.
Why we're using SSNs as if they're a unique identifier AND a password is a separate, far more important issue that won't get discussed for reasons no one who posts on slashdot has yet been able to fathom.
3x terminal velocity of a person in a balloon suit. Terminal velocity depends on shape, density, and size. An aerodynamically designed motorcycle is going to beat a person in a loose-fitting garment in that area any day of the week.
Further, terminal velocity is not necessarily "terminal" the way you're making it sound (a mouse walks away, a horse splashes and all that. see Haldane), and has nothing to do with horizontal translation anyway: terminal horizontal velocity, the speed at which wind resistance and other forces balance, if you're not including the powerplant in those forces, is precisely zero.
I firmly believe that the insurance industry has been paying these pollsters to lower their numbers for the democrats to push them to drop health care reform.
Yeah, you go ahead and cling to the belief that the insurance industry doesn't want the health care bill to go through. Why would they possibly look at 30 Million people who aren't buying their product and support a bill that will require everyone, by force of law, to buy their product?
I'd certainly like to see some numbers regarding who the insurance industry as a whole is contributing to.
You should never spend anything on lottery tickets.
The initial payout is too little when you plug it into the reward/risk equation. But it grows over time. Rational players would avoid betting anything at all until the risk/reward is over unity, then it's rational to buy all of the tickets.
Except it isn't, because the "pot" get split in the event of collisions. Taking pot-split into account makes the math much more complicated, since your chance of getting over unity payout ratio depends upon how many other people are betting.
and all of that is irrelevant. Because even if you win, most lotteries are run by or at the pleasure of state governments who, of course, take a large share of the skim. No matter who wins, everyone loses by virtue of the state having more money to screw you with.
Well, who snuck that into the contract, and which rep allowed it to be added in? If you're working on a project like that, and the reps negotiating the contract don't know that they ought to ditch that clause, you ought to educate them.
And, if you can, spell it out for them in terms of the time savings that could be used to lower the bid and/or increase profits.
You can't mod yourself up. They keep track of the AC IP addresses. Slashdot's AC function is not intended for whistle-blowers who are likely to get sued: the addresses are stored, and therefore discoverable.
You need to add some more questions. A very important one I can think of is "How long do they request to have this power?" If the answer is "indefinitely" then there'd better be a damn good answer to those other two questions you listed.
Why is it that the only bills that ever seem to "sunset" are tax cuts?
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DVDisaster'd dvds are better than duplicate dvds. If you have part of the original, and enough recovery data, you can reconstruct the original.
With mirrored copies, if the original gets damage, the mirror better not have damage in the same area. With recovery files, you only need an amount of recovery data equal to the missing data. You can lose half the original disk and as long as you can find half-a-disk worth of recovery files *anywhere* on the recovery disk, you're golden.
Frankly, I'm extremely disappointed that the DVD and CD specs were finalized with fixed amounts of ECC. With write-once media, there's no reason (other than up-front cpu time) why a disk with less than the max amount of data shouldn't have the remaining capacity filled up with ECC spread throughout the disk.
FYI, if you do ever visit the US, the "standard" tipping percentage here is 15 to 20% for table servers. They aren't paid adequate salary (current minimum for table servers is about a third of regular minimum wage, and because of the tipping expectation even high-priced restaurants pay low wages): they make their money on tips. In fact, it's best to think of your server as an independent contractor who delivers your food and beverages. By money, they work for you more than the restaurant.
Other service industry types also want tips, but really don't have the same kind of a claim to them: tip only if you feel like it (except pizza delivery. They really get screwed without tips.)
Ok, but what was the vulnerability count on IIS, which Kalraith was referring to?
Frankly, I'm quite surprised I don't see 3.5 inch "thermite drives" being advertised all the time.
Didn't you see the handle? It's clearly meant to be a "luggable." A full-sized computer that you can move about the house when you want. Do you want to have to fish cat 5 through all the convenient locations in your house just to take full advantage of it? Wired ethernet has its own security problems btw.
Rather than a standard aluminum box, the Thermaltake Level 10 would incorporate a central pillar, with individual compartments hanging from it for the motherboard...
Now, I don't know what definition of "central pillar" they're using, but I would think that, at the very least, it would mean that components wouldn't all be mounted on one side of a giant panel that stretches from front to back and top to bottom.
It definitely looks "cool" but it also looks gigantic, heavy, and poorly balanced â" if you actually attempt to use that handle they stuck on there, I can't see how you don't cut up your shins on the razor-sharp flared base as 50 pounds of steel swings inconveniently towards you.
The centrifuge is for enriching the uranium in your carbon-free nuclear gas turbine green-car, you unimaginative clod.
Why didn't you just go to the university printing office and have them do it? It would've probably either been free or reimbursed by the University's activities fund.
You got that in writing, right? So you have some lawsuit insurance when someone figures out how easy it would be to steal some identifying information and they blame the IT guy?
Ubuntu has a separate 'server' version (which really just includes a different set of packages and a different kernel build.)
Wait.. what else is there?
Yeah, but how many deaths and injuries does Hamburger distraction cause every year?
The only downside is that Paypal is not a bank. So they charge usury rates and aren't FDIC insured and have a whole host of banking regulations they somehow aren't bound by.
They would drink whatever Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh told them to without so much as a second thought. We haven't grown up yet, so we might as well accept the necessity of a babysitter.
There are worse things to drink than Snapple.
The information leaked included social security numbers. If those get out, they're screwed whether they change them or not. And it's not exactly easy to change them.
Why we're using SSNs as if they're a unique identifier AND a password is a separate, far more important issue that won't get discussed for reasons no one who posts on slashdot has yet been able to fathom.
You're thinking inside the box. Moving subsidy from here to there. Spend the money on this instead of that.
The truly radical thing would be to just stop spending the money.
That wouldn't work: there's no cycle in a rocket motor (except the turbo-pumps in a liquid rocket) It's open circuit.
3x terminal velocity of a person in a balloon suit. Terminal velocity depends on shape, density, and size. An aerodynamically designed motorcycle is going to beat a person in a loose-fitting garment in that area any day of the week.
Further, terminal velocity is not necessarily "terminal" the way you're making it sound (a mouse walks away, a horse splashes and all that. see Haldane), and has nothing to do with horizontal translation anyway: terminal horizontal velocity, the speed at which wind resistance and other forces balance, if you're not including the powerplant in those forces, is precisely zero.
It's not the bank's confidential information that leaked. So you'd be punishing the other victims for the actions of the bank.
I firmly believe that the insurance industry has been paying these pollsters to lower their numbers for the democrats to push them to drop health care reform.
Yeah, you go ahead and cling to the belief that the insurance industry doesn't want the health care bill to go through. Why would they possibly look at 30 Million people who aren't buying their product and support a bill that will require everyone, by force of law, to buy their product?
I'd certainly like to see some numbers regarding who the insurance industry as a whole is contributing to.
You took the wrong lesson on lottery tickets.
You should never spend anything on lottery tickets.
The initial payout is too little when you plug it into the reward/risk equation. But it grows over time. Rational players would avoid betting anything at all until the risk/reward is over unity, then it's rational to buy all of the tickets.
Except it isn't, because the "pot" get split in the event of collisions. Taking pot-split into account makes the math much more complicated, since your chance of getting over unity payout ratio depends upon how many other people are betting.
and all of that is irrelevant. Because even if you win, most lotteries are run by or at the pleasure of state governments who, of course, take a large share of the skim. No matter who wins, everyone loses by virtue of the state having more money to screw you with.
I was about to say - when isn't a government power or new tax generally granted indefinitely?
The "assault weapons" ban, which was blatantly unconstitutional yet somehow got past the courts, expired during the Bush administration.
Well, who snuck that into the contract, and which rep allowed it to be added in? If you're working on a project like that, and the reps negotiating the contract don't know that they ought to ditch that clause, you ought to educate them.
And, if you can, spell it out for them in terms of the time savings that could be used to lower the bid and/or increase profits.
You can't mod yourself up. They keep track of the AC IP addresses. Slashdot's AC function is not intended for whistle-blowers who are likely to get sued: the addresses are stored, and therefore discoverable.
You need to add some more questions. A very important one I can think of is "How long do they request to have this power?" If the answer is "indefinitely" then there'd better be a damn good answer to those other two questions you listed.
Why is it that the only bills that ever seem to "sunset" are tax cuts?
Are you sure it's even real?