Yeah, sure, if you always measure the glass' emptiness regardless of the fraction of liquid it contains. I bet you'd still complain about the inconvenience even if a Toshiba service rep came by and gave you a glass of iced tea to drink while she personally replaced the batteries for you.
Of course not, but if the network admins take care of the legal bandwidth hogs by mirroring, the students can hardly complain if the connection turns out to be insufficient for their illegal interests.
If you can, I'm waiting for the ionic leafblower. Finally you can blow your yard trash into the neighbors yard at night without waking him up. Mwa Ha hah!
erm.. but with a blacklist, you'd have to disallow just about every site you visit as opposed to the current whitelist version which allows for the very few sites that need it. Further, there's the UI issue: how do you impliment a blacklist that blocks javascript from malicious or just sloppy sites before you've visited the site and told it to block it?
Actually they're sitting at a much more reasonable distance from the screen. The problem is that screens are physically too small (sometimes.. not so much anymore) and fonts, especially system fonts, are set up for a specific "pixel-size." (ok not necessarily the fonts themselves, but dialog boxes and quite a few websites just don't handle resizing fonts very well at all.)
Personally, I prefer to sit further back, set the resolution to maximum, and increase the fonts as needed, and I just deal with the dialog box issues as they come. The increased sharpness is much more pleasing to the eyes, and it is recommended that your face be a minimum of 24" away from the screen anyway.
If they mirror the linux distro, it'll download even faster. Perhaps they should figure out what students are downloading most (i.e. linux distros, game patches, movies that are in the public domain.. and keep local copies of those things. Once they learn of its existance, students will pretty much always go to the local cache for it's much much greater bandwidth and far lower latency.
They could even use mediawiki to allow the students to take some control of the cache.
Does not doing so void your license altogether? hence both are counterfeit!
I hate it when people point out that physical metaphors are not exactly the same as the "duplication of information" they represent as if it invalidates the metaphor altogether. Of course they're not exactly the same: they're analogies. The whole point is to map something you're ethically unsure of onto something you are sure of for the purpose of obtaining insight.
"I cannot tell you how many articles I've found on wikipedia that are completely full of crap. "
Yes, that is a problem wikipedia has. Too many users find errors in articles and just assume others will correct them.
For instance, not long ago there was an article on/. comparing wp to brittanica. "Researchers find 137 errors in wikipedia compared to..." or something like that. It should have read, "Researchers correct 137 errors in wikipedia..." if the researchers understood the concept.
There shouldn't even *be* impartial observers of the wikipedia.
The technology for long-lasting batteries does indeed exist. However, the applications using them has taken advantage of the increased capacity by making smaller devices with..*smaller batteries.*
For example, the first cell phones were the size of a laptop, weighed a ton, and worked for about twenty minutes (did they even have a standby mode?)
fast forward to today, where cell phones are the size and weight of a multivitamin, last for hours of talking, weeks of standby, and taste like candy. (unlike the vitimin...)
Certainly reducing power requirements contributed, and that compounded the benefits from the various improvements in battery-cell technology.
a) remove drive, insert fresh drive with the standard image, restart server. b) write a custom 'driver' that has access to the password, allow selected people to service the APC through the 'driver?'
Assuming the controller is in a room you have some control over, why even have a password?
Even if you do understand the above, don't try it. Oh sure, if you want to be nice to the power company, it will provide some useful information, but p(t) = v(t)*i(t) does not mean that P_av = V_av*I_av, or even P_rms = V_rms*I_rms unless voltage happens to be a linear function of current. (or vice versa.) In which case you don't even need to measure both.
If you don't know what you're doing, a real laboratory instrument will be much, much less accurate than an inexpensive device specifically intended as a power analyzer.
Sounds like you're making things complicated. You've got one thing you want to do: everyone has access to the things they're supposed to, and this idea about implimenting it using some kind of password database.
The thing is, that's not really the best way to go about making the originally intended thing happen, and ends up adding another layer of beaurocracy. This used to be a common point of discussion here on slashdot; namely figuring out what you really wanted to do in the first place that prompted the question of how to do what you think you need to do to accomplish it.
I really don't think that any solution that involves keeping a non-hashed version of any passwords stored anywhere (physically OR digitally) is really a good idea.
wild speculation follows:
Perhaps if/home and any shared data are kept unencrypted on secure servers, whose only outgoing link to the workstations goes over SSH or some other crytographic protocol. Then it wouldn't really matter what the workstation's passwords are (or if they even allow root at all) you could just reimage the OS without worrying about losing any valuable data. On the matter of access to resources, some form of "group" access similar to filesystem permissions could be implimented. When an employee leaves, it's just a matter of removing their username from whatever groups they happened to be members of.
That only leaves the secure data servers to worry about, and if they're unencrypted, you should be able to back everything up before a similar reimage. Then nobody needs access to anyone else's passwords or root except whoever configures the images, and they would remove root access on any image before letting it "go live."
but I am not a Network Engineer. I'm sure there are much better solutions than this. Ones that address the problem of retaining secrecy in the face of physical access to the 'secure' servers even.
Actually there's a very good reason to assume they will use legal wattages. If their transmitters are above legal limtit, their recievers will not be sufficient. They could overpower an installation using illegal wattages, but if they want to hear it, they can't rely on transmit power.
Funny thing about computer monitors, they can't really understand the difference between "text" and "graphics" either. Fortunately that sort of thing isn't handled by the monitor. The software should've been designed so that some kind of "text-display" function would be used, separating the text from the code required to display it. That way, wrapping functions could be added & changed as-necessary to accomodate different displays. Hard-coding line-wraps and other such things is just silly.
The game is a piece of software, a web browser is a piece of software (that happens to have solved the problem at hand quite nicely). It's actually a pretty good analogy. The game-artists should be at about the level of CSS-designers, they shouldn't have to be concerned so much with the internal workings of the engine.
There are TWO issues here, and I fear that one of them is being overshadowed by the other. It is not at all clear that they are unequal in magnitude, at least from the point of view of a HP shareholder, or even a board member.
One of the members of the board was leaking company information, and in a way that exposes HP to punitive action by the SEC.
Leaking a company's moral wrongdoings (whistleblowing) is one thing -- a valuable service to all stakeholders, but leaks that expose corporate strategy to competitors prematurely, are used to manipulate stock prices for personal gain, or expose the company to legal action because of potential for the former are no virtue.
Frankly, unless the leaking involves whistleblowing, I think that companies should have some legal recourse against the journalists to help them find the leaks. The existance of which would've prevented the need for the phone-record mining.
I'm not saying we should reduce condemnation of what amounts to identy theft, but we should step up the condemnation on what amounts to stock manipulation.
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I thought it came from the Chapelle show...
Yeah, sure, if you always measure the glass' emptiness regardless of the fraction of liquid it contains. I bet you'd still complain about the inconvenience even if a Toshiba service rep came by and gave you a glass of iced tea to drink while she personally replaced the batteries for you.
Let me get this straight.. they're calling them "Double standard" disks? and no one thought that might be a bad name?
Electric heating? as in run off the alternator? Wouldn't it be better to divert some of the exhaust through a heat exchanger?
Of course not, but if the network admins take care of the legal bandwidth hogs by mirroring, the students can hardly complain if the connection turns out to be insufficient for their illegal interests.
If you can, I'm waiting for the ionic leafblower. Finally you can blow your yard trash into the neighbors yard at night without waking him up. Mwa Ha hah!
Why would you want high voltage in a flimsy platic box on your lap?
Flamebait is the new insightful. Browse at +5.
erm.. but with a blacklist, you'd have to disallow just about every site you visit as opposed to the current whitelist version which allows for the very few sites that need it. Further, there's the UI issue: how do you impliment a blacklist that blocks javascript from malicious or just sloppy sites before you've visited the site and told it to block it?
well ok, but as a control, i'd like to see some analysis on dewey v. truman.
Actually they're sitting at a much more reasonable distance from the screen. The problem is that screens are physically too small (sometimes.. not so much anymore) and fonts, especially system fonts, are set up for a specific "pixel-size." (ok not necessarily the fonts themselves, but dialog boxes and quite a few websites just don't handle resizing fonts very well at all.)
Personally, I prefer to sit further back, set the resolution to maximum, and increase the fonts as needed, and I just deal with the dialog box issues as they come. The increased sharpness is much more pleasing to the eyes, and it is recommended that your face be a minimum of 24" away from the screen anyway.
If they mirror the linux distro, it'll download even faster. Perhaps they should figure out what students are downloading most (i.e. linux distros, game patches, movies that are in the public domain.. and keep local copies of those things. Once they learn of its existance, students will pretty much always go to the local cache for it's much much greater bandwidth and far lower latency.
They could even use mediawiki to allow the students to take some control of the cache.
Does not doing so void your license altogether? hence both are counterfeit!
I hate it when people point out that physical metaphors are not exactly the same as the "duplication of information" they represent as if it invalidates the metaphor altogether. Of course they're not exactly the same: they're analogies. The whole point is to map something you're ethically unsure of onto something you are sure of for the purpose of obtaining insight.
And that's why you should've gotten an HP48g instead of making fun of the kids who did. No link cable. Nifty IR port though...
"I cannot tell you how many articles I've found on wikipedia that are completely full of crap. "
/. comparing wp to brittanica. "Researchers find 137 errors in wikipedia compared to ..." or something like that. It should have read, "Researchers correct 137 errors in wikipedia ..." if the researchers understood the concept.
Yes, that is a problem wikipedia has. Too many users find errors in articles and just assume others will correct them.
For instance, not long ago there was an article on
There shouldn't even *be* impartial observers of the wikipedia.
The technology for long-lasting batteries does indeed exist. However, the applications using them has taken advantage of the increased capacity by making smaller devices with..*smaller batteries.*
For example, the first cell phones were the size of a laptop, weighed a ton, and worked for about twenty minutes (did they even have a standby mode?)
fast forward to today, where cell phones are the size and weight of a multivitamin, last for hours of talking, weeks of standby, and taste like candy. (unlike the vitimin...)
Certainly reducing power requirements contributed, and that compounded the benefits from the various improvements in battery-cell technology.
a) remove drive, insert fresh drive with the standard image, restart server.
b) write a custom 'driver' that has access to the password, allow selected people to service the APC through the 'driver?'
Assuming the controller is in a room you have some control over, why even have a password?
Even if you do understand the above, don't try it. Oh sure, if you want to be nice to the power company, it will provide some useful information, but p(t) = v(t)*i(t) does not mean that P_av = V_av*I_av, or even P_rms = V_rms*I_rms unless voltage happens to be a linear function of current. (or vice versa.) In which case you don't even need to measure both.
If you don't know what you're doing, a real laboratory instrument will be much, much less accurate than an inexpensive device specifically intended as a power analyzer.
It's easy to learn the lessons on your own, in fact, that's pretty much expected. The question remains: Which lessons?
Very good students are able to figure this out as well. We call them, "Doctors." They do research and/or teach at universities.
The rest of us pay good money to benefit from their valuable insight.
Sounds like you're making things complicated. You've got one thing you want to do: everyone has access to the things they're supposed to, and this idea about implimenting it using some kind of password database.
/home and any shared data are kept unencrypted on secure servers, whose only outgoing link to the workstations goes over SSH or some other crytographic protocol. Then it wouldn't really matter what the workstation's passwords are (or if they even allow root at all) you could just reimage the OS without worrying about losing any valuable data. On the matter of access to resources, some form of "group" access similar to filesystem permissions could be implimented. When an employee leaves, it's just a matter of removing their username from whatever groups they happened to be members of.
The thing is, that's not really the best way to go about making the originally intended thing happen, and ends up adding another layer of beaurocracy. This used to be a common point of discussion here on slashdot; namely figuring out what you really wanted to do in the first place that prompted the question of how to do what you think you need to do to accomplish it.
I really don't think that any solution that involves keeping a non-hashed version of any passwords stored anywhere (physically OR digitally) is really a good idea.
wild speculation follows:
Perhaps if
That only leaves the secure data servers to worry about, and if they're unencrypted, you should be able to back everything up before a similar reimage. Then nobody needs access to anyone else's passwords or root except whoever configures the images, and they would remove root access on any image before letting it "go live."
but I am not a Network Engineer. I'm sure there are much better solutions than this. Ones that address the problem of retaining secrecy in the face of physical access to the 'secure' servers even.
But do they have a flag?
Why can't it be both?
Actually there's a very good reason to assume they will use legal wattages. If their transmitters are above legal limtit, their recievers will not be sufficient. They could overpower an installation using illegal wattages, but if they want to hear it, they can't rely on transmit power.
Funny thing about computer monitors, they can't really understand the difference between "text" and "graphics" either. Fortunately that sort of thing isn't handled by the monitor. The software should've been designed so that some kind of "text-display" function would be used, separating the text from the code required to display it. That way, wrapping functions could be added & changed as-necessary to accomodate different displays. Hard-coding line-wraps and other such things is just silly.
The game is a piece of software, a web browser is a piece of software (that happens to have solved the problem at hand quite nicely). It's actually a pretty good analogy. The game-artists should be at about the level of CSS-designers, they shouldn't have to be concerned so much with the internal workings of the engine.
There are TWO issues here, and I fear that one of them is being overshadowed by the other. It is not at all clear that they are unequal in magnitude, at least from the point of view of a HP shareholder, or even a board member.
One of the members of the board was leaking company information, and in a way that exposes HP to punitive action by the SEC.
Leaking a company's moral wrongdoings (whistleblowing) is one thing -- a valuable service to all stakeholders, but leaks that expose corporate strategy to competitors prematurely, are used to manipulate stock prices for personal gain, or expose the company to legal action because of potential for the former are no virtue.
Frankly, unless the leaking involves whistleblowing, I think that companies should have some legal recourse against the journalists to help them find the leaks. The existance of which would've prevented the need for the phone-record mining.
I'm not saying we should reduce condemnation of what amounts to identy theft, but we should step up the condemnation on what amounts to stock manipulation.