God has got to be the most flimsy belief that has come about since the idea that gods caused volcanos. (how else could such massive forces erupt from the earth?). It's like inventing truth for the sake of making the world make sense to youi or your paradigm.
Religion is a bunch of bull crap invented to make people feel better about not understanding the universe and the laws that govern it.
Point: Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean there isn't a shred of truth in it. Dark matter is a POSSIBLE explanation to the differences that we see between what we understand and observe, but is not the only explanation.
Are you kidding? They are slated to be moved from service once they have replacements, and if they had been destroyed, they would not have been rebuilt. Instead, the money would have gone to accelerating the projects to replace it, and would have been a politically acceptable end to the program that has been a dismal failure to it's original goals (cheap reuseable spacecraft, remember!). For the future of the space program, it may have been better if they had been destroyed so we can get on with the real future.
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Many non-credit cards provide cards that access "savings" accounts that you can't use at many mercants, and charge to use as well. It's only the "checking" accounts that most debit card accepting merchants can process as if you provided a check, but any debit card accounts bypass the fraud protection that US law provides for credit cards. Notice how so many cards advertise "fraud" protection if you pay a little more? Know who it's protecting? Them. Why? Because US law prevents consumers from eating more than $50 bucks from fraudulent use of "credit" cards. Debit cards are a different thing. Didn't know that? They do. If a non-named user of one of your accounts uses a debit card, they don't owe anything, even if it is authorized. Not so for credit cards. Merchants love debit cards, best of all possible worlds.
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I've had the luck to be in a situation where I can't get credit. In that time I found a) It was nearly impossible to live and b) there are a lot of people in the same situation. Anybody without credit is taken advantage of to the fullest, as you end up paying a LOT not to have credit. Moving to a cashless society will make the poor even poorer as those that can't afford credit will not be able to do much, from renting cars to having cell phones, etc. I'm working myself out of my hole, but it has shown me how hard it will be for society to move to a completely cashless society.
I described just such a system at some point on slashdot. In particular, each person should get a receipt of the votes they placed in plaintext, and a barcoded version minus a direct link to the person in question kept by the voting officials. These receipts can be provided by anybody to verify their vote was tabulated correctly, and provided by them at their option for exit poll tabulation and watchdog monitoring. With such a system, you could bring your vote sheet you printed up at home to a voting location, they give you a receipt, and you walk away. Faster, easier, and more private, with accountability. I like it.
I figured this out a long time ago when messing with PRI's when I ran an ISP. There is also the ability to process things on the called-number, which is also passed on to the receiver. This is useful if you have a large number of lines in a hunt-group, with several phone numbers. It could allow you to, for example, use a different radius server for authentication and billing if you wanted to. The key though is that there are a LOT of things that can be forged once you get a PRI, but anybody can purchase one for their own use, if they just have the cash.
more precision will only help in games if at the same time it has a higher sample rate. From what I recall, one of the problems with PS2 interfaces is the sample rate. USB interfaces may provide a better sample rate, but I haven't seen any info on this.
You forget. People would pay to be able to see the event. Setup some observation bunkers, and you can make money to offset the damage, and have a blast of a party doing it too!
I think the slashdot crowd is high on IBM right now, and IBM == big public corporation. Actions speak louder then words, and IBM has been speaking through actions. Google has too, and if they continue to do so as a public company, then they will still be considered a good company.
Hate to tell ya this, but if you read up on this, they has announced that they MAY do this, it was stated as an option, and everybody ignored it. They couldn't do something that wasn't revealed, so they revealed choices and left it to the investors to decide. That they let the little man in when they knew that the mechanism beforhand was almost guaranteed to cause a pop is simply them trying to "do no evil", i.e. don't screw the little guys that want a piece of the action, but don't give all the money to the big money investors either. It seems that in the end, their actions justified what they did.
I try not to abuse the bandwidth, and nearly everything I do is done over secure connections, so feel free to sniff away! I wonder if there is any implied "service provider" provisions that make sniffing the data over a shared (but not explicitly given away) access point considered wire tapping, and thus making the capturing of such packets illegal.
In my the middle of Silicon Valley, I can see from my apartment complex about a dozen access points at once, and I can probably 95% of the time access the Internet through at least one. I've given up even paying for Internet access, cause I've always got it anyway. People just plug in their AP's turn them on, and if it works, thats the last time they touch it.
http://www.akingump.com/docs/publication/412.pdf Only in very particular situations are non-compete clauses applicable in CA, and given that the employee worked for Seagate for 17 years, he may not have even signed one when he joined the company.
Let's rule out bonding, as they are talking about going to different locations on the network. Bonding works well on two links between two routers, not for redundancy at the level being discussed. Let's also rule out static routes, as a static route will remain in place as long as the ISP side of the connection thinks the link is up. If you have a connection but for some reason can't pass traffic (it happens) then a static route won't work. BGP allows the routes to be injected in at two different points in the network, AND it can detect if the link is up but not passing traffic properly. It is as a general rule the easiest protocol to setup that guarantees to a much higher level of confidence that traffic will flow properly.
If they have their own IP space, it would make sense. In addition, any configuration with more than one link to their provider will make use of BGP to allow the network routes to adjust properly if one went down. Most providers prefer this due to the simplicity in setting up filters for the advertised routes into their networks. I would honestly question a dual T1 setup that didn't make use of BGP, as in most cases, there is a single point of failure if it isn't used.
I used to work as a network engineer for an unnamed company, and we had a redundant set of connections connecting Seattle with Chichago, and to San Jose, then from San Jose to LA, down to somewhere in Texas, and up to Virginia, up to NYC, then back to Chicago. There was a backhaul incident in Texas, and the Chicago to Seattle connection went down AND the Texas to LA went down. Go figure.
It is well known that even if at any given time you are making use of different sonet rings, circuits get shifted around based on demand, and you could end up being rerouted onto the same circuits without any notice. They only way to know is to wait till a problem occurs, and see if it impacts more than one connection.
I work for a vendor that typically analyzes the core dumps on our systems when they happen, and provide fixes for whatever caused them. It isn't just in the VMS world that this happens, but in the case of Windows, there is so much hardware and software crap that it generally isn't worth doing. Only on controled hardware and reliable OS platforms where there is reasonable control that this generally provides value to do on a regular basis.
I would agree. This doesn't look like a packing job I would expect for an expensive server. Looks more like something I would get from my parents on my birthday, only with less packing tape to hold it together.
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God has got to be the most flimsy belief that has come about since the idea that gods caused volcanos. (how else could such massive forces erupt from the earth?). It's like inventing truth for the sake of making the world make sense to youi or your paradigm.
Religion is a bunch of bull crap invented to make people feel better about not understanding the universe and the laws that govern it.
Point: Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean there isn't a shred of truth in it. Dark matter is a POSSIBLE explanation to the differences that we see between what we understand and observe, but is not the only explanation.
Are you kidding? They are slated to be moved from service once they have replacements, and if they had been destroyed, they would not have been rebuilt. Instead, the money would have gone to accelerating the projects to replace it, and would have been a politically acceptable end to the program that has been a dismal failure to it's original goals (cheap reuseable spacecraft, remember!). For the future of the space program, it may have been better if they had been destroyed so we can get on with the real future.
Many non-credit cards provide cards that access "savings" accounts that you can't use at many mercants, and charge to use as well. It's only the "checking" accounts that most debit card accepting merchants can process as if you provided a check, but any debit card accounts bypass the fraud protection that US law provides for credit cards. Notice how so many cards advertise "fraud" protection if you pay a little more? Know who it's protecting? Them. Why? Because US law prevents consumers from eating more than $50 bucks from fraudulent use of "credit" cards. Debit cards are a different thing. Didn't know that? They do. If a non-named user of one of your accounts uses a debit card, they don't owe anything, even if it is authorized. Not so for credit cards. Merchants love debit cards, best of all possible worlds.
I've had the luck to be in a situation where I can't get credit. In that time I found a) It was nearly impossible to live and b) there are a lot of people in the same situation. Anybody without credit is taken advantage of to the fullest, as you end up paying a LOT not to have credit. Moving to a cashless society will make the poor even poorer as those that can't afford credit will not be able to do much, from renting cars to having cell phones, etc. I'm working myself out of my hole, but it has shown me how hard it will be for society to move to a completely cashless society.
I described just such a system at some point on slashdot. In particular, each person should get a receipt of the votes they placed in plaintext, and a barcoded version minus a direct link to the person in question kept by the voting officials. These receipts can be provided by anybody to verify their vote was tabulated correctly, and provided by them at their option for exit poll tabulation and watchdog monitoring. With such a system, you could bring your vote sheet you printed up at home to a voting location, they give you a receipt, and you walk away. Faster, easier, and more private, with accountability. I like it.
I figured this out a long time ago when messing with PRI's when I ran an ISP. There is also the ability to process things on the called-number, which is also passed on to the receiver. This is useful if you have a large number of lines in a hunt-group, with several phone numbers. It could allow you to, for example, use a different radius server for authentication and billing if you wanted to. The key though is that there are a LOT of things that can be forged once you get a PRI, but anybody can purchase one for their own use, if they just have the cash.
more precision will only help in games if at the same time it has a higher sample rate. From what I recall, one of the problems with PS2 interfaces is the sample rate. USB interfaces may provide a better sample rate, but I haven't seen any info on this.
This brought a smile to my face. Just thinking of chucking a cellphone like a grenade does that. I don't know why...
But if they looked at it they could have gone blind. Seriously, I've seen some messed up code, but deaf?
You forget. People would pay to be able to see the event. Setup some observation bunkers, and you can make money to offset the damage, and have a blast of a party doing it too!
I think the slashdot crowd is high on IBM right now, and IBM == big public corporation. Actions speak louder then words, and IBM has been speaking through actions. Google has too, and if they continue to do so as a public company, then they will still be considered a good company.
Hate to tell ya this, but if you read up on this, they has announced that they MAY do this, it was stated as an option, and everybody ignored it. They couldn't do something that wasn't revealed, so they revealed choices and left it to the investors to decide. That they let the little man in when they knew that the mechanism beforhand was almost guaranteed to cause a pop is simply them trying to "do no evil", i.e. don't screw the little guys that want a piece of the action, but don't give all the money to the big money investors either. It seems that in the end, their actions justified what they did.
I try not to abuse the bandwidth, and nearly everything I do is done over secure connections, so feel free to sniff away! I wonder if there is any implied "service provider" provisions that make sniffing the data over a shared (but not explicitly given away) access point considered wire tapping, and thus making the capturing of such packets illegal.
In my the middle of Silicon Valley, I can see from my apartment complex about a dozen access points at once, and I can probably 95% of the time access the Internet through at least one. I've given up even paying for Internet access, cause I've always got it anyway. People just plug in their AP's turn them on, and if it works, thats the last time they touch it.
Nice post, I think you made a lot of valid points, but none of them have ANY relevance to the article in question. Not sure why? RTFA.
http://www.akingump.com/docs/publication/412.pdf
Only in very particular situations are non-compete clauses applicable in CA, and given that the employee worked for Seagate for 17 years, he may not have even signed one when he joined the company.
New exclusion from life insurance policies is also on the way if this happens.
Getting divorced and broke? Only reason I have time for an MMORPG...
How much of the 32K messages were spam? If he registered that e-mail address, I would guess most of it.
Let's rule out bonding, as they are talking about going to different locations on the network. Bonding works well on two links between two routers, not for redundancy at the level being discussed. Let's also rule out static routes, as a static route will remain in place as long as the ISP side of the connection thinks the link is up. If you have a connection but for some reason can't pass traffic (it happens) then a static route won't work. BGP allows the routes to be injected in at two different points in the network, AND it can detect if the link is up but not passing traffic properly. It is as a general rule the easiest protocol to setup that guarantees to a much higher level of confidence that traffic will flow properly.
If they have their own IP space, it would make sense. In addition, any configuration with more than one link to their provider will make use of BGP to allow the network routes to adjust properly if one went down. Most providers prefer this due to the simplicity in setting up filters for the advertised routes into their networks. I would honestly question a dual T1 setup that didn't make use of BGP, as in most cases, there is a single point of failure if it isn't used.
I used to work as a network engineer for an unnamed company, and we had a redundant set of connections connecting Seattle with Chichago, and to San Jose, then from San Jose to LA, down to somewhere in Texas, and up to Virginia, up to NYC, then back to Chicago. There was a backhaul incident in Texas, and the Chicago to Seattle connection went down AND the Texas to LA went down. Go figure.
It is well known that even if at any given time you are making use of different sonet rings, circuits get shifted around based on demand, and you could end up being rerouted onto the same circuits without any notice. They only way to know is to wait till a problem occurs, and see if it impacts more than one connection.
I work for a vendor that typically analyzes the core dumps on our systems when they happen, and provide fixes for whatever caused them. It isn't just in the VMS world that this happens, but in the case of Windows, there is so much hardware and software crap that it generally isn't worth doing. Only on controled hardware and reliable OS platforms where there is reasonable control that this generally provides value to do on a regular basis.
I would agree. This doesn't look like a packing job I would expect for an expensive server. Looks more like something I would get from my parents on my birthday, only with less packing tape to hold it together.
Dude, you shipped a package via UPS in a Fedex box? No wonder it was slammed. Think about it!