I just read those two lines under that nice picture.
Some analysts say the half-dozen missiles showcased at the military parade were fakes.
So the ones they showed in a parade are fakes. Now how smart do you have to be to decide to use fakes in a parade? I mean, you have maybe only two of them working, maybe only one, or maybe even six in good condition. Why take the risk that something happens while showing them off? Showing them in a parade means they are not ready to use if the US or the South attacks. (How unlikely this might be to us, they have a different perspective.) The decoys might be empty ones that will be used later. That each of them has differences only shows that they are working on them.
You already can make assassination weapons from schematics from Internet - if you have skills and good understanding of physics involved.
This is why 3D printed guns are a game changer: the average Joe Blow can get himself a gun without needing any sort of gunsmithing skills.
Another game changer: you can melt them when the crime is done. No hassles with getting rid of the gun, just melt it. Traces on bullets won't have any value then.
Opstelten has had some help of Robert Mickelson, a notorious child porn producer and child rapist, who used truecrypt. His crimes caused a lot of sheeple to switch sides.
It's not his case that caused them to switch sides. It's the way the prosecutor uses this to support his case, it's the way certain (typically conservative) media use it to feed the fear and confirmation that their customers want, and politicians go along with this trend to not loose the support of their voters.
Wrong audience! I propose beer, and free of course. We're all for free, so why not beer! It can be a great powersource if those google people would put some effort in it, and if not, it will prove that google is on the right way with that other vehicle.
Is the "harm" caused to Firefox's reputation worth any punitive damages? They don't sell Firefox and can't really claim loss of revenue. Maybe they can claim loss of donations to Mozilla?
Less downloads is less sponsoring from Google. But what does revenue have to do with this? Is this capitalistic brain washing that instructs you that you cannot do anything unless money is involved?
It is a model I expect more small businesses, legitimate and otherwise, to do more often. It's the only reasonable reaction to a corrupted government... let alone over a hundred of them, all corrupted to varying degrees.
Corruption or coercion? Many countries simply can't afford to ignore the "wishes" of the US (or China or Russia).
If I had the money to spend, sure thing. Any geek would.
Problem is... I don't have the money to spend. Not even if I sell my house. And I suspect most geeks don't either. The question is, to be a bit blunt, rather stupid.
What if you would get $200k tax free like in a lottery plus the opportunity to book a ticket now?! I would travel around the world first or pay my mortgage. However if I would have $2m to spend, that's another case. So even if I have the money, it totally depends on the amount that's left afterwards.
Because Microsoft requires certified Windows 8 hardware to be shipped with secure boot feature enabled by default, Intel might be interested in designing a computer that isn't purpose built for Microsoft to control.
Intel might be building a computer that gives other operating systems a test bed to innovate and create something new. A multifunction laptop/tablet that can run Android, Chrome, Linux, or Firefox OS as the user desires.
One can even imagine a computer which runs these different systems at the same time. Run Firefox OS for browsing, run Linux for Office, run Chrome for banking. You may think why that would be useful, but it might be for security (use only Chrome for banking) and other uses might pop up unexpectedly.
Unity has many haters, but from the latest LTS release on, it is actually pretty good.
I switched to Xubuntu for the time being but am willing to give it a second try. I only have one question: Does Unity by now have a menu of all applications reachable with one click or mouse hover?
Install the ClassicMenu app. It installs an icon in system tray. So the location is different, it works mostly the same. It works for me. I switched to 12.04 LTS, after hanging on to 11.04 for as long as possible, and I'm glad I changed. It's not as smooth as OSX, if I had the choice I would still use Gnome 2, but this is good enough and all the Unity bashing is a lot of BS in my opinion.
The concept of searching for applications by a name (that you must remember) is inherently flawed and was discarded with the invention of the desktop and folders in the early 80s. If that has been fixed I'm happy to give Ubuntu another try. (The application "dock" is also pretty annoying, especially since it only seems to pop up every second time I try, but I assume it is easier to customize by now.)
I agree. This is really bad and I can't understand that they haven't fixed this yet.
Replacing one database named after one of the author's daughters, with a database named after another of the author's daughters. Seems pretty consistent to me.
Well I guess we are talking about the fifth generation of Maria's then. They certainly know how to procreate!
So an organization who asks for donations, waste their money changing Database systems for the sole purpose that they didn't like the company that bought the old one, although they didn't show any signs that they are going to damage the product or make it worse for them in any ways? Sounds like a wast of donated money to me.
For our most common query type, 95th percentile times over an 8-hour period dropped from 56ms to 43ms and the average from 15.4ms to 12.7ms. 50th percentile times remained a bit better with the 5.1-facebook build over the sample period, 0.185ms vs. 0.194ms. Many query types were 4-15% faster with MariaDB 5.5.30 under production load, a few were 5% slower, and nothing appeared aberrant beyond those bounds.
Better performance on such a heavy traffic site is neither a waste of time nor money!;-)
We take in arsenic daily in very small amounts. We all know arsenic is very toxic. So someone thought up this experiment and created an arsenic-free environment. It turned out that caused more illness than usual, so arsenic in small amounts helps us somehow to stay healthier. Source is the book "Wat is nu gezond" (What is healthy) by Martijn Katan, professor in Health Sciences.
Except for power and space. Sorry, but I want something that I can tuck away on the wall or on top of a shelf, and the average older computer isn't very suitable for that.
Even a mini-ITX build is still using more power than I'd prefer.
How about a Raspberry Pi like device with two ethernet ports and FreeBSD on it?
Somehow this is Tim Cook's fault. Steve Jobs would never have let it happen. Also it proves the inherent superiority of Android over the iPhone. I just haven't quite figured out how yet. I'm sure somebody will, though.
i still can't figure out the point in spending $1500 on a pair
- stylish accoutrement while riding your Segway - Create instant envy while in Starbucks with your iMac - Hands-free brutalization while recording cops brutalizing you - hilarious Google Glass Fail videos for the rest of us to enjoy
Who the hell hauls an iMac into a Starbucks and plops it down on a table to use right then and there?
Just wait for the video -> point four in his list!
Something's really weird going on with this whole mess. Given redundancies and failover capacity, I'm having a hard time believing that simple load caused failures that blocked cellular transmissions, especially as the failure occurred pretty much right after the blast, and not enough awareness would have been out there to cause the level of traffic needed to bring down the cell system soon enough to have had any effects in blocking cellular-detonated explosives.
Given the fact that a simple new year can bring down a network (in the sense that most people cannot make calls for half an hour), this doesn't surprise me.
Boston slashdotter, here (as if that mattered). Anyway, wouldn't it be as effective to just disallow inbound calls/sms/etc? Allow people to make outgoing calls to call friends and family and all, but don't allow phones to receive calls.
Only allow sms, no calls. Notify everybody by a broadcast sms.
And I don't think there is an engineering solution for it. It's a race condition... there will always be a bigger event that needs more capacity and you end up with a huge, costly network no one can afford to use and, even if everyone could afford it, would be have massive capacity.
I think you wall off some capacity for emergency users (911, police, first responders) and do your best with the rest.
One solution would be to allow text/sms only. The phone keeps trying till it has delivered the message, it's small in size. You could even send all users a broadcast sms to let them know that.
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I just read those two lines under that nice picture.
Some analysts say the half-dozen missiles showcased at the military parade were fakes.
So the ones they showed in a parade are fakes. Now how smart do you have to be to decide to use fakes in a parade? I mean, you have maybe only two of them working, maybe only one, or maybe even six in good condition. Why take the risk that something happens while showing them off? Showing them in a parade means they are not ready to use if the US or the South attacks. (How unlikely this might be to us, they have a different perspective.) The decoys might be empty ones that will be used later. That each of them has differences only shows that they are working on them.
I posit that the machine exists. Beat that!
1 bit, therefor I am.
You already can make assassination weapons from schematics from Internet - if you have skills and good understanding of physics involved.
This is why 3D printed guns are a game changer: the average Joe Blow can get himself a gun without needing any sort of gunsmithing skills.
Another game changer: you can melt them when the crime is done. No hassles with getting rid of the gun, just melt it. Traces on bullets won't have any value then.
I believe that angle is called "parallel". As in, parallel to the slot in the ZipDrive.
As opposed to serial, where it eats like the cookie monster!
Opstelten has had some help of Robert Mickelson, a notorious child porn producer and child rapist, who used truecrypt. His crimes caused a lot of sheeple to switch sides.
It's not his case that caused them to switch sides. It's the way the prosecutor uses this to support his case, it's the way certain (typically conservative) media use it to feed the fear and confirmation that their customers want, and politicians go along with this trend to not loose the support of their voters.
Batteries.
Wrong audience! I propose beer, and free of course. We're all for free, so why not beer! It can be a great powersource if those google people would put some effort in it, and if not, it will prove that google is on the right way with that other vehicle.
Is the "harm" caused to Firefox's reputation worth any punitive damages? They don't sell Firefox and can't really claim loss of revenue. Maybe they can claim loss of donations to Mozilla?
Less downloads is less sponsoring from Google. But what does revenue have to do with this? Is this capitalistic brain washing that instructs you that you cannot do anything unless money is involved?
It is a model I expect more small businesses, legitimate and otherwise, to do more often. It's the only reasonable reaction to a corrupted government... let alone over a hundred of them, all corrupted to varying degrees.
Corruption or coercion? Many countries simply can't afford to ignore the "wishes" of the US (or China or Russia).
If I had the money to spend, sure thing. Any geek would.
Problem is ... I don't have the money to spend. Not even if I sell my house. And I suspect most geeks don't either. The question is, to be a bit blunt, rather stupid.
What if you would get $200k tax free like in a lottery plus the opportunity to book a ticket now?! I would travel around the world first or pay my mortgage. However if I would have $2m to spend, that's another case. So even if I have the money, it totally depends on the amount that's left afterwards.
Because Microsoft requires certified Windows 8 hardware to be shipped with secure boot feature enabled by default, Intel might be interested in designing a computer that isn't purpose built for Microsoft to control.
Intel might be building a computer that gives other operating systems a test bed to innovate and create something new. A multifunction laptop/tablet that can run Android, Chrome, Linux, or Firefox OS as the user desires.
One can even imagine a computer which runs these different systems at the same time. Run Firefox OS for browsing, run Linux for Office, run Chrome for banking. You may think why that would be useful, but it might be for security (use only Chrome for banking) and other uses might pop up unexpectedly.
Unity has many haters, but from the latest LTS release on, it is actually pretty good.
I switched to Xubuntu for the time being but am willing to give it a second try. I only have one question: Does Unity by now have a menu of all applications reachable with one click or mouse hover?
Install the ClassicMenu app. It installs an icon in system tray. So the location is different, it works mostly the same. It works for me. I switched to 12.04 LTS, after hanging on to 11.04 for as long as possible, and I'm glad I changed. It's not as smooth as OSX, if I had the choice I would still use Gnome 2, but this is good enough and all the Unity bashing is a lot of BS in my opinion.
The concept of searching for applications by a name (that you must remember) is inherently flawed and was discarded with the invention of the desktop and folders in the early 80s. If that has been fixed I'm happy to give Ubuntu another try. (The application "dock" is also pretty annoying, especially since it only seems to pop up every second time I try, but I assume it is easier to customize by now.)
I agree. This is really bad and I can't understand that they haven't fixed this yet.
5 days later: But you promised!!! Now I'm on the hook for a demo to the VP of International Sales and Marketing!!!
Powerpoint! Those bastards don't know the difference. Just show some slides...
Replacing one database named after one of the author's daughters, with a database named after another of the author's daughters. Seems pretty consistent to me.
Well I guess we are talking about the fifth generation of Maria's then. They certainly know how to procreate!
Is slashdot next?!?!?!
Slashdot needs MariaMagdalenaDB for all those wankers here!
So an organization who asks for donations, waste their money changing Database systems for the sole purpose that they didn't like the company that bought the old one, although they didn't show any signs that they are going to damage the product or make it worse for them in any ways? Sounds like a wast of donated money to me.
So you didn't RTFA???
For our most common query type, 95th percentile times over an 8-hour period dropped from 56ms to 43ms and the average from 15.4ms to 12.7ms. 50th percentile times remained a bit better with the 5.1-facebook build over the sample period, 0.185ms vs. 0.194ms. Many query types were 4-15% faster with MariaDB 5.5.30 under production load, a few were 5% slower, and nothing appeared aberrant beyond those bounds.
Better performance on such a heavy traffic site is neither a waste of time nor money! ;-)
Who the fuck cares about facial recognition, I say arm the citizens and save money and time.
Go to Somalia and find out how good that works out.
The dashboard is not actually in real-time, but carries a 2.5 hour delay.
That's it! I want my money back!!!
We take in arsenic daily in very small amounts. We all know arsenic is very toxic. So someone thought up this experiment and created an arsenic-free environment. It turned out that caused more illness than usual, so arsenic in small amounts helps us somehow to stay healthier. Source is the book "Wat is nu gezond" (What is healthy) by Martijn Katan, professor in Health Sciences.
Except for power and space. Sorry, but I want something that I can tuck away on the wall or on top of a shelf, and the average older computer isn't very suitable for that.
Even a mini-ITX build is still using more power than I'd prefer.
How about a Raspberry Pi like device with two ethernet ports and FreeBSD on it?
Somehow this is Tim Cook's fault. Steve Jobs would never have let it happen. Also it proves the inherent superiority of Android over the iPhone. I just haven't quite figured out how yet. I'm sure somebody will, though.
In short: he needs a jailbreak!
Protip: Your eyeballs are just fancy radiation detectors. Worried? Keep them closed.
And covered with tinfoil
I thought only cool people do that. And maybe drug dealers.
i still can't figure out the point in spending $1500 on a pair
- stylish accoutrement while riding your Segway
- Create instant envy while in Starbucks with your iMac
- Hands-free brutalization while recording cops brutalizing you
- hilarious Google Glass Fail videos for the rest of us to enjoy
Who the hell hauls an iMac into a Starbucks and plops it down on a table to use right then and there?
Just wait for the video -> point four in his list!
Something's really weird going on with this whole mess. Given redundancies and failover capacity, I'm having a hard time believing that simple load caused failures that blocked cellular transmissions, especially as the failure occurred pretty much right after the blast, and not enough awareness would have been out there to cause the level of traffic needed to bring down the cell system soon enough to have had any effects in blocking cellular-detonated explosives.
Given the fact that a simple new year can bring down a network (in the sense that most people cannot make calls for half an hour), this doesn't surprise me.
Boston slashdotter, here (as if that mattered). Anyway, wouldn't it be as effective to just disallow inbound calls/sms/etc? Allow people to make outgoing calls to call friends and family and all, but don't allow phones to receive calls.
Only allow sms, no calls. Notify everybody by a broadcast sms.
And I don't think there is an engineering solution for it. It's a race condition... there will always be a bigger event that needs more capacity and you end up with a huge, costly network no one can afford to use and, even if everyone could afford it, would be have massive capacity.
I think you wall off some capacity for emergency users (911, police, first responders) and do your best with the rest.
One solution would be to allow text/sms only. The phone keeps trying till it has delivered the message, it's small in size. You could even send all users a broadcast sms to let them know that.