Let me start off by saying my parents' house was among that was a total loss in Witch Creek Fire.
Yes, you're being a giant asshole. These houses have not seen anything remotely approaching a forest fire of this scale in the 20+ years my family has been living in the area. This isn't some remote location, it's one of the largest suburbs of San Diego. It's not like there have been "little fires" that have been put out -- forestry services routinely let entire hillsides to burn when the cause of fire has been natural, with great disregard to property values.
If you look at the satellite photos of 92128 zip code, you'll see that the burned areas are not forests, but full-blown suburbs.
Isn't the whole point of having a hash is that it's useless even if stolen? And who uses DES for production server hashes these days, anyways?
You have to know why they're "useless" to understand this vector of attack. The hashes are relatively useless because it's very difficult to recreate the matching passwords. Now, that doesn't mean they will be immune to brute-force attacks -- if they try every possible combination of letters, they'll eventually retrieve your passphrase.
What this article is claiming is, by using the GPU as well as the CPU, it's suddenly much faster to calculate a hash from a test passphrase.
Perhaps not social security, but the following are the hidden drains in the economy:
1. Emergency Services: the 911 dispatcher will not ask whether you're legal or not before dispatching an ambulance or a fire truck. These services are paid for by local tax dollars, which an illegal immigrant does not contribute to. 2. Hospital Emergency Rooms: they are often required to treat everyone, regardless of their abilities to pay. Because illegal immigrants, like many others, often cannot pay for medical care until it's very serious, their ailments often are far worse than it would've been had they received care earlier in their disease/injury cycle. These costs must be offset by greater prices charged to those who can pay. Largest pool of these will be ones who can afford health insurance. 3. Unlicensed and uninsured motorists: because they lack proper documentation, the illegal immigrants cannot obtain driver's licenses and automobile insurances. Dealing with incidents also place a hidden drain, in the shape of higher car insurance rates.
They're not allowed to spend more than some tiny percentage of GNP on defence, either.
That cap has nothing to do with laws and everything to do with legislative policies. The expenditures, as a percentage of GNP, has been creeping up higher and higher.
> The Japan of today is not the Japan of the 1930s, and even if it were, it simply is no longer in any position to do much about it.
Culture barely changes a very tiny little every HUNDRED years.
Wait, what? You now see the results of peace-indoctrinating education given in the past half-century, and right-wing people who cry for rearmament is now seen as crackpots.
I will maintain that education is the best and most effective brainwashing system known.
I have too -- I've started with the 600E, I skipped the T20, but had a T40 and I'm now typing this on my employer's T60p. I'm not quite sure I like the T60 design -- it feels cheaper than my T40 did in many respects.
Thank you for the usage report on the HP, though. I was wondering what I should get for myself.
I use Thinkpads. However, one of my major clients have switched to HPs (from Dells), and ones they have seem quite nice. I'm not sure what model range, though.
Offtopic Prediction: 10 years from now, the USD will have fallen dramatically because commodities have begun to transfer from being traded in USD to either the Euro or the Yuan
Not while the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade, about to merge into one super-commodities exchange, as well as NYMEX and NYBOT, remain among the premier commodities exchanges in the world, and we're not even looking at Futures and Options being traded at the likes of Chicago Board Options Exchange (as well as F&O trading that happens at CME and CBOT). We're also forgetting that NYSE bought Euronext (and thus London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange).
Long story short, I wouldn't worry too much about this if I were you.
Yes, I capitalised both my quantities (g and m) in an attempt to make it a bit more readable. It obviously failed.
No, you made it wrong:P. As you most likely know, G stands for Gravitational Constant, while 1g is defined as the amount of gravitational acceleration at sea level on Earth.
The real crux is.. WHAT is uptime worth... it varies from company to company.. for google and microsoft the number is amazing.. for billsmitherspersonalwebpage downtime might be less noticed.
It all depends on what these systems are doing, too. My clients have trading apps whose downtime is a measurable quantity. Simply put, if their clients cannot trade, everyone loses money.
However, how much does their corporate website being down cost? email servers? Access control? Those are less quantifiable.
Who do you think invented the microchip? Gallium and arsenic are available from domestic sources as well.
And the rare elements now used come from domestic or foreign sources?
I challenge you to find an item we need from abroad, that has NO domestic production and NO potential for domestic production and NO alternative technology.
Diamonds. There is no industrial production of diamonds in this country. Of course, I won't say there are NO alternative technologies -- narrowly defining the scope of this issue creates a straw-man argument. Are there domestic sources? Sure. Are they economically feasible to obtain? That's the question that needs to be asked.
I don't see any reason why we can't just sink the Chinese ships trying to cross our borders, and make the plasma screens here.
Very simple. To make those plasma screens, you'll have to import rare earth elements from abroad. Those computers you're using to opine on to slashdot? They require rare earth elements too.
How do you propose to buy items this country requires from abroad if there is no international wealth created by being competitive internationally?
I'm hanging my reply here, even though the crux of my argument was already placed here as a reply to another comment.
I'm well aware that the K6 was created to compete with the P3, and did so quite well. Where you to reread my original comment, you'll note that the crux of my argument wasn't merely what was competing with what, but to illustrate both companies have been playing leapfrog for a greater part of the last decade. K6 competed with P3 and first portions of P4. K7 is competed with P4 and first year of Core 2. Both AMD processor families have done well against the Intel processors they were designed to compete with, but not as well against Intel's competition released afterwards.
What's interesting today isn't that AMD/Intel are playing leapfrog -- Intel is hoping their 45nm shrink is enough to combat AMD's Barcelona, to provide greater performance in each price segment.
Actually, the Am386 was released in 1991... The 40 mhz version (I had one) beat Intel 486DX 100mhz processors in almost every benchmark... And they were ahead from that point until the Core2 was released.
No they didn't. In addition to the Am386, the AMD K6s were inferiour to P4's, and there was a span of almost a year between P4's debut and K7's debut that Intel was running rings. Now, we're once again waiting over a year for AMD's answer to Intel's leapfrog.
The two firms have leapfrogged themselves, but only in recent memory. First, it was K6 owning the overall performance lead over the P3. P4 comes out, holds the performance crown until AMD answers with the K7. Intel's answer was the Core 2. Intel is looking at pre-countering with 45nm Core 2 before AMD can bring out the Barcelona. Their goal, of course, is to have an answer for Barcelona before it launches, thereby choking AMD's cash flow.
It's a ruthless world out there. Let's see how well AMD weathers this storm.
I'll add my praises to Sun's servers. Their x86 line rocks. Fact that it comes with 4 GigE cards on the board (HP's ones only come with 2) makes them invaluable to high-transaction trading environments where the machines are network-bound and not CPU or disk-bound.
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Let me start off by saying my parents' house was among that was a total loss in Witch Creek Fire.
Yes, you're being a giant asshole. These houses have not seen anything remotely approaching a forest fire of this scale in the 20+ years my family has been living in the area. This isn't some remote location, it's one of the largest suburbs of San Diego. It's not like there have been "little fires" that have been put out -- forestry services routinely let entire hillsides to burn when the cause of fire has been natural, with great disregard to property values.
If you look at the satellite photos of 92128 zip code, you'll see that the burned areas are not forests, but full-blown suburbs.
You have to know why they're "useless" to understand this vector of attack. The hashes are relatively useless because it's very difficult to recreate the matching passwords. Now, that doesn't mean they will be immune to brute-force attacks -- if they try every possible combination of letters, they'll eventually retrieve your passphrase.
What this article is claiming is, by using the GPU as well as the CPU, it's suddenly much faster to calculate a hash from a test passphrase.
Perhaps not social security, but the following are the hidden drains in the economy:
1. Emergency Services: the 911 dispatcher will not ask whether you're legal or not before dispatching an ambulance or a fire truck. These services are paid for by local tax dollars, which an illegal immigrant does not contribute to.
2. Hospital Emergency Rooms: they are often required to treat everyone, regardless of their abilities to pay. Because illegal immigrants, like many others, often cannot pay for medical care until it's very serious, their ailments often are far worse than it would've been had they received care earlier in their disease/injury cycle. These costs must be offset by greater prices charged to those who can pay. Largest pool of these will be ones who can afford health insurance.
3. Unlicensed and uninsured motorists: because they lack proper documentation, the illegal immigrants cannot obtain driver's licenses and automobile insurances. Dealing with incidents also place a hidden drain, in the shape of higher car insurance rates.
That cap has nothing to do with laws and everything to do with legislative policies. The expenditures, as a percentage of GNP, has been creeping up higher and higher.
Yes, but it's somewhere south of 2% of GNP.
Culture barely changes a very tiny little every HUNDRED years.
Wait, what? You now see the results of peace-indoctrinating education given in the past half-century, and right-wing people who cry for rearmament is now seen as crackpots.
I will maintain that education is the best and most effective brainwashing system known.
That's all right. Manhattan Island isn't served by FiOS either, except in new buildings.
It might have something to do with Navteq competitor Tele Atlas being acquired by TomTom back in July.
I have too -- I've started with the 600E, I skipped the T20, but had a T40 and I'm now typing this on my employer's T60p. I'm not quite sure I like the T60 design -- it feels cheaper than my T40 did in many respects.
Thank you for the usage report on the HP, though. I was wondering what I should get for myself.
I use Thinkpads. However, one of my major clients have switched to HPs (from Dells), and ones they have seem quite nice. I'm not sure what model range, though.
Yes, but with a top speed of 100km/h, it's not exactly high-speed.
Not while the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade, about to merge into one super-commodities exchange, as well as NYMEX and NYBOT, remain among the premier commodities exchanges in the world, and we're not even looking at Futures and Options being traded at the likes of Chicago Board Options Exchange (as well as F&O trading that happens at CME and CBOT). We're also forgetting that NYSE bought Euronext (and thus London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange).
Long story short, I wouldn't worry too much about this if I were you.
Unless the relative buying power of 1USD = 1MXN, that statement's meaningless without comparisons to previous exchange rates.
I dunno, a rapid ground sinkage due to number of factors?
No, you made it wrong :P. As you most likely know, G stands for Gravitational Constant, while 1g is defined as the amount of gravitational acceleration at sea level on Earth.
No they don't. Both the medallions and and drivers are licensed by the Taxi and Limousine Commission, but these are independent contractors.
It all depends on what these systems are doing, too. My clients have trading apps whose downtime is a measurable quantity. Simply put, if their clients cannot trade, everyone loses money.
However, how much does their corporate website being down cost? email servers? Access control? Those are less quantifiable.
And the rare elements now used come from domestic or foreign sources?
I challenge you to find an item we need from abroad, that has NO domestic production and NO potential for domestic production and NO alternative technology.Diamonds. There is no industrial production of diamonds in this country. Of course, I won't say there are NO alternative technologies -- narrowly defining the scope of this issue creates a straw-man argument. Are there domestic sources? Sure. Are they economically feasible to obtain? That's the question that needs to be asked.
Very simple. To make those plasma screens, you'll have to import rare earth elements from abroad. Those computers you're using to opine on to slashdot? They require rare earth elements too.
How do you propose to buy items this country requires from abroad if there is no international wealth created by being competitive internationally?
Looks like it, yeah. Thank you.
I'm hanging my reply here, even though the crux of my argument was already placed here as a reply to another comment.
I'm well aware that the K6 was created to compete with the P3, and did so quite well. Where you to reread my original comment, you'll note that the crux of my argument wasn't merely what was competing with what, but to illustrate both companies have been playing leapfrog for a greater part of the last decade. K6 competed with P3 and first portions of P4. K7 is competed with P4 and first year of Core 2. Both AMD processor families have done well against the Intel processors they were designed to compete with, but not as well against Intel's competition released afterwards.
What's interesting today isn't that AMD/Intel are playing leapfrog -- Intel is hoping their 45nm shrink is enough to combat AMD's Barcelona, to provide greater performance in each price segment.
No they didn't. In addition to the Am386, the AMD K6s were inferiour to P4's, and there was a span of almost a year between P4's debut and K7's debut that Intel was running rings. Now, we're once again waiting over a year for AMD's answer to Intel's leapfrog.
The two firms have leapfrogged themselves, but only in recent memory. First, it was K6 owning the overall performance lead over the P3. P4 comes out, holds the performance crown until AMD answers with the K7. Intel's answer was the Core 2. Intel is looking at pre-countering with 45nm Core 2 before AMD can bring out the Barcelona. Their goal, of course, is to have an answer for Barcelona before it launches, thereby choking AMD's cash flow.
It's a ruthless world out there. Let's see how well AMD weathers this storm.
pkgadd(1M) has been around for AGES.
I'll add my praises to Sun's servers. Their x86 line rocks. Fact that it comes with 4 GigE cards on the board (HP's ones only come with 2) makes them invaluable to high-transaction trading environments where the machines are network-bound and not CPU or disk-bound.
Experian's online credit report site. They're heavily advertised on sites like edmunds.com.