The problem is, how do you know whether the bank even uses that as a metric?
Institutions wouldn’t get this information straight from Facebook but would instead use one of the many smaller credit reporting agencies and if they make a negative decision based on this, they are required by the Fair Credit Reporting Act to disclose this to you. If that happens, the CRA is then required to provide you a copy of the report provided to the given company. They could try to lie and make up some other excuse but they wouldn’t get away with it many times before a pattern would emerge and they would open themselves up to huge lawsuits should they be caught doing it. It’s worth noting a lot of the smaller CRA’s have the same annual reporting requirements as do the big three and you can request a free report from them. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has a PDF that lists many of the smaller CRA’s and how you can contact them.
That said, I think that trying to plumb social networking information and deny credit is on par with redlining. It’s only started happening and I’ve heard of no legal challenges and I doubt the connections on any random social network can be completely separated from any of the factors that can’t be used to make credit decisions - race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, or age. IANAL, but it would seem just looking at it could greatly increase your risk for an ECOA lawsuit.
Which is why the second episode of Breaking Bad's final season was aired globally within a few hours of each other yesterday evening.
Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @03:11AM
ME: Having heart attack, frantically searches for second episode of final season to torrent since I must have missed it only to realize this is Slashdot, where editors can't be bothered with facts, such as the second episode won't air until Sunday, August 18th.
For an interesting take on why the telegraph led in part to the modern computer and how both work, read Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold. He argues all the ideas needed to build a modern computer were known around the time telegraph use took off, and he uses those ideas to describe logic gates and put them together into a working computer.
In short, the relay was invented in 1835 as a way to extend telegraph runs further without requiring operators. Morse code, as the primary way to communicate, happened to also be a binary code that mapped letters to the equivalent of ones and zeros, dots and dashes. In 1854, George Boole published “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought”. Petzold stops there and essentially uses only those ideas to build his modern computer. It wasn’t recognized formally by anyone until 1937 when Claude Shannon published “A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits”. Even Charles Babbage had known of Boole’s work and the telegraph but did not see how it could have been better used to build his Difference Engine.
24 June: A/B test on the English Wikipedia. VisualEditor is released by default to 50% of newly registered accounts.
1 July: Deployment of the VisualEditor to the English Wikipedia, available for all logged-in users.
8 July: Deployment of the VisualEditor to the English Wikipedia, available for anonymous and logged-in users.
15 July: Deployment of the VisualEditor to most large Wikipedia wikis, available for all users. Which wikis are in this list is still to be determined, but will definitely include Wikipedia in German, French and Italian.
29 July: Deployment of the VisualEditor to all other Wikipedia wikis, available for all users, minus a few wikis (such as the Chinese Wikipedia) where the VisualEditor does not yet work.
Also of interest from that FAQ is that the VisualEditor can be installed on any MediaWiki installation, including personal wikis. As a MediaWiki user at home, I've found it a cool way to journal and track a lot of personal projects but the limit to using it has always been remembering wiki markup. This will go a long way to eliminating that problem.
But you know what? It will never happen, because the gun banners DON"T CARE about addressing the base cause of violent crime, they just want to ban guns. Period.
You are being disingenuous. Both gun control and social welfare are most closely associated with liberals, not conservatives. Things that would help - equal access to education, social programs for at-risk youth, legalizing drugs, treatment instead of prison - where do you suppose they stand on those issues?
This tech was discussed there. It. was created by a guy in his garage using harvested mobile phone cameras and is already being tested in drones by Homeland Security. Per the show, the actual level of detail is classified but they did show an example where the were able to monitor dozens of city blocks at the same time grid style and then choose any point on the grid and zoom in hi-def and see full detail of people walking on the ground, all using a single lens array.
Anonymous coward is right. So far, the courts are pretty much saying that police have the right to use location data from electronic devices to track criminals without a warrant. In this case, police appear to be using the mobile tower as only a way to find the exact location of the suspect. Per the article, he was immobile which means the police would not have a precise fix on where he was without forcing his phone to switch communication to at least one other tower. So long as that's all the police did, the courts would probably have no problem with it.
It prevents people from seeking or discovering or creating actual solutions if they already believe God gave the perfect solution
If it doesn't work for you, find another solution. If it does work, then why bother ? No one has ever put up AA to be the cure.
to some philandering scam artist in the thirties.
Philandering ? Maybe. Scan artist... He was a stock market prior to the Great Depression but it's all about as relevant as the state of the nation was to Clinton getting a blowjob.
It's religion,
There are no priests, no compunction to believe in a god, no churches, no tax breaks, and no privileged conversation. How is that a religion ?
and by preventing actual progress, it actually kills people like one.
Can you cite one example where it stopped progress ? It's not a perfect solution but it's helped a great many people who would have died otherwise. That some still do while tragic, isn't a sensible reason to stop using it as the tool it is, any more than ignoring the possibilities this vaccine could have. It's easy to see though with this vaccine, it could lead to worse addictions (relatively speaking) as people compensate for the loss of alcohol by using harder drugs.
That is why I hate it. Yes. Hate. I hate what destroys society and drags us all down into ignorance. Is that not reason enough?
From Herbert Spencer: “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation”.
Alright, I'll bite and even post under my id since heck, you still don't have a clue who I am. It's obvious either yourself or someone you know was "forced" into AA and hatted it. Tha's fine. Some like me, do like it and I credit it with helping me to stay sober over 14 years.
Better an injection that lasts 6 months and can teach a person self control in the mean time than a sentence to a cult-like organization
I agree no one should be forced by the courts to attend AA, however, that's a problem with the court system itself. No one in AA is asking for it. Judges probably use it as an alternative to other measures because out of all the options, it's the one most readily available. The average American city has over a thousand meetings each week spread all over the calendar.
that convinces you that you're destined to die unless you attend their fruity little club until the end of your life
No, the general dogma is that you will die (sooner) from alcoholism if you don't quit drinking. Of course, no one can say what will happen to any one individual any more than one can say smoking will cause you to get cancer so many in AA prefer to say "jails, institutions or death" which is more to the point. At the very least, continued use very, very rarely has a positive outcome.
AA's success rate is no better than the spontaneous rate of remission (doing nothing at all)
No one has found a viable scientific way to determine the efficacy of AA. Some people never stay sober. Others do. Of those that do, many move on. Some decide they hate AA and find other ways to quit. More power to them. What AA does offer is a very large group of alcoholics who have remained sober for extended periods.
Yet it's worshiped as a solution because A: it's free and B: proselytization is part of the program.
A self help group for drunks tries to help drunks. That's the way it works. Proselytization suggests someone is trying to convert you to their belief with the particular idea that it's the one, true way. No one in AA will ever tell you that, at least the ones following the principles. The traditions state "we are a program of attraction, not promotion." In AA, we share our stories and anyone is free to pick and choose which parts if any they find useful and leave the rest behind. As far as the free part, you argue that ???
Popularity != quality. Fucking cancerous boil of a religion on the ass of science.
I get it. You hate AA. Like most haters, it's because of the "God" factor. No doubt your familiar "god of your own understanding" and "higher power" part and while Penn and Teller's rock and tree schtick is funny, most atheists, anti-theists, or agnostics choose Group Of Drunks. Religious people tend to choose whatever deity fits their religion. I went to AA because I was not able to quite on my own. People also hate the "powerless over alcohol" part but the previous self-truth pretty much defines that. AA offers the support of many other drunks who have overcome their addiction, all of whom at the point I went in had better ideas about how to stay sober than I did. Total self-reliance to quit would imply that I never so much as even considered any other ideas about quitting drinking let alone took any anabuse, naltrexone or this vaccine, should it become available. As you pointed out, I would have had to spontaneously quit on my own, something at the point I was at would not have happened.
Thank god for scientific solutions like this that can finally put the nail the the quackery coffin,
Like it or not, you can't deny their are people who stay sober using AA. It's never been offered up as a solution to the physical aspect of craving nor any of it's causes nor put forth as a medicine to cure drunks and as such can't be called quakery. It's obviously involves beliefs that you do not espouse, but th
I do agree that police need to be careful with DNA evidence and not use it as proof of guilt where it implies no such thing, but that does not seem to be the case here.
You can't even say that for sure here. I've played with a cigarette lighter before and the one thing I recall is I quickly rubbed my thumb raw. Needless to say, a lot of DNA came off in the process. If the girl did use the lighter after him, that could easily explain his DNA embedded in her fingers, but the fact it would have ended up on her fingers could explain it ending up a lot of other places too. Ever rub your eyes, blow your nose, scratch your crotch or wipe your... well, you get the idea. Who knows what the girl did with the lighter or what she did afterwards either.
Add to that, the guy is 44 years old and has never committed a crime nor even been a suspect until now. Granted, he was 31 when the crime occurred but he was quite old even for the type of behavior required to commit such a brutal crime to come to the surface. The fact nothing is known of him since would make it even more unusual.
The problem started with a complete lack of discipline. I had numerous systems over the years and never really thought I needed to bother with any tracking or control system to manage my home data. I kept way to many minor revisions of the same file, often forking them over different systems. As time past and rebuilt systems, I could no longer remember where all the critical stuff was so I'd create tar or zip archives over huge swaths of the file system just in case. I eventually decided to clean up like you are now when I had over 11 million files. I am down to less than half a million now. While I know there are still effective duplicates, at least the size is what I consider manageable. For the stuff from my past, I think this is all I can hope for; however, I've now learned the importance of organization, documentation and version control so I don't have this problem again in the future.
Before even starting to de-duplicate, I recommend organizing your files in a consistent folder structure. Download wikimedia and start a wiki documenting what you're doing with your systems. The more notes you make, the easier it will be to reconstruct work you've done as time passes. Do this for your other day to day work as well. Get git and start using it for all your code and scripts. Let git manage the history and set it up to automatically duplicate changes on at least one other backup system. Use rsync to do likewise on your new directory structure. Force yourself to stop making any change you consider worth keeping outside of these areas. If you take these steps, you'll likely not have this problem again, at least on the same scope. You'll also find it a heck of a lot easier to decommission or rebuild home systems and you won't have to worry about "saving" data if one of them craps out.
If all you want to do is cut the cord and don't want to waste time with too many technical details and have lots of money, buy a new television. Most come with DLNA servers built in and all the standalone library devices you may want to add can support it. They also support most of the major streaming providers like Netflix, Amazon, and Youtube. As well, most can do wireless and some even have DVR functionality built in for recording over the air broadcasts.
What is the point of document storage in a noSQL database? If you're not going to store docs in a RDBMS, why not just store them in a filesystem? What is the point of Mongo or whatever this stuff is?
They are JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) documents and you can query into fields of the object-document without the database having to read the whole "document" in the same way you can read rows based on some set of columns in an RDBMS. Given objects like { a = { b,c } } or just d = f you could read a.b where = c or just d where = f. It's multidimensional as opposed to the flat column format of an RDBMS. Unfortunately, their are no data types, constraints, foreign keys or triggers. Data integrity has to be done in programatically
Unless you're really dead set on DIY, I recommend the Xtreamer Ultra for $399, available on Amazon. From the blurb "Xtreamer ULTRA Mini-ITX SFF HTPC (1.8 GHZ Intel Atom Dual-Core D525, nVidia ION 2, 4GB DDR3, HDMI 1.4a) Includes Remote, Mini Wireless Keyboard w/ Trackpad, PLUS XBMC and Boxee Configured and Ready to Go!", so it's a full PC and a very small, nice and quiet one at that.
The Ultra comes without a hard drive, but it has a 2.5 bay where you can add an HDD or SSD. I did the former. It boots off a custom version of Ubuntu running an offshoot of Grub2 called Berg that gives you a nice graphical menu to choose among XBMC, Boxee, Linux, or any x86 OS you choose to install. Transferring the OS to a hard drive and adding more is easy. I added Fedora and Windows 7 for the heck of it and both run great. Even 1080p video over my gigabyte LAN runs perfectly.. They are now also offering the Ultra2, a souped up version with WiFi capability built in.
1) Ease of use. Connects easily into nearly any home AV setup.
2) A functional and useable control scheme.
3) Common Platform means games work out of the box.
The iPhone and iPad technically have the third advantage due to Apple's excessive control, while every other smart phone OS does not. A PC has the second advantage but not the rest. I wouldn't think either group of devices has a chance against the consoles unless they can offer all three, but even then a hidden advantage of a console is that it just sits there ready to go. I wouldn't want to un-dock my smart device only to lose it/drop it on the sidewalk and be out of business at home too. I suppose I could just buy one and leave it connected but guess what ? Then it's just a console.
Hollywood has finally realized they stand a better chance protecting their content, even if only for a short while, by getting rid of all physical media and going with electronic distribution only. Yes, nearly every DRM scheme will probably be hacked but that doesn't happen instantaneously and when it does, all they have to do is change to a new scheme. What surprises me is that Walmart is charging for this service. They are simply authorizing your account to view a movie based on whether you own the disc. They should give you the best available HD copy for free on the likely chance you will start to buy or rent other movies through them. More importantly, people would probably use the service because it's "free" and that would help the studios make the digital only transition.
I don't think anyone would disagree that the future lies in streaming, just whether or not Netflix is pulling the trigger to soon. There are a lot of big players against who they will have to compete should they choose to get more serious about the game - Amazon, Google, Apple, as well as the studios themselves to name a few. They also have unconventional competition from the ISP's who will continue to play the front as a direct competitor while trying to block the back with non-net neutral policies. As long as they paired DVD delivery with streaming, they had a stronger product they could use as leverage to keep the streaming option going. Now that they have effectively split them, it will be a lot easier for customers to drop them for the next big thing.
I get months on some rare files that are seeded by one or maybe two who appear to be effectively on dial up and are dropping off/coming back, the way they limit their upload speeds. No, it doesn't happen on most files, but it does happen.
Private trackers have a very low risk of "ISP crabs" and usually have screenshots and comments so you can see if the quality is good.
My experience is that only newer stuff is available at reasonable speeds. Most seeders stop seeding soon after their share ratio gets over one and that really hurts the longevity of less popular or older data. Nothing's worse than getting >90% of a a huge file only to have the last seeder with a full file drop off. Second, there's no such thing as a safe private tracker unless you're the only one who has access, along the same lines of the only way to keep a secret is not to tell anyone. Once you start adding people, even those you know well, the risk of a compromise goes up. If unknowns are ever added, then it's definitely not safe. That's compounded by the fact you need a reasonably sized population to get enough variety and seeders to make it worthwhile.
All that aside, I think the risk with bittorrent is too great now and getting worse. 100,000 users in the United States were sued last year and while most may get off, that's a large number compared to the number of people who actually use bittorrent in the U.S. . As money is made of these cases, you can expect that count and the number of lawyers participating to go up. Combined with the shame of being caught downloading porn, and I have no doubt you'll soon see some porn studios using shills to release their warez on the Net with the express purpose of suing those who download it.
( Meant as food for thought. I am not telling anyone what they should or shouldn't do).
For those that do use bittorrent for movies, why do you still do it ? The question isn't about the propriety but rather the risk. It takes a $1 to rent a movie from Redbox and about an hour to rip it on a Core i7. That's as opposed to 3 hour/day/months to download it from the Net and you could wind up getting a bad encode as well as a case of the lawyer - ISP crabs. Granted Redbox doesn't do porn, but places like SugarDVD do and you get to choose what you want.
If I understand it correctly though, Apple doesn't just want 30% off of your purchases made through something you downloaded in the app store: If you create an account through your app downloading in the app store, Apple wants to claim 30% of what that customer pays for, ever. Charging someone 30% more than the rest because he happened to sign up to your service originally though an Appstore app doesn't seem to make much sense from a retailer POV.
No, Apple wants any application based link to content for sale to go through their app store from which they get 30%. Users can still be inconvenienced to close the application, go to Safari, browse to the content providers web site and buy the content without Apple getting a cut. It's a needless PITA for a lot of users and very hard for some less technically savvy. I assume Apple's hope is that application developers will choose the former route, but in reality, the bigger names are just redirecting users to the second option. I would too were I Google or Amazon but ultimately it will only hurt the end user, some more than others.
As an alternative, in some ways even better than Netflix, Blockbusters is a viable choice for DVDs by mail, particularly if you have a store that is (still) close to you (despite the massive store closures).
Up until a month ago, I had a Blockbuster 3 at a time with in store exchange at the same time I carried a 3 at a time by mail with Netflix. Even though I turned discs around on the same day of receipt. I ended up getting more discs per month from Netflix. I'd say the amount of unusable discs I got from Blockbuster was about 1 in 3 where Netflix was 1 in 20. That cuts down the value a lot. Add to that, Blockbuster intentionally staggers disc receipt and shipments. In store returns do not clear immediately even though they no longer show in your queue. They have to be received by mail. This is the theory at least because the actual receipt date for 3 discs returned to store always stagger over 3 days. Then, they do the same with the new shipments. It seems they want to supply no more than 3 by mail and 3 by store every seven days. With Netflix, I get two shipments a week during a non-holiday week. When you factor in the broken discs, Blockbuster by mail can't compare to Netflix at all.
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The problem is, how do you know whether the bank even uses that as a metric?
Institutions wouldn’t get this information straight from Facebook but would instead use one of the many smaller credit reporting agencies and if they make a negative decision based on this, they are required by the Fair Credit Reporting Act to disclose this to you. If that happens, the CRA is then required to provide you a copy of the report provided to the given company. They could try to lie and make up some other excuse but they wouldn’t get away with it many times before a pattern would emerge and they would open themselves up to huge lawsuits should they be caught doing it. It’s worth noting a lot of the smaller CRA’s have the same annual reporting requirements as do the big three and you can request a free report from them. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has a PDF that lists many of the smaller CRA’s and how you can contact them.
That said, I think that trying to plumb social networking information and deny credit is on par with redlining. It’s only started happening and I’ve heard of no legal challenges and I doubt the connections on any random social network can be completely separated from any of the factors that can’t be used to make credit decisions - race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, or age. IANAL, but it would seem just looking at it could greatly increase your risk for an ECOA lawsuit.
Which is why the second episode of Breaking Bad's final season was aired globally within a few hours of each other yesterday evening.
Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @03:11AM
ME: Having heart attack, frantically searches for second episode of final season to torrent since I must have missed it only to realize this is Slashdot, where editors can't be bothered with facts, such as the second episode won't air until Sunday, August 18th .
For an interesting take on why the telegraph led in part to the modern computer and how both work, read Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold. He argues all the ideas needed to build a modern computer were known around the time telegraph use took off, and he uses those ideas to describe logic gates and put them together into a working computer.
In short, the relay was invented in 1835 as a way to extend telegraph runs further without requiring operators. Morse code, as the primary way to communicate, happened to also be a binary code that mapped letters to the equivalent of ones and zeros, dots and dashes. In 1854, George Boole published “An Investigation of the Laws of Thought”. Petzold stops there and essentially uses only those ideas to build his modern computer. It wasn’t recognized formally by anyone until 1937 when Claude Shannon published “A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits”. Even Charles Babbage had known of Boole’s work and the telegraph but did not see how it could have been better used to build his Difference Engine.
Here's the VisualEditor FAQ which states:
Also of interest from that FAQ is that the VisualEditor can be installed on any MediaWiki installation, including personal wikis. As a MediaWiki user at home, I've found it a cool way to journal and track a lot of personal projects but the limit to using it has always been remembering wiki markup. This will go a long way to eliminating that problem.
But you know what? It will never happen, because the gun banners DON"T CARE about addressing the base cause of violent crime, they just want to ban guns. Period.
You are being disingenuous. Both gun control and social welfare are most closely associated with liberals, not conservatives. Things that would help - equal access to education, social programs for at-risk youth, legalizing drugs, treatment instead of prison - where do you suppose they stand on those issues?
This tech was discussed there. It. was created by a guy in his garage using harvested mobile phone cameras and is already being tested in drones by Homeland Security. Per the show, the actual level of detail is classified but they did show an example where the were able to monitor dozens of city blocks at the same time grid style and then choose any point on the grid and zoom in hi-def and see full detail of people walking on the ground, all using a single lens array.
location data != communication data.
Anonymous coward is right. So far, the courts are pretty much saying that police have the right to use location data from electronic devices to track criminals without a warrant. In this case, police appear to be using the mobile tower as only a way to find the exact location of the suspect. Per the article, he was immobile which means the police would not have a precise fix on where he was without forcing his phone to switch communication to at least one other tower. So long as that's all the police did, the courts would probably have no problem with it.
It prevents people from seeking or discovering or creating actual solutions if they already believe God gave the perfect solution
If it doesn't work for you, find another solution. If it does work, then why bother ? No one has ever put up AA to be the cure.
to some philandering scam artist in the thirties.
Philandering ? Maybe. Scan artist... He was a stock market prior to the Great Depression but it's all about as relevant as the state of the nation was to Clinton getting a blowjob.
It's religion,
There are no priests, no compunction to believe in a god, no churches, no tax breaks, and no privileged conversation. How is that a religion ?
and by preventing actual progress, it actually kills people like one.
Can you cite one example where it stopped progress ? It's not a perfect solution but it's helped a great many people who would have died otherwise. That some still do while tragic, isn't a sensible reason to stop using it as the tool it is, any more than ignoring the possibilities this vaccine could have. It's easy to see though with this vaccine, it could lead to worse addictions (relatively speaking) as people compensate for the loss of alcohol by using harder drugs.
That is why I hate it. Yes. Hate. I hate what destroys society and drags us all down into ignorance. Is that not reason enough?
From Herbert Spencer: “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation”.
Alright, I'll bite and even post under my id since heck, you still don't have a clue who I am. It's obvious either yourself or someone you know was "forced" into AA and hatted it. Tha's fine. Some like me, do like it and I credit it with helping me to stay sober over 14 years.
Better an injection that lasts 6 months and can teach a person self control in the mean time than a sentence to a cult-like organization
I agree no one should be forced by the courts to attend AA, however, that's a problem with the court system itself. No one in AA is asking for it. Judges probably use it as an alternative to other measures because out of all the options, it's the one most readily available. The average American city has over a thousand meetings each week spread all over the calendar.
that convinces you that you're destined to die unless you attend their fruity little club until the end of your life
No, the general dogma is that you will die (sooner) from alcoholism if you don't quit drinking. Of course, no one can say what will happen to any one individual any more than one can say smoking will cause you to get cancer so many in AA prefer to say "jails, institutions or death" which is more to the point. At the very least, continued use very, very rarely has a positive outcome.
AA's success rate is no better than the spontaneous rate of remission (doing nothing at all)
No one has found a viable scientific way to determine the efficacy of AA. Some people never stay sober. Others do. Of those that do, many move on. Some decide they hate AA and find other ways to quit. More power to them. What AA does offer is a very large group of alcoholics who have remained sober for extended periods.
Yet it's worshiped as a solution because A: it's free and B: proselytization is part of the program.
A self help group for drunks tries to help drunks. That's the way it works. Proselytization suggests someone is trying to convert you to their belief with the particular idea that it's the one, true way. No one in AA will ever tell you that, at least the ones following the principles. The traditions state "we are a program of attraction, not promotion." In AA, we share our stories and anyone is free to pick and choose which parts if any they find useful and leave the rest behind. As far as the free part, you argue that ???
Popularity != quality. Fucking cancerous boil of a religion on the ass of science.
I get it. You hate AA. Like most haters, it's because of the "God" factor. No doubt your familiar "god of your own understanding" and "higher power" part and while Penn and Teller's rock and tree schtick is funny, most atheists, anti-theists, or agnostics choose Group Of Drunks. Religious people tend to choose whatever deity fits their religion. I went to AA because I was not able to quite on my own. People also hate the "powerless over alcohol" part but the previous self-truth pretty much defines that. AA offers the support of many other drunks who have overcome their addiction, all of whom at the point I went in had better ideas about how to stay sober than I did. Total self-reliance to quit would imply that I never so much as even considered any other ideas about quitting drinking let alone took any anabuse, naltrexone or this vaccine, should it become available. As you pointed out, I would have had to spontaneously quit on my own, something at the point I was at would not have happened.
Thank god for scientific solutions like this that can finally put the nail the the quackery coffin,
Like it or not, you can't deny their are people who stay sober using AA. It's never been offered up as a solution to the physical aspect of craving nor any of it's causes nor put forth as a medicine to cure drunks and as such can't be called quakery. It's obviously involves beliefs that you do not espouse, but th
I do agree that police need to be careful with DNA evidence and not use it as proof of guilt where it implies no such thing, but that does not seem to be the case here.
You can't even say that for sure here. I've played with a cigarette lighter before and the one thing I recall is I quickly rubbed my thumb raw. Needless to say, a lot of DNA came off in the process. If the girl did use the lighter after him, that could easily explain his DNA embedded in her fingers, but the fact it would have ended up on her fingers could explain it ending up a lot of other places too. Ever rub your eyes, blow your nose, scratch your crotch or wipe your ... well, you get the idea. Who knows what the girl did with the lighter or what she did afterwards either.
Add to that, the guy is 44 years old and has never committed a crime nor even been a suspect until now. Granted, he was 31 when the crime occurred but he was quite old even for the type of behavior required to commit such a brutal crime to come to the surface. The fact nothing is known of him since would make it even more unusual.
The problem started with a complete lack of discipline. I had numerous systems over the years and never really thought I needed to bother with any tracking or control system to manage my home data. I kept way to many minor revisions of the same file, often forking them over different systems. As time past and rebuilt systems, I could no longer remember where all the critical stuff was so I'd create tar or zip archives over huge swaths of the file system just in case. I eventually decided to clean up like you are now when I had over 11 million files. I am down to less than half a million now. While I know there are still effective duplicates, at least the size is what I consider manageable. For the stuff from my past, I think this is all I can hope for; however, I've now learned the importance of organization, documentation and version control so I don't have this problem again in the future.
Before even starting to de-duplicate, I recommend organizing your files in a consistent folder structure. Download wikimedia and start a wiki documenting what you're doing with your systems. The more notes you make, the easier it will be to reconstruct work you've done as time passes. Do this for your other day to day work as well. Get git and start using it for all your code and scripts. Let git manage the history and set it up to automatically duplicate changes on at least one other backup system. Use rsync to do likewise on your new directory structure. Force yourself to stop making any change you consider worth keeping outside of these areas. If you take these steps, you'll likely not have this problem again, at least on the same scope. You'll also find it a heck of a lot easier to decommission or rebuild home systems and you won't have to worry about "saving" data if one of them craps out.
If all you want to do is cut the cord and don't want to waste time with too many technical details and have lots of money, buy a new television. Most come with DLNA servers built in and all the standalone library devices you may want to add can support it. They also support most of the major streaming providers like Netflix, Amazon, and Youtube. As well, most can do wireless and some even have DVR functionality built in for recording over the air broadcasts.
What is the point of document storage in a noSQL database? If you're not going to store docs in a RDBMS, why not just store them in a filesystem? What is the point of Mongo or whatever this stuff is?
They are JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) documents and you can query into fields of the object-document without the database having to read the whole "document" in the same way you can read rows based on some set of columns in an RDBMS. Given objects like { a = { b,c } } or just d = f you could read a.b where = c or just d where = f. It's multidimensional as opposed to the flat column format of an RDBMS. Unfortunately, their are no data types, constraints, foreign keys or triggers. Data integrity has to be done in programatically
Unless you're really dead set on DIY, I recommend the Xtreamer Ultra for $399, available on Amazon. From the blurb "Xtreamer ULTRA Mini-ITX SFF HTPC (1.8 GHZ Intel Atom Dual-Core D525, nVidia ION 2, 4GB DDR3, HDMI 1.4a) Includes Remote, Mini Wireless Keyboard w/ Trackpad, PLUS XBMC and Boxee Configured and Ready to Go!", so it's a full PC and a very small, nice and quiet one at that.
The Ultra comes without a hard drive, but it has a 2.5 bay where you can add an HDD or SSD. I did the former. It boots off a custom version of Ubuntu running an offshoot of Grub2 called Berg that gives you a nice graphical menu to choose among XBMC, Boxee, Linux, or any x86 OS you choose to install. Transferring the OS to a hard drive and adding more is easy. I added Fedora and Windows 7 for the heck of it and both run great. Even 1080p video over my gigabyte LAN runs perfectly.. They are now also offering the Ultra2, a souped up version with WiFi capability built in.
1) Ease of use. Connects easily into nearly any home AV setup. 2) A functional and useable control scheme. 3) Common Platform means games work out of the box. The iPhone and iPad technically have the third advantage due to Apple's excessive control, while every other smart phone OS does not. A PC has the second advantage but not the rest. I wouldn't think either group of devices has a chance against the consoles unless they can offer all three, but even then a hidden advantage of a console is that it just sits there ready to go. I wouldn't want to un-dock my smart device only to lose it/drop it on the sidewalk and be out of business at home too. I suppose I could just buy one and leave it connected but guess what ? Then it's just a console.
Hollywood has finally realized they stand a better chance protecting their content, even if only for a short while, by getting rid of all physical media and going with electronic distribution only. Yes, nearly every DRM scheme will probably be hacked but that doesn't happen instantaneously and when it does, all they have to do is change to a new scheme. What surprises me is that Walmart is charging for this service. They are simply authorizing your account to view a movie based on whether you own the disc. They should give you the best available HD copy for free on the likely chance you will start to buy or rent other movies through them. More importantly, people would probably use the service because it's "free" and that would help the studios make the digital only transition.
I don't think anyone would disagree that the future lies in streaming, just whether or not Netflix is pulling the trigger to soon. There are a lot of big players against who they will have to compete should they choose to get more serious about the game - Amazon, Google, Apple, as well as the studios themselves to name a few. They also have unconventional competition from the ISP's who will continue to play the front as a direct competitor while trying to block the back with non-net neutral policies. As long as they paired DVD delivery with streaming, they had a stronger product they could use as leverage to keep the streaming option going. Now that they have effectively split them, it will be a lot easier for customers to drop them for the next big thing.
Thank you and all for your replies. You make some good points, particularly with the use of private trackers.
How the fuck do you get months?
I get months on some rare files that are seeded by one or maybe two who appear to be effectively on dial up and are dropping off/coming back, the way they limit their upload speeds. No, it doesn't happen on most files, but it does happen.
Private trackers have a very low risk of "ISP crabs" and usually have screenshots and comments so you can see if the quality is good.
My experience is that only newer stuff is available at reasonable speeds. Most seeders stop seeding soon after their share ratio gets over one and that really hurts the longevity of less popular or older data. Nothing's worse than getting >90% of a a huge file only to have the last seeder with a full file drop off. Second, there's no such thing as a safe private tracker unless you're the only one who has access, along the same lines of the only way to keep a secret is not to tell anyone. Once you start adding people, even those you know well, the risk of a compromise goes up. If unknowns are ever added, then it's definitely not safe. That's compounded by the fact you need a reasonably sized population to get enough variety and seeders to make it worthwhile.
All that aside, I think the risk with bittorrent is too great now and getting worse. 100,000 users in the United States were sued last year and while most may get off, that's a large number compared to the number of people who actually use bittorrent in the U.S. . As money is made of these cases, you can expect that count and the number of lawyers participating to go up. Combined with the shame of being caught downloading porn, and I have no doubt you'll soon see some porn studios using shills to release their warez on the Net with the express purpose of suing those who download it.
( Meant as food for thought. I am not telling anyone what they should or shouldn't do).
A fair point, but that number is probably small compared to the ones who were actually downloading.
For those that do use bittorrent for movies, why do you still do it ? The question isn't about the propriety but rather the risk. It takes a $1 to rent a movie from Redbox and about an hour to rip it on a Core i7. That's as opposed to 3 hour/day/months to download it from the Net and you could wind up getting a bad encode as well as a case of the lawyer - ISP crabs. Granted Redbox doesn't do porn, but places like SugarDVD do and you get to choose what you want.
If I understand it correctly though, Apple doesn't just want 30% off of your purchases made through something you downloaded in the app store: If you create an account through your app downloading in the app store, Apple wants to claim 30% of what that customer pays for, ever. Charging someone 30% more than the rest because he happened to sign up to your service originally though an Appstore app doesn't seem to make much sense from a retailer POV.
No, Apple wants any application based link to content for sale to go through their app store from which they get 30%. Users can still be inconvenienced to close the application, go to Safari, browse to the content providers web site and buy the content without Apple getting a cut. It's a needless PITA for a lot of users and very hard for some less technically savvy. I assume Apple's hope is that application developers will choose the former route, but in reality, the bigger names are just redirecting users to the second option. I would too were I Google or Amazon but ultimately it will only hurt the end user, some more than others.
As an alternative, in some ways even better than Netflix, Blockbusters is a viable choice for DVDs by mail, particularly if you have a store that is (still) close to you (despite the massive store closures).
Up until a month ago, I had a Blockbuster 3 at a time with in store exchange at the same time I carried a 3 at a time by mail with Netflix. Even though I turned discs around on the same day of receipt. I ended up getting more discs per month from Netflix. I'd say the amount of unusable discs I got from Blockbuster was about 1 in 3 where Netflix was 1 in 20. That cuts down the value a lot. Add to that, Blockbuster intentionally staggers disc receipt and shipments. In store returns do not clear immediately even though they no longer show in your queue. They have to be received by mail. This is the theory at least because the actual receipt date for 3 discs returned to store always stagger over 3 days. Then, they do the same with the new shipments. It seems they want to supply no more than 3 by mail and 3 by store every seven days. With Netflix, I get two shipments a week during a non-holiday week. When you factor in the broken discs, Blockbuster by mail can't compare to Netflix at all.
Given that some of us on here are happy to live in caves, Zimbardo's book Shyness: What It Is, What To Do About It as well as the now famous Stanford Shyness Clinic might also be of interest.