I don't understand how an ordinance requiring a certain type of business to employ a security guard or requiring them to monitor how their patrons use there service is a libertarian win.
Of course, you may have only read the slashblurb, which makes it seem like the decision was that the city couldn't prevent the business from monitoring.
Agreed that it doesn't make good sense for use in a fire fight. But then you don't see "commanders" in fire fights. (Not even "field commanders," not until shit gets real bad, anyway.)
Don't overlook the use of maps in command centers. I've spent hours screwing around with sticky unit identifiers and markers on acetate overlays.
I'm not a brain researcher. I don't work for this company.
I would guess, however, that it is correlational. I.e. you could start with "move the mouse up the screen." Then train either the brain, the "box" that interprets the signal, or both.
Detailed understanding of the "why" and "how" of the brain are not require to make this happen.
I was working as a "Analyst" for a data center company's "Professional Services" devision. IOW, they rented me out as a consultant.
One of the sales guys* comes to me with a job. Some outfit wants us to load test one of their servers. I guess they bought an app and were skeptical of the performance claims from the vendor. Our company was doing this as a freebie to prove what bad-asses we were, in the hopes of generating business. (This "made sense" in the dot-com days.)
I was to run the test from the office. We two OC-3 connections that were basically completely unused (This "made sense" in the dot-com days.) so that was totally feasible. Dates and times (the middle of the night) were arranged. The sales guy's marching order to me was "crater the box."
I throughly tested all of my scripts and had a cron job set to fire them off at the appointed time (1am as I recall). The next morning I come into work to find a shitstorm. Something like:
Sales guy: You crashed their system! Me: It's an NT box, right? I'm not surprised. Sales guy: They're pissed. They couldn't get a hold of anyone to stop the test. Their system just kept crashing every time they brought it up for four hours. Me: You gave me a four hour window. Why are they pissed? Sales guy: It is a production server! Me:?!
I don't know what the moral of the story is. Don't let the sales guy stand between you and the client?
-Peter
* The "Sales guy" is named Tracy, and he is cool guy. I hate that he comes off as a sales-twit in the story. In reality he is quite smart, fairly technical, and hardly cheesy at all!
Mr. Fox. Please have a seat. I see you have applied for the "Hen House Security" position. I have to say that, judging by your resume, you are certainly sly enough for the job.
Tell you what. The job is yours. If it doesn't work out we can just go our separate ways. What's the worst that could happen?
And ISPs are doing NOTHING to reduce the number of zombies on their networks. So the DDOS attacks continue.
And it is an excellent point. I don't think that it would be at all unreasonable to expect ISPs to pull the plug on systems that, for example, transmit a clearly abusive number of SYN packets per second, or falsify their source IP. (I am reasonably aware of the costs this would entail.)
I suppose that the problem is that each ISP would only benefit from other ISPs taking such action, so it becomes a sort of inverse tragedy of the commons.
The problem with using a palm is the IR transmitter is quite weak compared to a "normal" remote, and almost non-existant compared to a "bad-assed" remote.
68 Write to President Schwarzenegger When he gets to Washington in, oh, 2012, maybe he can terminate the legislation that mandates insane fixes for digital piracy.
Maybe this was supposed to be a joke. (They are so much easier to spot when they are funny.) If not, let's all try to recall where he was born . ..
96 Blanket airports with Wi-Fi There are more Centrino ads than hot spots. How about covering check-in lines, gates, baggage claim, and the restrooms. [Emphasis added.]
I'm sure I don't have to tell this croud why this is a bad idea. We, after all, know why the Internet (and all technology) was invented.
I wasn't lobbying for csh. I was illustrating that your answer was from a different plane of existance than the question.
Someone is having trouble communicating here. Since morelife and I have had similar problems communicating with you I will draw the preliminary conclusion that you have a weird world-view*.
A better response might have been something like "Real UNIX Guys(TM) know that C is The One True Language. The choice of the C Shell is, therefore, predestined."
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From the article: "a 'more modern' font."
I'm sure glad they put "more modern" in quotes, as Times New Roman was introduced in 1932!
-Peter
Way to not read the article.
The thing colapses and would easily fit in the back of a honda. With a bit of care you could probably get it into your bicycle trailer.
-Peter
Of course that should be their service.
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My Dad always warned me that my spellchecker would do that to me . .
-Peter
I don't understand how an ordinance requiring a certain type of business to employ a security guard or requiring them to monitor how their patrons use there service is a libertarian win.
Of course, you may have only read the slashblurb, which makes it seem like the decision was that the city couldn't prevent the business from monitoring.
-Peter
Acutally, he isn't using the "royal we," he is using the "editorial we."
Note that the article is an editorial.
-Peter
Easy . . . sneak in.
If you can't outwit the theater employees go and get a vesectomy.
-Peter
Agreed that it doesn't make good sense for use in a fire fight. But then you don't see "commanders" in fire fights. (Not even "field commanders," not until shit gets real bad, anyway.)
Don't overlook the use of maps in command centers. I've spent hours screwing around with sticky unit identifiers and markers on acetate overlays.
-Peter
Note: I do not suport either of the two parties involved in this accident.
It is interesting how this thing is spun by the Globe. The opposite spin might be:
Dems to Fucking Stupid to Protect Secret Documents with a Password
-Peter
Please see http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/09/pr int/20030904-9.html
-Peter
PS: Does anyone know why the slashcode sticks those damn spaces in URLs?
-Peter
One word: Drivers.
I'm not a brain researcher. I don't work for this company.
I would guess, however, that it is correlational. I.e. you could start with "move the mouse up the screen." Then train either the brain, the "box" that interprets the signal, or both.
Detailed understanding of the "why" and "how" of the brain are not require to make this happen.
-Peter
. . . who is on the TV while Angel gets his arm cut off with a chainsaw in Scarface?
-Peter
. . . or if they do it is only for the ideas!
-Peter
I was working as a "Analyst" for a data center company's "Professional Services" devision. IOW, they rented me out as a consultant.
One of the sales guys* comes to me with a job. Some outfit wants us to load test one of their servers. I guess they bought an app and were skeptical of the performance claims from the vendor. Our company was doing this as a freebie to prove what bad-asses we were, in the hopes of generating business. (This "made sense" in the dot-com days.)
I was to run the test from the office. We two OC-3 connections that were basically completely unused (This "made sense" in the dot-com days.) so that was totally feasible. Dates and times (the middle of the night) were arranged. The sales guy's marching order to me was "crater the box."
I throughly tested all of my scripts and had a cron job set to fire them off at the appointed time (1am as I recall). The next morning I come into work to find a shitstorm. Something like:
Sales guy: You crashed their system!
Me: It's an NT box, right? I'm not surprised.
Sales guy: They're pissed. They couldn't get a hold of anyone to stop the test. Their system just kept crashing every time they brought it up for four hours.
Me: You gave me a four hour window. Why are they pissed?
Sales guy: It is a production server!
Me:?!
I don't know what the moral of the story is. Don't let the sales guy stand between you and the client?
-Peter
* The "Sales guy" is named Tracy, and he is cool guy. I hate that he comes off as a sales-twit in the story. In reality he is quite smart, fairly technical, and hardly cheesy at all!
Mr. Fox. Please have a seat. I see you have applied for the "Hen House Security" position. I have to say that, judging by your resume, you are certainly sly enough for the job.
Tell you what. The job is yours. If it doesn't work out we can just go our separate ways. What's the worst that could happen?
They say the same thing about you ;-)
I find Indians' English to be generally intelligible. (Far more so than Australians'.) I also find the Indian accent very pleasing to the ear.
But that's just my taste.
-Peter
They speak English in India.
See the CIA factbook entry on India.
-Peter
"Strangers with that kind of honesty make me go a big, rubbery one."
-Narrator, Fight Club
And it is an excellent point. I don't think that it would be at all unreasonable to expect ISPs to pull the plug on systems that, for example, transmit a clearly abusive number of SYN packets per second, or falsify their source IP. (I am reasonably aware of the costs this would entail.)
I suppose that the problem is that each ISP would only benefit from other ISPs taking such action, so it becomes a sort of inverse tragedy of the commons.
-Peter
The problem with using a palm is the IR transmitter is quite weak compared to a "normal" remote, and almost non-existant compared to a "bad-assed" remote.
-Peter
I'd rather live somewhere where the laws respect the people . .
-Peter
PS: They have vehicle safety inspections in Texas.
PPS: In my (admittedly limited and somewhat dated) experience European BA limits are higher than in the US.
Maybe this was supposed to be a joke. (They are so much easier to spot when they are funny.) If not, let's all try to recall where he was born . .
I'm sure I don't have to tell this croud why this is a bad idea. We, after all, know why the Internet (and all technology) was invented.
-Peter
I wasn't lobbying for csh. I was illustrating that your answer was from a different plane of existance than the question.
Someone is having trouble communicating here. Since morelife and I have had similar problems communicating with you I will draw the preliminary conclusion that you have a weird world-view*.
-Peter
*More power to you.
Yahoo! Groups font choice!
Agh!
-Peter
TCM,
See that forest over there?
Would you believe that it is made of trees?
A better response might have been something like "Real UNIX Guys(TM) know that C is The One True Language. The choice of the C Shell is, therefore, predestined."
Or something.
-Peter