Please don't put words in my mouth. I did not state or imply that.
I pointed out people cannot be "programmed". You can exploit somebody or give them excuses to fulfill an urge. There is a difference.
Milgram experiment had shown the subject's suffering deep trauma, from which they never fully recovered. That is not disregard for morality and certainly not programming.
Then the all-round Nazi argument. What do you know about the state of Germany when Hitler came to power? Germany was in deep economic recession and Germans hoped a strong figure could somehow fix the problem. He found suitable ground, not "programmed" anybody. Ask Germans if they feel guilty for WWII or better yet, check how much they pay for the damage they caused (willingly).
David Weinberger gave a talk about how humans sort knowledge in general. He specifically addressed the Dewey Decimal system in his talk. I highly recommend viewing it.
This has been stated before and I'll state it again:
They are creating a surveillance society. Period.
It's their job to look for spies and not of a university's staff. By asking them to look out for suspicious activity they are instilling paranoia into people. Look what's happening in my country, Poland. Before 1989 the secret police (SB - "Security Service" as they we're called) was doing just exactly what the FBI are doing right now, just the scale is not the same. Here, there were posters all over the place saying: "Keep your bussiness secrets safe. Someone may want to pry it from you right now." or "Keep national secret's safe"(although this one may be less appropriate here). Anyone who was even remotely connected with someone "suspicious", had literally shitloads of documents written about.
IMHO you are on the beginning of a very slippery slope. The same one the whole eastern block went. Judging from the attitude in the US I can only say: enjoy your ride.
Thanks for the comprehensive reply. You have quite a bit of hardware there. I don't have a set-up anywhere near yours. Now I finally realize why the ISP's DNS and the router weren't an issue for you.:)
I frequently had to change my ISP because I had plenty to choose from but none provided a decent service. One required me to buy their router and refused to take it in when they wouldn't meet the TOS (severe down-time, ignored support inquires). Eventually they took it in.
I signed up for an unspecified time with the second so I could bail out within 1 month's notice (but paid more), in case anything went wrong. They didn't force me to buy a router but had the same problem as the first : downtime. When I terminated the service I was cut off 2 weeks early but got an invoice for the whole month (although the downtime was reported immediately). I'm still waiting for their reply about the refund and that was a month ago.
I'm now connected to the third ISP and all seems well.
I'm suggesting that: 1) They have shoved you a pricy piece of their "diagnostic" equipment and you can't use it (no configuration). Requiring you to buy a router for £159.99 was just so they can troubleshoot in case of problems. Their techs should do that for free if it was their fault and you would had pay if it wasn't. 2) Signing for an unspecified time and then changing to a fixed time contract would be a good idea if you don't know about their Quality of Service. Most ISPs should allow you to get all the discounts you'd get when signing for a fixed time service straight-away (if there are any). But in your case this is more of an afterthought because you seem to be satisified.
However, I did walk into this with open eyes, and frankly, their service is good (well if you don't use their kit or their DNS, and I have never even looked at the free web space or email bits that were bundled...). I guess the main thing is that you need to go and find the best deal you can, and include any fees or other costs in your comparison and then stick with it.
I don't want to sound like a troll but I'm astonished by the amount of the ISP's BS you were able to suck up. If you represent the majority of the client base in the UK then I can't blame them for doing such a shoddy service.
Did you sign for a fixed time contract or was it unspecified? I think I should really appreciate the offer of my national monopolist's I signed up for a couple of years back.
They charged an arm and a leg for a fixed time service (and still do) but you could sign-up for an unspecified time contract. It cost me 20% more than the standard offer but I could terminate it with no additional fees and 1 month notice. Also you could change it into a fixed time service at any time and get the lower fees.
An ADSL modem was supplied with every offer - you didn't pay for it up front but terminating the contract meant you had to turn it in or pay it's price reduced by 3.3% per month of the service's duration (you owned it after 30 months).
You should really try setting up dm-crypt on fedora.
No GUI but it all boils down to: 1) Adding an entry to/etc/crypttab pointing to a regular partition (fstab look-a-like) 2) Modifying/etc/fstab to auto-mount the created dm-crypt device
You can configure regular and swap partitions this way.
Doh. I ended up being to terse and misspelled the word "lose". The grain loses it's original magnetic moment. It's direction becomes reversed causing data corruption.
The correlation between temperature and data loss is pretty well proven and it's called the superparamagnetic effect.
It happens when a grain of ferromagnetic material on the platter looses it's magnetization due to temperature under the Curie temperature of said material. The probability of it happening is directly proportional to temperature (how it's close to the Curie point) and inversely proportional to size of the grain and (magnetic) hardness of the material.
Hitachi's "vertical bit" technology allowed to use magnetically harders materials for smaller grains and achieve greater data density.
I guess this paper shows this isn't the main cause of drive failures because it is well proven and understood.
Whatever testing is done often only tests that the product produces the correct answers when feed the proper input - no account is taken for how the program reacts to incorrect or incomplete data.
Im going to play the devil's advocate. Why should it be tested for incorrect data? Does a microwave check if you've put a poodle in it? Does a car prevent you from driving into a ditch?
It's the old "12 inch spike instead of an airbag" argument.
There is of course huge variation with the Russians in the tops of alcohol tolerance.
I remember an anecdote about a Russian delegation received by a French employee. The first evening they had a party in Russian style. The next morning all Russians got up, shaved, dressed up and took about their business. The Frenchman had been taken to the morgue in a plastic bag.
"Merges them even on high end systems" ? Even?
"Real-time allocation" ? What?
"Speeding up CorelDraw" ? Why? Because the window is now rendered in 3D?
Do you even know what you're saying?
No offense, but you sound like a marketing department...
You're trying to tell me Vista's using the v.c. RAM like system memory?
"Also you are skipping over the GPU Multi-tasking concepts,(...)"
Aren't you skipping over sense and basic terminology?
- It can multi-task GPU RAM with system RAM intelligently. Meaning if your Video card only has 128mb or RAM, and you want to run all the extra High Quality Textures in a game that would normally want more GPU RAM, Vista will let the game do this, seamlessly with existing games.
How is that different from any GPU since AGP? I'm pretty much green on the topic, but my motherboard's GeForce 6100 can use the system RAM fine without any OS' help. It even works faster when I limit it's memory to a minimum (4MB) and tell it to share the system memory. But that's maybe because it's integrated to the motherboard...
It's clear bullshit but a species can collapse unto itself. Breaching the capacity of an ecosystem can kill off the offending species. News such as this prove we're still wrecking ours as we have for the past centuries.
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Please don't put words in my mouth. I did not state or imply that. I pointed out people cannot be "programmed". You can exploit somebody or give them excuses to fulfill an urge. There is a difference.
Why is was modded insightful?
Milgram experiment had shown the subject's suffering deep trauma, from which they never fully recovered. That is not disregard for morality and certainly not programming.
Then the all-round Nazi argument. What do you know about the state of Germany when Hitler came to power? Germany was in deep economic recession and Germans hoped a strong figure could somehow fix the problem. He found suitable ground, not "programmed" anybody. Ask Germans if they feel guilty for WWII or better yet, check how much they pay for the damage they caused (willingly).
I don't work in ER, you insensitive clod!
PS. What's with the captcha: handier?
David Weinberger gave a talk about how humans sort knowledge in general. He specifically addressed the Dewey Decimal system in his talk. I highly recommend viewing it.
It seems to me it's as path-breaking as Silverlight will ever be (judging by how easy it was to copy it).
This has been stated before and I'll state it again: They are creating a surveillance society. Period.
It's their job to look for spies and not of a university's staff. By asking them to look out for suspicious activity they are instilling paranoia into people. Look what's happening in my country, Poland. Before 1989 the secret police (SB - "Security Service" as they we're called) was doing just exactly what the FBI are doing right now, just the scale is not the same. Here, there were posters all over the place saying: "Keep your bussiness secrets safe. Someone may want to pry it from you right now." or "Keep national secret's safe"(although this one may be less appropriate here). Anyone who was even remotely connected with someone "suspicious", had literally shitloads of documents written about.
IMHO you are on the beginning of a very slippery slope. The same one the whole eastern block went. Judging from the attitude in the US I can only say: enjoy your ride.
Why not use a round-robin entry like pool.ntp.org under w3c.org and be gone with it?
Thanks for the comprehensive reply. You have quite a bit of hardware there. I don't have a set-up anywhere near yours. Now I finally realize why the ISP's DNS and the router weren't an issue for you. :)
I frequently had to change my ISP because I had plenty to choose from but none provided a decent service. One required me to buy their router and refused to take it in when they wouldn't meet the TOS (severe down-time, ignored support inquires). Eventually they took it in.
I signed up for an unspecified time with the second so I could bail out within 1 month's notice (but paid more), in case anything went wrong. They didn't force me to buy a router but had the same problem as the first : downtime. When I terminated the service I was cut off 2 weeks early but got an invoice for the whole month (although the downtime was reported immediately). I'm still waiting for their reply about the refund and that was a month ago.
I'm now connected to the third ISP and all seems well.
I'm suggesting that:
1) They have shoved you a pricy piece of their "diagnostic" equipment and you can't use it (no configuration). Requiring you to buy a router for £159.99 was just so they can troubleshoot in case of problems. Their techs should do that for free if it was their fault and you would had pay if it wasn't.
2) Signing for an unspecified time and then changing to a fixed time contract would be a good idea if you don't know about their Quality of Service. Most ISPs should allow you to get all the discounts you'd get when signing for a fixed time service straight-away (if there are any). But in your case this is more of an afterthought because you seem to be satisified.
However, I did walk into this with open eyes, and frankly, their service is good (well if you don't use their kit or their DNS, and I have never even looked at the free web space or email bits that were bundled...). I guess the main thing is that you need to go and find the best deal you can, and include any fees or other costs in your comparison and then stick with it.
I don't want to sound like a troll but I'm astonished by the amount of the ISP's BS you were able to suck up. If you represent the majority of the client base in the UK then I can't blame them for doing such a shoddy service.
Did you sign for a fixed time contract or was it unspecified?
I think I should really appreciate the offer of my national monopolist's I signed up for a couple of years back.
They charged an arm and a leg for a fixed time service (and still do) but you could sign-up for an unspecified time contract.
It cost me 20% more than the standard offer but I could terminate it with no additional fees and 1 month notice. Also you could change it into a fixed time service at any time and get the lower fees.
An ADSL modem was supplied with every offer - you didn't pay for it up front but terminating the contract meant you had to turn it in or pay it's price reduced by 3.3% per month of the service's duration (you owned it after 30 months).
That's a really small sheep or a very large amount of human... meat?
That wouldn't be exactly the "poor man's supercomputer", eh?
Theo? Is that you?
You should really try setting up dm-crypt on fedora.
/etc/crypttab pointing to a regular partition (fstab look-a-like) /etc/fstab to auto-mount the created dm-crypt device
No GUI but it all boils down to:
1) Adding an entry to
2) Modifying
You can configure regular and swap partitions this way.
The atmoshpere does not care about per capita emmissions.
Doh. I ended up being to terse and misspelled the word "lose".
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The grain loses it's original magnetic moment. It's direction becomes reversed causing data corruption.
Here's the paper.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/wrapper.jsp?arn
Stewie? Is that you?
If you consider a DoS attack on a server, then the monoculture can be used as a vector. This puts the whole system at risk.
The correlation between temperature and data loss is pretty well proven and it's called the superparamagnetic effect.
It happens when a grain of ferromagnetic material on the platter looses it's magnetization due to temperature under the Curie temperature of said material. The probability of it happening is directly proportional to temperature (how it's close to the Curie point) and inversely proportional to size of the grain and (magnetic) hardness of the material.
Hitachi's "vertical bit" technology allowed to use magnetically harders materials for smaller grains and achieve greater data density.
I guess this paper shows this isn't the main cause of drive failures because it is well proven and understood.
Whatever testing is done often only tests that the product produces the correct answers when feed the proper input - no account is taken for how the program reacts to incorrect or incomplete data.
Im going to play the devil's advocate. Why should it be tested for incorrect data? Does a microwave check if you've put a poodle in it? Does a car prevent you from driving into a ditch?
It's the old "12 inch spike instead of an airbag" argument.
There is of course huge variation with the Russians in the tops of alcohol tolerance.
I remember an anecdote about a Russian delegation received by a French employee.
The first evening they had a party in Russian style.
The next morning all Russians got up, shaved, dressed up and took about their business.
The Frenchman had been taken to the morgue in a plastic bag.
"Me too."
Fix that for ya.
Apart from that. What's the best way to fight spam today?
"Merges them even on high end systems" ? Even? "Real-time allocation" ? What? "Speeding up CorelDraw" ? Why? Because the window is now rendered in 3D? Do you even know what you're saying? No offense, but you sound like a marketing department... You're trying to tell me Vista's using the v.c. RAM like system memory? "Also you are skipping over the GPU Multi-tasking concepts,(...)" Aren't you skipping over sense and basic terminology?
- It can multi-task GPU RAM with system RAM intelligently. Meaning if your Video card only has 128mb or RAM, and you want to run all the extra High Quality Textures in a game that would normally want more GPU RAM, Vista will let the game do this, seamlessly with existing games.
How is that different from any GPU since AGP? I'm pretty much green on the topic, but my motherboard's GeForce 6100 can use the system RAM fine without any OS' help. It even works faster when I limit it's memory to a minimum (4MB) and tell it to share the system memory. But that's maybe because it's integrated to the motherboard...
It's clear bullshit but a species can collapse unto itself.
Breaching the capacity of an ecosystem can kill off the offending species.
News such as this prove we're still wrecking ours as we have for the past centuries.