I reckon speed limits are if not invalid, then at least badly flawed, badly implemented and obsolete in their current form. They do not take account of atmospheric conditions nor traffic density nor geography, and are only concerned with an arbitrary and artificial rule to be enforced on anyone who is neither too socially important(off-duty cops upwards) nor socially unimportant (joyriding kids etc) to pay the fines. Replace traffic cops speed guns with camcorders and let them prosecute on 'dangerous driving' grounds to a jury if they think excessive speed is being used for the conditions.
Oddly enough, I was thinking on these lines only yesterday. I was driving down a piece of dual carriageway that was built in the early seventies for early seventies(crossply tyres, drum brakes, leaf springs) vehicles to do 70mph on. There are no side roads and no crossing points for pedestrians (indeed pedestrians, bicycles and mopeds are banned from this road which is cut into a little artificial canyon), yet modern traffic (well, the proles anyway) is limited to 40 mph. I think we are told to OBEY SPEED LAWS that are made up as needed. As needed by some bureaucrat to 'massage' statistics.
Last time I used a bus, it cost me £1.50 to travel 2 miles (a recent 5 mile taxi ride cost £10) . That makes the break-even point of buying an old heap of a car, taxing and insuring it and putting fuel in at £1 a litre what? About 5 miles a day? I am not counting the cost of parking, but then I am not considering the agony of dragging all the crap that most people need to take to work and back on and off public transport. Or carrying said crap on a pushbike.
Crimeny, flamebait and troll! Well screw you, I am going to make _my_own_ typeface. With blackjack. And hookers. (would that constitute a variation or a twiddle? Damn and Blast!)
You have no idea what I am talking about. I expanded my original point that 'the typeface (unless it is really illegible) is pretty much irrelevant as far as I am concerned' to include the typesetting as well.
I _do_ want the "maximum amount of words on a page," because when I can be bothered to reformat a load of text for my own use, I _do_just_that_ and it isn't "utterly fucking illegible" because 'the typeface (unless it is really illegible) is pretty much irrelevant'.
Is it typography that makes those miniscule stock quotes legible, or the resolution of the printing process? 50 lines of legible text in 400 vertical pixels is artistry indeed, It is the endless variations and twiddles of typography when working in much higher resolutions that are unappreciated.
Er, the typeface (unless it is really illegible) is pretty much irrelevant as far as I am concerned. Function over form. All I ever want is the maximum number of words on a screen/page so i don't have to scroll as much. Thus typesetters' creative use of white space, PDF, and web page sidebars can all go to hell. And don't get me started on the text viewers on mobile phones. Or the way magazines pay to have the layout artistically done in 50 billion colours and 60 billion DPI but cannot get the spelling or facts right. Or those kids on my DAMN lawn AGAIN.
Are you just wanting to protect the data until it gets to the windows box ? If so: 1. How about a bootable linux usb with a truecrypt partition? Boot from the USB stick(or cdrom if the windows box doesn't support usb booting) 2. extract the hidden data from truecrypt and put it 'in the open' on the linuxy partition. 3. reboot the windows box and copy the data from the linuxy partition 4. ????? 5. Profit! (6. Windows box pwned by entire intarwebs)
For hard disk installed freenas, i think if you are running the old ver i was, you boot from livecd and follow the instructions for upgrade, newer than my ver and there is an upgrade option on the freenas web server gui control panelly thing(download a new image from freenas site,log onto freenas box and use upgrade button). No, i can't remember the ver i was using. Since you are using the livecd directly, I think you can just reboot while swapping cd. Much less nerve-wracking than running an upgrade script on a boxfull of files:-)
I have had 2 freenas boxes working faultlessly with windoze boxes, but just couldn't get my 'testing-the-water' umbongo(8.04) box to play nice with them. I could browse the shares(CIFS), even write to them, but not read files back from them(except with FTP). Much swearing and cursing and setting switches and things on the freenas and umbongo until i updated to the latest freenas image (by using cd as i had been on 0.66 or 0.67 or something) and hey press-stud, everything is working perfectly.
I run freenas on a 800mHz presario (ide drives, CIFS) over cat5 and, although i am too idle to go test it, the speed is ok for me. Around 4MB/s comes to mind.
Nope, the solution is to narrow the road and block off side streets so that you can't route around the tailback. Also stick speed bumps everywhere. Well, that is what happens here (UK).
Yeah, works real well here in UK. Population about 60 million, surveillance cameras everywhere, no guns allowed, about 20,000 firearms offences a year, about 500 serious injuries a year.
Sir! Sir! Somebody copied a song on their computer to someone else's computer!
ZOMFG! Quick, make some legislation that pisses on civil rights and prosecute the shit out of anyone copying files! Get Bill on the phone and have him write a load of restrictive crap into everybody's operating system. Copying Files Must Be Stopped!!
Sir! Sir! Somebody took a computer with them when they left the country for a couple of hours!
ZOMFG! Copy all his files! Distribute copies to all the many security agencies!
I would take issue with your use of 'gods'. Surely a typical right-wing type like yourself should know that not even one god has been proven to exist, let alone multiple gods.
Did they stop spiking the fertiliser so it can't be used in this way? When it was _Irish_ terrorists blowing people up, the fertiliser was tweaked so it made less effective explosives.
Well, since the people we elect are essentially Kang or Kodos who try to pass whatever laws they like without giving the public a chance to vote on the matter, I quite like the idea of the house of lords (harder to bribe some rich bugger than the corrupt political class intent on filling their own pockets. Yes, some Lords were once those corrupt politicals, but they are comparatively rich and settled now).
There are many things wrong with our system, but having some kind of 'second opinion' of government policy is not a bad idea.
I call shenanigans! Drive around with all four doors partly open and see how the gaps around the doors alter as the car body twists and bends. Granted, the doors aren't a huge contribution to rigidity, but the contribution is certainly there.
Many years ago a friend had a 1970's FIAT that was so crap that when five fat people got in it, the doors wouldn't shut (solution : only allow one door open at any one time whilst getting in).
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That is the stupidest plan ever, it is snooker cue _rests_ with which the ladies push the little model aircraft around.
I reckon speed limits are if not invalid, then at least badly flawed, badly implemented and obsolete in their current form. They do not take account of atmospheric conditions nor traffic density nor geography, and are only concerned with an arbitrary and artificial rule to be enforced on anyone who is neither too socially important(off-duty cops upwards) nor socially unimportant (joyriding kids etc) to pay the fines.
Replace traffic cops speed guns with camcorders and let them prosecute on 'dangerous driving' grounds to a jury if they think excessive speed is being used for the conditions.
Oddly enough, I was thinking on these lines only yesterday. I was driving down a piece of dual carriageway that was built in the early seventies for early seventies(crossply tyres, drum brakes, leaf springs) vehicles to do 70mph on. There are no side roads and no crossing points for pedestrians (indeed pedestrians, bicycles and mopeds are banned from this road which is cut into a little artificial canyon), yet modern traffic (well, the proles anyway) is limited to 40 mph.
I think we are told to OBEY SPEED LAWS that are made up as needed. As needed by some bureaucrat to 'massage' statistics.
Last time I used a bus, it cost me £1.50 to travel 2 miles (a recent 5 mile taxi ride cost £10) . That makes the break-even point of buying an old heap of a car, taxing and insuring it and putting fuel in at £1 a litre what? About 5 miles a day?
I am not counting the cost of parking, but then I am not considering the agony of dragging all the crap that most people need to take to work and back on and off public transport. Or carrying said crap on a pushbike.
Crimeny, flamebait and troll! Well screw you, I am going to make _my_own_ typeface. With blackjack. And hookers. (would that constitute a variation or a twiddle? Damn and Blast!)
You have no idea what I am talking about. I expanded my original point that 'the typeface (unless it is really illegible) is pretty much irrelevant as far as I am concerned' to include the typesetting as well.
I _do_ want the "maximum amount of words on a page," because when I can be bothered to reformat a load of text for my own use, I _do_just_that_ and it isn't "utterly fucking illegible" because 'the typeface (unless it is really illegible) is pretty much irrelevant'.
Is it typography that makes those miniscule stock quotes legible, or the resolution of the printing process?
50 lines of legible text in 400 vertical pixels is artistry indeed, It is the endless variations and twiddles of typography when working in much higher resolutions that are unappreciated.
Er, the typeface (unless it is really illegible) is pretty much irrelevant as far as I am concerned. Function over form. All I ever want is the maximum number of words on a screen/page so i don't have to scroll as much. Thus typesetters' creative use of white space, PDF, and web page sidebars can all go to hell. And don't get me started on the text viewers on mobile phones. Or the way magazines pay to have the layout artistically done in 50 billion colours and 60 billion DPI but cannot get the spelling or facts right. Or those kids on my DAMN lawn AGAIN.
Are you just wanting to protect the data until it gets to the windows box ?
If so:
1. How about a bootable linux usb with a truecrypt partition? Boot from the USB stick(or cdrom if the windows box doesn't support usb booting)
2. extract the hidden data from truecrypt and put it 'in the open' on the linuxy partition.
3. reboot the windows box and copy the data from the linuxy partition
4. ?????
5. Profit!
(6. Windows box pwned by entire intarwebs)
Apologies if i am missing the entire point.
How many votes were from the security guard? :-)
a) V1 != rocket
b) You wouldn't say V2 'wasn't particularly effective' if its 1 ton of high explosive falling at around mach 3 landed on _your_ ass.
For hard disk installed freenas, i think if you are running the old ver i was, you boot from livecd and follow the instructions for upgrade, newer than my ver and there is an upgrade option on the freenas web server gui control panelly thing(download a new image from freenas site,log onto freenas box and use upgrade button). No, i can't remember the ver i was using. :-)
Since you are using the livecd directly, I think you can just reboot while swapping cd. Much less nerve-wracking than running an upgrade script on a boxfull of files
Good luck.
I have had 2 freenas boxes working faultlessly with windoze boxes, but just couldn't get my 'testing-the-water' umbongo(8.04) box to play nice with them. I could browse the shares(CIFS), even write to them, but not read files back from them(except with FTP). Much swearing and cursing and setting switches and things on the freenas and umbongo until i updated to the latest freenas image (by using cd as i had been on 0.66 or 0.67 or something) and hey press-stud, everything is working perfectly.
I run freenas on a 800mHz presario (ide drives, CIFS) over cat5 and, although i am too idle to go test it, the speed is ok for me. Around 4MB/s comes to mind.
(goes and checks facts)
Hey, you are right! That will teach me about stats.
Apologies, and mod parent +1 Correct
Nope, the solution is to narrow the road and block off side streets so that you can't route around the tailback. Also stick speed bumps everywhere.
Well, that is what happens here (UK).
Yeah, works real well here in UK.
Population about 60 million, surveillance cameras everywhere, no guns allowed, about 20,000 firearms offences a year, about 500 serious injuries a year.
Sir! Sir! Somebody copied a song on their computer to someone else's computer!
ZOMFG! Quick, make some legislation that pisses on civil rights and prosecute the shit out of anyone copying files! Get Bill on the phone and have him write a load of restrictive crap into everybody's operating system. Copying Files Must Be Stopped!!
Sir! Sir! Somebody took a computer with them when they left the country for a couple of hours!
ZOMFG! Copy all his files! Distribute copies to all the many security agencies!
Really? Even Limbo?
I would take issue with your use of 'gods'. Surely a typical right-wing type like yourself should know that not even one god has been proven to exist, let alone multiple gods.
well, the next stage is to go crazy as you realise all the pr0ns in the cipher stream are beyond your reach.
Slap a $2 a gallon tax on it!
Did they stop spiking the fertiliser so it can't be used in this way?
When it was _Irish_ terrorists blowing people up, the fertiliser was tweaked so it made less effective explosives.
Well, since the people we elect are essentially Kang or Kodos who try to pass whatever laws they like without giving the public a chance to vote on the matter, I quite like the idea of the house of lords (harder to bribe some rich bugger than the corrupt political class intent on filling their own pockets. Yes, some Lords were once those corrupt politicals, but they are comparatively rich and settled now).
There are many things wrong with our system, but having some kind of 'second opinion' of government policy is not a bad idea.
Did they pass the bill for charging prisoners for their Information Retrieval Procedures yet? Is that next week?
I call shenanigans!
Drive around with all four doors partly open and see how the gaps around the doors alter as the car body twists and bends. Granted, the doors aren't a huge contribution to rigidity, but the contribution is certainly there.
Many years ago a friend had a 1970's FIAT that was so crap that when five fat people got in it, the doors wouldn't shut (solution : only allow one door open at any one time whilst getting in).