On some phone systems (for example Luxembourg during the eighties), only the caller can hang up a line. If the callee "hangs up" it's not really hung up until the caller hangs up as well, and a malicious caller can tie up his victim's line as long as he wants.
Normally this is not an issue, as in a normal call both parties will hang up. However, back in the day, pranksters figured out that this was an excellent way of annoying call-in amateur ("pirate") radio stations, completely sabotaging their game shows this way...
Wouldn't it make more sense to buy an off-the-shelf router instead, and put OpenWRT or DD-WRT on it? Smaller, even cheaper, less power consumption and hardware specialized for the task.
Insightful? Don't you just love it when some goofball logs in as AC with an ignorant luddite remark, then logs in and mods himelf up, then logs in under his sock puppet and "hey! I Gots me some mod points on this sucker, too!"
But much more strain on your arms and shoulders. Just imagine yourself holding your arms up all day long while still moving your hands in a very precise motion... your back must hurt like hell at the end of the day. Or mine certainly would...
I'd like to see a link of the heart attack during robbery issue - seeing as heart disease is the #1 killer, and it's a result of growing old and/or lifestyle, how can the robber really be to blame?
Busy computers consume more electricity. And electricity costs real money. Now some this up over all the customer who unknowingly lost a couple of cents like this, and suddenly we are talking real money. One of the rare cases where the "theft" label is appropriate for a digital crime.
I'm not sure if this is still relevant, but at one point it was the major culprit for excess syncs [mozilla.org] and it is indeed configurable. It's probably more informative to read the bug comments and see the diff than for me to paraphrase.
According to some of the comments on this bug, the relevant setting is toolkit.storage.synchronous
On recent firefoxen (tested on 12.0), this is 0 by default, however firefox still performs the occasional fsync, especially when opening or closing a new tab, and when following links.
Probably because they're not gay bars. If it was "The Man Hole" or "Rod's" or "The Hairy Bear", you would be more familiar.
Non-sequitur: why would a gay patron care about the female/male ratio? Or do you see any restaurant posting online how many fruit-flies it has buzzing around in its dining room?
but it still happens a couple times over the course of a month for various reasons (power flickers and the like)
If "power flickers" happen that often to you, maybe you should have the electrical wiring in you home examined. Or maybe, with your grid, you need an UPS?
Linux was a fun toy and nothing more before ext3 because ext2 is the most destructible filesystem on earth. Don't get me wrong, I played with that toy but that is all it was.
What a load of rubbish! Linux was perfectly usable and stable even before ext3 came around, and perfectly fit to be used as a mission critical server! (which many companies actually did!)
The reason why ext3 was eventually needed is because disks became big enough that fsck was starting to take unreasonably long times (in the rare event of a crash), and so something more efficient was needed.
However, application developers cannot rely on the OS to sync data in the background, because e.g. on a laptop where frequent disk access is both expensive (battery life) and risky (physical motion), the OS will cache as much as possible.
Good point. And as a user, I don't want firefox to waste battery power and to expose my harddisk to unneeded risk due to access during physical motion. So how can I, as a user, disable these excessive sync()s in firefox?
It doesn't sound like a big deal, but I can tell you that it is infuriating as a user to see a browser say, "whoops, I lost your tabbed windows, hope you weren't using the WWW for anything important!".
It's more infuriating to lose all the data on my hard disk because the car I'm riding in shook a little during one of those many unneeded syncs.
By far, the predominate OS that FF runs on is Windows. Thus, the developers are concerned about frequent OS crashes.
Then, the sync should be conditional on the OS it is running on, and disabled on Linux.
And even on Windows, it should be configurable. Some users might care more about appropriate battery life than about their browser history in the rare event of a crash. Even Windows crashes much less nowadays than it used to...
Agreed. Hard to imagine an exception to this without making the system useless...
subways have purpose built trains
Not necessarily true. The planned Luxembourg "City Tunnel" (project Schummer) would run with regular trains (one of its main selling points by the way. Regular trains would just enter the subway system at city boundaries, so people don't need to get off the train and on a subway)
subways have ticket, coin, or other payment systems.
What are they going to net in a sweep like this? Mostly patients like the above and delivery trucks with boxes of smoke detectors or lantern gas mantles. Maybe a few scientists.
Indeed, he could at least have waited until the body was cold,...
But I admire him for his courage to speak out loudly what many only dare to think to themselves in their head.
Same goes about his thoughts about some "non-standard" sexual practices by the way. As long as all participants do it willingly, and none is hurt, why bother? If some practices are to be condemned universally, even when not hurtful, then why are their opponents always trotting out examples involving coercion, cruelty and violence to revile them?
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Fat chicks: what a waste of a perfectly good vagina.
... but do they give lasting hickeys at least?
Normally this is not an issue, as in a normal call both parties will hang up. However, back in the day, pranksters figured out that this was an excellent way of annoying call-in amateur ("pirate") radio stations, completely sabotaging their game shows this way...
The irony of someone stealing a bible is not lost on me, either.
It's not (necessarily) stealing, all depends on the mindset you're in when you're taking it
Welcome to the real world. Management = retarded.
FTFY
Mozilla websites on the other hand I can't complain about, from the top off my head
Try this page... :-)
That would make a killer cheap firewall device.
Wouldn't it make more sense to buy an off-the-shelf router instead, and put OpenWRT or DD-WRT on it? Smaller, even cheaper, less power consumption and hardware specialized for the task.
Insightful? Don't you just love it when some goofball logs in as AC with an ignorant luddite remark, then logs in and mods himelf up, then logs in under his sock puppet and "hey! I Gots me some mod points on this sucker, too!"
Hehe, this is Slashdot...
a video of your last "download"
Of your last (core) dump. If you try to be funny, at least try to get your puns right :-)
Much less strain on the wrists
But much more strain on your arms and shoulders. Just imagine yourself holding your arms up all day long while still moving your hands in a very precise motion... your back must hurt like hell at the end of the day. Or mine certainly would...
Straight guys do NOT "become gay" just because they are behind razor wire.
But what about some gay guys raping a straight guy? Razor wire makes sure that handsome straight guy doesn't escape...
I'd like to see a link of the heart attack during robbery issue - seeing as heart disease is the #1 killer, and it's a result of growing old and/or lifestyle, how can the robber really be to blame?
So just sue the local McDonalds instead!
(and worrying about ass raping)
hehe, and the prison guards will even have it on camera!
Do anything as a recruiter however tangentially far fetched as long as it directly involves potential recruits, OK.
But make sure not to leave any white (... or worse: brown...) stains on the back seat...
Busy computers consume more electricity. And electricity costs real money. Now some this up over all the customer who unknowingly lost a couple of cents like this, and suddenly we are talking real money. One of the rare cases where the "theft" label is appropriate for a digital crime.
I'm not sure if this is still relevant, but at one point it was the major culprit for excess syncs [mozilla.org] and it is indeed configurable. It's probably more informative to read the bug comments and see the diff than for me to paraphrase.
According to some of the comments on this bug, the relevant setting is toolkit.storage.synchronous
On recent firefoxen (tested on 12.0), this is 0 by default, however firefox still performs the occasional fsync, especially when opening or closing a new tab, and when following links.
The studies have shown that married people have more sex than the unmarried
Not after they've got kids. Then they're daily schedule is so full that there is just no time for further sex.
Probably because they're not gay bars. If it was "The Man Hole" or "Rod's" or "The Hairy Bear", you would be more familiar.
Non-sequitur: why would a gay patron care about the female/male ratio? Or do you see any restaurant posting online how many fruit-flies it has buzzing around in its dining room?
but it still happens a couple times over the course of a month for various reasons (power flickers and the like)
If "power flickers" happen that often to you, maybe you should have the electrical wiring in you home examined. Or maybe, with your grid, you need an UPS?
Linux was a fun toy and nothing more before ext3 because ext2 is the most destructible filesystem on earth. Don't get me wrong, I played with that toy but that is all it was.
What a load of rubbish! Linux was perfectly usable and stable even before ext3 came around, and perfectly fit to be used as a mission critical server! (which many companies actually did!)
The reason why ext3 was eventually needed is because disks became big enough that fsck was starting to take unreasonably long times (in the rare event of a crash), and so something more efficient was needed.
However, application developers cannot rely on the OS to sync data in the background, because e.g. on a laptop where frequent disk access is both expensive (battery life) and risky (physical motion), the OS will cache as much as possible.
Good point. And as a user, I don't want firefox to waste battery power and to expose my harddisk to unneeded risk due to access during physical motion. So how can I, as a user, disable these excessive sync()s in firefox?
It doesn't sound like a big deal, but I can tell you that it is infuriating as a user to see a browser say, "whoops, I lost your tabbed windows, hope you weren't using the WWW for anything important!".
It's more infuriating to lose all the data on my hard disk because the car I'm riding in shook a little during one of those many unneeded syncs.
Why o why do firefox developers think that they have to second-guess both the users and the OS developers? Guys, if you're that concerned about preserving the precious browsing history, start by not tossing it away deliberately just because the site happened to use SSL.
By far, the predominate OS that FF runs on is Windows. Thus, the developers are concerned about frequent OS crashes.
Then, the sync should be conditional on the OS it is running on, and disabled on Linux.
And even on Windows, it should be configurable. Some users might care more about appropriate battery life than about their browser history in the rare event of a crash. Even Windows crashes much less nowadays than it used to...
I searched "best web browser" on Google and the second result was mozilla.org
They "fixed" it. Now the first result is a review site showing Chrome as the winner and Firefox a close second.
The second hit is chrome directly.
but their list could include other items like ... subways are underground.
Not always true. Many have elevated sections.
subways have stations.
Agreed. Hard to imagine an exception to this without making the system useless...
subways have purpose built trains
Not necessarily true. The planned Luxembourg "City Tunnel" (project Schummer) would run with regular trains (one of its main selling points by the way. Regular trains would just enter the subway system at city boundaries, so people don't need to get off the train and on a subway)
subways have ticket, coin, or other payment systems.
Not necessarily true either. The Serfaus Dorfbahn, smallest subway in the world is free of charge.
What are they going to net in a sweep like this? Mostly patients like the above and delivery trucks with boxes of smoke detectors or lantern gas mantles. Maybe a few scientists.
Or banana trucks...
(Ok, ok, as the mod shows, it was meant to be funny, but still...)
But I admire him for his courage to speak out loudly what many only dare to think to themselves in their head.
Same goes about his thoughts about some "non-standard" sexual practices by the way. As long as all participants do it willingly, and none is hurt, why bother? If some practices are to be condemned universally, even when not hurtful, then why are their opponents always trotting out examples involving coercion, cruelty and violence to revile them?