I'll bet this sent them over the top, more than the sex. Marijuana has somehow come to be regarded by certain people as the most dangerous possible thing. They were trying to make it the #1 national priority before the whole "war on terrorism" thing started to compete.
"Get big fans and run them at lower RPMs. I know a lot of people are concerned over heat. Truth is, computers can run really fucking hot with no problems. 50c is a good number to be happy with. Even 60c isn't a big problem. Just make sure the hard drives are getting cool, fresh air."
I would consider those temperatures to be *the goal* for cooling. My P4 hits 74c with the fan turned all the way up, 20c ambient. Zalman fansink, good thermal paste, Antec case.
"Doesn't make the system any less half assed though, the rad sucks (come on, Zalman 7700 Al/Cu? there is like an thousand better rads, ditto for using the stock Zalman fan), the FX-57 is stupid, the WD drives are far from silent,...:
It would have been useful to me, had you suggested what would be better.
The Zalman 7's are the quietest fansinks I know about. I found Samsung SP drives to be surprisingly quiet, not even considering how cheap they are. Also, none of my applications require anything from a video card except 2-D desktop, and they need to not interfere with audio or USB.
"Why not just pick up an Antec Sonata case. It's only about a $100 and it sounds like it's alot quieter than this half assed setup."
The Sonata is disappointingly not so quiet. The Antec P-150 is quieter off the shelf. I'm in the unfortunate position of needing to use a PC within reach of a piano. In that environment, it's amazing how loud and distracting "-27dB" can be.
"The question to be put to such wags is this: How would *you* get something accomplished as a party that has zero power in the government? There really isn't much you can do, is there?"
It's inaccurate to say that the minority party has "zero power" in the government, although it does appear that way on a number of issues.
But it's important to note that the Democratic Party expects to overtake a majority in both houses of Congress in 2007, and win the Presidential election in 2008. I assume the new administration will then take advantage of the unprecedented amount of authority that has been ascribed to the Executive Branch by the current admin.
Whether you believe the Democrats will be successful in 2006 or 2008 is a topic for alt.politics.*.
>The FCC does not like open source software programmable radio drivers.
But most OSS driver developers live outside the reach of the FCC, and yet, we *still* don't have drivers. It's been impossible to specify, as in a purchase order, a Linux machine with wireless support, because even if you give a specific manufacturer and model number from the compatability list, the few that are actually available, likely have different chipsets.
I know there's NDISWrapper, and I know Broadcom won't release specs, etc. But where are all these smart geeks in Europe and so on, with their great tools and techniques for reverse engineering, who can make Broadcom irrelevant?
"Remember, the best time to fix errors in your reports is now, not a couple of days before getting a home mortgage."
Once you get that mortgage, you'll start getting a LOT more solicitations from credit card companies, and also from mortgage lenders. The letters from mortgage lenders are scary. They will refer to the name of your lender, the balance you owe, and all kinds of very specific stuff. The outside of the envelope will claim vaguely enough that there is important financial information eclosed, that you won't be able to take it straight to the shredder.
If you set out to incite your armed rebellion, you will quickly discover that the time is *not* now, and that relatively few people have decided that it would be better to die in the opposition of tyranny than to endure it for another day. Most importantly, there is no such issue that is so divisive as to bring large parts of the military, whole chains of command together with the civilian industry, finance, and supply of raw materials, in line with your revolutionary cause. Things simply aren't that bad now. People will choose to live another day, rather than risk their lives in the hope that others may throw off shackles.
Generally, any attempt to map the "Car" idiom onto any legal question regarding Cyberspace, will make a poor fit. Nevertheless, someone always tries to do it.
>Tell that to our government, who have made retailers change over from signature-backed debit >cards to Chip and PIN in the false pretence that this is "more secure" and will "cut fraud".
What law would that be? I use a debit card all the time as "Credit", which is signature authenticated.
"Since I shred my papers, possibly I am destroying 'possible evidence' for any future law suit?"
If you did it after the lawsuit has been filed, and probably before it's been filed, if the data you destroyed is subject to discovery, then you are destroying evidence. Consult an attorney who is licensed to practice law in your jurisdiction and preferably who has experience in Records Management.
There are situations where keeping too much data is a liability, and other situations where things should be kept. Some of this falls under Records Management Best Practices, and some of it is governed by law, or by company policy.
Deleting data isn't necessarily a crime, but destroying evidence which is subject to discovery in a civil or criminal process is, even if you're Arthur Anderson.
"- Books show more of the surrounding text than any ebook reader I've seen. For some reason that's important to me. Just seeing a couple of sentences on the screen bugs me."
It's extremely important to perception. You may only read a word or two at a time, but you actually perceive the whole page. This is particularly important when there is text together with images -- it's operant on both hemispheres in measurable ways.
I'd go further than this, and suggest that the ability to flip between arbitrary pages has a cognitive effect that's not quite modelled properly by scrolling or virtual page flipping.
That said, I find that reference material works best in files (I don't really care about the people who want to force the idea of digital files into some "e-book" idiom), and entertainment material works best in books. It depends on whether I'm consuming the book for information or for immersion, as to which I prefer.
As a collector, I find that the shelves with the books are themselves important, and the fact that I live around the corner from a used bookstore with a huge sci-fi section is no coincidence.
*Violating* the GPL, which is a specialization of violating copyright law, could expose you to civil litigation. Failure to anticipate such a risk might get you into Sox territory. But if that's what it takes to get your company to abide by basic laws such as copyright, you probably have much bigger problems than Sox compliance.
It's not about terrorism. It never was about terrorism. It's all part of a grand conspiracy to bring absolute power into the Democratic party. That's not a typo. The effect of the eight years of the current Republican administration will be to completely discredit the Republican party. But while in office, the Republican party has taken more authority into all three branches of government than ever before in history -- and at every step of the way, done everything possible to ensure that when this authority is handed over, it will be given *all at once* to an incoming government which will be overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats.
It's an amazingly ingenious coup. Unprecedented by any in history. I don't know whether the Republicans are in on the scam, or if they are unwitting stooges. Either way, in a couple of years, *absolute* power is going to be handed over, from the Republicans, to the Democrats, and there's nothing that could stop it from happening.
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>group of teens smoking pot
I'll bet this sent them over the top, more than the sex. Marijuana has somehow come to be regarded by certain people as the most dangerous possible thing. They were trying to make it the #1 national priority before the whole "war on terrorism" thing started to compete.
> Why not grab the cheaper components and shove the machine in a cupboard?
I can't find 10 meter vga and usb cables.
"Get big fans and run them at lower RPMs. I know a lot of people are concerned over heat. Truth is, computers can run really fucking hot with no problems. 50c is a good number to be happy with. Even 60c isn't a big problem. Just make sure the hard drives are getting cool, fresh air."
I would consider those temperatures to be *the goal* for cooling. My P4 hits 74c with the fan turned all the way up, 20c ambient. Zalman fansink, good thermal paste, Antec case.
> A fishtank filled with silicone oil works better. Complete silence.
How much that weigh? How does it smell?
"Doesn't make the system any less half assed though, the rad sucks (come on, Zalman 7700 Al/Cu? there is like an thousand better rads, ditto for using the stock Zalman fan), the FX-57 is stupid, the WD drives are far from silent, ...:
It would have been useful to me, had you suggested what would be better.
The Zalman 7's are the quietest fansinks I know about. I found Samsung SP drives to be surprisingly quiet, not even considering how cheap they are. Also, none of my applications require anything from a video card except 2-D desktop, and they need to not interfere with audio or USB.
"Why not just pick up an Antec Sonata case. It's only about a $100 and it sounds like it's alot quieter than this half assed setup."
The Sonata is disappointingly not so quiet. The Antec P-150 is quieter off the shelf. I'm in the unfortunate position of needing to use a PC within reach of a piano. In that environment, it's amazing how loud and distracting "-27dB" can be.
"The question to be put to such wags is this: How would *you* get something accomplished as a party that has zero power in the government? There really isn't much you can do, is there?"
It's inaccurate to say that the minority party has "zero power" in the government, although it does appear that way on a number of issues.
But it's important to note that the Democratic Party expects to overtake a majority in both houses of Congress in 2007, and win the Presidential election in 2008. I assume the new administration will then take advantage of the unprecedented amount of authority that has been ascribed to the Executive Branch by the current admin.
Whether you believe the Democrats will be successful in 2006 or 2008 is a topic for alt.politics.*.
>The FCC does not like open source software programmable radio drivers.
But most OSS driver developers live outside the reach of the FCC, and yet, we *still* don't have drivers. It's been impossible to specify, as in a purchase order, a Linux machine with wireless support, because even if you give a specific manufacturer and model number from the compatability list, the few that are actually available, likely have different chipsets.
I know there's NDISWrapper, and I know Broadcom won't release specs, etc. But where are all these smart geeks in Europe and so on, with their great tools and techniques for reverse engineering, who can make Broadcom irrelevant?
>Maybe in some states, but definitely not all of them.
It is still the case in some states, but they all give the option of an alternative.
"Remember, the best time to fix errors in your reports is now, not a couple of days before getting a home mortgage."
Once you get that mortgage, you'll start getting a LOT more solicitations from credit card companies, and also from mortgage lenders. The letters from mortgage lenders are scary. They will refer to the name of your lender, the balance you owe, and all kinds of very specific stuff. The outside of the envelope will claim vaguely enough that there is important financial information eclosed, that you won't be able to take it straight to the shredder.
>Is "going forward" actual legal terminology?
No, it's business jargon, yes, a buzzword. Whether you regard this language as nonsense, or necessary, depends on who you need to persuade.
>>without entangling us in litigation going forward
>What is this "going forward" nonsense?
It's not nonsense, it's important to distinguish current litigation from hypothetical or planned future litigation.
If you set out to incite your armed rebellion, you will quickly discover that the time is *not* now, and that relatively few people have decided that it would be better to die in the opposition of tyranny than to endure it for another day. Most importantly, there is no such issue that is so divisive as to bring large parts of the military, whole chains of command together with the civilian industry, finance, and supply of raw materials, in line with your revolutionary cause. Things simply aren't that bad now. People will choose to live another day, rather than risk their lives in the hope that others may throw off shackles.
>I think this is a really bad analogy.
Generally, any attempt to map the "Car" idiom onto any legal question regarding Cyberspace, will make a poor fit. Nevertheless, someone always tries to do it.
" Oh yeah. That'll be great. Uncontrollable, violent and now... armed and enabled! Watch out world!"
You do realize that the same bullies often join the police force anyway, right?
>Are you sure you are thinking of the same government as my e-mail address suggests?
CitiBank is a US company, the crime happened in the US, and you wanted to make an issue of the laws of some foreign government?
>Tell that to our government, who have made retailers change over from signature-backed debit
>cards to Chip and PIN in the false pretence that this is "more secure" and will "cut fraud".
What law would that be? I use a debit card all the time as "Credit", which is signature authenticated.
"Since I shred my papers, possibly I am destroying 'possible evidence' for any future law suit?"
If you did it after the lawsuit has been filed, and probably before it's been filed, if the data you destroyed is subject to discovery, then you are destroying evidence. Consult an attorney who is licensed to practice law in your jurisdiction and preferably who has experience in Records Management.
There are situations where keeping too much data is a liability, and other situations where things should be kept. Some of this falls under Records Management Best Practices, and some of it is governed by law, or by company policy.
Deleting data isn't necessarily a crime, but destroying evidence which is subject to discovery in a civil or criminal process is, even if you're Arthur Anderson.
Whatever he used to delete the files, was definitely just contributing to the privacy problem by leaving a fingerprint that it was used.
"- Books show more of the surrounding text than any ebook reader I've seen. For some reason that's important to me. Just seeing a couple of sentences on the screen bugs me."
It's extremely important to perception. You may only read a word or two at a time, but you actually perceive the whole page. This is particularly important when there is text together with images -- it's operant on both hemispheres in measurable ways.
I'd go further than this, and suggest that the ability to flip between arbitrary pages has a cognitive effect that's not quite modelled properly by scrolling or virtual page flipping.
That said, I find that reference material works best in files (I don't really care about the people who want to force the idea of digital files into some "e-book" idiom), and entertainment material works best in books. It depends on whether I'm consuming the book for information or for immersion, as to which I prefer.
As a collector, I find that the shelves with the books are themselves important, and the fact that I live around the corner from a used bookstore with a huge sci-fi section is no coincidence.
If you'd told me not to bother with Ringworld Throne, I'd have been grateful.
>Solution for NIMBY, put it in their front yard.
Front yard, back yard, whatever, just make sure it's the house of the CEO of the company that made the stuff.
*Violating* the GPL, which is a specialization of violating copyright law, could expose you to civil litigation. Failure to anticipate such a risk might get you into Sox territory. But if that's what it takes to get your company to abide by basic laws such as copyright, you probably have much bigger problems than Sox compliance.
It's not about terrorism. It never was about terrorism. It's all part of a grand conspiracy to bring absolute power into the Democratic party. That's not a typo. The effect of the eight years of the current Republican administration will be to completely discredit the Republican party. But while in office, the Republican party has taken more authority into all three branches of government than ever before in history -- and at every step of the way, done everything possible to ensure that when this authority is handed over, it will be given *all at once* to an incoming government which will be overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats.
It's an amazingly ingenious coup. Unprecedented by any in history. I don't know whether the Republicans are in on the scam, or if they are unwitting stooges. Either way, in a couple of years, *absolute* power is going to be handed over, from the Republicans, to the Democrats, and there's nothing that could stop it from happening.