Pretty simple solution is to get a NAS like the Synology box (http://www.synology.com) and then set up some sort of offsite backup as well. Just remember that pictures are really not a replaceable sort of thing. If I lost pictures of my kids or of places I've been there is no way I could ever re-create them. If I lose my resume, or my tax forms, or even my music collection, who cares? Pictures of my kids standing for the first time? I'll pay some extra money to have multiple copies in multiple locations. This is not the place to skimp.
This really is *NOT* a good example... estimates from 2008 put the world population at 6,706,993,152.1% of that is 6,706,993
If almost 7 million people in the world are going on a shooting spree then I'm getting that cabin in the woods I've always wanted. Next time go for like 5 or 6 nines.
The problem with spam isn't that people send out 35 billion emails... it is that SOMEONE out there is clicking on it. They just need one person out there to respond and they have made money...
The correct solution to this spam problem is to keep these places up. Find out who it was that actually responded and either 1) Go educate them about what they're doing 2) Show them how to shop on their own for hair growth and penis enlargement 3) Take away their internet connection
If they weren't making any money, they wouldn't be doing it.
It is like prostitution... Prostitution doesn't exist for the sake of existing. It exists because people will pay for sex. If everyone, everywhere stopped visiting prostitutes then there wouldn't be prostitutes for very much longer. They would have to get other jobs to survive.
There is a major difference though... Almost without exception everyone that made the jump to XP found it to be a better running windows system than what they were previously on (regardless of whether they were previously 95, ME, 2000.) When they made the change they didn't regret it immediately, or 2 months later.
Now jump forward to Vista and almost without exception everyone that made the jump to vista absolutely detests it. Every person I know that runs it just talks about (or actually does) go back to XP. Most immediately but some not until 2 months later when they find some incompatibility issue.
Listen. And understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. (Or your arm is broken....)
Got Apple QT installed on an XP box and I can't play this video. I don't know that I've ever seen QuickTime tell me I didn't have a codec on a.mov file.
I'm a loss...gSpot doesn't understand the.mov file so what do I need to play this? Oh and they're calling it a compressor in my error message...
I'm more excited by the idea of miniature elephants. My friend in college always talked about how she wanted to someday have a little miniature elephant as a pet. Something dog-sized, like a "Pot-Bellied Elephant".
I too thought that would be great. I wonder if there is any DNA left over for them to be cloned. Those could sell better than the current designer pets like the labradoodle.
Think about it! Small, pettable, and it has a trunk and makes that nifty elephant noise and it trundles about your house. Amazing.
That's interesting because my goal would absolutely be shorter travel times. Seriously if my ticket to AUS costs $3500 and takes 20 hours, or I can make it there in 1 hour for $7000. Easy choice for me.
As long as my luggage (and my wife) are rated for 5g's on re-entry.;)
First something would need to break that would be applying more throttle than intended. That could be electronic malfunction or the throttle cable could get stuck.
Next your transmission would need to get stuck. As someone stated a couple articles up, why can't you just shift into neutral and coast to a stop?
Even if those two items broke simultaneously, your brakes would need to fail to keep you from stopping. These are hydrolic systems that are controlled by some form of electronic assisstance so that could theoretically just stop functioning, or you could get a fluid leak, master cylinder could die, etc...
Now even if all those three items happened, what about your emergency break? I don't know about you, but mine is a nice little cable that bypasses any kind of hydrolics and squeezes those calipers.
So in order for this to happen all these different kind of systems would need to break at the same time.
I put better odds on me winning the lottery and I don't even play.
I would really have appreciated not having the content of this on the front page. This kind of ruins the intrigue of watching the show and wondering "I wonder if he'll win again tonight"
I'm not too impressed Michael for revealing this. It just isn't right for folks like me that actually like to watch the show.
Even being a tech savvy person I got fed up with the WEP encryption "peculiarities" that crop up from different manufacturers etc...
So being an engineer and a project leader I sat down and actually thought about the problem. What do I actually do on my wireless. Well every once in a while I log on to look up something on IMDB when I don't feel like walking upstairs. More often than not I'm logging into work from my work laptop.
Now when I log into work, I'm using an encrypted VPN. Why would I need another layer on top of that? Now if someone was REALLY motivated to get my data, it would probably be easier to just walk into my house and take the laptop out of my hands than to do the work decrypting the VPN stuff.
So that being said, I opted for restricting the wireless stuff to just a couple of MAC addresses (my laptop and the MAC addy's of a couple friends that come to visit), no WEP encryption and that is it. All the other machines I have are hard-wired, and I try to keep everything as up to date as possible as far as patches go.
Any thoughts, opinions on this line of reasoning? It seems to make sense to me, but I'm not an expert on it by any means.
If the record companies want an increase, why don't they show us where all the money is going? If they're not just lining their own CEO's and VP's pockets with extra cash, maybe the general populace would be a lot more receptive.
I want to see the breakdown of the $0.99 song and of the $1.29 song
$0.05 - Artist $0.10 - Production $0.10 - Advertising $0.05 - Distributor (apple, sony, etc that distribute the actual content to the consumer) $0.69 - Crappy executives that are earning about 69x more than they are actually worth.
I want to know what the fixed and variable portions of the price breakdown are.
Once industries learn that the consumer is not a babbling idiot I think the world will get a lot nicer. Treat me like a logical person. Look I understand that if I love Artist X, and everyone downloads artist X's music for free, and Artist X doesn't see a profit, Artist X is probably not going to make any more albums for me to enjoy.It *IS* that simple.
The revolution I seek is not for FREE things, but it is to appropriately compensate those doing the work and cut out the fat cats of the RIAA and execs that just live off the fat of the land. I'm not here to shaft the artist at all, I'm here to shaft the leeches that are parasites clinging to and feeding off of the actual artists. The artist deserves money, the producers, the sound workers, all deserve to get compensated for their work, but I'd venture to say that most of the other costs are not really value adding to the product we receive.
Love me, hate me. I want a world when you get what you deserve.
Practically everything I own, the hard drives, the IPAQ, the Zen, the car, the thumbdrive, the DVD player, everything can be completely taken apart and circumvented in some way shape or form. Nothing besides fear of me breaking it is preventing me from tearing apart my Nomad Zen and bypassing their firmware chip and using my own home made one.
So in all seriousness how far can the DMCA actually extend? If I use a screwdriver to open my zen and do that, is Craftsman liable under the DMCA for providing me with circumvention tools? Most everything we interact with has some digital component that COULD potentially fall under some subclause or subsection of the DMCA as it is written.
So what is the furthest that it has gone? How far can it go? And how far will it go before we realize what we've done?
I did have food growing up. Wouldn't consider us priveleged by any stretch of the imagination while I was growing up. We were a military family.
If both your parents were hit by a truck on your way home from the hospital and paralyzed and were no longer able to perform their previously well paying jobs, and were unable to get other jobs to support you then that really is a shame. But I've got to believe that that is the exception, not the standard.
Now as to your situation. The questions to ask are 1) Were your parents above or below the poverty line at the time of your conception? 2) If they were below, and could not support themselves then they should not have had children that they would in turn not be able to support. If they were above, then why did they fall below? Having a child is a responsibility that you take on for a good ~20 years. Before I have a child I have to make a committment to myself that I will do whatever job(s) neccesary to make sure that I'm feeding, clothing, and providing for my child. That is a decision you should CONCIOUSLY make. If you had a child by mistake then, well you'd better hurry up and make that same committment I just talked about.
Libretarianism is as absolutely flawed as every other political banner. There is no perfect platform that will please everyone, benefit everyone, etc... There are many many things I disagree with libertarians about, but the amazing and unstoppable expansion of government into every facet of our lives is one that I cannot help but agree with. This kind of socio-political integration and coupling can only end in tears.
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I'd also like to see a driver rating floating above each car on a heads up display through my windscreen. One star?! Stay the hell away from that guy!
Pretty simple solution is to get a NAS like the Synology box (http://www.synology.com) and then set up some sort of offsite backup as well. Just remember that pictures are really not a replaceable sort of thing. If I lost pictures of my kids or of places I've been there is no way I could ever re-create them. If I lose my resume, or my tax forms, or even my music collection, who cares? Pictures of my kids standing for the first time? I'll pay some extra money to have multiple copies in multiple locations. This is not the place to skimp.
Buy whatever the hell you want and just break the camera with an awl or open it up and remove it completely. Easy peasy.
This really is *NOT* a good example... estimates from 2008 put the world population at 6,706,993,152 .1% of that is 6,706,993
If almost 7 million people in the world are going on a shooting spree then I'm getting that cabin in the woods I've always wanted. Next time go for like 5 or 6 nines.
Okay...I guess for those people we need to add:
4) Beat mercilessly with a pipe
The problem with spam isn't that people send out 35 billion emails... it is that SOMEONE out there is clicking on it. They just need one person out there to respond and they have made money...
The correct solution to this spam problem is to keep these places up. Find out who it was that actually responded and either
1) Go educate them about what they're doing
2) Show them how to shop on their own for hair growth and penis enlargement
3) Take away their internet connection
If they weren't making any money, they wouldn't be doing it.
It is like prostitution... Prostitution doesn't exist for the sake of existing. It exists because people will pay for sex. If everyone, everywhere stopped visiting prostitutes then there wouldn't be prostitutes for very much longer. They would have to get other jobs to survive.
There is a major difference though... Almost without exception everyone that made the jump to XP found it to be a better running windows system than what they were previously on (regardless of whether they were previously 95, ME, 2000.) When they made the change they didn't regret it immediately, or 2 months later.
Now jump forward to Vista and almost without exception everyone that made the jump to vista absolutely detests it. Every person I know that runs it just talks about (or actually does) go back to XP. Most immediately but some not until 2 months later when they find some incompatibility issue.
Listen. And understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead. (Or your arm is broken....)
Top human cloning expert gets "humiliated." Great. Now this guy is going to go bat-shit insane, move to some small island and start wreaking havoc.
Next article is going to be "Humiliated cloning experts buys thousands of linen suits, panama hats, and a cane then moves to small tropical island."
Great....
Got Apple QT installed on an XP box and I can't play this video. I don't know that I've ever seen QuickTime tell me I didn't have a codec on a .mov file.
.mov file so what do I need to play this? Oh and they're calling it a compressor in my error message...
I'm a loss...gSpot doesn't understand the
Sound works great though.
But if the elephant is already miniature, there is no need to splice with a pig.
That is why the small elephant is so awesome.
I'm more excited by the idea of miniature elephants. My friend in college always talked about how she wanted to someday have a little miniature elephant as a pet. Something dog-sized, like a "Pot-Bellied Elephant".
I too thought that would be great. I wonder if there is any DNA left over for them to be cloned. Those could sell better than the current designer pets like the labradoodle.
Think about it! Small, pettable, and it has a trunk and makes that nifty elephant noise and it trundles about your house. Amazing.
Who the hell is going to accept payment in the form of linked libraries?
That's interesting because my goal would absolutely be shorter travel times. Seriously if my ticket to AUS costs $3500 and takes 20 hours, or I can make it there in 1 hour for $7000. Easy choice for me.
;)
As long as my luggage (and my wife) are rated for 5g's on re-entry.
I thought my question broke slashdot. :) You're not *THE* Stroustrup are you?
Definately interesting stuff. Did not know about the Vel Satis parking brake "Feature"
;)
I might be a bit old school here, but I like my cars with a bit of manual control still in them. Much easier to work on too.
Thank god for my manual that doesn't do a lot of that thinking for me. :)
I didn't know that you were required to pull on the emergency brake with all your human strength and lock up the wheels.
:)
Mine can be pulled gradually to ease to a stop.
Granted I've never tested that theory at over 100mph, and I certainly don't plan to.
hehehehe
First something would need to break that would be applying more throttle than intended. That could be electronic malfunction or the throttle cable could get stuck.
Next your transmission would need to get stuck. As someone stated a couple articles up, why can't you just shift into neutral and coast to a stop?
Even if those two items broke simultaneously, your brakes would need to fail to keep you from stopping. These are hydrolic systems that are controlled by some form of electronic assisstance so that could theoretically just stop functioning, or you could get a fluid leak, master cylinder could die, etc...
Now even if all those three items happened, what about your emergency break? I don't know about you, but mine is a nice little cable that bypasses any kind of hydrolics and squeezes those calipers.
So in order for this to happen all these different kind of systems would need to break at the same time.
I put better odds on me winning the lottery and I don't even play.
They should know that 400 pounds is not sufficient to represent the average Star Trek Fan.
Much less two of them.
I would really have appreciated not having the content of this on the front page. This kind of ruins the intrigue of watching the show and wondering "I wonder if he'll win again tonight"
I'm not too impressed Michael for revealing this. It just isn't right for folks like me that actually like to watch the show.
Even being a tech savvy person I got fed up with the WEP encryption "peculiarities" that crop up from different manufacturers etc...
So being an engineer and a project leader I sat down and actually thought about the problem. What do I actually do on my wireless. Well every once in a while I log on to look up something on IMDB when I don't feel like walking upstairs. More often than not I'm logging into work from my work laptop.
Now when I log into work, I'm using an encrypted VPN. Why would I need another layer on top of that? Now if someone was REALLY motivated to get my data, it would probably be easier to just walk into my house and take the laptop out of my hands than to do the work decrypting the VPN stuff.
So that being said, I opted for restricting the wireless stuff to just a couple of MAC addresses (my laptop and the MAC addy's of a couple friends that come to visit), no WEP encryption and that is it. All the other machines I have are hard-wired, and I try to keep everything as up to date as possible as far as patches go.
Any thoughts, opinions on this line of reasoning? It seems to make sense to me, but I'm not an expert on it by any means.
If the record companies want an increase, why don't they show us where all the money is going? If they're not just lining their own CEO's and VP's pockets with extra cash, maybe the general populace would be a lot more receptive.
I want to see the breakdown of the $0.99 song and of the $1.29 song
$0.05 - Artist
$0.10 - Production
$0.10 - Advertising
$0.05 - Distributor (apple, sony, etc that distribute the actual content to the consumer)
$0.69 - Crappy executives that are earning about 69x more than they are actually worth.
I want to know what the fixed and variable portions of the price breakdown are.
Once industries learn that the consumer is not a babbling idiot I think the world will get a lot nicer. Treat me like a logical person. Look I understand that if I love Artist X, and everyone downloads artist X's music for free, and Artist X doesn't see a profit, Artist X is probably not going to make any more albums for me to enjoy.It *IS* that simple.
The revolution I seek is not for FREE things, but it is to appropriately compensate those doing the work and cut out the fat cats of the RIAA and execs that just live off the fat of the land. I'm not here to shaft the artist at all, I'm here to shaft the leeches that are parasites clinging to and feeding off of the actual artists. The artist deserves money, the producers, the sound workers, all deserve to get compensated for their work, but I'd venture to say that most of the other costs are not really value adding to the product we receive.
Love me, hate me. I want a world when you get what you deserve.
Practically everything I own, the hard drives, the IPAQ, the Zen, the car, the thumbdrive, the DVD player, everything can be completely taken apart and circumvented in some way shape or form. Nothing besides fear of me breaking it is preventing me from tearing apart my Nomad Zen and bypassing their firmware chip and using my own home made one.
So in all seriousness how far can the DMCA actually extend? If I use a screwdriver to open my zen and do that, is Craftsman liable under the DMCA for providing me with circumvention tools? Most everything we interact with has some digital component that COULD potentially fall under some subclause or subsection of the DMCA as it is written.
So what is the furthest that it has gone? How far can it go? And how far will it go before we realize what we've done?
I did have food growing up. Wouldn't consider us priveleged by any stretch of the imagination while I was growing up. We were a military family.
If both your parents were hit by a truck on your way home from the hospital and paralyzed and were no longer able to perform their previously well paying jobs, and were unable to get other jobs to support you then that really is a shame. But I've got to believe that that is the exception, not the standard.
Now as to your situation. The questions to ask are
1) Were your parents above or below the poverty line at the time of your conception?
2) If they were below, and could not support themselves then they should not have had children that they would in turn not be able to support. If they were above, then why did they fall below? Having a child is a responsibility that you take on for a good ~20 years. Before I have a child I have to make a committment to myself that I will do whatever job(s) neccesary to make sure that I'm feeding, clothing, and providing for my child. That is a decision you should CONCIOUSLY make. If you had a child by mistake then, well you'd better hurry up and make that same committment I just talked about.
Libretarianism is as absolutely flawed as every other political banner. There is no perfect platform that will please everyone, benefit everyone, etc... There are many many things I disagree with libertarians about, but the amazing and unstoppable expansion of government into every facet of our lives is one that I cannot help but agree with. This kind of socio-political integration and coupling can only end in tears.