Yes, it is a series of tubes. People like to use the tube remark as a sound bite to imply stupidity about the internet, but data pathways have frequently been called "tunnels" and "pipes". Calling them tubes is exactly as accurate and exactly as legitimate of a description of what the data connections are.
The increase of resolution in modern systems over older ones should have lead to MORE split screen games. I have always said that the SNES was the system that crossed over to games looking good without having to add 'for the system'. Yes, there were limits on the styles of graphics that looked good, but many still looked good. It shouldn't be a problem to get good looking games split screen on a modern system if you don't define good looking as lots of pixels.
When I first moved in with my wife, she was literrally spending in the range of 6 hours a week doing her laundry. It now takes her about 15 minutes a week, and that is with me and my son added to the load. You need to take a closer look at why these things take you so long.
Bingo. Just have human filters. This also means that every page request will be delayed long enough for the reviewer to read over the content to make sure that there is no porn.
Funny, mine was to point out that our society doesn't really give me the opportunity to see things from their shoes, so I would suggest that they:
1) Buy me flowers.
2) Buy me candy.
3) Have sex with me.
4) Not call me in the morning.
I have always felt that this would really teach me what a woman has to go through. In fact, I still don't think I've learned my leason. Of course, I'm not in High School anymore, so they should take me on a trip, and only book one room, so I feel obliged to have sex with them.
Yes, but when you type on a keyboard, you are still typing. 'keyboarding' started getting used when all of those Apple IIs were brought into the schools, and they wanted to give the impression that the kids were learning something more advanced than just 'typing' This is likely what is happening in High School 'Computer Science'. If you can't get improvement, then give it a good title.
It should be at Administration-->Remote Access-->Web GUI Management
As for stringing cables. If the router is not in a place that you can just walk up to it, having a cable 'strung around' is irrelevant. There are wires strung around your whole house behind the walls, under the floors, and in the attic. If it is where you can walk right up to it, don't leave the cable strung around. Plug it in as needed.
That being said, security on your router isn't any different than any other security you might have. You decide how badly you need to protect the asset, and what level of security is worth it. No doubt you have locks on your doors. Locks on your doors is really quite a pain. I, likely you, and most other people feel it is worth the extra effort tough. Some feel the extra cost/effort of having bars on their windows. Most people don't. Certainly, it is easier for a criminal to use the universal key for sliding glass doors (a rock) than it is to get through bars. Of course, even bars won't stop someone from taking a reciprocal saw to your walls to get in. Each person has to decide how much risk they are willing to take in exchange for convenience.
If the router must be in the attic and you still want security at the lest effort/visibility, I would suggest finding a closet, and putting a network connection with a faceplate in the back corner ceiling. Then from the attic, run the cable to the router. This way, if you need to make a change, you can just plug into the network socket in the back of the closet when you need to make changes. The installation will be as trivial as installing the router itself, it won't look any worse than your electrical outlets. No cables will be 'strung around'.
If you cannot trust the key that the bank physically hands you, the bank has already been comprimised, and there is NO security that you can take to prevent abuse of the bank's system. The OP didn't say that it would provide absolute security from every possible way your accound could be hacked. Nothing ever will. It DOES remove a significant vector of attack.
After reading the article published by the guardian, I have to say that it supports Assange. There is nothing in there that indicates rape. (even by the definition that is being claimed exists for Sweden.)
It does pain a bizarre picture of Swedish women though. Claims like since he ripped her shirt off, she had to have sex with him. After all, it had gone too far. That would be a bizarre claim coming from a drunk fluzy that you picked up at a bar, but given that this woman was competent enough to host an international convention, it just sounds...bizarre. Is it common among Swedish women to feel like they have already gone so far that they cannot say no if a guy rips their shirt off?
Then there is the claim by the other woman that they were just 'joking' when they were discussing getting paid for the story of getting 'raped'. I know that Sweden has some really long nights, but is their comedy really so dark, that you would crack jokes to women about their recent raping?
Everything about these claims seems seems fishy, including the statements coming from the women themselves. While I have seen/read/heard many reports of rape in the media, I have to say that this is the first one that ever reported on the 'victim' evaluating the quality of the raping.
I would go just the opposite, and say that just because some people use it as an excuse, it is no reason for the government, insurance, and medical industries to continue using a flawed system, and beating the entire population over the head with it.
So, a woman who has dated the same guy for 3 years, is out of school, has a job, votes, and maybe even owns her own home, gets married and on her wedding night gets pregnant from her devoted husband; this woman will be counted as a tragedy. She will be lumped in with 13 year old floozies who got knocked up by exchanging sex for a six pack of beer with guy that hangs out in front of the liqueur store.
We certainly DO have a body image problem. The problem isn't just with the magazines and movies though. It is also with the government and doctors. It is perticularly bad for men. It is bad enough that even if I got down to 0% body fat, the government, medical, and insurance industries would still call me fat. Well, "overweight" to be exact, but that's the same thing. My lean body mass puts me into the overweight category. Now, I do have a little extra fat on my body. Not enough to hide my stomach muscles mind you, but I am no work out guy either. This means that I am classified as 'obese', even though I am in far better shape and healthier than many of the Olive Oyls who are called healthy.
Now, I am smart enough to be able to know that the government is wrong, the insurance industry is wrong, and yes, even my doctor is wrong. Imagine how hard it is for the general public though. It must be horrible to have a doctor telling you that you are fat, when it is physically impossible for you to ever reach what they call normal. Heck, no wonder we have little girls with eating disorders when on the one hand they are getting bashed for being anorexic, and on the other hand, their doctors are telling them that they are fat at the same time.
On a side note, Brutus would be considered grossly obese by today's standards.
Plea bargains are nothing but a way to punish people for exercising their constitutionally guaranteed right to a trial. They should be abolished. I'd further suggest an independent branch of the justice system solely for the purpose of prosecuting police. This would cut down on the conflict of interest you are rightly concerned about.
Exactly! Pea bargains are pure and pure corruption. When you tell someone say, that confession to a crime you may or may not have committed will give you one year of imprisonment, but declaring your innocence will get you 10, they have given up any pretense of justice.
Even worse yet, is the practice of illegally searching, then when you have the evidence making a paper trail back to the evidence through a legal channel. It is like looking at the answer sheet to a test, then finding the page numbers that have that information so that when you get called out for cheating, you can show where you looked the information up.
Of course, the big problem isn't the illegal gathering of actual criminal behavior. The big problem is the illegal actions taken against people when there is no illegal action on the victims part, and when the illegal action taken by the police are worse than the crime they are investigating.
I found the same thing at Costco when it came to price. Many things are a lot cheaper, but Bread for example, wasn't the last time I checked. The price of a loaf of bread at Costco was ~20% higher than at Safeway, AND you had to buy two loafs at a time.
No, it wouldn't. The address have been getting used up on right about the schedule that has been predicted for years. The only reason that we have not run out sooner is because of NAT, and other tricks that hold back development. With phones coming online in huge numbers, the usage is just going to continue to accelerate.
Realistically no one uses IP addresses directly anyway, so a long number doesn't affect the vast majority of people. Better to just fix the problem permanently.
I call shenanigans. I have offered many a bet that I can put on weight eating a 2500 calorie a day diet, and lose weight at a 4000 calorie a day diet. This with absolutely no change in exercise.
The calories in, calories out myth has be thoroughly debunked. It is a good premise for life forms that do not have anuses, and that have 100% matter/energy conversion digestive systems, but that does describe humans. Can you really say that you have never met someone who worked out a lot, and watched what they ate yet still was fat, and never met someone who ate all of the time and never got exercise, yet remained thin?
I agree that the BMI is worse than useless. It is dangerous. My lean body mass (hydrostatically weighted) is 2 pounds more than the cutoff for 'normal' weight, putting me as overweight. To stop being overweight, getting down to 0% body fat wouldn't be enough. I would literally have to amputate. Taking off a leg would do it. I would have to be careful though because if I made a wrong decision and amputated both legs, I would suddenly be shorter and would be 'overweight' again.
While your logic of 'what you eat' doesn't matter is flawed, you are correct that corn syrup is not likely the poison many claim. Well, no more the poison than any other sugar. The problem is that an almost entirely sugar diet is considered 'healthy' and 'balanced'. This means that when people cut out the corn syrup, they invariably move to other sugars like pasta or bread, and feel good about how they are now eating 'healthy'.
The fat measurement scales you buy at Target do not work. I get hydrostatically weight for body fat, and the scales that claim to measure body fat are little better than guesses. I wish they did work.
The OP has "greater than average muscle", I have "greater than average muscle", the next guy has "greater than average muscle". The BMI is a total joke. If the distribution of weight to height is a valley, it can be wrong for just about everybody. If it is straight, it is wrong for the majority. If it is a peak, it is wrong enough to be worthless.
It IS odd that hospitals don't use body fat%. It is even more odd that gyms don't use body fat %. The equipment to hydrostatically weigh people just isn't that complicated, nor does it take up that much space. I have to drive over 100 miles to get to the nearest location that does hydrostatic weighing, and that is a mobile unit that pretty well covers all of Northern California. Of course, if people were using body fat %, the people being told that they were bad because they were fat would drastically shift.
I get hydrostatically weighed every few months. At 5'11, my lean body mass of 180lbs means that even if I reduced my body fat to 0%, I would still be overweight. I don't work out at all.
Cubicles are the worst of both worlds. You don't get the privacy of an office or the interaction of the open space.
I am a telecommuter. And you are right. A culture of bad management has lead to a situation where huge numbers of people's jobs are as much about being biological space heaters as anything else. Finding management that can gauge the actual work as opposed to hours spent at the office is a rare thing, and it is a pleasure to work for someone like that.
Advocating for telecommuters is an area that the so called 'environmentalists' have dropped the ball. Imagine the energy savings and road maintenance savings that could be had if we could get 10% of our workforce telecommuting. It would certainly be a bigger impact than carpool lanes, and it would improve peoples quality of life.
I wish people would stop suggesting this. It is a terrible idea. Last mile is NOT a natural monopoly. Cable is cheap. We do NOT want the government trying to run any part of the network. Governments do some things good. It is the things they are good at that you want them doing. Most governments are good at building networks of pipes through cities. I don't mean pipes euphemistically. I mean real concrete/steel/plastic/etc. pipes. Tubes. I have 3 sets of pipes running into my house now, and a 4th that reaches the street at the corner of my block. PG&E runs gas pipes into my house, and the city runs water and sewer lines to my house. The city also runs storm drains to the corner of my block. Physical pipes are a solved engeneering problem.
Lets get municipalities to start putting one more set of pipes into our homes. Make them the size of the sewer system. With actual pipes running to the homes, the municipalities can rent out space to run cabling to anyone that wants to pay the fee. This way the cities stay out of the ISP business, they collect money for pipe usage, citizens get competition, and upgrading the infrastructure becomes dramatically less expensive as new technology comes out.
A pipe system the size of our sewer lines would would easily handle Petabytes/sec of data. At that point, wire is not the bottleneck. Switches are.
IP4 is Hex as well. You are just used to seeing it translated to decimal. That is why they go from 0 to 255. That's FF. So, with your suggestion, we would rework the internet every few years instead of just making the number enough digits that it will last.
What's wrong with it is, much like a 5 year old that only wants to eat Chicken McNuggets and french fries, most people have a specific list of items they consider acceptable. They then shun anything different, and as time goes on, their pallet adjusts to what they are eating, so anything different is 'gross'.
If you pay close attention, you can see this in your own eating. I used to hate tea. I hated all of it. It all had the same flavor and tasted like chewing on a mouthful of grass. At one point, I decided to learn how to NOT taste the plant part of the tea. I started by drinking heavily mixed teas, where the plant flavor was less. Over time, I was able to ignore the taste of grass, and find the underlying flavor. It isn't that I learned to like it. It is that I learned how not to taste parts of it. The same with diet soda. Even if I am eating a candy bar, I will choose a Diet Coke over a regular Coke. Not because I like diet better. Regular Coke is WAY better. It is that I spent a long time learning to train my pallet to ignore the gross diet after taste, and I don't want to lose that. (No, soda is my vice, and I am not going to give it up.)
Many (most?) adults just don't realize that what they do and don't like to eat tends to be more about their level of familiarity than anything else. They get confused because they have a list of maybe 200 things they will eat instead of the 20 that a 5 year old might have.
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Yes, it is a series of tubes. People like to use the tube remark as a sound bite to imply stupidity about the internet, but data pathways have frequently been called "tunnels" and "pipes". Calling them tubes is exactly as accurate and exactly as legitimate of a description of what the data connections are.
Bingo. The fact that viruses existed long before Windows pretty much invalidates the argument that Widows is responsible for viruses.
The increase of resolution in modern systems over older ones should have lead to MORE split screen games. I have always said that the SNES was the system that crossed over to games looking good without having to add 'for the system'. Yes, there were limits on the styles of graphics that looked good, but many still looked good. It shouldn't be a problem to get good looking games split screen on a modern system if you don't define good looking as lots of pixels.
When I first moved in with my wife, she was literrally spending in the range of 6 hours a week doing her laundry. It now takes her about 15 minutes a week, and that is with me and my son added to the load. You need to take a closer look at why these things take you so long.
Bingo. Just have human filters. This also means that every page request will be delayed long enough for the reviewer to read over the content to make sure that there is no porn.
Funny, mine was to point out that our society doesn't really give me the opportunity to see things from their shoes, so I would suggest that they:
1) Buy me flowers.
2) Buy me candy.
3) Have sex with me.
4) Not call me in the morning.
I have always felt that this would really teach me what a woman has to go through. In fact, I still don't think I've learned my leason. Of course, I'm not in High School anymore, so they should take me on a trip, and only book one room, so I feel obliged to have sex with them.
Yes, but when you type on a keyboard, you are still typing. 'keyboarding' started getting used when all of those Apple IIs were brought into the schools, and they wanted to give the impression that the kids were learning something more advanced than just 'typing' This is likely what is happening in High School 'Computer Science'. If you can't get improvement, then give it a good title.
It should be at Administration-->Remote Access-->Web GUI Management
As for stringing cables. If the router is not in a place that you can just walk up to it, having a cable 'strung around' is irrelevant. There are wires strung around your whole house behind the walls, under the floors, and in the attic. If it is where you can walk right up to it, don't leave the cable strung around. Plug it in as needed.
That being said, security on your router isn't any different than any other security you might have. You decide how badly you need to protect the asset, and what level of security is worth it. No doubt you have locks on your doors. Locks on your doors is really quite a pain. I, likely you, and most other people feel it is worth the extra effort tough. Some feel the extra cost/effort of having bars on their windows. Most people don't. Certainly, it is easier for a criminal to use the universal key for sliding glass doors (a rock) than it is to get through bars. Of course, even bars won't stop someone from taking a reciprocal saw to your walls to get in. Each person has to decide how much risk they are willing to take in exchange for convenience.
If the router must be in the attic and you still want security at the lest effort/visibility, I would suggest finding a closet, and putting a network connection with a faceplate in the back corner ceiling. Then from the attic, run the cable to the router. This way, if you need to make a change, you can just plug into the network socket in the back of the closet when you need to make changes. The installation will be as trivial as installing the router itself, it won't look any worse than your electrical outlets. No cables will be 'strung around'.
If you cannot trust the key that the bank physically hands you, the bank has already been comprimised, and there is NO security that you can take to prevent abuse of the bank's system. The OP didn't say that it would provide absolute security from every possible way your accound could be hacked. Nothing ever will. It DOES remove a significant vector of attack.
After reading the article published by the guardian, I have to say that it supports Assange. There is nothing in there that indicates rape. (even by the definition that is being claimed exists for Sweden.)
It does pain a bizarre picture of Swedish women though. Claims like since he ripped her shirt off, she had to have sex with him. After all, it had gone too far. That would be a bizarre claim coming from a drunk fluzy that you picked up at a bar, but given that this woman was competent enough to host an international convention, it just sounds...bizarre. Is it common among Swedish women to feel like they have already gone so far that they cannot say no if a guy rips their shirt off?
Then there is the claim by the other woman that they were just 'joking' when they were discussing getting paid for the story of getting 'raped'. I know that Sweden has some really long nights, but is their comedy really so dark, that you would crack jokes to women about their recent raping?
Everything about these claims seems seems fishy, including the statements coming from the women themselves. While I have seen/read/heard many reports of rape in the media, I have to say that this is the first one that ever reported on the 'victim' evaluating the quality of the raping.
I would go just the opposite, and say that just because some people use it as an excuse, it is no reason for the government, insurance, and medical industries to continue using a flawed system, and beating the entire population over the head with it.
They do get counted as "Teen pregnancies" though.
So, a woman who has dated the same guy for 3 years, is out of school, has a job, votes, and maybe even owns her own home, gets married and on her wedding night gets pregnant from her devoted husband; this woman will be counted as a tragedy. She will be lumped in with 13 year old floozies who got knocked up by exchanging sex for a six pack of beer with guy that hangs out in front of the liqueur store.
We certainly DO have a body image problem. The problem isn't just with the magazines and movies though. It is also with the government and doctors. It is perticularly bad for men. It is bad enough that even if I got down to 0% body fat, the government, medical, and insurance industries would still call me fat. Well, "overweight" to be exact, but that's the same thing. My lean body mass puts me into the overweight category. Now, I do have a little extra fat on my body. Not enough to hide my stomach muscles mind you, but I am no work out guy either. This means that I am classified as 'obese', even though I am in far better shape and healthier than many of the Olive Oyls who are called healthy.
Now, I am smart enough to be able to know that the government is wrong, the insurance industry is wrong, and yes, even my doctor is wrong. Imagine how hard it is for the general public though. It must be horrible to have a doctor telling you that you are fat, when it is physically impossible for you to ever reach what they call normal. Heck, no wonder we have little girls with eating disorders when on the one hand they are getting bashed for being anorexic, and on the other hand, their doctors are telling them that they are fat at the same time.
On a side note, Brutus would be considered grossly obese by today's standards.
Plea bargains are nothing but a way to punish people for exercising their constitutionally guaranteed right to a trial. They should be abolished. I'd further suggest an independent branch of the justice system solely for the purpose of prosecuting police. This would cut down on the conflict of interest you are rightly concerned about.
Exactly! Pea bargains are pure and pure corruption. When you tell someone say, that confession to a crime you may or may not have committed will give you one year of imprisonment, but declaring your innocence will get you 10, they have given up any pretense of justice.
Even worse yet, is the practice of illegally searching, then when you have the evidence making a paper trail back to the evidence through a legal channel. It is like looking at the answer sheet to a test, then finding the page numbers that have that information so that when you get called out for cheating, you can show where you looked the information up.
Of course, the big problem isn't the illegal gathering of actual criminal behavior. The big problem is the illegal actions taken against people when there is no illegal action on the victims part, and when the illegal action taken by the police are worse than the crime they are investigating.
So, basically what we have anyway then.
I found the same thing at Costco when it came to price. Many things are a lot cheaper, but Bread for example, wasn't the last time I checked. The price of a loaf of bread at Costco was ~20% higher than at Safeway, AND you had to buy two loafs at a time.
No, it wouldn't. The address have been getting used up on right about the schedule that has been predicted for years. The only reason that we have not run out sooner is because of NAT, and other tricks that hold back development. With phones coming online in huge numbers, the usage is just going to continue to accelerate.
Realistically no one uses IP addresses directly anyway, so a long number doesn't affect the vast majority of people. Better to just fix the problem permanently.
I call shenanigans. I have offered many a bet that I can put on weight eating a 2500 calorie a day diet, and lose weight at a 4000 calorie a day diet. This with absolutely no change in exercise.
The calories in, calories out myth has be thoroughly debunked. It is a good premise for life forms that do not have anuses, and that have 100% matter/energy conversion digestive systems, but that does describe humans. Can you really say that you have never met someone who worked out a lot, and watched what they ate yet still was fat, and never met someone who ate all of the time and never got exercise, yet remained thin?
I agree that the BMI is worse than useless. It is dangerous. My lean body mass (hydrostatically weighted) is 2 pounds more than the cutoff for 'normal' weight, putting me as overweight. To stop being overweight, getting down to 0% body fat wouldn't be enough. I would literally have to amputate. Taking off a leg would do it. I would have to be careful though because if I made a wrong decision and amputated both legs, I would suddenly be shorter and would be 'overweight' again.
While your logic of 'what you eat' doesn't matter is flawed, you are correct that corn syrup is not likely the poison many claim. Well, no more the poison than any other sugar. The problem is that an almost entirely sugar diet is considered 'healthy' and 'balanced'. This means that when people cut out the corn syrup, they invariably move to other sugars like pasta or bread, and feel good about how they are now eating 'healthy'.
The fat measurement scales you buy at Target do not work. I get hydrostatically weight for body fat, and the scales that claim to measure body fat are little better than guesses. I wish they did work. The OP has "greater than average muscle", I have "greater than average muscle", the next guy has "greater than average muscle". The BMI is a total joke. If the distribution of weight to height is a valley, it can be wrong for just about everybody. If it is straight, it is wrong for the majority. If it is a peak, it is wrong enough to be worthless.
It IS odd that hospitals don't use body fat%. It is even more odd that gyms don't use body fat %. The equipment to hydrostatically weigh people just isn't that complicated, nor does it take up that much space. I have to drive over 100 miles to get to the nearest location that does hydrostatic weighing, and that is a mobile unit that pretty well covers all of Northern California. Of course, if people were using body fat %, the people being told that they were bad because they were fat would drastically shift.
I get hydrostatically weighed every few months. At 5'11, my lean body mass of 180lbs means that even if I reduced my body fat to 0%, I would still be overweight. I don't work out at all.
Cubicles are the worst of both worlds. You don't get the privacy of an office or the interaction of the open space.
I am a telecommuter. And you are right. A culture of bad management has lead to a situation where huge numbers of people's jobs are as much about being biological space heaters as anything else. Finding management that can gauge the actual work as opposed to hours spent at the office is a rare thing, and it is a pleasure to work for someone like that.
Advocating for telecommuters is an area that the so called 'environmentalists' have dropped the ball. Imagine the energy savings and road maintenance savings that could be had if we could get 10% of our workforce telecommuting. It would certainly be a bigger impact than carpool lanes, and it would improve peoples quality of life.
I wish people would stop suggesting this. It is a terrible idea. Last mile is NOT a natural monopoly. Cable is cheap. We do NOT want the government trying to run any part of the network. Governments do some things good. It is the things they are good at that you want them doing. Most governments are good at building networks of pipes through cities. I don't mean pipes euphemistically. I mean real concrete/steel/plastic/etc. pipes. Tubes. I have 3 sets of pipes running into my house now, and a 4th that reaches the street at the corner of my block. PG&E runs gas pipes into my house, and the city runs water and sewer lines to my house. The city also runs storm drains to the corner of my block. Physical pipes are a solved engeneering problem.
Lets get municipalities to start putting one more set of pipes into our homes. Make them the size of the sewer system. With actual pipes running to the homes, the municipalities can rent out space to run cabling to anyone that wants to pay the fee. This way the cities stay out of the ISP business, they collect money for pipe usage, citizens get competition, and upgrading the infrastructure becomes dramatically less expensive as new technology comes out.
A pipe system the size of our sewer lines would would easily handle Petabytes/sec of data. At that point, wire is not the bottleneck. Switches are.
IP4 is Hex as well. You are just used to seeing it translated to decimal. That is why they go from 0 to 255. That's FF. So, with your suggestion, we would rework the internet every few years instead of just making the number enough digits that it will last.
What's wrong with it is, much like a 5 year old that only wants to eat Chicken McNuggets and french fries, most people have a specific list of items they consider acceptable. They then shun anything different, and as time goes on, their pallet adjusts to what they are eating, so anything different is 'gross'.
If you pay close attention, you can see this in your own eating. I used to hate tea. I hated all of it. It all had the same flavor and tasted like chewing on a mouthful of grass. At one point, I decided to learn how to NOT taste the plant part of the tea. I started by drinking heavily mixed teas, where the plant flavor was less. Over time, I was able to ignore the taste of grass, and find the underlying flavor. It isn't that I learned to like it. It is that I learned how not to taste parts of it. The same with diet soda. Even if I am eating a candy bar, I will choose a Diet Coke over a regular Coke. Not because I like diet better. Regular Coke is WAY better. It is that I spent a long time learning to train my pallet to ignore the gross diet after taste, and I don't want to lose that. (No, soda is my vice, and I am not going to give it up.)
Many (most?) adults just don't realize that what they do and don't like to eat tends to be more about their level of familiarity than anything else. They get confused because they have a list of maybe 200 things they will eat instead of the 20 that a 5 year old might have.