This is interesting point since the average Canadian only paid 11.18% in income taxes in 2002
But healthcare is provincial jursidiction, so you should consider provincial taxation too. I live in Quebec with a slightly above average salary and I've about 30% income tax (federal+provincial) + 14% sales taxes (federal+provincial).
To be fair, I think that I'm the most taxed individual in North America.
Anyone know how to get ntpd to stop listening on all interfaces?
Use OpenNTPd! No seriously, there's a bug on ntpd's bugzilla asking for this that has been opened in 2003 and it's still not fixed. ntpd is so badly written that no one dares to write a patch.
And people wonder why I hate every program written by ISC...
Computer, your petition for citizenship has been granted.
"That's hot."
COMPUTER! You need to stop saying that if you want to be accepted as a member of society!
"I know.. that's so hot."
Oh my God, I just realised that Paris Hilton would fail the Turing Test, therefore, she is a robot.
Mommy! I want a Paris Hilton Fembot for my birthday!
I guess you must be used to the sound of jets going over your head...
I could swear I just clicked the preview button, then thought: "damn, he said that in his message" so I pressed the back button. Somehow, I must have pressed submit...:-(
The firehose view just lists the story subjects and allows the user to click +/- from there. Yes, you can view the entire story, but I think most people are just going to vote based on the subject alone. Is this good or bad?
If you click on the subject, you get to read the whole article.
I thought POTS only went up to 33.6, and the jump to 56 was the result of v.90 data compression
If I remember what they told me at learnstitute, a copper line can do 64 Kbps in theory (maibe Shannon had something to do with it). However, squirrels like to eat your wires, so most of the times you don't get that. They figured out that most people would be able to do half that (~33.6 Kbps) but that's not governed by the laws of physics.
One reasonable way to judge governments, and people, is to see how they take care of those with disadvantages.
Actually, I believe that's the correct way to judge a society, not a government. Government forcing people to act like an evolved society won't make it evolved, it will instead slow down its evolution.
all walkie-talkies will have individual serial numbers, and the serial number must be transmitted every second. Since this is serious security, the serial number and the transmission hardware must be tamper-prove - expensive, but no amount of money is too much where security is concerned
It reminds me of a trip to Dominican Republic I made a few years ago. The travel agent told me that walkie-talkies were illegal in this country. Being a libertarian, I brought them anyway (If a law annoys me I simply ignore it) and a couples day into the trip, I saw two big military trucks patrolling in front of the hotel. I closed my walkie-talkie and put it in my pocket, but I always wondered if that was just a coincidence or if they were looking for the "insurgents" that were using "illegal" walkie-talkies.
This was the year when they had lots of riots in Santo-Domingo, so the army might have been on their toes looking for "insurgents."
If a private individual runs an anonymizing service, is he protected as a "common carrier", on the off chance that someone figures out that illegal traffic was aided and abetted by such service?
If I'm not mistaken, when using Tor the content is encrypted in a way that a relay has no idea of content it is transmitting. In the unlikely situation that someone could prove that the illegal content passed through its relay, the admin could just say that it had not idea of what the content was (which is true).
There are usually 4 relays in a chain, the last is the one that makes the connection to the public server using an plain text connection (in the case of HTTP traffic, tor supports about every TCP protocol). You can set up your relay so that it will never act as the last one in a chain, it will only allow encrypted traffic in and out.
However, if you setup your relay to be the last in the chain, and a tor user accesses an illegal site that is monitored/seized by the police, the IP address of your relay will be recorded by the police. I guess that you could still claim that you had no idea of the content you were transmitting, but your case would be slightly harder to defend.
Anyway, that's how I understand the whole thing. I might be wrong, and IANAL.:-)
Inter arma enim silent leges is a Latin phrase meaning "For among [times of] arms, the laws fall mute," although it is more popularly rendered as "In time of war, the laws fall silent."
Ammonia is used as an industrial precursor. For instance it's used to make fertilizer. Why dump it in Lake Michigan rather than purifying and selling it?
TFA says:
State and federal regulators, though, agreed last month with the London-based company that there isn't enough room at the 1,400-acre site to upgrade the refinery's water treatment plant.
It's a pretty lame argument, but I guess that they don't have enough space to put an ammonia purification plant either.
I'm not Arab so I doubt I'd be a regular viewer of Arab television, but it would be informative to hear what 50 million or so people who don't consume a regular diet of CNN, FOX, et al are listening to on a daily basis. Or, more importantly, what news stories are covered there that aren't covered elsewhere.
You are correct, of course, that hardware key storage is generally more effective than software storage. The problem, however, is that key storage isn't the end of the story. Sure, you can embed a TPM chip in epoxy resin, and surface mount that chip onto the motherboard - but it can still be removed. Tricky, yes - error prone, also true. But it can be done.
That reminds me of the whole FTA/Nagravision war that was going on last summer. Dish Network and Bell ExpressVu (Bev) provide encrypted TV through their satellite network. Most FTA receivers can have hacked firmware that decrypt these streams in real time. Last summer, Dish/Bev released a new version of their encryption system (Nagravision). It took three months, with rumors that the hackers had to rent high precision equipment to read the new chips but they managed to reverse engineer the algorithm.
Now Joe Sixpack can watch 30 PPV channels and 8 hard core porn channels for free with a simple firmware upgrade.
My memory is fuzzy regarding all this, is there any reader that could point me to the whole story?
Starfish is a highly-available, fully decentralized, clustered storage file system. It provides a distributed POSIX-compliant storage device that can be mounted like any other drive under Linux or Mac OS X. The resulting fault-tolerant storage network can store files and directories, like a normal file system - but unlike a normal file system, it can handle multiple catastrophic disk and machine failures.
I read on the web site that mirroring should only be available in August 2007, is that true?
Also, is it possible to have StarPeers of different size? I have a server with 80 GB in RAID1 and one with 500 GB in RAID1. If I set both of them as StarPeers will both have access to 580 GB of storage?
Aside 2: And if Cuba is so bad that US has a trade embargo against it, why not have a similar one against China? Oh, wait, it's about the money stupid! Actually, the US has put an embargo against Cuba since Fido Castro threw the US business out of the country without compensation -- effectively stealing their properties. The whole story is more complex than that, you can read it on Wikipedia.
For those who don't know French, le travail rend libre means the same as Arbeit macht frei, the motto of the Auschwitz concentration camp — i.e. "Work makes one free". It seems that Sarkozy is practising dog-whistle politics.
From what I heard on french-canadian TV (Radio-Canada), Sarkozy used this "dog-whistle politic" to get the vote of the far-right.
So hang on... they *overwrote* the memory which contained the contingency operations plan and the hardware limitations data for the solar array? Surely that's bad design, you shouldn't be able to overwrite something like that (Unless the hardware limits plan on changing mid-mission). NASA fault protection modules evidently don't do their job too well:-/
Actually, they had to correct a previous error by writing directly to memory. I believe that writing directly to memory is not a standard operating procedure. The PDF report linked by the GP states that:
[...] The HGA parameter was actually updated on the two redundant control systems at two different times. The updates were commanded with slightly different (operator input) precision. This difference in precision, while numerically inconsequential, resulted in an inconsistency between the computer memories. A full memory readout taken at a later date revealed the difference between the two positioning angles, which warranted a correction by the operations team. During the effort to correct the inconsistency, the operations team specified incorrect memory addresses. The incorrect memory addresses caused the command upload to enter data into erroneous memory locations, resulting in the consequences described above.
The preliminary official report is availiable from here.
Thanks for the link. The report is only three pages long and very interesting to read. The cause (quoted below) is really stunning, I wonder what's the probability of this sequence of event to happen.
The LM team performed a fault analysis to determine the cause of the spacecraft anomaly. An LM spacecraft engineer ultimately determined that the likely cause of the anomaly was an incorrect parameter upload that had occurred 5 months earlier (June 2006). A direct memory command to update the HGA's positioning for contingency operations was mistakenly written to the wrong memory address in the spacecraft's onboard computer. This resulted in the corruption of two independent parameters and had dire consequences for the spacecraft. The first parameter error caused one solar array to be driven against its hard stop, leading the MGS fault-protection system to incorrectly believe it had a stuck gimbal, causing MGS to enter contingency mode. Upon entry into contingency mode, the spacecraft's orientation was such that one of the batteries was directly exposed to the sun. This caused the battery to overheat which in turn gave a false indication of an overcharged battery and led to the premature termination of battery charging on each subsequent orbit. Even though the remaining battery continued to be charged, it was not being charged sufficiently to support the full electrical load, which was normally supported by both batteries. The end result was that both batteries were depleted, probably within 12 hours. The second parameter error caused the HGA to point away from the Earth when the spacecraft was, in fact, properly oriented to communicate to Earth. Communication from the spacecraft to the ground was therefore impossible, and the unsafe thermal and power situation could not be identified by the MGS's ground controllers.
My ISP, videotron, has a 20Gb/month cap, and charge 7.95$CAN per Gb after that...
I use Videotron too. Once I misconfigured a remote backup and used 95 Gb in a month! That would have cost me $556.50 in overcharges, but hopefully they have a $30 maximum for the overcharge.
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But healthcare is provincial jursidiction, so you should consider provincial taxation too. I live in Quebec with a slightly above average salary and I've about 30% income tax (federal+provincial) + 14% sales taxes (federal+provincial).
To be fair, I think that I'm the most taxed individual in North America.
:-(
Use OpenNTPd! No seriously, there's a bug on ntpd's bugzilla asking for this that has been opened in 2003 and it's still not fixed. ntpd is so badly written that no one dares to write a patch.
And people wonder why I hate every program written by ISC...
Cuba?
To be fair, I don't know of any free country full of highly educated people that are in poverty.
Oh my God, I just realised that Paris Hilton would fail the Turing Test, therefore, she is a robot.
Mommy! I want a Paris Hilton Fembot for my birthday!
I could swear I just clicked the preview button, then thought: "damn, he said that in his message" so I pressed the back button. Somehow, I must have pressed submit... :-(
If you click on the subject, you get to read the whole article.
If I remember what they told me at learnstitute, a copper line can do 64 Kbps in theory (maibe Shannon had something to do with it). However, squirrels like to eat your wires, so most of the times you don't get that. They figured out that most people would be able to do half that (~33.6 Kbps) but that's not governed by the laws of physics.
Actually, I believe that's the correct way to judge a society, not a government. Government forcing people to act like an evolved society won't make it evolved, it will instead slow down its evolution.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents
It reminds me of a trip to Dominican Republic I made a few years ago. The travel agent told me that walkie-talkies were illegal in this country. Being a libertarian, I brought them anyway (If a law annoys me I simply ignore it) and a couples day into the trip, I saw two big military trucks patrolling in front of the hotel. I closed my walkie-talkie and put it in my pocket, but I always wondered if that was just a coincidence or if they were looking for the "insurgents" that were using "illegal" walkie-talkies.
This was the year when they had lots of riots in Santo-Domingo, so the army might have been on their toes looking for "insurgents."
If I'm not mistaken, when using Tor the content is encrypted in a way that a relay has no idea of content it is transmitting. In the unlikely situation that someone could prove that the illegal content passed through its relay, the admin could just say that it had not idea of what the content was (which is true).
There are usually 4 relays in a chain, the last is the one that makes the connection to the public server using an plain text connection (in the case of HTTP traffic, tor supports about every TCP protocol). You can set up your relay so that it will never act as the last one in a chain, it will only allow encrypted traffic in and out.
However, if you setup your relay to be the last in the chain, and a tor user accesses an illegal site that is monitored/seized by the police, the IP address of your relay will be recorded by the police. I guess that you could still claim that you had no idea of the content you were transmitting, but your case would be slightly harder to defend.
Anyway, that's how I understand the whole thing. I might be wrong, and IANAL. :-)
For those who are too lazy to check on wikipedia:
Inter arma enim silent leges is a Latin phrase meaning "For among [times of] arms, the laws fall mute," although it is more popularly rendered as "In time of war, the laws fall silent."On a related note, I can't wait for the new America's Army Death for Above expansion pack!
TFA says:
State and federal regulators, though, agreed last month with the London-based company that there isn't enough room at the 1,400-acre site to upgrade the refinery's water treatment plant.It's a pretty lame argument, but I guess that they don't have enough space to put an ammonia purification plant either.
To what Apple answers: Please speak louder. My cash register is making a lot of noise because of all the iPhone I'm selling...
Goby: Domo we already got the weed smoking robot. Domo (turns head toward Jarret) Domo, Domo, Domo.
(Laughs while he sits down)
Jarret: What a minute; weed-smoking robot. What are you talking about?
Goby: I'm talking about my masterpiece. I've invented the world's first weed smoking robot. I give you Smoketron 3000.
(A robot comes in smoking a weed cigarette.)
Jarret: Wow!
Smoketron 3000: Dude, I'm so totally baked right know. It's not even funny.
Jarret: Dude, what possible use could anyone have with a weed smoking robot.
Goby: What do you mean, there's tons. Check this out, robot get me a Pepsi.
Smoketron 3000: Okay.
(Smoketron3000 continues smoking while Goby begins to laugh.)
Smoketron 3000: Wait what?
Goby: I said, Robot get me a Pepsi.
Smoketron 3000: Oh, got it.
(Smoketron 3000 begins leaving then turns around.)
Smoketron 3000: Wait what.
(Jarret and Goby both laugh)
Goby: Awesome.
Jarret: Goby...
Goby: He's like me.
The actual reason for letting these old skeletons out of the closet is that they need to make place for the new ones!
Ba da bing! Thanks a lot! I'll be here all week! Try the fish!
Al-Jazeera has a YouTube channel, and it's in english!
Lots of good content on this channel. They concentrate of what is not covered by the western media, take a look at their welcome video for an idea.
That reminds me of the whole FTA/Nagravision war that was going on last summer. Dish Network and Bell ExpressVu (Bev) provide encrypted TV through their satellite network. Most FTA receivers can have hacked firmware that decrypt these streams in real time. Last summer, Dish/Bev released a new version of their encryption system (Nagravision). It took three months, with rumors that the hackers had to rent high precision equipment to read the new chips but they managed to reverse engineer the algorithm.
Now Joe Sixpack can watch 30 PPV channels and 8 hard core porn channels for free with a simple firmware upgrade.
My memory is fuzzy regarding all this, is there any reader that could point me to the whole story?
Ever heard of Starfish? It's a new distributed clustered file system:
Starfish Distributed Filesystem
From the website:
I read on the web site that mirroring should only be available in August 2007, is that true?
Also, is it possible to have StarPeers of different size? I have a server with 80 GB in RAID1 and one with 500 GB in RAID1. If I set both of them as StarPeers will both have access to 580 GB of storage?
Thanks,
GFK's
For those who don't remember their (Mounty Python) classics
For those who don't know French, le travail rend libre means the same as Arbeit macht frei, the motto of the Auschwitz concentration camp — i.e. "Work makes one free". It seems that Sarkozy is practising dog-whistle politics.
From what I heard on french-canadian TV (Radio-Canada), Sarkozy used this "dog-whistle politic" to get the vote of the far-right.
Actually, they had to correct a previous error by writing directly to memory. I believe that writing directly to memory is not a standard operating procedure. The PDF report linked by the GP states that:
Thanks for the link. The report is only three pages long and very interesting to read. The cause (quoted below) is really stunning, I wonder what's the probability of this sequence of event to happen.
I use Videotron too. Once I misconfigured a remote backup and used 95 Gb in a month! That would have cost me $556.50 in overcharges, but hopefully they have a $30 maximum for the overcharge.