You're forgetting about symbiosis. This is also a tested-by-evolution phenomenon. (Remember evolution is about survival of the SPECIES, not of the INDIVIDUAL)
The geeks are NEEDED so the stupid can survive and get more comfortable. The stupid who reject geeks will tend (over time of course) to reproduce less, and those accepting geeks will flourish. Occasionally, one geek will try to take over the world *ahem* Bill *ahem*, but i hope that's an isolated phenomena.
Anyway, there are geeks whose parents are all "normal", so I think that somehow there's a recessive "geek" gene around the general population. It just pops up in the required quantity so that society (as a whole) can survive.
This makes me think that somehow there is a "classes" system, like ants. There are strong people, geek people, etc. But it's very subtle at this point. Maybe in 1,000,000 years ther will be a geek class with an amazing intelligence to rule over the rest of... humans? Who knows...
But I agree with you in something, society is degenerating fast... still, I don't think it's a genetic problem.
Well, we definitely need a gene to reject peer pressure and slackness regarding important decisions (i.e. voting). Because the stupid are causing MANY, MANY people to die today. Just look at New Orleans.
Here's Slidey's post. (Disclaimer: Copyright blahblahblah appropriate people yadda yadda fair use etc etc don't sue me, thank you)
--- ok i work for a large uk isp in the messaging (email) operations dept. we currently have 2.5-3 million active accounts (and a load of suspended), and manage anywhere upto 12-16million mails per day
our setup is like this (this is simplistic though):
front line - anti abuse mta's - these do dnsbl type lookups (spamcop, spamhaus and sorbs). we have 9 incoming next we have mta's. they farm mail off to brightmail servers, which do similar to spamassassin. we have 6 incoming mtas, and 8 brightmail servers (not enough - high load) after that they farm off to vscans (6) after that any mail that gets through is delivered to mail stores (8 + 2 hot spares)
what you want to be doing is similar to this above - chaining hte mail from one level to the next. the first level should be the rbl's - these are less processor intensive, and can remove a fair whack of your mails in one swoop. spamassassin is going to be more cpu intensive, since it has to open each mail and read the first x many bytes
id have separate machine(s) holding your master directory, and if you can get directory caches then do that too (to take the load off the master directory) - ours run oracle
i dont know what your budget is, but split up hte different tasks as much as possible. that way if you need to add more to any pool (rbl lookups, spamassassin etc) you just add another machine..
one last thing - we also have a separate box just for postmaster mail (with exim + spamassassin funnily enough) - it tends to get busy
Last edited by Slidey on 09-08-2005 at 11:19 PM -- (end of quote)
In my web systems, when I'm going to upgrade the files, i upload a file called "busy.lock". The main page detects if the file is present, and gives the user a busy message. After the 5 minutes (at most) I took to upload all the files, i delete the busy.lock and the system is back online.
Now, that wasn't too hard, was it? Fixing a one-liner shouldn't take more than one minute, so yes, that's another reason for saying they're incompetent - to say the least.
Give too little time to companies, and you'll be helping the blackhats. Give them too much time, and we end up with a phantom enemy that is surely out there, and the public isn't aware until it's too late (i.e. credit card numbers stolen, etc).
But I'd say a month's more than enough. Unless of course, a new (and unpatched) version of their software is going to be released earlier. In that case, i'd give the company a week max.
Microsoft DOES test its products. I recall Win95 having "the largest beta-testing stage in history".
Anyway, the security failures in WinXP are not due to lack of testing, but because of poor design decisions. Besides, security failures can't be detected by common beta-testing, but by heavy security audits (Not that I don't hate MS policies, I do, but there was no point in your comment).
In summary, your post wasn't informative, interesting, or insightful. Not even funny.
boy> mom says de internets making me more creativ! girl> cool! boy> i gato go, friends asking me to keep writin my power rangers fanfic girl> keep dat craetivity goin!
(Gee, I can't wait to see what the future is holding for us)
The 1.0TB line was the first one to call my attention. Windows wasn't ready for TB's yet, shouldn't it say 1024 GB?
Also, this line seemed to have some contrast with the surroundings (typical photoshop edition)... adjust your gamma correction to see a faint distinct-border around it.
The laptop looked streamline, I'd expect a prototype using a desktop PC. Laptops are very expensive to produce, a customized laptop of this magnitude would've appeared in/. *before* production like.... "Company plans to develop 1TB laptop" or something.
Finally, what the heck is "nanomicrons and beyond"? It's the most stupid buzzphrase i've ever heard.
I mean, *WHAT IF* what the book says is true? Oh of course not, that would condemn us all netporn-addicted slashdotters, so it must NOT be true! In fact, it's heresy! Lets bring our torches and burn that book!
You know, I used to think books were judged by the veracity of the facts they presented, not by whether their words made some people feel (Heaven forbid! *gasp*) judged.
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You're forgetting about symbiosis. This is also a tested-by-evolution phenomenon. (Remember evolution is about survival of the SPECIES, not of the INDIVIDUAL)
The geeks are NEEDED so the stupid can survive and get more comfortable. The stupid who reject geeks will tend (over time of course) to reproduce less, and those accepting geeks will flourish. Occasionally, one geek will try to take over the world *ahem* Bill *ahem*, but i hope that's an isolated phenomena.
Anyway, there are geeks whose parents are all "normal", so I think that somehow there's a recessive "geek" gene around the general population. It just pops up in the required quantity so that society (as a whole) can survive.
This makes me think that somehow there is a "classes" system, like ants. There are strong people, geek people, etc. But it's very subtle at this point. Maybe in 1,000,000 years ther will be a geek class with an amazing intelligence to rule over the rest of... humans? Who knows...
But I agree with you in something, society is degenerating fast... still, I don't think it's a genetic problem.
Well, we definitely need a gene to reject peer pressure and slackness regarding important decisions (i.e. voting). Because the stupid are causing MANY, MANY people to die today. Just look at New Orleans.
In the meantime - geeks unite and breed! :-?
Uh... I think geeks need the "handsomeness" gene. Perhaps we're a different species already?
Now if only this gene could be inserted into adults, i could finally get rid of having to pay more for delactosated milk... :(
Here's Slidey's post. (Disclaimer: Copyright blahblahblah appropriate people yadda yadda fair use etc etc don't sue me, thank you)
---
ok i work for a large uk isp in the messaging (email) operations dept. we currently have 2.5-3 million active accounts (and a load of suspended), and manage anywhere upto 12-16million mails per day
our setup is like this (this is simplistic though):
front line - anti abuse mta's - these do dnsbl type lookups (spamcop, spamhaus and sorbs). we have 9 incoming
next we have mta's. they farm mail off to brightmail servers, which do similar to spamassassin. we have 6 incoming mtas, and 8 brightmail servers (not enough - high load)
after that they farm off to vscans (6)
after that any mail that gets through is delivered to mail stores (8 + 2 hot spares)
what you want to be doing is similar to this above - chaining hte mail from one level to the next. the first level should be the rbl's - these are less processor intensive, and can remove a fair whack of your mails in one swoop. spamassassin is going to be more cpu intensive, since it has to open each mail and read the first x many bytes
id have separate machine(s) holding your master directory, and if you can get directory caches then do that too (to take the load off the master directory) - ours run oracle
i dont know what your budget is, but split up hte different tasks as much as possible. that way if you need to add more to any pool (rbl lookups, spamassassin etc) you just add another machine..
one last thing - we also have a separate box just for postmaster mail (with exim + spamassassin funnily enough) - it tends to get busy
Last edited by Slidey on 09-08-2005 at 11:19 PM
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This will help them hold up to the mighty /. effect (let's give them a break, no unnecessary burdens)
Advisory
-Impact in 3... 2... 1....
*POOF*
but showing C.J. having consensual sex with his girlfriend? Dear God, man, there are CHILDREN playing this game !
In fact they're the ones who wanted it removed. They said the crappy graphics suck compared to the p*rn they're used to watch.
In my web systems, when I'm going to upgrade the files, i upload a file called "busy.lock". The main page detects if the file is present, and gives the user a busy message. After the 5 minutes (at most) I took to upload all the files, i delete the busy.lock and the system is back online.
Now, that wasn't too hard, was it? Fixing a one-liner shouldn't take more than one minute, so yes, that's another reason for saying they're incompetent - to say the least.
Bush uses a Mac
So, should we call him iGeorge, iBush, or George Sixpack?
Are either of them hot, or possibly both of them?
Helloooo dude... remember why they got sacked? They acted like a pair of harpies. You WOULDNT like to get involved with ANY of them.
Now there's a scary yearbook shot
You think that's scary? Wait till you go to anime conventions!
...Amazon sues to enforce One-Click BS.
O_O
I read that as "Amazon uses One-Click to sue and enforce BS."
One-click suing... got me scared for a moment...
Very important links on it. Thanks.
perhaps the hamburger chain should have used Coral... but then again, wouldn't they rather upload the flash to their sites?
Oh well.
Give too little time to companies, and you'll be helping the blackhats. Give them too much time, and we end up with a phantom enemy that is surely out there, and the public isn't aware until it's too late (i.e. credit card numbers stolen, etc).
But I'd say a month's more than enough. Unless of course, a new (and unpatched) version of their software is going to be released earlier. In that case, i'd give the company a week max.
Microsoft DOES test its products. I recall Win95 having "the largest beta-testing stage in history".
Anyway, the security failures in WinXP are not due to lack of testing, but because of poor design decisions. Besides, security failures can't be detected by common beta-testing, but by heavy security audits (Not that I don't hate MS policies, I do, but there was no point in your comment).
In summary, your post wasn't informative, interesting, or insightful. Not even funny.
boy> mom says de internets making me more creativ!
girl> cool!
boy> i gato go, friends asking me to keep writin my power rangers fanfic
girl> keep dat craetivity goin!
(Gee, I can't wait to see what the future is holding for us)
The 1.0TB line was the first one to call my attention. Windows wasn't ready for TB's yet, shouldn't it say 1024 GB?
... adjust your gamma correction to see a faint distinct-border around it.
/. *before* production like .... "Company plans to develop 1TB laptop" or something.
Also, this line seemed to have some contrast with the surroundings (typical photoshop edition)
The laptop looked streamline, I'd expect a prototype using a desktop PC. Laptops are very expensive to produce, a customized laptop of this magnitude would've appeared in
Finally, what the heck is "nanomicrons and beyond"? It's the most stupid buzzphrase i've ever heard.
Thanks.
Correlation does not equate to causation.
Unless it's a vicious circle.
Before: Fame.
Now: Fortune.
'Nuff said.
You're seriously joking right? This "review" was a biased advertisement stroking the right-wing conservatives egos blahblahblah
So, if a study's conclusions speak against your beliefs or way of life, suddenly it's a biased advertisement stroking the right-wing-conservatives?
(ad-hominem, anyone?)
I mean, *WHAT IF* what the book says is true? Oh of course not, that would condemn us all netporn-addicted slashdotters, so it must NOT be true! In fact, it's heresy! Lets bring our torches and burn that book!
You know, I used to think books were judged by the veracity of the facts they presented, not by whether their words made some people feel (Heaven forbid! *gasp*) judged.
Alright, now I got mad.
Who put the Prince of Persia in funny green clothes?
It's a sign of the End Times when a front-page story on /. actually explains what an acronym stands for.
Hello...? Slashdot is going CSS, does that give any hints?