I'm disappointed that someone for SETI would say such a thing, because it is totally relevant.
If humans showed up to the Galapagos and the iguanas lined up flies in a row, tried to offer them flies, or other signed of intelligence then they would of treated them much differently then if they acted like any other non-sentient animal.
I'm not saying they would have treated them the better, just different.
No we are a democratic republic, and I would guess that most of the people on slashdot that participate in these discussions vote. I do and I can tell you I am not happy with my reps, but I do my best without devoting my life to it.
The ironic thing with your post is I thik we would be in worse shape if the US was a straight democracy.
Your letter could end up going to an ass hat who has some power and no idea about technology. This could spiral out of control to end up with you looking at their private financial records and the sending them "veiled" threats about "identity theft". Who knows maybe you even hacked it so the email would come to you!
Even if these ridiculous accusations are found to be untrue it could be a major pain to deal with.
Unfortunately doing the right think like this, especially in the United States, is not worth the risk.
I have heard that china can not invade taiwan due to lack of troop transports, but couldn't china rectify that quikcly, ie within a year. Its not like troop transports are new tech or anything?
I'm seriously asking.
Thanks,
Joe
Wait.... how is anycast harder, this seems way simpler to me then some DNS trickery.
With anycast you have multiple servers answer to the same IP address and then announce that IP (or really block). Then routing figures out the least cost path. This is what routing is suppose to do.
With DNS you need the DNS server to figure out where the client is and provide the best response. Since DNS doesn't have any path information (like routing does) you have to add all kinds of crap to figure out which answer to give.
It sounds like in this situation the crap Akamai isn't the right crap.
More and more events are refereed to as terrorism and it's only a manner of time before all criminals will be called terrorists. But it will be after we get rid of rights and due process for terrorists.
No, the second gulf war was a complete and utter failure. We sent troops in to prevent Al Qaeda from gaining WMDs from Saddam. We lost thousands of lives on our side and they lost at least 10x as many and the objective turned out to be completely pointless, as Saddam didn't have any WMDs and he wasn't in any sort of talks with Al Qaeda.
While I don't disagree with your statement, it assumes that the stated goal (i.e. the one above) was the same as the real goal.
I completely 100% agree that what they advertised is a scam, but if I step back a couple of years, it's completely amazing that we are complaining about only getting 8Mbps.
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Were the Fort Hood shootings really an act of Terrorism?
I only ask since it was an attack on military personnel at a military base?
Yes civilians were killed and wounded, but there are many documented instances where civilians are killed or wounded in attacks by the US military and most do not consider those attacks terrorism.
Don't get me wrong I in no way condone the attack, but I'm starting to think the word terrorism is being used for too many things.
Here is a great site that tracks the more then 500 promises that Obama made during the campaign. While obviously breaking some promises are a bigger deal then others, it's the only place that I have seen that it pretty subjective on the matter.
I can't dispute your claim that nukes are easy to create, I simply don't know. But, it seems to me that it's likely that some organizations out there would desire to use a nuke against their enemies (US, Israel, other western countries, etc). Since this has yet to happen or there are no known attempts, suggest to me that it's more difficult then you state in your post.
It's interesting to think about how this will play out. Will the Tier-1 providers go belly up and leave us with the content providers controlling the networks used for delivery also. How would that effect network neutrality.
I realize it's not that simple, but again, it's interesting to think about.
This statistic by itself isn't useful unless we know on average how many fatalities a "conventional" launch causes. It maybe zero, but for all I know (I Am Not A Rocket Scientist) it could be ten or more also.
Same in San Francisco, only one choice for cable, but a few options for DSL. I think the Parent poster is confusing ISPs from last mile providers. While it's true no matter which DSL provider I go with it will use at&t copper, but in most metropolitan areas you have a few choices on where that copper terminates and who gives you your IP addresses.
As someone who did online dating a lot I have to say CL was a gold mine. I did match.com, OKcupid and a couple of others and met with little success. On these sites I never received a lot of responses to my profile or replies from the peoples who I contacted.
While I still didn't receive a lot of replies to the people I contacted, I received lots of responses to my ad. I used the same content on all the sites as much as possible, same pics, etc. It amazed me on how easy it was. Although at the time I had been working on my social skills and physical fitness, but never hid my nerdy side.
And these were not skanks or scammers, mostly good quality women which kept me dating for quite a while. I met my current girlfriend at a birthday party, but had a great time with the people I met from CL.
I have no idea if this is true, but I worked with this Russian guy who participated in the USSR invasion of Afghanistan. He had some interesting stories, but one really stuck with me.
There was a rat problem where they were stations. To deal with this problem they would round up all the rats and put them in an empty 55-gallon steel drum and then go out on patrol for a couple of days.
He said when they came back there would only be one rat remaining in the steel drum and all the other rats were gone, no trace of anything. They would release that rat and it would turn into a rat eating machine, which helped greatly with their rat problem.
Like I said I have no idea if its true, he wasn't the kind of guy who you could tell you thought he was full of shit. But I always get a little creeped out when I think about these cannibalistic rats running around, like some sort of bad ass Splinter.
If it ever came to any kind of digital attack on the US from china that went on and on and on and on and outweighted the financial benefits of having the connection to china at all it could all be solved by having a few hundred guys with axes knock out the various data pipes.
Uh, next time you need to shutdown a connection try this instead:
enable config t int BigAssConnection1/0/1 shutdown end
I found I stay employed longer using this over the axe method and you don't even have to leave your chair:-P
I'm curious on where you are located and if that is a factor in the ease in which you find people with good attitudes, good experience, and are bright.
I recently left a company in SF where I was responsible for interviewing Infrastructure Architects, System & Network Engineers and we had a hell of a time finding good candidates. We would often go through 25 phone screens before bringing in a candidate for a face-to-face interview, which I would guess we offered to about 50% of those candidates. Often they just didn't have the technical knowledge to pass our phone screen of, what we considered, pretty basic questions.
We never considered education and just looked at technical experience.
It's possible, and likely, we didn't have good recruiters so the quality of the pool wasn't so good, but maybe competition in the SF Bay Area makes it harder to find good people?
Why does it matter if they take a few liberties on things like dates and such, as long as it's good content?
Look at BSG. I think, like many others, that BSG is excellent Sci-Fi and excellent TV and it barely has a resemblance to the original.
I was never into the Batman comic book, but I would bet that The Dark Knight took some liberties with that content also and still produced a fantastic flick.
It's no secret that this is an attempt at a franchise reboot and we can expect JJ Abrahams and the writers to make it their own. As long as they produce good content, I'm fine with them making those changes.
That being said the trailer does have me a little bit worried.
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In all fairness, you have an excellent spaceship, the Earth.
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I'm disappointed that someone for SETI would say such a thing, because it is totally relevant.
If humans showed up to the Galapagos and the iguanas lined up flies in a row, tried to offer them flies, or other signed of intelligence then they would of treated them much differently then if they acted like any other non-sentient animal.
I'm not saying they would have treated them the better, just different.
No we are a democratic republic, and I would guess that most of the people on slashdot that participate in these discussions vote. I do and I can tell you I am not happy with my reps, but I do my best without devoting my life to it. The ironic thing with your post is I thik we would be in worse shape if the US was a straight democracy.
Your letter could end up going to an ass hat who has some power and no idea about technology. This could spiral out of control to end up with you looking at their private financial records and the sending them "veiled" threats about "identity theft". Who knows maybe you even hacked it so the email would come to you!
Even if these ridiculous accusations are found to be untrue it could be a major pain to deal with.
Unfortunately doing the right think like this, especially in the United States, is not worth the risk.
I have heard that china can not invade taiwan due to lack of troop transports, but couldn't china rectify that quikcly, ie within a year. Its not like troop transports are new tech or anything? I'm seriously asking. Thanks, Joe
I use to, and while it is still of a stretch now, it saddens me to think that it gets easier over time.
Wait .... how is anycast harder, this seems way simpler to me then some DNS trickery.
With anycast you have multiple servers answer to the same IP address and then announce that IP (or really block). Then routing figures out the least cost path. This is what routing is suppose to do.
With DNS you need the DNS server to figure out where the client is and provide the best response. Since DNS doesn't have any path information (like routing does) you have to add all kinds of crap to figure out which answer to give.
It sounds like in this situation the crap Akamai isn't the right crap.
More and more events are refereed to as terrorism and it's only a manner of time before all criminals will be called terrorists. But it will be after we get rid of rights and due process for terrorists.
While I don't disagree with your statement, it assumes that the stated goal (i.e. the one above) was the same as the real goal.
I completely 100% agree that what they advertised is a scam, but if I step back a couple of years, it's completely amazing that we are complaining about only getting 8Mbps.
Were the Fort Hood shootings really an act of Terrorism?
I only ask since it was an attack on military personnel at a military base?
Yes civilians were killed and wounded, but there are many documented instances where civilians are killed or wounded in attacks by the US military and most do not consider those attacks terrorism.
Don't get me wrong I in no way condone the attack, but I'm starting to think the word terrorism is being used for too many things.
Bing knows exactly what you want to Google ...
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1915736
Care to share your ISP and location? Maybe can help others avoid them.
Here is a great site that tracks the more then 500 promises that Obama made during the campaign. While obviously breaking some promises are a bigger deal then others, it's the only place that I have seen that it pretty subjective on the matter.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
I can't dispute your claim that nukes are easy to create, I simply don't know. But, it seems to me that it's likely that some organizations out there would desire to use a nuke against their enemies (US, Israel, other western countries, etc). Since this has yet to happen or there are no known attempts, suggest to me that it's more difficult then you state in your post.
It's interesting to think about how this will play out. Will the Tier-1 providers go belly up and leave us with the content providers controlling the networks used for delivery also. How would that effect network neutrality.
I realize it's not that simple, but again, it's interesting to think about.
This statistic by itself isn't useful unless we know on average how many fatalities a "conventional" launch causes. It maybe zero, but for all I know (I Am Not A Rocket Scientist) it could be ten or more also.
Same in San Francisco, only one choice for cable, but a few options for DSL. I think the Parent poster is confusing ISPs from last mile providers. While it's true no matter which DSL provider I go with it will use at&t copper, but in most metropolitan areas you have a few choices on where that copper terminates and who gives you your IP addresses.
As someone who did online dating a lot I have to say CL was a gold mine. I did match.com, OKcupid and a couple of others and met with little success. On these sites I never received a lot of responses to my profile or replies from the peoples who I contacted.
While I still didn't receive a lot of replies to the people I contacted, I received lots of responses to my ad. I used the same content on all the sites as much as possible, same pics, etc. It amazed me on how easy it was. Although at the time I had been working on my social skills and physical fitness, but never hid my nerdy side.
And these were not skanks or scammers, mostly good quality women which kept me dating for quite a while. I met my current girlfriend at a birthday party, but had a great time with the people I met from CL.
I live in SF, so YMMV.
I have no idea if this is true, but I worked with this Russian guy who participated in the USSR invasion of Afghanistan. He had some interesting stories, but one really stuck with me.
There was a rat problem where they were stations. To deal with this problem they would round up all the rats and put them in an empty 55-gallon steel drum and then go out on patrol for a couple of days.
He said when they came back there would only be one rat remaining in the steel drum and all the other rats were gone, no trace of anything. They would release that rat and it would turn into a rat eating machine, which helped greatly with their rat problem.
Like I said I have no idea if its true, he wasn't the kind of guy who you could tell you thought he was full of shit. But I always get a little creeped out when I think about these cannibalistic rats running around, like some sort of bad ass Splinter.
Uh, next time you need to shutdown a connection try this instead:
I found I stay employed longer using this over the axe method and you don't even have to leave your chair :-P
I'm curious on where you are located and if that is a factor in the ease in which you find people with good attitudes, good experience, and are bright.
I recently left a company in SF where I was responsible for interviewing Infrastructure Architects, System & Network Engineers and we had a hell of a time finding good candidates. We would often go through 25 phone screens before bringing in a candidate for a face-to-face interview, which I would guess we offered to about 50% of those candidates. Often they just didn't have the technical knowledge to pass our phone screen of, what we considered, pretty basic questions.
We never considered education and just looked at technical experience.
It's possible, and likely, we didn't have good recruiters so the quality of the pool wasn't so good, but maybe competition in the SF Bay Area makes it harder to find good people?
Why does it matter if they take a few liberties on things like dates and such, as long as it's good content?
Look at BSG. I think, like many others, that BSG is excellent Sci-Fi and excellent TV and it barely has a resemblance to the original.
I was never into the Batman comic book, but I would bet that The Dark Knight took some liberties with that content also and still produced a fantastic flick.
It's no secret that this is an attempt at a franchise reboot and we can expect JJ Abrahams and the writers to make it their own. As long as they produce good content, I'm fine with them making those changes.
That being said the trailer does have me a little bit worried.
I bet you only have to murder one person in the line, just make sure everyone in the line sees it.