IP address in this context is about as personal as physical street address: - More than one person can live at the same house address - Someone can use it for "evil purposes" and present themselves as living there in order to either cover their tracks or frame an occupant of that address - It can be a single-apartment building and the person actually is the one who everyone looks for
All of those things can be applied to the IP address as well (maybe one or two more). So the question here could also be: is a street address personal information or not?
In Europe you DO pay if you subscribe to SMS service.
SMS texts that are sent to you from your friends or in general are not charged. But if you subscribe to a service you can be charged quite high sums per every SMS you receive.
Which solution are you referring to when you say FCoE over a WAN?
I'm not aware of any products like that on the market.
You may be referring to the FC over IP which is actually in use quite a lot for years now in situations where native FC either isn't technically possible or would be way too expensive.
FCoE has practically nothing to do with FC over IP.
Lots of traffic lights (called "robots" over there) are often times out of commission, because people are stealing power cables for copper that they contain. If they go to trouble of getting into powered cables under ground do you really think a small thing like a lock is going to matter?
A lot of people care how they look under their suits as well as how everyone else looks under their own suits. Also people are generally not comfortable (to put it mildly) to present themselves naked in public, to strangers and in the least in public and to strangers. All the while with the knowledge that they're being recorded while they're naked and some weirdo in the booth might jerk off on their image later on or whatnot.
At least with pat-downs your embarrassment is limited to yourself and the one person who's performing the search. And while it might linger in your memory there's no possibility of a permanent record of it popping up somewhere at a later time.
And as for "who's forcing you to travel?" argument, I would like to say: fuck you! I like to travel. I travel for long distance for business and I travel long distance for private reasons. Now all of a sudden the one fast, practical way to get from point A to point B started to include forceful sexual contact from "security" goons or forceful indecent exposure. I was never afraid to board a plane 15 years ago. Now my unease is not associated with the potential terror threat but rather with the "security" measures put in place to "protect" me. I really don't see the benefit.
While I applaud this development, I'm wandering about something else.
It was discussed here a few times, but it still strikes me as weird, that there do not seem to be more laptop screens of small-ish measurements (9", 13", 15") out there.
I was just recently buying a laptop. My current one is a 17" beast and I wanted to go with something smaller. But it's practically impossible to find anything below 15" that sports a full HD resolution. I would be willing to pay for that, but the offering available is just ridiculously low.
The problem with zoofilia is that it can cause continuing harm to an animal (think a guy and a duck). While if you breed an animal for food it will be (in theory) treated decently and then killed in a quick, painless and "humane" way. I say in theory, because we all know that in practice it is more often not like that and the animals in question actually do suffer throughout their existence.
The sexuality problems that people have of course exacerbate the condition to the next level. But there is an honest desire to protect the animals. Where I live there was recently a huge story in the news that involved a man getting mauled to death by his dogs (couple of bull mastiffs). As it turned out the animals had signs of long-term sexual abuse.
Animal cannot say "no" to a thing it doesn't like.
AFAIK the purpose of the "Green" product line is not performance (aka RAID), but energy saving. Actually the slogan that the y use for the line is: "Cool, quiet, eco-friendly" High performance and RAID are not mentioned. So combining these drives with RAID systems is probably not what the product-line is intended for...
Are you certain that there's an actual web SERVER that is run from a CD?
I find that just a bit too convoluted and potentially problematic in terms of compatibility issues that may pop up. I think it's more likely that there's just a set of web pages that are stacked in a particular structure and linked together. No actual active components.
Also in such (or any other) scenario autorun is by no means required. Ever. Autorun just helps you execute the initial action automatically (as the name suggests). You could always do it by yourself if you just browsed to a proper file on a CD and opened it. So disabling autorun and educating users on how to start a CD-based app could solve a problem or two.
With professional electronic exams like VUE and Prometric, you get automatic time extension if the exam is not available in your language. Typically this is about 25% of time on top of standard time alloted. That's the only aid. You're not allowed a dictionary. Either paper or electronic one.
LEDs produce huge amounts of heat, if they're really bright.
I scuba dive and LED's are (as in most fields) the way that underwater flashlights are going to. For most of the LED-based underwater flashlights the rule is that you should not have them on for any extended amount of time (5 minutes or more) above water. If you do, you run risk of severely overheating and damaging them.
Marrying two cables together is in some cases a great idea and in others a horrid one. It depends on what you want to do and when.
For me when I travel, I just love to have HDMI on my laptop. It means that I can plug a single cable from it to a nice, large TV in a hotel room and watch my content on a huuuge screen with good sound. If I were setting up things at home, however it might be different needs that would prevail.
That's all well and fine, if your travel is pleasure, rather than business, or if you're single and you don't need to travel long distances. Also if you travel for pleasure, you better have a lot of leave accumulated.
I travel on business at least once, more often twice a month. My average would take more than a 6 or 7 hours of driving and more commonly takes me a few thousand miles away from home. If I took your approach, then I would be on the road literally all the time! Even now my girlfriend is not too happy with the amount of time I spend away from home.
On the other hand when we go somewhere for vacation, it's more often than not a destination that's 5 or 6 thousand miles away. Getting there and back with a ship would take at least a week if not more. That then leaves precious little time to actually stay at the destination in question.
Whether I like it or not, traveling by airplane is the only option that I realistically have available to me, most of the time. As such it's crucial that I know exactly how much I will have to spend on my trip.
I must say that I disagree with your statement that this is something that "even a good testing program might miss". In that case it's not that good of a testing program...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but to my knowledge these are the facts: The external "band" antenna is made out of several parts. If you put your finger on the divide where those parts are separated with an insulating material, your finger acts as a conducting device and causes electrical interference which degrades the signal reception. If that is not something that a guy with a year or two of education in electronics design wouldn't be able to predict, let alone (I'm assuming) a bunch of highly paid engineers, then I don't know what is.
Furthermore, according to my friends, who actually tested an iPhone 4 in Apple store, the problem is very easy to reproduce even in an area with excellent signal. So it couldn't be case where it's just "a few testers in areas with weak signal" would report the problem.
And if the phones on which the testing was done were not of the same design as the final models... Well then you're not really testing the same product, are you?
As I recall, the Miranda Act issue was the removal of applying them to terror suspects (revoking their citizenship, therefore American law did not apply)
I wasn't aware that Miranda only applies to US citizens. Are you sure that's the case?
While having multiple lines on a single SIM would work for normal private/business usage two SIMs usually do not. Most of the phones that support two SIMs will not be actively be running both at the same time. Which means that you're unavailable to your friends during business hours (or bear risk of same privacy issues as originally). After hours it would make it impossible to be on call since your work SIM would be off at that time. So it's not a perfect solution.
And I'm not even going into the ability to handle text messages separately... Most of the time two phones are still way simpler.
While I agree that the cost of ink is outrageously high, it is also true, that vendor ink generally performs better. I'm talking about possible spills on printed paper and so on.
Recently a computer magazine in my country (article is not available online, sorry) tested inks from original vendors and generic inks or refills. Tests showed that there were measurable differences in color fidelity and stability of ink in case of liquid spills.
Essentially the results said: if you're not printing photos or need documents for a long time it doesn't matter much what you use. But for high quality printing, vendors rule.
From what I know the problem with SSD is only related to write-based access. So unlimited reads should not pose an issue. Also, I think it's quite realistic to assume, that there's some kind of logic in place that will prevent data movements to bad blocks. In practice that would mean that while the 4GB of cache might "go bad" over a few years you would essentially end up with a standard 500GB disk. And, according to the tests, even on first access (before it learned where to put "busy" data) the disk performed a bit better that standard competition.
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I agree here (no mod points).
IP address in this context is about as personal as physical street address:
- More than one person can live at the same house address
- Someone can use it for "evil purposes" and present themselves as living there in order to either cover their tracks or frame an occupant of that address
- It can be a single-apartment building and the person actually is the one who everyone looks for
All of those things can be applied to the IP address as well (maybe one or two more). So the question here could also be: is a street address personal information or not?
In Europe you DO pay if you subscribe to SMS service.
SMS texts that are sent to you from your friends or in general are not charged. But if you subscribe to a service you can be charged quite high sums per every SMS you receive.
Which solution are you referring to when you say FCoE over a WAN?
I'm not aware of any products like that on the market.
You may be referring to the FC over IP which is actually in use quite a lot for years now in situations where native FC either isn't technically possible or would be way too expensive.
FCoE has practically nothing to do with FC over IP.
That often doesn't matter in South Africa.
Lots of traffic lights (called "robots" over there) are often times out of commission, because people are stealing power cables for copper that they contain. If they go to trouble of getting into powered cables under ground do you really think a small thing like a lock is going to matter?
A lot of people care how they look under their suits as well as how everyone else looks under their own suits. Also people are generally not comfortable (to put it mildly) to present themselves naked in public, to strangers and in the least in public and to strangers. All the while with the knowledge that they're being recorded while they're naked and some weirdo in the booth might jerk off on their image later on or whatnot.
At least with pat-downs your embarrassment is limited to yourself and the one person who's performing the search. And while it might linger in your memory there's no possibility of a permanent record of it popping up somewhere at a later time.
And as for "who's forcing you to travel?" argument, I would like to say: fuck you! I like to travel. I travel for long distance for business and I travel long distance for private reasons. Now all of a sudden the one fast, practical way to get from point A to point B started to include forceful sexual contact from "security" goons or forceful indecent exposure.
I was never afraid to board a plane 15 years ago. Now my unease is not associated with the potential terror threat but rather with the "security" measures put in place to "protect" me. I really don't see the benefit.
Lot's of mobile phones can be snoozed by simply turning them over or pushing one of the side buttons. Open eyes during that are not a requirement :-)
I believe that Vladimir Putin said something along these lines:
Let the global warming come. We'll finally enjoy some moderate climate in Siberia.
Can't find the quote atm.
While I applaud this development, I'm wandering about something else.
It was discussed here a few times, but it still strikes me as weird, that there do not seem to be more laptop screens of small-ish measurements (9", 13", 15") out there.
I was just recently buying a laptop. My current one is a 17" beast and I wanted to go with something smaller. But it's practically impossible to find anything below 15" that sports a full HD resolution. I would be willing to pay for that, but the offering available is just ridiculously low.
What gives?
The problem with zoofilia is that it can cause continuing harm to an animal (think a guy and a duck). While if you breed an animal for food it will be (in theory) treated decently and then killed in a quick, painless and "humane" way. I say in theory, because we all know that in practice it is more often not like that and the animals in question actually do suffer throughout their existence.
The sexuality problems that people have of course exacerbate the condition to the next level. But there is an honest desire to protect the animals.
Where I live there was recently a huge story in the news that involved a man getting mauled to death by his dogs (couple of bull mastiffs). As it turned out the animals had signs of long-term sexual abuse.
Animal cannot say "no" to a thing it doesn't like.
AFAIK the purpose of the "Green" product line is not performance (aka RAID), but energy saving. Actually the slogan that the y use for the line is: "Cool, quiet, eco-friendly" High performance and RAID are not mentioned. So combining these drives with RAID systems is probably not what the product-line is intended for...
And why isn't a raid6 array a valid backup location?
Because all those pesky keyboards that we use have a "Delete" button...
I use mobile phone as PC a modem (what's called tethering now) for about 10 years now.
Decent upload speed is cool to have on a PC, if you've noticed :-)
Are you certain that there's an actual web SERVER that is run from a CD?
I find that just a bit too convoluted and potentially problematic in terms of compatibility issues that may pop up. I think it's more likely that there's just a set of web pages that are stacked in a particular structure and linked together. No actual active components.
Also in such (or any other) scenario autorun is by no means required. Ever. Autorun just helps you execute the initial action automatically (as the name suggests). You could always do it by yourself if you just browsed to a proper file on a CD and opened it. So disabling autorun and educating users on how to start a CD-based app could solve a problem or two.
With professional electronic exams like VUE and Prometric, you get automatic time extension if the exam is not available in your language. Typically this is about 25% of time on top of standard time alloted. That's the only aid. You're not allowed a dictionary. Either paper or electronic one.
LEDs produce huge amounts of heat, if they're really bright.
I scuba dive and LED's are (as in most fields) the way that underwater flashlights are going to. For most of the LED-based underwater flashlights the rule is that you should not have them on for any extended amount of time (5 minutes or more) above water. If you do, you run risk of severely overheating and damaging them.
Marrying two cables together is in some cases a great idea and in others a horrid one. It depends on what you want to do and when.
For me when I travel, I just love to have HDMI on my laptop. It means that I can plug a single cable from it to a nice, large TV in a hotel room and watch my content on a huuuge screen with good sound. If I were setting up things at home, however it might be different needs that would prevail.
If we set aside everything else, do you really believe that pulling gun on someone that you've already stopped is a measured response?
That's all well and fine, if your travel is pleasure, rather than business, or if you're single and you don't need to travel long distances. Also if you travel for pleasure, you better have a lot of leave accumulated.
I travel on business at least once, more often twice a month. My average would take more than a 6 or 7 hours of driving and more commonly takes me a few thousand miles away from home.
If I took your approach, then I would be on the road literally all the time! Even now my girlfriend is not too happy with the amount of time I spend away from home.
On the other hand when we go somewhere for vacation, it's more often than not a destination that's 5 or 6 thousand miles away. Getting there and back with a ship would take at least a week if not more. That then leaves precious little time to actually stay at the destination in question.
Whether I like it or not, traveling by airplane is the only option that I realistically have available to me, most of the time. As such it's crucial that I know exactly how much I will have to spend on my trip.
I must say that I disagree with your statement that this is something that "even a good testing program might miss". In that case it's not that good of a testing program...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but to my knowledge these are the facts:
The external "band" antenna is made out of several parts. If you put your finger on the divide where those parts are separated with an insulating material, your finger acts as a conducting device and causes electrical interference which degrades the signal reception.
If that is not something that a guy with a year or two of education in electronics design wouldn't be able to predict, let alone (I'm assuming) a bunch of highly paid engineers, then I don't know what is.
Furthermore, according to my friends, who actually tested an iPhone 4 in Apple store, the problem is very easy to reproduce even in an area with excellent signal. So it couldn't be case where it's just "a few testers in areas with weak signal" would report the problem.
And if the phones on which the testing was done were not of the same design as the final models... Well then you're not really testing the same product, are you?
As I recall, the Miranda Act issue was the removal of applying them to terror suspects (revoking their citizenship, therefore American law did not apply)
I wasn't aware that Miranda only applies to US citizens. Are you sure that's the case?
While having multiple lines on a single SIM would work for normal private/business usage two SIMs usually do not.
Most of the phones that support two SIMs will not be actively be running both at the same time. Which means that you're unavailable to your friends during business hours (or bear risk of same privacy issues as originally). After hours it would make it impossible to be on call since your work SIM would be off at that time.
So it's not a perfect solution.
And I'm not even going into the ability to handle text messages separately... Most of the time two phones are still way simpler.
I don't think it's a good option for .sa...
Domain extension for South Africa is .za
While I agree that the cost of ink is outrageously high, it is also true, that vendor ink generally performs better. I'm talking about possible spills on printed paper and so on.
Recently a computer magazine in my country (article is not available online, sorry) tested inks from original vendors and generic inks or refills. Tests showed that there were measurable differences in color fidelity and stability of ink in case of liquid spills.
Essentially the results said: if you're not printing photos or need documents for a long time it doesn't matter much what you use. But for high quality printing, vendors rule.
From what I know the problem with SSD is only related to write-based access. So unlimited reads should not pose an issue.
Also, I think it's quite realistic to assume, that there's some kind of logic in place that will prevent data movements to bad blocks. In practice that would mean that while the 4GB of cache might "go bad" over a few years you would essentially end up with a standard 500GB disk. And, according to the tests, even on first access (before it learned where to put "busy" data) the disk performed a bit better that standard competition.
You don't travel with airplanes then or do any mountaineering either, I presume?