Oh yeah one other thing. That CF Card that he backs up his data to should go home with him so that it's an offsite backup.
Also it doesn't have to be a CF Card. Obviously now you could very easily use a USB thumbdrive or an SD Card as well. But since all it does is just copy the data from a portable drive to the apache www folder the little macro could easily be updated to meet whatever new portable storage medium is king.
People are going the wrong direction. Don't build 1 big beefy machine.
Build an incredibly small lightweight machine. Like the NVidia Tegra platform. It costs less than $200. At that price you could replace it every other year for 20 years for the cost of one low-end server.
Now. Find a simple web-app which can be hosted. HTML and CSS don't change from decade to decade. Use a CSV file as the database. Now setup a one click option which downloads the data to a CF Card.
This website should be entirely file based so no need to install php, cgi, mysql.. nothing. This way you can copy an entire clone of the site to a CF Card.
Make sure it's a password protected ZIP file that is downloaded so that customer information can't be stolen.
Install a fast booting linux distro with Apache and Google Chrome or Firefox.
Now all you need to do for 15 years is install the latest web browser. And backup the website to a removeable drive every couple of days.
Here are some ways to add bonus points: Put the OS on a CF Card and clone it. Since all he needs is a dumb client and a barebones web server you should be able to fit it pretty easily onto a 2GB CF Card. You also now don't need any fancy ghostingesque software just a straight drive image. Keep 2 copies of the OS on CF Cards. Then if the computer ever breaks. Just replace the CF Card. Have a button which copies the latest website state to the new OS and off you go.
Websites are designed to be portable. They're meant to run on new hardware without a lot of setup. They're the perfect candidate for an application which can move easily from system to system and since you're only spending $200 on hardware which has no fans and no moving parts, but insane redundancy and replaceability I think your Dad should be able to run it himself.
"If it stops working. Just swap out the 'broken' card with the 'new' card." Then every 5 years you can update the instructions on cloning his system drive using the latest software.
And you've already written a little one click macro to restore and backup his web data so he should be able to easily follow the step by step instructions.
I could see this system easily running for 20 years.
That point is often forgotten because the UN can become whatever it becomes.
That's like saying "You often forget that your purpose in life is to write code and no comment on political subjects."
Or "There aren't supposed to be constitutional ammendments which state this or that."
The UN becomes what its members want it to be.
Also I would define a joint peace keeping mission as a time when I would want to rely on a well oiled international communication and logistics organization. Which is precisely what the UN is. Something you might not be aware of is that the UN can't demand troops. It has no troops of its own. It can only provide a logistical framework for troops which have been donated to a mission.
It's as you describe an organization which facilitates "communication" between international troops.
If member states decide they want to use the UN Communications API to sell lollipops that's a legitimate use of the UN. If member states decide they want to use the UN Communications API to work together to make the world's biggest ball of string cheese... that's a legitimate use of the UN.
Maybe because VOIP has NEVER BEEN A GOOD 911 OPTION.
What happens when the power goes out? What happens when the internet goes out? What happens when...
The list goes on and on and on and on which is why if you're really concerned about 911 you should have at least one land line phone plugged into an outlet. Why? Because the FBI doesn't need to worry about VOIP service. You should have a 911 phone available.
If 911 was REALLY a problem then Comcast shouldn't be able to cut anyone's internet access... ever.
Incidentally, isnt it sort of in the FBI's realm to investigate large-scale fraud?
Yes. But Slashdot users have a propensity for Libertarian anarchism.
If it's the FBI doing its job in enforcing copywrite law then they're henchmen for the recording industry Mafiaa. If it's the FBI doing its job in enforcing fraud then they're henchmen for the telecommunications industry.
Remember the government should be small to non-existant. And instead of changing legislation we should just be ignoring the laws that are on the books.
Is it reasonable that a kid downloading a song is a felony? No. But that's a legislative and judicial issue. The FBI is in the executive branch and its job is to respect and uphold the law. That means if someone is believed to be breaking the law then they're obligated to enforce it.
What's the alternative? Police officers deciding to selectively enforce laws on a case by case basis (which unfortunately does happen). I would much prefer the executive branch was consistent in enforcement instead of cherry picking cases than them attempting to make decisions of guilt and innocence before there being a fair and open trial. Obviously there has to be some exceptions to this rule (otherwise everyone would get arrested and have a day in court every time a crime is commited) but by and large I support the FBI actually doing its job when fraud is reported.
No backup options. No data export. No runtime APIs. Poor interchangeable parts. Limited redundancy in key components. Requires a 6 hour shut down and restart every day. Extremely short wireless communication.
I would say calling us a working prototype is being generous.
It's actually pretty plausible. Here in Seattle one of our largest and oldest newspapers, the Seattle Post Intelligencer, just ended its print operation and is scaling back to be an exclusively digital operation.
But then it got into the twitter bit and I realized it was an april fools joke.
I would say the Mainstream media's complete failure to adequately report the lead up to the Iraq war wins them 8 years of being free from liberal bias accusations.
The media reports what I would describe as sensational reports more than liberal reports.
If you take a look at the Washington Post you'll see a liberally biased news source. If you look at Newsweek I would see a every so slightly liberal agenda. If you look at US News and World Report I think you would find an equally conservative slight agenda. I would put NBC, CBS and ABC somewhere in between. Now when it comes to MSNBC they're probably left of Newsweek especially with madow. But CNBC clearly is probably more right than MSNBC is left so I would say the NBC cable brand is as a whole neutral. CNN isn't biased so much as weird I wouldn't define them as any political leaning, just loud.
Of course the Radio is Far Right. So I guess I fail to see this grand liberal slant. If by liberal you actually mean "Centrist and left of right". Then most certainly. But the conservative media as a whole is so much further right than liberal media has traditionally been left I fail to see a hearty comparison.
Dan Savage, Limbaugh, only exteremly recently has Daily Show and Air American risen as serious contenders as sources of liberally slanted ideology. The huffington post being extremely recent. And for every washington post there's a new york post.
If you take the entire US media market and then look at it in perspective globally the whole thing including Washington Post is actually biased to the right. So perhaps they appear to be biased since they don't clearly see that Stem Cell research should make everysingle person queezy (It doesn't. They're killing toe nails as far as I'm concerned). But that doesn't make them automatically liberal. That just makes them to the left of YOU.
But I understand. You're trying to play the refs to slant in your direction. Which is cool. But don't expect me to just let you have it.
If you think NBC nightly news is liberal then you clearly haven't been properly exposed to liberal media.
And slashdot is a pro-tech, pro-netneutrality, pro-science blog. Fox news has investigative journalists. No reason the left shouldn't. No reason Slashdot shouldn't. No reason why anyone with an agenda shouldn't be generating content. And at least you understand the bias when you read huffington post. It doesn't attempt to hide behind any veil like a certain other news organization.
The problem isn't whether or not there is bias it's whether or not the reader knows the bias and filters appropriately.
Name one church that has ever argued that they're entitled to $5000-$7000 a year per school child by governmental force.
Actually seeing as churches are tax exempt for property taxes and income taxes and often sit on prime real-estate while pocketing millions of dollars I would say that they do quite well for themselves.
And I would hardly say that a single class can be held accountable for the entire school year budget. Or is it morally outrageous that the religious must spend $5k for secular transport as well?
I am happy for schools to teach creationism. But I want equal time given to the wiccan beliefs. And I want witches to oversee the wiccan corriculum.
True. But should we teach the controversy of a flat vs round earth?
The problem most people have with teaching the controversy is that in an unfortunate number of cases that means the actual controversy goes un-taught while completely unscientific and widely rejected theories are advanced as equal or superior to the broad understanding of the subject.
I could teach a biology class and say that while most scientists believe germs cause disease the bible teaches us that it's actually a bad spirit and that numerous studies have proven this to be true.
It's rather difficult (and expensive) to buy an automatic rifle in the US. Unless you're an illegal mexican immigrant. Then you just need to show up at a gun show and you can buy automatic rifles, grenades, rocket launchers, etc and take them back to mexico.
If I'm already breaking the law couldn't I add lieing to my list of offenses and claim to be an illegal mexican immigrant?
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I didn't see any time to relax on the beach in all that. Was that before or after the political imprisonment?
... or eat corn grown domestically.
That being said. 20 feet rise in sea levels and out boss will need to find a new office buidling.
I saw that link and went to it like a moth to flame.
Of course I'm going to report anonymously because I do like going to Thailand. But Anything to help overload and confuse their servers.
Oh yeah one other thing. That CF Card that he backs up his data to should go home with him so that it's an offsite backup.
Also it doesn't have to be a CF Card. Obviously now you could very easily use a USB thumbdrive or an SD Card as well. But since all it does is just copy the data from a portable drive to the apache www folder the little macro could easily be updated to meet whatever new portable storage medium is king.
People are going the wrong direction. Don't build 1 big beefy machine.
Build an incredibly small lightweight machine. Like the NVidia Tegra platform. It costs less than $200. At that price you could replace it every other year for 20 years for the cost of one low-end server.
Now. Find a simple web-app which can be hosted. HTML and CSS don't change from decade to decade. Use a CSV file as the database. Now setup a one click option which downloads the data to a CF Card.
This website should be entirely file based so no need to install php, cgi, mysql.. nothing. This way you can copy an entire clone of the site to a CF Card.
Make sure it's a password protected ZIP file that is downloaded so that customer information can't be stolen.
Install a fast booting linux distro with Apache and Google Chrome or Firefox.
Now all you need to do for 15 years is install the latest web browser. And backup the website to a removeable drive every couple of days.
Here are some ways to add bonus points: Put the OS on a CF Card and clone it. Since all he needs is a dumb client and a barebones web server you should be able to fit it pretty easily onto a 2GB CF Card. You also now don't need any fancy ghostingesque software just a straight drive image. Keep 2 copies of the OS on CF Cards. Then if the computer ever breaks. Just replace the CF Card. Have a button which copies the latest website state to the new OS and off you go.
Websites are designed to be portable. They're meant to run on new hardware without a lot of setup. They're the perfect candidate for an application which can move easily from system to system and since you're only spending $200 on hardware which has no fans and no moving parts, but insane redundancy and replaceability I think your Dad should be able to run it himself.
"If it stops working. Just swap out the 'broken' card with the 'new' card." Then every 5 years you can update the instructions on cloning his system drive using the latest software.
And you've already written a little one click macro to restore and backup his web data so he should be able to easily follow the step by step instructions.
I could see this system easily running for 20 years.
Are all of the maps UT maps or just all the the ones in the trailer?
That point is often forgotten because the UN can become whatever it becomes.
That's like saying "You often forget that your purpose in life is to write code and no comment on political subjects."
Or "There aren't supposed to be constitutional ammendments which state this or that."
The UN becomes what its members want it to be.
Also I would define a joint peace keeping mission as a time when I would want to rely on a well oiled international communication and logistics organization. Which is precisely what the UN is. Something you might not be aware of is that the UN can't demand troops. It has no troops of its own. It can only provide a logistical framework for troops which have been donated to a mission.
It's as you describe an organization which facilitates "communication" between international troops.
If member states decide they want to use the UN Communications API to sell lollipops that's a legitimate use of the UN. If member states decide they want to use the UN Communications API to work together to make the world's biggest ball of string cheese... that's a legitimate use of the UN.
It would also be great if they included a graphics chip (or gpu as part of a SoC system) that could handle h.264 decoding for the netbook.
You mean something like this:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_tegra_600_us.html
?
Toes?
Honestly what are the chances there is a communication sattelite on that thing?
Even the most ambitious estimates didn't put this rocket into orbit.
What good is a 'communications sattelite' that flys over Japan for 10 minutes?
Also what are the chances any sizeable chunks of wreckage would survive impact? What do we intend to drudge up? Lint?
Maybe because VOIP has NEVER BEEN A GOOD 911 OPTION.
What happens when the power goes out?
What happens when the internet goes out?
What happens when...
The list goes on and on and on and on which is why if you're really concerned about 911 you should have at least one land line phone plugged into an outlet. Why? Because the FBI doesn't need to worry about VOIP service. You should have a 911 phone available.
If 911 was REALLY a problem then Comcast shouldn't be able to cut anyone's internet access... ever.
Yes. An accident which resulted in no deaths is clearly to be blamed by safety regulations.
Now if only we had the lax regulatory oversight of Chernobyl we would never have had such a diasterous failure.
Wasn't there an article published a few months back stating that checklists in the ER could save thousands of lives a year.
I would say that's a pretty good argument for internalizing and checklisting to ensure you didn't forget anything. Just like the Navy procedure.
Incidentally, isnt it sort of in the FBI's realm to investigate large-scale fraud?
Yes. But Slashdot users have a propensity for Libertarian anarchism.
If it's the FBI doing its job in enforcing copywrite law then they're henchmen for the recording industry Mafiaa.
If it's the FBI doing its job in enforcing fraud then they're henchmen for the telecommunications industry.
Remember the government should be small to non-existant. And instead of changing legislation we should just be ignoring the laws that are on the books.
Is it reasonable that a kid downloading a song is a felony? No. But that's a legislative and judicial issue. The FBI is in the executive branch and its job is to respect and uphold the law. That means if someone is believed to be breaking the law then they're obligated to enforce it.
What's the alternative? Police officers deciding to selectively enforce laws on a case by case basis (which unfortunately does happen). I would much prefer the executive branch was consistent in enforcement instead of cherry picking cases than them attempting to make decisions of guilt and innocence before there being a fair and open trial. Obviously there has to be some exceptions to this rule (otherwise everyone would get arrested and have a day in court every time a crime is commited) but by and large I support the FBI actually doing its job when fraud is reported.
That must be why I like gmail so much! I both trust google and don't care about my privacy.
No backup options. No data export. No runtime APIs. Poor interchangeable parts. Limited redundancy in key components. Requires a 6 hour shut down and restart every day. Extremely short wireless communication.
I would say calling us a working prototype is being generous.
Intelligent design my ass.
Vista Service Pack? I've already installed 2 of them. I've also installed Windows 7.
The Windows 7 upgrade was far more profound than either service pack.
Amen.
A vast majority of the traffic problems around Redmond are Microsoft related. Anything that gets Microsofties out of my way is a welcome development.
It's actually pretty plausible. Here in Seattle one of our largest and oldest newspapers, the Seattle Post Intelligencer, just ended its print operation and is scaling back to be an exclusively digital operation.
But then it got into the twitter bit and I realized it was an april fools joke.
And all these years I thought all functions were written in German:
"GetStringLen()"
I would say the Mainstream media's complete failure to adequately report the lead up to the Iraq war wins them 8 years of being free from liberal bias accusations.
The media reports what I would describe as sensational reports more than liberal reports.
If you take a look at the Washington Post you'll see a liberally biased news source. If you look at Newsweek I would see a every so slightly liberal agenda. If you look at US News and World Report I think you would find an equally conservative slight agenda. I would put NBC, CBS and ABC somewhere in between. Now when it comes to MSNBC they're probably left of Newsweek especially with madow. But CNBC clearly is probably more right than MSNBC is left so I would say the NBC cable brand is as a whole neutral. CNN isn't biased so much as weird I wouldn't define them as any political leaning, just loud.
Of course the Radio is Far Right. So I guess I fail to see this grand liberal slant. If by liberal you actually mean "Centrist and left of right". Then most certainly. But the conservative media as a whole is so much further right than liberal media has traditionally been left I fail to see a hearty comparison.
Dan Savage, Limbaugh, only exteremly recently has Daily Show and Air American risen as serious contenders as sources of liberally slanted ideology. The huffington post being extremely recent. And for every washington post there's a new york post.
If you take the entire US media market and then look at it in perspective globally the whole thing including Washington Post is actually biased to the right. So perhaps they appear to be biased since they don't clearly see that Stem Cell research should make everysingle person queezy (It doesn't. They're killing toe nails as far as I'm concerned). But that doesn't make them automatically liberal. That just makes them to the left of YOU.
But I understand. You're trying to play the refs to slant in your direction. Which is cool. But don't expect me to just let you have it.
If you think NBC nightly news is liberal then you clearly haven't been properly exposed to liberal media.
And slashdot is a pro-tech, pro-netneutrality, pro-science blog. Fox news has investigative journalists. No reason the left shouldn't. No reason Slashdot shouldn't. No reason why anyone with an agenda shouldn't be generating content. And at least you understand the bias when you read huffington post. It doesn't attempt to hide behind any veil like a certain other news organization.
The problem isn't whether or not there is bias it's whether or not the reader knows the bias and filters appropriately.
Name one church that has ever argued that they're entitled to $5000-$7000 a year per school child by governmental force.
Actually seeing as churches are tax exempt for property taxes and income taxes and often sit on prime real-estate while pocketing millions of dollars I would say that they do quite well for themselves.
And I would hardly say that a single class can be held accountable for the entire school year budget. Or is it morally outrageous that the religious must spend $5k for secular transport as well?
I am happy for schools to teach creationism. But I want equal time given to the wiccan beliefs. And I want witches to oversee the wiccan corriculum.
True. But should we teach the controversy of a flat vs round earth?
The problem most people have with teaching the controversy is that in an unfortunate number of cases that means the actual controversy goes un-taught while completely unscientific and widely rejected theories are advanced as equal or superior to the broad understanding of the subject.
I could teach a biology class and say that while most scientists believe germs cause disease the bible teaches us that it's actually a bad spirit and that numerous studies have proven this to be true.
It's rather difficult (and expensive) to buy an automatic rifle in the US. Unless you're an illegal mexican immigrant. Then you just need to show up at a gun show and you can buy automatic rifles, grenades, rocket launchers, etc and take them back to mexico.
If I'm already breaking the law couldn't I add lieing to my list of offenses and claim to be an illegal mexican immigrant?