I'm not sure about you, but my time isn't free. Really, it comes down to simple economics: should I spend $20 and a half hour of my time to get somebody else to change my oil, or should I waste an hour of my time, plus the time for buying oil and disposing of the old, etc?
Keep in mind that hashing of an IP address is worthless, since there is a very finite quantity of them, they come in predictable patterns, and anybody could easily create a table holding the hash of every single possible IP address. Get a list of all possible hashes, and it's trivial to just convert the hashes straight back into the real numbers.
Encrypting them with a big-ass private key would work, but how do you know that the government hasn't already cracked the encryption technology that you're using or that they can't simply bruteforce your key. Again, with a predictable IP address format, you just bruteforce until you get something that has 4 octets, and bam, private key.
That's right, I visit playboy.com for the Linux distributions. Still one of the fastest mirrors available, it's almost like they need a lot of bandwidth, but what for I cannot imagine...
Every graphics program has the potential to be the easiest-to use and best graphics program, that's why we have this word. It doesn't mean that it is, it doesn't guarantee that it will be, it just has the potential.
For a smaller network, you might have a point. Is it easier to do multicast on the cheap when the hub is already sending traffic to every point connected to it? I imagine this method would require slightly less expertise than running multicast on a larger switched network.
I'll bite... While I think just leaving all mod points off of it would have sufficed, he got modded down because he didn't answer the clearly-posted and described question. He wanted help earlier in the process than this, so this guy's suggestions, while they may have been remotely relevant later, do little if anything to help him in the first place. Honestly, I think this one comes down to a case of needing to read and understand the question, and then respond on ly if you have useful insight to share. If he asks about hardware, give him a hardware answer. If he asks how he should get data from the software that came with his device to his webpage, this answer might have helped.
How do I go about setting up a weather meter (temperature, humidity, wind velocity, and so forth) so that its results can be integrated into an already established website?
It absolutely amazes me how the "educated community" that is Slashdot fails to understand the stupidity of this endless bickering. Who cares who "wins" or "loses" this moronic debate? The fact of the matter is that people are dying, and we're merely throwing stones at those who are "responsible for doing things." Why is the public's reaction only to point fingers at the worthless politicans who don't do jack shit to help anybody but the corporate dollar anyway?
As for the more technical points of your response...
Additionally, raising the levees is a moot point. They didn't overflow, they BROKE.
The grandparent stated that these levees should have undergone better maintanence procedures to insure that they didn't break. As we all know, something that is well maintained is less likely to break when it's really needed, and can normally sustain far more abuse than something which has been neglected for years. As for making them higher, yes, it would have helped, because of one thing: gravity. I'm not sure if you're aware of the concept, but if you build a standard dirt pile levy, the higher you build it the stronger it is because a) it gets wider at the bottom which means water has to get through a thicker structure and b) there is more weight pushing down on the lower parts of the levee which in turn compress it and make it more difficult for water to go through. The image doesn't apply perfectly to large concrete levees, but the engineering involved in a higher one will result in a stronger base.
Yes, because we all know that the decision to invade Iraq in March of 2003 was made on August 31,2005 as Katrina was wreaking havoc on the Gulf Coast.
Why you'd even try to make this statement is beyond me, I must say. It doesn't matter when the decision was made, it only matters that it was made! Shifting this much money away from the homeland is going to come back to bite you, I don't care what country you work for. I hate to say that money is the most important thing here, but this is politics, so the statement rings true. Had Bush not declared war on Iraq, this money would have been sitting around here, stuffing our coffers, instead of pounding holes in the ground in Iraq.
Sure, Bush did not know the future, but he should have been fully aware of the implications that declaring war have as far as the decreased amount of personnel, money and equipment at home. By sending away your armies, you're leaving yourself vulnerable, have we not yet learned this? Only when the vulnerability is an acceptable risk and you are fully prepared to accept the consequences is war even a feasible idea.
The rest of your points I'm unaware of, as I've been specifically avoiding the news. Either way, stop pointing fingers unless you're going to do so at the entire government, otherwise you're just wasting your time. You can replace one assbag in government but he'll only be replaced by another, it's a never-ending cycle because the system does not work.
Slightly offtopic question: how have none of these news reporters not gotten the shit beaten out of them yet? They walk through the streets with their cameras and film the distress, but I have yet to see any of the big-name reporters roll up their sleeves and help out with a rescue. I've seen several news clips where the news helicopter is simply filming a rescue from behind the coast guard helicopter instead of putting their transport to good use somewhere. Reporters and politicians make me sick, if you haven't yet figured this out.
Why does the grandparent's statement even have to be a "deep heart stab?" He pointed out the way things should have gone and the way things are going, sure a small portion of it might have been a bit Bush-centric, but otherwise he's completely correct. Instead of pounding at eachother with this political bullshit, why not accept that things are screwed up and work towards, gee, I don't know, fixing them?
It doesn't matter who's in charge of the government now, but if things aren't happening home-side to protect the citizens of the United States during natural crisis', it's time to start considering what's wrong with the government. If our government is so great that it's created by and for us, why don't we make sure that it's actually looking out for our interests?
You mean to tell me that real police officers can't zoom in on footage taken from a $5 security camera and enhance it enough to read the room number off the keycard in someones hand? Or that they can't pull up a guy's life story and his current location based on a fingerprint left on a furnace in Bangladesh?Blasphemy!
I just discovered this the other day, but try out Backpack. Essentially, you could set up individual pages for all of your projects, post notes, add a todo list, post reminders, share the pages with your coworkers, etc.
It's not so much their "greater understanding," but the fact that they legitimately care about the unlicensed spectrum. The big difference is that the ham radio operators, unlike your government, are not in bed with big corporations. Do you think your government and the FCC are really doing what's best for you? They're just working for the highest bidder, in this case throwing a freebie at the energy industry for god knows what rewards.
To be honest, however, for a respectable linux distribution, the FAQ shouldn't contain anything like the beginning of that entry. A simple "libparted doesn't support it very well at the moment, but we might consider in the future" would add a great deal to the apparent professionalism of the developers and the distribution itself. Do we see Apple and Microsoft referring to things as "teh suck" in their FAQs?
But keep in mind the sheer quantity of solar panels it would take (created with the 10x more pollution from your post) to equal that one coal plant. If we were considering a 1:1 ratio, then yes, you're right, but because solar panels aren't near as efficient, the rules change.
CFC production is actually still a billion dollar per year industry, just overseas. If I remember correctly it's not banned worldwide until 2007 or so.
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There is no such thing as "Saturday morning," it's just a lie that parents tell their children to scare them. Sort of like the fabled 5 AM.
I have mod points! Oh, damn...
But that would've torn the ship apart!
I'm not sure about you, but my time isn't free. Really, it comes down to simple economics: should I spend $20 and a half hour of my time to get somebody else to change my oil, or should I waste an hour of my time, plus the time for buying oil and disposing of the old, etc?
Remember, the parent said he was a college student. I imagine it's somewhat cheaper to cook up ramen in bulk.
Keep in mind that hashing of an IP address is worthless, since there is a very finite quantity of them, they come in predictable patterns, and anybody could easily create a table holding the hash of every single possible IP address. Get a list of all possible hashes, and it's trivial to just convert the hashes straight back into the real numbers.
Encrypting them with a big-ass private key would work, but how do you know that the government hasn't already cracked the encryption technology that you're using or that they can't simply bruteforce your key. Again, with a predictable IP address format, you just bruteforce until you get something that has 4 octets, and bam, private key.
Offtopic, I know, but I thought I might point this one out: http://www.angryflower.com/aposter.html .
That's right, I visit playboy.com for the Linux distributions. Still one of the fastest mirrors available, it's almost like they need a lot of bandwidth, but what for I cannot imagine...
But that'll tear the ship apart!
It works even better if your name is Chet:
Chet's Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire...
Just map a function key in your editor to "save file; make go".
make: *** No rule to make target 'go'. Stop.
Portmanteau? Cover that in hot grits and you might have yourself a fad! And I apologize for bringing that joke back to life.
Every graphics program has the potential to be the easiest-to use and best graphics program, that's why we have this word. It doesn't mean that it is, it doesn't guarantee that it will be, it just has the potential.
For a smaller network, you might have a point. Is it easier to do multicast on the cheap when the hub is already sending traffic to every point connected to it? I imagine this method would require slightly less expertise than running multicast on a larger switched network.
I'll bite... While I think just leaving all mod points off of it would have sufficed, he got modded down because he didn't answer the clearly-posted and described question. He wanted help earlier in the process than this, so this guy's suggestions, while they may have been remotely relevant later, do little if anything to help him in the first place. Honestly, I think this one comes down to a case of needing to read and understand the question, and then respond on ly if you have useful insight to share. If he asks about hardware, give him a hardware answer. If he asks how he should get data from the software that came with his device to his webpage, this answer might have helped.
How do I go about setting up a weather meter (temperature, humidity, wind velocity, and so forth) so that its results can be integrated into an already established website?
It absolutely amazes me how the "educated community" that is Slashdot fails to understand the stupidity of this endless bickering. Who cares who "wins" or "loses" this moronic debate? The fact of the matter is that people are dying, and we're merely throwing stones at those who are "responsible for doing things." Why is the public's reaction only to point fingers at the worthless politicans who don't do jack shit to help anybody but the corporate dollar anyway?
As for the more technical points of your response...
Additionally, raising the levees is a moot point. They didn't overflow, they BROKE.
The grandparent stated that these levees should have undergone better maintanence procedures to insure that they didn't break. As we all know, something that is well maintained is less likely to break when it's really needed, and can normally sustain far more abuse than something which has been neglected for years. As for making them higher, yes, it would have helped, because of one thing: gravity. I'm not sure if you're aware of the concept, but if you build a standard dirt pile levy, the higher you build it the stronger it is because a) it gets wider at the bottom which means water has to get through a thicker structure and b) there is more weight pushing down on the lower parts of the levee which in turn compress it and make it more difficult for water to go through. The image doesn't apply perfectly to large concrete levees, but the engineering involved in a higher one will result in a stronger base.
Yes, because we all know that the decision to invade Iraq in March of 2003 was made on August 31,2005 as Katrina was wreaking havoc on the Gulf Coast.
Why you'd even try to make this statement is beyond me, I must say. It doesn't matter when the decision was made, it only matters that it was made! Shifting this much money away from the homeland is going to come back to bite you, I don't care what country you work for. I hate to say that money is the most important thing here, but this is politics, so the statement rings true. Had Bush not declared war on Iraq, this money would have been sitting around here, stuffing our coffers, instead of pounding holes in the ground in Iraq.
Sure, Bush did not know the future, but he should have been fully aware of the implications that declaring war have as far as the decreased amount of personnel, money and equipment at home. By sending away your armies, you're leaving yourself vulnerable, have we not yet learned this? Only when the vulnerability is an acceptable risk and you are fully prepared to accept the consequences is war even a feasible idea.
The rest of your points I'm unaware of, as I've been specifically avoiding the news. Either way, stop pointing fingers unless you're going to do so at the entire government, otherwise you're just wasting your time. You can replace one assbag in government but he'll only be replaced by another, it's a never-ending cycle because the system does not work.
Slightly offtopic question: how have none of these news reporters not gotten the shit beaten out of them yet? They walk through the streets with their cameras and film the distress, but I have yet to see any of the big-name reporters roll up their sleeves and help out with a rescue. I've seen several news clips where the news helicopter is simply filming a rescue from behind the coast guard helicopter instead of putting their transport to good use somewhere. Reporters and politicians make me sick, if you haven't yet figured this out.
My $0.02.
Why does the grandparent's statement even have to be a "deep heart stab?" He pointed out the way things should have gone and the way things are going, sure a small portion of it might have been a bit Bush-centric, but otherwise he's completely correct. Instead of pounding at eachother with this political bullshit, why not accept that things are screwed up and work towards, gee, I don't know, fixing them?
It doesn't matter who's in charge of the government now, but if things aren't happening home-side to protect the citizens of the United States during natural crisis', it's time to start considering what's wrong with the government. If our government is so great that it's created by and for us, why don't we make sure that it's actually looking out for our interests?
You mean to tell me that real police officers can't zoom in on footage taken from a $5 security camera and enhance it enough to read the room number off the keycard in someones hand? Or that they can't pull up a guy's life story and his current location based on a fingerprint left on a furnace in Bangladesh?Blasphemy!
If I remember correctly, they were built like Navy ships because they were built by the guys who make Navy ships. Makes sense, really.
I just discovered this the other day, but try out Backpack. Essentially, you could set up individual pages for all of your projects, post notes, add a todo list, post reminders, share the pages with your coworkers, etc.
It's not so much their "greater understanding," but the fact that they legitimately care about the unlicensed spectrum. The big difference is that the ham radio operators, unlike your government, are not in bed with big corporations. Do you think your government and the FCC are really doing what's best for you? They're just working for the highest bidder, in this case throwing a freebie at the energy industry for god knows what rewards.
To be honest, however, for a respectable linux distribution, the FAQ shouldn't contain anything like the beginning of that entry. A simple "libparted doesn't support it very well at the moment, but we might consider in the future" would add a great deal to the apparent professionalism of the developers and the distribution itself. Do we see Apple and Microsoft referring to things as "teh suck" in their FAQs?
But keep in mind the sheer quantity of solar panels it would take (created with the 10x more pollution from your post) to equal that one coal plant. If we were considering a 1:1 ratio, then yes, you're right, but because solar panels aren't near as efficient, the rules change.
CFC production is actually still a billion dollar per year industry, just overseas. If I remember correctly it's not banned worldwide until 2007 or so.
Isn't it beautiful to see open source at work?