As opposed to a site sponsored by one company, Adsnene promotes journalistic integrity. If I am running a review site, and I don't know who exactly is advertising on my site, I can't unfairly favor them.
I'm not religious, but I remember reading this passage in the old testament with my father.
John lived to be 738 years old, and then he died.
Ezekiel lived to be 902 years old, and then he died.
Abraham lived to be 872 years old, and then he died.....
I have a right to know who is advertising on my blog. I was black and had a website that talked about being black, I would be very upset if the KKK advertised on my website. I know that is an extreme example.
I also am interested in who is advertising on my site. I have a reasonable excuse for clicking my own links.
If everyone using the internet was truly using a secure computer great. Tenet means secure as in someone's computer won't screw with the US government. My definition of security is, someone won't screw with me.
If I implement my security plan personally, it doesn't matter what other people do.
Personally, I want less pollution and far less reliance on fossil fuels. (It's crazy that we are still tweaking a 100 year old car engine design.)
The internal combustion engine is amazing in its longevity and adaptability. People have been predicting its demise for decades and they have been wrong. Look at how far emmissions have come since the 60s. Look at Formula 1 engines that put out 900 hp at 19,000 RPM, from 3.0 liters, all weighing in close to 200lbs.
One of the reasons I think the IC piston engines has been so succesful is because it is a limitted design space. Since it is a limitted well known problem, engineers no where to dedicate their efforts. Look at how far x86 has come. Same thing, limitted design space (has to conform to x86 construction set), compared to a clean sheet Itanium. I'm sure that there are other reasons for x86's consistently increasing improvement (competition, funding, price...)
yes someone could do that. I get my bit torrents from small websites that I'm reffered to by friends. I often know the owner of the site that has the tracker on it. Given that I know and trust that person, I can download their trackers without fear of white noise.
I know its not a virus. But it is an example of a type of malicious program (DDos) being used in a positive way. I should have picked a more relevant topic.
I have often thought that virusses are boring. Wow you made my computer not work properly. A five year old can do that with some apple juice.
I'd like to see more virus writers like this. Why can't I get a virus that magically installs linux on my computer and makes it look like windows? Make it so good that I don't even know i'm running linux.
Make virusses that install software like folding@home and seti@home. That would be cool.
Good work lycos.
That sounds promissing. It would have to be transparent to the user. If it wasn't most people wouldn't sign files. Then you'd have to download unsigned files to get the full breadth of available files also and have to deal with the same problems of spoofing.
Also, could the RIAA sue someone just because they signed a file? If they could, we are back to square one.
When the credits of a show are compressed or scrolled through extra fast it makes it more dificult to read actor's names. I wonder if SAG is going to get on this. I wonder if this breaks any bargaining agreements?
Mr. Wizard did this. I remember him using a droplet of water as magnifying glass. I think he put a drop on a piece of cellophane that he moved over a newspaper.
I forget all the details but he was able to get 40x magnification I think.
He didn't do the elctric focussing bit.
The great thing about BitTorrent is that you are being pointed to a known file. You can judge for yourself who points you at a given file by what website is hosting the tracker. This is one of the reasons you don't get the spoofed files on BitTorrent.
The fact that you can tell who is offering a tracker also means that the RIAA can. Thus the RIAA can sue this person.
I see a distributed bittorrent being useful for non RIAA protected files. Once bittorrent is distributed though, the RIAA will start spoofing it.
Do you really think that we are planning to bomb Iraq again in 50 years. I doubt any administration has that much foresight. We haven't bombed Japan or Germany recently because they haven't acted stupidly
In addition to making the car considerably cheaper, Henry Ford also standardized the user interface. I read this somewhere recently. Before the model A, you had to set the ignition advance of a car manually, and you may have even had to adjust the carb fuel air mixture, there was also a lot of different arrangements for controlling the throttle, brakes, clutch, and shifter. Ford made it all simple.
Windows 3.1 was a huge improvement for the average user over the CLI. Windows derivatives also became pretty cheap. (They do have enormous flaws)
The Mac seems to have done an even better job with the UI. They did it back in 84 (might be off a year). But they weren't cheap, so they have had little market penetration.
I am not in the IT field. But I find it interesting and impressive to hear about how large operations run. I'd be really like to hear about different methods for laying out datacenters. What rackmounts do they use, what types of airconditioning, what types of power conditioning? How do they organize all their cables. What procedures work for figuring out which server failed, how do you take it offline and fix it.
I know these questions might be really basic to a lot of IT people, but not to me. I also havent' seen many writeups for the proper practices in these areas.
I'm not all that familiar with them, but I have heard about people getting all kinds of cool stuff with a real satelite dish. I have heard of getting behind the scenes stuff from live events when the edditing is done remotely. Seems $6500 would be in the same ball park.
TV2Me would be bettter for a traveling person, but come on. Do you really need to watch that jets game in London?
It is legal to record a TV show, and watch it later somewhere else right. Well I guess you could think of Tv2Me as a really fast runner that is constantly recording a zmall bit of the show and running across the continent to you.
I'm sure companies will say it infringes on their copyrights and sue the company or the users.
I don't see it being a huge threat to media companies. This is an expensive piece of hardware, and you need a lot of upstream bandwidth. Not many people are going to be able to use this.
Yes for you its a net plus, but for the economy as whole, its a loss. I made a lot of money off of hurricane Isabell cutting up trees. But I realize that if those people weren't paying me to get back to where they were before, they would be buying new clothes, houses, and cars.
wikipedia: Broken window fallacy
This says that if someone says, look at that broken window, it stimulated the economy because it created work for the glassmaker and glazier. This seems reasonable at first, but it isn't. The country had to use economic resources to reach the same utility it was at before the window was broken. If broken windows really stimulated the economy, countries would bomb themselves to stimulate the economy.
I know it could be categorized as flamebait but I didn't mean it that way. I see a lot of IT work being similar to a building maintence manager, so a machinist(?). They connect different pieces together and that requires a lot of skill, understanding all the different types of pipes. I see a CS person as designing a waterpump, its a different type of skill. Of course there is overlap.
When I was a CS major I found it very insulting when people would compare it to IT. IT is a skill and a valuable one, but I see it as blue collar compared to actual programming. Its a blurry line, ubt administering a whole lot of windows machines and installing the everpresent (?) patches in no way compares to analyzing algorithims (for spelling maybe:).
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As opposed to a site sponsored by one company, Adsnene promotes journalistic integrity. If I am running a review site, and I don't know who exactly is advertising on my site, I can't unfairly favor them.
I'm not religious, but I remember reading this passage in the old testament with my father. John lived to be 738 years old, and then he died. Ezekiel lived to be 902 years old, and then he died. Abraham lived to be 872 years old, and then he died. ....
I have a right to know who is advertising on my blog. I was black and had a website that talked about being black, I would be very upset if the KKK advertised on my website. I know that is an extreme example. I also am interested in who is advertising on my site. I have a reasonable excuse for clicking my own links.
If everyone using the internet was truly using a secure computer great. Tenet means secure as in someone's computer won't screw with the US government. My definition of security is, someone won't screw with me. If I implement my security plan personally, it doesn't matter what other people do.
Are these jobs we really want?
First two flickr stories very close to each other. Now two Bit Torrent stories very close together. Ricola (Ricola) Ricola (Ricola)
yes someone could do that. I get my bit torrents from small websites that I'm reffered to by friends. I often know the owner of the site that has the tracker on it. Given that I know and trust that person, I can download their trackers without fear of white noise.
I know its not a virus. But it is an example of a type of malicious program (DDos) being used in a positive way. I should have picked a more relevant topic.
I have often thought that virusses are boring. Wow you made my computer not work properly. A five year old can do that with some apple juice. I'd like to see more virus writers like this. Why can't I get a virus that magically installs linux on my computer and makes it look like windows? Make it so good that I don't even know i'm running linux. Make virusses that install software like folding@home and seti@home. That would be cool. Good work lycos.
That sounds promissing. It would have to be transparent to the user. If it wasn't most people wouldn't sign files. Then you'd have to download unsigned files to get the full breadth of available files also and have to deal with the same problems of spoofing. Also, could the RIAA sue someone just because they signed a file? If they could, we are back to square one.
When the credits of a show are compressed or scrolled through extra fast it makes it more dificult to read actor's names. I wonder if SAG is going to get on this. I wonder if this breaks any bargaining agreements?
Mr. Wizard did this. I remember him using a droplet of water as magnifying glass. I think he put a drop on a piece of cellophane that he moved over a newspaper. I forget all the details but he was able to get 40x magnification I think. He didn't do the elctric focussing bit.
The great thing about BitTorrent is that you are being pointed to a known file. You can judge for yourself who points you at a given file by what website is hosting the tracker. This is one of the reasons you don't get the spoofed files on BitTorrent. The fact that you can tell who is offering a tracker also means that the RIAA can. Thus the RIAA can sue this person. I see a distributed bittorrent being useful for non RIAA protected files. Once bittorrent is distributed though, the RIAA will start spoofing it.
Do you really think that we are planning to bomb Iraq again in 50 years. I doubt any administration has that much foresight. We haven't bombed Japan or Germany recently because they haven't acted stupidly
In addition to making the car considerably cheaper, Henry Ford also standardized the user interface. I read this somewhere recently. Before the model A, you had to set the ignition advance of a car manually, and you may have even had to adjust the carb fuel air mixture, there was also a lot of different arrangements for controlling the throttle, brakes, clutch, and shifter. Ford made it all simple. Windows 3.1 was a huge improvement for the average user over the CLI. Windows derivatives also became pretty cheap. (They do have enormous flaws) The Mac seems to have done an even better job with the UI. They did it back in 84 (might be off a year). But they weren't cheap, so they have had little market penetration.
I am not in the IT field. But I find it interesting and impressive to hear about how large operations run. I'd be really like to hear about different methods for laying out datacenters. What rackmounts do they use, what types of airconditioning, what types of power conditioning? How do they organize all their cables. What procedures work for figuring out which server failed, how do you take it offline and fix it. I know these questions might be really basic to a lot of IT people, but not to me. I also havent' seen many writeups for the proper practices in these areas.
I think its cool to look at rooms full of rackmounts.
I'm not all that familiar with them, but I have heard about people getting all kinds of cool stuff with a real satelite dish. I have heard of getting behind the scenes stuff from live events when the edditing is done remotely. Seems $6500 would be in the same ball park. TV2Me would be bettter for a traveling person, but come on. Do you really need to watch that jets game in London?
It is legal to record a TV show, and watch it later somewhere else right. Well I guess you could think of Tv2Me as a really fast runner that is constantly recording a zmall bit of the show and running across the continent to you. I'm sure companies will say it infringes on their copyrights and sue the company or the users. I don't see it being a huge threat to media companies. This is an expensive piece of hardware, and you need a lot of upstream bandwidth. Not many people are going to be able to use this.
Yes for you its a net plus, but for the economy as whole, its a loss. I made a lot of money off of hurricane Isabell cutting up trees. But I realize that if those people weren't paying me to get back to where they were before, they would be buying new clothes, houses, and cars.
wikipedia: Broken window fallacy This says that if someone says, look at that broken window, it stimulated the economy because it created work for the glassmaker and glazier. This seems reasonable at first, but it isn't. The country had to use economic resources to reach the same utility it was at before the window was broken. If broken windows really stimulated the economy, countries would bomb themselves to stimulate the economy.
I know it could be categorized as flamebait but I didn't mean it that way. I see a lot of IT work being similar to a building maintence manager, so a machinist(?). They connect different pieces together and that requires a lot of skill, understanding all the different types of pipes. I see a CS person as designing a waterpump, its a different type of skill. Of course there is overlap.
When I was a CS major I found it very insulting when people would compare it to IT. IT is a skill and a valuable one, but I see it as blue collar compared to actual programming. Its a blurry line, ubt administering a whole lot of windows machines and installing the everpresent (?) patches in no way compares to analyzing algorithims (for spelling maybe :).