OSX... single key press to boot to cd/dvd or firewire or to get a boot selection menu which scans sources and lets you select via mouse or keys where to boot from.
I'd really like to do that myself, would you mind posting the script somewhere? I know my sibling poster asked this too, but I thought I wanted comcast until I went 3 weeks watching tv only 2 days a week because every other day when I tried to sit down there was absolutely nothing on.
Except that in the current state of affairs, most/much of the internet is actually based on our soil, so landlocking the USA internet would do less than it might for say Australia.
The lawyers themselves aren't doing anything unethical. They are pursuing a case within the confines of the law. Whatever their client may have done, the lawyers arguing that it should be legal is not unethical, it's just an argument and a tactic. It is unfortunate that a bad lawyer working the public good could fail to get the judge to strike them down, but in the end these lawyers aren't being unethical as long as they clearly inform their clients of the ramifications of their legal course of action. Now, if the lawyers themselves were to break the law it'd be a different story. In the end the client is the one responsible here. We all just wish they wouldn't be stupid about it. We know it's a waste of money and highly inefficient course of action, it clearly demonstrates malice on the part of somebody in control in the sense they want to control every single bit they can. And it demonstrates lack of forethought because we all believe it will fail, and we're pretty certain the time in the proceedings alone will cost them significantly, let alone the judgement that will come against them that will in the end accomplish what they're trying to stall. As a geek/engineer I know I hate inefficiency of that kind. It's irrational, and irrational things are dangerous*.
* Except for numbers... Well actually, PI is dangerous, so I retract my qualification.
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except I would read the books with all 10 fingers stuck in the pages. I would then use a mix of LRU and a progressive backup system to try to keep important decision point accessible even though I moved on. I what I would do is when presented with a new choice, I'd look back at the current oldest *bookmark* I would decide how important that decision point seemed. If it was not important, I'd drop it, but if it seemed reasonably pivotal, I'd look at the next oldest bookmark, and repeat that process until I had a new bookmark available. If I hit the case where all bookmarks were somewhat pivotal, I'd invert the process and release the most recent decision point, based on the idea that if I have to go back, I can work my way back to recently dropped bookmark more easily than I could find some arbitrary other decision point in the middle of the book. This way meant those books got read pretty slowly, also I'd start to memorize death pages just by page number. For example page 63 would be "You rush along in the the dark trying to escape, and you fall into a pit, break both arms and you slowly starve to death in terrible pain" From then on I'd see page 63 in the goto section of a previous decision point, and I don't even need to explore that dead end anymore.
What if they can't put cameras up at all lights, due to cost reasons. Is it justifiable to use uncertainty as a deterrent and hope that people will stop speeding everywhere after the word gets out that there are cameras *somewhere* in the city?
botnets.... Only an *honest* spammer would pay for it's share of bandwidth. And they are all low hanging fruit for people to stop, or they aren't enough of a nuisance in comparison.
How is one to know that? All I see are packets that seem to be coming from my peers with whom I'm communicating, and yet via out of band communications we can verify that they are not being sent by them. The logical solution is to in fact filter them out as invalid. I didn't receive any written notice with each packet stating that it was part of an access control mechanism that I had to respect. They're packets and I can do what I want with them... including ignoring them. Can't I?
My problem with filtering like that is that the filtering only works on your end, and if comcast is bidirectionally sending RST then the other end will back off even though you don't.
I don't think that's what happens or at least not at any useful speed. I'm not speaking from a position of knowledge, but I do *know* that we can already pick out specific nanotubes from a pile and determine their chirality. If they just grew on their own maintaining their form, wouldn't it just be a question of setting up a nanotube farm with selected batches of different chiralities? Even if they grew only an inch a year, wouldn't it just take a factory and a bit of time to set up enough *fields* to grow all the nanotubes you want? That seems like something we would have easily done.
This is probably wishful thinking, but I think the key will be organic growth methods... Once you can get a bacteria to help build such a simple repeating structure as a nanotube, we will rule the world.
I stand corrected. While testing now I still found those dead frames even though I turned off adblock plus. Further, I'm on what I believe to be an unfiltered connection here at work. So I would say the blame lies with slashdot or it's adprovider.
I see those to whether or not I'm on comcast. I was wondering if it might be related to running adblock plus. When I view slashdot with abp turned off I don't see those dead frames.
more schools than MIT have great dorm networks. My saddest regret when I left the dorm system was that I couldn't get internet access as fast as in the dorms for less than 500$/month. My only affordable options were comcast or DSL and it turns out that DSL would usually have as good effective upstream as comcast. Go Blue! (umich.edu) I wish the fiber providers would get their asses in gear and provide me!
Well, for example, using the GP's hypothetical situation, knowing that it has no false negatives could be easily used to rule out breast cancer as a cause. So if a patient comes in and tests negative, then they can cheaply, instantly rule out breast cancer, and move on to other possible causes...
Is he still around and kicking? Last I read, the Gord from actsofgord.com vanished a bunch of years back... Unless you're talking of a different Gord, in which case I am curious too...
I echo what my sibling poster said. I love my job. It's not the equations that interest me, it's the remaking of the world around us that I find awesome. To some extent literature and politics are the scaffolding for the future of society, but engineering is the scaffolding for the future of humanity. Irrespective of politics and literature and the arts, whatever form of society exists, unless we return to living in caves, engineering will always be around, always be needed. It is one of the many reasons why there is surplus in the economy available to support those whose interest is in fields that don't directly produce the neccessities. If not for engineering advancements nearly everyone would be a subsistence farmer/gatherer, and there would be many fewer of us around.
hey! I know a good triple of bogus words: Google and Gmail and Googlemail. Let's keyword those. NOONE would ever think of using those as valid addresses.
(just supporting your comment that it might not be easy to define "bogus domain")
That explains it. I wasn't thrilled with what I was hearing about the xbox 360, was finishing my senior year and moving and starting a job as it was coming out. Got a wii and am currently (as of the writing of this comment) playing my > 16th hour of Wii Sports in the past 5 days with my two best friends. So much fun and so much laughs, worth more than every penny. Further, at christmas it was hilarious as I watched my uncle and my father playing against each other and running across the room chasing after the wii tennis balls, almost hitting me in the head and making a dent in the ceiling trying to return the lobs. Sure I've missed out on Halo 3 among other things (haven't had the budget for a new gaming rig after buying my 46 inch tv), but I plan to build that gaming rig this summer. Maybe I'll pick up an xbox 360 after they add a blue ray player, but I'll probably just skip this iteration. What 6months to a year till they release xbox 720?
Without knowing my qualifications that tells you nothing, but it tells me something about him... If his games were more popular I'd have heard of them.
And they'll reply with the amount they had to pay to make the internet (and their block of IP-addresses) active and a commercial boom. They'll have to of course adjust it into today's dollars, and add a convenience fee, and you'll end up owing them instead of the other way around.
What romantic image? That kind of piracy has no romantic image, it's modern day boat bound assault and mugging with the added bonus that the criminals often have the greatest chance of getting away with it if they kill everyone (and less chance if they don't). The only romantic imagery associated with the word "piracy" is the comedic pirates of the Caribbean style piracy something purely in the entertainment realm. Which also is entirely different from the casual copy+share methodology if most college students on bittorrent, something that's entirely unromanticized, but it's something that a ridiculous portion of the college demographic participates in to some degree and views as normal while stressing and fearing the RIAA & co. Finally, it's something that is also entirely different from the sleazy pirating for sale which runs rampant in Asia, but that is really insidious when it happens locally.
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OSX... single key press to boot to cd/dvd or firewire or to get a boot selection menu which scans sources and lets you select via mouse or keys where to boot from.
I'd really like to do that myself, would you mind posting the script somewhere? I know my sibling poster asked this too, but I thought I wanted comcast until I went 3 weeks watching tv only 2 days a week because every other day when I tried to sit down there was absolutely nothing on.
Please?
Except that in the current state of affairs, most/much of the internet is actually based on our soil, so landlocking the USA internet would do less than it might for say Australia.
The lawyers themselves aren't doing anything unethical. They are pursuing a case within the confines of the law. Whatever their client may have done, the lawyers arguing that it should be legal is not unethical, it's just an argument and a tactic. It is unfortunate that a bad lawyer working the public good could fail to get the judge to strike them down, but in the end these lawyers aren't being unethical as long as they clearly inform their clients of the ramifications of their legal course of action. Now, if the lawyers themselves were to break the law it'd be a different story. In the end the client is the one responsible here. We all just wish they wouldn't be stupid about it. We know it's a waste of money and highly inefficient course of action, it clearly demonstrates malice on the part of somebody in control in the sense they want to control every single bit they can. And it demonstrates lack of forethought because we all believe it will fail, and we're pretty certain the time in the proceedings alone will cost them significantly, let alone the judgement that will come against them that will in the end accomplish what they're trying to stall. As a geek/engineer I know I hate inefficiency of that kind. It's irrational, and irrational things are dangerous*.
* Except for numbers... Well actually, PI is dangerous, so I retract my qualification.
except I would read the books with all 10 fingers stuck in the pages. I would then use a mix of LRU and a progressive backup system to try to keep important decision point accessible even though I moved on. I what I would do is when presented with a new choice, I'd look back at the current oldest *bookmark* I would decide how important that decision point seemed. If it was not important, I'd drop it, but if it seemed reasonably pivotal, I'd look at the next oldest bookmark, and repeat that process until I had a new bookmark available. If I hit the case where all bookmarks were somewhat pivotal, I'd invert the process and release the most recent decision point, based on the idea that if I have to go back, I can work my way back to recently dropped bookmark more easily than I could find some arbitrary other decision point in the middle of the book. This way meant those books got read pretty slowly, also I'd start to memorize death pages just by page number. For example page 63 would be "You rush along in the the dark trying to escape, and you fall into a pit, break both arms and you slowly starve to death in terrible pain" From then on I'd see page 63 in the goto section of a previous decision point, and I don't even need to explore that dead end anymore.
sshd with keys isn't secure enough for you?
I'm not endorsing this since I've never used it, but there is a freeware application that lets you change the resolution from the commandline:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/Resolution-Changer.shtml
It can do it temporarily or permanently, and you can set it to run a second application and revert resolutions when the application quits.
What if they can't put cameras up at all lights, due to cost reasons. Is it justifiable to use uncertainty as a deterrent and hope that people will stop speeding everywhere after the word gets out that there are cameras *somewhere* in the city?
Just playing devil's advocate.
botnets.... Only an *honest* spammer would pay for it's share of bandwidth. And they are all low hanging fruit for people to stop, or they aren't enough of a nuisance in comparison.
It's the matrix! Run!
How is one to know that? All I see are packets that seem to be coming from my peers with whom I'm communicating, and yet via out of band communications we can verify that they are not being sent by them. The logical solution is to in fact filter them out as invalid. I didn't receive any written notice with each packet stating that it was part of an access control mechanism that I had to respect. They're packets and I can do what I want with them... including ignoring them. Can't I?
My problem with filtering like that is that the filtering only works on your end, and if comcast is bidirectionally sending RST then the other end will back off even though you don't.
I don't think that's what happens or at least not at any useful speed. I'm not speaking from a position of knowledge, but I do *know* that we can already pick out specific nanotubes from a pile and determine their chirality. If they just grew on their own maintaining their form, wouldn't it just be a question of setting up a nanotube farm with selected batches of different chiralities? Even if they grew only an inch a year, wouldn't it just take a factory and a bit of time to set up enough *fields* to grow all the nanotubes you want? That seems like something we would have easily done.
This is probably wishful thinking, but I think the key will be organic growth methods... Once you can get a bacteria to help build such a simple repeating structure as a nanotube, we will rule the world.
I stand corrected. While testing now I still found those dead frames even though I turned off adblock plus. Further, I'm on what I believe to be an unfiltered connection here at work. So I would say the blame lies with slashdot or it's adprovider.
I see those to whether or not I'm on comcast. I was wondering if it might be related to running adblock plus. When I view slashdot with abp turned off I don't see those dead frames.
more schools than MIT have great dorm networks. My saddest regret when I left the dorm system was that I couldn't get internet access as fast as in the dorms for less than 500$/month. My only affordable options were comcast or DSL and it turns out that DSL would usually have as good effective upstream as comcast. Go Blue! (umich.edu) I wish the fiber providers would get their asses in gear and provide me!
Well, for example, using the GP's hypothetical situation, knowing that it has no false negatives could be easily used to rule out breast cancer as a cause. So if a patient comes in and tests negative, then they can cheaply, instantly rule out breast cancer, and move on to other possible causes...
Is he still around and kicking? Last I read, the Gord from actsofgord.com vanished a bunch of years back... Unless you're talking of a different Gord, in which case I am curious too...
I echo what my sibling poster said. I love my job. It's not the equations that interest me, it's the remaking of the world around us that I find awesome. To some extent literature and politics are the scaffolding for the future of society, but engineering is the scaffolding for the future of humanity. Irrespective of politics and literature and the arts, whatever form of society exists, unless we return to living in caves, engineering will always be around, always be needed. It is one of the many reasons why there is surplus in the economy available to support those whose interest is in fields that don't directly produce the neccessities. If not for engineering advancements nearly everyone would be a subsistence farmer/gatherer, and there would be many fewer of us around.
hey! I know a good triple of bogus words: Google and Gmail and Googlemail. Let's keyword those. NOONE would ever think of using those as valid addresses.
(just supporting your comment that it might not be easy to define "bogus domain")
oiling snakes I assume?
That explains it. I wasn't thrilled with what I was hearing about the xbox 360, was finishing my senior year and moving and starting a job as it was coming out. Got a wii and am currently (as of the writing of this comment) playing my > 16th hour of Wii Sports in the past 5 days with my two best friends. So much fun and so much laughs, worth more than every penny. Further, at christmas it was hilarious as I watched my uncle and my father playing against each other and running across the room chasing after the wii tennis balls, almost hitting me in the head and making a dent in the ceiling trying to return the lobs. Sure I've missed out on Halo 3 among other things (haven't had the budget for a new gaming rig after buying my 46 inch tv), but I plan to build that gaming rig this summer. Maybe I'll pick up an xbox 360 after they add a blue ray player, but I'll probably just skip this iteration. What 6months to a year till they release xbox 720?
Never heard of them in the game world.
Without knowing my qualifications that tells you nothing, but it tells me something about him... If his games were more popular I'd have heard of them.
And they'll reply with the amount they had to pay to make the internet (and their block of IP-addresses) active and a commercial boom. They'll have to of course adjust it into today's dollars, and add a convenience fee, and you'll end up owing them instead of the other way around.
What romantic image? That kind of piracy has no romantic image, it's modern day boat bound assault and mugging with the added bonus that the criminals often have the greatest chance of getting away with it if they kill everyone (and less chance if they don't). The only romantic imagery associated with the word "piracy" is the comedic pirates of the Caribbean style piracy something purely in the entertainment realm. Which also is entirely different from the casual copy+share methodology if most college students on bittorrent, something that's entirely unromanticized, but it's something that a ridiculous portion of the college demographic participates in to some degree and views as normal while stressing and fearing the RIAA & co. Finally, it's something that is also entirely different from the sleazy pirating for sale which runs rampant in Asia, but that is really insidious when it happens locally.
link! I would like a link to these private albums you speak of, and a subscription to that newsletter please.