A good Sci-Fi should be philsopjical in nature. Asking questions about life in the Universe, our place in it, etc. This is why Star Trek is good Sci-Fi and Star Wars is a good space adventure (but not Sci-Fi).
In my mind, the best Sci-Fi ever put to screen is Blade Runner.
Tesla, has the battery tech has improved has offered upgrades. If the cars are designed with modular electronic components there is no reason the computers, sensors, and batteries couldn't be kept current to extend the life of the vehicle and shore up the resale value.
That is a horrible idea. There is a reason we have a secret ballot, and no receipts, to make sure now one is forced to vote a particular way.
Was no thought given to this idea at all?
When all out electronic devices are online, will North Korea be able to turn off all our refrigerators and spoil a whole nations worth of food as easily as it stole Sony Pictures digital assets?
Many of the people voted by calling a phone number that bills them. In my mind these people paid for a vote. If the vote was lost, they never got what they paid for. Will The Voice be reimbursing people if their vote was lost or otherwise not used?
We have several hundred HP servers running Intel, and we do get the occasional bad processor. I'm sure HP would rather just send us a replacement processor, like they do now, rather than having to send a whole new motherboard.
Early in the outage (1st hr), I was looking at http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/godaddy.com.html and it was able to still ping godaddy.com (I'm assuming the IP was still cached), but it had, as I remember, 3000ms+ ping times. To me, this lends a little credence to the DDOS claims, but it is not definitive.
I was the one to my the "Anonymous Coward" comment because I was too lazy to login, but I'm not too lazy to back my post up with facts, especially when a dumbass would rather mock the poster than actually address what was said.
Here is the Tech Crunch article where they admit their mistake and stop blaming Anonymous:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/godaddy-outage-takes-down-millions-of-sites/
Here is where the person taking credit says it was not Anonymous, but a solo act:
https://twitter.com/AnonymousOwn3r/status/245227793334546432
Anything relevant you would like to add, kaizendojo? Or just more worthless snark?
I'm of the mindset that when I buy bandwidth I should be able to use that bandwidth as I see fit.
The problem is that Comcast has over sold their bandwidth by too large of a margin, and rather than owning up to their own failure to plan for the future they are restricting how people use the bandwidth they bought.
The most disturbing thing, to me, is when Comcast forged packets to terminate file transfers. It's one thing to use QoS to massage the network flow, it is another thing all together to pretend to be a client or server and send bogus packets in someone else's name.
QoS is mildly bad. Forging packets is just plain wrong.
I would like to see more variety of LUGs. Most seem to be home enthusiasts with more desktop type things discussed. What I'm looking for is more a sysadmin oriented LUG where more obscure topics are discussed.
"...was fully based on a lack of knowledge about what has been going on."
I think that statement can go with most of the decisions the heads of Wikipedia make concerning their admins.
Yes people are reprogramming their cameras to get new or changed features. A good example if the Canon Digital Rebel. The Rebel (or D300) runs a variant of DOS. People have disassembled and rewriten sections of the camera to enable things like mirror lock-up, and second curtain sync, and a few other cool things. And on some of the other Canons, people have hacked the firmware to remove the time limits on recording movies.
I would love it if my Rebel had an open source OS where I could load the modules for the features I want. Or improve on the features there, like artistic filters or the ability to do multiple exposures, or even time lapse photography.
People are already working on such things (like the fames Canon firmware hack), and I hope the work continues.
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A good Sci-Fi should be philsopjical in nature. Asking questions about life in the Universe, our place in it, etc. This is why Star Trek is good Sci-Fi and Star Wars is a good space adventure (but not Sci-Fi). In my mind, the best Sci-Fi ever put to screen is Blade Runner.
We are a Dyn customer and our names are still failing to resolve.
Tesla, has the battery tech has improved has offered upgrades. If the cars are designed with modular electronic components there is no reason the computers, sensors, and batteries couldn't be kept current to extend the life of the vehicle and shore up the resale value.
By the time the pipeline is built, Washington will be dry as well: http://kuow.org/post/drought-d...
That is a horrible idea. There is a reason we have a secret ballot, and no receipts, to make sure now one is forced to vote a particular way. Was no thought given to this idea at all?
When all out electronic devices are online, will North Korea be able to turn off all our refrigerators and spoil a whole nations worth of food as easily as it stole Sony Pictures digital assets?
This is just like every time software asks you, "are you sure?" before deleting a file or record.
Many of the people voted by calling a phone number that bills them. In my mind these people paid for a vote. If the vote was lost, they never got what they paid for. Will The Voice be reimbursing people if their vote was lost or otherwise not used?
Who can we hold responsible for the piece of crap known as Unity?
We have several hundred HP servers running Intel, and we do get the occasional bad processor. I'm sure HP would rather just send us a replacement processor, like they do now, rather than having to send a whole new motherboard.
I'm looking forward to the day when you can stumble out to your car drunk and/or high, and just let it drive you home.
Early in the outage (1st hr), I was looking at http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/godaddy.com.html and it was able to still ping godaddy.com (I'm assuming the IP was still cached), but it had, as I remember, 3000ms+ ping times. To me, this lends a little credence to the DDOS claims, but it is not definitive.
I was the one to my the "Anonymous Coward" comment because I was too lazy to login, but I'm not too lazy to back my post up with facts, especially when a dumbass would rather mock the poster than actually address what was said. Here is the Tech Crunch article where they admit their mistake and stop blaming Anonymous: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/godaddy-outage-takes-down-millions-of-sites/ Here is where the person taking credit says it was not Anonymous, but a solo act: https://twitter.com/AnonymousOwn3r/status/245227793334546432 Anything relevant you would like to add, kaizendojo? Or just more worthless snark?
If someone is critical of CoS, do they now have the power to stop those people from selling and buying on eBay as a way of getting back at critics?
I'm of the mindset that when I buy bandwidth I should be able to use that bandwidth as I see fit.
The problem is that Comcast has over sold their bandwidth by too large of a margin, and rather than owning up to their own failure to plan for the future they are restricting how people use the bandwidth they bought.
The most disturbing thing, to me, is when Comcast forged packets to terminate file transfers. It's one thing to use QoS to massage the network flow, it is another thing all together to pretend to be a client or server and send bogus packets in someone else's name.
QoS is mildly bad. Forging packets is just plain wrong.
I would like to see more variety of LUGs. Most seem to be home enthusiasts with more desktop type things discussed. What I'm looking for is more a sysadmin oriented LUG where more obscure topics are discussed.
Conservapedia is no better. The amount of bias it the same, just in the opposite direction.
"...was fully based on a lack of knowledge about what has been going on." I think that statement can go with most of the decisions the heads of Wikipedia make concerning their admins.
Any word on if they are going to have clearance sales at the stores that are closing?
- The reliable net access made available to all citizens, regardless of how rural they are.
- Unfettered net access. Phone companies would not beable to restrict access to competitors webpages/services.
- Guaranteed levels of service.
- PUC controlled pricing.
- The ability to let communities take over an ISP or local backbone if the service is not up to snuff.
There are a lot of negatives of the FCC control, but there would also be a few positives."Senate Fails To Reauthorize Patriot Act Provisions" Fails? Politcal bias, much? I don't see any failure in this.
Yes people are reprogramming their cameras to get new or changed features. A good example if the Canon Digital Rebel. The Rebel (or D300) runs a variant of DOS. People have disassembled and rewriten sections of the camera to enable things like mirror lock-up, and second curtain sync, and a few other cool things. And on some of the other Canons, people have hacked the firmware to remove the time limits on recording movies. I would love it if my Rebel had an open source OS where I could load the modules for the features I want. Or improve on the features there, like artistic filters or the ability to do multiple exposures, or even time lapse photography. People are already working on such things (like the fames Canon firmware hack), and I hope the work continues.