It's worse than that. It's more like you're a contractor who specializes in home inspections and small fix-it jobs. Your friend buys a house that's obviously got lots of problems, without any inspection, without noticing the problems themselves, and then expects you to help replumb all the toilets so they don't leak in your free time for free! (In reality, since it's windows, it's more like they expect you to dive in their septic tank for a lost item...)
And it's nice, but not real fast. One of the things I like about it is that it's MIPS, not i386. I run NetBSD on it, so given the OS portability and the commitment to keeping it running on all sorts wacky (cobalt) hardware is nice. The other cool thing is that root-kits are unlikely to work against my wacky software running on wacky hardware. Sure, if there's a buffer overflow, someone can crash one of my servers, but unless the root kit is designed for MIPS (vs i386), it'll just be restarted by my daemontools setup. So, as far as moving to mini-itx, I'd like the extra I/O, cheaper memory, faster processor, etc. But I'm not sure i want to be running a mainline processor (my other computers are Macs and NeXTs) for my firewall/server. Also, I like the idea that the Qube2 MB has two Ethernet on board so I don't need to worry about losing a slot just for that.
Is it worth the phone call to my friend who works at Apple... Maybe I can get him to get me a copy of Final Cut Pro and a cheap Powerbook 15" at the same time.
If you bend a paperclip back and forth and back and forth, it will snap. But if you bend it within the design parameters (within the limit of elasticity of the material), you can bend it back and forth for ever and it won't break.
The article is claiming that _despite_what_the_experts_say_, he _thinks_ jogging with a iPod is a bad idea. The specs on IBM's latest laptop drive is 200G's shock resistance, and 1G sinewave vibration, 5-500Hz, Operating limits. I'd imagine that with a decent iPod holster on your hip (or better yet your upper arm), you'll put much less than 1G on the drive.
Some experts say that it's impossible to damage the drive in this way, but I'm not buying that
Yeah, because he knows way more than any expert. He even figured out that you have to wait until the buffer is completely empty before you refill it. And I'm sure he pored over the specs for the hard drive and saw that the G's he would put on the iPod while jogging would exceed the specs for the drive.
Basically, despite the line at the end calling the iPod the best designed player (added by an editor perhaps?), it's just an anti-iPod rant.
Hey, I saw all the Matrix movies, and the anamatrix with my wife. She liked them all as much as I did. The 2nd and 3rd could never be as good as the 1st, because despite the humans==batteries gaff, it was _new_ and unexpected. And despite the fact that we're married, we do seem to "get" sex:-)
I liked the movie. I'm going to pay money to see it again in IMAX. On the other hand, I have to qualify it by saying that in some ways it's unsatisfying. The same way life is unsatisfying. There's a beginning and an end, but that doesn't mean that you've got all the lose ends tied up nicely in a neat, pat, package. I would have been much less satisfied if they somehow managed to throw out the entire structure developed in the other two movies and the anamatrix just to have everyone wakeup from the matrix, rub their eyes and walk into a beautiful blue sunset...
Hey, my Mom's 1972 Pontiac 455 cubic inch V8 wagon got 12MPG, would tow a boat at over 100MPH, and did 0-60 faster than a 1980's BMW 528i, even though the wagon had 9 people in it and the BMW had only the driver. Now that was power, especially for a teenage boy!
but a SUV is (sort of by definition) big and heavy. The heavy part can be reduced by advanced materials, but only at great cost. Also, SUV drivers partially purchase/drive SUVs to make themselves feel _powerfull_. So, the solution of putting a little 4cyl diesel into a big Expedition, and making it take 15 minutes to accelerate to its top speed of 67 miles per hour and still having it sell would require just as much social engineering as solution A. A more geeky option of perfecting Mr. Fusion(tm) or some other mater to energy conversion (ie, non-chemical energy) which would allow you to drive 100 miles on a gallon of H20 would require technology which doesn't exist today. Also, a SUV which gets 100 miles per gallon doesn't solve the other problems with SUVs such as traffic congestion, accident fatalities for drivers of smaller cars, obesity, etc.
So, Geeks pick 'A' because it's a _better_ solution, not because either 'A' or 'B' are achievable.
The citizen has the option to verify his barcode using a separate verification kiosk which deciphers and displays the barcode (behind a privacy screen, of course). Once satisfied, the citizen leaves the verification kiosk.
If you can't trust the main voting system, what makes you think you can trust the verifying system? Surely they could lie in concert?
Votes have to be human readable first, and computer readable second.
Well, if 50% of the MTAs implement it, and you have no SPF records, then you get 100% of the bounces/hate-mail. If you do have SPF records, then at least you get only 50% of the bounces, and they get less spam. Sure, there will always be a least one MTA on the net a spammer can joe-job you to, but fewer is better, right?
Of course it's possible to digitally sign electronic data, and nobody with a clue about electronic voting would even consider not doing it.
Why bother? If you don't trust the system that does the signing, or the people who created the key it's signed with, then why bother to sign the data? It just gives a false sense of security.
Unless the system produces a human readable, physical record of votes that the voter can verify before submitting then the system is open to fraud.
We wanted a cabinet for our stereo/tv setup and so we looked around for awhile before giving up and getting one custom made. Turned out very nice, and not hideously expensive. It's got the hole for the 32" tv, with two drawers underneath, 300 CDs per drawer (also holds VHS or DVD, and are deep enough for even the horrible disney cases). To the right of the TV is the component stack, and underneath that is cubbyhole for all the assorted junk that goes along with it like cables and headphones, album cleaner kits, etc.
Moderators, please mod parent as 'funny', not as 'insightful'. If that wasn't sarcasm, I'll grab the ethernet cord, stick the end in my mouth and eat my post!
450MHz is overkill? Heck, That's a P3 (or compatible) right? My Qube2 is just 250MHz Mips R4000 (compatible), and though it's running NetBSD (arguably less efficient than Linux, at least on i386), it's typically 95%+ idle, serving as a mail and web server (even running Zope).
I'm on the west coast (CA), and was expecting to be able to see it at 12:01 on 2003-11-05, but according to the release I'll have to wait 6 more hours, _and_ get my ass up in the morning. I know I'd much rather stay up until 3:00, juiced up after seeing a good movie, rather than get up at 6:00 and have to drag my ass into work after instead of riding my motorcycle the wrong way down the freeway!
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It's worse than that. It's more like you're a contractor who specializes in home inspections and small fix-it jobs. Your friend buys a house that's obviously got lots of problems, without any inspection, without noticing the problems themselves, and then expects you to help replumb all the toilets so they don't leak in your free time for free! (In reality, since it's windows, it's more like they expect you to dive in their septic tank for a lost item...)
(not really a satellite anymore if its 1.5 mil KM away) :-)
I could have swarn the moon was a satellite
And it's nice, but not real fast. One of the things I like about it is that it's MIPS, not i386. I run NetBSD on it, so given the OS portability and the commitment to keeping it running on all sorts wacky (cobalt) hardware is nice. The other cool thing is that root-kits are unlikely to work against my wacky software running on wacky hardware. Sure, if there's a buffer overflow, someone can crash one of my servers, but unless the root kit is designed for MIPS (vs i386), it'll just be restarted by my daemontools setup.
So, as far as moving to mini-itx, I'd like the extra I/O, cheaper memory, faster processor, etc. But I'm not sure i want to be running a mainline processor (my other computers are Macs and NeXTs) for my firewall/server. Also, I like the idea that the Qube2 MB has two Ethernet on board so I don't need to worry about losing a slot just for that.
Buy a Mac you Mofo! Trash all that over-evolved, but still has an ISA bus and a super crappy BIOS burried deep in the excrement and BUY A MAC!
:-)
See, no need for Apple to port OS-X
Is it worth the phone call to my friend who works at Apple...
Maybe I can get him to get me a copy of Final Cut Pro and a cheap Powerbook 15" at the same time.
Hell yeah, where's that cell phone of mine...
Oh, wait, I'm California. Oops. Hope the Canadians don't mind living with my decisions!
If you bend a paperclip back and forth and back and forth, it will snap. But if you bend it within the design parameters (within the limit of elasticity of the material), you can bend it back and forth for ever and it won't break.
The article is claiming that _despite_what_the_experts_say_, he _thinks_ jogging with a iPod is a bad idea. The specs on IBM's latest laptop drive is 200G's shock resistance, and 1G sinewave vibration, 5-500Hz, Operating limits. I'd imagine that with a decent iPod holster on your hip (or better yet your upper arm), you'll put much less than 1G on the drive.
Some experts say that it's impossible to damage the drive in this way, but I'm not buying that
Yeah, because he knows way more than any expert. He even figured out that you have to wait until the buffer is completely empty before you refill it.
And I'm sure he pored over the specs for the hard drive and saw that the G's he would put on the iPod while jogging would exceed the specs for the drive.
Basically, despite the line at the end calling the iPod the best designed player (added by an editor perhaps?), it's just an anti-iPod rant.
Hey, I saw all the Matrix movies, and the anamatrix with my wife. She liked them all as much as I did. The 2nd and 3rd could never be as good as the 1st, because despite the humans==batteries gaff, it was _new_ and unexpected. And despite the fact that we're married, we do seem to "get" sex :-)
I liked the movie. I'm going to pay money to see it again in IMAX. On the other hand, I have to qualify it by saying that in some ways it's unsatisfying. The same way life is unsatisfying. There's a beginning and an end, but that doesn't mean that you've got all the lose ends tied up nicely in a neat, pat, package. I would have been much less satisfied if they somehow managed to throw out the entire structure developed in the other two movies and the anamatrix just to have everyone wakeup from the matrix, rub their eyes and walk into a beautiful blue sunset...
Need new moderation: "sad but true"
WTF? The future of the free world at stake and they can't shell out for MD5?
(one of the referenced aritcles talks about the odds of a corrupt card verifying being approx. 1 in 60000)
Shouldn't that be _Spank_ for yourself?
Hey, my Mom's 1972 Pontiac 455 cubic inch V8 wagon got 12MPG, would tow a boat at over 100MPH, and did 0-60 faster than a 1980's BMW 528i, even though the wagon had 9 people in it and the BMW had only the driver. Now that was power, especially for a teenage boy!
but a SUV is (sort of by definition) big and heavy. The heavy part can be reduced by advanced materials, but only at great cost. Also, SUV drivers partially purchase/drive SUVs to make themselves feel _powerfull_. So, the solution of putting a little 4cyl diesel into a big Expedition, and making it take 15 minutes to accelerate to its top speed of 67 miles per hour and still having it sell would require just as much social engineering as solution A. A more geeky option of perfecting Mr. Fusion(tm) or some other mater to energy conversion (ie, non-chemical energy) which would allow you to drive 100 miles on a gallon of H20 would require technology which doesn't exist today. Also, a SUV which gets 100 miles per gallon doesn't solve the other problems with SUVs such as traffic congestion, accident fatalities for drivers of smaller cars, obesity, etc.
So, Geeks pick 'A' because it's a _better_ solution, not because either 'A' or 'B' are achievable.
I imagine so. I imagine that Microsoft would jump for joy if Dell, HP/Compaq and whatnot shipped both Win2K and XP on all their hardware.
The difference being that Dell, HP, etc, would have to buy both copies, and would like as not pass the costs on to the consumer/businness.
The citizen has the option to verify his barcode using a separate verification kiosk which deciphers and displays the barcode (behind a privacy screen, of course). Once satisfied, the citizen leaves the verification kiosk.
If you can't trust the main voting system, what makes you think you can trust the verifying system? Surely they could lie in concert?
Votes have to be human readable first, and computer readable second.
Well, if 50% of the MTAs implement it, and you have no SPF records, then you get 100% of the bounces/hate-mail. If you do have SPF records, then at least you get only 50% of the bounces, and they get less spam. Sure, there will always be a least one MTA on the net a spammer can joe-job you to, but fewer is better, right?
Look into SPF. (http://spf.pobox.com). Sure, MTA's need to support it, but publishing records for SPF is easy and will help adoption.
Of course it's possible to digitally sign electronic data, and nobody with a clue about electronic voting would even consider not doing it.
Why bother? If you don't trust the system that does the signing, or the people who created the key it's signed with, then why bother to sign the data? It just gives a false sense of security.
Unless the system produces a human readable, physical record of votes that the voter can verify before submitting then the system is open to fraud.
We wanted a cabinet for our stereo/tv setup and so we looked around for awhile before giving up and getting one custom made. Turned out very nice, and not hideously expensive. It's got the hole for the 32" tv, with two drawers underneath, 300 CDs per drawer (also holds VHS or DVD, and are deep enough for even the horrible disney cases). To the right of the TV is the component stack, and underneath that is cubbyhole for all the assorted junk that goes along with it like cables and headphones, album cleaner kits, etc.
Moderators, please mod parent as 'funny', not as 'insightful'. If that wasn't sarcasm, I'll grab the ethernet cord, stick the end in my mouth and eat my post!
450MHz is overkill? Heck, That's a P3 (or compatible) right? My Qube2 is just 250MHz Mips R4000 (compatible), and though it's running NetBSD (arguably less efficient than Linux, at least on i386), it's typically 95%+ idle, serving as a mail and web server (even running Zope).
I'm on the west coast (CA), and was expecting to be able to see it at 12:01 on 2003-11-05, but according to the release I'll have to wait 6 more hours, _and_ get my ass up in the morning. I know I'd much rather stay up until 3:00, juiced up after seeing a good movie, rather than get up at 6:00 and have to drag my ass into work after instead of riding my motorcycle the wrong way down the freeway!
So, where do you get the panels?