Problem is, if you leave a drain long enough without water passing through it, the water in the u-bend can evaporate, leaving an empty pipe and allowing the nasty sewer smell to escape. Thus, leave a faucet dripping to keep the U-Bend full!
This is ludicrous. The amount of water in a trap is *MASSIVE* compared to the amount that would evaporate in a day. It would take 6 months or more for all the water in a trap to evaporate. And if such a time period had passed, all the sewer gases in your home would have long since been evacuated from the piping via your stack anyway.
People please do not listen to this person's idiotic comment - leaky and dripping faucets are HORRIBLE WATER WASTERS - if you are on metered water they can cost you tens of dollars a month, and even if you are not, you're being very wasteful and not very environmentally conscious.
My cable ISP still caps my download at 100 GB a month. So, if I download a 1 GB+ movie, theres an extra $0.50+ cost to me on top of that film download.
The second time it happened, I freaked me out, because my wife was out of town, and the idea of my lights changing the channel never occured to me. I had to do a complete check of the house with a golf club to make sure there wasn't someone in the house.
LOL!
The incidence of home entertainment intruders (people breaking into houses to randomly change their TV channels) is on the rise!
Seriously though.... is the first thing that came into your mind when the TV started acting funny REALLY "did someone break into the house with a universal remote and start playing games with me?!?!?"
Ok - enough of that. I have the entire house blanketed with CFLs - and my living room light has a dual socket so there are two in there. I have 6 IR devices in that room and I have never ever seen any problem with them getting weird signals. Maybe the problem is with your set not filtering the frequencies properly.
What the fuck? Unions exist to get the best package for employees. All the employees. The employees know that if they don't stand together they will be fucked.
The key here is the word you missed where I bolded... unions don't exist to get the best package for ALL employees, they exist to get the best package for THE AVERAGE EMPLOYEE. If you are an above average,/b> employee, be it someone who is more skilled or more diven, unions get you the shaft, because they result in union dues being taken from your paycheque for a salary and benefits that are less than you could have negotiated yourself.
This is very good for you because it allows you to pay some people less then others. It may also be good for a few employees who get paid more then average. It sucks for the rest of your employees.
For starters, I guess you totally ignored the GP poster when he said that he, like I, am NOT AM EMPLOYER, er we EMPLOYEES, "cogs in the machine". We just happen to hate unions. The union idea that "everyone should be paid the same for the same job" is bullshit because, simply, people are not machines, and . Some do their jobs better, some do their jobs worse. The people who do their jobs worse than the average are obviously not happy and should not be working there in the first place.
While I applaud the Mono team for all their hard work, it is not comparable to Java. Hell, Microsoft's.Net is not comparable to Java yet. With Java, you have a 10+ year old tried-and-true platform. You have 10+ years worth of class libraries written, most Open Source, that eliminate 50%-75% of your workload when writing any application..
Sure,.Net does some things better than Java, like Windowing. But Mono's Windows.Forms is brand new and hardly what I could call enterprise-ready.
Coffee is SUPPOSED to be kept and served at 120-140 degrees F for optimal taste. You can find this with a quick google search, or ask any coffee lover.
140 degrees F is going to cause burns if left on exposed skin for any reasonable period of time. If you do some reading, you'll find out the actual series of events was this:
1. Woman in rush orders hot coffee at drive through 2. Instead of asking for a carry tray or putting it in car cup holder, she elects to keep it between her legs 3. Due to her being careless driving, the coffee spills all over her lap 4. Instead of pulling over right away and cleaning up the mess, she keeps driving until she gets where shes going, 20-30 mins later.
Steps 2-4 are the cause of the burns, NOT step 1. And all of them are 100% the womans's fault, not McDonald's.
It's pretty trivial to just deduce what kernel the machine is running and build working binaries wherever you want. In fact it would be preferred, since a sysadmin is far more likely to notice a rogue gcc process sucking up CPU than a file transfer while the rootkit is being loaded.
Anyway - if the person has root on the box (which they need to install the rootkit anyway), then they can just ship up THEIR OWN COMPILER if they want to regardless.
A 4 GB flash drive takes ~ 400 seconds to fully write at 10 MB/s.
400 seconds is 6.67 minutes.
To overwrite each cell 1 million times, assuming constant overwriting, would therefore take 6.67 million minutes, or 12.68 years.
But you're making a HUGE ASSUMPTION there that each cell has 1 million write cycles. That's actually the average number for the whole drive. Some cells have less, some more. As cells fail they are mapped off the disk.
The read speed of a hard drive is ABOVE the read speed of a USB stick.
Even the fastest USB memory has a read speed of 20-30 Mbps, and a write speed even less. Hard drives routinely have 40+ Mbps read/write speeds.
So once again, I fail to see the benefits of supplementing your memory with a flash disk, when hard-drive based swap would be faster in almost all circumstances.
For example, just look at their cookie management under "privacy". Sure, they have white and blacklists for cookies, and that's fine. But bring up your cookie list - the *ONLY* option you have for each cookie is to delete.
Why isn't there are "delete and block" button? It would be SO SIMPLE to add this function, and make the management of cookies so much simpler for the 95% of web users like me who want to accept *most* cookies, and only block obvious cross-site tracking cookies.
The task of copying cookies from one list to another is very tedious. This sort of thing should be able to be automatic.
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if that was either total bunk, or gross misrepresentation by the author.
The idea of using a flash drive to supplement main memory is assenine for a number of reasons. Like the above, yanking it out would leave the OS in a totally assed up state. As well, flash only has ~ 1-2 million write cycles. Your thumb drive would be toast in just a week or two if you were using it as RAM.
But even so, there's the question: What have you accomplished by blocking accidental exposure?
Well for one, you're potentially protecting yourself from false accusations of accessing child porn, when you legitimately accessed it by accident by clicking on some link where you didn't know what would come up.
That is assuming of course that the agencies won't be using this proxy and filter list to charge people who are blocked with *attempting* to access the material.
None of those services you mewntioned allow me to call any PTSN phone, routed over the internet, FOR FREE.
You're basically getting for free (plus the small initial cost of a USB PTSN adapter for your PC ) a service that Vonage charges $20 a month for. Sure, Vonage also gives you an inbound number - but guess what - you can get that from SkypeIn fro $30 mor per year.
So for $60 / year you have unlimited phone service. How much is your local telco charging you PER MONTH now?
Sotarting next year the service won't be "free", but it'll only be $30 PER YEAR ($14.95 / year if you sign up now). I'd like you to point me at another unlimited long distance plan that can call any PTSN number for $30 per year.
Leak tests imitate common methods used by trojans or spyware to send your information from your computer.
This is the least important piece of security I care about on my PC.
If there is a trojan already running on my PC, then I have already lost the war. It is irrelevant if it can communicate directly with an outside server or not. It could send data in a PLETHORA of undetectable ways aside from this (could send stealth emails from my default email program, could post data stealthily in a hidden frame it sets as my browser start page, etc etc).
The goal is to not get the spyware and virii on your PC in the first place. Once it's there, you're already screwed.
Take off your tinfoil hat and let your head breathe.
You think VMWare tells anything to Microsoft? Why would they? They are about as far from being "in bed" with them as you can imagine. For one, Microsoft is their #1 competitor (with Virtual Server).
You can rest assured that VMWare tells **as little as possible** to Microsoft about everything.
All this is not to mention the fact that what you are implying would be highly unethical and if VMWare actually did that, they would have been found out long ago and publicly flogged. VMWare does not "phone home" to anyone, including VMWare Inc. itself.
I mean, I am all for the consumer, and very anti-price fixing.
But shouldn't these guys be investing their time and resources into industries where price fixing is a REAL PROBLEM that affects the consumer?
I mean, LCD prices plummet month-over-month. An LCD today costs less than half what it cost only 2 years ago for the same size and even higher quality. I would like to see another industry (besides the CPU industry) match that kind of price drop.
What about stuff like high speed access? How come the cost of my high speed goes nowhere but UP, even though all the significant marginal costs (like laying cable + fibre, back-end infrastructure) were done YEARS ago? Why do I still have a bandwidth cap of 60 GB / month download when 100 GB of bandwidth costs essentially nothing nowadays (I can get a 10 TB web hosting plan for $5 a month) ?
The answer, of course, is there is no real competition, or reason for the major ISPs to reduce their prices.
The same can be said of lots of other industries as well. LCDs should be the LEAST of these guys worries.
One of the main barriers to Linux adoptoin is the fact that you can't ru Windows games in Linux, unless you reboot into windows. If LVM / Xen / QEMU / VMWare started realizing this and made video driver performance a priority, they could have a real market leader on their hands.
I know if there was a VM out there that coudl run Windows games with full native windows video accelleration, I woudl pay very good money for it.
Sound / disk / CPU performance has been there in VMs for years, at least froma desktop users standpoint. The one area that lags behind all other sis video support. Even with VMWare (arguable the fastest VM out there right now), running a full scrteen Windows session under Linux feels sluggish at best...a nd there isno Direct3D support at all.
And as far as your comment - there is absolutely nothing stopping them from doing this. Just look at X, it interfaces direct with the kernel via DRI, and it's secure.. a crashing X session won't bring your whole machine down.
How many 4 GB CF chips (not cards, chips) can you fit into the same space as a 3.5" HD? 100 maybe? That's 400 GB right there. And that's assuming these thing's have a denisty as small as CF, which, according to the article, they do not.
It's no Ubuntu, its the NVidia drivers. The binary NVidia drivers (which most people end up using for one reason or another) do not do hibernation at all. So if you're in X when you hibernate, when you wake up you'll get a black screen, and no keyboard / mouse working.
He's talking about the practice of calling shoddy newspapers (like the National Enquirer, The Weekly World News, etc) "fish wrappers", because they are good for nothing but wrapping fish in.
If you didn't know because you don't frequent a market - when you buy fish at a live market, it's common practice to give it to the customer wrapped in newspaper. I don't know why exactly, maybe it absorbs the smell or something.
It's the exact same dillemma TV networks have. If they spend too much advertising time advertising their own shows, then they don't make enough money from REAL advertisers. But if they don't spend enough, no one knows about their new shows.
I don't see who Google's situation is any different AT ALL. They very likely do the same thing TV networks do, the station has its own "budget" of time they can allocate to promos, and they don't exceed it.
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Problem is, if you leave a drain long enough without water passing through it, the water in the u-bend can evaporate, leaving an empty pipe and allowing the nasty sewer smell to escape. Thus, leave a faucet dripping to keep the U-Bend full!
This is ludicrous. The amount of water in a trap is *MASSIVE* compared to the amount that would evaporate in a day. It would take 6 months or more for all the water in a trap to evaporate. And if such a time period had passed, all the sewer gases in your home would have long since been evacuated from the piping via your stack anyway.
People please do not listen to this person's idiotic comment - leaky and dripping faucets are HORRIBLE WATER WASTERS - if you are on metered water they can cost you tens of dollars a month, and even if you are not, you're being very wasteful and not very environmentally conscious.
My cable ISP still caps my download at 100 GB a month. So, if I download a 1 GB+ movie, theres an extra $0.50+ cost to me on top of that film download.
The second time it happened, I freaked me out, because my wife was out of town, and the idea of my lights changing the channel never occured to me. I had to do a complete check of the house with a golf club to make sure there wasn't someone in the house.
LOL!
The incidence of home entertainment intruders (people breaking into houses to randomly change their TV channels) is on the rise!
Seriously though.... is the first thing that came into your mind when the TV started acting funny REALLY "did someone break into the house with a universal remote and start playing games with me?!?!?"
Ok - enough of that. I have the entire house blanketed with CFLs - and my living room light has a dual socket so there are two in there. I have 6 IR devices in that room and I have never ever seen any problem with them getting weird signals. Maybe the problem is with your set not filtering the frequencies properly.
What the fuck? Unions exist to get the best package for employees. All the employees. The employees know that if they don't stand together they will be fucked.
The key here is the word you missed where I bolded... unions don't exist to get the best package for ALL employees, they exist to get the best package for THE AVERAGE EMPLOYEE. If you are an above average,/b> employee, be it someone who is more skilled or more diven, unions get you the shaft, because they result in union dues being taken from your paycheque for a salary and benefits that are less than you could have negotiated yourself.
This is very good for you because it allows you to pay some people less then others. It may also be good for a few employees who get paid more then average. It sucks for the rest of your employees.
For starters, I guess you totally ignored the GP poster when he said that he, like I, am NOT AM EMPLOYER, er we EMPLOYEES, "cogs in the machine". We just happen to hate unions. The union idea that "everyone should be paid the same for the same job" is bullshit because, simply, people are not machines, and . Some do their jobs better, some do their jobs worse. The people who do their jobs worse than the average are obviously not happy and should not be working there in the first place.
While I applaud the Mono team for all their hard work, it is not comparable to Java. Hell, Microsoft's .Net is not comparable to Java yet. With Java, you have a 10+ year old tried-and-true platform. You have 10+ years worth of class libraries written, most Open Source, that eliminate 50%-75% of your workload when writing any application..
.Net does some things better than Java, like Windowing. But Mono's Windows.Forms is brand new and hardly what I could call enterprise-ready.
Sure,
Coffee is SUPPOSED to be kept and served at 120-140 degrees F for optimal taste. You can find this with a quick google search, or ask any coffee lover.
140 degrees F is going to cause burns if left on exposed skin for any reasonable period of time. If you do some reading, you'll find out the actual series of events was this:
1. Woman in rush orders hot coffee at drive through
2. Instead of asking for a carry tray or putting it in car cup holder, she elects to keep it between her legs
3. Due to her being careless driving, the coffee spills all over her lap
4. Instead of pulling over right away and cleaning up the mess, she keeps driving until she gets where shes going, 20-30 mins later.
Steps 2-4 are the cause of the burns, NOT step 1. And all of them are 100% the womans's fault, not McDonald's.
It's pretty trivial to just deduce what kernel the machine is running and build working binaries wherever you want. In fact it would be preferred, since a sysadmin is far more likely to notice a rogue gcc process sucking up CPU than a file transfer while the rootkit is being loaded.
Anyway - if the person has root on the box (which they need to install the rootkit anyway), then they can just ship up THEIR OWN COMPILER if they want to regardless.
It's much simpler to look at it another way.
A 4 GB flash drive takes ~ 400 seconds to fully write at 10 MB/s.
400 seconds is 6.67 minutes.
To overwrite each cell 1 million times, assuming constant overwriting, would therefore take 6.67 million minutes, or 12.68 years.
But you're making a HUGE ASSUMPTION there that each cell has 1 million write cycles. That's actually the average number for the whole drive. Some cells have less, some more. As cells fail they are mapped off the disk.
So the lifetime could be less.
The read speed of a hard drive is ABOVE the read speed of a USB stick.
Even the fastest USB memory has a read speed of 20-30 Mbps, and a write speed even less. Hard drives routinely have 40+ Mbps read/write speeds.
So once again, I fail to see the benefits of supplementing your memory with a flash disk, when hard-drive based swap would be faster in almost all circumstances.
Firefox could do better around cookies.
For example, just look at their cookie management under "privacy". Sure, they have white and blacklists for cookies, and that's fine. But bring up your cookie list - the *ONLY* option you have for each cookie is to delete.
Why isn't there are "delete and block" button? It would be SO SIMPLE to add this function, and make the management of cookies so much simpler for the 95% of web users like me who want to accept *most* cookies, and only block obvious cross-site tracking cookies.
The task of copying cookies from one list to another is very tedious. This sort of thing should be able to be automatic.
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if that was either total bunk, or gross misrepresentation by the author.
The idea of using a flash drive to supplement main memory is assenine for a number of reasons. Like the above, yanking it out would leave the OS in a totally assed up state. As well, flash only has ~ 1-2 million write cycles. Your thumb drive would be toast in just a week or two if you were using it as RAM.
Umm... "low level" ? Do you often omit key words from sentences you read in your day-to-day life? It's amazing you can function doing that.
... is that none of those people you named, nor the person above, had ANY IMPACT ON THE WORLD AT ALL outside the U.S.
Low-level American Politics doesn't affect the whole world.
But even so, there's the question: What have you accomplished by blocking accidental exposure?
Well for one, you're potentially protecting yourself from false accusations of accessing child porn, when you legitimately accessed it by accident by clicking on some link where you didn't know what would come up.
That is assuming of course that the agencies won't be using this proxy and filter list to charge people who are blocked with *attempting* to access the material.
You're assuming that
a) If someone hacked into your company via your PC, you would be held accountable
b) MySpace users have jobs, or are even old enough to do so
Both of those assumptions are incorrect 99% of the time.
None of those services you mewntioned allow me to call any PTSN phone, routed over the internet, FOR FREE.
You're basically getting for free (plus the small initial cost of a USB PTSN adapter for your PC ) a service that Vonage charges $20 a month for. Sure, Vonage also gives you an inbound number - but guess what - you can get that from SkypeIn fro $30 mor per year.
So for $60 / year you have unlimited phone service. How much is your local telco charging you PER MONTH now?
Sotarting next year the service won't be "free", but it'll only be $30 PER YEAR ($14.95 / year if you sign up now). I'd like you to point me at another unlimited long distance plan that can call any PTSN number for $30 per year.
Leak tests imitate common methods used by trojans or spyware to send your information from your computer.
This is the least important piece of security I care about on my PC.
If there is a trojan already running on my PC, then I have already lost the war. It is irrelevant if it can communicate directly with an outside server or not. It could send data in a PLETHORA of undetectable ways aside from this (could send stealth emails from my default email program, could post data stealthily in a hidden frame it sets as my browser start page, etc etc).
The goal is to not get the spyware and virii on your PC in the first place. Once it's there, you're already screwed.
Take off your tinfoil hat and let your head breathe.
You think VMWare tells anything to Microsoft? Why would they? They are about as far from being "in bed" with them as you can imagine. For one, Microsoft is their #1 competitor (with Virtual Server).
You can rest assured that VMWare tells **as little as possible** to Microsoft about everything.
All this is not to mention the fact that what you are implying would be highly unethical and if VMWare actually did that, they would have been found out long ago and publicly flogged. VMWare does not "phone home" to anyone, including VMWare Inc. itself.
I mean, I am all for the consumer, and very anti-price fixing.
But shouldn't these guys be investing their time and resources into industries where price fixing is a REAL PROBLEM that affects the consumer?
I mean, LCD prices plummet month-over-month. An LCD today costs less than half what it cost only 2 years ago for the same size and even higher quality. I would like to see another industry (besides the CPU industry) match that kind of price drop.
What about stuff like high speed access? How come the cost of my high speed goes nowhere but UP, even though all the significant marginal costs (like laying cable + fibre, back-end infrastructure) were done YEARS ago? Why do I still have a bandwidth cap of 60 GB / month download when 100 GB of bandwidth costs essentially nothing nowadays (I can get a 10 TB web hosting plan for $5 a month) ?
The answer, of course, is there is no real competition, or reason for the major ISPs to reduce their prices.
The same can be said of lots of other industries as well. LCDs should be the LEAST of these guys worries.
One of the main barriers to Linux adoptoin is the fact that you can't ru Windows games in Linux, unless you reboot into windows. If LVM / Xen / QEMU / VMWare started realizing this and made video driver performance a priority, they could have a real market leader on their hands.
I know if there was a VM out there that coudl run Windows games with full native windows video accelleration, I woudl pay very good money for it.
Sound / disk / CPU performance has been there in VMs for years, at least froma desktop users standpoint. The one area that lags behind all other sis video support. Even with VMWare (arguable the fastest VM out there right now), running a full scrteen Windows session under Linux feels sluggish at best...a nd there isno Direct3D support at all.
And as far as your comment - there is absolutely nothing stopping them from doing this. Just look at X, it interfaces direct with the kernel via DRI, and it's secure.. a crashing X session won't bring your whole machine down.
You can do that in VMWare player and VMWare server, both of which are free (as in beer).
http://www.vmware.com/
How many 4 GB CF chips (not cards, chips) can you fit into the same space as a 3.5" HD? 100 maybe? That's 400 GB right there. And that's assuming these thing's have a denisty as small as CF, which, according to the article, they do not.
It's no Ubuntu, its the NVidia drivers. The binary NVidia drivers (which most people end up using for one reason or another) do not do hibernation at all. So if you're in X when you hibernate, when you wake up you'll get a black screen, and no keyboard / mouse working.
He's talking about the practice of calling shoddy newspapers (like the National Enquirer, The Weekly World News, etc) "fish wrappers", because they are good for nothing but wrapping fish in.
If you didn't know because you don't frequent a market - when you buy fish at a live market, it's common practice to give it to the customer wrapped in newspaper. I don't know why exactly, maybe it absorbs the smell or something.
It's the exact same dillemma TV networks have. If they spend too much advertising time advertising their own shows, then they don't make enough money from REAL advertisers. But if they don't spend enough, no one knows about their new shows.
I don't see who Google's situation is any different AT ALL. They very likely do the same thing TV networks do, the station has its own "budget" of time they can allocate to promos, and they don't exceed it.