There is no reason why the 13 root servers could not be administered independently. Almost all of the administration of DNS is automated, anyway. Creating new TLDs is a joke. The only thing interesting going on with DNS is how to do i18n without opening up new phishing attacks.
What it means is that they are justifying setting up the data mining by showing "terrorist food" searches as an easy to understand example. Once it's in place, they can use it for anything they want. People whose reported income didn't change but suddenly started buying the premium brands might indicate illicit income, for example. Or suppose you live in a city, but you order two tons of fertilizer? You could be the next Timothy McVeigh. Once you have access to the data, why not use it?
Seems reasonable. You got to use the video for two years. They got to use your money for two years. They take the video back, you take your money back. Fair is fair.
Where are you getting your numbers? Block erase is 128K or 256K on NAND flash that I've looked at, and erase time is about 1500 usec. The large flash drives measure sequential I/O across multiple chips to get their meaningless performance numbers. Random writes are still painfully slow. The controller keeps an erase count for each block to do load leveling, and when a page gets used too many times it has to swap the whole page with one that isn't used much. The article claims 8GB per chip, which seems high to me. I think they might mean 8Gbit per chip, which would mean 64 chips to do 64GB.
Since there is an onboard controller with a RAM buffer, it can do a verify on every write. Flash tends to fail at erase or write time which can be recovered with no data loss, so MTBF depends on how many spare blocks you leave.
Put a windmill in your yard. Instead of spinning an electrical generator to power a compressor, use the mechanical power to turn the compressor directly. That would be very efficient and zero emissions. It would also eliminate the distribution costs associated with alternatives like gasoline, hydrogen or electricity. And it would store energy from peak wind periods for use when you need it.
"It seems totally out of whack that they'd disqualify entries that wandered all over the track, went the wrong direction down roads, crashed into multiple objects, and generally were a menace on the road."
True. They could have just moved the competition to downtown Boston.
I have yet to meet a gambler that doesn't claim to have made more than he/she has spent. Yet somehow the casinos and lotteries stay in business.
Anyway, this article was clearly not done by a statistician. It doesn't even do a basic analysis of variance on the winning numbers, which is a measure of normal distribution. I would not put much stock in either the methodology or conclusions.
See the compatibility list. Some are fully supported (like Brother) and some not at all (like QMS). I had no problems with the Canon ink jet that I had. I use Epson now.
Perhaps they don't have space for 80 gazillion identical stories about people not getting ceramic tiles, soap or rat food in boxes marked "hard drive". Do you think that's what they should be posting as news?
The W3C part is to add semantic information to web pages and other data so that you can use it in multiple applications (like twine, I guess). Right now, data I get from a web page is only good for me to look at, but with semantic markup I could automatically import it into other uses.
An example would be going over my finances at the end of the month. Right now I get either a paper statement, or log into each account, and then copy numbers over to Quicken. This would allow me to set up Quicken to automatically log in to all my accounts, balance my checkbook and generate a report of income and expenses for the month. It sounds good in principle, but I think the devil is in the details.
The US contribution to Super-K came from DOE. Universities seldom throw "gigantic piles of money" at anything not named for an elderly alumnus and covered in ivy, in my experience.
Because central planning really really works. And because PARC didn't discover anything of use, and all those Intel and Microsoft research labs popping up like mushrooms after a heavy rain don't exist, and the numerous research universities throughout the nation, with millions and billions of dollars in endowments, are really just studying not even string theory, but silly string.
Which private group or university would build a large particle accelerator, a space shuttle or a Mars lander?
Fiber cable is cheap, so when they lay 100 miles of backbone, they put plenty of fibers in the cable. Dark fiber is all over the place. However, what the article is about is router bandwidth. Adding router ports on the ends of those dark fibers is not cheap. If people were just sending text, there would be no bandwidth problem, but all those idiots linking to video and audio files is a problem.
By the way, have you all seen the "Cat wake-up call" animation on youtube?
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There is no reason why the 13 root servers could not be administered independently. Almost all of the administration of DNS is automated, anyway. Creating new TLDs is a joke. The only thing interesting going on with DNS is how to do i18n without opening up new phishing attacks.
theft: "the act of taking something from someone unlawfully"
Questions:
How far was the stolen property taken or is it in fact in the same place?
Did the accused take the stolen property or was it in fact moved by the server?
Is the owner of the server an accomplice to the theft?
They are identical to the originals except for the craving for brains.
No. It needs physical activity to keep healthy, but no mental activity or it will become independent. I suggest making it a postal worker.
According to the court documents the suit was filed Feb. 2006.
"I am college student"
You're safe as long as you don't eat either Ramen or Mac and Cheese. Those guys are dangerous.
What it means is that they are justifying setting up the data mining by showing "terrorist food" searches as an easy to understand example. Once it's in place, they can use it for anything they want. People whose reported income didn't change but suddenly started buying the premium brands might indicate illicit income, for example. Or suppose you live in a city, but you order two tons of fertilizer? You could be the next Timothy McVeigh. Once you have access to the data, why not use it?
Seems reasonable. You got to use the video for two years. They got to use your money for two years. They take the video back, you take your money back. Fair is fair.
Where are you getting your numbers? Block erase is 128K or 256K on NAND flash that I've looked at, and erase time is about 1500 usec. The large flash drives measure sequential I/O across multiple chips to get their meaningless performance numbers. Random writes are still painfully slow. The controller keeps an erase count for each block to do load leveling, and when a page gets used too many times it has to swap the whole page with one that isn't used much. The article claims 8GB per chip, which seems high to me. I think they might mean 8Gbit per chip, which would mean 64 chips to do 64GB.
Since there is an onboard controller with a RAM buffer, it can do a verify on every write. Flash tends to fail at erase or write time which can be recovered with no data loss, so MTBF depends on how many spare blocks you leave.
Excellent. I was getting tired of scam email from people in Nigeria. I look forward to the scams that will be coming to me from Uruguay and Mongolia.
three words: lack of imagination
Put a windmill in your yard. Instead of spinning an electrical generator to power a compressor, use the mechanical power to turn the compressor directly. That would be very efficient and zero emissions. It would also eliminate the distribution costs associated with alternatives like gasoline, hydrogen or electricity. And it would store energy from peak wind periods for use when you need it.
However, disposing of used lead or cadmium is easy compared to used air. No landfill in my area will take it.
"It seems totally out of whack that they'd disqualify entries that wandered all over the track, went the wrong direction down roads, crashed into multiple objects, and generally were a menace on the road."
True. They could have just moved the competition to downtown Boston.
I have yet to meet a gambler that doesn't claim to have made more than he/she has spent. Yet somehow the casinos and lotteries stay in business.
Anyway, this article was clearly not done by a statistician. It doesn't even do a basic analysis of variance on the winning numbers, which is a measure of normal distribution. I would not put much stock in either the methodology or conclusions.
I don't see anything about expansion slots. If it's a micro-atx mobo, you probably can't add a tuner card.
See the compatibility list. Some are fully supported (like Brother) and some not at all (like QMS). I had no problems with the Canon ink jet that I had. I use Epson now.
Perhaps they don't have space for 80 gazillion identical stories about people not getting ceramic tiles, soap or rat food in boxes marked "hard drive". Do you think that's what they should be posting as news?
The W3C part is to add semantic information to web pages and other data so that you can use it in multiple applications (like twine, I guess). Right now, data I get from a web page is only good for me to look at, but with semantic markup I could automatically import it into other uses.
An example would be going over my finances at the end of the month. Right now I get either a paper statement, or log into each account, and then copy numbers over to Quicken. This would allow me to set up Quicken to automatically log in to all my accounts, balance my checkbook and generate a report of income and expenses for the month. It sounds good in principle, but I think the devil is in the details.
The US contribution to Super-K came from DOE. Universities seldom throw "gigantic piles of money" at anything not named for an elderly alumnus and covered in ivy, in my experience.
From the agreement: "The final division of expenses shall be decided by the Executive Committee following negotiations with the funding agencies."
Which private group or university would build a large particle accelerator, a space shuttle or a Mars lander?
Fiber cable is cheap, so when they lay 100 miles of backbone, they put plenty of fibers in the cable. Dark fiber is all over the place. However, what the article is about is router bandwidth. Adding router ports on the ends of those dark fibers is not cheap. If people were just sending text, there would be no bandwidth problem, but all those idiots linking to video and audio files is a problem.
By the way, have you all seen the "Cat wake-up call" animation on youtube?
I'm guessing it's number 5,602,987 which was struck down in 2003 when they sued others and reversed on appeal more recently.
If it's grain of salt time, let's look at which is more likely:
a) Something big changed and 10 million Windows users suddenly wised up and cleaned up their compromised systems.
b) The people behind Storm have made it harder to detect so we only think that there are fewer compromised systems.