There must be something (besides a dusting of snow) in the DC air - this appears to be an entirely reasonable reaction by the DOJ.
The problem is that an idiot with a camera can manipulate the footage for their own gains. This happened in Australia just recently where a fairly violent arrest was made at the Mardi Gras after a guy 'groped' a stranger (whether it was sexual assault or not is for the courts to decide). The video released initially showed the cops in a very bad light - seeming unprovoked brutality, throwing him to the ground etc. Video and feedback that came out later showed that the cops started by trying to talk to the guy, who then realised he could actually be in a bit of trouble and became very violent, and while it may be that the police used 'excessive force' during the arrest, measuring the exact amount of force required is a very difficult thing to do so I don't really see that there is much of a problem.
So go ahead and film whatever you want, but if you release the video you should be held to the same level of accountability as journalists (which unfortunately these days isn't very high...)
Trauma injury that caused 75% of the skull to be destroyed surely must have a huge impact on the brain. Hopefully the patient isn't in a vegetative state...
I think there are other diseases that can cause bone loss, but google for "half a head" and you'll find some interesting pictures. Nowhere near 75% but still a significant amount of bone loss from trauma where the patient can still walk and talk.
As is typical in summaries here, and the attention-seeking articles they come from, the content doesn't seem to be as radical as the sales pitch.
Nothing in the summary suggests wolves domesticated humans. It doesn't suggest that they caused us to somehow adapt. It describes a peculiarity in some wolves that turned out to be advantageous, and snowballed into full scale domestication.
Color me surprised.
But dogs also caused us to domesticate plants too. It's right there in TFS, so it must be true.
Depending on your reasons for distraction, you could try delaying the distraction. So you want to check emails or facebook or something, do it in 5 minutes instead of now. Then in 5 minutes review your impulsive decision and see if you can delay the distraction any further.
Failing that, get yourself a desk with a screen that can easily be seen by others. I'm assuming you work in an office or something here... if you are working from home then your employer has made a foolish decision (self employed or not:)
Hopefully they'll go for incremental and benign changes to the UI instead of massive change-for-the-sake-of-change that seems to be hurting all my customers.
Iran DOES have some pretty brilliant scientists. GPS blocking is one thing, but GPS forgery - I'm not buying that. That's bullshit. I tend to believe the theory that they got a couple of aircraft around the drone, and herded it using it's close-range collision avoidance system. That's why it landed hard.
Could be. OTOH, if a device capable of GPS forgery exists then Iran doesn't need to invent it, they just need to get one. But your idea seems much easier to implement and so by definition more likely.
DVRs do not need 7200 RPM drives. 5400 RPM is plenty.
An OTA HDTV signal is about 20mbit/s. Now the rub is, most PVRs have the option to record at least two channels simultaniously. And it later needs to be read back out, then re-encoded, and written later -- real-time encoding is very, very processor intensive if you want any kind of quality. 5400 is fine for storing. It's not good for encoding/decoding simultaniously. The other thing is, budget 5400 RPM drives have smaller buffers. Which means they're going to be a lot slower for something like video.
I have a >5 year old PC with 2 USB DVB tuners in it running mythtv that can record 4 shows and have 4 of us watching different previously recorded shows over 802.11bgn wireless without breaking a sweat. It has a 7200RPM drive in it, obviously, but a 5400RPM drive isn't that much slower, and the PC has 2GB memory in it so there is plenty of memory for buffering anyway.
If i want to fast forward 30 seconds to skip ads, or try and do ad detection or transcoding then it starts to hurt as the CPU just isn't up to it, but IO bandwidth really isn't a problem
The Daleks were always my favourite. As a kid they didn't seem that scary, not like some of the other monsters. I used to put a washing basket upside down over my head (the basket was a bit taller than me) when I was little and run around the house saying "exterminate"... fun times:)
If the pope is the representative of god on earth, I am assuming that the cardinals are all praying to god for guidance, therefore there shouldn't be any competing groups, assuming that we can verify that god exists.
I assume this is why they are all looking over each others shoulders too - you wouldn't want to be the odd cardinal out who votes the wrong way, letting on that God isn't in fact guiding him at all!
To be honest though, I don't believe in God, but if one existed i'd fancy it would be the kind described on Futurama - only helping out when he's sure nobody is looking.
If you can find out who's stealing your bandwidth, you don't need the police -- you need a lawyer. In civil matters they are a *lot* more scary.
And better still, the standard of proof is often much less than "beyond reasonable doubt".
Make sure you run up lots of actual expenses tracking it down - cases of red bull to keep awake at night monitoring your wireless, a new laptop or two to assist in monitoring, full body massages to help you relax after all the late night red bull benders, etc.
Then you can start thinking about assigning a cost to the damages associated with pain and suffering at the thought of someone invading your privacy etc.
I don't look at the logs so I'm not annoyed. Problem solved.
The other problem is when you have a device like an old wrt54gl which has to perform unnecessary work (and therefore gets hotter than it needs to) when trying to deal with several password attempts a second.
Changing the port to something like and rate limiting it from unknown addresses makes a huge difference.
I agree with not looking at the logs though, or at least in the default configuration. How is knowing that someone failed to log in a useful thing to know? That's just the security system doing it's job and is just noise. What you want to log is the successful logins from remote IP addresses that haven't been seen before, or have previously been seen trying many incorrect combinations of username and password. That's a significant event.
How so? You lock up an account after a few password failures. Why would it matter where the attempt is made. They'd have to try getting in with other accounts.
David has to unlock his account a few times a week because of rules like this.
It's still just going after low-hanging fruit. Anyone weth any real awareness of security does now allow password-only SSH connections anyway. Key based auth and fail2ban is pretty much required these days. You can always add some port knocking to obscure it a bit if you don't like reading about failed access attempts.
There is nothing magical about keys, they are nothing more than very very long passwords that you can't type in if you ever need remote access from a machine that doesn't have your private keys on it.
If your passwords are good then ssh bots won't guess them, and fail2ban will make sure they don't get enough attempts to try.
They say to expect a Tunguska sized one once a century and this one wasn't that big. They mostly ocean explode or strike so there's few signs of them but an ocean strike can be worse than a land one given the water they displace. They've got to wake up and start properly funding the near Earth program. It still won't protect against rouges but at least they can map ones that cross our orbit.
Such a program was secretly implemented by the US over a decade ago, and they can indeed manipulate small asteroids. Ask yourself this - where did this one hit? Was it somewhere in America?
The justice system shouldn't be haggling over price.
They have suspects they are sure that did it. They have a method of determining which one, but they are dicking around because of cost?
Unacceptable.
Totally unacceptable. The possibilities are:
1. Let both men go free. Assaults will continue. And the innocent brother (assuming one is innocent) will be an outcast (so will the guilty one, but he deserves it so we don't care about him).
2. Imprison both men. Also unacceptable. Even if it turned out both are guilty it still needs to be proven.
3. Do the tests. Guilty party pays costs (TFS doesn't say if they are a millionaire or not, but lets assume they are). Justice is done.
The only problem is if the "at least €1M" escalates to "more than €10M" and still doesn't find the outcome beyond reasonable doubt.
This is a problem. The computer doesn't know what is going on. if i press "stop" the car should fucking STOP, because I'm the one who knows the circumstances. Trying to cater to dick-heads doing the wrong thing at the expense of people who get fucked over in an emergency is entirely the WRONG thing to do.
Do the math. There are more dickheads than people who find themselves in an emergency where pressing the stop button at 60mph is a sensible thing to do. In this litigious culture we've created the only sensible action is the one that will get you sued the least.
And even for you - presumably not a dickhead - you're probably still safer. You're more likely to be taken out by someone hitting the stop button at high speed and finding that suddenly their brakes and steering aren't as responsive than you are to find yourself in an emergency where you need to hit the stop button.
If you have insurance, no reason not to get a doc's advice. That said, I have been using the workrave app for about 5 years now and I think it has saved me from significant deterioration. It has both 'nix and Windows implementations. Basically reminds you to take a micro break every 5 minutes and a coffee break every ten. I manage to keep working during these breaks. Usually it is a phone call or a convo with the boss or a colleague. And you can always count on a meeting as a good opportunity for a break.
Best piece of nagware out there IMHO.
Sounds like a neat idea. If you were actually getting a new coffee every 10 minutes you would probably approach a lethal dose pretty quick though:)
I'm heading this way now. Wrist pain most of the time. I've swapped to using the mouse with the left hand but it doesn't seem to have helped. Any hints on where to go from here? (or is this not a 'self help' kind of problem?)
I brought a rubiks cube to work to give a typing break every so often, but I can solve it in under 2 minutes so it's not enough of a break and gets a bit boring.
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There must be something (besides a dusting of snow) in the DC air - this appears to be an entirely reasonable reaction by the DOJ.
The problem is that an idiot with a camera can manipulate the footage for their own gains. This happened in Australia just recently where a fairly violent arrest was made at the Mardi Gras after a guy 'groped' a stranger (whether it was sexual assault or not is for the courts to decide). The video released initially showed the cops in a very bad light - seeming unprovoked brutality, throwing him to the ground etc. Video and feedback that came out later showed that the cops started by trying to talk to the guy, who then realised he could actually be in a bit of trouble and became very violent, and while it may be that the police used 'excessive force' during the arrest, measuring the exact amount of force required is a very difficult thing to do so I don't really see that there is much of a problem. So go ahead and film whatever you want, but if you release the video you should be held to the same level of accountability as journalists (which unfortunately these days isn't very high...)
Trauma injury that caused 75% of the skull to be destroyed surely must have a huge impact on the brain. Hopefully the patient isn't in a vegetative state...
I think there are other diseases that can cause bone loss, but google for "half a head" and you'll find some interesting pictures. Nowhere near 75% but still a significant amount of bone loss from trauma where the patient can still walk and talk.
When I get one of those, I reply with a text : " I have a gift for you.". Then I attach a picture of something fresh my dog laid in the yard.
Just a picture?
Stop anthropomorphizing evolition. It hates that!
If it hates it so much why did it evolve us to do it?
As is typical in summaries here, and the attention-seeking articles they come from, the content doesn't seem to be as radical as the sales pitch.
Nothing in the summary suggests wolves domesticated humans. It doesn't suggest that they caused us to somehow adapt. It describes a peculiarity in some wolves that turned out to be advantageous, and snowballed into full scale domestication.
Color me surprised.
But dogs also caused us to domesticate plants too. It's right there in TFS, so it must be true.
Depending on your reasons for distraction, you could try delaying the distraction. So you want to check emails or facebook or something, do it in 5 minutes instead of now. Then in 5 minutes review your impulsive decision and see if you can delay the distraction any further.
:)
Failing that, get yourself a desk with a screen that can easily be seen by others. I'm assuming you work in an office or something here... if you are working from home then your employer has made a foolish decision (self employed or not
Hopefully they'll go for incremental and benign changes to the UI instead of massive change-for-the-sake-of-change that seems to be hurting all my customers.
Iran DOES have some pretty brilliant scientists. GPS blocking is one thing, but GPS forgery - I'm not buying that. That's bullshit. I tend to believe the theory that they got a couple of aircraft around the drone, and herded it using it's close-range collision avoidance system. That's why it landed hard.
Could be. OTOH, if a device capable of GPS forgery exists then Iran doesn't need to invent it, they just need to get one. But your idea seems much easier to implement and so by definition more likely.
DVRs do not need 7200 RPM drives. 5400 RPM is plenty.
An OTA HDTV signal is about 20mbit/s. Now the rub is, most PVRs have the option to record at least two channels simultaniously. And it later needs to be read back out, then re-encoded, and written later -- real-time encoding is very, very processor intensive if you want any kind of quality. 5400 is fine for storing. It's not good for encoding/decoding simultaniously. The other thing is, budget 5400 RPM drives have smaller buffers. Which means they're going to be a lot slower for something like video.
I have a >5 year old PC with 2 USB DVB tuners in it running mythtv that can record 4 shows and have 4 of us watching different previously recorded shows over 802.11bgn wireless without breaking a sweat. It has a 7200RPM drive in it, obviously, but a 5400RPM drive isn't that much slower, and the PC has 2GB memory in it so there is plenty of memory for buffering anyway.
If i want to fast forward 30 seconds to skip ads, or try and do ad detection or transcoding then it starts to hurt as the CPU just isn't up to it, but IO bandwidth really isn't a problem
It ain't gambling unless the odds of winning or losing and equal
gambling, n - An activity characterised by a balance between winning and losing that is governed by a mixture of skill and chance.
What imaginary dictionary have you been consulting? I checked a bunch and none said that the odds of winning and losing must be equal...
I wish Australia would make online gambling legal, for foreigners only.
The Daleks were always my favourite. As a kid they didn't seem that scary, not like some of the other monsters. I used to put a washing basket upside down over my head (the basket was a bit taller than me) when I was little and run around the house saying "exterminate"... fun times :)
If the pope is the representative of god on earth, I am assuming that the cardinals are all praying to god for guidance, therefore there shouldn't be any competing groups, assuming that we can verify that god exists.
I assume this is why they are all looking over each others shoulders too - you wouldn't want to be the odd cardinal out who votes the wrong way, letting on that God isn't in fact guiding him at all!
To be honest though, I don't believe in God, but if one existed i'd fancy it would be the kind described on Futurama - only helping out when he's sure nobody is looking.
I'd rather have 1000 GBPS wireless for free than 10 GBPS wireless and stupid talking cars that anyone can hack if they have a decent rootkit, anyway.
Kitt; Micheal, you're going too fast.
Michael: Kitt, see this switch on your dashboard, it turns off your control of the accelerator.
1TBPS?? Just how fast do you need to share pictures of cats on facebook????
Fuck. I drink 1 to 2 bottles of wine per day. Am I a fokking fruit fly now ?
No. RTFA. You're a maggot.
If you can find out who's stealing your bandwidth, you don't need the police -- you need a lawyer. In civil matters they are a *lot* more scary.
And better still, the standard of proof is often much less than "beyond reasonable doubt".
Make sure you run up lots of actual expenses tracking it down - cases of red bull to keep awake at night monitoring your wireless, a new laptop or two to assist in monitoring, full body massages to help you relax after all the late night red bull benders, etc.
Then you can start thinking about assigning a cost to the damages associated with pain and suffering at the thought of someone invading your privacy etc.
I don't look at the logs so I'm not annoyed. Problem solved.
The other problem is when you have a device like an old wrt54gl which has to perform unnecessary work (and therefore gets hotter than it needs to) when trying to deal with several password attempts a second.
Changing the port to something like and rate limiting it from unknown addresses makes a huge difference.
I agree with not looking at the logs though, or at least in the default configuration. How is knowing that someone failed to log in a useful thing to know? That's just the security system doing it's job and is just noise. What you want to log is the successful logins from remote IP addresses that haven't been seen before, or have previously been seen trying many incorrect combinations of username and password. That's a significant event.
How so? You lock up an account after a few password failures. Why would it matter where the attempt is made. They'd have to try getting in with other accounts.
David has to unlock his account a few times a week because of rules like this.
It's still just going after low-hanging fruit. Anyone weth any real awareness of security does now allow password-only SSH connections anyway. Key based auth and fail2ban is pretty much required these days. You can always add some port knocking to obscure it a bit if you don't like reading about failed access attempts.
There is nothing magical about keys, they are nothing more than very very long passwords that you can't type in if you ever need remote access from a machine that doesn't have your private keys on it.
If your passwords are good then ssh bots won't guess them, and fail2ban will make sure they don't get enough attempts to try.
They say to expect a Tunguska sized one once a century and this one wasn't that big. They mostly ocean explode or strike so there's few signs of them but an ocean strike can be worse than a land one given the water they displace. They've got to wake up and start properly funding the near Earth program. It still won't protect against rouges but at least they can map ones that cross our orbit.
Such a program was secretly implemented by the US over a decade ago, and they can indeed manipulate small asteroids. Ask yourself this - where did this one hit? Was it somewhere in America?
The justice system shouldn't be haggling over price.
They have suspects they are sure that did it. They have a method of determining which one, but they are dicking around because of cost?
Unacceptable.
Totally unacceptable. The possibilities are:
1. Let both men go free. Assaults will continue. And the innocent brother (assuming one is innocent) will be an outcast (so will the guilty one, but he deserves it so we don't care about him).
2. Imprison both men. Also unacceptable. Even if it turned out both are guilty it still needs to be proven.
3. Do the tests. Guilty party pays costs (TFS doesn't say if they are a millionaire or not, but lets assume they are). Justice is done.
The only problem is if the "at least €1M" escalates to "more than €10M" and still doesn't find the outcome beyond reasonable doubt.
Without vigilance, there might be a widespread problem with people getting these vaccines against their will.
Better than them drinking alcohol against their will, which is essentially what alcoholism amounts to.
This is a problem. The computer doesn't know what is going on. if i press "stop" the car should fucking STOP, because I'm the one who knows the circumstances. Trying to cater to dick-heads doing the wrong thing at the expense of people who get fucked over in an emergency is entirely the WRONG thing to do.
Do the math. There are more dickheads than people who find themselves in an emergency where pressing the stop button at 60mph is a sensible thing to do. In this litigious culture we've created the only sensible action is the one that will get you sued the least.
And even for you - presumably not a dickhead - you're probably still safer. You're more likely to be taken out by someone hitting the stop button at high speed and finding that suddenly their brakes and steering aren't as responsive than you are to find yourself in an emergency where you need to hit the stop button.
This car doesn't have a "key", it has a button that says "Start/Stop".
And no sensible car computer will let you press "stop" at 60mph.
If you have insurance, no reason not to get a doc's advice. That said, I have been using the workrave app for about 5 years now and I think it has saved me from significant deterioration. It has both 'nix and Windows implementations. Basically reminds you to take a micro break every 5 minutes and a coffee break every ten. I manage to keep working during these breaks. Usually it is a phone call or a convo with the boss or a colleague. And you can always count on a meeting as a good opportunity for a break.
Best piece of nagware out there IMHO.
Sounds like a neat idea. If you were actually getting a new coffee every 10 minutes you would probably approach a lethal dose pretty quick though :)
I'm heading this way now. Wrist pain most of the time. I've swapped to using the mouse with the left hand but it doesn't seem to have helped. Any hints on where to go from here? (or is this not a 'self help' kind of problem?) I brought a rubiks cube to work to give a typing break every so often, but I can solve it in under 2 minutes so it's not enough of a break and gets a bit boring.