While I agree with the thrust of your argument, the AV product is named System Center Endpoint Protection because System Center is the application used to centrally manage it (and the rest of your OS and application deployment needs) and Endpoint Protection is a well understood term, so in this case the name actually makes sense. I suspect they just got lucky.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
If you keep your programmers on the shelf and don't actually "use" them, then they'll be out of date within 12 months. If you take them off the shelf and put them to work and treat them right they'll probably last much longer.
So if we get past 100% would that create a black hole that sucks in energy for everything around it and ultimately would destroy the earth? Just askin'
With your 150% efficient solar cell, and a light bulb shining on it (that could convert electricity into light usable by the solar cell at more than 66% efficiency, which I think also doesn't exist) you would have a "free energy" machine.
We'd also save billions of dollars if we stopped selling clothes dryers that are hideously inefficiency; elsewhere in the world condensing dryers are the norm and in some cases dry clothes faster.
"...All else being equal (i.e. not including household heating/cooling issues), condenser dryers are slightly less efficient than their vented counterparts, typically on the order of ~15%. The real design intent of condenser dryers isn't improved efficiency, but the simple fact that they don't require a vent duct, permitting easy installation most anywhere (ideal for apartment dwellers, etc)..."
"...There IS in fact a true heat pump dryer - the AEG Lavatherm WP - which is very energy-efficient, but it's not available in North America, and is extremely expensive (probably so much so that it wouldn't pay for itself in energy terms)...."
Bosch and Meile both make heat pump dryers, probably more brands these days - it's a few years since we last looked. We have a Bosch. It is expensive, and probably won't ever pay for itself in terms of energy savings, even in our household of six people, but we can't easily vent a dryer to outside here so the heat pump dryer made a lot more sense. It's also fast.
When we were looking, the condenser dryers sounded awful. Inefficient and really slow to dry.
You are at least 5 years out of date with that information. Traditional condensing dryers are obsolete, modern ones use heat pumps and are vastly more efficient than vented dryers.
Our heat pump dryer is awesome. Expensive, but awesome. Prior to that we were often hanging clothes inside to dry (hanging them outside brings in the pollen which is very bad at this time of year (Spring in AU)). With our one we have to empty out the water tub manually, and it's amazing to see how much water used to be evaporating into the house!!
I'm not sure if I'm right, but my first thought was "surely the colour doesn't matter, since the momentum of the photons are transferred whether they are absorbed or reflected?". Perhaps someone with more knowledge of the relevant physics can answer.
In any case, it seems like a very impractical proposal. Shouldn't students be given more useful topics to make studies of?
I'm not a physicist, but if the overall momentum of the system is constant, and we consider the original state of the system where a photon is headed towards the asteroid, then the alternate resulting states of the system are:
1. photon is absorbed by the asteroid.
2. photon is reflected by the asteroid and is now moving in the opposite direction
and state 2 must have the asteroid moving slower relative to the direction it was hit by the photon to conserve the total momentum of the system.
Of course photons travelling at the speed of light may not strictly obey newtonian physics, so I may be way off...
The Society Of Protection of Asteroids (SOPA) will not stand for this. Anything that stands in the way of an asteroids natural path is against nature and against God.
We're going to have to move the Earth out of the way instead... how much paint is that going to take?
Things that happen after I die aren't important. I don't know why people keep railing on about this "environment" nonsense either, somebody wasted my time with his "endangered species" prattle just this morning - I could eat nothing but Ethiopian wolf every day for the rest of my life. That's not a shortage.
Millions of years have ensured that the surviving genes are the ones that do things to ensure the survival of their offspring.
You, sir, are an evolutionary dead end, so I guess the problem takes care of itself.
first or second order accurate. Either way I don't feel safe!
If they declare that an asteroid is "headed towards earth" without taking into account the effect of photons in the first place, i'd have to wonder a little. What if they decide that an asteroid is not headed towards earth, but it happens to be "blindingly white" and the photons change its course so it is headed towards earth.
The only issue is that fecal transplants aren't yet covered by insurance.
This, and the fact that it may just be a temporary cure if the patient has a weak immunity: the same cause may make the same effects.
This may be true, but does your gut really get affected that much by your immune system? I know it does it various auto-immune diseases but that is the opposite to what you are describing. From what i've read the balance of bacteria in your gut is supposed to regulate itself but the bad bacteria can move in after the patient has had a heavy does of antibiotics to treat other infections.
Unless you were implying that the weak immunity requires heavy doses of antibiotics to treat recurring infections? I guess that makes sense, but just follow up each dose with a reverse enema of poop:)
People who have been in agony for weeks get so much better in a few hours they can be discharged from the hospital. The only issue is that fecal transplants aren't yet covered by insurance.
That should be a pretty easy decision to make though... hospital stays aren't cheap (and I assume are covered by insurance in the US?) and a decent infection of clostridium difficile can kill you and make you very expensive to take care of while you die.
isn't the best guess for why we the appendix is that it contains a small pocket of bacteria to restart the system in case you have something that flushes the system?
I've heard that theory. Doesn't help those of us who have had our appendix removed though.
"I can't remember the last time a child was actually abducted in Australia.."
oh ok, it means it will never happen again and definitely not to *my* child, i congratulate on having it all figured out, shit happens as they say, but always to OTHER people, right?
"but there have been way more kids killed in traffic accidents in the same time"
oh, that is such a relief to the parents of abducted children, on behalf of all parents of abducted children around the globe may I say: "phewww!...",
It's more about spending the resources where they are most appropriate. Child abductions are a very emotional issue and I can understand why you are ranting and raving about "think of the children", but is it really the best way to spend resources? Say you had a billion dollars to spend... is it the best place to spend it to attach/implant a tracking device to save one or two lives a year (which would cost more than a billion dollars anyway, and raises many privacy issue)? I can think of ways of spending that billion dollars with much better results.
The whole premise seems pretty dumb anyway. Any serious abductor is going to remove or disable the tracking device the instant they take your child, no matter what fancy tamper proofing you put on it. Even implanting it isn't foolproof, and would probably kill more lives than it saves.
You are unlikely to see another plane get hijacked in your life time. You might see an attempted hi-jack, but I'd be surprised if it went beyond that. Gone are the days when terrorists could be trusted to take you on a joyride to Syria or Africa. People now assume the worst in such a situation and I guarantee you the pilots will not willingly open the cockpit door.
Nor will the passengers sit down and passively wait it out. I did mean to type "attempted hijack":)
Not only could you photoshop the barcode, but hell, you could photoshop the name, the destination, the flight number, pretty much anything you wanted... The brainless goons at the security checkpoint wouldn't know the difference. (They don't scan tickets or anything).
In my experience (working for a contractor for a major US airline), you could even use a photoshopped (printed at home) boarding pass to get on the plane. When they scan it at the gate and the computer beeps saying "no such thing", generally the non-english-speaking gate agent will just scan it a few more times, give up, and let the person on the plane. When the passenger count from the computer later doesn't match up to the number of people on the plane, they'll just "go with what's on the plane" in the interest of getting the plane out on time. This happens on a DAILY BASIS. "Security" is a joke.
I'm a little dubious about your claims... although it wouldn't be the first time stupidity has exceeded expectations.
I wonder what will happen with all this security in place when another plane gets hijacked? I guess we'll all have to be put to sleep at boarding time and then shipped to our destination in cocoons. At least we wouldn't have to eat airline food and put up with people kicking our seats then.
Once you pass passport checks the 'security' on entering Australia is to do with biological security. A US national entering from a US flight is low risk for carrying biological hazards like viable seeds, eggs, infested timber products etc. Had you entered on a flight you joined in Africa or Asia, or been a Chinese national (think suitcase full of traditional remedies), they would likely have X-rayed everything for biological matter. We have stiff penalties for failing to declare prohibited biological items.
We even have a TV show about customs and the crap people try to smuggle in. At least I think it's ours... I see ads for it all the time but have never actually watched it. It could be like the Highway Patrol show that comes from NZ.
I was actually talking to my Mom the other day...laughing about when I was about 2-3yrs..I wandered off from her, and got lost in the dept store...and they had to call over the intercom for her to get me.
We "misplaced" one of our kids at a shopping centre when she was about that age. I thought she was with my wife, my wife thought she was with me. It was absolutely horrifying. Security fairly quickly had someone watching near each of the exits etc, but I found her very shortly after happily sitting in a little car ride (the type you put 20c in and it wobbles from side to side a bit) that she'd spotted on the way in.
While it was about the worst i've ever felt about anything (my heart still races when I think about it!), my fear and anxiety was completely irrational, and i'm not going to stick a tracking device on one of my kids just because i've got a vivid imagination about the horrible things that might happen. There's a much higher chance of something bad happening on the drive to and from the shop than in the shop, so clearly spending massive amounts of effort mitigating the latter risk is well and truly misplaced.
I can't believe things are that much more dangerous now, are there? I often wonder, instead of more 'craziees' out there...if it is just more sensationally reported due to needing to fill up 24/7 news?
I'm pretty sure it's the latter. I can't remember the last time a child was actually abducted in Australia... i'm sure it's happened once or twice fairly recently, but there have been way more kids killed in traffic accidents in the same time. The abductions, when they do happen, get far more widely reported though, we even hear about it when it happens in other countries. The one in the US where the child turned up dead in a recycling bin even made the news here.
Etymology: It was originally called "Georgium Sidus" after King George III, but since no one liked that name a bunch of unofficial alternatives were thought up. Uranus eventually won out and even became official in 1850. Uranus being the Latinized version of the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos. Bode argued that just as Saturn was the father of Jupiter, the new planet should be named after the father of Saturn. In 1789, Bode's Royal Academy colleague Martin Klaproth named his newly discovered element "uranium" in support of Bode's choice.
Just change the pronunciation. Instead of saying it like "your anus", change the 'a' to the short 'a' like in 'apple'. The existing pronunciation is making too many people laugh and we all know how bad that is for you.
I once had a router where the signal started to go bad over time. I called up the company and the tech support guy told me that most routers "wear out" after around 2 years, and that I'd need to replace it. He struggled to give a logical answer when I asked him how a device with no moving parts could wear out so quickly.
If you're right, and if this is the standard advice being given to everyone, we're in for a huge arms race.
I seem to remember laws being tossed around in the last few years to make the vendor take back the old hardware when it "wore out", and make them recycle it. An administrative nightmare to police of course, but something has to change and stop this race to the bottom.
In Australia we changed the warranty laws so resellers are liable for warranty claims in a "reasonable time", even if the manufacturer warranty is only 2 or 3 years. For mobile phones, "reasonable time" is defined as at least as long as the contract period, but it is more arbitrary for other goods. At least it's a step in the right direction.
All that really happens when you increase broadcast power is an increase in interference with neighboring WAPs, which tends to lead other people to the conclusion that they also need to increase broadcast power in order to overcome the interference that you created.
Not entirely true. If the neighbors routers are set to channel "auto", they may well just pick another channel if they detect more interference on or close to the channel you are using (more power will cause more interference in adjacent channels too). I'm not advocating putting the power up, but there are technical reasons why it can have some benefit.
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While I agree with the thrust of your argument, the AV product is named System Center Endpoint Protection because System Center is the application used to centrally manage it (and the rest of your OS and application deployment needs) and Endpoint Protection is a well understood term, so in this case the name actually makes sense. I suspect they just got lucky.
Use Monster Cables. Not only do they outperform other cables in all implausible tests, they are tangle-proof too.
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
If you keep your programmers on the shelf and don't actually "use" them, then they'll be out of date within 12 months. If you take them off the shelf and put them to work and treat them right they'll probably last much longer.
This is in Canada. So it's typical we would blame the Federal Conservatives, Harper, and his oil-pleasing cronies.
That's a load of crap. I live in Australia and it doesn't stop us from blaming America. Why so you think Canadians are so special?
So if we get past 100% would that create a black hole that sucks in energy for everything around it and ultimately would destroy the earth? Just askin'
With your 150% efficient solar cell, and a light bulb shining on it (that could convert electricity into light usable by the solar cell at more than 66% efficiency, which I think also doesn't exist) you would have a "free energy" machine.
We'd also save billions of dollars if we stopped selling clothes dryers that are hideously inefficiency; elsewhere in the world condensing dryers are the norm and in some cases dry clothes faster.
"...All else being equal (i.e. not including household heating/cooling issues), condenser dryers are slightly less efficient than their vented counterparts, typically on the order of ~15%. The real design intent of condenser dryers isn't improved efficiency, but the simple fact that they don't require a vent duct, permitting easy installation most anywhere (ideal for apartment dwellers, etc)..."
"...There IS in fact a true heat pump dryer - the AEG Lavatherm WP - which is very energy-efficient, but it's not available in North America, and is extremely expensive (probably so much so that it wouldn't pay for itself in energy terms)...."
Source: http://ths.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/laundry/2004120958010854.html
Bosch and Meile both make heat pump dryers, probably more brands these days - it's a few years since we last looked. We have a Bosch. It is expensive, and probably won't ever pay for itself in terms of energy savings, even in our household of six people, but we can't easily vent a dryer to outside here so the heat pump dryer made a lot more sense. It's also fast.
When we were looking, the condenser dryers sounded awful. Inefficient and really slow to dry.
You are at least 5 years out of date with that information. Traditional condensing dryers are obsolete, modern ones use heat pumps and are vastly more efficient than vented dryers.
Our heat pump dryer is awesome. Expensive, but awesome. Prior to that we were often hanging clothes inside to dry (hanging them outside brings in the pollen which is very bad at this time of year (Spring in AU)). With our one we have to empty out the water tub manually, and it's amazing to see how much water used to be evaporating into the house!!
I'm not sure if I'm right, but my first thought was "surely the colour doesn't matter, since the momentum of the photons are transferred whether they are absorbed or reflected?". Perhaps someone with more knowledge of the relevant physics can answer.
In any case, it seems like a very impractical proposal. Shouldn't students be given more useful topics to make studies of?
I'm not a physicist, but if the overall momentum of the system is constant, and we consider the original state of the system where a photon is headed towards the asteroid, then the alternate resulting states of the system are:
1. photon is absorbed by the asteroid.
2. photon is reflected by the asteroid and is now moving in the opposite direction
and state 2 must have the asteroid moving slower relative to the direction it was hit by the photon to conserve the total momentum of the system.
Of course photons travelling at the speed of light may not strictly obey newtonian physics, so I may be way off...
The Society Of Protection of Asteroids (SOPA) will not stand for this. Anything that stands in the way of an asteroids natural path is against nature and against God.
We're going to have to move the Earth out of the way instead... how much paint is that going to take?
Things that happen after I die aren't important. I don't know why people keep railing on about this "environment" nonsense either, somebody wasted my time with his "endangered species" prattle just this morning - I could eat nothing but Ethiopian wolf every day for the rest of my life. That's not a shortage.
Millions of years have ensured that the surviving genes are the ones that do things to ensure the survival of their offspring.
You, sir, are an evolutionary dead end, so I guess the problem takes care of itself.
first or second order accurate.
Either way I don't feel safe!
If they declare that an asteroid is "headed towards earth" without taking into account the effect of photons in the first place, i'd have to wonder a little. What if they decide that an asteroid is not headed towards earth, but it happens to be "blindingly white" and the photons change its course so it is headed towards earth.
If I'm unfortunate to get this illness, please don't tell me the cure.
If you are unfortunate enough to get this illness you will welcome the cure with open bowels.
The only issue is that fecal transplants aren't yet covered by insurance.
This, and the fact that it may just be a temporary cure if the patient has a weak immunity: the same cause may make the same effects.
This may be true, but does your gut really get affected that much by your immune system? I know it does it various auto-immune diseases but that is the opposite to what you are describing. From what i've read the balance of bacteria in your gut is supposed to regulate itself but the bad bacteria can move in after the patient has had a heavy does of antibiotics to treat other infections.
Unless you were implying that the weak immunity requires heavy doses of antibiotics to treat recurring infections? I guess that makes sense, but just follow up each dose with a reverse enema of poop :)
People who have been in agony for weeks get so much better in a few hours they can be discharged from the hospital. The only issue is that fecal transplants aren't yet covered by insurance.
That should be a pretty easy decision to make though... hospital stays aren't cheap (and I assume are covered by insurance in the US?) and a decent infection of clostridium difficile can kill you and make you very expensive to take care of while you die.
isn't the best guess for why we the appendix is that it contains a small pocket of bacteria to restart the system in case you have something that flushes the system?
I've heard that theory. Doesn't help those of us who have had our appendix removed though.
"I can't remember the last time a child was actually abducted in Australia.."
oh ok, it means it will never happen again and definitely not to *my* child, i congratulate on having it all figured out, shit happens as they say, but always to OTHER people, right?
"but there have been way more kids killed in traffic accidents in the same time"
oh, that is such a relief to the parents of abducted children, on behalf of all parents of abducted children around the globe may I say: "phewww!...",
It's more about spending the resources where they are most appropriate. Child abductions are a very emotional issue and I can understand why you are ranting and raving about "think of the children", but is it really the best way to spend resources? Say you had a billion dollars to spend... is it the best place to spend it to attach/implant a tracking device to save one or two lives a year (which would cost more than a billion dollars anyway, and raises many privacy issue)? I can think of ways of spending that billion dollars with much better results.
The whole premise seems pretty dumb anyway. Any serious abductor is going to remove or disable the tracking device the instant they take your child, no matter what fancy tamper proofing you put on it. Even implanting it isn't foolproof, and would probably kill more lives than it saves.
You are unlikely to see another plane get hijacked in your life time. You might see an attempted hi-jack, but I'd be surprised if it went beyond that. Gone are the days when terrorists could be trusted to take you on a joyride to Syria or Africa. People now assume the worst in such a situation and I guarantee you the pilots will not willingly open the cockpit door.
Nor will the passengers sit down and passively wait it out. I did mean to type "attempted hijack" :)
The Australian programme I believe is Nothing to Declare. There is also a NZ equivalent called Passport Patrol.
One of the lesser digital channels in the UK broadcasts both shows (normally multiple times a day)
The NZ one is Border Patrol. Not sure why they rename it Passport Patrol for the UK audience...
Not only could you photoshop the barcode, but hell, you could photoshop the name, the destination, the flight number, pretty much anything you wanted... The brainless goons at the security checkpoint wouldn't know the difference. (They don't scan tickets or anything).
In my experience (working for a contractor for a major US airline), you could even use a photoshopped (printed at home) boarding pass to get on the plane. When they scan it at the gate and the computer beeps saying "no such thing", generally the non-english-speaking gate agent will just scan it a few more times, give up, and let the person on the plane. When the passenger count from the computer later doesn't match up to the number of people on the plane, they'll just "go with what's on the plane" in the interest of getting the plane out on time. This happens on a DAILY BASIS. "Security" is a joke.
I'm a little dubious about your claims... although it wouldn't be the first time stupidity has exceeded expectations.
I wonder what will happen with all this security in place when another plane gets hijacked? I guess we'll all have to be put to sleep at boarding time and then shipped to our destination in cocoons. At least we wouldn't have to eat airline food and put up with people kicking our seats then.
Once you pass passport checks the 'security' on entering Australia is to do with biological security. A US national entering from a US flight is low risk for carrying biological hazards like viable seeds, eggs, infested timber products etc. Had you entered on a flight you joined in Africa or Asia, or been a Chinese national (think suitcase full of traditional remedies), they would likely have X-rayed everything for biological matter. We have stiff penalties for failing to declare prohibited biological items.
We even have a TV show about customs and the crap people try to smuggle in. At least I think it's ours... I see ads for it all the time but have never actually watched it. It could be like the Highway Patrol show that comes from NZ.
Geez....
I was actually talking to my Mom the other day...laughing about when I was about 2-3yrs..I wandered off from her, and got lost in the dept store...and they had to call over the intercom for her to get me.
We "misplaced" one of our kids at a shopping centre when she was about that age. I thought she was with my wife, my wife thought she was with me. It was absolutely horrifying. Security fairly quickly had someone watching near each of the exits etc, but I found her very shortly after happily sitting in a little car ride (the type you put 20c in and it wobbles from side to side a bit) that she'd spotted on the way in.
While it was about the worst i've ever felt about anything (my heart still races when I think about it!), my fear and anxiety was completely irrational, and i'm not going to stick a tracking device on one of my kids just because i've got a vivid imagination about the horrible things that might happen. There's a much higher chance of something bad happening on the drive to and from the shop than in the shop, so clearly spending massive amounts of effort mitigating the latter risk is well and truly misplaced.
I can't believe things are that much more dangerous now, are there? I often wonder, instead of more 'craziees' out there...if it is just more sensationally reported due to needing to fill up 24/7 news?
I'm pretty sure it's the latter. I can't remember the last time a child was actually abducted in Australia... i'm sure it's happened once or twice fairly recently, but there have been way more kids killed in traffic accidents in the same time. The abductions, when they do happen, get far more widely reported though, we even hear about it when it happens in other countries. The one in the US where the child turned up dead in a recycling bin even made the news here.
So you suggest ...instead of "Your Anus" we pronounce it: "you're an ass".
"You're an us" would be a better approximation. Your way is good too though.
They really have to change that planet's name.
Etymology:
It was originally called "Georgium Sidus" after King George III, but since no one liked that name a bunch of unofficial alternatives were thought up. Uranus eventually won out and even became official in 1850. Uranus being the Latinized version of the Greek god of the sky, Ouranos. Bode argued that just as Saturn was the father of Jupiter, the new planet should be named after the father of Saturn. In 1789, Bode's Royal Academy colleague Martin Klaproth named his newly discovered element "uranium" in support of Bode's choice.
Just change the pronunciation. Instead of saying it like "your anus", change the 'a' to the short 'a' like in 'apple'. The existing pronunciation is making too many people laugh and we all know how bad that is for you.
I once had a router where the signal started to go bad over time. I called up the company and the tech support guy told me that most routers "wear out" after around 2 years, and that I'd need to replace it. He struggled to give a logical answer when I asked him how a device with no moving parts could wear out so quickly.
If you're right, and if this is the standard advice being given to everyone, we're in for a huge arms race.
I seem to remember laws being tossed around in the last few years to make the vendor take back the old hardware when it "wore out", and make them recycle it. An administrative nightmare to police of course, but something has to change and stop this race to the bottom.
In Australia we changed the warranty laws so resellers are liable for warranty claims in a "reasonable time", even if the manufacturer warranty is only 2 or 3 years. For mobile phones, "reasonable time" is defined as at least as long as the contract period, but it is more arbitrary for other goods. At least it's a step in the right direction.
All that really happens when you increase broadcast power is an increase in interference with neighboring WAPs, which tends to lead other people to the conclusion that they also need to increase broadcast power in order to overcome the interference that you created.
Not entirely true. If the neighbors routers are set to channel "auto", they may well just pick another channel if they detect more interference on or close to the channel you are using (more power will cause more interference in adjacent channels too). I'm not advocating putting the power up, but there are technical reasons why it can have some benefit.