Here on the U.S. East Coast we're hearing about coast guard helicopters (the big ones) hovering over the beaches watching for sharks. (In response to a cluster of shark attacks) Now, call me crazy, but that's an awful lot of fuel to use just sitting there. Why not use these planes to monitor that too? Shouldn't be much difference, just a live camera feed to a ground station. An unmanned fleet of these would use a heck of a lot less fuel and manpower than hovering those huge helicopters.
you think that you can fit everything that you need for a linux or windows bootup in 8MB of flash? You think that you can fit BOTH of them?
floppyfw (Firewall on a Floppy) runs a linux 2.4.5 kernel. It handles ipchains, iproute2, traffic shaping, and can retrieve ip's for all its nic's with dhcp. It's held on a 1.44 MB floppy, so yes, I think I can fit everything I need for a linux bootup in 8MB flash. I might not be able to store *all* the modules I need, but I can certainly store enough to start the machine with.
(I only ask because I worked at a company once that had everything backed up nightly to tape, but there was a problem with the software they were still working out when I left that prevented them from restoring from that backup. What's the use of a backup you can't read???)
"Your honor, to counter that recording, I'd like to submit a recording of the arresting officer speaking later... (tape recorder playing)Okay, now run it through the computer and make up a statement. Make it something good.(tape recorder stops)... Would you agree that statement was the arresting officer? Good, I move both recordings be stricken, because they were both faked."
So basically, they think he used (in the course of 2 years) 195 hours of computing resources. Remember, some organisations still think of machines like the old mainframe systems, with cpu time being charged per second.
Lets do the calculation, then, shall we?
.59/sec * 3600 sec/hours * 195 hours = $414,180
So, that's where they came up with their figure.
He was probably running it on some fairly expensive machines (university enterprise class servers?). 195 hours is just over 1% of the time available for two years. Therefore, if he installed the clients on, say, 10 machines, he increased their load by about.1% each, averaged over the course of the usage.
Wow, better fine him top dollar!
Sure, he shouldn't have done it, but the numbers just don't add up. Particularly the.59$/sec figure.
Personally, I think the guy wasn't too bright for running RC5 on a public machine in that manner.
However, if it took an agent of the state government a year and a half to determine that it was a felony, and he had legal advice available, how is your average Joe supposed to know when it is and isn't legal?
"One in four female respondents (25 percent) [...] reported being raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, or date some time in their life."
(Response by Chyron)
Please refrain from posting alarmist nonsense. Rape statistics are bad, but there's no need to wildly exaggerate them.
Your statistics indicate a.37% rape rate over a single year. Assuming an average lifespan of 70 years, no more than one rape for any woman, gives us a 25% chance that a woman will be raped some time in her life. My assumptions are overbroad, but the first person's statement of 25% rape & physical assault certainly aren't alarmist when looked at in their proper context.
This little exchange reveals that the judge has only a poor grip on what digital storage is.
In this segment they were discussing a comparison to analog copies, and the indistinguishable comment referred to an analog copy.
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Unions don't appear out of thin air -- they appear when a bunch (multiple hundreds at least, I would guess from history) of people get really pissed off about how they're being treated.
You missed one other critical part. "...how they're being treated..." and can't work elsewhere. The benefit of a union is to give leverage to a group of people that depend on that job for their livelyhood. If they could switch jobs as easily as I, an IT worker, can, they'd just quit and work somewhere else. I'd much rather quit and work somewhere else than wait for the months/years it takes for contract negotiations to get anywhere.
In the self-portrait by the river, the water, unlike everything else in the picture, seems... blurry, oily
That's because the water is moving fairly quickly. It looks like an overcast day, and was probably a fairly long exposure with a small aperture. Thus, all the movement in the water gets, in a way, averaged out. The result is a fairly soft matte effect in contrast to the surrounding landscape. Very common, even today, when taking pictures of this kind of water motion.
Running faster than the sun? Hmm... Lets see here...
You're in a crater-like depression, halfway between the middle and one side, the sun comes over the rim behind you. Now, does the sun strike the opposite wall first and come down, or does it strike the floor of the canyon behind you and go towards the middle, so you can see if you're outrunning it?
The sunrise went the WRONG WAY.:-)
Oh, and as far as running 1000mph, I think you're not thinking about how shadows work. Personally, I thought the speed of the shadow wasn't too bad. The line was quite a bit too sharp, but compare it to the shadow cast by, say, you. Does it really move at 1000mph? Mine sure doesn't.
Couldn't the games be condensed down to super fast matches?
Not really, since the programs require a good deal of time to decide their next move. One of the requirements of the chess playing program is that it be able to find an answer in an allotted time. A good deal of the evolution of the chess playing program has been in the area of refining what moves should be looked at so that the computer can find the best move more quickly out of the n^n^n... available games.
Actually, I'd have to say its more like leaving an exact duplicate of your home locked with a run of the mill lock and some video cameras running to analyse them later. Would you call it entrapment if someone broke into your house and you used a videotape to prosecute them? You didn't invite them in, you just didn't happen to have a security service around to watch the video stream while they were robbing the place.
Same thing goes for this. If you set up a system to act as a honeynet, you can still go after the people who hacked it. You didn't invite them in, and you even used the security settings that a given distribution comes with. (Sure, any decent sysadmin would've made them better, but you could argue that you did leave the door locked.)
Now, if you set up the honeynet and started a 'who can crack it deepest' contest, then you're generally waiving that right.
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Where did you see that??? It was 8:42 and 9:00 am. The height of morning business.
Here on the U.S. East Coast we're hearing about coast guard helicopters (the big ones) hovering over the beaches watching for sharks. (In response to a cluster of shark attacks) Now, call me crazy, but that's an awful lot of fuel to use just sitting there. Why not use these planes to monitor that too? Shouldn't be much difference, just a live camera feed to a ground station. An unmanned fleet of these would use a heck of a lot less fuel and manpower than hovering those huge helicopters.
For anyone who's ever heard of Pixelon, we'll believe it when we can test it ourselves.
...and if my PHB would spring for one of those cubicles...
If your PHB would spring for one of those cubicles, he wouldn't be a PHB
what I would love to see is this same "cubicle" principal to a living space. make a 120 Square foot serviceable apartment.
Are you kidding? I'm cramped with my wife in a 600 square foot 1 bedroom apartment. Hell, even when I go camping my tent is larger than 120 s.f.
you think that you can fit everything that you need for a linux or windows bootup in 8MB of flash? You think that you can fit BOTH of them?
floppyfw (Firewall on a Floppy) runs a linux 2.4.5 kernel. It handles ipchains, iproute2, traffic shaping, and can retrieve ip's for all its nic's with dhcp. It's held on a 1.44 MB floppy, so yes, I think I can fit everything I need for a linux bootup in 8MB flash. I might not be able to store *all* the modules I need, but I can certainly store enough to start the machine with.
Restored from that backup?
(I only ask because I worked at a company once that had everything backed up nightly to tape, but there was a problem with the software they were still working out when I left that prevented them from restoring from that backup. What's the use of a backup you can't read???)
"Your honor, to counter that recording, I'd like to submit a recording of the arresting officer speaking later... (tape recorder playing)Okay, now run it through the computer and make up a statement. Make it something good.(tape recorder stops)... Would you agree that statement was the arresting officer? Good, I move both recordings be stricken, because they were both faked."
(name the movie) :)
Can you be clearer please... are you saying a corrupt legal system is keeping Russia third world or a corrupt legal system is keeping USA on top?
Lets do the calculation, then, shall we?
So, that's where they came up with their figure.
He was probably running it on some fairly expensive machines (university enterprise class servers?). 195 hours is just over 1% of the time available for two years. Therefore, if he installed the clients on, say, 10 machines, he increased their load by about .1% each, averaged over the course of the usage.
Wow, better fine him top dollar!
Sure, he shouldn't have done it, but the numbers just don't add up. Particularly the .59$/sec figure.
However, if it took an agent of the state government a year and a half to determine that it was a felony, and he had legal advice available, how is your average Joe supposed to know when it is and isn't legal?
"One in four female respondents (25 percent) [...] reported being raped and/or physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, or date some time in their life."
(Response by Chyron) Please refrain from posting alarmist nonsense. Rape statistics are bad, but there's no need to wildly exaggerate them.
Your statistics indicate aThis little exchange reveals that the judge has only a poor grip on what digital storage is.
In this segment they were discussing a comparison to analog copies, and the indistinguishable comment referred to an analog copy.
Unions don't appear out of thin air -- they appear when a bunch (multiple hundreds at least, I would guess from history) of people get really pissed off about how they're being treated.
You missed one other critical part. "...how they're being treated..." and can't work elsewhere. The benefit of a union is to give leverage to a group of people that depend on that job for their livelyhood. If they could switch jobs as easily as I, an IT worker, can, they'd just quit and work somewhere else. I'd much rather quit and work somewhere else than wait for the months/years it takes for contract negotiations to get anywhere.
Not to mention the fact that I'd have an agency now monitoring my area to make sure the local radiation stays nice and low.
Insert fiber cable into tube. Pull out of other end. Plug in.
Isn't that one of those natural and obvious advancements of technology that patents don't cover?In the self-portrait by the river, the water, unlike everything else in the picture, seems... blurry, oily
That's because the water is moving fairly quickly. It looks like an overcast day, and was probably a fairly long exposure with a small aperture. Thus, all the movement in the water gets, in a way, averaged out. The result is a fairly soft matte effect in contrast to the surrounding landscape. Very common, even today, when taking pictures of this kind of water motion.
I think its your taste. I prefer the good girl, and thought the bad one was damn ugly.
You're in a crater-like depression, halfway between the middle and one side, the sun comes over the rim behind you. Now, does the sun strike the opposite wall first and come down, or does it strike the floor of the canyon behind you and go towards the middle, so you can see if you're outrunning it?
The sunrise went the WRONG WAY. :-)
Oh, and as far as running 1000mph, I think you're not thinking about how shadows work. Personally, I thought the speed of the shadow wasn't too bad. The line was quite a bit too sharp, but compare it to the shadow cast by, say, you. Does it really move at 1000mph? Mine sure doesn't.
The mysterious, flame retardent breezes that'd always seem to come up when somebody mentioned "the curse".
The observation on of the characters made on this. ("That happens a lot around here...")
Just a minor point, though. I found it a little better than the reviewer, but not too much.
Couldn't the games be condensed down to super fast matches?
Not really, since the programs require a good deal of time to decide their next move. One of the requirements of the chess playing program is that it be able to find an answer in an allotted time. A good deal of the evolution of the chess playing program has been in the area of refining what moves should be looked at so that the computer can find the best move more quickly out of the n^n^n... available games.
Same thing goes for this. If you set up a system to act as a honeynet, you can still go after the people who hacked it. You didn't invite them in, and you even used the security settings that a given distribution comes with. (Sure, any decent sysadmin would've made them better, but you could argue that you did leave the door locked.)
Now, if you set up the honeynet and started a 'who can crack it deepest' contest, then you're generally waiving that right.
(Note that the RAM requirements will hopefully drop in future releases of the software.)
Just out of curiosity, when was the last time you recall a mainstream commercial operating system shrink between releases???