There are already thousands and thousands of miles of 'dark fiber' underground around the U.S."
Dark Fiber as nothing to do with home broadband. if it were between your house and the ISP, you might have something, but its not. The trick is getting high speed connections where Fiber doesn't exist.
he's just stiring the pot folks, gotta print something to save his job...
Sometimes I think he writes using the "Million Monkeys" theory, about 1 in 10 of his articles is really useful, the other 9 are usually horrible misrepresentations of reality with dubious aims.
Any idea if Dvorak is ghost eritten these days by 10 different writers?
An expensive keyboard doesn't typically provide the same value as "the hottest CPU or latest video card".
I know several journalists and other professional writers who would argue that. All the latest video card does is display my manuscript, so long as it can display the resolution I want, they are all the same.
A good keyboard means the codes get translated correctly at high typing speeds, gives the feedback the user needs to maintain those speeds, and lowers stress on the fingers enabling them to type longer more comfortably. Searching for two dropped letters in a thousand word essay can quickly eat up the $$$ delta between a cheap and expensive keyboard. Most coders feel the same way.
"The number one ad that had 17% of the 1000 people interviewed reaching for the off switch was the Sainsbury's supermarket campaign featuring the comic actor John Cleese."
It also listed an add featuring Claudia Schiffer stripping as beeing one of the most annoying. So clearly there's a gap between me a these interviewees...
Assume that the landlord of your apartment building uses ABC, Inc. locks with said flaw, and fails to fix that flaw in a timely manner, despite the fact that the fix is moderately simple and free to implement.
All locks are flawed. No security is perfect. Since you chose not to move into Fort Knox, you knew that your security was not perfect. Hence I saw you are 120% to blame, since you chose not to move into Fort Knox. See, I'm holding you responsible for stuff stolen from your neighbors, and replacing the lock. If you didn't have all that high priced stuff, the burglars wouldn't have broken in.
Now, here's side B. Admins rush to integrate the fix, but it turns out the fix changes component X's behavior slightly, and erases all your data. Now who's fault is it?
Oh, and side C. When you show up to bitch about how I run my network that you aren't paying for, and that my time is worthless, I get to kick you in the crotch, repeatedly.
Who said anything about naturally liquid bodies? Ice + heat = liquid water.
Note that Galactica is a War ship, not an exploration vessel (the damned colonists were shockingly non-exploratory). It is likely configured to get its water from a resupply ship, which prior to the Cylon attack was likely not a real issue. So the very fact that they don't have a water ship with the right adapter could pretty much screw them. Strangely in the Star Trek universe all our flagships are exploritory ships with serious weaponry tacked on, (DS-9 had the only war oriented ship I'd seen on Star Trek). Galactica was the opposite. In one of the previous storylines the colonists had been at war until the Cylons appeared (alien invasions uniting the devided was a popular them in Sci-Fi).
It's the "continually denying physics for an hour" that I have a problem with (and is my stated problem).
I don't watch the show, so I'm not sure what you're bitching at, but its freaking SciFi. They have FTL drives. Robots that perfectly mimic humans. Sci Fi isn't about the science, thats what textbooks are for. SciFi (at least good SciFi) is about exploring issues from new perspectives. Babylon 5 was a Political drama, the original Star Trek was about the american political scene of the 60's, not transporters and phasers. The Sci-Fi aspects were just a way of separating people from the issues, ie see how silly the half black half white race is for hating people based on what side of their face is which color.
The only criticism of Physics I'll allow is "internally inconsistent" physics, ie in episode 5 the gadget could cut right through granite, but in episode 7 they stand around gadget in hand wondering how to get through the granite wall. ST:TNG was notorious for this, one of many reasons to hate that show.
There is never anything to justify the price of any stock.
Actually there is quite a bit. At its core, the Stock Price = (Buyout Value of Company) / (# of Shares), since effectively a slice of the company is what you are buying. When buys out , stock price is a strong determinant in the price, since thats effectively the "going rate". If the stock price drops too low, the company becomes a "bargain" an is vulnerable to takeover artists who actively seek underpriced companies to buy and sell off. This works pretty well to keep the bottom price enforced.
Unfortunately, on the top end a lot of other factors can be a factor, such as scarcity (everybody want to own GOOG, but nobody wants to sell) which can drive prices higher.
I am the grandparent, and considered the Google stock price insane from an overall company valuation. P/E ratios are nice, but not always applicable. What happens when a company has one penny earnings? The P/E is meaningless for a company like google that is heavily investing in growth.
My point in bringing up the stock price was not that it was a useful metric in valuing the company, but to point out that people invested in Google have far more than "a couple thousand invested" Because people do consider quantity when buying. They feel better buying 500 shares of a $10 stock than buying 50 shares of a $10 stock. Just because it has no basis in logic doesn't mean its not a real and measurable effect.
Of course, I didn't communicate this well because Slashdotland rewards speed over accuracy.:)
So in comparison to accuracy in the US they have signficantly degraded accuracy.
I seem to recall that its fairly simple to vastly improve accuracy of GPS by keeping it still for an extended period (days and weeks perhaps). Since the "noise" drifts around your precise location, after an extended period you can average out the noise and get an answer accurate to inches if I recall. Geologists use this trick to detect movement of tetonic plates of less than an inch, though I'm sure they are far more patient than the questioner...
What's a couple thousand dollar gamble for most people that might have missed Yahoo's rise to fame and fortune?
Couple thousand? That's less than 10 shares at current valuations. Google may be a good company with good products, but there is nothing realy to justify the insane price their stock is selling for. Its turned into a giant Ponzi scheme that will end up with a lot of money going down the toilet, which could potentially bring a lot of other things down with it too.
But wouldn't the archive.org people also have a copy of the applicable robots.txt on file?
Doesn't really matter. Robots.txt is a convention, it was not intended as an access control device, and has no force of law. All the public documents on robots are laughably out of date (the web server might be doing important stuff, like gopher, so be sure not to load the machine), which cause it to make bad recommendations (pipelining multiple pages accross a single connection, part of the http 1.1 specs to reduce server load, is incompatible with the recommendations)
If their case revolves around robots.txt instead of copyright law, I see them losing, fast.
Because of EMC we're locked into RHEL 3.0. Bastards changed something in their Kerberos setup and the jist is it wont really work with RHEL 3.0.
Supposedly its fixed in v.4, but we can't move on it yet. We have downloaded a fix someone posted to the redhat bugzilla system, and it seemed to work, but there's also dire warnings of it breaking other things.
I also don't think the authors of such programmes can be entirely blamed for the damage they cause. I think a share of the blame belongs to the computer administrators and possibly their superiors who are so naive and/or foolish as to not implement effective computer security measures, let alone choosing to use the illusion of an operating system that is Microsoft Windows.
No offense, but isn't this a bit akin to blaming the victim? She had it coming, walking through the park, wearing those clothes, etc. While the admins should be more careful, this does not in anyway remove blame from the authors of these viruses, etc.
A book which expands your vocabulary, makes good use of metaphor, and so on, while having a good story, is far more enjoyable than a simple good story alone.
Actually, I think the Potter books aren't so bad, as they make extensive use of wordplay in character names for foreshadowing. Great literature its not, but like a classic Bugs Bunny there's stuff in there for the adults as well.
I think NASA is being over-cautious, as they have been for the past few years
Like they were when they decided the cold weather wasn't an issue? Or when the decided there was no need to check for damage to the wing after the insulation/ice incident? Or perhaps when determining whether a certain measurement was in metric or imperial units?
Calling any precautions NASA takes over-cautious is a bit daft. Their margin of error is exactly zero.
That would make it a Trojan Horse, which is different from a virus, which is different from a worm. Only a Trojan requires human interaction to spread.
EULA click licenses only protect you if the terms are reasonable and expected. While installing spyware can be seen as reasonable (Nothing is free), quite a bit else isn't, such as agreeing to donate your kidneys to the author.
Its the Corporations see. They are trying to make a profit. Profits are evil. what you are missing is that they are charging 99 cents for every one of those 10,000 songs, but an iPod only costs $200. Thats like $9,700 just lining Steve Jobs pockets, instead of going to feed starving kids in Afrika. Can't you see how evil that is?
Sorry, the proper Slashdot response is "Finally, I can make a Beowulf cluster of iPods", or Cool, now I can stripe them together for a fast yet tiny battery powered web server!
I think the motivation for this service is skewed. The only motivation I can detect for Open Id is to save people FIVE SECONDS by logging into a new forum, website... etc. People already have their own methods to achieve this kind of simplicity in their lives.
5 Seconds? Where did you get that benchmark?
I'm a CMS designer,
Ah, that explains it.
If I'm on a computer I trust, I might allow it to save my password. If I run accross a forum that requires a login, I'm more than likely not going to take the time to create a login, just so I can participate. Why? because I've never seen one that only takes 5 seconds. Most send emails, which add considerably more time and pain (I gave up using POP email when I changed my email for the 10th time (@home failed, to be exact).
Not that his solution is perfect and that all of you points are not valid. Just that its not such a bad plan at its core.
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Dark Fiber as nothing to do with home broadband. if it were between your house and the ISP, you might have something, but its not. The trick is getting high speed connections where Fiber doesn't exist.
Sometimes I think he writes using the "Million Monkeys" theory, about 1 in 10 of his articles is really useful, the other 9 are usually horrible misrepresentations of reality with dubious aims.
Any idea if Dvorak is ghost eritten these days by 10 different writers?
Right, I'll just run right out and update all my IIS 5 servers to IIS 6. That will solve my problem.
I know several journalists and other professional writers who would argue that. All the latest video card does is display my manuscript, so long as it can display the resolution I want, they are all the same.
A good keyboard means the codes get translated correctly at high typing speeds, gives the feedback the user needs to maintain those speeds, and lowers stress on the fingers enabling them to type longer more comfortably. Searching for two dropped letters in a thousand word essay can quickly eat up the $$$ delta between a cheap and expensive keyboard. Most coders feel the same way.
It also listed an add featuring Claudia Schiffer stripping as beeing one of the most annoying. So clearly there's a gap between me a these interviewees...
All locks are flawed. No security is perfect. Since you chose not to move into Fort Knox, you knew that your security was not perfect. Hence I saw you are 120% to blame, since you chose not to move into Fort Knox. See, I'm holding you responsible for stuff stolen from your neighbors, and replacing the lock. If you didn't have all that high priced stuff, the burglars wouldn't have broken in.
Now, here's side B. Admins rush to integrate the fix, but it turns out the fix changes component X's behavior slightly, and erases all your data. Now who's fault is it?
Oh, and side C. When you show up to bitch about how I run my network that you aren't paying for, and that my time is worthless, I get to kick you in the crotch, repeatedly.
Note that Galactica is a War ship, not an exploration vessel (the damned colonists were shockingly non-exploratory). It is likely configured to get its water from a resupply ship, which prior to the Cylon attack was likely not a real issue. So the very fact that they don't have a water ship with the right adapter could pretty much screw them. Strangely in the Star Trek universe all our flagships are exploritory ships with serious weaponry tacked on, (DS-9 had the only war oriented ship I'd seen on Star Trek). Galactica was the opposite. In one of the previous storylines the colonists had been at war until the Cylons appeared (alien invasions uniting the devided was a popular them in Sci-Fi).
It's the "continually denying physics for an hour" that I have a problem with (and is my stated problem).
I don't watch the show, so I'm not sure what you're bitching at, but its freaking SciFi. They have FTL drives. Robots that perfectly mimic humans. Sci Fi isn't about the science, thats what textbooks are for. SciFi (at least good SciFi) is about exploring issues from new perspectives. Babylon 5 was a Political drama, the original Star Trek was about the american political scene of the 60's, not transporters and phasers. The Sci-Fi aspects were just a way of separating people from the issues, ie see how silly the half black half white race is for hating people based on what side of their face is which color.
The only criticism of Physics I'll allow is "internally inconsistent" physics, ie in episode 5 the gadget could cut right through granite, but in episode 7 they stand around gadget in hand wondering how to get through the granite wall. ST:TNG was notorious for this, one of many reasons to hate that show.
Actually there is quite a bit. At its core, the Stock Price = (Buyout Value of Company) / (# of Shares), since effectively a slice of the company is what you are buying. When buys out , stock price is a strong determinant in the price, since thats effectively the "going rate". If the stock price drops too low, the company becomes a "bargain" an is vulnerable to takeover artists who actively seek underpriced companies to buy and sell off. This works pretty well to keep the bottom price enforced.
Unfortunately, on the top end a lot of other factors can be a factor, such as scarcity (everybody want to own GOOG, but nobody wants to sell) which can drive prices higher.
My point in bringing up the stock price was not that it was a useful metric in valuing the company, but to point out that people invested in Google have far more than "a couple thousand invested" Because people do consider quantity when buying. They feel better buying 500 shares of a $10 stock than buying 50 shares of a $10 stock. Just because it has no basis in logic doesn't mean its not a real and measurable effect.
Of course, I didn't communicate this well because Slashdotland rewards speed over accuracy. :)
I seem to recall that its fairly simple to vastly improve accuracy of GPS by keeping it still for an extended period (days and weeks perhaps). Since the "noise" drifts around your precise location, after an extended period you can average out the noise and get an answer accurate to inches if I recall. Geologists use this trick to detect movement of tetonic plates of less than an inch, though I'm sure they are far more patient than the questioner...
Couple thousand? That's less than 10 shares at current valuations. Google may be a good company with good products, but there is nothing realy to justify the insane price their stock is selling for. Its turned into a giant Ponzi scheme that will end up with a lot of money going down the toilet, which could potentially bring a lot of other things down with it too.
Doesn't really matter. Robots.txt is a convention, it was not intended as an access control device, and has no force of law. All the public documents on robots are laughably out of date (the web server might be doing important stuff, like gopher, so be sure not to load the machine), which cause it to make bad recommendations (pipelining multiple pages accross a single connection, part of the http 1.1 specs to reduce server load, is incompatible with the recommendations)
If their case revolves around robots.txt instead of copyright law, I see them losing, fast.
Supposedly its fixed in v.4, but we can't move on it yet. We have downloaded a fix someone posted to the redhat bugzilla system, and it seemed to work, but there's also dire warnings of it breaking other things.
No offense, but isn't this a bit akin to blaming the victim? She had it coming, walking through the park, wearing those clothes, etc. While the admins should be more careful, this does not in anyway remove blame from the authors of these viruses, etc.
D'oh!
Actually, I think the Potter books aren't so bad, as they make extensive use of wordplay in character names for foreshadowing. Great literature its not, but like a classic Bugs Bunny there's stuff in there for the adults as well.
Why not "Use the classic Start menu" option? Its pretty easy to make XP look just like 2000 if you wish.
But Funny mods can lead to Karma destroying wars between those who mod Funny and those that mod Troll.
This reveiw doesn't make me want to get it, I'm sure of that though.
Like they were when they decided the cold weather wasn't an issue? Or when the decided there was no need to check for damage to the wing after the insulation/ice incident? Or perhaps when determining whether a certain measurement was in metric or imperial units?
Calling any precautions NASA takes over-cautious is a bit daft. Their margin of error is exactly zero.
That would make it a Trojan Horse, which is different from a virus, which is different from a worm. Only a Trojan requires human interaction to spread.
EULA click licenses only protect you if the terms are reasonable and expected. While installing spyware can be seen as reasonable (Nothing is free), quite a bit else isn't, such as agreeing to donate your kidneys to the author.
Its the Corporations see. They are trying to make a profit. Profits are evil. what you are missing is that they are charging 99 cents for every one of those 10,000 songs, but an iPod only costs $200. Thats like $9,700 just lining Steve Jobs pockets, instead of going to feed starving kids in Afrika. Can't you see how evil that is?
Sorry, the proper Slashdot response is "Finally, I can make a Beowulf cluster of iPods", or Cool, now I can stripe them together for a fast yet tiny battery powered web server!
5 Seconds? Where did you get that benchmark?
I'm a CMS designer,
Ah, that explains it.
If I'm on a computer I trust, I might allow it to save my password. If I run accross a forum that requires a login, I'm more than likely not going to take the time to create a login, just so I can participate. Why? because I've never seen one that only takes 5 seconds. Most send emails, which add considerably more time and pain (I gave up using POP email when I changed my email for the 10th time (@home failed, to be exact).
Not that his solution is perfect and that all of you points are not valid. Just that its not such a bad plan at its core.
Those guys are way passed embarassing.