They wouldn't need to be "integrated into our existing prison systems" if they are not US citizens. They would be deported. And the hypothetical other half that would be released would likely also be sent back to their home country.
...Prop 8 is unconstitutional and will eventually be overturned. It needs to have never been voted into law.
I assume you mean California's Prop 8. Did you even read Prop 8? Prop 8 is a constitutional amendment, not a law. A law was passed by initiative a few years ago and overturned by the California State Supreme Court. Thus, the supporters of Prop 8 realized that they could just amend the constitution so that there would be no wiggle room for judges to interpret it in any other way.
'active' is a bit of an understatement. You need to be willing to provide long term support for the resources that you volunteer to the OSG, including frequent upgrades of the OSG middleware. A resource that joins the OSG for 3 months and then leaves is not going to provide much benefit to the larger OSG community.
It's also not for the faint of heart. While the OSG software installation process has gotten much better over the last couple of years, it still takes several hours for an experienced admin to get a new site up and running, and that's assuming you already have your cluster and batch system (such as Condor or PBS) already configured correctly. If you are new to the OSG, then it is likely to take a week or more before your site is ready for outside use.
Our organization has found that it takes at least one full time admin to manage a medium-sized OSG cluster (~100 PCs), though you can probably get away with less effort for a smaller cluster.
This isn't meant to be criticism against the OSG; I think they've done great work in building up a grid infrastructure in the US. I just want to emphasize that supporting a OSG cluster is a non-trivial effort.
...the Open Science Grid, which oversees the U.S. infrastructure for the LHC network
Wrong. Caltech oversees the infrastructure for the US LHC network. The OSG provides the middleware and grid operations center for the computing and storage resources in the US that are part of the LHC experiments. The OSG does not manage or oversee communications networks.
The Tlielaxu claimed to do this as well, but they were secretly harvesting body parts from Zensunni slaves. The next thing you know the military will be growing gholas in their axlotl tanks. They claim that no women will be allowed in the military, but secretly they will need them...
I really like it, how the meshy material breathes when I've been sitting in it for far too long
The best part about the mesh of the Aeron chairs is that they don't hold the stink from farting all day. Seriously, most chairs with cushion start to reek awfully after a while when certain people use them too much.
How many people have used mouse traps (either the snapping ones or the sticky pads) or poison? If that sort of distress was caused to an animal in the lab there would be a lot of upset people and the project would probably be shut down.
I've used the snapping rat traps plenty of times, and I can tell you that they are far more humane and less distressful to the rats than the sticky paper pads and poison. The snapping rat traps kill the rats so quickly that they probably don't even notice it until their dead.
Of course, a more humane trap would be a live catch trap, but then you have to find a place to release it, like sneaking it into your neighbor's house.:)
I had similar frustrations, with HDs failing within a year of purchase. I finally decided that I didn't want to worry about it ever again and chose a RAID-5 setup with 1 spare disk. That way a single disk failure would be handled effortlessly. This setup is still susceptible to the failure of a second disk while the first is being reconstructed, but nightly backups handle that case.
I ended up throwing a chunk of money at the problem:
$200 for a new dual chanel U160 SCSI controller $600 for 4x 75Gb 10krpm SCSI disks (1 spare) $200 for cabling and an external case. $250 for a ultra-SCSI cd burner and a buttload of blanks.
Total cost was $1250 for ~150Gb of RAID-5 storage. Roughtly half the space was lost for the parity information and the spare disk.
The multi-disk setup also turned out to be faster than using a single disk. Access rates jumped from 20MB/s on a single disk to 60MB/s on the RAID array. That turned out to be quite nice for those NFS-mounted home directories.
150Gb might not seem like much, but it's only used for important user data (home directories, mp3 library). The local machines have plenty of scratch space for unimportant data (mozilla builds, games). I don't fear the loss of the system disk as much as the loss of user data. My wife would be very upset if she found out that her email was gone forever, but wouldnt' mind too much waiting a day to have the server rebuilt. No disk failures in a year of running, but that might just be because I didn't by the cheapest drives available at Fry's.
Of course, it's nothing compared to the 2Tb disk servers at work that can write at 350MB/s. Maybe next year...:)
This new system could be used as part of a larger spam filtering system like SpamAssassin, which assigns weights based on various selection criteria. This would just one more check in determining if a piece of mail is spam or not.
Does Bayes classify your mail properly? Give it a higher weight. Does this new system work reliably for you? Give the new system a higher weight. If you use a whitelist for your mailing list, then spamassassin won't classify it as spam. This way you can easily let through valid mailing list messages, while other messages with high clustering coefficients get marked up accordingly.
I should also add that it has an extremely low student to faculty ratio, and has many many opportunities for undergradutes to get involved in the latest research.
If you just want to learn the mechanics of networking any old community college/technical instutute will do. But if you want to be involved in the development of the next generation networks and protocols, then Caltech is a good place to be.
Several posters have commented that the DirecTV TiVo units are great. There's a catch with them, though. They only work with DirecTV. If you ever decide to switch to a different service provider, such as cable or Dish Networks, your integrated TiVo unit will become useless.
I've been using a separate TiVo unit with my DirecTV service and have not had any problems with picture quality. Then again, I also don't have a 54" HDTV plasma TV, so picture quality isn't my highest concern.
I'll also support what other DirecTV customers have said here: In Pasadena, CA I've never had a loss of signal due to weather. The two times that I've had reception problems were caused by my buggy RCA DirecTV receiver.
Ok, now that I RTFQ, I see that you are already using walkie talkies. In light of this, I would say that you just need to invest in a newer set that supports more channels and has a better battery.
CB Radio, used by walkie talkies, is a cheap and reliable system that should work well for this purpose. Depending on the actual devices used, you can get pretty good range. I had a 3-channel handheld unit 15 years ago that could easily transmit and receive for up to 5 miles.
I believe there are about 40 different CB channels that you can use. This would allow you to switch to a different channel if you get interference or pick up unwanted conversations on one particular channel. Some channels are reserved for certain uses (Channel 9 or 11 is emergency use only, Channel 14 is the one most commonly used for single-channel walkie talkies).
Browse through Radio Shack or some similar electronics store to find one with the features (# channels, range, size) you need. I doubt that the cost would be anywhere near as much as some of the previously mentioned higher-tech solutions.
The FCC rule is against commercial faxes, not personal or other non-commercial faxes. If I'm not selling a product or service and I accidentally send my fax to you, I'm not liable.
But if I am indeed selling penis enlargement pills, then I'd better be careful that I've got written permission from you.
[...] most ISP's like to keep the upload limit much lower to encourage sales of 'business' packages.
Charter Cable in Pasadena won't even sell a 'business' package to a residential address, even when the customer is perfectly willing to pay more for the service.
If a fat paycheck was your goal for your 4-6 years of school, and if you were not able to increase your earning power after that 4-6 years of school, then you pretty much wasted 4-6 years of your life. You should have performed a better cost-benefit analysis before making your educational decisions.
As many have said before, going to school for a few extra years doesn't entitle you to anything, it just gives you slighty better odds at competing for those higher paying jobs in the labor market.
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They wouldn't need to be "integrated into our existing prison systems" if they are not US citizens. They would be deported. And the hypothetical other half that would be released would likely also be sent back to their home country.
...Prop 8 is unconstitutional and will eventually be overturned. It needs to have never been voted into law.
I assume you mean California's Prop 8. Did you even read Prop 8? Prop 8 is a constitutional amendment, not a law. A law was passed by initiative a few years ago and overturned by the California State Supreme Court. Thus, the supporters of Prop 8 realized that they could just amend the constitution so that there would be no wiggle room for judges to interpret it in any other way.
My GSD eats a cat a day.
'active' is a bit of an understatement. You need to be willing to provide long term support for the resources that you volunteer to the OSG, including frequent upgrades of the OSG middleware. A resource that joins the OSG for 3 months and then leaves is not going to provide much benefit to the larger OSG community.
It's also not for the faint of heart. While the OSG software installation process has gotten much better over the last couple of years, it still takes several hours for an experienced admin to get a new site up and running, and that's assuming you already have your cluster and batch system (such as Condor or PBS) already configured correctly. If you are new to the OSG, then it is likely to take a week or more before your site is ready for outside use.
Our organization has found that it takes at least one full time admin to manage a medium-sized OSG cluster (~100 PCs), though you can probably get away with less effort for a smaller cluster.
This isn't meant to be criticism against the OSG; I think they've done great work in building up a grid infrastructure in the US. I just want to emphasize that supporting a OSG cluster is a non-trivial effort.
...the Open Science Grid, which oversees the U.S. infrastructure for the LHC network
Wrong. Caltech oversees the infrastructure for the US LHC network. The OSG provides the middleware and grid operations center for the computing and storage resources in the US that are part of the LHC experiments. The OSG does not manage or oversee communications networks.
The Tlielaxu claimed to do this as well, but they were secretly harvesting body parts from Zensunni slaves. The next thing you know the military will be growing gholas in their axlotl tanks. They claim that no women will be allowed in the military, but secretly they will need them...
Same as the last 26 years...
For the 26th year in a row, rogue has been passed over as GOTY!
The emu hit you
You die
My advice: Learn to spell the name right. It's 'Caltech', not 'Cal Tech', 'CalTech', 'Cal Poly', or 'PCC'.
I really like it, how the meshy material breathes when I've been sitting in it for far too long
The best part about the mesh of the Aeron chairs is that they don't hold the stink from farting all day. Seriously, most chairs with cushion start to reek awfully after a while when certain people use them too much.
How many people have used mouse traps (either the snapping ones or the sticky pads) or poison? If that sort of distress was caused to an animal in the lab there would be a lot of upset people and the project would probably be shut down.
:)
I've used the snapping rat traps plenty of times, and I can tell you that they are far more humane and less distressful to the rats than the sticky paper pads and poison. The snapping rat traps kill the rats so quickly that they probably don't even notice it until their dead.
Of course, a more humane trap would be a live catch trap, but then you have to find a place to release it, like sneaking it into your neighbor's house.
How do you provide cooling? Oh, there's a large aquifer - the Snake River aquifer? Yes, lets use that. Funny, where does the Snake River end?
The Pacific Ocean, after it merges with the Columbia river near Richland, Washington.
It certainly doesn't end anywhere near the Mississippi river.
I use 'motion' with a webcam:
:)
http://www.sourceforge.net/motion
It won't scare intruders away, but it will help get a good picture of them.
To scare them away I use 2 large German Shepherds.
I had similar frustrations, with HDs failing within a year of purchase. I finally decided that I didn't want to worry about it ever again and chose a RAID-5 setup with 1 spare disk. That way a single disk failure would be handled effortlessly. This setup is still susceptible to the failure of a second disk while the first is being reconstructed, but nightly backups handle that case.
:)
I ended up throwing a chunk of money at the problem:
$200 for a new dual chanel U160 SCSI controller
$600 for 4x 75Gb 10krpm SCSI disks (1 spare)
$200 for cabling and an external case.
$250 for a ultra-SCSI cd burner and a buttload of blanks.
Total cost was $1250 for ~150Gb of RAID-5 storage.
Roughtly half the space was lost for the parity information and the spare disk.
The multi-disk setup also turned out to be faster than using a single disk. Access rates jumped from 20MB/s on a single disk to 60MB/s on the RAID array. That turned out to be quite nice for those NFS-mounted home directories.
150Gb might not seem like much, but it's only used for important user data (home directories, mp3 library). The local machines have plenty of scratch space for unimportant data (mozilla builds, games). I don't fear the loss of the system disk as much as the loss of user data. My wife would be very upset if she found out that her email was gone forever, but wouldnt' mind too much waiting a day to have the server rebuilt. No disk failures in a year of running, but that might just be because I didn't by the cheapest drives available at Fry's.
Of course, it's nothing compared to the 2Tb disk servers at work that can write at 350MB/s. Maybe next year...
This new system could be used as part of a larger spam filtering system like SpamAssassin, which assigns weights based on various selection criteria. This would just one more check in determining if a piece of mail is spam or not.
Does Bayes classify your mail properly? Give it a higher weight. Does this new system work reliably for you? Give the new system a higher weight. If you use a whitelist for your mailing list, then spamassassin won't classify it as spam. This way you can easily let through valid mailing list messages, while other messages with high clustering coefficients get marked up accordingly.
I for one welcome our new Amish overlords.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist...)
I should also add that it has an extremely low student to faculty ratio, and has many many opportunities for undergradutes to get involved in the latest research.
If you just want to learn the mechanics of networking any old community college/technical instutute will do. But if you want to be involved in the development of the next generation networks and protocols, then Caltech is a good place to be.
Caltech, SLAC, and LANL Set New Network Performance Marks
Several posters have commented that the DirecTV TiVo units are great. There's a catch with them, though. They only work with DirecTV. If you ever decide to switch to a different service provider, such as cable or Dish Networks, your integrated TiVo unit will become useless.
I've been using a separate TiVo unit with my DirecTV service and have not had any problems with picture quality. Then again, I also don't have a 54" HDTV plasma TV, so picture quality isn't my highest concern.
I'll also support what other DirecTV customers have said here: In Pasadena, CA I've never had a loss of signal due to weather. The two times that I've had reception problems were caused by my buggy RCA DirecTV receiver.
Ok, now that I RTFQ, I see that you are already using walkie talkies. In light of this, I would say that you just need to invest in a newer set that supports more channels and has a better battery.
CB Radio, used by walkie talkies, is a cheap and reliable system that should work well for this purpose. Depending on the actual devices used, you can get pretty good range. I had a 3-channel handheld unit 15 years ago that could easily transmit and receive for up to 5 miles.
I believe there are about 40 different CB channels that you can use. This would allow you to switch to a different channel if you get interference or pick up unwanted conversations on one particular channel. Some channels are reserved for certain uses (Channel 9 or 11 is emergency use only, Channel 14 is the one most commonly used for single-channel walkie talkies).
Browse through Radio Shack or some similar electronics store to find one with the features (# channels, range, size) you need. I doubt that the cost would be anywhere near as much as some of the previously mentioned higher-tech solutions.
But if I am indeed selling penis enlargement pills, then I'd better be careful that I've got written permission from you.
No we don't. Commercial faxing is already an opt-in system. You don't have to do anything to opt-out.
Charter Cable in Pasadena won't even sell a 'business' package to a residential address, even when the customer is perfectly willing to pay more for the service.
Bastards.
If a fat paycheck was your goal for your 4-6 years of school, and if you were not able to increase your earning power after that 4-6 years of school, then you pretty much wasted 4-6 years of your life. You should have performed a better cost-benefit analysis before making your educational decisions.
As many have said before, going to school for a few extra years doesn't entitle you to anything, it just gives you slighty better odds at competing for those higher paying jobs in the labor market.