I would argue that solid direct proof isn't necessary to make an informed judgment about some probability if related / circumstantial evidence is there in abundance. Look back on the evolution of religions, observe the ways in which dogmas come into existence and how their misunderstandings of the world are frequent and almost always built not on logic or observation, but instead on emotional needs and fantasy. So I'd say their system is a broken one not based on anything provable and thus should be ignored.
What's wrong with just saying we don't know yet? Must people automatically assign religion/ghosts/superstition as our default answer to things we can't yet explain? Religion should go away; I see it as a virus of the mind and killer of logic and critical thinking.
Because the website clearly is about this particular Ron Paul, not just because he's the most well known Ron Paul. It's also not a commentary (positive or negative) about him, they are instead a front for selling mechanize, the profits of which purportedly go to his campaign - when in fact they don't. If someone was able to buy WellsFargoInsurance.com and started selling insurance using the WellsFargo trademark, appearing as though they were an arm of Wells Fargo, wouldn't that clearly be a cause to confiscate that domain (or at least take some sort of legal action against them)?
If it was clearly for a completely different Ron Paul, I would completely agree with you.
Bitcoins can be divided down to 0.00000001 of a bit coin, so if the current value of 1 bitcoin is $11.6, then one satoshi (0.00000001 of a bitcoin) is worth 0.0000116 cents. So it looks pretty clearly that the smallest divisible unit will never be "worth too much to be useful as a unit of exchange".
I remember reading that the Philippines was suppose to be connected in the first version of the APG, but later was removed because of funding or political issues in the Philippines. My memory is a bit fuzzy though, so go google it.
But, on the same vein, I was also wondering why Indonesia was not connected... seeing as it's the 4th largest country in the world and the 4th largest number of facebook users (per country). http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/
I guess from the beginning of the problem, before I finished reading it, I started wondering how much was covering the pond after just one day (The first day)... which is something I thought I couldn't do in my head, which then led me down this path.
I don't know why so many Australians are complaining about this network. I've seen many countries waste money in much worse ways. Just look at the USA spending hundreds of billions of dollars for things half the people don't agree with and not batting an eye (wars, military bases, foreign aid, social security). Just a few years ago with this bailout thing, whoops, a few trillion dollars spent in bailouts and QE. Take a look at Indonesia and the Philippines, just a random example, where tons of tax dollars just go to politicians pockets through corruption and ridiculous useless programs.
Adding a high speed network for your country sounds not so bad. Australia's networks suck as it is - expensive, slow and tiny bandwidth caps all over the place. Why not? Now you just need to attract companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Akamai to setup large installations in Australia to make good use of that network!
Use something like the Meraki MR16 - It sounds like you aren't the most technically savvy in this regard, and even if you were this makes life easy. There are other ways to do this, but this is probably the easiest I've seen. www.meraki.com
Oh please... I live in Indonesia. A 5.9 earthquake barely even makes the news. A 5.9 is like, "Uhhh, hrmm, something feels strange, am I feeling a bit dizzy? Oh no, it's just a small earthquake."
Assuming most of these DDOS attacks come from from botnets; I wonder what percent of these DDOS attacks are made up of computers that were infected/compromised because they were left unpatched out in the open verses computers that were compromised because the user installed a pirated copy of some software that contained a virus or rootkit.
"Verify Email Addresses: Before you can send email via Amazon SES, you need to verify that you own the email address from which you’ll be sending email. To verify an email address, make an API call with the email address as a parameter. This API call will trigger a verification email, which will contain a link that you can click on to complete the verification process."
So, what's all this talk about Amazon needing great content filters etc? Sounds to me if anyone is getting an email through this service, they approved it and they can unsubscribe anytime. Am I missing something?
That's funny. I just tried it in Chrome 5 and it sucked. It was really jerky. But in Firefox 4b2, it was very smooth.
However, with Silverlight it was smooth on both browsers.
Doesn't everyone know not to use floating point numbers for financial calculations? Or at least understand the limitations or faults associated with them...
I would probably change CPU = Oven analogy. Maybe CPU = Chef or Chefs.
If you have a really fast chef or chefs, but no counter space, then shit can only be done so fast... but if you have a slow Chef, it doesn't matter how much counter space you have, shit ain't gonna be done fast.
I like the bittorrent idea more... but if you're looking for something simple and free - Foldershare.
Not sure if this works for you, but I use Foldershare to sync files between several of my offices. It is peer to peer, with a central server to initiate the connection.
If you have a 4GB file, perhaps you could rar it into smaller pieces, then this could work for you. If you don't have an internet connection though, this totally won't work for you. Heh.
"The purpose of the program set up by the Pentagon, called the "Human Hibernation Project," is designed so that the military can save their best men for when they're needed most. According to the officers heading the project, too many times the talents and expensive training of the best pilots and soldiers go to waste during times of peace. So they enlist Bauers (Wilson), the most under-achieving average guy they've got, to be the test subject for the initial hibernation experiment. Also participating in the top-secret program is Rita (Rudolph), a prostitute who agreed to take part in exchange for dropping some criminal charges against her, among other things. Of course, the experiment, which was to last only a year, goes under due to the arrest of Officer Collins, who is busted for heading a prostitution ring. Seeing as though he was in charge of the experiment, one of the only ones who knew of its existence, and "due to a lot of top-secret red tape... and the massive scandals and base closure that followed, Joe and Rita were forgotten about. Written by Slider
Joe Bauers, an Army librarian, is judged to be absolutely average in every regard, has no relatives, has no future, so he's chosen to be one of the two test subjects in a top-secret hibernation program. He and hooker Rita were to awaken in one year, but things go wrong and they wake up instead in 2505. By this time, stupid people have outbred intelligent people; the world is (barely) run by morons--and Joe and Rita are the smartest people in the World."
Plus, public transportation is too public. It's so much nicer to have your own little space, temperature the way you like it, music the way you like it, clean comfortable seats, clean air, privacy. Seeing that I spend about 40 minutes driving each day, to and from work, that's a minimum of 170 hours a year of my life I spend just sitting in a car. As far as I'm concerned, taking public transportation would increase that time and lower my standard of living. That's why you won't find me using it.
I agree. I would love to see a stateful, strongly typed web architecture. Basically a streaming application. What a nightmare it is today to write a large/complex system with a scripting language like Javascript and this XmlHttpRequest hack job. People have done some interesting things to abstract this stuff away from us, but I'm still not satisfied.
I'm not sure why Java web applets were never too successful, well I can guess, but maybe WPFe can improve upon Java webapplets and take us to where I would like to see the web.
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I would argue that solid direct proof isn't necessary to make an informed judgment about some probability if related / circumstantial evidence is there in abundance. Look back on the evolution of religions, observe the ways in which dogmas come into existence and how their misunderstandings of the world are frequent and almost always built not on logic or observation, but instead on emotional needs and fantasy. So I'd say their system is a broken one not based on anything provable and thus should be ignored.
What's wrong with just saying we don't know yet? Must people automatically assign religion/ghosts/superstition as our default answer to things we can't yet explain? Religion should go away; I see it as a virus of the mind and killer of logic and critical thinking.
Because the website clearly is about this particular Ron Paul, not just because he's the most well known Ron Paul. It's also not a commentary (positive or negative) about him, they are instead a front for selling mechanize, the profits of which purportedly go to his campaign - when in fact they don't.
If someone was able to buy WellsFargoInsurance.com and started selling insurance using the WellsFargo trademark, appearing as though they were an arm of Wells Fargo, wouldn't that clearly be a cause to confiscate that domain (or at least take some sort of legal action against them)?
If it was clearly for a completely different Ron Paul, I would completely agree with you.
Bitcoins can be divided down to 0.00000001 of a bit coin, so if the current value of 1 bitcoin is $11.6, then one satoshi (0.00000001 of a bitcoin) is worth 0.0000116 cents. So it looks pretty clearly that the smallest divisible unit will never be "worth too much to be useful as a unit of exchange".
I remember reading that the Philippines was suppose to be connected in the first version of the APG, but later was removed because of funding or political issues in the Philippines. My memory is a bit fuzzy though, so go google it.
But, on the same vein, I was also wondering why Indonesia was not connected... seeing as it's the 4th largest country in the world and the 4th largest number of facebook users (per country). http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/
Sorry, messed up the link. Let me try that again.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Integrate[2^x%2C+{x%2C+0%2C+a}]+%2F+Integrate[2^x%2C+{x%2C+0%2C+48}]%29+%3D+.5
Interesting... I definitely over thought the problem. But, I did come to the correct answer.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Integrate[2^x%2C+{x%2C+0%2C+a}]+%2F+Integrate[2^x%2C+{x%2C+0%2C+48}]%29+%3D+.5
I guess from the beginning of the problem, before I finished reading it, I started wondering how much was covering the pond after just one day (The first day)... which is something I thought I couldn't do in my head, which then led me down this path.
I don't know why so many Australians are complaining about this network. I've seen many countries waste money in much worse ways. Just look at the USA spending hundreds of billions of dollars for things half the people don't agree with and not batting an eye (wars, military bases, foreign aid, social security). Just a few years ago with this bailout thing, whoops, a few trillion dollars spent in bailouts and QE. Take a look at Indonesia and the Philippines, just a random example, where tons of tax dollars just go to politicians pockets through corruption and ridiculous useless programs.
Adding a high speed network for your country sounds not so bad. Australia's networks suck as it is - expensive, slow and tiny bandwidth caps all over the place. Why not? Now you just need to attract companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Akamai to setup large installations in Australia to make good use of that network!
Use something like the Meraki MR16 - It sounds like you aren't the most technically savvy in this regard, and even if you were this makes life easy. There are other ways to do this, but this is probably the easiest I've seen. www.meraki.com
What "cloud" do you use where it costs $750/year to store 1TB? S3 RRD would cost you $1120 - http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%24.093+per+GB+*+1TB+*+12 Azure costs more. Rackspace costs more. Who do you use?
Why do I never have mod points anymore? Mod up, +1.
Oh please... I live in Indonesia. A 5.9 earthquake barely even makes the news. A 5.9 is like, "Uhhh, hrmm, something feels strange, am I feeling a bit dizzy? Oh no, it's just a small earthquake."
Seriously though, the depth of the earthquake makes a big difference and this one seemed to be shallow, so I can imagine most people clearly felt it. However, the shake map looks pretty tame. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/shakemap/global/shake/c0005ild/
Assuming most of these DDOS attacks come from from botnets; I wonder what percent of these DDOS attacks are made up of computers that were infected/compromised because they were left unpatched out in the open verses computers that were compromised because the user installed a pirated copy of some software that contained a virus or rootkit.
Given the reports I've heard of China and many other countries pirating 90% of their software http://slashdot.org/story/11/01/21/2217248/Ballmer-Says-90-of-Chinese-Users-Pirate-Software, I'd imagine there's got to be botnet makers who make software piracy the foundations of some big botnets. Anyone know?
Ok, sorry, I guess I just misunderstood it. They are only asking to verify the account you're sending from. Whoops.
From their website:
http://aws.amazon.com/ses/#functionality
"Verify Email Addresses: Before you can send email via Amazon SES, you need to verify that you own the email address from which you’ll be sending email. To verify an email address, make an API call with the email address as a parameter. This API call will trigger a verification email, which will contain a link that you can click on to complete the verification process."
So, what's all this talk about Amazon needing great content filters etc? Sounds to me if anyone is getting an email through this service, they approved it and they can unsubscribe anytime. Am I missing something?
That's funny. I just tried it in Chrome 5 and it sucked. It was really jerky. But in Firefox 4b2, it was very smooth. However, with Silverlight it was smooth on both browsers.
Gmail extra storage...
2 TB ($512.00 USD per year)
4 TB ($1,024.00 USD per year)
8 TB ($2,048.00 USD per year)
16 TB ($4,096.00 USD per year)
Doesn't everyone know not to use floating point numbers for financial calculations? Or at least understand the limitations or faults associated with them...
Who in their right mind would use javascript for financial calculations that need to be relied on?
I would probably change CPU = Oven analogy. Maybe CPU = Chef or Chefs. If you have a really fast chef or chefs, but no counter space, then shit can only be done so fast... but if you have a slow Chef, it doesn't matter how much counter space you have, shit ain't gonna be done fast.
I like the bittorrent idea more... but if you're looking for something simple and free - Foldershare. Not sure if this works for you, but I use Foldershare to sync files between several of my offices. It is peer to peer, with a central server to initiate the connection. If you have a 4GB file, perhaps you could rar it into smaller pieces, then this could work for you. If you don't have an internet connection though, this totally won't work for you. Heh.
Have you ever seen the movie "Idiocracy"? Almost exactly what you are talking about, just a little funnier.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
"The purpose of the program set up by the Pentagon, called the "Human Hibernation Project," is designed so that the military can save their best men for when they're needed most. According to the officers heading the project, too many times the talents and expensive training of the best pilots and soldiers go to waste during times of peace. So they enlist Bauers (Wilson), the most under-achieving average guy they've got, to be the test subject for the initial hibernation experiment. Also participating in the top-secret program is Rita (Rudolph), a prostitute who agreed to take part in exchange for dropping some criminal charges against her, among other things. Of course, the experiment, which was to last only a year, goes under due to the arrest of Officer Collins, who is busted for heading a prostitution ring. Seeing as though he was in charge of the experiment, one of the only ones who knew of its existence, and "due to a lot of top-secret red tape... and the massive scandals and base closure that followed, Joe and Rita were forgotten about. Written by Slider
Joe Bauers, an Army librarian, is judged to be absolutely average in every regard, has no relatives, has no future, so he's chosen to be one of the two test subjects in a top-secret hibernation program. He and hooker Rita were to awaken in one year, but things go wrong and they wake up instead in 2505. By this time, stupid people have outbred intelligent people; the world is (barely) run by morons--and Joe and Rita are the smartest people in the World."
Plus, public transportation is too public. It's so much nicer to have your own little space, temperature the way you like it, music the way you like it, clean comfortable seats, clean air, privacy. Seeing that I spend about 40 minutes driving each day, to and from work, that's a minimum of 170 hours a year of my life I spend just sitting in a car. As far as I'm concerned, taking public transportation would increase that time and lower my standard of living. That's why you won't find me using it.
Sysinternals... recently bought by Microsoft. Lots of great tools to inspect your windows box. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/defa ult.mspx
A better quality cartoon. http://homepages.utoledo.edu/amyers4/eecs6550/ITPr ojects.jpg
I agree. I would love to see a stateful, strongly typed web architecture. Basically a streaming application. What a nightmare it is today to write a large/complex system with a scripting language like Javascript and this XmlHttpRequest hack job. People have done some interesting things to abstract this stuff away from us, but I'm still not satisfied. I'm not sure why Java web applets were never too successful, well I can guess, but maybe WPFe can improve upon Java webapplets and take us to where I would like to see the web. http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=1933 67
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http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/archive/2006/03/23/5