At some point someone is going to come up with the code to exploit a bug; even more so if the bug is published but the code isn't. Thanks to the ability to make infinite copies of code for virtually free, once written the code will propogate. Regardless of who wrote the code or where it was published, some script kiddy will find it. Even worse a mediocre programmer will take the code they found and write a cute GUI front end for it, and then give it out to the script kiddies.
In short, if a bug is known, code will be written to abuse that bug. Would you rather that this code comes through the security community channels or from the cracker community?
Don't get your panties in a bind over SD. If you don't like it, buy Multi-Media Cards (MMC). They are the same form factor and don't have the annoying secure crap. I'm using a 32M one for backup storage on my handera and it works quite well for how small they are. Plus, MMC cards are cheaper than SD cards (usually, sometimes they are the same price).
I'm stealing this quote without giving credit; if someone knows the author please post.
"How do you smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States? Simple, just hide it in a bale of Marijuana."
If a "rouge state" wanted to seriously screw with the US and the world they probably wouldn't even use a nuke, nuke's are so passe. Hire a russian biological warfare scientist and create a nice mutation of the flu then release the bug in the nearest large international airport. The last huge, deadly, flu epidemic (in the 30's???) killed more people than WWI and WWII combined. Lot's of death and no nuclear winter or radiation! Perfect for the aspiring terrorist.
The United States spends more on our military per year than the ENTIRE REST OF THE WORLD PUT TOGETHER! That's right we dump more dough into bombing the fuck out of forgin civilians than all of Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia put together spend for all their military expendutures. All the while children starve inside our borders, cities have higher infant mortality rates than most of Africa, people freeze in the streets, and many die from eaisly treatable diseases.
Why?
Because the defense contractors are all owned by the wealthy 1% of the US population that owns 35+% of the nation's wealth. They learned long ago that a war economy produces huge profits. As long as they are raking in the dough they don't give a flying fuck if the rabble perishes in the streets. Welcome to the modern welfare state. Not welfare for the harried mother of five but welfare for the billionare who only pays 28% tax.
> (can you actually prove something
> which you can't observe and recreate? and even > then is it proved?)
Um, evolution has been observed and recreated. There are now strep bactera floating around hospitals in the US that are resistant to all forms of anti-biotics used in the wild. This evolution of strep bacteria has happened in our lifetime.
We are ale to observe this small piece of evolution (and in a sense recreate it) because the bactera is in a hostile enviroment (one with lots of anti-biotics) and its life span is so short in compairson to ours. Of course you personally are not going to see evolution in mammles and other higher multi-celled life because it takes heaps of generations for evolution to work and you don't live long enough to see that many enerations of mammles.
--InfinityEdge
Re:Sheesh - oxygen will kill you. So will air.
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If you are doing tech diving (e.g. deep shit, 100m is well within that range), you DON'T use plain air. The people who know what they are doing don't even use the same mixtures going down as coming up (they use dual tanks, or just carry a butt-load of tanks down with them). Usually on decent you want a low O2 high N2 mixture (possibly with some other gasses like He in the mix depending on the depth of the dive and your equipment). When acending you want to switch to a high O2 mix to that your body can vent all the built up N you have collected. This helps you from getting bent (as an aside, first aid for someone with decompression sickness is administration of 100% pure O2 quickly followed by a trip to the nearest decompression chamber post haste).
I recently had my computer overheat (closed up office on a summer day combined with dual 350's and not the greatest internal cooling). I had two hard drives in it at the time: a 3GB IBM that came with my computer's father (I did a brain upgrade) and a 7GB Maxtor. The maxtor had the better cooling of the two and the IBM was sandwiched between a cdr and a tape drive in a 3.25 bay. After rebooting from the crash the IBM was still kicking and good to go. The maxtor was fried (all it did was make a rather pathetic whining noise). Needless to say when I went out and bought a new HD I got an IBM (13.5GB 7200rpm IDE for around $140 w/ shipping and such). If maxtors are really just re-branded IBMs now then good for maxtor for finally selling good stuff. Me I'm sticking to what I have had good experences with and that is IBM.
Where I work (UCSB in the Institute for Computational Earth Science Systems) we have a 1 TB tape backup system in place. We are using a Qualstar tape cabnet (with two drives and room for something like forty 25GB native DAT tapes). This cabnet is attached to an old Sun Ultra 1 which is in turn attached to the network via a 100baseT connection (soon to be gigabit when CalRen2 comes on line). All backups are scheduled through Legato, which has linux clients and is also capable of backing up NT clients.
Legato is a pretty good backup program with a nifty gui and the capablity to schedule everything two ways from Sunday. You can also attach bar code lables to the tapes and the Legato/cabnet combo reads each tape and then remembers what it stored on it. Makes recoveries much eaiser. I would recomend that you attach you tape cabnet to a Solaris box because of the hardware reliablity and because of software support. Ultra 1s are pretty cheap today and they work great for the task.
This is all pretty old as far as computer time is concerned, but it works and we have made it scale to 1TB. Our sister org, the Bren School here at UCSB, is preparing to buy their own backup system that should eaisly handle 5TB (they are getting a bigger cabnet with four faster, bigger drives, and lots more tape bays). If you are interested e-mail me and I'll try to hook you up with those in charge of researching and purchasing the new system. They can probably tell you more than I.
--Chris
Dvorak made kbds for one handers also....
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You may want to check out changing your keyboard layout to either Dvorak-left or Dvorak-right. The same guy that graced the world with his vastly superior keyboard layout (so I'm a bit biased;) also made keyboard layouts for those who had lost the use of one of their hands (If I remember correctly, he did this at the urging of a fellow army guy who had his arm amputated in war). This layout lets those with only one functioning hand actually TOUCH TYPE! I don't care what all those super specalized hunt-n-peckers say, touch typing is really the only way to go. The other great thing about Dvorak-L and Dvorak-R is that they are avaible on pretty much every halfway modern os.
Replacing the national income tax with a national sales tax is a BAD IDEA. Sales taxes are regressive taxes (remember econ 1?) and as such place most of the strain on those without money. Which family will be spinding more of their income on taxes if sales tax replaced the income tax:
Family A: Working poor, all their money is spent each month on food (not taxed), rent (not taxed), clothes (taxed), stuff to keep kids quiet (taxed), and other odds and ends (all taxed).
_or_
Family B: Filthy rich stock broker worth over a billion dollars. Each month spends a minute amount of their income (even ploping down cash for a new BMW won't put a dent in their income).
Family A winds up spending a higher percentage of their income on taxes than family B because family A spends all of their income (and is taxed on those expendatures) vs. family B who spends a fraction of each months income and lest the rest just get bigger.
I am of the opinion that if given the choice to make either the rich or the poor bear the brunt of a tax scheme then it is a good idea to make the rich bear it.
Is it just me or does everyone find the constant use of the term "dot-comming" annoying as hell. The marketing department should keep their hands off the product and more importantly off the damn dictionary. Stop trying to create words from moronic memes!
Wow looking at salon's main page and their tech page I cannot find any refrence for this story. It appears that slashdot is linking to salon stories before salon is. Good work guys!
Oh boy, a tape drive that can store 30Gigs. BFD. The speed is nice, but it is still tape and thus only really good for servers. Don't get me wrong, this is an incredably useful task, but I need random access....
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At some point someone is going to come up with the code to exploit a bug; even more so if the bug is published but the code isn't. Thanks to the ability to make infinite copies of code for virtually free, once written the code will propogate. Regardless of who wrote the code or where it was published, some script kiddy will find it. Even worse a mediocre programmer will take the code they found and write a cute GUI front end for it, and then give it out to the script kiddies.
In short, if a bug is known, code will be written to abuse that bug. Would you rather that this code comes through the security community channels or from the cracker community?
--InfinityEdge
Don't get your panties in a bind over SD. If you don't like it, buy Multi-Media Cards (MMC). They are the same form factor and don't have the annoying secure crap. I'm using a 32M one for backup storage on my handera and it works quite well for how small they are. Plus, MMC cards are cheaper than SD cards (usually, sometimes they are the same price).
If SD gets your panties in a bunch then buy a multimedia card. Same form factor, same price, no SD shit. I have one for my handera, they're wonderful.
--InfinityEdge
I'm stealing this quote without giving credit; if someone knows the author please post.
"How do you smuggle a nuclear weapon into the United States? Simple, just hide it in a bale of Marijuana."
If a "rouge state" wanted to seriously screw with the US and the world they probably wouldn't even use a nuke, nuke's are so passe. Hire a russian biological warfare scientist and create a nice mutation of the flu then release the bug in the nearest large international airport. The last huge, deadly, flu epidemic (in the 30's???) killed more people than WWI and WWII combined. Lot's of death and no nuclear winter or radiation! Perfect for the aspiring terrorist.
The United States spends more on our military per year than the ENTIRE REST OF THE WORLD PUT TOGETHER! That's right we dump more dough into bombing the fuck out of forgin civilians than all of Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia put together spend for all their military expendutures. All the while children starve inside our borders, cities have higher infant mortality rates than most of Africa, people freeze in the streets, and many die from eaisly treatable diseases.
Why?
Because the defense contractors are all owned by the wealthy 1% of the US population that owns 35+% of the nation's wealth. They learned long ago that a war economy produces huge profits. As long as they are raking in the dough they don't give a flying fuck if the rabble perishes in the streets. Welcome to the modern welfare state. Not welfare for the harried mother of five but welfare for the billionare who only pays 28% tax.
It is a brave new world for sure.
--InfinityEdge
> (can you actually prove something
> which you can't observe and recreate? and even > then is it proved?)
Um, evolution has been observed and recreated. There are now strep bactera floating around hospitals in the US that are resistant to all forms of anti-biotics used in the wild. This evolution of strep bacteria has happened in our lifetime.
We are ale to observe this small piece of evolution (and in a sense recreate it) because the bactera is in a hostile enviroment (one with lots of anti-biotics) and its life span is so short in compairson to ours. Of course you personally are not going to see evolution in mammles and other higher multi-celled life because it takes heaps of generations for evolution to work and you don't live long enough to see that many enerations of mammles.
--InfinityEdge
If you are doing tech diving (e.g. deep shit, 100m is well within that range), you DON'T use plain air. The people who know what they are doing don't even use the same mixtures going down as coming up (they use dual tanks, or just carry a butt-load of tanks down with them). Usually on decent you want a low O2 high N2 mixture (possibly with some other gasses like He in the mix depending on the depth of the dive and your equipment). When acending you want to switch to a high O2 mix to that your body can vent all the built up N you have collected. This helps you from getting bent (as an aside, first aid for someone with decompression sickness is administration of 100% pure O2 quickly followed by a trip to the nearest decompression chamber post haste).
Random personal experience:
I recently had my computer overheat (closed up office on a summer day combined with dual 350's and not the greatest internal cooling). I had two hard drives in it at the time: a 3GB IBM that came with my computer's father (I did a brain upgrade) and a 7GB Maxtor. The maxtor had the better cooling of the two and the IBM was sandwiched between a cdr and a tape drive in a 3.25 bay. After rebooting from the crash the IBM was still kicking and good to go. The maxtor was fried (all it did was make a rather pathetic whining noise). Needless to say when I went out and bought a new HD I got an IBM (13.5GB 7200rpm IDE for around $140 w/ shipping and such). If maxtors are really just re-branded IBMs now then good for maxtor for finally selling good stuff. Me I'm sticking to what I have had good experences with and that is IBM.
--chris
Where I work (UCSB in the Institute for Computational Earth Science Systems) we have a 1 TB tape backup system in place. We are using a Qualstar tape cabnet (with two drives and room for something like forty 25GB native DAT tapes). This cabnet is attached to an old Sun Ultra 1 which is in turn attached to the network via a 100baseT connection (soon to be gigabit when CalRen2 comes on line). All backups are scheduled through Legato, which has linux clients and is also capable of backing up NT clients.
Legato is a pretty good backup program with a nifty gui and the capablity to schedule everything two ways from Sunday. You can also attach bar code lables to the tapes and the Legato/cabnet combo reads each tape and then remembers what it stored on it. Makes recoveries much eaiser. I would recomend that you attach you tape cabnet to a Solaris box because of the hardware reliablity and because of software support. Ultra 1s are pretty cheap today and they work great for the task.
This is all pretty old as far as computer time is concerned, but it works and we have made it scale to 1TB. Our sister org, the Bren School here at UCSB, is preparing to buy their own backup system that should eaisly handle 5TB (they are getting a bigger cabnet with four faster, bigger drives, and lots more tape bays). If you are interested e-mail me and I'll try to hook you up with those in charge of researching and purchasing the new system. They can probably tell you more than I.
--Chris
You may want to check out changing your keyboard layout to either Dvorak-left or Dvorak-right. The same guy that graced the world with his vastly superior keyboard layout (so I'm a bit biased ;) also made keyboard layouts for those who had lost the use of one of their hands (If I remember correctly, he did this at the urging of a fellow army guy who had his arm amputated in war). This layout lets those with only one functioning hand actually TOUCH TYPE! I don't care what all those super specalized hunt-n-peckers say, touch typing is really the only way to go. The other great thing about Dvorak-L and Dvorak-R is that they are avaible on pretty much every halfway modern os.
Hope this helps
--Chris
Replacing the national income tax with a national sales tax is a BAD IDEA. Sales taxes are regressive taxes (remember econ 1?) and as such place most of the strain on those without money. Which family will be spinding more of their income on taxes if sales tax replaced the income tax:
Family A: Working poor, all their money is spent each month on food (not taxed), rent (not taxed), clothes (taxed), stuff to keep kids quiet (taxed), and other odds and ends (all taxed).
_or_
Family B: Filthy rich stock broker worth over a billion dollars. Each month spends a minute amount of their income (even ploping down cash for a new BMW won't put a dent in their income).
Family A winds up spending a higher percentage of their income on taxes than family B because family A spends all of their income (and is taxed on those expendatures) vs. family B who spends a fraction of each months income and lest the rest just get bigger.
I am of the opinion that if given the choice to make either the rich or the poor bear the brunt of a tax scheme then it is a good idea to make the rich bear it.
just my $.02
Is it just me or does everyone find the constant use of the term "dot-comming" annoying as hell. The marketing department should keep their hands off the product and more importantly off the damn dictionary. Stop trying to create words from moronic memes!
Wow looking at salon's main page and their tech page I cannot find any refrence for this story. It appears that slashdot is linking to salon stories before salon is. Good work guys!
--Chris
I don't know about you, but I like to have floating point capability in my laptop.....
Oh boy, a tape drive that can store 30Gigs. BFD. The speed is nice, but it is still tape and thus only really good for servers. Don't get me wrong, this is an incredably useful task, but I need random access....
from www.theos-software.com:
:BASIC and C programming languages to write :literally thousands of business software :applications
:For years, developers have used THEOS Software's
Wow, I wonder if K&R are going to be sued next for infringing on the rightfull owner of C?
From what I can see I wouldn't trust this lying bag of sh*t excuse for a company to write a small javascript much less an os.......
just my $.02
chris