One of the goals here, though, is to eventually make the wall ineffective. That equates with punching so many holes through or digging so many holes under the wall that it eventually makes no sense to maintain the wall.
It's all about the people being able to call bullshit on their government when necessary, and to find out what the facts are, not the lies the government wants you to believe are facts.
This has everything to do with illegal copies. This tax's sole purpose is to compensate artists and companies for the percieved pirating to new cd's and cassette tapes that they insist the medium is for. Fair use has nothing to do with this.
I believe this tax was part of the reason that downloading music was deemed legal, while uploading it was still said to be illegal. I'd be perfectly happy if they re-institute the tax and leave downloading legal.
I guess my point is that Bush put a useless tool in charge that couldn't do the job. FEMA has done a great job in the past, it just obviously had no real direction or sense of urgency from the top this time around, and a distinct lack of coordination throughout. And, I have no doubt, they took a "Let's hope it isn't as bad as the info we have says it might be" attitude.
The hope is that the same mistake doesn't get repeated for whoever has the lead on dealing with the cyberwar stuff.
It does a bunch of things, not all unique:
- Split frontend/backend to spread the load around. Multiple backends can be slaved together for a lot of recording cards and storage, and lighter frontend-only machines can be used just for viewing. Or do both on one machine.
- Tivo-like recording tools, live tv pause/rewind, and commercial skip
- Play and rip DVD's, play video files (avi, mpg, wmv, etc)
- Play CD's and online music in various formats, as well as rip music to various formats
- Obligatory picture viewer
- Basic web interface
- Weather info
- Game interface for mame, snes, Linux games, etc.
- RSS news interface
- SIP compatible phone setup
- Extensible plugin architecture
- Web interface to most of the functionality
The plugin/addon part is where the fun is. A variety of people write stuff for it, like streaming recordings to a web browser, recipe lookups, etc. I realize there is a lot of etc.'s in this post, but that's the bestway to describe a lot of it, there is a lot more detail and variety available.
A lot of of people bitch about the setup, but using the right hardware and a good guide like Jarod's for Fedora Core makes it quite easy. And if you enjoy tweaking or full-on code and feature changing, then that is available as well since it's open source.
Ya, a communications problem. When you don't make a call (or 50), or know what to do to mitigate the problems that are popping up, that's incompetence, not a communication problem.
Say I make the kid down the block, who happens to be good with computers, the head of security at a very large company. He's secured a few machines with Linksys routers, and maybe installed Zone Alarm. Then the company gets hit with a large attack and he crumbles under the stress of trying to deal with it. That's incompetence, not only his, but also of the bonehead that put him there.
My bet is they did learn a lot from the cyber exercise, but when the shit finally hits the fan the wrong personal or political friend will have been put in place by Bush or someone just like him. I also bet that, as always, the truth will be much stranger than fiction when it come to actual cyber atacks and that they won't have thought of half the things that get tried.
They would do much better to put up a couple of routers, a firewalled network with several common services and OS's being served, and invite the world to attack it. Even offer prizes as has been done in the past. That would provide a much more realistic scenario that can be learned from and eventually defended against. And, leave it up long term to see how it does over time.
Post the IP's of the attackers here, and we'll have a run at them while they carry out their attacks. Let's see just how ready they are for a response to the attacks. It seems only fair to me, and would be an appropriate part of the test as well.
I used to work for a company where I was in charge of building automation and peak demand limiting. We used several strategies for this.
1. Use thermal storage where possible. The only real source you can control is the cooling/heating for the building, and you want to build uip as much of what you need during low periods of usage, like in the middle of the night. If you're in a cold climate, store heat, and if you're in a cold climate store cold. Use water large water tanks to achieve this. It will cost you to install them initially, but they will pay for themselves in a surprisingly short period of time.
2. Monitor the usage and trim where you can when you're hitting peak demand. Turn off lights, coooling units, etc., for the short time that it's required. Pre chill or heat the building ahead of time.
3. Run your backup generator to supplement existing power if you have seasons where usage is much greater than at other times of the year. If you have to run it every day of the year it won't help due to maintenance and fuel costs. But if you need it for short periods to chop the peak then it's well worth it. Again, it will more than pay for itself. The power company may even pay you to supplement them with it.
4. Look for alternative methods to heat or cool, or even generate power. You'd be surprised at what's available now for that.
I have to agree, that's exactly my situation. I have a group of clients that have been with me for years, and take on new clients via word-of-mouth only.
The best bet is ask your friends, colleagues, etc., for a reference of someone that is in the business. You may find someone that can't take you on, but may have another contact for you. I have one or two friends/colleagues that I trust that I sometimes send business to when I can't take it on myself.
"it's more or less impossible to keep that many disks cool"
It's actually not that bad. The drive cages have fans mounted in the front of them, keeping constant airflow between the drives. This works quite effectively to cool them. I have servers with 10,000 rpm drives in this configurtion and it works quite well.
It would get noisy eventually though, and the fans would need to be replaced every once in a while.
That's fine for those that have a choice, but a very large number of people have only one choice for high speed in their area, and are at the mercy of the local provider.
I can see this becoming a selling point for some isp's though, that they don't discriminate between data types/origins and provide the same throughput for all types. I certainly would be looking for that in a new isp if I went shopping for a new one.
To charge for the fix to a problem they essentially created and have done a piss poor job fixing.
And in the end, it will be yet another MS program that will have vulnerabilities all on it's own to worry about. Not a chance that I'm going to trust OR support this program. There are great alternatives from vendors with track records spanning years.
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Electronic flushers are the way to go. They use infra-red sensors to flush when used, can be retrofited to almost any existing urinal, and save huge amounts of water.
Seems to me they are a far superior choice to the cost of replacing whats's already in place.
It costs them more if you buy the box and no games or XBox live. So, if you want them to bleed more, buy the boxes to setup render farms or supercomputer clusters. That would be a great use of the machinery once linux was installed.
If you buy a million boxes, it would mean a loss (according to the figure in the article) of $129 million to them in 1 purchase. Of course, coming up with the $399 million to start with would be tough...
Not to be a troll, but you sound just like the whiners that show up in my Counter-Strike servers and call someone a hacker every 30 seconds. You just can't believe that players can be that good. Well, some of them are. I've run CS and Quake servers for 5+ years now, and seen players that are simply a cut above the rest. I've also seen/banned thousands of cheaters too, but thats another story.
Pro gaming is based for the most part on lan tournnaments, where your machine is verified cheat free, and your matches are recorded and monitored on top of that. The exploits and bugs in games and their maps are well identified by the people running the tournaments, and explicitly forbidden where necessary.
You should watch video of Fatal1ty play sometime, he really is good. That's what talent and 12 hours a day of playing, every day, will get you.
How will they determine initial popularity? Will they wait to see how sales go and slide the price up as the popularity increases, and, alternately, slide the price down as a song fails to sell?
I want to know what happened to just leaving the pricing competitive and it then depending on the song's popularity and the fact that they are selling a lot more copies to make a lot more money. It seems to me that's how it's always worked in the past.
I think the new generations of musicians will learn to avoid the big companies and just put the music out independently. They make more money, we pay less, and the big companies can kiss our collective asses.
It will be New Year - 12:00 midnight January 1 - for 2 seconds. That means the stroke of midnight will be a long one.
Personally, I think the US scientists are just pissed off that they have to adjust the clocks during the new year's party.
You are truly only renting the land from the government anyways. If you own land, you are taxed on it. Fail to pay those taxes, the land will be seized by the government. So who really owns the land then?
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One of the goals here, though, is to eventually make the wall ineffective. That equates with punching so many holes through or digging so many holes under the wall that it eventually makes no sense to maintain the wall.
It's all about the people being able to call bullshit on their government when necessary, and to find out what the facts are, not the lies the government wants you to believe are facts.
This has everything to do with illegal copies. This tax's sole purpose is to compensate artists and companies for the percieved pirating to new cd's and cassette tapes that they insist the medium is for. Fair use has nothing to do with this.
I believe this tax was part of the reason that downloading music was deemed legal, while uploading it was still said to be illegal. I'd be perfectly happy if they re-institute the tax and leave downloading legal.
That's what I was thinking. They mean more power out than actual electrical current in, but that just means the magnets are supplying the extra power.
I'd hate to think what replacing the magnets every few years in a car's motors would cost, which is one of their examples of potential usage.
I guess my point is that Bush put a useless tool in charge that couldn't do the job. FEMA has done a great job in the past, it just obviously had no real direction or sense of urgency from the top this time around, and a distinct lack of coordination throughout. And, I have no doubt, they took a "Let's hope it isn't as bad as the info we have says it might be" attitude.
The hope is that the same mistake doesn't get repeated for whoever has the lead on dealing with the cyberwar stuff.
It does a bunch of things, not all unique:
- Split frontend/backend to spread the load around. Multiple backends can be slaved together for a lot of recording cards and storage, and lighter frontend-only machines can be used just for viewing. Or do both on one machine.
- Tivo-like recording tools, live tv pause/rewind, and commercial skip
- Play and rip DVD's, play video files (avi, mpg, wmv, etc)
- Play CD's and online music in various formats, as well as rip music to various formats
- Obligatory picture viewer
- Basic web interface
- Weather info
- Game interface for mame, snes, Linux games, etc.
- RSS news interface
- SIP compatible phone setup
- Extensible plugin architecture
- Web interface to most of the functionality
The plugin/addon part is where the fun is. A variety of people write stuff for it, like streaming recordings to a web browser, recipe lookups, etc. I realize there is a lot of etc.'s in this post, but that's the bestway to describe a lot of it, there is a lot more detail and variety available.
A lot of of people bitch about the setup, but using the right hardware and a good guide like Jarod's for Fedora Core makes it quite easy. And if you enjoy tweaking or full-on code and feature changing, then that is available as well since it's open source.
Ya, a communications problem. When you don't make a call (or 50), or know what to do to mitigate the problems that are popping up, that's incompetence, not a communication problem.
Say I make the kid down the block, who happens to be good with computers, the head of security at a very large company. He's secured a few machines with Linksys routers, and maybe installed Zone Alarm. Then the company gets hit with a large attack and he crumbles under the stress of trying to deal with it. That's incompetence, not only his, but also of the bonehead that put him there.
My bet is they did learn a lot from the cyber exercise, but when the shit finally hits the fan the wrong personal or political friend will have been put in place by Bush or someone just like him. I also bet that, as always, the truth will be much stranger than fiction when it come to actual cyber atacks and that they won't have thought of half the things that get tried.
They would do much better to put up a couple of routers, a firewalled network with several common services and OS's being served, and invite the world to attack it. Even offer prizes as has been done in the past. That would provide a much more realistic scenario that can be learned from and eventually defended against. And, leave it up long term to see how it does over time.
Maybe you should have read the part that said not to be used while swimming, wrestling, or playing rugby.
Post the IP's of the attackers here, and we'll have a run at them while they carry out their attacks. Let's see just how ready they are for a response to the attacks. It seems only fair to me, and would be an appropriate part of the test as well.
I used to work for a company where I was in charge of building automation and peak demand limiting. We used several strategies for this. 1. Use thermal storage where possible. The only real source you can control is the cooling/heating for the building, and you want to build uip as much of what you need during low periods of usage, like in the middle of the night. If you're in a cold climate, store heat, and if you're in a cold climate store cold. Use water large water tanks to achieve this. It will cost you to install them initially, but they will pay for themselves in a surprisingly short period of time. 2. Monitor the usage and trim where you can when you're hitting peak demand. Turn off lights, coooling units, etc., for the short time that it's required. Pre chill or heat the building ahead of time. 3. Run your backup generator to supplement existing power if you have seasons where usage is much greater than at other times of the year. If you have to run it every day of the year it won't help due to maintenance and fuel costs. But if you need it for short periods to chop the peak then it's well worth it. Again, it will more than pay for itself. The power company may even pay you to supplement them with it. 4. Look for alternative methods to heat or cool, or even generate power. You'd be surprised at what's available now for that.
I have to agree, that's exactly my situation. I have a group of clients that have been with me for years, and take on new clients via word-of-mouth only.
The best bet is ask your friends, colleagues, etc., for a reference of someone that is in the business. You may find someone that can't take you on, but may have another contact for you. I have one or two friends/colleagues that I trust that I sometimes send business to when I can't take it on myself.
"it's more or less impossible to keep that many disks cool"
It's actually not that bad. The drive cages have fans mounted in the front of them, keeping constant airflow between the drives. This works quite effectively to cool them. I have servers with 10,000 rpm drives in this configurtion and it works quite well.
It would get noisy eventually though, and the fans would need to be replaced every once in a while.
As said here before, it's not a "justice" system, it's a "law" system. They are two entirely different things.
That's fine for those that have a choice, but a very large number of people have only one choice for high speed in their area, and are at the mercy of the local provider.
I can see this becoming a selling point for some isp's though, that they don't discriminate between data types/origins and provide the same throughput for all types. I certainly would be looking for that in a new isp if I went shopping for a new one.
To charge for the fix to a problem they essentially created and have done a piss poor job fixing.
And in the end, it will be yet another MS program that will have vulnerabilities all on it's own to worry about. Not a chance that I'm going to trust OR support this program. There are great alternatives from vendors with track records spanning years.
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Electronic flushers are the way to go. They use infra-red sensors to flush when used, can be retrofited to almost any existing urinal, and save huge amounts of water.
Seems to me they are a far superior choice to the cost of replacing whats's already in place.
It costs them more if you buy the box and no games or XBox live. So, if you want them to bleed more, buy the boxes to setup render farms or supercomputer clusters. That would be a great use of the machinery once linux was installed.
If you buy a million boxes, it would mean a loss (according to the figure in the article) of $129 million to them in 1 purchase. Of course, coming up with the $399 million to start with would be tough...
Not to be a troll, but you sound just like the whiners that show up in my Counter-Strike servers and call someone a hacker every 30 seconds. You just can't believe that players can be that good. Well, some of them are. I've run CS and Quake servers for 5+ years now, and seen players that are simply a cut above the rest. I've also seen/banned thousands of cheaters too, but thats another story. Pro gaming is based for the most part on lan tournnaments, where your machine is verified cheat free, and your matches are recorded and monitored on top of that. The exploits and bugs in games and their maps are well identified by the people running the tournaments, and explicitly forbidden where necessary. You should watch video of Fatal1ty play sometime, he really is good. That's what talent and 12 hours a day of playing, every day, will get you.
How will they determine initial popularity? Will they wait to see how sales go and slide the price up as the popularity increases, and, alternately, slide the price down as a song fails to sell?
I want to know what happened to just leaving the pricing competitive and it then depending on the song's popularity and the fact that they are selling a lot more copies to make a lot more money. It seems to me that's how it's always worked in the past.
I think the new generations of musicians will learn to avoid the big companies and just put the music out independently. They make more money, we pay less, and the big companies can kiss our collective asses.
It will be New Year - 12:00 midnight January 1 - for 2 seconds. That means the stroke of midnight will be a long one. Personally, I think the US scientists are just pissed off that they have to adjust the clocks during the new year's party.
You are truly only renting the land from the government anyways. If you own land, you are taxed on it. Fail to pay those taxes, the land will be seized by the government. So who really owns the land then?
I think you need to look a little closer at the chart, 0 (zero) have been deleted.
Maybe I should have said toadying. :)
This being the company that's currently towing the communist Chinese line...