What is effectively "more secure" is dependent on many, many variables that, ideally, should be mindfully evaluated by the end-user in real-time (and this includes accepting user-error as a risk--even the best fuck up on occasion).
"They've probably got cable modems, which they'd have to give up if they got rid of cable.."
This is plain FUD! I have a cable modem with no cable television and have had it that way for years. Maybe some companies force a bundling but many do not. I'm not even sure that would be legal in the U.S. (but IANAL so maybe it is--still it's a bad business decision).
Sure I would get a discount if I bundled the two but I have had no interest in cable TV since the mid to late nineties. For a while I preferred satellite because the quality was much better (inexplicably--in theory the cable companies have a much larger tube into my house) but eventually the cost became a burden as I found myself going online more and more for content. Eventually the only thing I ever watched on satellite was NASCAR races (let the flaming begin) and there are only 12 races a year not shown for free in HD over-the-air. This worked out to be around $30-40 USD a race which isn't worth it (seriously, I got to where I never watched anything else on satellite).
These days I prefer a combination of Hulu and TVTorrents.com. My "television" is now a second display for my PC.
So, your issue is that their player doesn't do 720p content smoothly on your setup? What I want to know is where is this 720p content on Hulu? The best I can find is 480p and it works just fine for me.
Nice theory but it was persistent across reboots. This was a filesystem issue hands down.
I've been an SA for long enough (and had been way back then too--I'm no spring chicken) to know about stale file handles. Thanks for you advice though.
The rep didn't need convincing that this was causing us problems. His argument was simply that it was working as the code was written and thus the problem was ours and not the vendor's. He sure as hell had that right.
I used to manage Digital UNIX (later called Tru64) systems for a large, now bankrupt, telecom back around the turn of the millennium. The filesystem used, AdvFS, was pretty cool and advanced for the time but under the version of the OS we were running we found that free space would shrink at a faster rate than used space would grow. I had filesystems report full even though a df would show only 60% used.
It turned out that when small files were deleted all of the space wouldn't become free. My customer wrote thousands upon thousands of 150-200 byte files a day and deleted just as many. The entire team and my customer agreed this was clearly a bug.
When brought up with Compaq (who had recently aquired Digital) the technical rep investigated and reported "this is not a bug, the code is being executed exactly how it's written." Seriously, this was his response. I would have been more amused if he seriously argued it was a "feature."
I never could get a definition of what a "bug" really was from him. I became rather infuriated when he reported to me that this issue was "fixed" in the latest major release of the OS. If there was no bug, why was it fixed?
I never got a straight answer and was left on my own to find my own work-around which involved inserting a new volume into the filesystem thus growing it and then deleting an old volume. When this was done to all volumes in the filesystem, the problem was resolved for a few more months. This was an incredibly labor intensive and, as far as I'm concerned, incredibly risky to move data around like that on a hot system with insane uptime requirements. There was also a massive performance hit while this was happening and my customer's application was already VERY IO intensive.
I'm still just as angry about that conversation with the rep today as I was back then.
Since getting clean, I can't get into any games anymore...
...
My wife bought me Fallout 3 for Christmas and I haven't even taken the cellophane off yet...
WTF is wrong with your wife? Surely she knows about your issues. This is akin to giving an alcoholic a 6-pack for Christmas.
What in the world would her motivation be in such a gift? To make you feel lousy about yourself? To get you to go away for a weekend so she can do her thing (she could just ask)?
If she doesn't know about your issues with gaming then you have a more serious problem than you realize.
Anyone know if there are there drugs/herbs, whatever that might help with this cortisol issue?
There are doctors that are able to diagnose and recommend treatment options that would suit your needs if necessary. You seem to be jumping to the conclusion (and I maybe doing the same) that because you aren't a morning person this must mean that you have a cortisol issue and need some sort of drug to correct it. While this may, or may not, be true I doubt that even you are equipped with the knowledge to make a proper diagnosis let alone treatment plan. Certainly no one on/. that is qualified to make such an assessment will do so in this forum based on your post asking for advice. Any advice you get that says anything other than "go see your doctor" is pure garbage.
My advice, garbage and all, smoke, or better still, vaporize some weed when you get up and ease into your day. You'll like your mornings a lot more and you will just ease into your day more naturally. This will likely improve the anxiety problems you are experiencing. I've found that some of the purple medical strains do wonders for anxiety without knocking you flat on your ass for the better part of the day.
Even if you take this advice, for your own sake, talk to your doctor and let them know what is going on and what you have found that does or doesn't work. You'll need help to get to the root cause because you, having no other experiences outside of your own, only have one perspective on what is likely a very complex somatic and psychological interactions. Please, if these issues are causing you grief, get professional support involved.
Next article cleared for publication by kdawson: "Black Helicopters seen over Redmond, Washington. Microsoft in bed with CIA and developing brain reader. Get your tinfoil."
It's a good theory but it has one fatal flaw. It offers constructive advice at the end.
Strike the tinfoil bit and resubmit. kdawson should approve it outright then.
The skill setting is much, much worse in the beginning. I think it's one way, whether intentional or not, the developers get you to login and play a lot in the early days of a character.
Once your basic skills (really, put a priority on learning and strong defense skills) are finishing, you will have more and more options for longer skills to train and fewer options with the short skills. Of course, by then, you're sucked-in and it doesn't matter if you login all the time.
One other item that may help, get the second account now so you can have some training done by the time you realize why you need it. While you can totally get by without a second account, it makes life in the game soooo much easier. Adding a third account is useful still but not nearly as much as the second.
Welcome to Eve, enjoy your stay and fly safe (but not too).
Deciding at the state level would be fine for recreational use however, it's truly obscene for any state, or State for that matter, to make illegal the possession and/or use of any substance that is used to relieve pain and suffering. It's even more obscene that even a doctor can't legally override this injustice.
Let the states regulate recreational drug use all they want but no government stands between me and my body nor between me and my doctors.
Are the lasers that they are using in the microwave range?
I certainly hope not! I put aluminium foil in my microwave range once and that wasn't a pretty sight. I can't imagine the damage caused when lasers and microwave ranges meet.
Who needs the LHC? Toss in some non-dairy creamer and I could easily see a black hole forming. under the above scenario.
The point I was trying to make is that something that is relied on by law enforcement and submittable to a court of law shouldn't have, in this day and age, this sort of drift for something as critical as time.
You are correct that we are talking milliseconds over the few seconds it takes to get a reading. However, what if this machine was poorly maintained and the clock had drifted off by 20 or 30 minutes such that a drunken driver could show that the test was administered before he was even pulled over. That, IMHO, is enough reasonable doubt that if I were on the jury I'd be forced to think really hard about convicting this person.
I'm sure I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill but things like this can and do make a difference and when it comes to justice we need to the best we can to get it right every single time.
This comes straight from the product's PDF made available on the manufacturers website.
Under "Features and Options", "REAL-TIME CLOCK: accurate to ±10 minutes per year."
Now, although I'm pretty sure that time measurements aren't required for analysis, I have to wonder the accuracy rate is like for it's intended purpose.
That argument aside, unless the clocks are well-maintained this sort of time drift could really skew the evidence in a case where time was critical. A poorly maintained machine could, in theory, be the "reasonable doubt" that someone committed (or even didn't commit) a crime.
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." - Sir Issac Newton
I, for one, am curious about the effects of moving all this CO2 into the oceans. Surly this will not be without it's consequences. Just as moving this CO2 that was locked for millions of years underground out into the atmosphere has had its effects, so to will this.
Still, I applaud the effort to help solve the problem and this "solution" would, at the very least, buy us some time but it will come at a cost that has yet to be known (and I'm not talking the direct fiscal cost talked about here).
The local Telco has ripped me off for a few hundred dollars from a botched installation. I don't imagine that I'll lose my anger toward them anytime soon (I've long since given up trying to get my money back from them). The point here is to hell with them getting another dime from me even if they finally fix their crap and refund me my money.
Because of this, I rely on VoIP for telephone service (yes, I have 911 service so pffftttt). My understanding with satellite is the latency can be a serious issue. Most of my network traffic is more latency dependent than rate dependent. So, as near as I can tell satellite is off the map.
This leaves me with two other options. Comcast and, very recently, a small local ISP offering wireless service. Because the local ISP wasn't an option when I bought this house I was stuck with Comcast. It hasn't been all bad but the quality has taken a serious dump lately (dropped packets, dropped connections, not BT, etc). Now they add in this cap on their "unlimited" service.
I would love to switch but when I moved here Comcast was the lesser of the evils. With this new wireless ISP in town I may switch. I am having their service installed at our other home and, if all goes well, Comcast will be kissing me goodbye.
The point of all of this is sometimes, even with Comcast's issues, they are still the best choice. Note that best choice does not equal ideal choice. I'm happy that you will not be tolerating Comcast's crap but I may not have another viable option. I hope I do and we will see in the coming weeks.
We purchased our wedding bands from greenKarat as the gold (and perhaps other metals used) are recycled mostly from electronic components. This seemed the perfect way to salute our shared tree-hugging-hippie values. As a geek I loved the fact that we might be wearing some metal that came from a machine I could have managed at some point in my life (unlikely I know but possible).
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I wish I had mod points. The parent is spot on.
What is effectively "more secure" is dependent on many, many variables that, ideally, should be mindfully evaluated by the end-user in real-time (and this includes accepting user-error as a risk--even the best fuck up on occasion).
Wow. Not only does it simply rip off the Wikipedia without crediting it, it's technically wrong throughout.
Maury
Why be redundant? You already mentioned the source was Wikipedia.
1.42 stop bits? No wonder it was so slow, the poor computers were confused.
"They've probably got cable modems, which they'd have to give up if they got rid of cable.."
This is plain FUD! I have a cable modem with no cable television and have had it that way for years. Maybe some companies force a bundling but many do not. I'm not even sure that would be legal in the U.S. (but IANAL so maybe it is--still it's a bad business decision).
Sure I would get a discount if I bundled the two but I have had no interest in cable TV since the mid to late nineties. For a while I preferred satellite because the quality was much better (inexplicably--in theory the cable companies have a much larger tube into my house) but eventually the cost became a burden as I found myself going online more and more for content. Eventually the only thing I ever watched on satellite was NASCAR races (let the flaming begin) and there are only 12 races a year not shown for free in HD over-the-air. This worked out to be around $30-40 USD a race which isn't worth it (seriously, I got to where I never watched anything else on satellite).
These days I prefer a combination of Hulu and TVTorrents.com. My "television" is now a second display for my PC.
So, your issue is that their player doesn't do 720p content smoothly on your setup? What I want to know is where is this 720p content on Hulu? The best I can find is 480p and it works just fine for me.
Nice theory but it was persistent across reboots. This was a filesystem issue hands down.
I've been an SA for long enough (and had been way back then too--I'm no spring chicken) to know about stale file handles. Thanks for you advice though.
The rep didn't need convincing that this was causing us problems. His argument was simply that it was working as the code was written and thus the problem was ours and not the vendor's. He sure as hell had that right.
(I hope no one requires that I show up to an office, just because one will be nearby.)
Newsflash: We don't care. That's your personal fear and issue that really is best left off the front page.
I used to manage Digital UNIX (later called Tru64) systems for a large, now bankrupt, telecom back around the turn of the millennium. The filesystem used, AdvFS, was pretty cool and advanced for the time but under the version of the OS we were running we found that free space would shrink at a faster rate than used space would grow. I had filesystems report full even though a df would show only 60% used.
It turned out that when small files were deleted all of the space wouldn't become free. My customer wrote thousands upon thousands of 150-200 byte files a day and deleted just as many. The entire team and my customer agreed this was clearly a bug.
When brought up with Compaq (who had recently aquired Digital) the technical rep investigated and reported "this is not a bug, the code is being executed exactly how it's written." Seriously, this was his response. I would have been more amused if he seriously argued it was a "feature."
I never could get a definition of what a "bug" really was from him. I became rather infuriated when he reported to me that this issue was "fixed" in the latest major release of the OS. If there was no bug, why was it fixed?
I never got a straight answer and was left on my own to find my own work-around which involved inserting a new volume into the filesystem thus growing it and then deleting an old volume. When this was done to all volumes in the filesystem, the problem was resolved for a few more months. This was an incredibly labor intensive and, as far as I'm concerned, incredibly risky to move data around like that on a hot system with insane uptime requirements. There was also a massive performance hit while this was happening and my customer's application was already VERY IO intensive.
I'm still just as angry about that conversation with the rep today as I was back then.
Since getting clean, I can't get into any games anymore...
...
My wife bought me Fallout 3 for Christmas and I haven't even taken the cellophane off yet...
WTF is wrong with your wife? Surely she knows about your issues. This is akin to giving an alcoholic a 6-pack for Christmas.
What in the world would her motivation be in such a gift? To make you feel lousy about yourself? To get you to go away for a weekend so she can do her thing (she could just ask)?
If she doesn't know about your issues with gaming then you have a more serious problem than you realize.
But what daring goes into these missions! Tiny we may be but we have great ambition.
I assure you, despite how this photo looks, they are not actually on the Sun.
So, your considering combating the morning blahs with coffee. What a novel idea!
Anyone know if there are there drugs/herbs, whatever that might help with this cortisol issue?
There are doctors that are able to diagnose and recommend treatment options that would suit your needs if necessary. You seem to be jumping to the conclusion (and I maybe doing the same) that because you aren't a morning person this must mean that you have a cortisol issue and need some sort of drug to correct it. While this may, or may not, be true I doubt that even you are equipped with the knowledge to make a proper diagnosis let alone treatment plan. Certainly no one on /. that is qualified to make such an assessment will do so in this forum based on your post asking for advice. Any advice you get that says anything other than "go see your doctor" is pure garbage.
My advice, garbage and all, smoke, or better still, vaporize some weed when you get up and ease into your day. You'll like your mornings a lot more and you will just ease into your day more naturally. This will likely improve the anxiety problems you are experiencing. I've found that some of the purple medical strains do wonders for anxiety without knocking you flat on your ass for the better part of the day.
Even if you take this advice, for your own sake, talk to your doctor and let them know what is going on and what you have found that does or doesn't work. You'll need help to get to the root cause because you, having no other experiences outside of your own, only have one perspective on what is likely a very complex somatic and psychological interactions. Please, if these issues are causing you grief, get professional support involved.
The sticking point will be what Microsoft does about compatibility for ActiveX apps.
No sticking point... ActiveX needs to die.
Next article cleared for publication by kdawson: "Black Helicopters seen over Redmond, Washington. Microsoft in bed with CIA and developing brain reader. Get your tinfoil."
It's a good theory but it has one fatal flaw. It offers constructive advice at the end.
Strike the tinfoil bit and resubmit. kdawson should approve it outright then.
My server running Fedora Core 5 had no issues. Perhaps I should wait a wee bit longer to upgrade. ;-)
The skill setting is much, much worse in the beginning. I think it's one way, whether intentional or not, the developers get you to login and play a lot in the early days of a character.
Once your basic skills (really, put a priority on learning and strong defense skills) are finishing, you will have more and more options for longer skills to train and fewer options with the short skills. Of course, by then, you're sucked-in and it doesn't matter if you login all the time.
One other item that may help, get the second account now so you can have some training done by the time you realize why you need it. While you can totally get by without a second account, it makes life in the game soooo much easier. Adding a third account is useful still but not nearly as much as the second.
Welcome to Eve, enjoy your stay and fly safe (but not too).
Hence, the bible belt.
Evolution theory isn't needed there because their genetic mutations are a direct result of inbreeding.
Deciding at the state level would be fine for recreational use however, it's truly obscene for any state, or State for that matter, to make illegal the possession and/or use of any substance that is used to relieve pain and suffering. It's even more obscene that even a doctor can't legally override this injustice.
Let the states regulate recreational drug use all they want but no government stands between me and my body nor between me and my doctors.
Are the lasers that they are using in the microwave range?
I certainly hope not! I put aluminium foil in my microwave range once and that wasn't a pretty sight. I can't imagine the damage caused when lasers and microwave ranges meet.
Who needs the LHC? Toss in some non-dairy creamer and I could easily see a black hole forming. under the above scenario.
The point I was trying to make is that something that is relied on by law enforcement and submittable to a court of law shouldn't have, in this day and age, this sort of drift for something as critical as time.
You are correct that we are talking milliseconds over the few seconds it takes to get a reading. However, what if this machine was poorly maintained and the clock had drifted off by 20 or 30 minutes such that a drunken driver could show that the test was administered before he was even pulled over. That, IMHO, is enough reasonable doubt that if I were on the jury I'd be forced to think really hard about convicting this person.
I'm sure I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill but things like this can and do make a difference and when it comes to justice we need to the best we can to get it right every single time.
This comes straight from the product's PDF made available on the manufacturers website.
Under "Features and Options", "REAL-TIME CLOCK: accurate to ±10 minutes per year."
Now, although I'm pretty sure that time measurements aren't required for analysis, I have to wonder the accuracy rate is like for it's intended purpose.
That argument aside, unless the clocks are well-maintained this sort of time drift could really skew the evidence in a case where time was critical. A poorly maintained machine could, in theory, be the "reasonable doubt" that someone committed (or even didn't commit) a crime.
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." - Sir Issac Newton
I, for one, am curious about the effects of moving all this CO2 into the oceans. Surly this will not be without it's consequences. Just as moving this CO2 that was locked for millions of years underground out into the atmosphere has had its effects, so to will this.
Still, I applaud the effort to help solve the problem and this "solution" would, at the very least, buy us some time but it will come at a cost that has yet to be known (and I'm not talking the direct fiscal cost talked about here).
Yeah, but...
The local Telco has ripped me off for a few hundred dollars from a botched installation. I don't imagine that I'll lose my anger toward them anytime soon (I've long since given up trying to get my money back from them). The point here is to hell with them getting another dime from me even if they finally fix their crap and refund me my money.
Because of this, I rely on VoIP for telephone service (yes, I have 911 service so pffftttt). My understanding with satellite is the latency can be a serious issue. Most of my network traffic is more latency dependent than rate dependent. So, as near as I can tell satellite is off the map.
This leaves me with two other options. Comcast and, very recently, a small local ISP offering wireless service. Because the local ISP wasn't an option when I bought this house I was stuck with Comcast. It hasn't been all bad but the quality has taken a serious dump lately (dropped packets, dropped connections, not BT, etc). Now they add in this cap on their "unlimited" service.
I would love to switch but when I moved here Comcast was the lesser of the evils. With this new wireless ISP in town I may switch. I am having their service installed at our other home and, if all goes well, Comcast will be kissing me goodbye.
The point of all of this is sometimes, even with Comcast's issues, they are still the best choice. Note that best choice does not equal ideal choice. I'm happy that you will not be tolerating Comcast's crap but I may not have another viable option. I hope I do and we will see in the coming weeks.
We purchased our wedding bands from greenKarat as the gold (and perhaps other metals used) are recycled mostly from electronic components. This seemed the perfect way to salute our shared tree-hugging-hippie values. As a geek I loved the fact that we might be wearing some metal that came from a machine I could have managed at some point in my life (unlikely I know but possible).