I can't decide whether mods should mark this funny or as a troll. You'd think that adults and minors lived in totally seperate physical universes normally. At least I hope it's a troll.
I'm pretty sure you'd need to cash out your chips before losing $500 to owe on that $600, but I could be mistaken. Otherwise, people would pay on every blackjack hand they win.
It's a graphical MUSE/MUSH. It is pretty cool. Except apparently it's overrun by furries, which is a big downfall of the system.
It gets a lot of hype probably because they've got a good marketing department. As slashdot says if you look for a new article too fast, "Nothing to see here."
Highly reliable birth control for men and women, and education as to why one should use it. Duh. Pretty simple in an technologically advanced society. "Not giving it away" smacks of an outdated paradigm that hasn't worked for decades, if not longer.
Maybe QOS works when several thousand students aren't in university housing?
I'd say the problem is where the traffic is being shaped. Shape it at the core router, not at whatever network hub is servicing the housing segment. It's prolly much cheaper to get better switches in the housing anyway (if not 100base full then needs some upgrading, gigabit should be doable at the current price points I'd think), and then rate limit / traffic shape at the university's gateway to the outside world (probably easier to justify capital dollars for the core infrastructure than housing, anyway).
dreamhost? seriously, it's cheap and I use it myself for doing ssh tunneling on a daily basis to get around websense in order to do my job (yeah and other stuff).
QOS and traffic shaping. Look into it and the need to block actual ports will lessen (especially since most p2p/torrent variants can run on any port they really want to if you get the right clients).
The problem is that now you've tasked the University with filtering content. Most of the Universities I've seen with sane network policies and packet-shaping technology have them that way *specifically* because they have no interest in getting involved with policing traffic and going down that slippery slope. Their policies basically state "p2p and bittorrent take up a lot of bandwidth that our 'missioned' uses need, so we QOS them down to a reasonable level. Don't come whining to us when the RIAA says you're being a bad person or the FBI says you're a 31337 h4x0r." This is a lot more reasonable than trying to babysit packet traffic.
Yeah. The U of MN had pretty sensible network policies and great bandwidth (and is part of I2). As for parking, just walk a little further and the parking ramp prices went down (I think I did like $65/mo).
If you have a WRT54x router, are you still using the original firmware? I had very little luck getting prioritization of packets through its QOS to work right. The DD-WRT seems to work a lot better, wondering if I'd missed something in the factory setup (though now that I think about it I think I was prioritizing by switch port, but that shouldn't matter I wouldn't think).
Though I haven't fiddled extensively with it, Ubuntu absolutely bugs me when it comes to doing "advanced" user tasks (like, oh I dunno, modifying GRUB or something from an X GUI front-end). SUSE 10.1 was a lot better for being easy on the maintenance side, while letting me easily find things in traditional places. Sounds like Mandriva might be similar, and XGL is a goodie I've kinda wanted to try.
I don't get it either. Why people need to have systems on launch day has always confounded me, but even moreso after a few years working for the late, great EB. It's not like the system is going to disappear and never be seen again, so why not just wait until its easier to find and purchase?
North pole has no "ground". Just a note.
And unless you're on the coasts, don't worry about your house. If you are, well... time to sell while the sellin's good!
Someone can just go through the box and make a bunch of undesirable ones defective by punching extra holes.
That's why there's security procedures in place to make sure that doesn't happen. Not that problems don't happen with paper ballots, too, but there's decades upon decades of experience in terms of paper ballot security (which, sadly, isn't always enough), but which has resulted in many successful elections. So far electronic voting has resulted in a few elections that were questionable, and a few that are fubar'd, and none that I know of that were run-away successes that heralded a new, better era of representative democracy. That's the point.
At this point, tech-savvy readers will grumble that I'm an unreconstructed Luddite.
Sadly, I think the tech-savvy readers are the majority of people thinking this whole thing is a really bad idea. Unfortunately, there's not enough of us with deep pockets and loud enough voices to stop this potential train wreck in time.
the US founding fathers also thought this was a good state, thus why gridlock is almost built into our system of government. Sadly, people who try to (I'm sure with good intentions) make our government more efficient and streamlined, seem not to have been taught this lesson in their civics classes (or are just evil, I guess).
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I can't decide whether mods should mark this funny or as a troll. You'd think that adults and minors lived in totally seperate physical universes normally. At least I hope it's a troll.
I'm pretty sure you'd need to cash out your chips before losing $500 to owe on that $600, but I could be mistaken. Otherwise, people would pay on every blackjack hand they win.
People read C|Net?
It's a graphical MUSE/MUSH. It is pretty cool. Except apparently it's overrun by furries, which is a big downfall of the system.
It gets a lot of hype probably because they've got a good marketing department. As slashdot says if you look for a new article too fast, "Nothing to see here."
Highly reliable birth control for men and women, and education as to why one should use it. Duh. Pretty simple in an technologically advanced society. "Not giving it away" smacks of an outdated paradigm that hasn't worked for decades, if not longer.
Some of those large universities are also part of I2, so you get absolutely stunning connectivity between campuses.
I'd say the problem is where the traffic is being shaped. Shape it at the core router, not at whatever network hub is servicing the housing segment. It's prolly much cheaper to get better switches in the housing anyway (if not 100base full then needs some upgrading, gigabit should be doable at the current price points I'd think), and then rate limit / traffic shape at the university's gateway to the outside world (probably easier to justify capital dollars for the core infrastructure than housing, anyway).
Does "staff" include faculty? If so, I'm amazed you have any faculty at all.
dreamhost? seriously, it's cheap and I use it myself for doing ssh tunneling on a daily basis to get around websense in order to do my job (yeah and other stuff).
QOS and traffic shaping. Look into it and the need to block actual ports will lessen (especially since most p2p /torrent variants can run on any port they really want to if you get the right clients).
The problem is that now you've tasked the University with filtering content. Most of the Universities I've seen with sane network policies and packet-shaping technology have them that way *specifically* because they have no interest in getting involved with policing traffic and going down that slippery slope. Their policies basically state "p2p and bittorrent take up a lot of bandwidth that our 'missioned' uses need, so we QOS them down to a reasonable level. Don't come whining to us when the RIAA says you're being a bad person or the FBI says you're a 31337 h4x0r." This is a lot more reasonable than trying to babysit packet traffic.
Yeah. The U of MN had pretty sensible network policies and great bandwidth (and is part of I2). As for parking, just walk a little further and the parking ramp prices went down (I think I did like $65/mo).
If you have a WRT54x router, are you still using the original firmware? I had very little luck getting prioritization of packets through its QOS to work right. The DD-WRT seems to work a lot better, wondering if I'd missed something in the factory setup (though now that I think about it I think I was prioritizing by switch port, but that shouldn't matter I wouldn't think).
tee hee, if I had mod points you'd get'em
Even the nice 19" sony trinitron flatscreen CRTs (2) I have only have at max 100MHz at 1280x1024. Still gives me headaches.
Perhaps but you still need to pay them in any event.
Though I haven't fiddled extensively with it, Ubuntu absolutely bugs me when it comes to doing "advanced" user tasks (like, oh I dunno, modifying GRUB or something from an X GUI front-end). SUSE 10.1 was a lot better for being easy on the maintenance side, while letting me easily find things in traditional places. Sounds like Mandriva might be similar, and XGL is a goodie I've kinda wanted to try.
I don't get it either. Why people need to have systems on launch day has always confounded me, but even moreso after a few years working for the late, great EB. It's not like the system is going to disappear and never be seen again, so why not just wait until its easier to find and purchase?
Not nearly enough because it's still too hard to find tasty baby meat for my sammiches in my grocer's luncheon meat aisle.
North pole has no "ground". Just a note. And unless you're on the coasts, don't worry about your house. If you are, well... time to sell while the sellin's good!
That's why there's security procedures in place to make sure that doesn't happen. Not that problems don't happen with paper ballots, too, but there's decades upon decades of experience in terms of paper ballot security (which, sadly, isn't always enough), but which has resulted in many successful elections. So far electronic voting has resulted in a few elections that were questionable, and a few that are fubar'd, and none that I know of that were run-away successes that heralded a new, better era of representative democracy. That's the point.
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Judging from the stories I've heard from former military IT guys... yeah it's the latter.
Sadly, I think the tech-savvy readers are the majority of people thinking this whole thing is a really bad idea. Unfortunately, there's not enough of us with deep pockets and loud enough voices to stop this potential train wreck in time.
the US founding fathers also thought this was a good state, thus why gridlock is almost built into our system of government. Sadly, people who try to (I'm sure with good intentions) make our government more efficient and streamlined, seem not to have been taught this lesson in their civics classes (or are just evil, I guess).