A prime example is the 4 failed london tube bombers. CCTV played a pivotal roll in identifying them after they fled, which led to tracking them down and capturing them. Without CCTV they would have got away unidentified, regrouped and tried again a second time. 50+ more Londoners would likely be dead today without CCTV.
Given the fact you just mentioned several "trigger" words in that post, it wouldn't surprise me if somewhere in a dark room, filled with the drone from rows and rows of bit munching, data sifting systems; that your name hasn't just been added to someone's alert list !!
Expect the knock on the door sometime next Thursday.
Doesn't matter. There are loads and loads of examples of the police here in the UK catching people where CCTV footage was the key. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen it in news bulletins, documentaries, special reports, etc. CCTV works, and the majority of people in the UK approve of it and like having it in their neighborhoods. And that includes me.
Thats not been my experience with EVAs. I've worked on dozens of installations with EVAs on the back end. Mostly Tru64/Alpha and some HP-UX, and problems have been very rare. I really like them. The ability to create Vdisks of almost any size without having to keep track of what disks are or aren't free is very powerful. And I like being able to assign any UDID value I like to a Vdisk, and assign aliases to groups of HBA wwids for easy host/cluster management.
The XP range are clunky old pigs by comparison. They don't support virtualization so its not as easy to make the most of the storage you have. You can't pick your own UDIDs, they're calculated for you. So you can't use that as a tool to help keep track of which storage cab your unix disks are located in (e.g. 1000+ for cab1, 2000+ for cab2, etc). And have you ever tried to unpresent a disk from an XP that has a Persistent Reservation on it... good luck trying. On a TruCluster you have to shutdown one member, then use scu(8) to attach to the disk and zap the keys manually; stay in scu (so you don't accidentally do any I/O to the disk and re-establish they keys) and then run to your XP and whip the disk away quick. Apparently its just as big a headache in Windows too. No such problems with the EVA, it knows you're the boss and lets you do what you need to do.
There arn't many countries which could opose such an invasion force. Probably all of those which could do so with conventional weapons have nuclear weapons anyway.
But the point was (and still it) that you don't need large numbers of conventional weapons if you have nukes at your disposal.
It Probably isn't too hard to smuggle lots of things into the US
Probably not, but thats still an order of magnitude higher more difficult than dropping one on your head from a super-sonic jet. Something the USA can do with ease.
The only "delivery system" needed is a truck
My point is that with nukes at their disposal, Iran and friends wouldn't need to have a sophisticated delivery system, just having them would be deterrent enough to stop the USA or anyone else from invading their borders. We enjoy the right to protect ourselves with nukes, so why shouldn't they, or any other country for that matter?
I think its more about Iran and the like having a deterrent that would prevent invasion. Think about it. Iraq's conventional defenses were no match for the USA and Iran's wouldn't be either. They don't have the military muscle to stop the USA from pounding them into the ground and sending a few hundred thousand troops into their country. But if they had a handful of nukes up their sleeve, well that changes everything. They don't have to be able to hit the USA with them, they just have to be able to wipe out a sizable chunk of a USA invasion force with half a dozen well placed nukes. No President in history would be able to take those kinds of losses without being lynched by his own voters.
This has nothing to do with Iranian WMD finding its way onto USA soil, and everything to do with stopping Iran from developing an effective defense against invasion.
So basically it turns a Cell Phone into a wireless handset for your computer
Nope, it does more than that. To quote from the article (that you obviously didn't read)...
The best part is that even if you are using the Skype service to make an international call, it is your cell phone number that will be displayed to the caller ID of the other party
I really don't understand why you're in denial about all this. Yeah, I'm a big Mac fan too. I stopped using Linux and Windows at home 3-4 years ago, and I'm on my second PowerBook already (plus I use it full time for work now). And yes, you'd have to pry it out of my cold dead fingers... but come on; its blindingly obvious from Anadtech's testing that Mac OS X has got a performance problem around processes/thread creation. And they should be congratulated for drawing this out into the open, because the more this gets noticed, the more Apple will focus on fixing it. And they will, because its already been done before, and because its only software. It also shows us that Mac OS X has yet to find its running shoes, which means that at some point in the not too distant future it will, and we'll get to feel the benefit of it.
Sorry for the late reply. I've been indisposed for a while and forgot about this thread. However I do have further views on what you wrote.
By this logic, if my child is a pain in the neck I ought to be able to cut his throat and burn him in the wood stove
How exactly is this an extension of my logic? I was talking about the mothers rights when she's carrying a fetus. When a child is born its no longer part of the mothers body, so there is no connection between your logic and mine.
Unless, of course, you claim that "a fetus is not a human being" and has the same rights as, say, a fly
Ah, now we're getting somewhere. I think Kafir's reply summed it up nicely when he said:
but it doesn't make much more sense to extend those same rights all the way back to the mindless, microscopic fertilized egg.
And this is my position. When a fetus develops to a point where it has a beating heart and it can move around, then that is where I make the distinction between a fetus and a child. Prior to that its just a collection if interesting cells with the potential for life. Its very much an extension of the mothers body, not independent of it, and she has the right to choose what she does with that in exactly the same way she does a nail clipping.
At the moment in the UK a woman can have an abortion up to (I think) 24 weeks. Personally I think this is way too late as 3D scans have shown a baby is quite well developed by that point. Week7 I think should be the cut off point as the fetus doesn't have a fully functioning heart at this point, doesn't have eyes, ears, arms or legs and isn't capable of independent movement. By week nine it is capable of moving in its own and that makes it distinct from the mother.
Prior to that point I don't think you or anyone else have any rights to tell a woman what she should do with parts of her own body.
Thats exactly what I was thinking. Public moral and support for war would be less likely to wane if the majority of "sons" injured in combat made full recoveries with no scaring, etc.
Though in this case I reckon the Military could get very in this kind of 'medicine'. Imagine an army of self healing soldiers. Get a leg blown off and then grow it back.
Enterprise started off a quite weak, but eventually found its rhythm and captured my imagination as the Xindi story line got into full swing. The way they closed it down at the end though was a crying shame. It wasn't a conclusion, it was a hatchet job, and an insult to the Star Trek legacy.
Its none of your dam business. It's the mothers choice, and should only ever be the mothers choice. Its her body and her life (not yours) and you should have no say over what she chooses to do with that. Keep your dam nose out of other peoples affairs
Psychosomatic illnesses are related to the interaction of body and mind and are caused or aggravated by mental factors such as internal conflict or stress.
If your brothers girlfriend was treated using uppers and downers, which change the way the mind functions by changing brain chemistry, then isn't that by definition a psychosomatic illness? Sounds like it to me.
The logical extension of where this is going to end up is on the mobile phone. Not with todays technology, but with more advances in portable storage and very high speed mobile networks for remote storage. Desktops could eventually just be a generic (dumb) screen with a build in cpu, memory, keyboard & mouse; and a slot in the stand where you drop your phone into. The OS and apps would be on the phones local storage, and your personal files would be served remotely and securely over the mobile network. You wouldn't want to keep them on the phone in case you lost it, or it got stolen.
Accessing your personal desktop and data from anywhere would be a easy as dropping your phone into your friends PC, or the PC at the hotel, or work, or internet cafe, or just about anywhere.
Huh? yuppie flu is just a fancy name for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Following your google search link, the first real site it found was wrongdiagnosis.com and this is what it has to say about CFS.
There is no effective treatment for CFS
It then goes on to advise taking steps to treat the symptoms of CFS as a way of improving life.
Acyclovir (brand name Zovirax) is used to treat herpes infections.
So you're trying to tell us that you were cured of a disease that as no known effective treatment by a herpes cream? Perhaps your GP just recognized that a regular dose of "placebo effect" can be very effective when treating psychosomatic based illnesses.
I think people are getting bored pointing out the Dupe's, as it doesn't seem to improve the situation at all. If anything, the Dupes are getting more frequent.
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I have no points left or I'd do it myself
You might want to look up the difference between who's and whose.
Rats! Guess that serves me right for being a smarty pants
Just because your innocent.....
Uh? Who's innocent? My innocent? I don't have an innocent, she must belong to someone else.
You might want to look up the difference between your and you're.
WTF
I hope you get meta moderated into hell
Damm, I lost the rest of my mod points this morning.
I couldn't have summed it up better myself. That is exactly what we want. Healthy competition breeds innovation and affordable prices.
Amen to that. Totally agree with you mate.
Couldn't have said it better myself !!
A prime example is the 4 failed london tube bombers. CCTV played a pivotal roll in identifying them after they fled, which led to tracking them down and capturing them. Without CCTV they would have got away unidentified, regrouped and tried again a second time. 50+ more Londoners would likely be dead today without CCTV.
Given the fact you just mentioned several "trigger" words in that post, it wouldn't surprise me if somewhere in a dark room, filled with the drone from rows and rows of bit munching, data sifting systems; that your name hasn't just been added to someone's alert list !!
Expect the knock on the door sometime next Thursday.
Doesn't matter. There are loads and loads of examples of the police here in the UK catching people where CCTV footage was the key. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen it in news bulletins, documentaries, special reports, etc. CCTV works, and the majority of people in the UK approve of it and like having it in their neighborhoods. And that includes me.
Thats not been my experience with EVAs. I've worked on dozens of installations with EVAs on the back end. Mostly Tru64/Alpha and some HP-UX, and problems have been very rare. I really like them. The ability to create Vdisks of almost any size without having to keep track of what disks are or aren't free is very powerful. And I like being able to assign any UDID value I like to a Vdisk, and assign aliases to groups of HBA wwids for easy host/cluster management.
The XP range are clunky old pigs by comparison. They don't support virtualization so its not as easy to make the most of the storage you have. You can't pick your own UDIDs, they're calculated for you. So you can't use that as a tool to help keep track of which storage cab your unix disks are located in (e.g. 1000+ for cab1, 2000+ for cab2, etc). And have you ever tried to unpresent a disk from an XP that has a Persistent Reservation on it
There arn't many countries which could opose such an invasion force. Probably all of those which could do so with conventional weapons have nuclear weapons anyway.
But the point was (and still it) that you don't need large numbers of conventional weapons if you have nukes at your disposal.
It Probably isn't too hard to smuggle lots of things into the US
Probably not, but thats still an order of magnitude higher more difficult than dropping one on your head from a super-sonic jet. Something the USA can do with ease.
The only "delivery system" needed is a truck
My point is that with nukes at their disposal, Iran and friends wouldn't need to have a sophisticated delivery system, just having them would be deterrent enough to stop the USA or anyone else from invading their borders. We enjoy the right to protect ourselves with nukes, so why shouldn't they, or any other country for that matter?
I think its more about Iran and the like having a deterrent that would prevent invasion. Think about it. Iraq's conventional defenses were no match for the USA and Iran's wouldn't be either. They don't have the military muscle to stop the USA from pounding them into the ground and sending a few hundred thousand troops into their country. But if they had a handful of nukes up their sleeve, well that changes everything. They don't have to be able to hit the USA with them, they just have to be able to wipe out a sizable chunk of a USA invasion force with half a dozen well placed nukes. No President in history would be able to take those kinds of losses without being lynched by his own voters.
This has nothing to do with Iranian WMD finding its way onto USA soil, and everything to do with stopping Iran from developing an effective defense against invasion.
So basically it turns a Cell Phone into a wireless handset for your computer
Nope, it does more than that. To quote from the article (that you obviously didn't read)...
I really don't understand why you're in denial about all this. Yeah, I'm a big Mac fan too. I stopped using Linux and Windows at home 3-4 years ago, and I'm on my second PowerBook already (plus I use it full time for work now). And yes, you'd have to pry it out of my cold dead fingers
Sorry for the late reply. I've been indisposed for a while and forgot about this thread. However I do have further views on what you wrote.
By this logic, if my child is a pain in the neck I ought to be able to cut his throat and burn him in the wood stove
How exactly is this an extension of my logic? I was talking about the mothers rights when she's carrying a fetus. When a child is born its no longer part of the mothers body, so there is no connection between your logic and mine.
Unless, of course, you claim that "a fetus is not a human being" and has the same rights as, say, a fly
Ah, now we're getting somewhere. I think Kafir's reply summed it up nicely when he said:
And this is my position. When a fetus develops to a point where it has a beating heart and it can move around, then that is where I make the distinction between a fetus and a child. Prior to that its just a collection if interesting cells with the potential for life. Its very much an extension of the mothers body, not independent of it, and she has the right to choose what she does with that in exactly the same way she does a nail clipping.
At the moment in the UK a woman can have an abortion up to (I think) 24 weeks. Personally I think this is way too late as 3D scans have shown a baby is quite well developed by that point. Week7 I think should be the cut off point as the fetus doesn't have a fully functioning heart at this point, doesn't have eyes, ears, arms or legs and isn't capable of independent movement. By week nine it is capable of moving in its own and that makes it distinct from the mother.
Prior to that point I don't think you or anyone else have any rights to tell a woman what she should do with parts of her own body.
Thats exactly what I was thinking. Public moral and support for war would be less likely to wane if the majority of "sons" injured in combat made full recoveries with no scaring, etc.
Though in this case I reckon the Military could get very in this kind of 'medicine'. Imagine an army of self healing soldiers. Get a leg blown off and then grow it back.
Voyager was my favourite too.
Enterprise started off a quite weak, but eventually found its rhythm and captured my imagination as the Xindi story line got into full swing. The way they closed it down at the end though was a crying shame. It wasn't a conclusion, it was a hatchet job, and an insult to the Star Trek legacy.
I want to get people to choose it less often
Its none of your dam business. It's the mothers choice, and should only ever be the mothers choice. Its her body and her life (not yours) and you should have no say over what she chooses to do with that. Keep your dam nose out of other peoples affairs
Grrrrr!!!
Psychosomatic illnesses are related to the interaction of body and mind and are caused or aggravated by mental factors such as internal conflict or stress.
If your brothers girlfriend was treated using uppers and downers, which change the way the mind functions by changing brain chemistry, then isn't that by definition a psychosomatic illness? Sounds like it to me.
The logical extension of where this is going to end up is on the mobile phone. Not with todays technology, but with more advances in portable storage and very high speed mobile networks for remote storage. Desktops could eventually just be a generic (dumb) screen with a build in cpu, memory, keyboard & mouse; and a slot in the stand where you drop your phone into. The OS and apps would be on the phones local storage, and your personal files would be served remotely and securely over the mobile network. You wouldn't want to keep them on the phone in case you lost it, or it got stolen.
Accessing your personal desktop and data from anywhere would be a easy as dropping your phone into your friends PC, or the PC at the hotel, or work, or internet cafe, or just about anywhere.
Huh? yuppie flu is just a fancy name for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Following your google search link, the first real site it found was wrongdiagnosis.com and this is what it has to say about CFS. It then goes on to advise taking steps to treat the symptoms of CFS as a way of improving life.
Acyclovir (brand name Zovirax) is used to treat herpes infections.
So you're trying to tell us that you were cured of a disease that as no known effective treatment by a herpes cream? Perhaps your GP just recognized that a regular dose of "placebo effect" can be very effective when treating psychosomatic based illnesses.
Hmm, a Mod -1 Redundant? Someone's had a sense of humor lobotomy.
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Isn't that an oxymoron ?
I think people are getting bored pointing out the Dupe's, as it doesn't seem to improve the situation at all. If anything, the Dupes are getting more frequent.