How about California stops growing almonds. Water crisis averted.
Perhaps they should learn from the Israelis. They run plastic water tubing with directed drip spiggots to each plant (tree). Don't arial spray, water is too precious to be wasted thusly.
Your first comment is close. Yes, a serious attacker has many better ways than cracking your password. In fact, I've given another speech on this a few months ago where I basically said that we should drop brute-force as a threat scenario from our password strength estimations, because any software that even allows a brute-force attack to be run is fundamentally broken and needs to be discarded.
Same for cracking hashes, btw. If your software does not properly salt and hash, it's broken. It's 2015, not 1995.
Your second comment is totally wrong and one of the reasons we have so many bad passwords. We tell normal human beings to use a different password for each of the 200 or so sites that they have an account on, many of which they use once a year. That's idiotic, and users are telling us we're insane by ignoring it.
I use 3 different passwords for 90% of the accounts I have. One for all the various forums, social sites and other crap that is of absolutely no importance to me and if it gets leaked and you use it to log in as me on one of them, you can post comments in my name - omg, the sky is falling. One is for sites that I have some stakes in, like accounts in online games and such, where you could do some damage in the sense of destroying something that took me time to create (delete my GW2 characters, I'd hate you for it, but no real damage has been done). And one I use for sites where you could do some damage that I could probably reverse, but it would take effort and might cause me real-world inconveniences, such as shopping sites where you could order something in my name and I'd have to go and cancel the order or send it back or whatever. My PayPal and banking accounts have their own passwords, as do my user accounts, database accounts and such. But for 90% or so of accounts, you don't really need a seperate password (and using password managers ties you to them, which is why many people don't do it).
And I'm a security expert giving speeches at conferences about these topics. I'm just not a blind one-trick-pony who knows all about cryptography and nothing about anything else. If you begin to figure in psychology, HCI and other topics as diverse as design and linguistics, a lot of what's wrong with IT security begins to emerge more clearly.
I' m with you. I have a common password for 90% of my websites. I have only 1 credit card, one bank, and one bill payment account. All others I pay via direct visit to the bank or via cheque. For the 1 and 1 and 1, I have three reasonably long passwords. By the way, my passwords are characters from utf-8. So that you know, € and ¥ are used for some of my pwds. Not sure you can enter the euro or yen symbol on the default US keyboard layout. My financial passwords exceed 10 characters in length and may include some characters from ±£€½¾çî and more. Hackers usually believe that only easily enteredd keyboard characters are required in the test alphabet.
- every company ever, when announcing their new product
Then perhaps we need a new kind of universal programming language like htmlx, where the application runs like a browser, and controls compatible htmlx appliances. Lets not have every damned appliance having a different unique programming interface.
A government body gets the whole key and then has it stolen from them and we're all left with our trousers down in a changing room made of glass.
No. If there is an EASY way to decrypt information, then that data is NOT SAFE and the encryption is useless.
I think that they should get the encryption algorithm, but the actual key, speak to the individual party, and to a judge that would authorize a search warrant. Imagine that each subscriber gets to choose his encryption key, and a vigenere string to salt the encrypted result.
Just send your data out of the country, say to the north, where crime is low, and where houses and buildings are constructed with much stricter building codes related to fire, flooding and hurricanes. (Actually, can count on 1 hand the number of hurricanes to hit Canada in the past 5 years.
Please don't vote for Hillary just because she is a woman. We can't continue the oligarchy that is the US government leadership.
I am an outsider, watching American partisan politics. The democrats are the best thing that has happened to America since Bill Clinton. You guys who are inside the box can't see how the Bush administration really destroyed the USA outside in the real world. You have a decent honest president in Obama, a man who cares.
The democrats will act as a check against one sided government. Hopefully the democrats can reverse some laws that allow billions of dollars to be given to candidates to bias results. And the gerrymandering by the Republicans to avoid the representation by population rules.
Interesting that this part of the "social contract" only applies to bans and prohibitions in the minds of the right but they suddenly become very vocal on "self reliance" and "personal responsibilities" when it comes to funding for college educations for underprivileged students.
Whats the difference between beer and cannibus, if beer becomes illegal?
What makes him dangerous is filling his head with dangerous thoughts. The vast majority, if not all, of the people whom the FBI have entrapped in the past are some of the more vulnerable members of society: people without a strong social support structure, part of a marginalised community, often poor, often unemployed, and so on.
It's a fundamental axiom of modern policing that the best way to stop crime is to stop people from becoming criminals in the first place. If someone is at risk of becoming a criminal, the best thing you can do is divert them away from that as early as possible. For the FBI to turn a non-criminal into a criminal is not just a failure, it's sociopathic.
What you say is not the American way. Why is it not? Well, the prison system has to expand, otherwise the law enforcement system would not be doing their jobs and there might be job cuts.
Unlike the Danish, which work to rehabilitate, the American system works to incarcerate.
why are so many americans such fucking morons when it comes to the simple undeniable truth: more easy guns = more senseless death, not protection
As a non-American I always assume it is connected with the mythology of the Wild West or Frontiersman type of rugged individualism, which to be fair is fairly recent history (in European terms). Personally, I prefer civilization, but the "one-man-and-his-gun against the world" idea clearly appeals to many modern US citizens, even if they're living in a city apartment block and working in IT.
Guns were allowed in order to kill the Indians whose land the whiteman was stealing.
"Intel has been selling its Xeon chips to Chinese supercomputers for years, so the ban represents a..." pile of knee jerk ridiculous bullshit?
What it will do is get the Chinese to develop their own CPU chip. With what is known today, it wont take them that long to do. And if they hire away top Intel Engineers, that would development woul go even even faster. I bet that if the Chinese go that way, because computer chips are strategic, their design might be an 80 bit chip that runs at half the wattage of Intel designs. 80 bits vs 64 bits means a very huge address space, managed with basic addressing controller design.
Soon the world will be clamoring for these 80bit chips.
All Ellen Pao is doing here is guaranteeing overpayment for mediocre workers. Think about it. To get the best talent she'll have to pay top dollar. But that doesn't guarantee everyone hired is top talent.
If you read the summary carefully, they are not stating a salary value for a job in advance of making a offer to someone.
They are interviewing and then making an offer they feel is appropriate for that interviewee, that means that they can still adjust the offer based on the person in front of them (and who is to say the hiring managers don't offer less to women?). All thats changed is that the offer is set in stone, the interviewee either takes it or leaves it.
This scheme will live or die on how well they predict the job market for the roles they are hiring for but I don't see how it really addresses the stated goal of equalizing pay ranges between genders.
This scheme doesn't work too well anyway - I won't go for the interview without an upfront statement wrt the salary. I don't think I've ever gone for an interview which did not have a salary range stated upfront. As recently as Monday I've told a slave-trader that the job-spec he sent me neglected to mention a salary range. He came back with "They offer competitive market rates" and I replied with "I don't interview for people who cannot afford me". I will not be going on any interview soon (mostly 'cos I'm happy where I am, but regardless).
It's actually quite simple - if they cannot afford me then they should waste my time. If I'm unable to adjust my expectations downwards then I won't waste theirs. There is no "Well, we'll offer you competitive market rates for your skills after we interview you," there is only "don't enter the fitting room if you can't afford to buy!"
The deal is with hiring/starting salaries. And please realize, all large organizations have an HR department that knows or has access to the cost of living by city. Subtract that cost of living from the formula, and you have a salary range, based on what you sell as years of productive technical deliveries. Negotiations are essentially showing that you are worth your hired starting salary.
Most employees are fully replaceable, which means that if you believe your self to be worth more than the ceiling in the salary range for your corporate knowledge and your years of experience, you won't get that increase, or you go elsewhere. you might however, get an annual bonus, but the salary range stays intact.
You can't continue to have that patriotism in view of the observable facts - your government is by the few, for the few, and the people be damned. I agree that it's great that a government was founded with these ideals - but as laid out in the constitution, the time would seem to have come to throw what you have away and replace it with a government for the people again.
Students go to school to learn. I always did better with personal access to my teachers and I never knew more than the teacher/instructor/professor (that is, Not Graduate "Assistants"). I always did better with personal attention. Some concepts are not easy to grasp.
But Standford, refusing to hire more "Educational Helpers" gets the students to teach each other. And they wrap this dismal plan in teaching the student how to work together. (I always liked linking my fate to ignorant classmates.) More money for less education. Bunch of turds.
As a Canadian living in Montreal, I was shocked at the $44,000 per year fee for an undergrad student. Here in my fine province, a one semester (Sept to May) course is around $400-500 plus text books. With 5 courses per year, even with half semester being Sept to December, the student would be out of pocket not more than $3000.00 That is the fee for residents of the province. What does the $3000 give you? a bachelor, masters or doctorate degree equivalent to any from Harvard, MIT, Univ of Chicago, UCLA, and Stanford.
Foreign students (non Canadians) have to pay triple or somewhat more, according to my memory, about $11,000 to $14,000 per year. There are many student apartments, dorms, etc. Re student apartments, these are three bedroom suites. Three students get together and split the rent, which would be about $450/mo each.
Again, I'm in shock at the high high US$ cost of education. (By the way the Canadian dollar is at $0.78 US). Americans can apply.
We in the cold climate of Canada experience lead-acid car batteries lasting a minimum of 7 years. The batteries are subject to subzero cold and even at that temperature, a 7 year old battery has enough cranking power to start the modern car. If the battery survives the -20C (about -15F), it will work though the summer.
Now the mothership itself in infected. Open source??? OMG. But really, if real programmers ever got their hands on Windows under a GPL, they would just strip out anything of value and add it to Linux. Really.
The correct balance is probably to allow it for sole proprietorships but not parternships or corporations. That way individuals aren't forced to violate their conscience while groups are required to conform to societal norms. If Joe's lawnmower service center or Sally's cake shop is discriminatory it's probably not a big deal in the grand scheme of things (distasteful as it may be to some), but if you have the same problem with Toro or Albertsons it's a major issue. This makes both sides unhappy, so it's likely the best compromise solution.
Discrimination is discrimination. It can't be half discrimination. The question then too, is drug use discrimination with consequences?
In my view discrimination is insidious. We have likes and dislikes. We choose one grocery store over another because we are more comfortable shopping there. We choose a model of car for the same reason.
Another very simple idea is to just turn this crap off. Sometimes you have to MAKE it do so, since plenty of electronics nowadays don't have a true "off" option at all. So I put everything on surge protectors that have individually-switched outlets. Easy to find plenty of those on Amazon. Either the power-strip style, or I use the desktop models (the ones intended to sit under a monitor), depending on the application and where I'm putting it. The desktop models look nice inside an enclosed entertainment center, and make for easy switching of the electronics in there.
Either way, being able to physically flip the switch to cut off all those game consoles and those sound systems and those cell phone/laptop/whatever chargers, etc. etc. really helps.
I even installed a timer switch on my water heater (until I can get around to replacing the thing with a tankless instead). I found that the long-cycle heating up of the water when it's turned on via the timer, actually uses less power than "maintaining" the heat throughout the day. Though that certainly depends on your usage, of course. I'm a single person and generally only need it powered for a shower. The water remains hot enough even in the unpowered tank throughout the day for things like hand washing. I was surprised what a difference it made. Most of us Slashdot types probably already have programmable thermostats for HVAC, but you don't really think about your water heater sitting there sucking up power all day maintaining hot water you're not using.
I even have my damn dishwasher on a switch, conveniently right next to the garbage disposal switch. Only gets turned on when I need it. Sure, all this was a pretty fair amount of work at first, but once I'd done it, I literally cut my power bill in half. No joke, no exaggeration. Though again keep in mind I'm a single person and don't generally use a lot of power to begin with, admittedly, but still, slicing my usage in half just by putting crap I wasn't using on switched outlets made a tremendous difference to me. And I really don't think it's inconvenient to go over to the entertainment center and, say, flip the Playstation switch when I want to play that.
And as an added bonus, an unpowered device is one less possible source of circuit failure and fire hazard. That's just a nice little icing on the lower-power-bill cake.
It reads more like your in a high lightning strike area and are protecting your equipment. Still, I appreciate your efforts at cutting out waste.
I work on PPC systems every day. I also use several. I'd wager that you do as well.
Have cable or satellite TV? 90% chance it's using a Power cpu. Drive a car with fuel injection? 65% chance your engine is run by Power, 90% chance something in the car is (ABS, nav, transmission).
It's been around a long time (30+ years), been 64 bit much longer than x86 or ARM, has good OS support and good compilers.
I work on and like ARM as well, but if IBM can make a value proposition in China with PPC, they actually have a chance at getting some market share outside embedded.
I'm a fan of Power, and even big-Endian. Why not come out with 96bit wide processors. 32gigs ram for home and small business computers is too small.
I've been working with AIX since 1990. Prior to that a bit of SunOS. AIX is is different but generally well thought out. Most people who hate it simply aren't used to the differences. Lots of feature that we take for granted in today's Linux existed in AIX 25 years ago.
Tivoli Storage Manager is a dream. I remember setting up a high-availability TSM (well, ADSM at the time) server and having a client backup running during fail over testing. Client connection failed, continued retrying until the server was back up on the other node, then the backup continued where is left off. Transaction backup with rollback and resumption after server fail over! Try that with NetBackup or Networker or Avamar or CommVault.
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And I loved VSAM, which was OS2 and which was ported to AIX. That was done in late 1980s.
The POWER architecture has been around longer than X64, the vast majority of linux software comes with source code and compiles fine on power (and arm, mips and anything else) so it doesn't matter what the underlying processor is. A lot of the software that doesn't come with source these days is java based, which will run just fine on power too.
Except for a small number of fairly niche apps, most linux based server loads will work fine on a power system.
I wonder if IBM would produce a Power cpu for the desktop at less than Intel I7 pricing. I would not mind if the chip was made in China. If they do, hopefully it will be a 96bit version, with programmable little Endien/Big Endien mode.
The Canadian middle class is being crushed out of existence. NAFTA has played a big role in this, as it resulted in much manufacturing draining directly to Mexico. Subsequent trade agreements have not helped. At the same time, there has been a huge flood of immigrants, most of them from third-world nations. The lack of work, combined with a large population increase, has resulted in higher levels of unemployment, along with higher housing prices.
Middle-class stores, including large and long-established chains, are closing throughout Canada at an astounding pace. Zellers is gone. Target never really got off the ground. Sears is on its way out. Many of the mid-sided clothing stores have gone under lately, are in the process of going under, or are just about to.
The middle-class retailers that have survived so far have often done so only by dropping their quality levels, or moving into higher-end goods. There is a stunning degree of economic polarization: either you are quite wealthy, or you are very poor. This is a huge change from what the country was once like, when it had a robust middle class. Most middle-class Canadians have been, or are being, forced down to a Wal-Mart level of existence.
The same holds true for the USA. However, regarding BestBuy, I have no tears for them. They were usually a "list price + 50%" business. As an example, I bought hdmi cables (6foot lengths) for $3.00 each, BB's price was $39.95ea. I purchased several "wireless mouse"s at $6.00ea, BB was $25.95 for the same product.
So, if you are seeing desktops at $1000, when they should be retailing at $550.00, you know the reason why. Its called "what the market will bear+10%" As competition becomes stronger, BB will have to compete or close. In my area, they were advertising packaged food deals.
More examples DDR3 ram should be in the $2-$3 per gig (8gig dims for $25.00, not $50.00). Manufacturing and distribution costs are less than $10.00/8gig dims As BBs prices come down so they can compete. so will prices follow from Amazon and NewEgg and TigerDirect and the others.
123Password is very strong because it uses numbers and upper and lower case letters. Those meters are stupid.
As long as it's not one of either this list: http://gizmodo.com/the-25-most... or just a copy of your exact username, then yep it will probably suit you just fine. Dictionary attacks don't happen in break ins nearly as often as exploiting password resets (via social engineering or otherwise) or other blatant sidesteps of security (token reuse, etc), since everyone tarpits bad logins, sometimes after as few as 3 attempts.
I found some dead keys on my keyboard, and mapped some foreign characters to the keyboard map. Since testers rely on only whats on standard keyboards, I figure I am a little safer than the average guy setting up passwordsif I include one or more of these characters.
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How about California stops growing almonds. Water crisis averted.
Perhaps they should learn from the Israelis. They run plastic water tubing with directed drip spiggots to each plant (tree). Don't arial spray, water is too precious to be wasted thusly.
they're jealous because they want to be successful snake oil salesmen?
so according to you, the only reason to oppose snake oil salesmen... is because you want to be one?
Some of the stuff he promotes is so horrific, that normal people will vomit on trying them, all at very low low hundreds of dollars.
Your first comment is close. Yes, a serious attacker has many better ways than cracking your password. In fact, I've given another speech on this a few months ago where I basically said that we should drop brute-force as a threat scenario from our password strength estimations, because any software that even allows a brute-force attack to be run is fundamentally broken and needs to be discarded.
Same for cracking hashes, btw. If your software does not properly salt and hash, it's broken. It's 2015, not 1995.
Your second comment is totally wrong and one of the reasons we have so many bad passwords. We tell normal human beings to use a different password for each of the 200 or so sites that they have an account on, many of which they use once a year. That's idiotic, and users are telling us we're insane by ignoring it.
I use 3 different passwords for 90% of the accounts I have. One for all the various forums, social sites and other crap that is of absolutely no importance to me and if it gets leaked and you use it to log in as me on one of them, you can post comments in my name - omg, the sky is falling. One is for sites that I have some stakes in, like accounts in online games and such, where you could do some damage in the sense of destroying something that took me time to create (delete my GW2 characters, I'd hate you for it, but no real damage has been done). And one I use for sites where you could do some damage that I could probably reverse, but it would take effort and might cause me real-world inconveniences, such as shopping sites where you could order something in my name and I'd have to go and cancel the order or send it back or whatever.
My PayPal and banking accounts have their own passwords, as do my user accounts, database accounts and such. But for 90% or so of accounts, you don't really need a seperate password (and using password managers ties you to them, which is why many people don't do it).
And I'm a security expert giving speeches at conferences about these topics. I'm just not a blind one-trick-pony who knows all about cryptography and nothing about anything else. If you begin to figure in psychology, HCI and other topics as diverse as design and linguistics, a lot of what's wrong with IT security begins to emerge more clearly.
I' m with you. I have a common password for 90% of my websites. I have only 1 credit card, one bank, and one bill payment account. All others I pay via direct visit to the bank or via cheque. For the 1 and 1 and 1, I have three reasonably long passwords.
By the way, my passwords are characters from utf-8. So that you know, € and ¥ are used for some of my pwds. Not sure you can enter the euro or yen symbol on the default US keyboard layout. My financial passwords exceed 10 characters in length and may include some characters from ±£€½¾çî and more. Hackers usually believe that only easily enteredd keyboard characters are required in the test alphabet.
- every company ever, when announcing their new product
Then perhaps we need a new kind of universal programming language like htmlx, where the application runs like a browser, and controls compatible htmlx appliances. Lets not have every damned appliance having a different unique programming interface.
A government body gets the whole key and then has it stolen from them and we're all left with our trousers down in a changing room made of glass.
No. If there is an EASY way to decrypt information, then that data is NOT SAFE and the encryption is useless.
I think that they should get the encryption algorithm, but the actual key, speak to the individual party, and to a judge that would authorize a search warrant.
Imagine that each subscriber gets to choose his encryption key, and a vigenere string to salt the encrypted result.
Just send your data out of the country, say to the north, where crime is low, and where houses and buildings are constructed with much stricter building codes related to fire, flooding and hurricanes. (Actually, can count on 1 hand the number of hurricanes to hit Canada in the past 5 years.
Please don't vote for Hillary just because she is a woman. We can't continue the oligarchy that is the US government leadership.
I am an outsider, watching American partisan politics. The democrats are the best thing that has happened to America since Bill Clinton. You guys who are inside the box can't see how the Bush administration really destroyed the USA outside in the real world. You have a decent honest president in Obama, a man who cares.
The democrats will act as a check against one sided government. Hopefully the democrats can reverse some laws that allow billions of dollars to be given to candidates to bias results. And the gerrymandering by the Republicans to avoid the representation by population rules.
Yes, she will make a fantastic president.
Interesting that this part of the "social contract" only applies to bans and prohibitions in the minds of the right but they suddenly become very vocal on "self reliance" and "personal responsibilities" when it comes to funding for college educations for underprivileged students.
Whats the difference between beer and cannibus, if beer becomes illegal?
What makes him dangerous is filling his head with dangerous thoughts. The vast majority, if not all, of the people whom the FBI have entrapped in the past are some of the more vulnerable members of society: people without a strong social support structure, part of a marginalised community, often poor, often unemployed, and so on.
It's a fundamental axiom of modern policing that the best way to stop crime is to stop people from becoming criminals in the first place. If someone is at risk of becoming a criminal, the best thing you can do is divert them away from that as early as possible. For the FBI to turn a non-criminal into a criminal is not just a failure, it's sociopathic.
What you say is not the American way. Why is it not? Well, the prison system has to expand, otherwise the law enforcement system would not be doing their jobs and there might be job cuts.
Unlike the Danish, which work to rehabilitate, the American system works to incarcerate.
try uttering such common sense in the usa
why are so many americans such fucking morons when it comes to the simple undeniable truth: more easy guns = more senseless death, not protection
As a non-American I always assume it is connected with the mythology of the Wild West or Frontiersman type of rugged individualism, which to be fair is fairly recent history (in European terms). Personally, I prefer civilization, but the "one-man-and-his-gun against the world" idea clearly appeals to many modern US citizens, even if they're living in a city apartment block and working in IT.
Guns were allowed in order to kill the Indians whose land the whiteman was stealing.
"Intel has been selling its Xeon chips to Chinese supercomputers for years, so the ban represents a..." pile of knee jerk ridiculous bullshit?
What it will do is get the Chinese to develop their own CPU chip. With what is known today, it wont take them that long to do. And if they hire away top Intel Engineers, that would development woul go even even faster. I bet that if the Chinese go that way, because computer chips are strategic, their design might be an 80 bit chip that runs at half the wattage of Intel designs. 80 bits vs 64 bits means a very huge address space, managed with basic addressing controller design.
Soon the world will be clamoring for these 80bit chips.
I read the stats
It's in plain view
If you're over 50
No job for YOU!
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If you read the summary carefully, they are not stating a salary value for a job in advance of making a offer to someone.
They are interviewing and then making an offer they feel is appropriate for that interviewee, that means that they can still adjust the offer based on the person in front of them (and who is to say the hiring managers don't offer less to women?). All thats changed is that the offer is set in stone, the interviewee either takes it or leaves it.
This scheme will live or die on how well they predict the job market for the roles they are hiring for but I don't see how it really addresses the stated goal of equalizing pay ranges between genders.
This scheme doesn't work too well anyway - I won't go for the interview without an upfront statement wrt the salary. I don't think I've ever gone for an interview which did not have a salary range stated upfront. As recently as Monday I've told a slave-trader that the job-spec he sent me neglected to mention a salary range. He came back with "They offer competitive market rates" and I replied with "I don't interview for people who cannot afford me". I will not be going on any interview soon (mostly 'cos I'm happy where I am, but regardless).
It's actually quite simple - if they cannot afford me then they should waste my time. If I'm unable to adjust my expectations downwards then I won't waste theirs. There is no "Well, we'll offer you competitive market rates for your skills after we interview you," there is only "don't enter the fitting room if you can't afford to buy!"
The deal is with hiring/starting salaries. And please realize, all large organizations have an HR department that knows or has access to the cost of living by city. Subtract that cost of living from the formula, and you have a salary range, based on what you sell as years of productive technical deliveries. Negotiations are essentially showing that you are worth your hired starting salary.
Most employees are fully replaceable, which means that if you believe your self to be worth more than the ceiling in the salary range for your corporate knowledge and your years of experience, you won't get that increase, or you go elsewhere. you might however, get an annual bonus, but the salary range stays intact.
You can't continue to have that patriotism in view of the observable facts - your government is by the few, for the few, and the people be damned. I agree that it's great that a government was founded with these ideals - but as laid out in the constitution, the time would seem to have come to throw what you have away and replace it with a government for the people again.
True patriotism would be revolution.
I second your statement
Makes sense, right?
Students go to school to learn.
I always did better with personal access to my teachers and I never knew more than the teacher/instructor/professor (that is, Not Graduate "Assistants").
I always did better with personal attention. Some concepts are not easy to grasp.
But Standford, refusing to hire more "Educational Helpers" gets the students to teach each other.
And they wrap this dismal plan in teaching the student how to work together. (I always liked linking my fate to ignorant classmates.)
More money for less education.
Bunch of turds.
As a Canadian living in Montreal, I was shocked at the $44,000 per year fee for an undergrad student. Here in my fine province, a one semester (Sept to May) course is around $400-500 plus text books. With 5 courses per year, even with half semester being Sept to December, the student would be out of pocket not more than $3000.00 That is the fee for residents of the province. What does the $3000 give you? a bachelor, masters or doctorate degree equivalent to any from Harvard, MIT, Univ of Chicago, UCLA, and Stanford.
Foreign students (non Canadians) have to pay triple or somewhat more, according to my memory, about $11,000 to $14,000 per year.
There are many student apartments, dorms, etc. Re student apartments, these are three bedroom suites. Three students get together and split the rent, which would be about $450/mo each.
Again, I'm in shock at the high high US$ cost of education. (By the way the Canadian dollar is at $0.78 US). Americans can apply.
We in the cold climate of Canada experience lead-acid car batteries lasting a minimum of 7 years. The batteries are subject to subzero cold and even at that temperature, a 7 year old battery has enough cranking power to start the modern car. If the battery survives the -20C (about -15F), it will work though the summer.
Steve Ballmer warned us that Linux was a cancer. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
Now the mothership itself in infected. Open source??? OMG. But really, if real programmers ever got their hands on Windows under a GPL, they would just strip out anything of value and add it to Linux. Really.
Open source does not mean GPL!
The correct balance is probably to allow it for sole proprietorships but not parternships or corporations. That way individuals aren't forced to violate their conscience while groups are required to conform to societal norms. If Joe's lawnmower service center or Sally's cake shop is discriminatory it's probably not a big deal in the grand scheme of things (distasteful as it may be to some), but if you have the same problem with Toro or Albertsons it's a major issue. This makes both sides unhappy, so it's likely the best compromise solution.
Discrimination is discrimination. It can't be half discrimination. The question then too, is drug use discrimination with consequences?
In my view discrimination is insidious. We have likes and dislikes. We choose one grocery store over another because we are more comfortable shopping there. We choose a model of car for the same reason.
Another very simple idea is to just turn this crap off. Sometimes you have to MAKE it do so, since plenty of electronics nowadays don't have a true "off" option at all. So I put everything on surge protectors that have individually-switched outlets. Easy to find plenty of those on Amazon. Either the power-strip style, or I use the desktop models (the ones intended to sit under a monitor), depending on the application and where I'm putting it. The desktop models look nice inside an enclosed entertainment center, and make for easy switching of the electronics in there.
Either way, being able to physically flip the switch to cut off all those game consoles and those sound systems and those cell phone/laptop/whatever chargers, etc. etc. really helps.
I even installed a timer switch on my water heater (until I can get around to replacing the thing with a tankless instead). I found that the long-cycle heating up of the water when it's turned on via the timer, actually uses less power than "maintaining" the heat throughout the day. Though that certainly depends on your usage, of course. I'm a single person and generally only need it powered for a shower. The water remains hot enough even in the unpowered tank throughout the day for things like hand washing. I was surprised what a difference it made. Most of us Slashdot types probably already have programmable thermostats for HVAC, but you don't really think about your water heater sitting there sucking up power all day maintaining hot water you're not using.
I even have my damn dishwasher on a switch, conveniently right next to the garbage disposal switch. Only gets turned on when I need it. Sure, all this was a pretty fair amount of work at first, but once I'd done it, I literally cut my power bill in half. No joke, no exaggeration. Though again keep in mind I'm a single person and don't generally use a lot of power to begin with, admittedly, but still, slicing my usage in half just by putting crap I wasn't using on switched outlets made a tremendous difference to me. And I really don't think it's inconvenient to go over to the entertainment center and, say, flip the Playstation switch when I want to play that.
And as an added bonus, an unpowered device is one less possible source of circuit failure and fire hazard. That's just a nice little icing on the lower-power-bill cake.
It reads more like your in a high lightning strike area and are protecting your equipment. Still, I appreciate your efforts at cutting out waste.
I work on PPC systems every day. I also use several. I'd wager that you do as well.
Have cable or satellite TV? 90% chance it's using a Power cpu. Drive a car with fuel injection? 65% chance your engine is run by Power, 90% chance something in the car is (ABS, nav, transmission).
It's been around a long time (30+ years), been 64 bit much longer than x86 or ARM, has good OS support and good compilers.
I work on and like ARM as well, but if IBM can make a value proposition in China with PPC, they actually have a chance at getting some market share outside embedded.
I'm a fan of Power, and even big-Endian. Why not come out with 96bit wide processors. 32gigs ram for home and small business computers is too small.
I've been working with AIX since 1990. Prior to that a bit of SunOS. AIX is is different but generally well thought out. Most people who hate it simply aren't used to the differences. Lots of feature that we take for granted in today's Linux existed in AIX 25 years ago.
Tivoli Storage Manager is a dream. I remember setting up a high-availability TSM (well, ADSM at the time) server and having a client backup running during fail over testing. Client connection failed, continued retrying until the server was back up on the other node, then the backup continued where is left off. Transaction backup with rollback and resumption after server fail over! Try that with NetBackup or Networker or Avamar or CommVault.
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And I loved VSAM, which was OS2 and which was ported to AIX. That was done in late 1980s.
The POWER architecture has been around longer than X64, the vast majority of linux software comes with source code and compiles fine on power (and arm, mips and anything else) so it doesn't matter what the underlying processor is. A lot of the software that doesn't come with source these days is java based, which will run just fine on power too.
Except for a small number of fairly niche apps, most linux based server loads will work fine on a power system.
I wonder if IBM would produce a Power cpu for the desktop at less than Intel I7 pricing. I would not mind if the chip was made in China.
If they do, hopefully it will be a 96bit version, with programmable little Endien/Big Endien mode.
Most middle-class Canadians have been, or are being, forced down to a Wal-Mart level of existence.
That'll be why our street is full of new trucks and SUVs. They need them to drive to Wal-Mart, I guess.
Yes, and you will note, they are not purchases, but two family incomes paying a lease.
The Canadian middle class is being crushed out of existence. NAFTA has played a big role in this, as it resulted in much manufacturing draining directly to Mexico. Subsequent trade agreements have not helped. At the same time, there has been a huge flood of immigrants, most of them from third-world nations. The lack of work, combined with a large population increase, has resulted in higher levels of unemployment, along with higher housing prices.
Middle-class stores, including large and long-established chains, are closing throughout Canada at an astounding pace. Zellers is gone. Target never really got off the ground. Sears is on its way out. Many of the mid-sided clothing stores have gone under lately, are in the process of going under, or are just about to.
The middle-class retailers that have survived so far have often done so only by dropping their quality levels, or moving into higher-end goods. There is a stunning degree of economic polarization: either you are quite wealthy, or you are very poor. This is a huge change from what the country was once like, when it had a robust middle class. Most middle-class Canadians have been, or are being, forced down to a Wal-Mart level of existence.
The same holds true for the USA. However, regarding BestBuy, I have no tears for them. They were usually a "list price + 50%" business. As an example, I bought hdmi cables (6foot lengths) for $3.00 each, BB's price was $39.95ea. I purchased several "wireless mouse"s at $6.00ea, BB was $25.95 for the same product.
So, if you are seeing desktops at $1000, when they should be retailing at $550.00, you know the reason why. Its called "what the market will bear+10%"
As competition becomes stronger, BB will have to compete or close. In my area, they were advertising packaged food deals.
More examples
DDR3 ram should be in the $2-$3 per gig (8gig dims for $25.00, not $50.00). Manufacturing and distribution costs are less than $10.00/8gig dims
As BBs prices come down so they can compete. so will prices follow from Amazon and NewEgg and TigerDirect and the others.
123Password is very strong because it uses numbers and upper and lower case letters.
Those meters are stupid.
As long as it's not one of either this list: http://gizmodo.com/the-25-most... or just a copy of your exact username, then yep it will probably suit you just fine. Dictionary attacks don't happen in break ins nearly as often as exploiting password resets (via social engineering or otherwise) or other blatant sidesteps of security (token reuse, etc), since everyone tarpits bad logins, sometimes after as few as 3 attempts.
I found some dead keys on my keyboard, and mapped some foreign characters to the keyboard map. Since testers rely on only whats on standard keyboards, I figure I am a little safer than the average guy setting up passwordsif I include one or more of these characters.