Nope, its true. I used to work for a US owned company in Australia - because of US law, we had to do everything in accordance with Sarbanes–Oxley. It was a royal pain in the ass - 100% pure bureaucracy - and just about doubled the work required to do most of our tasks.
Thankfully, I'm not working there anymore - but that little glimpse into American life really, really made me glad I wasn't working in IT in the US...
If you disagree, tell me one country which would do a better job. And then tell me how much influence they'd have over the ITU.
I'm not sure if there is ANY country up for the job - hence the UN is supposed to represent everyones interests. With the downward spiral being the norm for the US these days, its more scary to me to have them in charge of anything. A few successful lobbies (read $$$$$$) and the internet that we know of is over. No country should have veto powers on the Internet. This includes the US.
It makes me feel good inside to know that I am creating revenue for the website that I visit, which helps cover the cost of providing that website. Tracking a user and giving targeting advertising increases the value of the advertising campaigns, which translates into more money for the website.
Don't fool yourself. I get about 800 unique visits a day to my web site - the data transfer out is about ~550Mb per day of mostly static content. I have a small block of Google Ads on my site - thinking it'd help me pay the bills.
Let me share some results: In the last 7 days: 1,126 ads displayed, 0 clicks = $0.00 So far this month: 4,172 ads displayed, 2 clicks = $0.33 Last month: 3,903 ads displayed, 7 clicks = $2.98
Since the 1st of June this year, advertising has clocked up $11.02.
Advertising wouldn't even pay for the electricity to run the server. Yes, I could get obnoxious advertisements and make things nasty for the user, but I don't want to. Keep your privacy - as it certainly doesn't benefit the people running the sites...
Not being an American, it was rather a shock to hear a member of the military calling up after the debate that America should invade Iran and they they urge people to vote for a certain candidate so nobody touched the military. The justification? "We have to get them before they get us".
Great work America - fix your shit up by going to war. That worked so well last time.
What is even worse is that most people would say it is morally wrong to withhold this information - but the voice of the average person is ignored these days...
Samsung parts make up a solid quarter of the electronics in iPhones and iPads! It gets better: Samsung fabricate the phones...!
So what happens to Apple if Samsung decide to be bastards and pull the plug on parts/and/ assembly? What the fuck can Apple do about it? Precisely *nothing*!
And just to make things better, Samsung owns the patents for the 'retina display' - so if Samsung don't sell the screens to Apple, who can Apple get to make them? That's right, nobody.
I do exactly this to get my fix in Team Fortress 2. 3 x 24" screens running 1920x1080. The outer screens are angled ~30 degrees in and using the bevel removal tool for the ATI card seems to get the perspective thing sorted out.
I have hotkeys in the ATI Control Panel that allow me to switch configs between the three screens being seen as a single display (giving me 5968x1080 with bevel correction) and 3 x seperate 1920x1080 for normal use.
Why 3 screens? Well, if you have 2 - look at the bevels between the two screens, and your aiming point in just about EVERY FPS game will be smack bang in the middle. Use 1 screen or 3. Don't even try with just 2!
Oh, I dunno... how about fixing bugs in the Thunderbird UI and elsewhere that have persisted for a timespan of years when they've been reported to GetSatisfaction and Bugzilla?
I agree. Using the IMAP COMPRESS feature and I'm always getting told I have XX,XXX new messages when a single message drops into the inbox. The number seems to be random, but its always in the 5 figures. Always laughable for a single new message;)
I posted this just above, but as this is a thread purely about linux on SB, I'll place it here also:
Be careful. You may get bitten by this bug. The tl;dr version: If your apps use dynamic loading on Sandy Bridge, you may get segmentation faults cause by a bug in glibc.
RHEL should have this fixed by release 6.3. Other clones of EL will get the fix via the update to 6.3 after RH has released it.
We run a large number of XenApp servers as VM's and while total system throughput is important so is single threaded performance. Right now we use x5670's with 2.93 GHz clock speeds and a 95W TDP. I'm wondering if the E5-2660 would be as powerful for single threaded workloads which would get us 33% more total throughput for the same power budget but I'm not sure that a 2.2GHz base clock with a 500MHz turbo boost using the SB core is going to be as fast as a 2.93GHz Westmere core.
Be careful. You may get bitten by this bug. The tl;dr version: If your apps use dynamic loading on Sandy Bridge, you may get segmentation faults cause by a bug in glibc.
RHEL should have this fixed by release 6.3. Other clones of EL will get the fix via the update to 6.3 after RH has released it.
As someone who recently jailbroke his iPad2, its one of the best things to ever happen to my iPad!
I bought a WiFi only model - as for my purposes, the onboard GPS is *very* substandard. When then trying to use a normal bluetooth GPS, I find out that you need a GPS that speaks "Apple" at $99USD + shipping to your country. After the jailbreak, a $5 donation to the guy who wrote a part of a bluetooth driver and bingo, now it works with ANY bluetooth GPS.
Theres also this awesome extension called "Mail Extender" that adds all the features that mail clients have developed over the last 10 years when Apple decided that you shall not send anything but plain text emails.
Thankfully, I live in a country where console modchips and other methods for device compatibility are 100% legal - and tested in court.
I wonder how this will affect radio propagation... From the brief bits that I learnt many years ago, a charged atmosphere reflects HF radio much better making low powered communications across the globe possible.
Someone who understands more about this than I do able to enlighten me a little?
Has anyone stopped to think about piracy for a second? The BIOS loaders just about make Win7/Vista/Server2008 anti-piracy a joke. It circumvents it completely.
I figure if this actually does what it sounds, the main aim is to close the door on the bios loaders that prevent any kind of effective copy protection on Windows... If they could do it for x86, they would.
Given that you probably don't need a support contract, CentOS 6 would fit the bill nicely.
Its been a long time since I've posted here on Slashdot - and I agree with the idea of your post - however I would not recommend ANYONE currently doing any new rollout to use CentOS. After just getting a heap of updates pushed through for CentOS 5.x that are mostly security and bugfixes that are mostly a few months old, I would highly recommend using Scientific Linux instead.
You can find more details on Scientific Linux on their site.
In a nutshell, its still RHEL (with a few minor changes), however updates seem to be delivered on time and with minimal delay. The project also doesn't seem to have the infighting that has infested the CentOS world.
Forgive the laymen for asking a stupid question: wouldn't it make sense to use accelerometers and gyroscopes to help to determine the attack angle and speed? Isn't a gyroscope a standard equipment in a cockpit?
It doesn't quite work like this. A gyroscope is set to a point in space and will always track that point. An artificial horizon will always show relative to the horizon. Angle of attack however is different as it has no bearing on the actual angle to the horizon. To explain this a little better, I shall go into a bit of detail and mention a little bit of aerodynamic theory.
Usually, a wing generates the most like with the least drag at about a 4 degree angle of attack (AoA). This is handy to know. When an aircraft starts its takeoff roll, the wing will usually be about 4 degrees above the horizon. As you are rolling along the ground (assuming its perfectly flat), this 4 degrees is perfect for maximum lift.
This changes when the aircraft raises its nose. The AoA increases (usually to 10-14 degrees) at rotation, but as the relative airflow changes to the aircraft climbing, the AoA will drop back to about 4 degrees. At this point, the aircraft nose will *still* be 10-14 degrees nose up. As the airflow is not parallel to the earth (as the aircraft is now climbing) it is quite different to the pitch of the aircraft.
For this reason, it is impossible to get an AoA from a gyro - you need to measure exactly where the air is coming from - not the pitch of the aircraft.
I think that's just bad phrasing. My reading is that they only found out that the customer had been "hacked" because they were blacklisting (i.e. 'hacking' occurred, blacklisting occurred, awareness of blacklisting occurred, and finally awareness of 'hacking' occurred).
Exactly - and isn't this the whole idea on how this is supposed to work?
My concern isn't so much flat pay - I have more money than I know what to do with - but flat technology. I spend my days fixing idiotic bugs in legacy systems, with few prospects for learning anything new.
I think you're probably the majority. When I decided to take the leap out of IT nearly 3 years ago now, I was on roughly the same wage as I first started in IT nearly 10 years earlier. Yes, it was a little better, but nowhere near what I would expect.
My positions were: 1) Desktop support / network admin - first ever IT job - ~$40k AUD 2) 3 months contracting - much more than $40k when averaged over the 3 months. 3) 3rd level network support for a telco - about 300,000 users or so - ~$48k AUD 4) VoIP design / rollout - ~$41kAUD 5) Network Operations - mid-size ISP covering AU/SG - ~$45k AUD 6) Call centre team leader - ~$41k AUD.
Then I left IT to go fly planes. Less stress. Less bullshit to deal with. More enjoyable. Go Figure.
Joke aside, my network printers don't support IPv6, my 802.11 access point doesn't support IPv6, my SIP phone doesn't support IPv6, my ADSL modem/router doesn't support IPv6.
Tell me again, how is this transition supposed to work if a good 50% of equipment doesn't support IPv6?
Even if all these devices actually did support IPv6, why would I want them on publicly accessible IP addresses? The truth is, IPv6 hasn't taken off because really there is no huge need for it. Private networks (and there is gobs of IP space for those) are the norm, and in 90% of cases are more than acceptable with a device doing NAT to the rest of the world.
There is nothing stopping people having both public and private IPs (like I have) for things that don't behave behind NAT. That is unless your ISP won't give you addresses....
From how many hundreds of miles away can we detect a sparrow fart? Or more slashdot related, how many miles away can someone detect my unencrypted wireless AP?
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Nope, its true. I used to work for a US owned company in Australia - because of US law, we had to do everything in accordance with Sarbanes–Oxley. It was a royal pain in the ass - 100% pure bureaucracy - and just about doubled the work required to do most of our tasks.
Thankfully, I'm not working there anymore - but that little glimpse into American life really, really made me glad I wasn't working in IT in the US...
... It really seems to be a Robin Hood type thing....
The 'rich' taking the 'richer' to the cleaners to provide broadband to the masses for free...
Lately I can't seem to fault this guy....
If you disagree, tell me one country which would do a better job. And then tell me how much influence they'd have over the ITU.
I'm not sure if there is ANY country up for the job - hence the UN is supposed to represent everyones interests. With the downward spiral being the norm for the US these days, its more scary to me to have them in charge of anything. A few successful lobbies (read $$$$$$) and the internet that we know of is over. No country should have veto powers on the Internet. This includes the US.
It makes me feel good inside to know that I am creating revenue for the website that I visit, which helps cover the cost of providing that website. Tracking a user and giving targeting advertising increases the value of the advertising campaigns, which translates into more money for the website.
Don't fool yourself. I get about 800 unique visits a day to my web site - the data transfer out is about ~550Mb per day of mostly static content. I have a small block of Google Ads on my site - thinking it'd help me pay the bills.
Let me share some results:
In the last 7 days: 1,126 ads displayed, 0 clicks = $0.00
So far this month: 4,172 ads displayed, 2 clicks = $0.33
Last month: 3,903 ads displayed, 7 clicks = $2.98
Since the 1st of June this year, advertising has clocked up $11.02.
Advertising wouldn't even pay for the electricity to run the server. Yes, I could get obnoxious advertisements and make things nasty for the user, but I don't want to. Keep your privacy - as it certainly doesn't benefit the people running the sites...
Ok, so they're getting in on what the rest of the world does with a single phase.
Most of the world is 240v single phase, 415v 3 phase. I don't quite understand how they give up energy savings by using a higher input voltage?
Lower voltage = more amps = more heat
Higher voltate = less amps = less heat.
Even more concerning is the callers at the end.
Not being an American, it was rather a shock to hear a member of the military calling up after the debate that America should invade Iran and they they urge people to vote for a certain candidate so nobody touched the military. The justification? "We have to get them before they get us".
Great work America - fix your shit up by going to war. That worked so well last time.
Sadly, how is any of this a surprise?
What is even worse is that most people would say it is morally wrong to withhold this information - but the voice of the average person is ignored these days...
Samsung parts make up a solid quarter of the electronics in iPhones and iPads! It gets better: Samsung fabricate the phones...!
So what happens to Apple if Samsung decide to be bastards and pull the plug on parts /and/ assembly? What the fuck can Apple do about it? Precisely *nothing*!
And just to make things better, Samsung owns the patents for the 'retina display' - so if Samsung don't sell the screens to Apple, who can Apple get to make them? That's right, nobody.
I do exactly this to get my fix in Team Fortress 2. 3 x 24" screens running 1920x1080. The outer screens are angled ~30 degrees in and using the bevel removal tool for the ATI card seems to get the perspective thing sorted out.
I have hotkeys in the ATI Control Panel that allow me to switch configs between the three screens being seen as a single display (giving me 5968x1080 with bevel correction) and 3 x seperate 1920x1080 for normal use.
Why 3 screens? Well, if you have 2 - look at the bevels between the two screens, and your aiming point in just about EVERY FPS game will be smack bang in the middle. Use 1 screen or 3. Don't even try with just 2!
Oh, I dunno... how about fixing bugs in the Thunderbird UI and elsewhere that have persisted for a timespan of years when they've been reported to GetSatisfaction and Bugzilla?
I agree. Using the IMAP COMPRESS feature and I'm always getting told I have XX,XXX new messages when a single message drops into the inbox. The number seems to be random, but its always in the 5 figures. Always laughable for a single new message ;)
One game I would love to see hit an Open Source license is Theme Hospital.
The game is great by itself (I just finished playing it again!) although there are many bugs and things that could really be improved upon.
There are attempts at an open source version - but having the original code would be orders of magnitude better...
I posted this just above, but as this is a thread purely about linux on SB, I'll place it here also:
Be careful. You may get bitten by this bug. The tl;dr version: If your apps use dynamic loading on Sandy Bridge, you may get segmentation faults cause by a bug in glibc.
RHEL should have this fixed by release 6.3. Other clones of EL will get the fix via the update to 6.3 after RH has released it.
We run a large number of XenApp servers as VM's and while total system throughput is important so is single threaded performance. Right now we use x5670's with 2.93 GHz clock speeds and a 95W TDP. I'm wondering if the E5-2660 would be as powerful for single threaded workloads which would get us 33% more total throughput for the same power budget but I'm not sure that a 2.2GHz base clock with a 500MHz turbo boost using the SB core is going to be as fast as a 2.93GHz Westmere core.
Be careful. You may get bitten by this bug. The tl;dr version: If your apps use dynamic loading on Sandy Bridge, you may get segmentation faults cause by a bug in glibc.
RHEL should have this fixed by release 6.3. Other clones of EL will get the fix via the update to 6.3 after RH has released it.
Because they damaged US computer systems on US soil.
Awesome. Does that mean other countries can extradite US politicians and business men for screwing over companies and in some cases entire countries?
Oh right, what was I thinking... :\
As someone who recently jailbroke his iPad2, its one of the best things to ever happen to my iPad!
I bought a WiFi only model - as for my purposes, the onboard GPS is *very* substandard. When then trying to use a normal bluetooth GPS, I find out that you need a GPS that speaks "Apple" at $99USD + shipping to your country. After the jailbreak, a $5 donation to the guy who wrote a part of a bluetooth driver and bingo, now it works with ANY bluetooth GPS.
Theres also this awesome extension called "Mail Extender" that adds all the features that mail clients have developed over the last 10 years when Apple decided that you shall not send anything but plain text emails.
Thankfully, I live in a country where console modchips and other methods for device compatibility are 100% legal - and tested in court.
I wonder how this will affect radio propagation... From the brief bits that I learnt many years ago, a charged atmosphere reflects HF radio much better making low powered communications across the globe possible.
Someone who understands more about this than I do able to enlighten me a little?
Its interesting how TFA says most disabled IPv6 support after the day - however:
Looks like of the 3 listed, only 1 backed out - Bing.
Has anyone stopped to think about piracy for a second? The BIOS loaders just about make Win7/Vista/Server2008 anti-piracy a joke. It circumvents it completely.
I figure if this actually does what it sounds, the main aim is to close the door on the bios loaders that prevent any kind of effective copy protection on Windows... If they could do it for x86, they would.
Given that you probably don't need a support contract, CentOS 6 would fit the bill nicely.
Its been a long time since I've posted here on Slashdot - and I agree with the idea of your post - however I would not recommend ANYONE currently doing any new rollout to use CentOS. After just getting a heap of updates pushed through for CentOS 5.x that are mostly security and bugfixes that are mostly a few months old, I would highly recommend using Scientific Linux instead.
You can find more details on Scientific Linux on their site.
In a nutshell, its still RHEL (with a few minor changes), however updates seem to be delivered on time and with minimal delay. The project also doesn't seem to have the infighting that has infested the CentOS world.
Forgive the laymen for asking a stupid question: wouldn't it make sense to use accelerometers and gyroscopes to help to determine the attack angle and speed? Isn't a gyroscope a standard equipment in a cockpit?
It doesn't quite work like this. A gyroscope is set to a point in space and will always track that point. An artificial horizon will always show relative to the horizon. Angle of attack however is different as it has no bearing on the actual angle to the horizon. To explain this a little better, I shall go into a bit of detail and mention a little bit of aerodynamic theory.
Usually, a wing generates the most like with the least drag at about a 4 degree angle of attack (AoA). This is handy to know. When an aircraft starts its takeoff roll, the wing will usually be about 4 degrees above the horizon. As you are rolling along the ground (assuming its perfectly flat), this 4 degrees is perfect for maximum lift.
This changes when the aircraft raises its nose. The AoA increases (usually to 10-14 degrees) at rotation, but as the relative airflow changes to the aircraft climbing, the AoA will drop back to about 4 degrees. At this point, the aircraft nose will *still* be 10-14 degrees nose up. As the airflow is not parallel to the earth (as the aircraft is now climbing) it is quite different to the pitch of the aircraft.
For this reason, it is impossible to get an AoA from a gyro - you need to measure exactly where the air is coming from - not the pitch of the aircraft.
I think that's just bad phrasing. My reading is that they only found out that the customer had been "hacked" because they were blacklisting (i.e. 'hacking' occurred, blacklisting occurred, awareness of blacklisting occurred, and finally awareness of 'hacking' occurred).
Exactly - and isn't this the whole idea on how this is supposed to work?
My concern isn't so much flat pay - I have more money than I know what to do with - but flat technology. I spend my days fixing idiotic bugs in legacy systems, with few prospects for learning anything new.
I think you're probably the majority. When I decided to take the leap out of IT nearly 3 years ago now, I was on roughly the same wage as I first started in IT nearly 10 years earlier. Yes, it was a little better, but nowhere near what I would expect.
My positions were:
1) Desktop support / network admin - first ever IT job - ~$40k AUD
2) 3 months contracting - much more than $40k when averaged over the 3 months.
3) 3rd level network support for a telco - about 300,000 users or so - ~$48k AUD
4) VoIP design / rollout - ~$41kAUD
5) Network Operations - mid-size ISP covering AU/SG - ~$45k AUD
6) Call centre team leader - ~$41k AUD.
Then I left IT to go fly planes. Less stress. Less bullshit to deal with. More enjoyable. Go Figure.
Joke aside, my network printers don't support IPv6, my 802.11 access point doesn't support IPv6, my SIP phone doesn't support IPv6, my ADSL modem/router doesn't support IPv6.
Tell me again, how is this transition supposed to work if a good 50% of equipment doesn't support IPv6?
Even if all these devices actually did support IPv6, why would I want them on publicly accessible IP addresses? The truth is, IPv6 hasn't taken off because really there is no huge need for it. Private networks (and there is gobs of IP space for those) are the norm, and in 90% of cases are more than acceptable with a device doing NAT to the rest of the world.
There is nothing stopping people having both public and private IPs (like I have) for things that don't behave behind NAT. That is unless your ISP won't give you addresses....
I've never understood why its a World Series when it is only ever featuring American teams... On the same level as Miss Universe etc...
Interestingly, the only examples I can think of where things are grossly exaggerated have their roots in America. High School education fail?
In laymans terms, what does this actually mean?
From how many hundreds of miles away can we detect a sparrow fart? Or more slashdot related, how many miles away can someone detect my unencrypted wireless AP?