"Industrialised World" - The world is changing so quickly that the definitions of what is first world, third world, emerging markets, industrialised and so on are not clearly defined.
If that definition can be made accurately there can be concurrence as to if the peak travel levels have been reached or not.
Also, there has not in recorded history been any similar trends, except maybe for the peak and decline of rail travel - maybe a parallel can be drawn from that?
Given the above, the conclusion can only be "It looks like it, but we cannot be sure. Yet."
You are right - They will find an excuse to crack down.
The question is: Why give them one? Why aid them by handing them an excuse?
And as for embarrassment, I think it is hardly embarrassing to have your government site taken offline, especially one that draws as little traffic as this one - Its alexa ranking is 2,460,718! My blog gets roughly ten times the traffic that they do according to alexa!
If they wanted to disrupt something worthwhile they could have gone after a telecommunications server - surely if Anonymous were as smart as they allude to be they could have figured out the address of one.
This is one of those times where I feel a sense of justification for the anonymous attacks. Mugabe should be run out of office sooner than later.
Problem is, this kind of attack against his governments sites will have one effect: It will bolster his insane claims of overseas meddling causing his countries problems. It is a lie, Mugabe is the no1 cause for the problems Zim is having now, but all anonymous have done is lend credibility to his claims of overseas "agents" (yes he has used that term) causing trouble in Zimbabwe.
This will have the effect that his supporter base will grow, and lend him greater power.
A google could not find it, but there was a story on/. waaay back that told of a financial reward hidden in the eula of a piece of software. Only about ten people read that part of the eula to claim their money.
It was an exercise to see if people actually read the eula.
You can also get PCI cards that have 4 to 8 SATA ports on them. You just need to be sure that your PSU can handle them/has SATA power ports for them.
Easy to build a monster storage unit - the problems begin when you want redundancy to protect against per drive disk failure. In the end you would optimally want at least two gigs redundant storage per gig of storage.
Which means for every 1TB drive you will look at at least one extra 1TB drive that is in a raid1 array to protect against data loss in a drive. That is the simplest way to do it. I know you can get striping and parity and all that other nice stuff on more complex arrays, but I am talking the most simple solutions here.
Also, larger disk drives tend to become less reliable in my experience.
I have a server where daily roll back backups is made to a 1.5TB drive every 24 hours. Given that I only do a rollback of Inetpub on that drive I get about 170 to 200 days worth of dailies out of it.
I would love to slot in a 3TB drive or larger, but reliability is such that I would rather swop out the drive for a new one twice a year and put the full drive in a "storage" server at the office than risk losing a year worth of roll backs due to a drive failure.
(Before anyone flags my backup method, we do have other backups on three other servers, but since these have 1.5TB drives for backup at the largest and they serve as backup/failover nodes for eight servers total every server has a rollback backup drive in it. We are a smallish setup that cannot afford a SAN setup, so we make do with what we have. That means that per server we can keep about 30odd days worth of failover backups on these servers. Again larger drives would be great.)
Anything larger than 1TB also become problematic in a RAID setup, where I found the Seagate NS drives to be almost bulletproof - up to 1TB. I would not trust anything larger than that in a RAID array just yet.
This should be trivial. The only problem with putting this on the desktop is that the current version of Unity that runs on Mutter does not support having desktop icons.
The next version will use Compiz and will support having an icon on the desktop.
Yeah, when you install it yourself you get the option to install the codecs and flash etc with the OS installation, but on pre-installs you do not have that option.
I think there is a distinction between "open source" as a descriptive of the kind of software you are using, and "open source" as a descriptive of what group or movement the software belongs to.
Open source as a movement might have been named 12ish years ago, but open source software is much older than that.
Wasn't BSD open source way back? (sorry if I remember incorrectly)
Look, I am an adult, with children. And it seems, if I am correct, so are you.
I do not need to learn how to communicate, I do it quite well. I'll admit that my OP is not a good example of that.
The point I am (was) trying to make is that even though people voted for secession, the vote has been blocked.
The piece I quoted points out that a supreme court can (has) vote(ed) that secession is illegal.
Where does this leave the populace choice wise? If they were to decide to secede, they would be breaking the law. If they decided that being part of the United States was bad for them would they need to force secession via popular uprising since the legal route has been removed from their options list?
My comment and the quote was not related. Cut the attitude a bit mkay? I can see how you thought they were related.
As for your "It was not in Wikipedia" here ya go:
There was an attempt by Staten Island to break away from New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s, leading to a 1993 referendum, in which 65% voted to secede. Implementation was blocked in the State Assembly by assertions that the state's constitution required a "home rule message" from New York City.[40]
The San Fernando Valley lost a vote to separate from Los Angeles in 2002 but has seen increased attention to its infrastructure needs.[citation needed] Despite the majority (55%) of the valley within the L.A. city limits voting for secession, the city council unanimously voted to block the partition of the valley north of Mulholland Drive. If the San Fernando Valley became a city, it would be the seventh largest in the United States, with over one million people.
I'm sorry, but the majority of those failed, and there is this quote from the Wikipedia entry:
In November 2006, the Alaska Supreme Court held that secession was illegal, Kohlhaas vs. State, and refused to permit an initiative to be presented to the people of Alaska for a vote. The Alaskan Independence Party remains a factor in state politics.
Interesting to note that where the populace voted in majority FOR secession, the local government blocked those decisions.
The people does not seem to hold the power any more.
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"Industrialised World" - The world is changing so quickly that the definitions of what is first world, third world, emerging markets, industrialised and so on are not clearly defined.
If that definition can be made accurately there can be concurrence as to if the peak travel levels have been reached or not.
Also, there has not in recorded history been any similar trends, except maybe for the peak and decline of rail travel - maybe a parallel can be drawn from that?
Given the above, the conclusion can only be "It looks like it, but we cannot be sure. Yet."
Yep I actually think you found it. I wonder where the /. article went? Maybe it got lost when the database got nuked?
I was around back then, had a low number nick, and then got another one in the 300000 but lost the email address and the password to that one :(
*sigh*
You are right - They will find an excuse to crack down.
The question is: Why give them one? Why aid them by handing them an excuse?
And as for embarrassment, I think it is hardly embarrassing to have your government site taken offline, especially one that draws as little traffic as this one - Its alexa ranking is 2,460,718! My blog gets roughly ten times the traffic that they do according to alexa!
If they wanted to disrupt something worthwhile they could have gone after a telecommunications server - surely if Anonymous were as smart as they allude to be they could have figured out the address of one.
Well at least one of the sites is hosted on a server in Newark if the queries are to be believed.
This is one of those times where I feel a sense of justification for the anonymous attacks. Mugabe should be run out of office sooner than later.
Problem is, this kind of attack against his governments sites will have one effect: It will bolster his insane claims of overseas meddling causing his countries problems. It is a lie, Mugabe is the no1 cause for the problems Zim is having now, but all anonymous have done is lend credibility to his claims of overseas "agents" (yes he has used that term) causing trouble in Zimbabwe.
This will have the effect that his supporter base will grow, and lend him greater power.
A google could not find it, but there was a story on /. waaay back that told of a financial reward hidden in the eula of a piece of software. Only about ten people read that part of the eula to claim their money.
It was an exercise to see if people actually read the eula.
I live in South Africa, and we paid about R1000 for a 1TB Seagate in January 2010, in November 2010 we bought them for R450 each.
That is less than half in 11 months and still coming down.
You can also get PCI cards that have 4 to 8 SATA ports on them. You just need to be sure that your PSU can handle them/has SATA power ports for them.
Easy to build a monster storage unit - the problems begin when you want redundancy to protect against per drive disk failure. In the end you would optimally want at least two gigs redundant storage per gig of storage.
Which means for every 1TB drive you will look at at least one extra 1TB drive that is in a raid1 array to protect against data loss in a drive. That is the simplest way to do it. I know you can get striping and parity and all that other nice stuff on more complex arrays, but I am talking the most simple solutions here.
Agreed.
Also, larger disk drives tend to become less reliable in my experience.
I have a server where daily roll back backups is made to a 1.5TB drive every 24 hours. Given that I only do a rollback of Inetpub on that drive I get about 170 to 200 days worth of dailies out of it.
I would love to slot in a 3TB drive or larger, but reliability is such that I would rather swop out the drive for a new one twice a year and put the full drive in a "storage" server at the office than risk losing a year worth of roll backs due to a drive failure.
(Before anyone flags my backup method, we do have other backups on three other servers, but since these have 1.5TB drives for backup at the largest and they serve as backup/failover nodes for eight servers total every server has a rollback backup drive in it. We are a smallish setup that cannot afford a SAN setup, so we make do with what we have. That means that per server we can keep about 30odd days worth of failover backups on these servers. Again larger drives would be great.)
Anything larger than 1TB also become problematic in a RAID setup, where I found the Seagate NS drives to be almost bulletproof - up to 1TB. I would not trust anything larger than that in a RAID array just yet.
wait.
What?
Well fair enough, but I think with child porn at least the idea is to prevent the exploitation of children.
If you possess child porn someone exploited children to make it. So even if you do not ever distribute it, a crime has been committed.
The same with drugs, possessing it means someone made it, and in the making of it people often get exploited.
Prosecuting possession is a bad way of tackling the "making of" problem, but it is one of the ways that the current system does it.
And then I type its instead of it's.
Have at it. I deserve that.
Its Caucasian.
Way to try and be a white supremacist and spelling your race wrong.
This should be trivial. The only problem with putting this on the desktop is that the current version of Unity that runs on Mutter does not support having desktop icons.
The next version will use Compiz and will support having an icon on the desktop.
I thought that was the iStore?
You don't need to add another repository.
The first time you want to play an MP3 or view flash in your browser you are asked if you would want to install the relevant software.
It is really very simple.
Yeah, when you install it yourself you get the option to install the codecs and flash etc with the OS installation, but on pre-installs you do not have that option.
It will be the year of the Linux desktop when Duke Nukem Forever comes out. On Linux. With a chance to win a flying car for every copy you buy.
If it were ubuntu the snooty reply would be "It has been on MY tablet since 2004!"
I think there is a distinction between "open source" as a descriptive of the kind of software you are using, and "open source" as a descriptive of what group or movement the software belongs to.
Open source as a movement might have been named 12ish years ago, but open source software is much older than that.
Wasn't BSD open source way back? (sorry if I remember incorrectly)
I always wondered about browser caching and "posession" or online content, i.e. child pornography.
Sometimes you get sites whose advertising servers where compromised or via sql injection serve ...questionable content. Most browsers cache images.
If a piece of child porn gets cached by your browser via such a compromised otherwise legal site can you get in trouble for posessing child porn?
This of course extends to other content that may be cached as well.
Hey.
Your reference is to a lawsuit over the bullet fired by the rifle. I was referring to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1903_Springfield#Adoption
Cheers.
Look, I am an adult, with children. And it seems, if I am correct, so are you.
I do not need to learn how to communicate, I do it quite well. I'll admit that my OP is not a good example of that.
The point I am (was) trying to make is that even though people voted for secession, the vote has been blocked.
The piece I quoted points out that a supreme court can (has) vote(ed) that secession is illegal.
Where does this leave the populace choice wise? If they were to decide to secede, they would be breaking the law. If they decided that being part of the United States was bad for them would they need to force secession via popular uprising since the legal route has been removed from their options list?
My comment and the quote was not related. Cut the attitude a bit mkay? I can see how you thought they were related.
As for your "It was not in Wikipedia" here ya go:
There was an attempt by Staten Island to break away from New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s, leading to a 1993 referendum, in which 65% voted to secede. Implementation was blocked in the State Assembly by assertions that the state's constitution required a "home rule message" from New York City.[40]
The San Fernando Valley lost a vote to separate from Los Angeles in 2002 but has seen increased attention to its infrastructure needs.[citation needed] Despite the majority (55%) of the valley within the L.A. city limits voting for secession, the city council unanimously voted to block the partition of the valley north of Mulholland Drive. If the San Fernando Valley became a city, it would be the seventh largest in the United States, with over one million people.
Cheers for eers.
I'm sorry, but the majority of those failed, and there is this quote from the Wikipedia entry:
In November 2006, the Alaska Supreme Court held that secession was illegal, Kohlhaas vs. State, and refused to permit an initiative to be presented to the people of Alaska for a vote. The Alaskan Independence Party remains a factor in state politics.
Interesting to note that where the populace voted in majority FOR secession, the local government blocked those decisions.
The people does not seem to hold the power any more.