A lot of people assume that if one is going to store data on a hard drive then that drive must be powered up all the time. All reliability figures are based upon the assumption that the drives will be powered up and in use for most of a working day. However, if you only power up a drive when you need to store or retrieve data - data that is written only for archival purposes - then the drive could last a life-time.
In my system I use an external, dual-drive, eSATA connected, setup. (I like this one.) I only turn on the drive when I need to transfer files to it. When I don't need a drive in the dock, I put it in an anti-static bag with a desiccant packet (just as they came from the manufacturer), squeeze the whole thing into a slightly modified old VHS case (I cut out the things that go into the reel holes in the tape), and put it on the shelf - labeled, of course.
I prefer the dual dock so I can simply do a full-drive copy to make backups of my archive disks. At full eSATA speeds it doesn't take nearly as long or take up nearly as much real-world space as tape, and it is less expensive as well.
Since the intelligence/education statistics show the military scoring better than the general public, I'd tend to think that "gullibility" would follow a similar trend. I'd love to see the information you're using as the basis for your conclusion. But what I'd REALLY love to hear is an explanation of how you imagine such "selection" would be implemented. I have a feeling it would be quite amusing.
First, the military targets people in areas with poor quality education and therefore little hope of doing anything better than frying potatoes. This has been shown by many studies. Those who are truly more intelligent or better educated tend to have better prospects and do not choose the military as a career.
Second, while the military does test for intelligence (brain power) and tries to push the high scorers towards Intelligence (secret stuff) and electronics, recruiters lie to potential recruits in what - to astute individuals - are obvious ways. Those who believe the lies, therefore displaying more gullibility, sign up. Those who do not believe the lies are more inclined to choose not to sign up.
Third, once in the military, there is a constant barrage of mis- and dis-information directed at the soldier. Those who believe it are rewarded with promotions. Those who do not tend to get out after their first enlistment is up.
Finally, I would call into any serious question any statistics presented by the military as to the intelligence of their members. "Military Intelligence" is not widely considered an oxymoron for nothing.
Where Manning made his mistake was in joining the military, instead of frying potatoes at the local burger-joint. Anyone who hears "you have a duty to report any illegal acts you witness" and thinks "hey, I'm going to take hundreds of thousands of field reports and diplomatic cables, and hand them to a shady group on the internet" is a fucking idiot, and has no business wearing a uniform. Period, full stop.
You are correct. Manning's choice of who to report, what he believed to be wrong-doing, to was absolutely moronic. However, from my own direct observations it seems that the military actually selects for gullible people who will believe any absurd line of bull-shit if it is repeated often enough by people who claim to be in authority. So, in a way, something like this was inevitable.
Granted, he saw widespread violations of the law
What a load of horse-shit. Being opposed to the wars doesn't give you the freedom to invent a whole new reality. Are you intentionally lying, or are you just delusional?
As it turns out, I am delusional. From what I have seen of the exposed information, I have to admit you are correct on this point also. Much to my chagrin, there are no laws that I know of forbidding the U.S. government from lying to the public or it's allies. There are no laws against starting and carrying on wars for no damned good reason. There doesn't even seem to be any laws against starting or carrying on wars for personal political gain or even just to help certain industries or corporations to earn a profit at the taxpayer's expense. I believe there are laws against "war profiteering," but these are directed at the corporations themselves and don't seem to be enforced at all any more.
What a total dick you are. Conflating the following of illegal orders to commit genocide with the absolutely legal, responsible, and morally correct orders to fight a battle to end that genocide. You can look around. I don't normally call people dicks (in public) but this is getting ridiculous! Sad, actually, that there are so many people out there who cannot tell the difference. Who think everything in the world is not just black and white but a black-hole and a supernova. And anyone who argues for a reasoned, responsible middle-ground is somehow advocating for one or the other extreme. I'm sick of it. Sick, sick, SICK!
It is Friday night and I just got my first paycheck in over a year. I am going to go out, have some fun, relax, and try to forget morons like you exist in this world. At least for one night!
I am really sick and tired of nearly everyone presenting nearly every situation as a choice between one extreme and the other. This is totally the way the conservatives want people to think. If all of the military is not totally subservient, obeying every order regardless of legality, then we will end up with the extreme opposite : Military coups left and right.
Well, I call total BS on that one. If you really believe that then you just aren't smart enough to be reading Slashdot. Perhaps not smart enough to be reading at all. Doncha think it is possible, maybe even likely, that if people in the military obeyed the laws and reported crimes responsibly, then we just may end up with a well run military that obeys the laws and DOESN'T do anything stupid or extreme???
No, you do not surrender those rights. Just about the only right you agree to give up is a very narrow portion of the freedom of speech. You are allowed to say and express anything you want so long as you do not do so while wearing your uniform, thus implying that you are speaking as a member of the military.
Again, they officially teach you this in boot camp but then immediately try to convince you that it is not true. Most of what people believe about soldiers' rights and responsibilities is due to a massive campaign of indoctrination, mis- and dis-information targeted at the soldiers and the public.
That point is the absolute first instance when the President or other appointed officers violate the law or issue an illegal order. Unfortunately, the military has done such a great job of suppressing this notion, even though they teach it in boot camp, and reinforcing the false notion that soldiers are to obey without question, that the whole system is completely corrupt.
Have you ever been in the military? The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), that I was taught, specifically requires soldiers to refuse illegal orders and to report those who issue them. Also to report all violations of the law and the code of military justice. Where Manning made his mistake was in reporting to the wrong people. Granted, he saw widespread violations of the law, and the people in the military tend to "frown on" (read "punish") those who actually follow this portion of the UCMJ, so he didn't know whom to trust. However, he would have been far better off to find some senator friendly to his cause (perhaps Kucinich) and report his findings to them.
So, all you moronic conservatives, and republicans who believe that soldiers are required to obey any order, no matter what, had better hope those soldiers know better when some future republican president, drunk on the power the Tea Party has given her, orders the National guard to fire upon Tea Party protestors who become a major pain in the butt when they realize they have been lied to and manipulated all this time.
Good internet security is not a matter of "can't". It is a matter of "won't".
I totally agree. I once read an article by the creator of SendMail that said it is impossible to create an e-mail system that is any more secure than the current one. I wrote him a message saying essentially: "Not with your program we can't." Can you imagine the audacity of the guy. Because the program he wrote decades ago isn't secure, it is impossible to be secure. Again: Riiiiiiiight.
This proposal is not for a separate "Internet" as the headline states. It is merely for a separate top-level-domain. And all the servers on this domain would supposedly have super secure firewalls that are impenetrable and unhackable? Riiiiight.
If this separate-but-not-really-SEPARATE "internet" is connected to the same wires as the regular internet then the hackers will still get in. Hell, all the servers that were hacked recently were supposedly super secure. Not a lot of good that did them.
If they want a truly secure, truly separate network then it shouldn't even be an "Internet" at all. It should have a completely separate set of wires. The equipment connected to these wires should be able to detect if the wires have been tapped into or if other unauthorized equipment is attached. It should have all new protocols, designed from the ground up for security and authentication rather than anonymity. In fact, every layer in the the entire IP stack should be completely thrown out and replaced with a secure system which, by law, can only be used on this new system. It will only be licensed for very specific purposes and no one else will be allowed to own this equipment or even have software that uses these protocols. Then, when you catch someone with this equipment or software, you know they are up to no good. The only way into the network will be by tapping in, which will be physically traceable, or by gaining physical access to a licensed terminal, which would be partially traceable but far more difficult to do.
Anything less than this is mere theater. Any claims that a.secure TLD will be any more secure than existing firewalls are just wishful thinking.
It's not often that the people a Slashdot post is about actually respond. Cool!
You know, you could take a little bit of the other commenter's idea and replace the rubber with a hemispherical, compressed cloth, buffing pad. Then impregnate it with wax and away you go. In the end, one commercial implementation of this could be a robotic floor buffer. It could propel itself around the floor in the same way janitors already propel buffers around. The pad is flat but they just lean it a little in one direction or another. the side with the most weight on it is the side that has the most effect on movement. It is similar, but not quite the same as your device in that all of the pad surface is always in contact with the floor. But the mechanism is the same. The gimbal would just not have to tilt as far to achieve motion.
But then you would be pissing off janitors in another way: by putting them out of work.
If you are working only with circuit boards that contain no components, then you can use a sheet metal shear. I used to work in a custom circuit board manufacturing plant. This is what we used to cut the raw material. It produces almost no dust.
For high-speed drilling and routing we used a CNC machine with a hood that sealed completely and vented the air to a special filter mounted on the roof. However, the operators still got some of the dust on their skin and it would cause skin irritations occasionally. I imagine they were less safe than the owners of the company let on.
If you can do it, the wet-sawing idea seems to be the best. However, that requires special equipment, unless you are just using a hand saw. If you are just using a hand saw, you could simply put a tool bench in the shower and run the shower over your work as you cut. You could keep yourself relatively dry by using a clear shower curtain with a couple of slits cut in it for your arms to poke through.
The next best option is to use a vented hood and vent the air to the outside through a HEPA filter. Make sure you are moving plenty of cubic feet of air through the system to make sure that no dust drifts back in your direction.
Oh, janitors all over the world are gonna hate this guy. A spinning rubber hemisphere touching the freshly waxed floor all over the place will not only wreak havoc with the floor wax but may eventually damage the tile.
I've got a Fujitsu Lifebook Tablet PC. It has one of those tiny 1mm x 10mm fingerprint scanners built in so you can encrypt things and only be able to decrypt them with your fingerprint. (I know those things are foolable and I don't use it for that because I don't trust it to not screw up and lock me out of my own stuff.) Anyway, there is a driver installed that allows you to use the scanner as a tiny touch pad or mouse. I guess it is for precision pointing for those times when your finger is too fat. Well, you use it just by sliding your finger over the tiny little window. It is actually pretty cool. Unfortunately, they put it on the wrong corner. I always hold that corner down to the lower right so the cooling fan and vents are up, away from my body, so they don't get blocked. With the scanner in that location I kept brushing it with my arm and moving my pointer around unexpectedly. So I just disabled it. If it were in the same corner as the Tablet PC buttons I would use it all the time.
Remember, the actual function part of an optical mouse is pretty small. If you turn your mouse upside down you can make it work by sliding your finger over the little window. If you shrank a standard optical mouse sensor down even further then you could easily duplicate the functionality of the device mentioned in TFA in the same space, while using existing drivers and software.
Oh, I so cannot wait till this thing is hacked! Make your neighbors house reek when they have loud parties. Make all football games smell like old jock straps.
Oh, for sure! And remember when McDonalds wanted to sue everyone with "Mc" in their business name, even people who's last name really started with "Mc"?
<sarcasm> I can't wait till I'm rich so I can start suing people for writing "Grant" proposals and for giving "Grants" to people. I'll be even more rich!</sarcasm>
My point was that I already knew the difference between prior art and the current use of the mark. Therefore I didn't need YOUR condescending explanation about how something no one had brought into the conversation shouldn't be brought into the conversation.
You are correct, there is no such thing as "prior ART" but there is such a thing as "prior and still currently using the mark" which is what I was talking about. There are likely thousands of small companies around the country, if not the world, who were using "Geek" in their PC repair business names AND STILL ARE. Just because Worst Buy has more money they think they can muscle and threaten their way to dominance by suing all these small businesses.
So how much did you get paid to sell your soul? Because I guarantee it wasn't enough.
And the term "Geek" had been used in commerce, in the same industry, for years if not decades before Worst Buy stole the term and started their Geek Squad. They can trademark "Geek Squad" but they have no claim to other combinations including the generic term "geek."
Although I wouldn't mind if they claimed sole rights to the term "moronic" as in "Moronic Techs" or "Moronic service" which is actually what you get when you go the that place.
It is way easier for me to just type what I want in the format I want in real time. In addition, this is what most regular users want in and HTML editor. I understand you are primarily a developer, and someone else likely works out the copy. But most regular people don't have that luxury. Thanks for your input though.
So I took a quick look at Bluefish. It looks kind of like Dreamweaver except that it has no WYSIWYG frame. One of the reasons I love Dreamweaver is that I can put the WYSIWYG frame next to the code frame and see both at the same time.
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This is exactly what I was going to recommend.
A lot of people assume that if one is going to store data on a hard drive then that drive must be powered up all the time. All reliability figures are based upon the assumption that the drives will be powered up and in use for most of a working day. However, if you only power up a drive when you need to store or retrieve data - data that is written only for archival purposes - then the drive could last a life-time.
In my system I use an external, dual-drive, eSATA connected, setup. (I like this one.) I only turn on the drive when I need to transfer files to it. When I don't need a drive in the dock, I put it in an anti-static bag with a desiccant packet (just as they came from the manufacturer), squeeze the whole thing into a slightly modified old VHS case (I cut out the things that go into the reel holes in the tape), and put it on the shelf - labeled, of course.
I prefer the dual dock so I can simply do a full-drive copy to make backups of my archive disks. At full eSATA speeds it doesn't take nearly as long or take up nearly as much real-world space as tape, and it is less expensive as well.
Since the intelligence/education statistics show the military scoring better than the general public, I'd tend to think that "gullibility" would follow a similar trend. I'd love to see the information you're using as the basis for your conclusion. But what I'd REALLY love to hear is an explanation of how you imagine such "selection" would be implemented. I have a feeling it would be quite amusing.
First, the military targets people in areas with poor quality education and therefore little hope of doing anything better than frying potatoes. This has been shown by many studies. Those who are truly more intelligent or better educated tend to have better prospects and do not choose the military as a career.
Second, while the military does test for intelligence (brain power) and tries to push the high scorers towards Intelligence (secret stuff) and electronics, recruiters lie to potential recruits in what - to astute individuals - are obvious ways. Those who believe the lies, therefore displaying more gullibility, sign up. Those who do not believe the lies are more inclined to choose not to sign up.
Third, once in the military, there is a constant barrage of mis- and dis-information directed at the soldier. Those who believe it are rewarded with promotions. Those who do not tend to get out after their first enlistment is up.
Finally, I would call into any serious question any statistics presented by the military as to the intelligence of their members. "Military Intelligence" is not widely considered an oxymoron for nothing.
Where Manning made his mistake was in joining the military, instead of frying potatoes at the local burger-joint. Anyone who hears "you have a duty to report any illegal acts you witness" and thinks "hey, I'm going to take hundreds of thousands of field reports and diplomatic cables, and hand them to a shady group on the internet" is a fucking idiot, and has no business wearing a uniform. Period, full stop.
You are correct. Manning's choice of who to report, what he believed to be wrong-doing, to was absolutely moronic. However, from my own direct observations it seems that the military actually selects for gullible people who will believe any absurd line of bull-shit if it is repeated often enough by people who claim to be in authority. So, in a way, something like this was inevitable.
Granted, he saw widespread violations of the law
What a load of horse-shit. Being opposed to the wars doesn't give you the freedom to invent a whole new reality. Are you intentionally lying, or are you just delusional?
As it turns out, I am delusional. From what I have seen of the exposed information, I have to admit you are correct on this point also. Much to my chagrin, there are no laws that I know of forbidding the U.S. government from lying to the public or it's allies. There are no laws against starting and carrying on wars for no damned good reason. There doesn't even seem to be any laws against starting or carrying on wars for personal political gain or even just to help certain industries or corporations to earn a profit at the taxpayer's expense. I believe there are laws against "war profiteering," but these are directed at the corporations themselves and don't seem to be enforced at all any more.
What a total dick you are. Conflating the following of illegal orders to commit genocide with the absolutely legal, responsible, and morally correct orders to fight a battle to end that genocide. You can look around. I don't normally call people dicks (in public) but this is getting ridiculous! Sad, actually, that there are so many people out there who cannot tell the difference. Who think everything in the world is not just black and white but a black-hole and a supernova. And anyone who argues for a reasoned, responsible middle-ground is somehow advocating for one or the other extreme. I'm sick of it. Sick, sick, SICK!
It is Friday night and I just got my first paycheck in over a year. I am going to go out, have some fun, relax, and try to forget morons like you exist in this world. At least for one night!
I am really sick and tired of nearly everyone presenting nearly every situation as a choice between one extreme and the other. This is totally the way the conservatives want people to think. If all of the military is not totally subservient, obeying every order regardless of legality, then we will end up with the extreme opposite : Military coups left and right.
Well, I call total BS on that one. If you really believe that then you just aren't smart enough to be reading Slashdot. Perhaps not smart enough to be reading at all. Doncha think it is possible, maybe even likely, that if people in the military obeyed the laws and reported crimes responsibly, then we just may end up with a well run military that obeys the laws and DOESN'T do anything stupid or extreme???
No, you do not surrender those rights. Just about the only right you agree to give up is a very narrow portion of the freedom of speech. You are allowed to say and express anything you want so long as you do not do so while wearing your uniform, thus implying that you are speaking as a member of the military.
Again, they officially teach you this in boot camp but then immediately try to convince you that it is not true. Most of what people believe about soldiers' rights and responsibilities is due to a massive campaign of indoctrination, mis- and dis-information targeted at the soldiers and the public.
Only so long as those individuals issue legal orders and obey the law and constitution themselves.
That point is the absolute first instance when the President or other appointed officers violate the law or issue an illegal order. Unfortunately, the military has done such a great job of suppressing this notion, even though they teach it in boot camp, and reinforcing the false notion that soldiers are to obey without question, that the whole system is completely corrupt.
Have you ever been in the military? The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), that I was taught, specifically requires soldiers to refuse illegal orders and to report those who issue them. Also to report all violations of the law and the code of military justice. Where Manning made his mistake was in reporting to the wrong people. Granted, he saw widespread violations of the law, and the people in the military tend to "frown on" (read "punish") those who actually follow this portion of the UCMJ, so he didn't know whom to trust. However, he would have been far better off to find some senator friendly to his cause (perhaps Kucinich) and report his findings to them.
So, all you moronic conservatives, and republicans who believe that soldiers are required to obey any order, no matter what, had better hope those soldiers know better when some future republican president, drunk on the power the Tea Party has given her, orders the National guard to fire upon Tea Party protestors who become a major pain in the butt when they realize they have been lied to and manipulated all this time.
I totally agree. I once read an article by the creator of SendMail that said it is impossible to create an e-mail system that is any more secure than the current one. I wrote him a message saying essentially: "Not with your program we can't." Can you imagine the audacity of the guy. Because the program he wrote decades ago isn't secure, it is impossible to be secure. Again: Riiiiiiiight.
This proposal is not for a separate "Internet" as the headline states. It is merely for a separate top-level-domain. And all the servers on this domain would supposedly have super secure firewalls that are impenetrable and unhackable? Riiiiight.
.secure TLD will be any more secure than existing firewalls are just wishful thinking.
If this separate-but-not-really-SEPARATE "internet" is connected to the same wires as the regular internet then the hackers will still get in. Hell, all the servers that were hacked recently were supposedly super secure. Not a lot of good that did them.
If they want a truly secure, truly separate network then it shouldn't even be an "Internet" at all. It should have a completely separate set of wires. The equipment connected to these wires should be able to detect if the wires have been tapped into or if other unauthorized equipment is attached. It should have all new protocols, designed from the ground up for security and authentication rather than anonymity. In fact, every layer in the the entire IP stack should be completely thrown out and replaced with a secure system which, by law, can only be used on this new system. It will only be licensed for very specific purposes and no one else will be allowed to own this equipment or even have software that uses these protocols. Then, when you catch someone with this equipment or software, you know they are up to no good. The only way into the network will be by tapping in, which will be physically traceable, or by gaining physical access to a licensed terminal, which would be partially traceable but far more difficult to do.
Anything less than this is mere theater. Any claims that a
It's not often that the people a Slashdot post is about actually respond. Cool!
You know, you could take a little bit of the other commenter's idea and replace the rubber with a hemispherical, compressed cloth, buffing pad. Then impregnate it with wax and away you go. In the end, one commercial implementation of this could be a robotic floor buffer. It could propel itself around the floor in the same way janitors already propel buffers around. The pad is flat but they just lean it a little in one direction or another. the side with the most weight on it is the side that has the most effect on movement. It is similar, but not quite the same as your device in that all of the pad surface is always in contact with the floor. But the mechanism is the same. The gimbal would just not have to tilt as far to achieve motion.
But then you would be pissing off janitors in another way: by putting them out of work.
If you are working only with circuit boards that contain no components, then you can use a sheet metal shear. I used to work in a custom circuit board manufacturing plant. This is what we used to cut the raw material. It produces almost no dust.
For high-speed drilling and routing we used a CNC machine with a hood that sealed completely and vented the air to a special filter mounted on the roof. However, the operators still got some of the dust on their skin and it would cause skin irritations occasionally. I imagine they were less safe than the owners of the company let on.
If you can do it, the wet-sawing idea seems to be the best. However, that requires special equipment, unless you are just using a hand saw. If you are just using a hand saw, you could simply put a tool bench in the shower and run the shower over your work as you cut. You could keep yourself relatively dry by using a clear shower curtain with a couple of slits cut in it for your arms to poke through.
The next best option is to use a vented hood and vent the air to the outside through a HEPA filter. Make sure you are moving plenty of cubic feet of air through the system to make sure that no dust drifts back in your direction.
Oh, janitors all over the world are gonna hate this guy. A spinning rubber hemisphere touching the freshly waxed floor all over the place will not only wreak havoc with the floor wax but may eventually damage the tile.
OK, so now there is verification. But did anyone think things would go any other way?
I've got a Fujitsu Lifebook Tablet PC. It has one of those tiny 1mm x 10mm fingerprint scanners built in so you can encrypt things and only be able to decrypt them with your fingerprint. (I know those things are foolable and I don't use it for that because I don't trust it to not screw up and lock me out of my own stuff.) Anyway, there is a driver installed that allows you to use the scanner as a tiny touch pad or mouse. I guess it is for precision pointing for those times when your finger is too fat. Well, you use it just by sliding your finger over the tiny little window. It is actually pretty cool. Unfortunately, they put it on the wrong corner. I always hold that corner down to the lower right so the cooling fan and vents are up, away from my body, so they don't get blocked. With the scanner in that location I kept brushing it with my arm and moving my pointer around unexpectedly. So I just disabled it. If it were in the same corner as the Tablet PC buttons I would use it all the time.
Remember, the actual function part of an optical mouse is pretty small. If you turn your mouse upside down you can make it work by sliding your finger over the little window. If you shrank a standard optical mouse sensor down even further then you could easily duplicate the functionality of the device mentioned in TFA in the same space, while using existing drivers and software.
Oh, I so cannot wait till this thing is hacked! Make your neighbors house reek when they have loud parties. Make all football games smell like old jock straps.
Just call them 1d10t techs. The USPTO has already ruled that you can't trademark part numbers. Just ask Intel.
Oh, for sure! And remember when McDonalds wanted to sue everyone with "Mc" in their business name, even people who's last name really started with "Mc"?
<sarcasm> I can't wait till I'm rich so I can start suing people for writing "Grant" proposals and for giving "Grants" to people. I'll be even more rich!</sarcasm>
My point was that I already knew the difference between prior art and the current use of the mark. Therefore I didn't need YOUR condescending explanation about how something no one had brought into the conversation shouldn't be brought into the conversation.
So there!
You are correct, there is no such thing as "prior ART" but there is such a thing as "prior and still currently using the mark" which is what I was talking about. There are likely thousands of small companies around the country, if not the world, who were using "Geek" in their PC repair business names AND STILL ARE. Just because Worst Buy has more money they think they can muscle and threaten their way to dominance by suing all these small businesses. So how much did you get paid to sell your soul? Because I guarantee it wasn't enough.
And the term "Geek" had been used in commerce, in the same industry, for years if not decades before Worst Buy stole the term and started their Geek Squad. They can trademark "Geek Squad" but they have no claim to other combinations including the generic term "geek." Although I wouldn't mind if they claimed sole rights to the term "moronic" as in "Moronic Techs" or "Moronic service" which is actually what you get when you go the that place.
It is way easier for me to just type what I want in the format I want in real time. In addition, this is what most regular users want in and HTML editor. I understand you are primarily a developer, and someone else likely works out the copy. But most regular people don't have that luxury. Thanks for your input though.
So I took a quick look at Bluefish. It looks kind of like Dreamweaver except that it has no WYSIWYG frame. One of the reasons I love Dreamweaver is that I can put the WYSIWYG frame next to the code frame and see both at the same time.
I use bluefish. It's like dreamweaver, but it's open source.
I'll have to check it out. I need something free but useful to recommend for people who can't afford stuff like Dreamweaver.