True, this story smells a bit, even with the empiracal evidence posted that Fujitsus have been failing. But there are explainatins for this log, such as a long time anonymous lurker deciding this was a strong enough issue to register for. I know there are a lot of web boards (fark, for example) I haven't registered for because, even though the process is easy, I haven't seen anything compelling enough to make me want to register./. is even worse at compelling people to register since you can post comments without registration.
One thing to note here is that there is going to be sampling error wit this analysis. Only people with enough money and important enough data are going to take their drives to a data recovery service.
You're right, it is in the mechanics, but the fact is that SCSI drives are used in high performance applications and so are expected to be more reliable. This reliability comes with a price tag, since SCSI drives tend to cost significantly more per meg. IDE drive could be as reliable, but they would cost more too.
To use a crappy metaphor, it's why a ferrari performs better than a honda civic, even though they have basically the same mechanics (gas tank, gas line and pump, engine, exhaust system).
A long time ago, a friend of mine said to get a CD-RW instead of a zip drive and use it to do archiving. I'm glad I followed that advice since I currently have 3 working CD-RWs (including the original one from 5 years ago, a blazing 6/4/4, the two others came with each computer I bought since then). While CD-RWs aren't perfect, the medium is a lot cheaper (about a dollar a disc, millidallars per meg), and the software has been getting better at using the discs efficiently. They archive well, with tons of 3rd party products like jewel cases and racks for storage (they are CDs after all). You always have the option to use a format that all computers can read (CD-R), and with external USB burners they are as convinent (and cheap, both are $130 at best buy) as Zip Drives.
I never said that racial profiling is without negative consequences.
No but you did purport that the benefits outweigh the negative effects. I argue otherwise, thus the discussion.
Two problems: you are confusing profiling on a specific crime with a more general profiling. They are not the same thing.
Actually, I know the difference between the cases I presented and they are both profiling, on one side is from attributes to crime and on the other is from crimes to attributes. Regardless, there are are problems in both kinds. More problems, IMHO, than the solutions they bring to the table. If a suspect is known to be black (because of an eyewitness report or physical evidence), then say he's black. If you believe he's black because it was a night time robbery in a neighbourhood that is often victimized by black burglars, then don't say anything. You're just letting white people vicitimize the area better.
The problem with racial profiling is that it is selfaffirming. You think black people do more crimes? Then you pull over more black people. When you pull over more black people, you catch more black people doing crimes. So you believe even stronger that black people commit more crimes. Meanwhile, if you're white you can get away with more shit just because of the colour of your skin.
That doesn't even deal with the societal implications: young iranians in the U.S. that are treated like terrorists thinking things like "well, if you are going to think I'm a terrorist anyway, I might as well blow some shit up."
Also, don't forget about the 20-30 year old white sniper in Virgina that turned out to be black and in his 40s. Or the successful, social Ted Bundy who was overlooked for 3 years in spite of 6 people reporting on him because he didn't fit his own profile. Profiling is bullshit, it looks great on TV where the writer knows who the killer is, but in real life, it's a randomly thrown dart that allows people to slip through and cause serious damage. Just ask the late Timothy McVeigh.
Or maybe htye just pulled a bunch of "towelheads" they had been sitting on for years to give the public something to burn in effigy and appear to be working quickly an efficiently.
GameCube hardware sales in September totaled nearly 168,000 units. Xbox sold 175,000 pieces. That brings life-to-date sales of GCN in the US up to 2.3 million versus 2.8 million Xbox sales. Sony's unstoppable giant PlayStation 2, meanwhile, crushed figures of both systems in September, selling an additional 500,000 pieces of hardware. More than 11.3 million PS2s have sold in America since the console launched.
The PS2 is still outselling XBox almost 3:1, in spite of the fact that the PS2 is a year older. The PS2 still has over a 4:1 market dominance. And that's in the Xbox's best market. It's no secret that the XBox is not doing well overseas versus GameCube. To put the 2.8M XBox units into perspective, that is currently 2/3rds of what the Dreamcase sold in 17 months:
When all was said and done, 4.2 million Sega Dreamcast units were sold in the United States
At the present rate XBox will not beat the Dreamcast at the 17 month mark, and the Dreamcast at least had a better foreign market.
Or you could go to the article and find out that they need these fonts for mathematical papers which use a fundamentally different character (super)set of our regular fonts.
I was about to give that exact same example. It's like it was two different movies, we had to change the language off of english (Cantonese? don't recall).
As the husband of a hearing impaired person who really likes anime (her, not me, like a few titles, she orders sets of hentai like "La Blue Girl" or something like that off ebay), closed captions are not an acceptable substitute for subtitles. CC uses a fixed width font; it very often completely screws up (even with digital cable, analogue was much worse) and then stays on the screen through long silent "artistic" pieces; typically because of the lack of space (from the huge fixed width font) they will cut dialogue down; the CC will very often cover important things on the screen (on biography channel, good luck trying to know who is talking and how they are related to people, on most other things good luck knowing the place and time that they show at the bottom of the screen if there is dialogue). We use CC while watching TV, but every DVD that has english subtitles for the hearing impaired, we turn CC off and enable the subtitles (this includes english movies, it was a real pisser that Little Nikki was only CCed. First DVD I found that didn't have english subtitles).
Of course dubbing is verboten (and doesn't really help my wife). Unless they use Iron Chef quality, the voice acting doesn't capture the emotion properly.
I've flashed mine several times and never had a problem. I'm not really sure what you mean by "it's so easy for something to go wrong". Sure the power could go out or the network cable get accidentally unplugged (I wouldn't flash over 802.11b. Hmmm, I just thought of a wicked wireless+router ROM attack that is too large for this parenthetical phrase), but really there is little that can go wrong when TFTPing a new rom to your router.
It sounds like this attack can be ended by a router reboot, but if you really can't go that long without a router, you may want to consider buying a second one as a backup.
hmm, I guess the anon thing doesn't work anymore. oh well. I'll have to use a second account now. For some reason I get moderator point on a near weekly basis. Kind of annoying actually because it limits my posting, but yet I can't bring myself to uncheck "willing to moderate".:P
Because then you get the CDs and manuals and don't have to have the pain of pirating (I used to be a flaming pirate, and even I found it tedious). All that is worth $20.
I can't lay claim to the stateful session bean idea. It's actually from the J2EE Design Patterns. It's the Value List Handler Pattern. The patterns in that catalog are actually pretty good, 11 of the 15 I had done before reading the list, so they are pretty natural fits for when making applications.
Actually, it's even worse than that. Getting the keys and then getting the data for each key is O(log(n)*m) while getting the data and iterating is O(log(n)*log(m)). If you're getting back 50 results, that can mean the calls take about 20 times longer. There is a pattern called "Fat Key" which deals with this (essentially, you return the key with the data you fetched, and instead of doing another db lookup, you get the data out of the fat key). Unless you're careful, this can still take O(m) memory, whereas using a stateful session bean and iterating through will give you O(1) memory use.
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One things I often think about is that if a exactly like ours universe were to exist, then there would be beings within it that have consciousness and understanding of the universe they are within, and would philosophise about it. Because of this, it may be that we don't exist, we are just the product of what would happen if we were to exist. Likewise, there are many other universes that you can think of that would have other conscious people within them who think they exist, but really don't.
S'all good, I didn't take it personally since I agreed with most of the advice:). The links will be helpful in my next rant (only looked at the first, I'm at work). It took a while to find the info for the one linked to in my sig, and while I don't mind doing the research, it's always nicer to have some starting points.
It is true that unpatch OSS isn't any more secure than unpatched Windows software, but I don't think you can say the same for the opposite end. Fully patched OSS software has the potential to be more secure than fully patched closed source software as a) patches tend to be released faster and backported farther for OSS than for closed source software. b) you can patch the software or backport a patch yourself if you need it closed immediately. For those that say this cannot be done, I will say that the grandparent posters stated that they could rewrite the systems they have if necessary, and I personally have gone through two open source application upon finding a bug (not a security issue, however), although I found writing a patch wasn't necessary in either case (I just needed to change some configuration).
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True, this story smells a bit, even with the empiracal evidence posted that Fujitsus have been failing. But there are explainatins for this log, such as a long time anonymous lurker deciding this was a strong enough issue to register for. I know there are a lot of web boards (fark, for example) I haven't registered for because, even though the process is easy, I haven't seen anything compelling enough to make me want to register. /. is even worse at compelling people to register since you can post comments without registration.
One thing to note here is that there is going to be sampling error wit this analysis. Only people with enough money and important enough data are going to take their drives to a data recovery service.
You're right, it is in the mechanics, but the fact is that SCSI drives are used in high performance applications and so are expected to be more reliable. This reliability comes with a price tag, since SCSI drives tend to cost significantly more per meg. IDE drive could be as reliable, but they would cost more too.
To use a crappy metaphor, it's why a ferrari performs better than a honda civic, even though they have basically the same mechanics (gas tank, gas line and pump, engine, exhaust system).
A long time ago, a friend of mine said to get a CD-RW instead of a zip drive and use it to do archiving. I'm glad I followed that advice since I currently have 3 working CD-RWs (including the original one from 5 years ago, a blazing 6/4/4, the two others came with each computer I bought since then). While CD-RWs aren't perfect, the medium is a lot cheaper (about a dollar a disc, millidallars per meg), and the software has been getting better at using the discs efficiently. They archive well, with tons of 3rd party products like jewel cases and racks for storage (they are CDs after all). You always have the option to use a format that all computers can read (CD-R), and with external USB burners they are as convinent (and cheap, both are $130 at best buy) as Zip Drives.
Fact is, a fundamental characteristic of this community is disagreeableness.
No it isn't.
I never said that racial profiling is without negative consequences.
No but you did purport that the benefits outweigh the negative effects. I argue otherwise, thus the discussion.
Two problems: you are confusing profiling on a specific crime with a more general profiling. They are not the same thing.
Actually, I know the difference between the cases I presented and they are both profiling, on one side is from attributes to crime and on the other is from crimes to attributes. Regardless, there are are problems in both kinds. More problems, IMHO, than the solutions they bring to the table. If a suspect is known to be black (because of an eyewitness report or physical evidence), then say he's black. If you believe he's black because it was a night time robbery in a neighbourhood that is often victimized by black burglars, then don't say anything. You're just letting white people vicitimize the area better.
The problem with racial profiling is that it is selfaffirming. You think black people do more crimes? Then you pull over more black people. When you pull over more black people, you catch more black people doing crimes. So you believe even stronger that black people commit more crimes. Meanwhile, if you're white you can get away with more shit just because of the colour of your skin.
That doesn't even deal with the societal implications: young iranians in the U.S. that are treated like terrorists thinking things like "well, if you are going to think I'm a terrorist anyway, I might as well blow some shit up."
Also, don't forget about the 20-30 year old white sniper in Virgina that turned out to be black and in his 40s. Or the successful, social Ted Bundy who was overlooked for 3 years in spite of 6 people reporting on him because he didn't fit his own profile. Profiling is bullshit, it looks great on TV where the writer knows who the killer is, but in real life, it's a randomly thrown dart that allows people to slip through and cause serious damage. Just ask the late Timothy McVeigh.
Or maybe htye just pulled a bunch of "towelheads" they had been sitting on for years to give the public something to burn in effigy and appear to be working quickly an efficiently.
The PS2 is still outselling XBox almost 3:1, in spite of the fact that the PS2 is a year older. The PS2 still has over a 4:1 market dominance. And that's in the Xbox's best market. It's no secret that the XBox is not doing well overseas versus GameCube.
To put the 2.8M XBox units into perspective, that is currently 2/3rds of what the Dreamcase sold in 17 months:
At the present rate XBox will not beat the Dreamcast at the 17 month mark, and the Dreamcast at least had a better foreign market.
Well, yeah, you can do all that.
But you still have to pay for Windows.
Or you could go to the article and find out that they need these fonts for mathematical papers which use a fundamentally different character (super)set of our regular fonts.
I was about to give that exact same example. It's like it was two different movies, we had to change the language off of english (Cantonese? don't recall).
As the husband of a hearing impaired person who really likes anime (her, not me, like a few titles, she orders sets of hentai like "La Blue Girl" or something like that off ebay), closed captions are not an acceptable substitute for subtitles. CC uses a fixed width font; it very often completely screws up (even with digital cable, analogue was much worse) and then stays on the screen through long silent "artistic" pieces; typically because of the lack of space (from the huge fixed width font) they will cut dialogue down; the CC will very often cover important things on the screen (on biography channel, good luck trying to know who is talking and how they are related to people, on most other things good luck knowing the place and time that they show at the bottom of the screen if there is dialogue). We use CC while watching TV, but every DVD that has english subtitles for the hearing impaired, we turn CC off and enable the subtitles (this includes english movies, it was a real pisser that Little Nikki was only CCed. First DVD I found that didn't have english subtitles).
Of course dubbing is verboten (and doesn't really help my wife). Unless they use Iron Chef quality, the voice acting doesn't capture the emotion properly.
I've flashed mine several times and never had a problem. I'm not really sure what you mean by "it's so easy for something to go wrong". Sure the power could go out or the network cable get accidentally unplugged (I wouldn't flash over 802.11b. Hmmm, I just thought of a wicked wireless+router ROM attack that is too large for this parenthetical phrase), but really there is little that can go wrong when TFTPing a new rom to your router.
It sounds like this attack can be ended by a router reboot, but if you really can't go that long without a router, you may want to consider buying a second one as a backup.
LOL!
hmm, I guess the anon thing doesn't work anymore. oh well. I'll have to use a second account now. For some reason I get moderator point on a near weekly basis. Kind of annoying actually because it limits my posting, but yet I can't bring myself to uncheck "willing to moderate". :P
Because then you get the CDs and manuals and don't have to have the pain of pirating (I used to be a flaming pirate, and even I found it tedious). All that is worth $20.
I can't lay claim to the stateful session bean idea. It's actually from the J2EE Design Patterns. It's the Value List Handler Pattern. The patterns in that catalog are actually pretty good, 11 of the 15 I had done before reading the list, so they are pretty natural fits for when making applications.
I think the name stated changing when they realized it wasn't the equivelent to wired privacy.
Actually, it's even worse than that. Getting the keys and then getting the data for each key is O(log(n)*m) while getting the data and iterating is O(log(n)*log(m)). If you're getting back 50 results, that can mean the calls take about 20 times longer. There is a pattern called "Fat Key" which deals with this (essentially, you return the key with the data you fetched, and instead of doing another db lookup, you get the data out of the fat key). Unless you're careful, this can still take O(m) memory, whereas using a stateful session bean and iterating through will give you O(1) memory use.
One things I often think about is that if a exactly like ours universe were to exist, then there would be beings within it that have consciousness and understanding of the universe they are within, and would philosophise about it. Because of this, it may be that we don't exist, we are just the product of what would happen if we were to exist. Likewise, there are many other universes that you can think of that would have other conscious people within them who think they exist, but really don't.
S'all good, I didn't take it personally since I agreed with most of the advice :). The links will be helpful in my next rant (only looked at the first, I'm at work). It took a while to find the info for the one linked to in my sig, and while I don't mind doing the research, it's always nicer to have some starting points.
Thanks :)
How about forbidding American corporations from trading censorware goods or services to these "repressive governments," wouldn't that be a good start?
Sure. Let's fight repression with repression. It'll be like a war for peace.
It is true that unpatch OSS isn't any more secure than unpatched Windows software, but I don't think you can say the same for the opposite end. Fully patched OSS software has the potential to be more secure than fully patched closed source software as
a) patches tend to be released faster and backported farther for OSS than for closed source software.
b) you can patch the software or backport a patch yourself if you need it closed immediately. For those that say this cannot be done, I will say that the grandparent posters stated that they could rewrite the systems they have if necessary, and I personally have gone through two open source application upon finding a bug (not a security issue, however), although I found writing a patch wasn't necessary in either case (I just needed to change some configuration).