Comment There used to be a name for this sort of program.. (Score 4, Insightful) 32
Wow, the IT world has changed so much that a company investing in training its employees makes the front page of Slashdot.
Comment DC? Screw that. (Score 1) 466
There's no way I'd want 120V DC in my house. With AC you just get thrown, with DC your muscles contract and you become attached to the hazard.
I'm not saying that people have bare wires hanging around the house, and neither do I, but crap happens.
If you get shocked with DC and it's because you grabbed something that's energized, you are dead, kaput. With AC you have a fighting chance. I used to be an electric motor mechanic. DC scares the crap out of me. AC scares me too, especially 270/460 but HVDC? jesus... I've been hit by 120VAC. You don't walk away from HVDC. I'd be dead if that had been DC.
I'm not saying that people have bare wires hanging around the house, and neither do I, but crap happens.
If you get shocked with DC and it's because you grabbed something that's energized, you are dead, kaput. With AC you have a fighting chance. I used to be an electric motor mechanic. DC scares the crap out of me. AC scares me too, especially 270/460 but HVDC? jesus... I've been hit by 120VAC. You don't walk away from HVDC. I'd be dead if that had been DC.
Comment My 1926 house (Score 1) 161
My 1926 house already has this feature. All of the heat given off by the bodies in the house going directly into the air and so the heater doesn't have to run as often. It's amazing what they thought of in 1926, before central heat was even invented. No wonder they're called the Greatest Generation!
Comment Continued Domininance (Score 5, Funny) 60
I for one welcome our continued dominance of Earth.
Comment Dating advice (Score 5, Insightful) 223
I had the phrase "Desired: A woman who understands that correlation does not imply causality..." in my dating profile.
I married the woman who replied. Yes, I am surprised that worked as well.
Comment Re:A nice approach perhaps... (Score 1) 377
Ask CCP (icelandic game developer). They put Eve's entire database on RAMSAN and it's a massive db with a lot of performance demands. There's actually a case study published about it.
http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/09/28/eve-evolved-eve-onlines-server-model/
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Windows-HPC-Server-2008/CCP-Games/Leading-Game-Publisher-Selects-Windows-HPC-Server-to-Scale-to-One-Million-Players/4000002990
There are various whitepapers about the performance increase of using ramdisk. Most dbs improve by going around 74% faster with no other optimization.
RAMSAN is not volatile so if you lose power, it doesn't lose data, which makes flushing every transaction to disk unnecessary. The RAMSAN _is_ the disk.
http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/09/28/eve-evolved-eve-onlines-server-model/
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Windows-HPC-Server-2008/CCP-Games/Leading-Game-Publisher-Selects-Windows-HPC-Server-to-Scale-to-One-Million-Players/4000002990
There are various whitepapers about the performance increase of using ramdisk. Most dbs improve by going around 74% faster with no other optimization.
RAMSAN is not volatile so if you lose power, it doesn't lose data, which makes flushing every transaction to disk unnecessary. The RAMSAN _is_ the disk.
Comment Re:Does this apply to all cases? (Score 1) 268
The FBI may be slow and dumb, but they are methodical and thorough; eventually they'll get you if you consistently break the law.
Comment Re:Does this apply to all cases? (Score 1) 268
" And there have been many cases where the vehicle's owner was later arrested for not paying a fine they didn't know about because they had loaned their vehicle out to someone else."
And the three notices they were mailed PROVE they didn't know about the ticket. While it may be possible to beat the original ticket, the bench warrant will be a tough nut to crack.
If anything, there will be laws drafted that require a license for an internet connection. The license will require you pass a test that proves you are capable of securing your network. THAT's where this is going. The IP lobby will see this "someone else used my ip!" thing as a simple problem and simply push for laws that require you to be licensed to have a connection.
You need a license for a car right?
So these morons letting people use their connections like this and use this defense are eventually going to fuck up the program for the rest of us.
And the three notices they were mailed PROVE they didn't know about the ticket. While it may be possible to beat the original ticket, the bench warrant will be a tough nut to crack.
If anything, there will be laws drafted that require a license for an internet connection. The license will require you pass a test that proves you are capable of securing your network. THAT's where this is going. The IP lobby will see this "someone else used my ip!" thing as a simple problem and simply push for laws that require you to be licensed to have a connection.
You need a license for a car right?
So these morons letting people use their connections like this and use this defense are eventually going to fuck up the program for the rest of us.
Comment Re:Does this apply to all cases? (Score 1) 268
That's right. If you have a drive full of child porn, your goose is cooked, doesn't matter if the IP alone isn't enough.
Ditto for copyrighted material. If the authorities have your IP as one that's distributing content illegally, they seize your equipment and find the copyrighted material, you are in for some hefty fines...
Extrapolate that to any other illegal activity.
Ditto for copyrighted material. If the authorities have your IP as one that's distributing content illegally, they seize your equipment and find the copyrighted material, you are in for some hefty fines...
Extrapolate that to any other illegal activity.
Comment Re:The Canadian Government is working on it... (Score 1) 333
I thought Canada had an opt-in rule. I used to work for a major bank and we weren't allowed to send email to Canadians until they opted in. In the US you can send spam until they opt-out. I have no idea whether or not the rules are enforced or violators get fined up there, but that's the law as it was explained to me by the legal department at the bank when the opt-in law in Canada was passed.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 800
Actually most people do look stupid when talking on cellphones in public places because they tend to yell AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS.
Comment Re:Gee, there's an unbiased source... (Score 1) 800
mmm not really. Apple owns Siri, Siri is in the iPhone and staying there, he's already in. He's made his money. He'll be gone within 2 years from Apple, either starting a new company or laying on a beach somewhere enjoying the fruit of his programmers' labors. That's what happens when your company gets bought by a major player. You have an agreement like you have to stay for 2 years and get your company transitioned, then you are free to go.
Siri won't gain Apple any new iPhone customers, however it may keep people entertained. Siri is really a footnote in iPhone capability.
This guy's just still in sell mode from selling his company to apple. He'll calm down in a year.
Siri won't gain Apple any new iPhone customers, however it may keep people entertained. Siri is really a footnote in iPhone capability.
This guy's just still in sell mode from selling his company to apple. He'll calm down in a year.
Comment Re:Android already has this. (Score 1) 800
...not only that, in my car, where something like this is actually useful, I have SYNC. I hit a button on my steering wheel and say "Call [any name] on cell" and it Just Works(tm), including names as complex as "Parent's house of Viza". It also understands "dial". SYNC doesn't exactly get the pronunciation right when repeating it back, but it knows who I mean. I can also say "call mom at home" or whatever I want. As long as I have the proper location->number relationships in my phone it works perfectly.
Phone dials out, goes to speaker on car wide system and I'm having a conversation without breaking any of my state's distracted driving laws. In fact my phone is still in my pocket, where it was when I got in the car, hasn't been taken out of my pocket, no cables, no headphones. So in a weird way, I've had (all of the currently useful) Siri functionality for the last 3 years on my iPhone when in my car.
I'm not sure why I'd ever use voice activation in any other place. And SYNC works with any blue tooth capable SYNC supported phone. You don't need an iPhone for this.
Phone dials out, goes to speaker on car wide system and I'm having a conversation without breaking any of my state's distracted driving laws. In fact my phone is still in my pocket, where it was when I got in the car, hasn't been taken out of my pocket, no cables, no headphones. So in a weird way, I've had (all of the currently useful) Siri functionality for the last 3 years on my iPhone when in my car.
I'm not sure why I'd ever use voice activation in any other place. And SYNC works with any blue tooth capable SYNC supported phone. You don't need an iPhone for this.
Comment Re:Technology can't be replicated, only bought. Hu (Score 1) 800
nah it's probably lisp not C
Comment Re:Not a good public rep (Score 2) 311
Assange's organization didn't embarrass the us military, diplomats and government. Traitors, snitches and moles did. They are the ones who should be demonized and bastardized, not to mention strung up and flayed.
Assange is no more guilty of "causing" these problems than the newspaper reporter that printed what Scooter Libby told him about Valerie Plame.
The government didn't go after the reporter, they went after Scooter Libby. He's the one that leaked the information and is ultimately the criminal who is responsible.
Assange is not even the messenger, he's the paper the message is printed on. If he didn't do this, those assholes would simply post it on the internet some other way. Assange simply provided a server for them to post it.
Assange is no more guilty of "causing" these problems than the newspaper reporter that printed what Scooter Libby told him about Valerie Plame.
The government didn't go after the reporter, they went after Scooter Libby. He's the one that leaked the information and is ultimately the criminal who is responsible.
Assange is not even the messenger, he's the paper the message is printed on. If he didn't do this, those assholes would simply post it on the internet some other way. Assange simply provided a server for them to post it.
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