In HS, when wee were doing matrices, I got bit by the 'show the work' requirement.

So I wrote a program onto the calculator (TI-85) That would 'show the work' that I could transcribe to my test.

*I* didn't consider it cheating, because If I could describe the algorithm to a computer in a programming language, I felt that I had sufficiently mastered it, and any additional assignments were simply busy work.

What's more telling is rather than defend their positions with facts, economic or otherwise, they are simply name-calling groups that are attacking them. "They're stupid because their ideas are stupid" Bonus points for using words like 'extremist' to label their opponents in there too.

Part of the strong-copyright groups problem is that they have been producing reports in their favor for years, and folks are finally coming around to realizing that those reports were wildly inaccurate, and skewed heavily in favor of their position.

The art of debate in politics and policy has been lost. No --- the art has simply been reduced to kindergarten-like school fights.

From http://dotnetperls.com/chrome-memory:

Google Chrome posted the highest maximum memory usage when all chrome.exe processes were summed, reaching 1.18 gigabytes, while Firefox posted the lowest maximum memory levels of 327.65 megabytes. This means Firefox used 73% less memory during peak periods.

Their methodology is flawed. The operating system will share identical unmodified memory pages between processes once in memory. So if they simply summed @ the total memory usage for each process, they could be counting the same piece of memory multiple times.

In Firefox, the single-process model makes it easy to measure the memory use of the process, but brings with it all it's flaws, (much easier to take out the whole session with a bad plugin)

Measuring memory usage of a multi-process application requires figuring out many pages are uniquely mapped amongst all processes, then summing that figure

What's broken then?

The Laws?

Or the Enforcement?

TFA also mentions child pornography, which is fairly universally forbidden.

If your gonna be critical of the government, don't give them any other reason to attack you. It helps bolster your case of "I did nothing wrong" and "they're just trying to take me down"

When I have the time, i've been meaning to try something like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBDuino

Into my Car so I can get additional performance gagues + graphs. I have the Arduino board, and can solder things here and there, I've just never gotten around to it ....

Funny -- Something almost exactly like that happened @ my datacenter last year. Some 'licensed' electrician accidentally shorted something in the main Power junction, which took the whole damn thing offline, generators, batteries and all. We were down 1+ hrs while they had to have the techs come on site to ensure that things were safe and online. Meanwhile, a small group of admins just outside w/ pitchforks (myself included) were waiting for the all clear to swarm the datacenter to get our equipment back online ....

Heck, I'd settle for some PPC Linux love.

I still have some marginally useful PPC linux builds. FF won't release builds for PPC linux anymore, and iceweasel is way far behind, and to compile my own is rather ... painful.

You can get flash for PPC MacOS, but not so much PPC Linux. Where's my 'full web' there?

$143 million worth of fake Cisco hardware

So what ... like 2-3 Core Switches?

Indeed. Spectacular doesn't always have to be environmentally catastrophic :)

They can, however, fail in fairly spectacular ways:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqEccgR0q-o

It's possible, if you place the site in the 'Trusted Sites' security group.

One outfit I support has an app that receives orders online rather than fax/mail. The system simply serves up .doc invoices. That's all fine and dandy, except for the next part:

The system requires me to lower script security permissions, place the site in the trusted sites, and doesn't use https. On the open internet. All to run some vbsscript to force the .doc invoices to print. At least, that's the only function I spotted. I didn't run across the part that infects the system w/ malicious malware yet, but I know it's in there somewhere.

When the tech gave me these instructions on the phone, I asked him on the spot if they were concerned with this glaring infection vector. They didn't seem to care.

Of course, since a good majority of business comes through this customer, we shut up and use it :(

These High-Frequency trading systems require sub-second responses from the market servers. They're usually collocated in the same structure as the marketing servers, and firms pay handsomely for that kind of space and network access.

When that market closes, you don't want these machines trading overseas, the latency to reach those servers would negate the entire purpose of these machines.

I remember doing hacks like this to Mac applications -- back when they had resource + data forks. The resource forks contained all their sounds, graphics, icons, forms, etc. With ResEdit you could simply open up (most) applications and tweak them to your hearts content :)