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Slashback: Security, Telephony, Solicitude
A good oversight to correct. AndyMan! writes "Regarding yesterdays 'Building A Better Inbox,' I got the following email from support@mailblocks.com:
"'Our apologies, we picked up an old version of our TOS when we went live. We will NOT be allowing 3rd parties to send unsolicited email to our userbase. Please check the site this evening for the updated and correct TOS. We apologize for any confusion or inconvenience.'"
All the government you pay for. dunng808 writes "Despite frequent speculation to the contrary, Security Enhanced Linux is alive and well. Government Executive Magazine has a report from a conference on open-source software at which Peter Loscocco, a senior NSA scientist, revealed that the agency has continued to work on SE Linux despite efforts by Microsoft and the Initiative for Software Choice. "We spent a lot of time educating our managers, who accepted a lot of the flack that has come back to NSA about SE Linux," Loscocco said. For those readers trying to win acceptance of open-source software in the workplace, what effort have you undertaken to educate management, and what has worked?"
Also safe for now is GPS. As an anonymous reader writes, "Following last week's thread on GPS, and the possibility that the Pentagon might goof around with the civilian signal, Forbes checks in with the folks in charge and finds we have nothing to worry about."
OK, both of these things involve series of coherent vibrations in air ... A few months back, we mentioned that TheKompany was selling software to let Zaurus owners use Net2Phone for telephone service, and that they were working on a desktop version as well. Well, now it's ready. HeUnique writes "TheKompany just released tkcphone for the Linux desktop. This is the first product which lets Linux users to use their existing net2phone accounts to talk either through net2phone to net2phone or net2phone to standard POTS phone with the best audio quality (G.729 codec)."
And in almost-but-not-totally-unrelated news, jackjumper writes "Shawn Gordon of The Kompany fame has started his own record label, ProgRock Records. From the interview at Linux and Main: "The idea...is to provide progressive rock music to listeners at a low price while allowing more of that money to find its way to the artists' pockets than happens with conventional recording contracts and at the same time making a gesture -- you know the one -- to the established recording cartel." This sounds really cool."
A deadly pathogen by any other name. waytoomuchcoffee writes "The leading hypothesis for what is causing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is now thought to be a coronavirus, one of the virii that can cause the common cold. The New York Times (archive version for those non-members) has a story here. The global toll is now more than 750 stricken and 22 dead. Singapore is quarantining hundreds of people in an effort to stop the outbreak, while the head of the city's hospitals has taken ill with symptoms consistent with SARS. Both the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization have pages up now, which include FAQs and progression information."
How many times do we have to go over this? Vajsvarana writes "The major free Desktop Environment GNOME and KDE has released a common open statement on recent XFree86 troubles. 'Innovation should happen in the open, with all affected parties able to participate early in the process' seems a clear and strong request to XFree86 people."
GPS, with this war going on is going to change, even more than now
-Waldo Jaquith
Good news is this virus seems to be close contact only (family memebers, health care workers) and does not seem highly infectious...
Now if they could actually confirm which bug it is and get a good test then we would be good shape...
DJMD - The fourth man - Planetary
being in china now i am getting really concerned about SARS. while i am a long way from the epicentre the gov here is very quiet and now there are reports of possible infections in beijing...http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapo re/story/0,4386,179331,00.html
if beijing becomes a new epicentre for spread of this then we are ALL in deep sh*t cos its such a big city (i think 13m+) the first thing that will happen is that everyone will want to LEAVE in different directions WHAT A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN.
i cant imagine the chinese gov (as with any other) preventing the spread. no way of "patching" this one!
Has anyone talked to David Morse recently? I know he's been working around Philly on Hack. Last I saw him was at the airport some weeks back. He was juggling some vials and looking quite flustered.
yes i can confirm th unstability. couldnt get http://www.slashdot.org to load AT ALL but plain http://slashdot.org works anyone know why????
Learn more.
It's really nice to see unified support by KDE and GNOME on this issue. The way they have been getting along lately i would'nt be supprised if we saw some joint projects...
Won't you be my my neighbor?
The Initiative for Software Choice seems like a whitewash organization backed by Microsoft.
It seems to me that every time it becomes politic to get somewhat more relaxed towards Microsoft, lest you draw mocking cries of 'Linux zealot! Stallman Fanboy!' that Microsoft turn around and prove to everyone just how justified the ire against them is.
Here are a few choice quotes:
"Policymakers should not make rigid intellectual property licensing choices a precondition for eligibility for procurement, nor should they discriminate between developers that choose to license their intellectual property on commercial terms, and developers that choose not to charge licensing fees...."
"Lately, concerns have emerged that policy makers, through government procurement policies, research funding or standards policies, may seek to favor one software development model over another."
I won't bother with any more.
The scary thing about this organization is that their party line appears to be quite subtle. Where they fail is that they appear to be up in arms about purchasing regimes which haven't happened yet.
They also use their contentions to subtly dig at the GPL... 'rigid intellectual property licensing' indeed. I wonder if anybody at the Initiative for Software Choice has ever tried to install Windows 2000 in Application Server mode. THAT is 'rigid licensing' at its best.
MH
You're doing it wrong.
It was a scary moment - some terrorist almost killed him! Fortunately, some Homeland Security guys took out the nutcase. It could have been a disaster.
I somehow doubt netphone relies on air vibrations, unless someone somewhere is using IP-over-sound waves...
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Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
22 dead out of 750 infected is definitely not insignificant. Assuming a rate of 20 deaths out of 1000 infections, and a 30% infection rate, equals what, 150k deaths in the US? Not trivial.
This is only a test Sig. If this were a real Sig, it would be witty, pithy, or rude, just like all the other Sigs.
Ya gotta hate 'em, but they know how to do this. No direct slams at open source or linux, just very friendly, helpful suggestions that offering users choice is better than not, isn't it? They've been doing this for decades. If it weren't for the other crap, you know, the illegal immoral stuff, I might even like the bastards.
There are many areas in the world that are having problems with GPS but its not due to jaming, its due to the fact that there isn't a full constilation up. PRN 22 went dead a while back and hasn't been replaced. The current plan is to spread out the sats in that orbital ring (the B plane) to help fill up the gap but that will result in more outages in more places for short times compared to the current 1/2 hour outages seen directly in the flight path. The NavCen are recomending that you change your mask angle to 5 degrees if its set higher (many people use 15 degrees).
Right now you can see the problems on this map (mirrored here). The black areas are where GPS isn't going to give a 3d position and the red areas are where it wont get a 4d (3d+time) fix. The dark blue will have issues if any part of the sky is blocked. I don't think I've seen the GPS status this bad for a long time. Maybe its time to launch a few new navstar sats.
Well, I told the manager that it was free. He squinted. Then I told him there was no support, but if he opened a port to an IRC server we could get by. He squinted a little more. Then I told him it doesn't really run any of the software we use. He squinted even more. Finally I told him we'd have to use Java or something because .NET doesn't really run in Linux. It will soon, though! He was beginning to look like a japanese psycho on speed by then, so fearing for my job I backpedaled out of his office, bowing a few times and muttering something I heard on the Iron Chef the other day that sounded important. To this day he's not speaking to me.
That's my story. Anyone else?
Not enough! We want it at a 1 in 3 chance that you're going to live! Oh well, back to the lab.
-Big S.
SARS is likely to be as bad as a smallpox epidemic. The Chinese are stonewalling, that's bad, and the Hongkong authorities are trying to play it down so it won't hurt tourism. These idiocies will get us all in trouble. I predict that this virus will hit Silicon Valley hard; I've seen a lot of techies, especially foreign 'guests', just not practicing simple hygiene like washing hands coming out of the restrooms, sneezing widely into the air, etc. Also, the disease hit China, and so much manufacturing is now there, so there are plenty of chances for it to be contracted and brought back to the US. I think we have a real problem coming. Don't fly unless you wear a respiratory mask, either. I suspect SARS is a two-component disease; first you are hit with the new mutant virus, which sets up your immune system to fail to handle certain things, then the second virus characterizing this disease attacks you unhampered. We do not have any effective way to combat that.
So if this is just a variant of the common-cold, could the antidote be chicken-soup?
Good question.
The plural is virus is viruses, not virii.
that's why there's no mention of it
What the Forbes article fails elucidate is the difference between military and civilian GPS. Not only is the military GPS on a different band, and considerably more accurate, but it's also encrypted. In fact, SOP if an aircraft is shot down is for the pilot to press a "data destruct" key that formats internal memory storage so the enemy doesn't get ahold of any information on the military band. The encryption keys are also changed daily.
BTW, both military and civilian GPS can increase the accuracy of the signal by using differential GPS, which uses stationary ground stations to reduce uncertainty to well under an inch.
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
...Rush, by a mile. Any period will do.
and why are these zoo animals running though my street?
For a suitably loose definition of crappy, perhaps. For you lurkers out there, notice that the Bungi has such "crappy" Karma that he has the +1 bonus. Look at his posting history - he frequently gets 4s and 5s.
The above post suggests that his karma is fine when he is merely "Pro-Microsoft". It's when he turns into a drooling anti-linux schill that he runs into Karma trouble.
It was pretty funny, though. Of course, If I was your manager and you fed me that misinformtion, I'd fire your ass.
XML causes global warming.
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Modern Applications, Office Compatibility, Advanced Window Theming, speed increases, and so on address long-overdue usability issues with GNU/Linux desktops. Gnome and KDE's robust solutions in these areas have been invaluable.
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We are explicitly distinguishing innovation from implementation, because standards should be adequate to allow multiple fully-interoperable implementations.
Within the development organization responsible for defining and crafting new features to be adopted as standards, innovation should happen in the open, with all affected parties able to participate early in the process.
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Actually, in my own defense, the article does say: "The military has it own highly accurate tamper-proof encrypted signal that civilian equipment can't receive."
I didn't go into the technical particulars about the differences between them, but I think its pretty clear that there are distinct signals for civilian and military use.
Slightly OT, but anyone knows if ATT broadband has been blocking Net2Phone lately ? I haven't been able to connect from home in the last few months.
Non-Linux Penguins ?
my perception (and i'll admit it's just that) of hongkong is that it's a business-centric suits and airports megalopolis. how is beijing more dangerous? i know way more people that travel to hk on business, not to mainland china...
Do you suppose the government of China cares enough about its people to warn everyone of what might happen and prepare a lot of coffins?
Do you suppose the government of China cares enough about its people to isolate Beijing from the outside and hope not everyone inside will die?
Do you suppose the government of China cares enough about its people to stay in Beijing with its people, no matter what happens?
It's a vast zealot conspiracy, I tell you.
The above post suggests that his karma is fine when he is merely "Pro-Microsoft"
I realize sarcasm is a lost art these days, but if you think that's what that sig is for, you need some sensitivity training ASAP.
It's when he turns into a drooling anti-linux schill that he runs into Karma trouble
Actually, I get into "karma trouble" when I have to take up tiresome flame fests with little puckers like yourself, who apparently have nothing better to do than to make stupid offtopic comments about other people's sigs - two just in this article, actually.
Other than that, my "karma" is fine, thanks.
Of course, If I was your manager and you fed me that misinformtion
If you were my manager, two things would happen:
- You wouldn't know Linux from Lunix, which sort of defeats the notion of your knowing I'm "feeding" you anything (perhaps you're already in this unfortunate situation)
- I would have taken my red stapler from your office and burned down the building around your sorry ass.
I'd fire your ass.You can always hope, I suppose.
What words go from -us to -ii?
Just heard on the news a few minutes ago that a similar quarantine is being considered for up to several hundred residents of Toronto. An entire hospital there has also been placed under quarantine once it was discovered a SARS victim stayed there. More information here.
I couldn't get on the site for half an hour or an hour around 8:00 Eastern -- nothing worked; yro.slashdot.org, www.slashdot.org, just plain slashdot.org were timing out. I assumed it was my ISP but maybe there's trouble in paradise...
What is this?!
Man, some threads are hard enough to drag yourself through, with the whiners, and the ubergoobers from codeland, each babbling their own twist on stuff.
But now you're taking 3 different subjects and creating a totally schizophrenic stream of garbage.
What a way to waste some bandwidth!
Nice one Doods...
Can they really tell the origin of the virus that specifically? The ninth floor of some Chinese hotel by the elevators? I'm not sure I can believe that. Amazing stuff, if it's true.
did you mean g.711? g.729 is toll quality.
Sigs are my new slashdot hobby. Your sig is a great source of amusement. I think I may cash in my userid for "sig cop".
If I was you manager, when I moved you to the parking garage, I'd take away your keys to the main floor. Also, I'd probably punch you in your throat
XML causes global warming.
Now that was a great comeback.
interesting to note, I know survayers that use a gps that is accurate under an inch. i was wondering, if they see the enemy, do they have to self destruct there system?
self destruct, indeed.
Durign the last Gulf War, it seedm theat the military used a great deal of civilian GPS units, they are cheap and available, and far smaller than their own models, and to aid this, the military turned off the bit that sends the non-military dubious locations. it may be that they might switch it around a bit, but unlikely!
One interesting, probably unrelated point, having just mapped my route from camp to site (working in Rajasthan, India), I was saving the tracks on my Garmin and I noted that it was stil tracking - indoors!!! It wasn't 20 minutes earlier befero I went to get my caffeine. Maybe they can soup the system up a bit for urban warfare!
As someone who actually saw Rush perform at the height of their powers (Signals tour), all I can saw is BWAHAHAHAHA. Maybe when Geddy gets his nuts out of a vise and Lifeson takes some guitar lessons...
About the only "prog rock" to which I can pay any attention any more are later King Crimson and earlier Roxy Music.
If you're a Progressive Rock fan, I suggest listening to the independent band Maximum Indifference. Their debut album has a heavy Rush (the band) influence. I think they're a San Jose, California band. Anyhow, you can hear parts of the album at:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/maximumi1
I'm not in any way affiliated with cdbaby or Maximum Indifference. A friend bought me MI's debut cd. I loved it. Thought I'd pass the info along.
rob
PS Yes, Alex, Geddy, and Neil (of RUSH) are my heroes!
True. However, the funny thing is, a GPS unit is only as accurate and effective as the soldier who is using it. It's reliability also depends on the age of the map that is programmed into it, or the age of the paper map the soldier is holding. Speaking from experience, I've gone through many "field excursions" where the officer in charge couldn't make heads or tails of the data he/she was receiving. Nevertheless, good navigations skills, like resection, a map and a properly set compass will get you out of a jam quicker than an officer with a GPS unit.
Veni, vidi, vici.
Wow 750 infected and 22 dead. How about the millions dead from AIDs? This study says that after 22 years of education 14.7 percent -- one in seven -- of gay and bisexual black men ages 23 to 29 become HIV-positive each year. Since the discovery of AIDS -- first reported in a 1981 government health bulletin as a strange form of pneumonia -- there have been about 750,000 reported cases in America. Nearly 450,000 of those patients have died.
The Washington Post reports that world wide there are now 42 million people living with HIV infection and by 2010 there will be between 50 million and 75 million cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in India, China, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Russia alone.
Why was AIDs not decleared a contagious disease back in 1981 and infected people quaratined? Were the rights of a few worth more than the rights of 75 million?
Today's vices may be tomorrow's virtues.
Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory has good reason to think this isn't coronavirus at all.
Ok, so not the most trusted news source, but it was the first I could find quick, and it's been all over our local news for several days now. Why isn't anyone else reporting this? Bad news sells more eyeballs?
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
There'll be no escape for Davros this time!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Syndrome.
The last health scare there was the bird flu, which happened the winter immediately following the reversion to Chinese rule. Coincidence? Or a result of the Hong Kong population's lack of immunity to mainland Chinese germs due to former travel limitations, creating a new breeding ground? (The latter is just my own wild speculation.)
I'm surprised we don't see more folks making dual mode GPS/GLONASS systems.
.eu is starting to set up THEIR OWN system. I cannot say I blame them - I'd want my own system as well, were I them.
GLONASS, for those of you too lazy to Google it, is basically GPS-ski - it's the Russian answer to GPS. Same basic idea, but at a different frequency.
That's important. The biggest reason a military GPS receiver is still more accurate than a civilian rig is that the military rig uses 2 frequencies - the first is the frequency the civilian rigs use, the second is a military only frequency and is encrypted.
The reason this helps accuracy is that the ionosphere bends radio waves, including the GPS signal. Since the signal does not take a straight line path, it travels a bit farther. How much farther - aye, that's the rub. Unless you know what the ionosphere is doing you have no idea.
However, the amount of bend is propotional to frequency - if you use 2 different frequencies, you can determine the difference between them, and thus the amount of bending the ionosphere is adding.
Now, back to GLONASS - being on a different frequency, if you used it plus GPS, you could, in theory, get the same information about the behavior of the ionosphere, and reduce the error. (In practice you wouldn't get the same level of accuracy since the signals are not coming from the same birds, but...)
I've seen some chipsets in the trade journals that do both, but I've not seen any consumer units that do so.
And the
So, if we could only get a triple-threat system....
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A surveyor's GPS unit integrates the position data received over a very long time (minutes to hours). As a result, variations in reported position due to both dithering and due to ionospheric changes are averaged out.
However, to get an accurate fix while moving takes multi-band equipment.
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This is fairly standard in terms of corporate policy - check the terms on your yahoo, hotmail, mail.com, or any other "free" account. *Everything* in the TOA is subject to negotiation at any time - remember, they are in business to make a profit, not to guarantee your privacy. As soon as you give your information to *any* 3rd party, they can do what they want with it. Subject, of course, to your notification to the changes on their privacy page which may or not be updated regularly.
And for those who think I don't know what I'm talking about - I worked for 2 years for Intelliquest / Naviant (now owned by Equifax) where the goal was to tie people between *any* online registration and their real-world credit data.
I was going to break out the flame-thrower, but I realized that your right. All the good prog these days is happening in the metal genre.
Now if you'll excuse me I have some Circle II Circle to headbang to.
The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you.
And the Chinese professor who sneezed on everybody? Where did he get it? Is this illness just born on this planet that exact minute in that one floor of that one hotel? ... This makes no sense. Anybody there a doctor who can explain this chicken and egg question?
>Why was AIDs not decleared a contagious disease back in 1981 and infected people quaratined? Were the rights of a few worth more than the rights of 75 million?
If being branded HIV-positive landed you in quarantine for life, do you think anybody would ever willingly be tested? Either you'd end up with loads of willfuly ignorant souls spreading disease around, or you'd have to force testing on everyone. How would you do that without feeling like an even bigger trampler upon the Constition than Ashcroft?
Laurie Garrett wrote a very good book about emerging diseases and the emergence of HIV in general, called "The Coming Plague." It's very long but an insightful view for anyone truly interested.
"I never really used Joe either but a stupid editor is a stupid editor." -D. Reed.
I salute you, Mr. Dismal. Experts now saying that it may spread a lot more easily than first thought and that it could very well be a one-two punch:C B20&cp1= 1
http://www.msnbc.com/news/885653.asp?0cv=
Nuff said.
I was worried that the signal would degrade after the war started (like it did with the last war,) but I continue to use my Navman GPS sleeve on my iPAQ for a great deal of automated driving directions.
It all goes downhill from first post
So something like the Topcon Odyssey can claim 15mm+2ppm accuracy in real time. All this depends on 2 recievers though, lose the radio link between the two and you're back to handheld GPS accuracy until you re-establish the link.
Bleh!
All you have do to is turn on your GPS and see if your current location is correct (assuming you already know where you are). I've been turning mine on every morning to see if the military's up to something. Works like always, so far. As soon as it doesn't, I'm sure it will be painfully obvious.
They got slashdotted, obviously.
Ok some corrections, the military signal is one TWO different bands, this is a large amount of where the increased accuracy comes from (in fact by doing some advanced analysis it is possible to gain ~80% of the accuracy gain of the military signal without ever decrypting the signal, advanced civilian units for things like surveying already do this), and the encryption keys do not change daily, in fact they are used for so long that another poster stated that they had seen a fellow soldier input the keys from memory, he had been using them that long!
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
The purpose of my desktop is to fight against Microsoft?
I think not.
I want to get work done in a timely and cost effective manner not be part of a Jihad.
I'd be rather upset if the people contributing were all fucked up with "must beat Microsfot, must beat Microsoft" rather than "must write good code, must write good code"
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Singapore is quarantining hundreds of people in an effort to stop the outbreak, while the head of the city's hospitals has taken ill with symptoms consistent with SARS This is half-accurate. It is William Ho, the chief executive of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority (and not a Singapore official), who has fallen ill with (what is now confirmed to be) SARS. It is Singapore that is quarantining people though.
I couldn't get to any of it between about 3pm and 7 pm EST Tuesday the 25 (pings timed out), although apparently others could, judging from the story post times. Found one guy on Kuro5hin with same problem, but he wasn't especially flooded with 'me too's. Is there such a thing as a rolling IP blackout?
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
by my reconing 20/1000 = 2%
30% x 300 million = 90 million
2% of 90 million = 1.8 million
And of course, the current death rate is calculated across a sample who are (mstly) getting ICU care in well-equipped hospitals.
Once a real epidemic gets rolling, you'll be on your own, so the death rate can be expected to climb.
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur (anything said in Latin sounds important)
US Center for Disease Control
World Health Organization (United Nations)
Hmmm, guess governments do something useful after all.
Slashdot's so quiet about this I'm thinking it's "Anne Tomlinson's Revenge". :-)
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
I don't know if SARS is new, I know 3 people who were hospitalized after returning from trips to China over the past several years - 1 died - cause unclear... I think it may have been around for a while and is just start to build momentum. noone
On the contrary, a resp mask is important. 25% of a tour group got it on ONE flight from what looks like one source: One example, in March 26th NY Times article: "The danger of a further spread of the disease was underlined yesterday when the Hong Kong Health Department disclosed that 9 of the 35 members of a tour group that traveled to Beijing and back last week had become infected, apparently during the flight from Hong Kong to Beijing. At least two members of the group sat on the flight next to a 73-year-old man who had been visiting his infected brother at a Hong Kong hospital and contracted the disease, a department spokesman said." As for foreign worker hygiene, I base my opinion on being a contractor who has worked at over 50 companies in Silicon Valley in the last decade. That's a lot of data gathering and I wish I were only being a pompous idiot in making the hygiene statement, but sadly, it is valid. I've seen an entire engineering department come down with flu from one guy coughing and sneezing with uncovered mouth in a cubicle. It is no safer to be stuck on a plane recirculating air with a disease vector around.
I don't think that will work. Remember, what you are correcting is the time of flight, not amplitude. To get TOF you need to be able to recover the pseudorandom sync code, which is encrypted.
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King Crimson, of course. Listen to Thrak or B'Boom and you'll never go back to Rush again
Well under an inch? I'd love to see where you read that differential GPS can get it that accurate.
----- I hate sigs.
You quickly jump to conclusions.
Think extra hard, Grasshopper. There are at least two obvious professional communities who work with viruses. FYI, there are no viriologists. Rarely are HCWs or virologists morons, and they hardly ever say or write "virii."
Can't keep it zipped.
Honest to god, I'm not offended by homosexuality, not even a little, but why members of the gay community refuse to either wear a condom or abstain is the reason I think the bulk of them are infantile.
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Because OBVIOUSLY, if a part of a word in English means something else in Latin, then DUH, the full English word MUST be incorrect.
First, I have some issue with taking English recomendations from Perl programmers..
Second, the fact that the text is so long in the first place, reminds me of the push for Eubonics. If we have 'THIS MUCH' documentation, it MUST be right..
Hey, my sig applies.
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
Funny thing, I thought Forbes was part of the people in charge...
Steve Forbes, President, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes, happens to be one of the people behind the 'Project for the New American Century', being a co-signee of it's Statement of Principles along with, among others, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Jeb Bush.
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Most people who have studied the EU GPS proposal are in agreement that the system will never be fully deployed, limiting its usefulness as primarily a technology demonstration.
Singapore is quarantining hundreds of people in an effort to stop the outbreak, while the head of the city's hospitals has taken ill with symptoms consistent with SARS.
The NYTimes article mentioned above is apparently referring to Hong Kong, which is currently believed to be largely responsible for spreading SARS globally. Please read the article carefully before posting. (I know, this being
To be fair, Singapore is actually quarantining quite a number of people. But hey, this is a city in which you may get fined for not flushing toilet or chewing gum.
Did something bad happen? Did I earn something? Are you serious?
It came before any other post on the same subject. It was brief. It included a reference. Considering the other post on the subject, I am surprised that mine caught such a reaction for redundancy and condescension, not that it really matters.
Singapore has not only quarantined a few hundred people now, they have now closed all schools (pre-school, primary and secondary - but not universities) until April 6.
Singapore's Straits Times has the story. (Be aware that being largely a state-controlled news source, it downplays the risk in the "national interest" (now doesn't that sound familiar...))