If I could find a simple way to place a translucent background on the console (with or without fb, but preferably without) I'd spend much less time with X11.
If you have many real system tweaks you'll want to keep a backup of/etc as well.
I can install potato on blank media and upgrade to sid in about three or four hours depending on network transfer rates. Over the years I've managed to whittle the time it takes to restore all of my preferred system configurations from the next two or three days to the next two or three hours. Most of that process is comprised of installing and test using the applications which remind me of the greatest number of things which need to be tweaked.
The most beautiful thing that a federal level politician could learn to say would be,"I'm sorry ma'am, that's just not within my jurisdiction." Since campaign promises are profitable, though, eventually some of those people come calling after election time. Congress has a demonstrated history of passing laws which, right wrong or indifferent, are plain outside the scope of their legal jurisdiction. The single constant over the last 200 years is that Congress has been, slowly and methodically, illegally expanding its scope of powers by legislatively giving authority, which it never had to begin with, to third parties--usually by the simple act of providing the funding.
If that much isn't clearly obvious to you then you have only the carefully regulated educational industry to blame for your narrow field of comprehension.
It has nothing to do with the nature of the case, or how the political battle over that case subsequently played out. The fact of the matter which should be applied to everything that the Federal Government endeavors is the very simple line:
...the power of the Federal Government...depend on the general provisions of the Constitution, which defines in this, as in all other respects, the powers of Congress If interstate commerce couldn't be easily interpreted to cover slavery--with such surety that it would take a Constitutional Amendment to give Congress the power to regulate (ban) slavery--then how does interstae commerce come to encompass nearly everything else under the sun?
The Constitution was written by men who were seeking to prevent the reemergence of a gargantuan all-encompassing government such as England's had become. Only a complete patsy would argue that interstate commerce could somehow change its definition over time to give them the authority to create agencies like the EPA, the FCC, the FDA, and the DEA.
Are there any SCOTUS decisions since 1776 in which the court has specifically defined the scope of Congressional power to regulate commerce between the states? If there are then the earliest ones are most likely to be most closely aligned with the original intent of the Constitution without the bias of political and financial strings.
The Supreme Court is, as has been their policy for nearly 100 years, ignoring the greater question of jurisdiction while focusing on the lesser aspects.
Quote from the article's author:
I'm no legal scholar, but it sounds as if, by declaring that the EPA's case was weak, further defense of this matter (say in a future federal court case) would require either that the EPA come up with some compelling jurisdictional argument about why a substance in the atmosphere that could potentially harm humans isn't after all covered by the Clean Air Act I think the greater question is whether or not the Clean Air Act, or even the act which created the EPA, was Constitutional to begin with. The most direct example of this distinction can be found in a historical piece published by the NYTimes.
As Congress does not possess power itself to make onsetments relative to the persons or property of citizens of the United States, in a Federal Territory, other than such as the Constitution confers, so it cannot constitutionally delegate any such powers to a Territorial Government, organized by it under the Constitution. Parallel, As Congress does not possess power itself to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, other than such as the Constitution confers, so it cannot constitutionally delegate any such power to a federal authority such as the EPA, organized by it under the Constitution.
In 1857 the SCOTUS did the right thing, politically, by affirming that the Federal Government does not have sweeping jurisdiction over anything which can be remotely rationalized as commerce
The legal condition of a slave in the State of Missouri is not affected by the temporary sojourn of such slave in any other Sate, but on his return his condition still depends on the laws of Missouri.
As the plaintiff was not a citizen of Missouri, he, therefore, could not sue in the Courts of the United States. The suit must be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. If the transportation of a slave across state lines wasn't eligible for interstate commerce in 1857 then what has changed since then? A Constitutional Amendment was required, even a Civil War wasn't enough, for the slave trade to be considered "commerce". Where does the EPA derive its power from?
While it is a Good Thing that the slave population was officially outlawed (nevermind the gaping hole in the 13th Amendment which allows for a simple jaywalking ticket to make a person eligible for slavery), it is a Better Thing that our government be reminded, as often as possible, of the limitations on its power.
Disclaimer: This is all my opinion. You may feel differently. If I think you're being a bozo in your reply to this comment, I may flame you. You have been warned. I'm so tempted... =D
At one time I lived and breathed tldp.org. The enormous pace at which Linux accelerated coupled with the massive increase in software offerings, though, has left it a little bit dated. Yes, a good portion of the material is still applicable, but just seeing a last modified date that's five years old might be acceptable for a textbook--but it doesn't leave a good impression for a HOWTO.
At the same time, though, if all of the HOWTOs were updated to be in line with current kernel and software versions, they might cease to be instructional and educational HOWTOs and become little more than dinner recipes.
That doesn't mean we can't compile the libraries separately and make them available to apps which make use of them. I have historically preferred window managers which remain as thin as possible. I'm not going to try and assert that E17 still qualifies as thin but it certainly doesn't try to integrate itself wholeheartedly into the overall system the way that KDE and Gnome do. When Enlightenment tries to pull a KDE/Gnome I'll still fall back to UDE.
I've long suspected that the respective industries use college students for free research and development. Students rarely know the larger business implications of the theses or projects they are working on and, through business associate of an insurance rep for a prominent professor type relationship, it'd be pretty easy to funnel ideas from a west coast university to a corporation in New York which delegates the idea to a development group in Switzerland. It works out even more in the favor of the industry if the best students are further saddled with student loans and cannot invest the time necessary to track their own ideas.
I've seen the same. At Battelle, in Aberdeen, MD, more than one system had popups which arrived on the desktop when no browser was running. When I worked on the Aberdeen Proving Grounds military base, as a contractor for Battelle, the public use computers were absolutely riddled with quirks (eg. sound drivers failing, mouse clicks lost, shared drives disappearing and reappearing) which weren't consistent with usual WinNT problems, weren't part of announced outages, and didn't correspond with scheduled system maintenance or upgrades.
While none of these events were ever well-tracked or investigated and could just as easily been the generic useless malware variants I wouldn't be at all surprised if a thorough forensics investigation uncovered more targeted attacks or trojans which had been slipped in under the guise of innocuous maladware.
I've met several salesmen who were from wealthy backgrounds who had unlimited savings (though they often maintained the appearance of being just as poor as their fellow coworkers--often to the extent of still living in their parents' house). Those are usually the ones who didn't get pink slips or, if they did, it was only because they had assured their family that they had another nepotic position lined up elsewhere.
Create debt, maintain debt, keep people in debt, work them until they die of debt.
The federal government creates debt (8.8 trillion at the moment), the investment industry maintains it (insider trading), the banks keep track of it (home, car, and tuition loans), and their employers cut their wages (insurance) until they die from it.
There seems to be a whole ecosystem of people trafficking in data like this, with the initial providers only working through multiple layers of intermediaries Sort of like the Federal Government politicians separating themselves from Wall Street bankers by multiple layers of contractors, subcontractors, nonprofits, and private companies.
The ecosystem, in this example, is trafficking in taxpayer money and insider trading information.
work hard, become the best in your field, and get fired so they can offer you a new job 10 weeks later at a lower salary Once you've been through this cycle more than twice you will begin to see how the game really works. Then you resolve yourself to waiting out the bullsh*t until a real opportunity comes along. Unless you're some spoiled rich brat you have two decisions: keep recycling yourself back into the game or become homeless while waiting for providence.
Business savvy decision allows new employees a chance at sales fame.
Top business analysts have determined that a growing number of people have become "too wealthy for their own good", according to one high-ranking Wall Street spokesperson. "It is in the interest of the common good that we allow other, less priveleged folks, to have the opportunity to buy their own food and afford both rent and car payments."
The dismissed workers, having reached their allowed quota of wealth, were given peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on their way out the door and told that they could reapply after their savings had been reduced to zero. While the average lifespan of a salesman's savings is about ten weeks, according to financial analysts, it was widely agreed that dismissed employees would not truly be eligible for reassignment until they had accumulated enough debt to prevent them from ever owning a house or car again.
"These people were beginning to factor into systems that have long been the exclusive playgrounds of the rich and powerful. We simply could not allow them to tip the scales and upset the balance," said Circuit City spokesman Bill Cimino.
They're worried about security, alright. If it's too open then outsiders can begin exploiting them. If it's too closed then they might get caught passing insider trading information. Security is one of those "just right" things in the eyes of big business.
The breach is sure to lend urgency to efforts by the major credit card companies to get retailers to implement PCI requirements...So far about 50% of Tier 1 merchants...are fully compliant
TJX is a Tier 1 merchant and may even qualify to be a processor PCI requirements, even for Tier 1 merchants, don't seem to have much credibility when a rogue gang of six people can infiltrate TJX and Wal-Mart.
Losses experienced by Wal-Mart and the banks issuing the credit cards total more than $8 million and are still being calculated I'd like more technical details. Are there any theories about how the attackers breached the system? Who wrote the front line software which they breached? Who wrote the operating system it runs on? Who wrote the database system which was being used? Who was in charge of network monitoring and security at the time? What tools were they misusing (obviously) that they weren't able to catch this ahead of time?
The six named people must have had some deep insight to the code on which these systems were running. Maybe they had inside help. If I really wanted to be paranoid I'd suggest that the six named people were caught port-scanning the servers and they're being used as the fall guys so that the real criminals, probably insiders, can slip out the back door.
Patriot illegal HP domestic wiretap Enron insider FBI trading Martha 9/11 Stewart Congressional inquiry comes to mind.
We may start to see where zero day exploits really originate (implication: within the mother company). We may begin to see how much personal information is truly being gathered (implication: as much as possible). We may realize how long illegal domestic wiretaps have really been going on (implication: at least as long as the technology has been available).
In all actuality I see a certification like this to be good at heart to begin with but, give another five years, and it will become a method to ensure that programmers only make mistakes in predictable ways--and then everything will proceed as it currently is.
It's like expecting politicians to police their own ethics Heh. This fellow had it spot on.
Every year, there is a proposal to implement this. What happens is, they spend a couple more million on "studies", and spend the rest on widening the existing...
...loopholes.
How long have people been demanding an accelerated patent process?
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If I could find a simple way to place a translucent background on the console (with or without fb, but preferably without) I'd spend much less time with X11.
If you have many real system tweaks you'll want to keep a backup of /etc as well.
I can install potato on blank media and upgrade to sid in about three or four hours depending on network transfer rates. Over the years I've managed to whittle the time it takes to restore all of my preferred system configurations from the next two or three days to the next two or three hours. Most of that process is comprised of installing and test using the applications which remind me of the greatest number of things which need to be tweaked.
The most beautiful thing that a federal level politician could learn to say would be,"I'm sorry ma'am, that's just not within my jurisdiction." Since campaign promises are profitable, though, eventually some of those people come calling after election time. Congress has a demonstrated history of passing laws which, right wrong or indifferent, are plain outside the scope of their legal jurisdiction. The single constant over the last 200 years is that Congress has been, slowly and methodically, illegally expanding its scope of powers by legislatively giving authority, which it never had to begin with, to third parties--usually by the simple act of providing the funding.
If that much isn't clearly obvious to you then you have only the carefully regulated educational industry to blame for your narrow field of comprehension.
Congress is limited. Face it. You can't handle the truth.
...the power of the Federal Government...depend on the general provisions of the Constitution, which defines in this, as in all other respects, the powers of Congress If interstate commerce couldn't be easily interpreted to cover slavery--with such surety that it would take a Constitutional Amendment to give Congress the power to regulate (ban) slavery--then how does interstae commerce come to encompass nearly everything else under the sun?The Constitution was written by men who were seeking to prevent the reemergence of a gargantuan all-encompassing government such as England's had become. Only a complete patsy would argue that interstate commerce could somehow change its definition over time to give them the authority to create agencies like the EPA, the FCC, the FDA, and the DEA.
Are there any SCOTUS decisions since 1776 in which the court has specifically defined the scope of Congressional power to regulate commerce between the states? If there are then the earliest ones are most likely to be most closely aligned with the original intent of the Constitution without the bias of political and financial strings.
Quote from the article's author: I'm no legal scholar, but it sounds as if, by declaring that the EPA's case was weak, further defense of this matter (say in a future federal court case) would require either that the EPA come up with some compelling jurisdictional argument about why a substance in the atmosphere that could potentially harm humans isn't after all covered by the Clean Air Act I think the greater question is whether or not the Clean Air Act, or even the act which created the EPA, was Constitutional to begin with. The most direct example of this distinction can be found in a historical piece published by the NYTimes. As Congress does not possess power itself to make onsetments relative to the persons or property of citizens of the United States, in a Federal Territory, other than such as the Constitution confers, so it cannot constitutionally delegate any such powers to a Territorial Government, organized by it under the Constitution. Parallel, As Congress does not possess power itself to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, other than such as the Constitution confers, so it cannot constitutionally delegate any such power to a federal authority such as the EPA, organized by it under the Constitution.
In 1857 the SCOTUS did the right thing, politically, by affirming that the Federal Government does not have sweeping jurisdiction over anything which can be remotely rationalized as commerce The legal condition of a slave in the State of Missouri is not affected by the temporary sojourn of such slave in any other Sate, but on his return his condition still depends on the laws of Missouri.
As the plaintiff was not a citizen of Missouri, he, therefore, could not sue in the Courts of the United States. The suit must be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. If the transportation of a slave across state lines wasn't eligible for interstate commerce in 1857 then what has changed since then? A Constitutional Amendment was required, even a Civil War wasn't enough, for the slave trade to be considered "commerce". Where does the EPA derive its power from?
While it is a Good Thing that the slave population was officially outlawed (nevermind the gaping hole in the 13th Amendment which allows for a simple jaywalking ticket to make a person eligible for slavery), it is a Better Thing that our government be reminded, as often as possible, of the limitations on its power.
At one time I lived and breathed tldp.org. The enormous pace at which Linux accelerated coupled with the massive increase in software offerings, though, has left it a little bit dated. Yes, a good portion of the material is still applicable, but just seeing a last modified date that's five years old might be acceptable for a textbook--but it doesn't leave a good impression for a HOWTO.
At the same time, though, if all of the HOWTOs were updated to be in line with current kernel and software versions, they might cease to be instructional and educational HOWTOs and become little more than dinner recipes.
That doesn't mean we can't compile the libraries separately and make them available to apps which make use of them. I have historically preferred window managers which remain as thin as possible. I'm not going to try and assert that E17 still qualifies as thin but it certainly doesn't try to integrate itself wholeheartedly into the overall system the way that KDE and Gnome do. When Enlightenment tries to pull a KDE/Gnome I'll still fall back to UDE.
If the merger fails we still have Englightenment
Did you think that up all by yourself? You're such a smart kid. Do you need help with your book reports?
I've long suspected that the respective industries use college students for free research and development. Students rarely know the larger business implications of the theses or projects they are working on and, through business associate of an insurance rep for a prominent professor type relationship, it'd be pretty easy to funnel ideas from a west coast university to a corporation in New York which delegates the idea to a development group in Switzerland. It works out even more in the favor of the industry if the best students are further saddled with student loans and cannot invest the time necessary to track their own ideas.
I've seen the same. At Battelle, in Aberdeen, MD, more than one system had popups which arrived on the desktop when no browser was running. When I worked on the Aberdeen Proving Grounds military base, as a contractor for Battelle, the public use computers were absolutely riddled with quirks (eg. sound drivers failing, mouse clicks lost, shared drives disappearing and reappearing) which weren't consistent with usual WinNT problems, weren't part of announced outages, and didn't correspond with scheduled system maintenance or upgrades.
While none of these events were ever well-tracked or investigated and could just as easily been the generic useless malware variants I wouldn't be at all surprised if a thorough forensics investigation uncovered more targeted attacks or trojans which had been slipped in under the guise of innocuous maladware.
If you can help me become unhomeless I'll be more than happy to work on whatever security comparison you would like to see.
I've met several salesmen who were from wealthy backgrounds who had unlimited savings (though they often maintained the appearance of being just as poor as their fellow coworkers--often to the extent of still living in their parents' house). Those are usually the ones who didn't get pink slips or, if they did, it was only because they had assured their family that they had another nepotic position lined up elsewhere.
Create debt, maintain debt, keep people in debt, work them until they die of debt.
The federal government creates debt (8.8 trillion at the moment), the investment industry maintains it (insider trading), the banks keep track of it (home, car, and tuition loans), and their employers cut their wages (insurance) until they die from it.
Finally some games that look like I would want to spend hours upon hours gaming again.
They're waiting for me to become unhomeless so that I can become a gaming participant again.
The ecosystem, in this example, is trafficking in taxpayer money and insider trading information.
Circuit City and the American Dream
Business savvy decision allows new employees a chance at sales fame.
Top business analysts have determined that a growing number of people have become "too wealthy for their own good", according to one high-ranking Wall Street spokesperson. "It is in the interest of the common good that we allow other, less priveleged folks, to have the opportunity to buy their own food and afford both rent and car payments."
The dismissed workers, having reached their allowed quota of wealth, were given peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on their way out the door and told that they could reapply after their savings had been reduced to zero. While the average lifespan of a salesman's savings is about ten weeks, according to financial analysts, it was widely agreed that dismissed employees would not truly be eligible for reassignment until they had accumulated enough debt to prevent them from ever owning a house or car again.
"These people were beginning to factor into systems that have long been the exclusive playgrounds of the rich and powerful. We simply could not allow them to tip the scales and upset the balance," said Circuit City spokesman Bill Cimino.
They're worried about security, alright. If it's too open then outsiders can begin exploiting them. If it's too closed then they might get caught passing insider trading information. Security is one of those "just right" things in the eyes of big business.
The six named people must have had some deep insight to the code on which these systems were running. Maybe they had inside help. If I really wanted to be paranoid I'd suggest that the six named people were caught port-scanning the servers and they're being used as the fall guys so that the real criminals, probably insiders, can slip out the back door.
Patriot illegal HP domestic wiretap Enron insider FBI trading Martha 9/11 Stewart Congressional inquiry comes to mind.
We may start to see where zero day exploits really originate (implication: within the mother company). We may begin to see how much personal information is truly being gathered (implication: as much as possible). We may realize how long illegal domestic wiretaps have really been going on (implication: at least as long as the technology has been available).
In all actuality I see a certification like this to be good at heart to begin with but, give another five years, and it will become a method to ensure that programmers only make mistakes in predictable ways--and then everything will proceed as it currently is.
How long have people been demanding an accelerated patent process?