From my reading of that text, it appears tht as long as your your actions are associated with that state (as either source or destination) you're liable to that law. It simply allows you to limit (by agreement) a transaction between two people to one of the states or the other (the, "in the case of dispute, you agree to be bound by the laws of X state" clause in many contracts).
The letter seems to me like a Regulated Monopoly trying to get rid of the 'Regulated' and keep the 'Monopoly'.
There are many things that I don't like about ICANN, but things like the limits they have on what the prime registrys can charge wholesale aren't one of them. I've had to deal with NSI->verisign refusing to allow me to transfer getyourassingear.com (which has now been taken by someone else). The last thing I'd want to do is make it even easier for them to stomp on their competition.
That having been said, ICANN does need to have it's wrists slapped with a two-by-four (along with the back of their collective head). If they're not willing to go back to being the open, accountable, etc. group that they originally promised that they'd be, then perhaps they should be given a 1-year extension, and work done to design something that does work properly.
In any case, the stupid box has an internal heater -- Like anybody out there is going
to need a heater for a P3. A couple of P4s can make a pretty good (but damned expensive) space heater!
More seriously, though.. these boxes are made for food processing (inc. freezer buildings) environments -- although there aren't many computer components that would mind being kept at -35c (disk drives come to mind as possible exceptions).
For a marine envirnemt,
Possibly more valuable would be a closed-loop cooling
system (like is often used by over-clockers. Off the top of my head, you might try and hunt down a marine refrigerator.. Drill holes for the cables, then grout around them with silicon. An external (scsi?) CD/DVD drive in it's own enclosure
(smaller, easer to get to , not as likely to need cooling). An LCD display is probably the best idea (smaller, cooler, less power).
As for power, you can use 24/12V->110V power inverters by people like StatPower (or whoever bought them). They range from 50W units that are good for laptops to gargantuan (KiloWatt range) monsters. A 250W unit is about the size of a 5" drive, but gets reasonably hot by itself. Companies do make units specifically for marine operations.
That having been said, though... You may want to look for power supplies specifically for marine operations.. You're already starting with 12 or 24VDC. No real need to punch up to 110AC and then back down again.. All you really need are some medium-amperage voltage regulators (especially if you're starting at 24V). A two-stage regulator (24V->16V, 16V->12/5V) should give you the cleanest power you could ask for.and FAR simpler too. You could probably arrange to have the PS cooled by a sea-water sluice. (less heat to worry about inside the CPU enclosure). There are probably all sorts of people capable of building on for you (if absolutely necessary).
I think that it's just luck that the MD5 checksum wasn't modified along with the tarball. An MD5 sum just verifies the accuracy of the transfer -- not the authenticity of the file. It would be a bit harder to fake the PGP signature (with it's web of trust).
The bothersome thing about this is that someone got into the site (aka: sunsite.ualberta.ca) and managed to modify source tarballs. I'm now wondering:
what else got modified.?
was anything modified more completely (less detectably)?
But the real question is: [who] would want to 'configure' their toasters using a GUI?"
I like my toast darker than my rommmate does. We could set up personal preferences for the toaster and have 3 or 4 'personal setting' buttons on the toaster. It's not worth putting a full gui on the toaster, but you could put some memory into the servo settings and have it controlled over the
'net.
The 'pop up window' when your toast is ready idea is, at worst, a good pun -- but which machine to pop-up the message to could be included in the 'personal prefs' button.
Then, of course, there's the original purpose of the 'MIT internet pop machine' -- which was to notify you of when the machine was out of pop, so you could save yourself a (fruitless) trip to the machine (which was a good distance away from the computer labs).. If the toaster says it's in use, you can spend a couple more minutes surfing before you go down to make breakfast (or sneak in and steal the toast from your roommate when it's done). Then again if your roommate is cute, and likes to make breakfast in sensuous undies, you might want to set the toaster to notify you when {s,}he hits the appropriate prefs button.
The possibilities are about as endless as the possibilities of attaching a video camera to a web server (I mean, who'd really want to do that?).
I mean it seems a bit weird we suddenly have a 'no sorry, wrong, actually nearly another 40 years ontop of our original prediction' article? Just my two cents.
No. it's the sensationalist newspapers that blew the probability out of proportion. The original reports were of a probability cloud (based on uncertanties from the available observations) that (at the time of original reports) had a 1/6million chance that the rock would land on earth. The chances of that probability actually increasing with future observations was likely in the 1-in-a-million range.
The job of a tabloid is to sell newspapers, not report the news. 1 in 6 Million Cchance That We'll be Asteroid Sushi doesn't sell newspapers. Kiss Your Ass Goodbye -- Killer Asteroid Approaches Earth, on the other hand, does... and they can sell a few more papers after that with Killer Asteroid Update -- Clean Your Pants. when they report that it's really just going to be a near miss (a couple million miles, or so).
That this nice 2KM "block buster" is coming reasonably close to intersecting Earth's orbit twice in the next 60 years leaves me thinking that this bruiser is a pretty good candidate for whacking us on the back of the head over the next couple million years. (and a 1 in 6 million chance is still better than the probability of any one of us getting killed by a lightning strike).
I personally feel that that rock is probably a pretty good candidate for active disposition of a couple of nuclear warheads.
I'm pretty sure that we'd be capable of launching a 'sledge hammer' mission to that island-sized rock in 17 years. I'm not, however, that sure that our society won't have eaten itself out of house and home by the '60s (and even less hopeful after that). We can whack this rock now, so I say that we should do it.
It looks to me like the bill does NOT make it illegal to place the watermark on the unit. It DOES, however make it illegal (to the tune of $2~$25K) to lend ("traffic") that watermarked unit to your {girl,boy}friend. I find this bill questionable, but not a terribly high priority.
It is, however, one small step in the direction of a data despotism.
# Shae Lynn Saur, NASA intern, Age: 19, Worked in Structural Engineering with Thermal Design. Worked last summer in the X-38 program. Pursuing a B.S. in engineering from Lamar University.
In any case, there's a big difference between intelligence and wisdom. Remember that
Wernher Von Braun was (from what I've heard) pretty brilliant (and probably the reference for the 'rocket scientist' references.. Nontheless, he worked for Hitler in WW2. He either liked what Hitler was up to, or he didn't care enough to slow down his rocket research on the V1 and V2 rockets.
USD$1200 will NOT get you anything CLOSE to to 3MB connection, and I'm sure/. has more than just a 3M contract...
OK: so maybe they should put their colo into Canada. I think that I could easily find an unmetered 3Mb connection for $1200US/mo in Canada -- probably more in the region of 10~100Mb.
Ah for the 1970's when you could spend your hard, ehm, allocated money printing 5 foot high line-printer images of Farrah Fawcet. Careful character choice and multi-strinking each line was used to create the illusion of grey-scale. I guess you could think of it as half-tone the geek way.
GIF is only lossless if you have less than 257 colors in your image. If you have a 24 (or even 16) bit color image, GIF's 'loss' occurs when you convert it down to 8 bits
Once you've taken all of the colors out of the rainbow, you've got nothing left to lose.
I think that in a case like that, posession would rule: i.e. the machine is in synapseland so if they wanted to destroy the box, they would get first dibs (unless they had an extradition treaty with siliconland). On the other hand, siliconland would, at least, have the ability to make a copy of the hacked computer at NSCF lab for analysis. (or whatever it's possible to do remotely from siliconland)
I think that it's michael's injury, not his daughter's, but the injury to him (as an athiest) is that his daughter has been brought up 'indoctrinated' in a pledge of alegience that forces people to honor a god that he doesn't believe in. This is really a conflict between him and his wife, but the government got into it by supporting his wife solely because she is christian.
I see support for that lawsuit as being under Jesus' admonition to "do unto others". If, for political or religious reasons, the dominant religion were to become non-christian, I would not want my grand children forced to pledge alegience to the new relition. As such, I'm unwilling to force others to pledge allegience to mine.
BTW: The words 'Under God' in the pledge are not ancient. They were inserted during the McCarthy era specifically to 'root out' non-christians so that they could be persecuted under the guise of being 'comunist athiests'. Those words are not there to support god. They are there for hateful reasons -- using religion as a weapon and tool of opression. As such, I see it as a perversion of Jesus' message.
I realized that I was a bit spoiled when (5 years ago), I realized that my ADSL downloads were running faster than my floppy disk loads.
Now these people are getting fiber uplinks faster than their hard disks.
I think that it's time to pool all of your hard disks into a RAID enclosure and set up your boxes to boot over the network. (of course you'll probably have to dump Windows to do that -- but I wouldn't really mind...:-)
The US does not have the longest experience with Democracy. The
Swiss federation had the concept of 'popular assembly' which was a participatory style of democracy. This seems to date back to the 13'th century with an aristocratic hole in the 1600s and 1700s.
The US constitution was heavily affected by Iroquois Confederacy and it's democratic style of government. Unfortunately, it was also influenced by the historical European style of aristocratic sstyle of governence. Instead of creating a truly democratic nation the founding fathers tried to create what is, in effect, and elected aristocracy. This is what we inherited, and what we refer to as a 'democracy' today.
On the west coast, the Salish people had what I would describe as a hereditary democracy. Although the men wielded the leadership, they were chosen by a council of women elders, and power passed through the female line. Leadership was seen as a responsibility, not a right. Leaders were taught to consult with the people first. They spoke for their people, as opposed to deciding for them. If a leader was seen as not acting for his people, he could be removed by a simple majority vote.
Leaders who spoke for a tribe or village in area councils were chosen on an ad-hoc basis. The person who was seen as most capable of speaking (and listening) for the will of the people on that specific issue was sent to speak. It was not a permanent assignment.
These native methods of government seem to have evolved over centuries (or even millenia) as a way to be responsible for the possibility of human greed. The European/American method of democracy, on the other hand, was designed based on the aristocratic concept of divine right and the pseudo-religious belief that a leader would always act in the interests of his constituents.
I would assign a big 'oops' to the latter proposition.
It is used to justify bad business decisions..
Decisions that wouldn't be made if the company is losing money, but (in some cases) are required to keep up the facade of plentiful income
By many accounts, CRAP's purpose is to justify giving massive stock options and other bonuses to company execs (see above). e.g. the $400M loan to WorldCom's outgoing leader would have never been doable if the true state of the books had been known.
It changes the nature of the stock market sellout.
Everybody bails out at the shock -- trying to sell out before the stock completely craters. This includes traditional risk-takers.
Because everybody knows that the sh*t has hit the fan, nobody is willing to buy back in until the fan has stopped spinning.. By that time, the stock is worth $0.007 and vultures are picking off the juicy bits.
This is in contrast to a truth-based selloff in which the nature of the share holders slowly changes from cautious stock holders to more risk-willing types. Stock prices would still go down -- but in a slow, controled manner. A large company in dire straights can sometimes survive for decades under such conditions (in the expectation/hopes of an eventual turnaround). IBM is an example of a company that managed such a turnaround.
With the stock cratered (and stock being the common backing for many loans, nobody is willing to provide interim financing. With no interim financing, the company will never have the cash to survive to better times.
The lies and deception did more than just cover up a problem, they justified even more bad decisions and then cratered the public's faith in the company and it's leadership such that the company is now doomed to oblivion.
(-:
The acronym CRAP is copyright (c)2002 Stephen Samuel. The method for creating it is Patent Pending.:-)
With computer people, we try/run linux because we can.
Not me. I tried Linux because I needed an OS that worked on an Intel box. Win98 was garbage and Solaris didn't have enough hardware support. Linux (RH5.2 at the time) had a bit of difficulty with the pcmcia ethernet driver -- but even that was far easier to deal with than the same thing on windows.
I spend my days at work beating computers into submission, The last thing I want to do when I get home is more of the same.
Ummmm, excuse me, but where did all the CO2 from burned gasoline originate?...
from plants -> animals that lived dozens of millions of years ago. Earth's ecosystem has long-since balanced itself to run witnout that carbon in the system. pumping it all back in in what, geologically and ecologically speaking is an instant of time can cause what D&Ders used to refer to as 'system shock'.
When the polar ice caps finish melting (the north pole is probably going to be gone by mid century), then the planet's temperatures are really going to spike, and we'll be facing some serious drought and heat-wave problems.
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From my reading of that text, it appears tht as long as your your actions are associated with that state (as either source or destination) you're liable to that law. It simply allows you to limit (by agreement) a transaction between two people to one of the states or the other (the, "in the case of dispute, you agree to be bound by the laws of X state" clause in many contracts).
There are many things that I don't like about ICANN, but things like the limits they have on what the prime registrys can charge wholesale aren't one of them. I've had to deal with NSI->verisign refusing to allow me to transfer getyourassingear.com (which has now been taken by someone else). The last thing I'd want to do is make it even easier for them to stomp on their competition.
That having been said, ICANN does need to have it's wrists slapped with a two-by-four (along with the back of their collective head). If they're not willing to go back to being the open, accountable, etc. group that they originally promised that they'd be, then perhaps they should be given a 1-year extension, and work done to design something that does work properly.
In any case, the stupid box has an internal heater -- Like anybody out there is going to need a heater for a P3. A couple of P4s can make a pretty good (but damned expensive) space heater!
More seriously, though.. these boxes are made for food processing (inc. freezer buildings) environments -- although there aren't many computer components that would mind being kept at -35c (disk drives come to mind as possible exceptions).
For a marine envirnemt, Possibly more valuable would be a closed-loop cooling system (like is often used by over-clockers.
Off the top of my head, you might try and hunt down a marine refrigerator.. Drill holes for the cables, then grout around them with silicon.
An external (scsi?) CD/DVD drive in it's own enclosure (smaller, easer to get to , not as likely to need cooling).
An LCD display is probably the best idea (smaller, cooler, less power).
As for power, you can use 24/12V->110V power inverters by people like StatPower (or whoever bought them). They range from 50W units that are good for laptops to gargantuan (KiloWatt range) monsters. A 250W unit is about the size of a 5" drive, but gets reasonably hot by itself.
Companies do make units specifically for marine operations.
That having been said, though... You may want to look for power supplies specifically for marine operations.. You're already starting with 12 or 24VDC. No real need to punch up to 110AC and then back down again.. All you really need are some medium-amperage voltage regulators (especially if you're starting at 24V). A two-stage regulator (24V->16V, 16V->12/5V) should give you the cleanest power you could ask for.and FAR simpler too. You could probably arrange to have the PS cooled by a sea-water sluice. (less heat to worry about inside the CPU enclosure). There are probably all sorts of people capable of building on for you (if absolutely necessary).
Gotta run now.. off to the beach :-)
The bothersome thing about this is that someone got into the site (aka: sunsite.ualberta.ca) and managed to modify source tarballs. I'm now wondering:
- A really good joke requires at least three people:
-
One to tell the joke
- One to get the joke
- One to laugh at for completely missing the joke
Looks like we've got all three here.-- unknown
Nice joke!
I like my toast darker than my rommmate does. We could set up personal preferences for the toaster and have 3 or 4 'personal setting' buttons on the toaster. It's not worth putting a full gui on the toaster, but you could put some memory into the servo settings and have it controlled over the 'net.
The 'pop up window' when your toast is ready idea is, at worst, a good pun -- but which machine to pop-up the message to could be included in the 'personal prefs' button.
Then, of course, there's the original purpose of the 'MIT internet pop machine' -- which was to notify you of when the machine was out of pop, so you could save yourself a (fruitless) trip to the machine (which was a good distance away from the computer labs)..
If the toaster says it's in use, you can spend a couple more minutes surfing before you go down to make breakfast (or sneak in and steal the toast from your roommate when it's done).
Then again if your roommate is cute, and likes to make breakfast in sensuous undies, you might want to set the toaster to notify you when {s,}he hits the appropriate prefs button.
The possibilities are about as endless as the possibilities of attaching a video camera to a web server (I mean, who'd really want to do that?).
No. it's the sensationalist newspapers that blew the probability out of proportion. The original reports were of a probability cloud (based on uncertanties from the available observations) that (at the time of original reports) had a 1/6million chance that the rock would land on earth. The chances of that probability actually increasing with future observations was likely in the 1-in-a-million range.
The job of a tabloid is to sell newspapers, not report the news. 1 in 6 Million Cchance That We'll be Asteroid Sushi doesn't sell newspapers. Kiss Your Ass Goodbye -- Killer Asteroid Approaches Earth, on the other hand, does ... and they can sell a few more papers after that with Killer Asteroid Update -- Clean Your Pants. when they report that it's really just going to be a near miss (a couple million miles, or so).
I personally feel that that rock is probably a pretty good candidate for active disposition of a couple of nuclear warheads.
I'm pretty sure that we'd be capable of launching a 'sledge hammer' mission to that island-sized rock in 17 years. I'm not, however, that sure that our society won't have eaten itself out of house and home by the '60s (and even less hopeful after that). We can whack this rock now, so I say that we should do it.
It is, however, one small step in the direction of a data despotism.
Well, one of them is apparently pretty close...
In any case, there's a big difference between intelligence and wisdom. Remember that Wernher Von Braun was (from what I've heard) pretty brilliant (and probably the reference for the 'rocket scientist' references.. Nontheless, he worked for Hitler in WW2. He either liked what Hitler was up to, or he didn't care enough to slow down his rocket research on the V1 and V2 rockets.OK: so maybe they should put their colo into Canada. I think that I could easily find an unmetered 3Mb connection for $1200US/mo in Canada -- probably more in the region of 10~100Mb.
All I can say is: "I hope it falls on his head".
(Oh, that's good to get off of my chest!)
Ah for the 1970's when you could spend your hard, ehm, allocated money printing 5 foot high line-printer images of Farrah Fawcet. Careful character choice and multi-strinking each line was used to create the illusion of grey-scale.
I guess you could think of it as half-tone the geek way.
Once you've taken all of the colors out of the rainbow, you've got nothing left to lose.
I think that in a case like that, posession would rule: i.e. the machine is in synapseland so if they wanted to destroy the box, they would get first dibs (unless they had an extradition treaty with siliconland). On the other hand, siliconland would, at least, have the ability to make a copy of the hacked computer at NSCF lab for analysis. (or whatever it's possible to do remotely from siliconland)
I think that it's michael's injury, not his daughter's, but the injury to him (as an athiest) is that his daughter has been brought up 'indoctrinated' in a pledge of alegience that forces people to honor a god that he doesn't believe in. This is really a conflict between him and his wife, but the government got into it by supporting his wife solely because she is christian.
I see support for that lawsuit as being under Jesus' admonition to "do unto others". If, for political or religious reasons, the dominant religion were to become non-christian, I would not want my grand children forced to pledge alegience to the new relition. As such, I'm unwilling to force others to pledge allegience to mine.
BTW: The words 'Under God' in the pledge are not ancient. They were inserted during the McCarthy era specifically to 'root out' non-christians so that they could be persecuted under the guise of being 'comunist athiests'. Those words are not there to support god. They are there for hateful reasons -- using religion as a weapon and tool of opression. As such, I see it as a perversion of Jesus' message.
I think that it's time to pool all of your hard disks into a RAID enclosure and set up your boxes to boot over the network. (of course you'll probably have to dump Windows to do that -- but I wouldn't really mind... :-)
Case { Western Reserve} University, as opposed to
{Case Western} Reserve University
There's a definite meaning change when you understand it that way.
The US constitution was heavily affected by Iroquois Confederacy and it's democratic style of government. Unfortunately, it was also influenced by the historical European style of aristocratic sstyle of governence. Instead of creating a truly democratic nation the founding fathers tried to create what is, in effect, and elected aristocracy. This is what we inherited, and what we refer to as a 'democracy' today.
On the west coast, the Salish people had what I would describe as a hereditary democracy. Although the men wielded the leadership, they were chosen by a council of women elders, and power passed through the female line. Leadership was seen as a responsibility, not a right. Leaders were taught to consult with the people first. They spoke for their people, as opposed to deciding for them. If a leader was seen as not acting for his people, he could be removed by a simple majority vote.
Leaders who spoke for a tribe or village in area councils were chosen on an ad-hoc basis. The person who was seen as most capable of speaking (and listening) for the will of the people on that specific issue was sent to speak. It was not a permanent assignment.
These native methods of government seem to have evolved over centuries (or even millenia) as a way to be responsible for the possibility of human greed. The European/American method of democracy, on the other hand, was designed based on the aristocratic concept of divine right and the pseudo-religious belief that a leader would always act in the interests of his constituents. I would assign a big 'oops' to the latter proposition.
(They got $4M in their lawsuit, but not before one of them died)
e.g. the $400M loan to WorldCom's outgoing leader would have never been doable if the true state of the books had been known.
IBM is an example of a company that managed such a turnaround.
The lies and deception did more than just cover up a problem, they justified even more bad decisions and then cratered the public's faith in the company and it's leadership such that the company is now doomed to oblivion.
Oh, you mean like ICANN adian?
Not me. I tried Linux because I needed an OS that worked on an Intel box. Win98 was garbage and Solaris didn't have enough hardware support. Linux (RH5.2 at the time) had a bit of difficulty with the pcmcia ethernet driver -- but even that was far easier to deal with than the same thing on windows.
I spend my days at work beating computers into submission, The last thing I want to do when I get home is more of the same.
from plants -> animals that lived dozens of millions of years ago. Earth's ecosystem has long-since balanced itself to run witnout that carbon in the system. pumping it all back in in what, geologically and ecologically speaking is an instant of time can cause what D&Ders used to refer to as 'system shock'.
When the polar ice caps finish melting (the north pole is probably going to be gone by mid century), then the planet's temperatures are really going to spike, and we'll be facing some serious drought and heat-wave problems.
If someone calls your car a grease-bucket, all you'll be able to do is smile.....