As a chemist, you aren't exactly convincing. As for "what someone can easily do with household products", your experience is probably limited to exotic enemas and unless your experiments run to things like jalapeno sauce up your ass, nobody is going to want to read about them.
should delete themselves off slashdot, as should you. If you're anti-science, you have no place here. Most of those chemicals are probably more dangerous than table salt, and the user is a qualified professional chemist.
The code enforcement officer's irrational fear does not justify yours. Or your spewing it all over slashdot.
It's dumbasses like you who are the reason why the US is slipping behind the rest of the industrial world in science education. Your kind of nanny-state horseshit is why high school students watch chemistry experiments on video instead of doing real lab work and why parents who want their kids to learn real hands on science instead of computer simulations can't get decent home chemistry sets anymore.
That "not a customary home occupation" test can be applied to anything VCs are likely to fund. So get out now before the city shuts you down for not doing something that's within the rather limited comprehension range of their code enforcement officer. "You're programming computers? EVIL HACKER, I'm calling the police right now! You've crossed an invisible line!!!" Alternative energy? "Algae is dangerous! I have to clean it out of my pool every week. And you're growing the stuff? The Department of Homeland Security knows how to deal with your kind!" Otherwise, assuming you stay out of jail or Gitmo, you'll have to watch your competitors in saner jurisdictions pull ahead of you while you try to get your hardware and data files away from the city.
There are reasons why even left-wing Democrats joke about the "People's Republic of Massachusetts". If this kind of nanny-state crap becomes prevalent in MA, even MIT's chemistry classes are likely to turn into high-school style 'comment and take notes on the experiment you'll be watching on video' crap. Though more likely, they'll simply find a saner state to move to.
A code-enforcement worker who closed down a high-tech startup in "hyper-blue" California because "it's not a customary home occupation" would get her worthless ass run out of government and hopefully, the hell out of the state.
No, it isn't Red v Blue... it's dumbass v everybody.
"People always get the kind of local government they deserve." Usually a grim comment on both a government and its citizens, but... WTF is it with MA? Is it the water?
on a VMware Server guest VM to handle my legacy apps. In a VM, 98SE is reliable, stable, secure (behind a Linux firewall), and fast.
However, I'll have to get XP so I can run Windoze in Sun Virtualbox , 98SE doesn't have access to the USB I/O... I'm going off VMware Server. And USPS Shipping Assistant (print your own barcoded USPS labels) is XP+ only. One chooses an OS because one needs the apps that run on it.
is par for the course. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a thief, who put it back in the office after copying the data and making a few little additions. . . e.g. adding the entire membership of al-Queda to the list of people who get fast-tracked through security.
encrypted data transfers?
To make this work without notice to the sender or recipient, there'd have to be a back-door built into all crypto. I think a lot of companies would prefer to simply stop doing business in America.
simply buy a domain renewal/transfer somewhere else and keep an eye on your e-mail, your new domain provider will contact yahoo in a way they can't ignore.
I'm assuming this is a real domain (yourdomain.com) instead of yourdomain.yahoo.com )
hookups to scanners and printers. Except for OpenSolaris and W98SE (explicitly not supported), I've had working scanner and printer support on every OS (Kubuntu/Ubuntu V7 and V8, OpenSuse11, XP) I've tried Sun Virtualbox v1.6.2 with. I've been using it to review operating systems for publication. If I'd had a scanner and printer that worked with OpenSolaris, I think it would have worked just fine there, too.
Linux webcam support is problematic whether you're trying to get it on a real or a virtual machine. Has your webcam worked on any Linux physical box you've tried it on?
I'm planning to replace VMware Server with VirtualBox completely on this box. (Debian Lenny host)
dns-oarc.net? I think something is wrong at their end. (either they're FUBAR or the 4.2.2.* nameservers are down, and if the nameservers are down, I'm not connecting to anyone... which would appear not to be the case)
It's unlikely that KDE4 will stay up long enough to allow you to say goatse 3x.
I'm exaggerating, my uptime experience with it in OpenSUSE11/Kubuntu has been hours, not minutes. WTF is something that crashes every few hours doing as a window manager in major distros?
horizon? I was thinking carbon nanotube ultracaps given that the response time and storage capacity in similar packaging should be at least comparable.
Any real modem (i.e. DSP onboard) should work with just about any Linux distro. The Winmodems use custom drivers, essentially using CPU functionality to emulate the guts of a real modem. The $5 cheapies won't help you, but real modems aren't all that expensive. Used one for years before I finally went broadband. AFAIK, any modern distro stull has tools for dealing with serial modems, though you may have to dig for them.
While driver support is improving (the new CUPS finally supports the Canon IP3000, after years of using the Turboprint third-party closed-source driver package), I agree that you're unlikely to find a driver for the K6 generation of hardware. I doubt Vista supports that stuff, either.
I've got an Airlink 101 el cheapo (bought it for around $30 at Fry's) wireless router feeding my Linux workstation via wire and a Windoze box via wireless. It's continuous uptime is measured in months... and some of those reboots may have been unnecessary. (I now tell it to grab a new IP from my broadband provider if it stalls before trying a reboot)
My assumption is that its internal OS is something other than embedded Windoze.
A nuclear power plant in Georgia was recently forced into an emergency shutdown for 48 hours after a software update was installed on a single computer.
The incident occurred on March 7 at Unit 2 of the Hatch nuclear power plant near Baxley, Georgia. The trouble started after an engineer from Southern Company, which manages the technology operations for the plant, installed a software update on a computer operating on the plant's business network.
The computer in question was used to monitor chemical and diagnostic data from one of the facility's primary control systems, and the software update was designed to synchronize data on both systems. According to a report filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, when the updated computer rebooted, it reset the data on the control system...
rest at the URL which has a link to full article
Assuming that control systems run 100% isolated is nothing more than an assumption.
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is the Trailways or Greyhound bus of today.
The reason you don't see celebrities and wealthy people even in first class anymore is that it's worth the price of either renting or buying a private jet to avoid the TSA bullshit.
The difference between being wealthy and super-wealthy is that the super-wealthy owns their own private jets, the wealthy rent or borrow from their richer friends.
Once the wealthy stopped flying commercial, the airlines were free to treat passenger like cattle because they didn't have to worry about annoying people in a position to make life truly miserable for them.
I use it successfully for anything from helping me debug software to finding a list of somebody's campaign contributors to... anything I can come up with search terms for. I'd say that on information search (image search is iffier), I get useful results about 99% of the time, though it might take a while to get those results.
I suggest you browse the google help docs.
Not to say it couldn't be better, they still don't have the Boolean NEAR or DATE operators, and in some ways, search would be easier if I could simply enter Boolean operators.
if you have commercial / proprietary secrets on your laptop, once they get grabbed by DHS, they are no longer secure.
So far, the one reasonably safe alternative is to go over borders with laptops with an OS only and ship your data once it gets to one's destination via sFTP. For most people, that's a quite a few gigabytes of transfer and a very big hassle. (start by finding a site that'll let you borrow a gigabyte or larger pipe for a while...) Some businesses already have this as company SOP. How long before foreign businesses decide America is too much of a PITA to be worth doing business with in person?
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and your job be on the Vista development team?
As a chemist, you aren't exactly convincing. As for "what someone can easily do with household products", your experience is probably limited to exotic enemas and unless your experiments run to things like jalapeno sauce up your ass, nobody is going to want to read about them.
should delete themselves off slashdot, as should you. If you're anti-science, you have no place here. Most of those chemicals are probably more dangerous than table salt, and the user is a qualified professional chemist.
The code enforcement officer's irrational fear does not justify yours. Or your spewing it all over slashdot.
It's dumbasses like you who are the reason why the US is slipping behind the rest of the industrial world in science education. Your kind of nanny-state horseshit is why high school students watch chemistry experiments on video instead of doing real lab work and why parents who want their kids to learn real hands on science instead of computer simulations can't get decent home chemistry sets anymore.
in Worchester? MOVE NOW.
That "not a customary home occupation" test can be applied to anything VCs are likely to fund. So get out now before the city shuts you down for not doing something that's within the rather limited comprehension range of their code enforcement officer. "You're programming computers? EVIL HACKER, I'm calling the police right now! You've crossed an invisible line!!!" Alternative energy? "Algae is dangerous! I have to clean it out of my pool every week. And you're growing the stuff? The Department of Homeland Security knows how to deal with your kind!" Otherwise, assuming you stay out of jail or Gitmo, you'll have to watch your competitors in saner jurisdictions pull ahead of you while you try to get your hardware and data files away from the city.
There are reasons why even left-wing Democrats joke about the "People's Republic of Massachusetts". If this kind of nanny-state crap becomes prevalent in MA, even MIT's chemistry classes are likely to turn into high-school style 'comment and take notes on the experiment you'll be watching on video' crap. Though more likely, they'll simply find a saner state to move to.
A code-enforcement worker who closed down a high-tech startup in "hyper-blue" California because "it's not a customary home occupation" would get her worthless ass run out of government and hopefully, the hell out of the state.
... it's dumbass v everybody.
... WTF is it with MA? Is it the water?
No, it isn't Red v Blue
"People always get the kind of local government they deserve." Usually a grim comment on both a government and its citizens, but
on a VMware Server guest VM to handle my legacy apps. In a VM, 98SE is reliable, stable, secure (behind a Linux firewall), and fast.
However, I'll have to get XP so I can run Windoze in Sun Virtualbox , 98SE doesn't have access to the USB I/O... I'm going off VMware Server. And USPS Shipping Assistant (print your own barcoded USPS labels) is XP+ only. One chooses an OS because one needs the apps that run on it.
is par for the course. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a thief, who put it back in the office after copying the data and making a few little additions. . . e.g. adding the entire membership of al-Queda to the list of people who get fast-tracked through security.
encrypted data transfers? To make this work without notice to the sender or recipient, there'd have to be a back-door built into all crypto. I think a lot of companies would prefer to simply stop doing business in America.
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yahoo mail accounts for anything important?
simply buy a domain renewal/transfer somewhere else and keep an eye on your e-mail, your new domain provider will contact yahoo in a way they can't ignore.
I'm assuming this is a real domain (yourdomain.com) instead of yourdomain.yahoo.com )
hookups to scanners and printers. Except for OpenSolaris and W98SE (explicitly not supported), I've had working scanner and printer support on every OS (Kubuntu/Ubuntu V7 and V8, OpenSuse11, XP) I've tried Sun Virtualbox v1.6.2 with. I've been using it to review operating systems for publication. If I'd had a scanner and printer that worked with OpenSolaris, I think it would have worked just fine there, too.
Linux webcam support is problematic whether you're trying to get it on a real or a virtual machine. Has your webcam worked on any Linux physical box you've tried it on?
I'm planning to replace VMware Server with VirtualBox completely on this box. (Debian Lenny host)
if all else fails, i can always use my isp's nameserver, which should be fixed by now.
dns-oarc.net? I think something is wrong at their end. (either they're FUBAR or the 4.2.2.* nameservers are down, and if the nameservers are down, I'm not connecting to anyone... which would appear not to be the case)
It's unlikely that KDE4 will stay up long enough to allow you to say goatse 3x.
I'm exaggerating, my uptime experience with it in OpenSUSE11/Kubuntu has been hours, not minutes. WTF is something that crashes every few hours doing as a window manager in major distros?
I won't be buying Foxconn, not even if I'm building a Windoze box.
primary: 4.2.2.1 secondary: 4.2.2.2
YMMV, but I found it much faster (in terms of pageloads) than OpenDNS's.
horizon? I was thinking carbon nanotube ultracaps given that the response time and storage capacity in similar packaging should be at least comparable.
Any real modem (i.e. DSP onboard) should work with just about any Linux distro. The Winmodems use custom drivers, essentially using CPU functionality to emulate the guts of a real modem. The $5 cheapies won't help you, but real modems aren't all that expensive. Used one for years before I finally went broadband. AFAIK, any modern distro stull has tools for dealing with serial modems, though you may have to dig for them.
While driver support is improving (the new CUPS finally supports the Canon IP3000, after years of using the Turboprint third-party closed-source driver package), I agree that you're unlikely to find a driver for the K6 generation of hardware. I doubt Vista supports that stuff, either.
see above
I've got an Airlink 101 el cheapo (bought it for around $30 at Fry's) wireless router feeding my Linux workstation via wire and a Windoze box via wireless. It's continuous uptime is measured in months... and some of those reboots may have been unnecessary. (I now tell it to grab a new IP from my broadband provider if it stalls before trying a reboot)
My assumption is that its internal OS is something other than embedded Windoze.
rest at the URL which has a link to full article
Assuming that control systems run 100% isolated is nothing more than an assumption.
is the Trailways or Greyhound bus of today.
The reason you don't see celebrities and wealthy people even in first class anymore is that it's worth the price of either renting or buying a private jet to avoid the TSA bullshit.
The difference between being wealthy and super-wealthy is that the super-wealthy owns their own private jets, the wealthy rent or borrow from their richer friends.
Once the wealthy stopped flying commercial, the airlines were free to treat passenger like cattle because they didn't have to worry about annoying people in a position to make life truly miserable for them.
I use it successfully for anything from helping me debug software to finding a list of somebody's campaign contributors to ... anything I can come up with search terms for. I'd say that on information search (image search is iffier), I get useful results about 99% of the time, though it might take a while to get those results.
I suggest you browse the google help docs.
Not to say it couldn't be better, they still don't have the Boolean NEAR or DATE operators, and in some ways, search would be easier if I could simply enter Boolean operators.
if you have commercial / proprietary secrets on your laptop, once they get grabbed by DHS, they are no longer secure.
So far, the one reasonably safe alternative is to go over borders with laptops with an OS only and ship your data once it gets to one's destination via sFTP. For most people, that's a quite a few gigabytes of transfer and a very big hassle. (start by finding a site that'll let you borrow a gigabyte or larger pipe for a while...) Some businesses already have this as company SOP. How long before foreign businesses decide America is too much of a PITA to be worth doing business with in person?