Joe User doesn't WANT a computer, he wants an "appliance" that's simple and "easy" to use. Really, just a game console that also runs some basic office apps and a browser is perfect for him.
Me, I want a computer that I can customize and tweak and use to actually get work done.
Thus, my laptop runs Fedora. Now if I could just get around to rewriting those damn Access apps in Java....
Of course the suggestion is a little over-simplitic, but you have to start somewhere. The key is that the investigators, prosecutors, and courts have near-zero personal liability even when they act maliciously.
Actually, what's needed is to find out who in the system was responsible for what the jury heard or didn't hear. Quite often it will probably be the prosecutor who does the time (can you say "Nifong" boys & girls) for hiding exculpatory evidence or putting forth a bogus case. Other times it could be a cop or witness with an ax to grind who abuses the system.
Frog-marching an occasional jury, judge, cop, and/or prosecutor would work wonders.
But...
Unless the jury can be shown to have received deceiving testimony, they should be held to account. Use the same standard as in any other negligence case for this.
And the whole concept of a guilty plea needs to be abolished completely. Too many guilty people take "the deal" and get off light, whereas an innocent who pleads their case can be ramrodded into a major sentence. Make all cases go before the jury (properly sworn to personal liability) and a whole lot of bad cases are simply... gone.
Oh... and if acquitted, the courts should pick up the defendant's legal bill and reimburse for lost wages and other damages incurred.
The proper tool, IMHO, for quickly stopping a charging HDD is a.458 Winchester Magnum, with 450-grain soft point bullets. Great for putting 3/4 - 1" holes through all platters, with the side benefit of sending the drive a further 10 yards downrange, just in case a follow-up shot is required. Of course, I've never had to fire twice. One round seems to do the trick.
Yeah... here in Pittsburgh we have UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) that is officially a non-profit, but operates several big hospitals AND an insurance plan. They had "non-profits" last year of over $1 billion (with a B).
Now THAT is a wonderful idea. Make everything sunset after 10 years, and make them read the bill aloud prior to the vote.
One tweak: no vote unless they all stay and sit through the ENTIRE reading. One leaves, even for bathroom break, and it starts over from the beginning.
And any bill with criminal penalties must have a 3/4 supermajority rather than a simple majority. But repeals only require 25% + 1 vote.
Blame stupidity for that one. Too many people think all sites start with "www." and end in ".com" no matter what. You COULD make it work by also doing www.education.dell.com along with "education.dell.com" though.
SUB MyFunc(ParmA as Integer)
If ParmA = 1 then
Call FuncB(ParmA)
Else
Call FuncC(ParmA)
End If End Sub
Or....
procedure MyFunc (ParmA : Integer)
begin
if ParmA = 1 then
FuncB(ParmA)
else
FuncC(ParmA); end;
VB and Pascal are syntatically close enough that you can substitute one for another pretty easily. Then again, so is C compared to Pascal, except C is harder to read later.
It could be either. Some may be totally focused only on the desired outcome, and they can do some evil stuff. Others may believe they are actually leading the other person into a beneficial outcome for both, and are the most dangerous ones of all.
This sounds just like the function of a driver. Allow a generic process to control a more specific one. Just consider the learning curve to be the development of the brain's "driver" for a particular tool and the analogy sticks.
If all the mass is attracting all the other mass, then the center will have the highest pressure, even if the local gravity is balanced. Remember, in the center you have this big spherical mass all around that is self-attracting. So the mass at the "left" is attracting that on the "right" and the "top" and "bottom" are interacting with both. So the only thing that stops them from pulling together is your matter in the center which must exert an equal and opposite resistance to compression force.
Just because the force is equal in all directions does not make it non-zero. It's actually the sum of all the forces, and only directional vectors change, not the total magnitude experienced at the center.
GPL3 explicitly states that the license is irrevocable - and will kill his claims if he used the boilerplate GPL files from FSF. Why? Because GPL2 included a default clause allowing the LICENSEE to choose any later version. So... he agreed explicitly to allow the recipients of the code to interpret the license as GPL3, which means that he is bound by a promise he made.
If he sues anyone, it's curtains for his claims. Actually, just one disaffected licensee can file suit against him right now for attempting to cause damages by this attempt. The words "bad faith" and "punitive and compensatory damages" come to mind.
The problem he faces is that he explicitly and knowingly released the code under the license. He can't go back and say ""I didn't mean it". The system doesn't allow that at all.
Since the SCO case is all but dead, this is a windfall for those folks representing IBM. They are all spun up, have the teams in place and hitting on all cylinders, and no racetrack. Until now that is.
IBM doesn't take kindly to extortionists. They prefer to spend tens or hundreds of millions just to grind them through the gears of the legal system instead. I wonder if the troll has the fiscal backing to actually win a legal war of attrition with IBM? Especially if IBM can ally with some others in this suit and really put forth the legal version of an all out armored division blitz backed by air support?
Maybe Groklaw will pick up on this one too. PJ needs something to replace the death throes of SCO with.
I've been exempt before and it got abused like crazy by the employer. I'm talking here about an employer that expected massive overtime averaging 60 hours per week, plus on-call constantly, and absolutely insane about making it in the office by 8:00 even if the previous day had been a 16-hour troubleshooting fest.
There was no, zero, balance to the relationship and no "life" outside the place, and my health was beginning to suffer due to exhaustion.
After the second week in a row with a full 24-hour Friday implementing a migration job, plus being unpaid for a few days after taking time off to get married, I finally had enough. That was "it" and I got out of there. Just quit. Bye-bye.
Occasional overtime is one thing and near-slavery is another.
You can try the application accelerators that are out there now from Cisco. They basically use smoke and mirrors to keep traffic off the WAN and act as local proxies for different services.
Otherwise, your choices are limited. Citrix servers would be good for some apps, but get god-awful expensive fast. And an organization too cheap to build out a decent system to begin with isn't likely to make the investment in writing efficient apps.
If you're running on slow lines, bump them to at least fractional T3.
It sounds like the system was designed to serve 5 gallons of water through a swizzle stick. Ain't gonna work unless something is radically changed.
Or better....
Fire the outsourcing partner and the management that buys their bull, and build out a proper distributed archetecture.
Or just write to an ODBC lib and let it manage the connection. That way, your code is written to be "portable" and not specific to any back-end DB server.
For efficiency, line up 3 drives and launch a 500-grain FMJ through all of them at once with a.458 Magnum. You can do this from a longer range than with a pistol (avoid splashbacks) and it is really cool to see 3/4 inch holes blasted through the platters too.
Smaller caliber rifles work too, but just don't throw the drives 10 yards down range like the elephant guns do.
Drives are tough, so use enough gun to ensure a quick kill.
The plants remove exactly the same amount of CO2 during their growth as is liberated by burning the resulting ethanol, and actually the same as would be released if the plant died and decomposed naturally.
The theory behind the whole thing is simply to avoid adding more carbon from underground sources into the atmosphere/biosphere.
Personally, I believe the whole warming thing is a bunch of total bullshit based on an incomplete and possibly inaccurate data set, since temps haven't risen in over a decade.
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Joe User doesn't WANT a computer, he wants an "appliance" that's simple and "easy" to use. Really, just a game console that also runs some basic office apps and a browser is perfect for him.
Me, I want a computer that I can customize and tweak and use to actually get work done.
Thus, my laptop runs Fedora. Now if I could just get around to rewriting those damn Access apps in Java....
Do you have any idea just how BIG the oceans are and how much energy you need to remove to change the temerature by even a measurable amount?
Even the global warming argument is based on a change of under 1 degree and is far from settled.
Of course the suggestion is a little over-simplitic, but you have to start somewhere. The key is that the investigators, prosecutors, and courts have near-zero personal liability even when they act maliciously.
Actually, what's needed is to find out who in the system was responsible for what the jury heard or didn't hear. Quite often it will probably be the prosecutor who does the time (can you say "Nifong" boys & girls) for hiding exculpatory evidence or putting forth a bogus case. Other times it could be a cop or witness with an ax to grind who abuses the system.
Frog-marching an occasional jury, judge, cop, and/or prosecutor would work wonders.
But...
Unless the jury can be shown to have received deceiving testimony, they should be held to account. Use the same standard as in any other negligence case for this.
And the whole concept of a guilty plea needs to be abolished completely. Too many guilty people take "the deal" and get off light, whereas an innocent who pleads their case can be ramrodded into a major sentence. Make all cases go before the jury (properly sworn to personal liability) and a whole lot of bad cases are simply... gone.
Oh... and if acquitted, the courts should pick up the defendant's legal bill and reimburse for lost wages and other damages incurred.
Here's an easy fix for apathetic schmucks on juries who convict without evidence...
Make them take an oath that if they come to the wrong decision, THEY do the time instead, and give up their entire estate to the defendant.
That will put an end to convictions without evidence in about 10 milliseconds.
The proper tool, IMHO, for quickly stopping a charging HDD is a .458 Winchester Magnum, with 450-grain soft point bullets. Great for putting 3/4 - 1" holes through all platters, with the side benefit of sending the drive a further 10 yards downrange, just in case a follow-up shot is required. Of course, I've never had to fire twice. One round seems to do the trick.
Yeah... here in Pittsburgh we have UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) that is officially a non-profit, but operates several big hospitals AND an insurance plan. They had "non-profits" last year of over $1 billion (with a B).
Now THAT is a wonderful idea. Make everything sunset after 10 years, and make them read the bill aloud prior to the vote.
One tweak: no vote unless they all stay and sit through the ENTIRE reading. One leaves, even for bathroom break, and it starts over from the beginning.
And any bill with criminal penalties must have a 3/4 supermajority rather than a simple majority. But repeals only require 25% + 1 vote.
DOH! ^32
Do not let them expire. Ever. Renew early and often, and transfer IMMEDIATELY if necessary.
Domain names are a hostile environment.
Blame stupidity for that one. Too many people think all sites start with "www." and end in ".com" no matter what. You COULD make it work by also doing www.education.dell.com along with "education.dell.com" though.
VB:
SUB MyFunc(ParmA as Integer)
If ParmA = 1 then
Call FuncB(ParmA)
Else
Call FuncC(ParmA)
End If
End Sub
Or....
procedure MyFunc (ParmA : Integer)
begin
if ParmA = 1 then
FuncB(ParmA)
else
FuncC(ParmA);
end;
VB and Pascal are syntatically close enough that you can substitute one for another pretty easily. Then again, so is C compared to Pascal, except C is harder to read later.
if ((Republican == Democrat) && (Congress == corrupt)) {
vote(r3VOLution)
}
else
{
Country = SCREWED;
}
It could be either. Some may be totally focused only on the desired outcome, and they can do some evil stuff. Others may believe they are actually leading the other person into a beneficial outcome for both, and are the most dangerous ones of all.
This sounds just like the function of a driver. Allow a generic process to control a more specific one. Just consider the learning curve to be the development of the brain's "driver" for a particular tool and the analogy sticks.
If all the mass is attracting all the other mass, then the center will have the highest pressure, even if the local gravity is balanced. Remember, in the center you have this big spherical mass all around that is self-attracting. So the mass at the "left" is attracting that on the "right" and the "top" and "bottom" are interacting with both. So the only thing that stops them from pulling together is your matter in the center which must exert an equal and opposite resistance to compression force.
Just because the force is equal in all directions does not make it non-zero. It's actually the sum of all the forces, and only directional vectors change, not the total magnitude experienced at the center.
GPL3 explicitly states that the license is irrevocable - and will kill his claims if he used the boilerplate GPL files from FSF. Why? Because GPL2 included a default clause allowing the LICENSEE to choose any later version. So... he agreed explicitly to allow the recipients of the code to interpret the license as GPL3, which means that he is bound by a promise he made.
If he sues anyone, it's curtains for his claims. Actually, just one disaffected licensee can file suit against him right now for attempting to cause damages by this attempt. The words "bad faith" and "punitive and compensatory damages" come to mind.
The problem he faces is that he explicitly and knowingly released the code under the license. He can't go back and say ""I didn't mean it". The system doesn't allow that at all.
Since the SCO case is all but dead, this is a windfall for those folks representing IBM. They are all spun up, have the teams in place and hitting on all cylinders, and no racetrack. Until now that is.
IBM doesn't take kindly to extortionists. They prefer to spend tens or hundreds of millions just to grind them through the gears of the legal system instead. I wonder if the troll has the fiscal backing to actually win a legal war of attrition with IBM? Especially if IBM can ally with some others in this suit and really put forth the legal version of an all out armored division blitz backed by air support?
Maybe Groklaw will pick up on this one too. PJ needs something to replace the death throes of SCO with.
I've been exempt before and it got abused like crazy by the employer. I'm talking here about an employer that expected massive overtime averaging 60 hours per week, plus on-call constantly, and absolutely insane about making it in the office by 8:00 even if the previous day had been a 16-hour troubleshooting fest.
There was no, zero, balance to the relationship and no "life" outside the place, and my health was beginning to suffer due to exhaustion.
After the second week in a row with a full 24-hour Friday implementing a migration job, plus being unpaid for a few days after taking time off to get married, I finally had enough. That was "it" and I got out of there. Just quit. Bye-bye.
Occasional overtime is one thing and near-slavery is another.
There is no good and cheap solution to this one.
You can try the application accelerators that are out there now from Cisco. They basically use smoke and mirrors to keep traffic off the WAN and act as local proxies for different services.
Otherwise, your choices are limited. Citrix servers would be good for some apps, but get god-awful expensive fast. And an organization too cheap to build out a decent system to begin with isn't likely to make the investment in writing efficient apps.
If you're running on slow lines, bump them to at least fractional T3.
It sounds like the system was designed to serve 5 gallons of water through a swizzle stick. Ain't gonna work unless something is radically changed.
Or better....
Fire the outsourcing partner and the management that buys their bull, and build out a proper distributed archetecture.
Everyone should know basic first aid techniques. They aren't difficult and can make a big difference in an emergency.
At least learn how to control bleeding and perform CPR.
Or just write to an ODBC lib and let it manage the connection. That way, your code is written to be "portable" and not specific to any back-end DB server.
Trust me, they are using some unbelievably complex modulation schemes to write the bits on the media. It isn't simple like BPSK or FSK.
Oh...
.458 Magnum. You can do this from a longer range than with a pistol (avoid splashbacks) and it is really cool to see 3/4 inch holes blasted through the platters too.
For efficiency, line up 3 drives and launch a 500-grain FMJ through all of them at once with a
Smaller caliber rifles work too, but just don't throw the drives 10 yards down range like the elephant guns do.
Drives are tough, so use enough gun to ensure a quick kill.
The plants remove exactly the same amount of CO2 during their growth as is liberated by burning the resulting ethanol, and actually the same as would be released if the plant died and decomposed naturally.
The theory behind the whole thing is simply to avoid adding more carbon from underground sources into the atmosphere/biosphere.
Personally, I believe the whole warming thing is a bunch of total bullshit based on an incomplete and possibly inaccurate data set, since temps haven't risen in over a decade.
Maybe that creator is less spiteful, and will simply type "killall -HUP universe" instead.