The only interesting thing I found in that article is that it proves just how much some people are ruled by an insane fear of everything and everybody. Playing the "protect the children" card to advocate restricting cameras is about as low as one can go. Likewise, using terrorism to advocate a police state is just flat out insane.
Oh, and attempting to spin documented cases of police brutality and flagrant abuse of power as "harassment" of cops is mind-bogglingly detached from all link to reality.
It all plays in to the same attitude of wanting 100% perfect safety and security that we've been seeing lately. Never mind that the cure there is worse than the disease.
At least I got my daily dose of pure, unadultrated FUD.
We're also lucky that Aaron Burr put a pistol ball right through Al Hamilton's liver. Hamilton was a true and complete authoritarian who's continued influence could well have turned the USA into a near dictatorship in short order.
If we had a nuclear free zone, then all we would have is a whole shitload of electrons floating around. My guess is that the voltage differential this caused would most certainly break through the insulation and result in one hell of a lightning bolt. If big enough, it would have the same effects of a nuclear explosion anyway.
Now, if they mean "Nuclear weapon free zone" or "nuclear modification technology free zone" they might make sense.
Actually, the Court's finding of a "right to privacy" is perfectly consistant with the 10th Amendment. People tend to fall into a trap that the first 8 Amendments grant all the rights that people have, and that is most certainly not the case. There are many others, and under the 10th it is up to the courts to honestly analyze the right claimed and decide if it exists, and if so is it a State right, or an Individual one.
In the ROE case, they found it's an Individual right, not a State one.
Perfectly consisent.
And I am an anti-abortion guy. I think the ruling was bad, but not against the 10th. They simply got the balance between the unborn's right to live and the mother's right to privacy out of whack in my opinion. Where the mistake occurs is that death is irrevocable, and I'd rather see the life protected.
That's what was said about Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and a bunch of other guys who blasted to the win after languishing at 4% for a while.
Be very careful extrapolating on polls. They are the best example of the line "past results are not necessarily indicitive of future performance." They are nothing more than a lagging indicator, and can change very quickly.
WRT Paul, he has some "fundamentals" that are indicitive of a possible surprise. First, fundraising is strong. Second, he has a huge volunteer base that is rabidly dedicated. Here in Pittsburgh, there are big "Ron Paul" signs over major highways put up recently. No other candidate has anyone putting them out at all. Third, straw poll wins and general "buzz" is very high.
The Paul campaign is most certainly real, and not astroturfing. It is also coming at a time when polls of approval for both parties are at the lowest we've seen in recent history. His campaign is tapping into a big "feeling" out there that things are just screwed up and need some sort of a radical direction change. However, the public isn't looking to just switch from "right" to "left", they are both unpopular.
Both the Democrats and Republicans have been simply trying to grab control of the massive power of the US federal government for a long time, and use it to impose their vision on everyone. This doesn't really work well.
Don't count the guy out. Having a good number of really dedicated supporters can cause primary elections to produce surprising results. It's all about turn out, and you can easily see the Paulites turn out at a 75% rate while the other candidates' supporters may be there at 10% or less. It may be "spamming the polls", but that's the way elections work. It's about turnout, period.
No... that case boiled down to nothing more than an attempt to spread massive FUD while the now-bankrupt company stole a bunch of money that wasn't thiers.
Why does every unbundling argument always seem to boil down to forcing end users to install the OS from scratch? An unbundled option can be:
1. Preinstalled Windows 2. Preinstalled Linux or 3. Blank Machine
It only needs to be another line-item option in the system configuration. OEM blows the correct image and includes a Windows CD + Sticker for Windows customers, and a Linux CD for Linux ones, and nothing for the blank customers.
Come on, this is trivial. Just have the assembly tech plug the drive into a fixture, hit the correct image choice, and bingo-bango, it's ready.
Except all the notable changes lately have been in the courts. Especially the Supreme Court, where the Justices have been dropping strong hints that they are willing to overturn a lot of the patent craziness that's been going on for the past 10 - 15 years or so.
It just makes the RIAA look like greedy "evil businessmen" and can sway the jury a bit. It would be one thing if she hadn't bought all kinds of CDs, but she did.
Jury could well feel that "hey, they made their money off her already." Combined with their position that all copying is theft, they really look bad. None of this paints the RIAA in a favorable light as victims needing to be made whole, it makes them look like just flat out greedy evil bastards. Juries tend to hate greedy evil bastards.
Many if not most mail servers now drop messages to invalid recipients at SMTP time and don't send bounces any more. I've had to implement this on every mail server I set up to keep the mail queues from backing up to several thousand messages to invalid "bounce" addresses.
Whatever the reason's given for connecting any critical infrastructure to the public Internet, it is far too risky of a proposition to seriously consider it. They absolutely should be using private WANs, preferably encrypted eight ways to Sunday.
There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for making this equipment accessable from the public Internet. None. Zero. Zilch.
Frame Relay T1 lines are cheap nowadays, and they should be using them.
How difficult would it be to make the default something like the unit's serial number, then have the code require a change before even enabling network interfaces?
The beauty of at-will jobs is that one phone call and it was over. Final straw was the second time in 2 weeks I had to pull a 24-hour day, and then got complaints about timeliness. Kept it friendly, but still left. They are a client of mine now and things work out better for both of us.
Oh, I did one better and simply incorporated a new company. I now have a patent app pending in an unrelated field, kept my historical clients (as I have stated in other posts: never ever under any circumstances even consider thinking about signing NDAs) and...
The former employer is a client. They need my skill set, and it works out well for both of us.
This isn't a problem, just a different choice of license. I personally do some LGPL v2 stuff, and won't use v3 since it's revision of LGPL is too restrictive for my tastes, while BSD is too free.
I can't say I'll never use or join a v3 project. It's all a matter of what goals the project has.
Not everyone wants to follow the full-blown Stallman ideas of socialist software but still wants to publicly collaborate and protect copyright. Others want to follow the BSD model, and some are into the full-blown over-the-top protectionist idea of proprietary code.
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The only interesting thing I found in that article is that it proves just how much some people are ruled by an insane fear of everything and everybody. Playing the "protect the children" card to advocate restricting cameras is about as low as one can go. Likewise, using terrorism to advocate a police state is just flat out insane.
Oh, and attempting to spin documented cases of police brutality and flagrant abuse of power as "harassment" of cops is mind-bogglingly detached from all link to reality.
It all plays in to the same attitude of wanting 100% perfect safety and security that we've been seeing lately. Never mind that the cure there is worse than the disease.
At least I got my daily dose of pure, unadultrated FUD.
Expect a war on peppers next.
So, if I need to cook a turkey, how long should I leave it in at 6,446,700,000,000,000,000 degrees?
n/t.
We're also lucky that Aaron Burr put a pistol ball right through Al Hamilton's liver. Hamilton was a true and complete authoritarian who's continued influence could well have turned the USA into a near dictatorship in short order.
If we had a nuclear free zone, then all we would have is a whole shitload of electrons floating around. My guess is that the voltage differential this caused would most certainly break through the insulation and result in one hell of a lightning bolt. If big enough, it would have the same effects of a nuclear explosion anyway.
Now, if they mean "Nuclear weapon free zone" or "nuclear modification technology free zone" they might make sense.
In Soviet Russia, cockroaches irradiate YOU!
Canonballs were usually made from cast iron, not lead. I can't see using this technique for 2500 degree molton iron....
Actually, the Court's finding of a "right to privacy" is perfectly consistant with the 10th Amendment. People tend to fall into a trap that the first 8 Amendments grant all the rights that people have, and that is most certainly not the case. There are many others, and under the 10th it is up to the courts to honestly analyze the right claimed and decide if it exists, and if so is it a State right, or an Individual one.
In the ROE case, they found it's an Individual right, not a State one.
Perfectly consisent.
And I am an anti-abortion guy. I think the ruling was bad, but not against the 10th. They simply got the balance between the unborn's right to live and the mother's right to privacy out of whack in my opinion. Where the mistake occurs is that death is irrevocable, and I'd rather see the life protected.
That's what was said about Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, and a bunch of other guys who blasted to the win after languishing at 4% for a while.
Be very careful extrapolating on polls. They are the best example of the line "past results are not necessarily indicitive of future performance." They are nothing more than a lagging indicator, and can change very quickly.
WRT Paul, he has some "fundamentals" that are indicitive of a possible surprise. First, fundraising is strong. Second, he has a huge volunteer base that is rabidly dedicated. Here in Pittsburgh, there are big "Ron Paul" signs over major highways put up recently. No other candidate has anyone putting them out at all. Third, straw poll wins and general "buzz" is very high.
The Paul campaign is most certainly real, and not astroturfing. It is also coming at a time when polls of approval for both parties are at the lowest we've seen in recent history. His campaign is tapping into a big "feeling" out there that things are just screwed up and need some sort of a radical direction change. However, the public isn't looking to just switch from "right" to "left", they are both unpopular.
Both the Democrats and Republicans have been simply trying to grab control of the massive power of the US federal government for a long time, and use it to impose their vision on everyone. This doesn't really work well.
Don't count the guy out. Having a good number of really dedicated supporters can cause primary elections to produce surprising results. It's all about turn out, and you can easily see the Paulites turn out at a 75% rate while the other candidates' supporters may be there at 10% or less. It may be "spamming the polls", but that's the way elections work. It's about turnout, period.
No... that case boiled down to nothing more than an attempt to spread massive FUD while the now-bankrupt company stole a bunch of money that wasn't thiers.
Under the KSR ruling that really clamped down on "obvious" patents, I don't see this one surviving any challenges if it ever goes to court.
Why does every unbundling argument always seem to boil down to forcing end users to install the OS from scratch? An unbundled option can be:
1. Preinstalled Windows
2. Preinstalled Linux
or
3. Blank Machine
It only needs to be another line-item option in the system configuration. OEM blows the correct image and includes a Windows CD + Sticker for Windows customers, and a Linux CD for Linux ones, and nothing for the blank customers.
Come on, this is trivial. Just have the assembly tech plug the drive into a fixture, hit the correct image choice, and bingo-bango, it's ready.
Except all the notable changes lately have been in the courts. Especially the Supreme Court, where the Justices have been dropping strong hints that they are willing to overturn a lot of the patent craziness that's been going on for the past 10 - 15 years or so.
It just makes the RIAA look like greedy "evil businessmen" and can sway the jury a bit. It would be one thing if she hadn't bought all kinds of CDs, but she did.
Jury could well feel that "hey, they made their money off her already." Combined with their position that all copying is theft, they really look bad. None of this paints the RIAA in a favorable light as victims needing to be made whole, it makes them look like just flat out greedy evil bastards. Juries tend to hate greedy evil bastards.
Many if not most mail servers now drop messages to invalid recipients at SMTP time and don't send bounces any more. I've had to implement this on every mail server I set up to keep the mail queues from backing up to several thousand messages to invalid "bounce" addresses.
It would work if bounce messages were still sent.
Just airdrop a couple hundred thousand AK-47s, ammo, and green robes and see just how long the junta lasts.
CAN I GET A REBOOT!
(Reboot!)
I know those FBI folks are pretty busy and all, but could they just spare a LITTLE time to go arrest the SCO management team already?
Whatever the reason's given for connecting any critical infrastructure to the public Internet, it is far too risky of a proposition to seriously consider it. They absolutely should be using private WANs, preferably encrypted eight ways to Sunday.
There is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for making this equipment accessable from the public Internet. None. Zero. Zilch.
Frame Relay T1 lines are cheap nowadays, and they should be using them.
Air drop a LOT of rifles, ammo, and a few artillery pieces to the oppressed.
How difficult would it be to make the default something like the unit's serial number, then have the code require a change before even enabling network interfaces?
The beauty of at-will jobs is that one phone call and it was over. Final straw was the second time in 2 weeks I had to pull a 24-hour day, and then got complaints about timeliness. Kept it friendly, but still left. They are a client of mine now and things work out better for both of us.
Oh, I did one better and simply incorporated a new company. I now have a patent app pending in an unrelated field, kept my historical clients (as I have stated in other posts: never ever under any circumstances even consider thinking about signing NDAs) and...
The former employer is a client. They need my skill set, and it works out well for both of us.
This isn't a problem, just a different choice of license. I personally do some LGPL v2 stuff, and won't use v3 since it's revision of LGPL is too restrictive for my tastes, while BSD is too free.
I can't say I'll never use or join a v3 project. It's all a matter of what goals the project has.
Not everyone wants to follow the full-blown Stallman ideas of socialist software but still wants to publicly collaborate and protect copyright. Others want to follow the BSD model, and some are into the full-blown over-the-top protectionist idea of proprietary code.