I concur that this is the correct way, but I tried setting my Windows 7 64-bit to display thusly and totally broke Acrobat Reader 9.3. I do mean it wouldn't even come up at all until I changed it to something else.:-/
The case against Alberto Gonzalez ostensibly centers around two main things:
1) Abuse of privacy protections 2) Employment termination of Federal prosecutors
On #1, I blame Congress largely (although not completely). My opinion is that the clandestine surveillance structure as currently legislated and implemented is hopeless, and needs to be revisited with a clean sheet of paper, but Congress has no will nor critical mass to do so. There isn't even close to a consensus within Congress itself as to what constitutes "reasonable" when talking about warrantless or sealed-warrant surveillance. Absent this clarity, it's difficult to prove or disprove legal conduct, especially when you'll get 535 answers on what is appropriate (or even currently legal). Cabinets cannot possibly guess the answer that will satisfy everyone.
#2 is a no-brainer - there never has been and never will be a cause for action unless the law is changed. These prosecutors serve at the will and pleasure of the President. He can give any reason or no reason. If it is perceived that abuse is occurring that should be actionable, then the only legitimate course is to change the law to strike or curtail the "will and pleasure" Presidential discretion. Mr. Gonzalez did himself a tremendous disfavor by asserting (and not very well) that he didn't remember how all this came about. The correct answer? "Yep, we fired 'em. Nope, we don't have to tell you why." At least then some fig leaf of honesty could be claimed.
Which brings me (finally) to my point - pursuing partisan activities on Federal (read: taxpayer) time and money, under the guise of "oversight". This cheapens real oversight, and uses governmental resources for partisan means. Anyone who thinks otherwise in this case needs to go back and carefully re-read what I wrote above. There are processes to go through to make changes. None of that is happening - there's just character assasination (and in the case of #2 self-inflicted mortal wounds). Partisan benefits should be obtained using partisan resources.
And for perspective, I felt exactly the same way about Clinton/Lewinsky. Pointless, groundless, wasteful squandering of resources just to give the teflon President the finger. Sow the wind, etc...
Now, it's no secret how Rob leans politically, but tags like "...turdblossom, asshole, evilbastards" are just classless, and in my opinion would be so for any political figure, even ones I don't support. I would be just as disgusted if these tags were applied to, say, Nancy Pelosi, Dennis Kucinich, etc.
Rob, please, pretty please, with sugar on top, show better leadership in the discourse dept.
So her dad gave a piddly donation to some GOPer in flyover country. What the heck does this have to do with the story? It would be just as stupid if you insert (Democrat|Libertarian|what-have-you).
<conspiracy> Oh, wait, this is Slashdot, never known to miss an opportunity to front-page something negative about the GOP, no matter how tenuous or silly the connection. </conspiracy>
When Hyperic HQ became open-sourced, our company tried it out, and have been stupendously pleased. We've started eradicating all of our Nagios and Sitescope implementations because HQ is so much easier to drive, and the interfaces are open. The crew at Hyperic is always helpful, even when you're trying to implement something that duplicates the functionality of its pay-fer Enterprise version.
Thus sayeth the omnipresent AC:Even with gigabit ethernet the speed is going to drag...
Nonsense. We have a whole army of WYSE 1200LE terminals here using RDP/MSTSC, all connected via 100Mbit *shared*, and they run at speeds indistinguishable from a native system. They're used for Office, Acrobat Pro, etc.
In our testing, only running at 10Mbit did things start to drag a little, but it was still manageable.
I've got a great idea! Whip up an app that has great potential and stir it around several times in the "looks like ass" vat. Throw in a pinch of inheritance from the ugliest graphical environment ever created (GNOME). Ruthlessly eradicate all possible traces of user-friendliness (whoops, I already mentioned GNOME). Carefully craft a god-awful IMAP implementation that will bring tears to the eye.
Tie all this up into a recipe with dependencies you'll never resolve in this lifetime unless your name is Miguel, and release it to the world!
Nothing will make a speed difference like killing off the Winchester-style hard drives and other such mind-numbingly slow storage media, to be replaced by static RAM.
I think we're well on the way to having displays that are flexible and translucent/transparent. This in addition to very small computing devices will turn the advertising world on end as every box, bottle, and broom will advertise to you from its very surface.
Open containers are no longer allowed in Texas, and haven't been since the last Legislative session.
Firearms are allowed if traveling long distances, and under certain circumstances. Nobody except CHL holders may simply toss the ol'.45 in the front seat wherever they go.
Arizona and Vermont, though, are some great places to carry guns.:)
"Congresscritters" are more likely to ask for and act on your opinion if you are a personal friend. You may even find yourself in a technical role in the party of your choice, and you may find other candidates coming to you for answers. Just think of how much of a voice you will have then.
I can vouch for this 110%. Congresspersons rely heavily upon "known" sources of input due to the almost impossibility of reading through and thoroughly investigating the blizzard of legislative proposals that crosses their desk.
Someone mod the parent up, because it's spot-on. A little spare time in exchange for a strong and reasoned voice is not a terrible bargain.
...that one of the reasons that folks grabbed the (incomplete, non-standard) ball and ran with it is because it's the first real effort to *DO* something (in less than a decade's worth of jaw flappin') instead of just talk about it. Kinda like you, Russ, and the rest of nanap speculating endlessly about a good way to verify moderated content - all talk, and still nothing. 1,001 reasons why it shouldn't/wouldn't/couldn't be done, but nothing DONE.
yEnc IMO isn't a good implementation, I won't use it, and it probably shouldn't have ever been done as it has been done, but by god at least the ball got started rolling beyond the proof-of-concept stage, which is more than anyone else has bothered to do. The guy recognized (correctly) that going through the MIME standards process (just look at the history of that outfit) would end up just like nana* - all noise and no results.
I mean, _really_, is there a single GOP-hater that hasn't been featured on Slashdot yet? Every time I think we've run out Rob somehow manages to find more.
And please, if you're going to feature tripe like this, at least find someone who can do better than be a cheap hatemonger against $GROUP.
Candidate B: #2 man in an administration responsible for Carnivore, the running amok of Echelon, and other incredibly egregious assaults on personal privacy and liberty. Has done absolutely nothing while the USPTO has buried us alive in stupid patents. Has been one of the strongest cheerleaders of the breathtaking disregard for private property rights as implemented by the National Park Service. Has as co-pilot one of the most ardent and high-profile censorship advocates of modern times.
Hmmm, I don't seem to have much difficulty with this choice.
Speaking of their CTO, I wonder if this is the same Doug Davis who used to be ddavis@seas.smu.edu, and ran either the Dallas UUCP feed or managed the.lonestar.org domain.
Yes, it is, and he's also the former CEO of Internet America. He left that position officially January 1 of this year to take the CTO position at DCCI. ;
I'm thrilled to death with the D3 port to Linux. The only game I've ever played is the Descent series, and that wasn't enough to keep Winless9x around.
I'm wondering, though, how efficient Linux is or isn't in regards to outright speed and resource utilization vs. the same game on a Win32 platform. Is it faster or slower? Does it use more or less CPU/RAM? How about framerates and resolutions? How about SMP?
What's killing USENET *is* the newbie influx
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Legions of shiny-eyed adolescents (or the mental equivalents) with high-bandwidth connections dumping loads and loads of OBZs/endless reposts. They have no time for consideration, for topic, for knowing WTF they're doing before burying USENET alive in garbage posts. The SPAM and the deliberate trolls are taken care of to some extent by Chris Lewis and company's SPAMbots. What's not being controlled is the introduction of mass numbers of cheap-and-fast-pipe types who don't bother to learn the intricacies and etiquette of whatever group before jumping in and making an ass of themselves. They're belligerent when corrected, and some turn into the utter nitwits of nanau.
I've been on USENET longer than some, shorter than others, and certainly before big pipes were commonly available. There used to be folks in any given group who took time out of their life to spend educating, welcoming, and nurturing newbies who happened to wander in. But slowly the tide became too much. Too many assholes who felt it was their Bob-given right to take a dump whenever and wherever they happened to feel like it. After a while, the nurturers just gave up, and in some cases simply left altogether.
It's a sad thing to watch, and the clueless have no idea what resources they ran off, nor do they seem to care. There are still pockets of the clueful, but you have to look hard, and the numbers have dwindled away as USENET just became too much effort.
USENET is now ~100GB/day and counting. Wonder where it will end?
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I concur that this is the correct way, but I tried setting my Windows 7 64-bit to display thusly and totally broke Acrobat Reader 9.3. I do mean it wouldn't even come up at all until I changed it to something else. :-/
8M affected, and "call this number if you have any concerns".
Egad. Methinks they just sent their local telephone switch into meltdown.
The case against Alberto Gonzalez ostensibly centers around two main things:
1) Abuse of privacy protections
2) Employment termination of Federal prosecutors
On #1, I blame Congress largely (although not completely). My opinion is that the clandestine surveillance structure as currently legislated and implemented is hopeless, and needs to be revisited with a clean sheet of paper, but Congress has no will nor critical mass to do so. There isn't even close to a consensus within Congress itself as to what constitutes "reasonable" when talking about warrantless or sealed-warrant surveillance. Absent this clarity, it's difficult to prove or disprove legal conduct, especially when you'll get 535 answers on what is appropriate (or even currently legal). Cabinets cannot possibly guess the answer that will satisfy everyone.
#2 is a no-brainer - there never has been and never will be a cause for action unless the law is changed. These prosecutors serve at the will and pleasure of the President. He can give any reason or no reason. If it is perceived that abuse is occurring that should be actionable, then the only legitimate course is to change the law to strike or curtail the "will and pleasure" Presidential discretion. Mr. Gonzalez did himself a tremendous disfavor by asserting (and not very well) that he didn't remember how all this came about. The correct answer? "Yep, we fired 'em. Nope, we don't have to tell you why." At least then some fig leaf of honesty could be claimed.
Which brings me (finally) to my point - pursuing partisan activities on Federal (read: taxpayer) time and money, under the guise of "oversight". This cheapens real oversight, and uses governmental resources for partisan means. Anyone who thinks otherwise in this case needs to go back and carefully re-read what I wrote above. There are processes to go through to make changes. None of that is happening - there's just character assasination (and in the case of #2 self-inflicted mortal wounds). Partisan benefits should be obtained using partisan resources.
And for perspective, I felt exactly the same way about Clinton/Lewinsky. Pointless, groundless, wasteful squandering of resources just to give the teflon President the finger. Sow the wind, etc...
Now, it's no secret how Rob leans politically, but tags like "...turdblossom, asshole, evilbastards" are just classless, and in my opinion would be so for any political figure, even ones I don't support. I would be just as disgusted if these tags were applied to, say, Nancy Pelosi, Dennis Kucinich, etc.
Rob, please, pretty please, with sugar on top, show better leadership in the discourse dept.
So her dad gave a piddly donation to some GOPer in flyover country. What the heck does this have to do with the story? It would be just as stupid if you insert (Democrat|Libertarian|what-have-you).
<conspiracy>
Oh, wait, this is Slashdot, never known to miss an opportunity to front-page something negative about the GOP, no matter how tenuous or silly the connection.
</conspiracy>
When Hyperic HQ became open-sourced, our company tried it out, and have been stupendously pleased. We've started eradicating all of our Nagios and Sitescope implementations because HQ is so much easier to drive, and the interfaces are open. The crew at Hyperic is always helpful, even when you're trying to implement something that duplicates the functionality of its pay-fer Enterprise version.
Nonsense. We have a whole army of WYSE 1200LE terminals here using RDP/MSTSC, all connected via 100Mbit *shared*, and they run at speeds indistinguishable from a native system. They're used for Office, Acrobat Pro, etc.
In our testing, only running at 10Mbit did things start to drag a little, but it was still manageable.
So I'd have to purchase a(nother) computer system, with an OS I don't want or need, just in order to contact them?
Wouldn't you love some time in a dark room with the ****stain who came up with that idea?
I've got a great idea! Whip up an app that has great potential and stir it around several times in the "looks like ass" vat. Throw in a pinch of inheritance from the ugliest graphical environment ever created (GNOME). Ruthlessly eradicate all possible traces of user-friendliness (whoops, I already mentioned GNOME). Carefully craft a god-awful IMAP implementation that will bring tears to the eye.
Tie all this up into a recipe with dependencies you'll never resolve in this lifetime unless your name is Miguel, and release it to the world!
<cue maniacal laughter>
Nothing will make a speed difference like killing off the Winchester-style hard drives and other such mind-numbingly slow storage media, to be replaced by static RAM.
I think we're well on the way to having displays that are flexible and translucent/transparent. This in addition to very small computing devices will turn the advertising world on end as every box, bottle, and broom will advertise to you from its very surface.
Open containers are no longer allowed in Texas, and haven't been since the last Legislative session.
.45 in the front seat wherever they go.
:)
Firearms are allowed if traveling long distances, and under certain circumstances. Nobody except CHL holders may simply toss the ol'
Arizona and Vermont, though, are some great places to carry guns.
I can vouch for this 110%. Congresspersons rely heavily upon "known" sources of input due to the almost impossibility of reading through and thoroughly investigating the blizzard of legislative proposals that crosses their desk.
Someone mod the parent up, because it's spot-on. A little spare time in exchange for a strong and reasoned voice is not a terrible bargain.
...that one of the reasons that folks grabbed the (incomplete, non-standard) ball and ran with it is because it's the first real effort to *DO* something (in less than a decade's worth of jaw flappin') instead of just talk about it. Kinda like you, Russ, and the rest of nanap speculating endlessly about a good way to verify moderated content - all talk, and still nothing. 1,001 reasons why it shouldn't/wouldn't/couldn't be done, but nothing DONE.
yEnc IMO isn't a good implementation, I won't use it, and it probably shouldn't have ever been done as it has been done, but by god at least the ball got started rolling beyond the proof-of-concept stage, which is more than anyone else has bothered to do. The guy recognized (correctly) that going through the MIME standards process (just look at the history of that outfit) would end up just like nana* - all noise and no results.
Well, I *was* getting decent speed.
/. and get an iso in the first week for a change.
And here I thought I was going to beat
I mean, _really_, is there a single GOP-hater that hasn't been featured on Slashdot yet? Every time I think we've run out Rob somehow manages to find more.
And please, if you're going to feature tripe like this, at least find someone who can do better than be a cheap hatemonger against $GROUP.
Candidate A: Advocates less government.
Candidate B: #2 man in an administration responsible for Carnivore, the running amok of Echelon, and other incredibly egregious assaults on personal privacy and liberty. Has done absolutely nothing while the USPTO has buried us alive in stupid patents. Has been one of the strongest cheerleaders of the breathtaking disregard for private property rights as implemented by the National Park Service. Has as co-pilot one of the most ardent and high-profile censorship advocates of modern times.
Hmmm, I don't seem to have much difficulty with this choice.
Speaking of their CTO, I wonder if this is the same Doug Davis who used to be ddavis@seas.smu.edu, and ran either the Dallas UUCP feed or managed the .lonestar.org domain.
Yes, it is, and he's also the former CEO of Internet America. He left that position officially January 1 of this year to take the CTO position at DCCI.
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I'm thrilled to death with the D3 port to Linux. The only game I've ever played is the Descent series, and that wasn't enough to keep Winless9x around.
I'm wondering, though, how efficient Linux is or isn't in regards to outright speed and resource utilization vs. the same game on a Win32 platform. Is it faster or slower? Does it use more or less CPU/RAM? How about framerates and resolutions? How about SMP?
Legions of shiny-eyed adolescents (or the mental equivalents) with high-bandwidth connections dumping loads and loads of OBZs/endless reposts. They have no time for consideration, for topic, for knowing WTF they're doing before burying USENET alive in garbage posts. The SPAM and the deliberate trolls are taken care of to some extent by Chris Lewis and company's SPAMbots. What's not being controlled is the introduction of mass numbers of cheap-and-fast-pipe types who don't bother to learn the intricacies and etiquette of whatever group before jumping in and making an ass of themselves. They're belligerent when corrected, and some turn into the utter nitwits of nanau.
I've been on USENET longer than some, shorter than others, and certainly before big pipes were commonly available. There used to be folks in any given group who took time out of their life to spend educating, welcoming, and nurturing newbies who happened to wander in. But slowly the tide became too much. Too many assholes who felt it was their Bob-given right to take a dump whenever and wherever they happened to feel like it. After a while, the nurturers just gave up, and in some cases simply left altogether.
It's a sad thing to watch, and the clueless have no idea what resources they ran off, nor do they seem to care. There are still pockets of the clueful, but you have to look hard, and the numbers have dwindled away as USENET just became too much effort.
USENET is now ~100GB/day and counting. Wonder where it will end?