Ah, someone who either never read Mistress, or conveniently skipped the part where Mannie-the-narrator observes that virtually no one in Luna has a gun. "Though what we'd do with them, I have no idea -- shoot each other, maybe?"
Trying to figure out Heinlein's true core beliefs from his fiction is a fool's game. Just when you're convinced he must have been an arch atheist, Spider Robinson tells you that his favorite short story was Anatole France's "Our Lady's Juggler," a deeply moving story about faith.
I'm sure they could spend that money much better than in space.
Stop just a second. Do you really think that NASA's money is spent in space? No. It's spent down here, on earth. It goes to people here on earth. It trains people here, on earth. It fill libraries and laboratories and universities here, on earth.
I double-clicked setup for NAV for MSE, and had it up and running with yesterday's virus defs from Symantec in less than 5 minutes.
Does that make the problem clear?
For the sake of argument, I'll grant that it's an Outlook problem rather than an Exchange problem. So what? Anyone who suggests installing Outlook should be investigated by the SEC to see if they're shorting their company's stock.
In space with nuclear power sources?
Not unless you have a good reason -- like "hardening" a military spysat (the 1978 Soviet radar bird that crashed in Canada needed a lot of juice, that's why it had nuclear batteries) or operating out past Saturn (the Cassini probe). Mir has lots and lots of solar panels.
Reps and senators often make deals that mean that Congressman A votes yea on Congressman B's pet bill in return for B's vote on A's bill.
And quite often A and B will have a "vote-matching" agreement, where they recognize that they're just going to cancel each others' vote, so neither one of them has to show up.
Look at a biography of Charles Dickens, or Mark Twain. Immensely popular in their own lifetimes, they (still) suffered greatly due to pirated editions of their works. The market was flooded with cheap knockoff editions... and it required a lot more effort to typeset a book than to burn a CD-R!
A Pennsylvania resident cracked part of the billing system for the New York/New Jersey electronic token-based toll collection system, getting access to trip and billing information (but not, they assure us, credit card info). No prosecution is contemplated because "he did us a favor" by pointing out how lame the security was.
You're looking for Ars Technica, a site which has been a frequent source of Slashdot material. Their recent "history of the motherboard" has exactly what you're looking for, and it's still linked to their front page.
(aren't they they the ones who produce that software to run ASP on Linux?
Yes; it's not the latest version of ASP, and I'd advise anyone who thinks they need this to consider a port to JSP or PHP instead (because the debugging effort will probably be similar and the final result much better); but they do provide a way to run some ASP apps on Unix.
Once a person sees that, they'll realize what GNU is: an organization bent on forcing people to use the worst hypertext system ever devised by man(?).
Amen. Though that problem isn't limited to the FSF, alas. One person came to my Linux networking page and then snarled at me that I "owed" it to the world to donate my effort to the Linux Documentation Project.
Which would be fine, except:
The page in question was purposely written in a way that doesn't match the LDP standards*;
From the LDP docs I saw, no one at the LDP will even look at it unless I'm willing to learn TeX. Which I'm not.
*They have to cover all the bases; I picked out one common case only, and documented that with as few digressions as possible. A worthwhile tradeoff, IMHO.
Carrying the pager over the weekend is three hours pay. Each page is one hour's pay, PLUS the number of hours spent working on the problem, in hour increments.
Let's say I get paged twice, and the first call takes 45 minutes and the second takes two hours. Three hours plus two pages plus one hour (rounded up) plus two hours. I get credit for eight billable hours.
As a candidate for the office of the Presidency, should you be elected, you will be protected 24 hours a day by federal officers armed with concealed firearms and, quite possibly, heavier weapons.
And every time you come to New York City, your entourage will disrupt traffic for half the day or longer. As President, will you stay in Washington DC and let the rest of us get on with our own business, or will you continue to wreak havoc everywhere you go?
So, when a Senator proposes a bill that he knows damn good and well is unconstitutional, what should the repercussions be? Should we settle for mere impeachment?
Can you say something nice about your major opponent, whoever you perceive him to be?
If you could not be President for whatever reason, which of the other candidates would you prefer to win?
"If the slashdot community wants people to respect its opinions and find it useful, it must be unafraid to critize even RH when its favorite things are screwed up."
How about TLDs of.inc and.llc for US entities,.ltd for British corporations,.gmbh in Germany, and so forth?
And go back to the "one entity, one domain name" rule.
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Ah, someone who either never read Mistress, or conveniently skipped the part where Mannie-the-narrator observes that virtually no one in Luna has a gun. "Though what we'd do with them, I have no idea -- shoot each other, maybe?"
Trying to figure out Heinlein's true core beliefs from his fiction is a fool's game. Just when you're convinced he must have been an arch atheist, Spider Robinson tells you that his favorite short story was Anatole France's "Our Lady's Juggler," a deeply moving story about faith.
Stop just a second. Do you really think that NASA's money is spent in space? No. It's spent down here, on earth. It goes to people here on earth. It trains people here, on earth. It fill libraries and laboratories and universities here, on earth.
Does that make the problem clear?
For the sake of argument, I'll grant that it's an Outlook problem rather than an Exchange problem. So what? Anyone who suggests installing Outlook should be investigated by the SEC to see if they're shorting their company's stock.
Not unless you have a good reason -- like "hardening" a military spysat (the 1978 Soviet radar bird that crashed in Canada needed a lot of juice, that's why it had nuclear batteries) or operating out past Saturn (the Cassini probe). Mir has lots and lots of solar panels.
Is that like Dilber's boss saying "I want a list of all the unexpected problems we expect through the next quarter"?
And quite often A and B will have a "vote-matching" agreement, where they recognize that they're just going to cancel each others' vote, so neither one of them has to show up.
...there should be. Us.
A Pennsylvania resident cracked part of the billing system for the New York/New Jersey electronic token-based toll collection system, getting access to trip and billing information (but not, they assure us, credit card info). No prosecution is contemplated because "he did us a favor" by pointing out how lame the security was.
Amen. Though that problem isn't limited to the FSF, alas. One person came to my Linux networking page and then snarled at me that I "owed" it to the world to donate my effort to the Linux Documentation Project.
Which would be fine, except:
*They have to cover all the bases; I picked out one common case only, and documented that with as few digressions as possible. A worthwhile tradeoff, IMHO.
Let's say I get paged twice, and the first call takes 45 minutes and the second takes two hours. Three hours plus two pages plus one hour (rounded up) plus two hours. I get credit for eight billable hours.
(And yeah, that's considerably more than $120.)
He was wrong then. What is he wrong about now?
Instead of running SETIathome, adopt a text group and back it up. We could call it the "Search for Intelligent Life on Usenet."
And every time you come to New York City, your entourage will disrupt traffic for half the day or longer. As President, will you stay in Washington DC and let the rest of us get on with our own business, or will you continue to wreak havoc everywhere you go?
So, when a Senator proposes a bill that he knows damn good and well is unconstitutional, what should the repercussions be? Should we settle for mere impeachment?
Can you say something nice about your major opponent, whoever you perceive him to be? If you could not be President for whatever reason, which of the other candidates would you prefer to win?
A cynic might suggest that the mere act of running for the job should be enough to disqualify you; what sane person would want it?
What makes you get up in the morning and say "I am the person who should do this job. I should be President"?
"If the slashdot community wants people to respect its opinions and find it useful, it must be unafraid to critize even RH when its favorite things are screwed up."
Right on! That's not a 'troll,' that's Da Truth.
I don't think he did. Re-read it, and note his careful use of "girls" for school-age children, and "women" for adults.
That's ZIMMERMANN, for crying out loud!
How about TLDs of .inc and .llc for US entities, .ltd for British corporations, .gmbh in Germany, and so forth?
And go back to the "one entity, one domain name" rule.