I find this list amazing simply in sheer numbers on it. But I'm called to question the nature of whether he who has the most money wins the contest or not. I mean #1 on the list has five times the number of processors that #2 does for less than 3 times the Tfops. I'm not a super computer clustering genius, the largest system I've worked on is the Aeroshark Linux System and NASA GRC ~128 nodes, but doesn't it just boil down to who can spend the most money to put the largest system together?
How bout some Kudos for the Hitachi systems with less than 100 processors making the top 100?
Let me guess, you're for the states in which there are laws that allow Felons to vote.
If the bill in question were actually enforced it would only be an extension allowing for real enforcement of existing Sex Offender Registration laws.
Honestly, though, I'll spend the rest of my life in prison or on death row, if I catch a shmuck messing with my kid. IMHO there is no amount of Justice that is punishment enough for a a sex offender.
I concur! I find it so ironic that Firefox is so proudly displayed as the Browser to use here on slashdot, and yet for whatever reason Taco can't seem to write slashdot such that it will display correctly in Firefox.
With the advent of more/cheaper biometric technology, would it not be worthwhile to actually stick the unique electronic data of your thumb print in the card and equip Police, credit card readers etc, with thumb scanners?
Personally I don't have an issue with being able to prove who I am when I need to. I imagine the crowd here will mostly think this is a bad idea.
I don't see a problem here. Immigration is a serious issue that needs to be more seriously addressed at the state and federal levels.
It's well known that the INS is understaffed to handle the problem of managing both legal and illegal immigrants. Look at the problem in California and several other states where the local law enforcement is instructed to ignore resident status when illegals are encountered/arrested/whatever. This is done due to a policitical fight over money. The local law enformcent will not enforce federal immigration law with out getting further financial aid from the INS.
It's shameful, but the reality is the illegal situation in California could completely overwhelm both the INS and the local law enforcement if they applied full enforcement.
Kudos to a State who's trying to make a difference in this arena.
I hope in the future of ID management that credit card transactions at retail stores and/or via the Internet become more of a two factor transaction, first requiring the card and then requiring a swipe of the driver's license or state id.
As a one time victim of id theft and credit card fraud, I hope that the technology being used to help law enforcement ID people when necessary could be used in the private sector to help secure our financial identities.
It would be difficult for someone who's stolen your credit card to make a purchase if they also had to produce your driver's license. Granted most people keep both of those items in their wallets/purses, but I still think it would be a deterrant.
I just have to say that the Clinton reference is commpletely appropriate here. Who better for the Chinese to stick on their flagship search engine than Clinton?
After who sold China dual use missle guidance technology so they can make their nuclear warhead hit their targets? Sure the Chinese needed it for their space program...Riiiight! *wink* *wink*...
Uhh, Clinton? *ding* *ding*
Let's see, who was it that gave the North Koreans the technology they needed to kick start their nuclear power program? Sure Kim Jong Il needed it for energy to power his hot tub...Riiight! *wink* *wink*...
Uhh, Clinton? *ding* *ding*
Oh, one more, who was it who came up with the great idea of managing terrorism through law enforcement and therefore preventing curcial intelligence information from being used to defend this country by sealing it under a Grand Jury? Hell no wonder the CIA didn't know what it was talking about.
Uhh, Clinton? *ding* ding* *ding*
If I were the Chinese, he's the first person I'd pick too. He's done more to weaken the US and put this country in danger than any President I've studied.
That's probably because Halo 1 was an Xbox Release Title wasn't it?
You have to figure with Halo 1 that people were just starting to buy Xboxen when it was released, so of course it's first day sales would be considerably lower.
From what I picked up on the radio about this, basically the prisonners bought the games themselves and they were overlooked by an administrative clerk who overseas the prisonners' purchases.
On a side note to this, basically the rule of thumb on purchasing games is not necessarily based on content, but more ESRB rating. So they're not going to all Mature ESRB games to be purchased.
I guess that means no more Leisure Suit Larry: Larry Goes Meets Ben Dover in the Penn.
In many respects I think the bottom line here is accountability. The problem therein is that you can't please all the people all of the time. You also not create a fraud free system, as we know with the hacker culture, rules/systems/processes/et al. are meant to be bent and sometimes broken, and anyone who has the desire to attack the system can do so with enough effort.
I do find it very ironic that we have two distinct crowds, largely both in the Democrat leaning arena which desire to challenge the election results. There are those who want to challenge the electronic voting and those who want to challenge the paper voting. Each group implies the other system is the better system. You can't have it both ways.
No one likes to loose, and I'm not trying to rub a nose is someone's defeat. There are a many people out there who supported Kerry and who have just as deep convictions for his agenda as I do for Bush's. An old coach of mine used to say loosing builds muscle (because after a loss he'd basically kill us with PT) and character (because it should teach you to have dignity in your loss and to make sure you work hard enough not to loose the next time). I sincerely hope for the Democratic party that this election loss does both.
Funny how everyone has the same idea to defeat the ideas these folks have.
Funnier still is that they're all getting modded up.
Anyway, I had a slightly different idea. How about making the cameras broadcast an RF signal to make nearby tornado warning sirens go off or something.
I suppose it could be a financial investment issue, I'm not sure. The environment was a 4000+ desktop environment in a multi-building single location campus. I didn't use windows there, I was on one of the many unix teams, so I had solaris and linux desktops, but windows update and auto-update were completely disabled for reasons of not wanting end users to be involved in system updates.
I have to tell you (from some experience on a mixed linux windows desktop env.) That the Windows admins don't like windows update. They might like it if it was more configurable...e.g. you could stand up your own windows update servers locally.
Now being that Linux would be a more open way, I'm sure the linux desktop admins wouldn't mind having an auto updater which they could push updates through...again a locally controlled update server. This is certainly possible with Linux but unlikely with M$, so Windows admins are stuck download the "admin" version of service packs and such and then stuck using SMS or whatever to package and deliver the updates.
At an altitude of 110,000 feet, I don't think surface dwellers need to worry too much about sonic booms.
Or is the point of your post that the Government shouldn't fund research unless it's fruits can be made readily available to the public?
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Get a government IT job. You know, some place cool like NASA, the DOE or the DOD where they actually do some real computing.
Government jobs are great for slackers...no stress, great job security, decent pay, lots of vacation, and hey if you don't know how to do your own job, there's 50,000 contractors out there waiting in the wings to accomplish your task for the lowest bid.
For example, there never was a true vote "on the war". Congress has not ever even voted on an official decloration of war during recent years. What was actually voted on was permission to use the armed forces if things couldn't be resolved any other way. Kerry claims that Bush forgot about that if-clause and went to war too quickly.
The reason Congress won't legislate a declaration of war is because they're too chicken shit to do it. That's been the precedent set over the last 60 years. Ever since WWII Congress hasn't had the balls to declare war on another country, and the only reason they did then was because the Japs attached Pearl Harbor. Before that Congress, and the US in general, was leading a fairly isolationsist approach to foreign affais.
What such a voting record indicates is not that the person was opposed to the main concept of the whole bill and then changed their mind. It instead indcates that there was some flaw in version A that was fixed by the time version B came around so they could now support the bill.
Except that Kerry tends to do the thing in reverse. He'll vote for it the first time and then not vote for it the second time...after a focus group, poll, or the DNC tells him he's on the wrong side of the fence. Congress also has the ability to abstain from voting instead of voting no for a bill. For instance, Kerry and Edwards have missed something like 80% of the votes on the Senate floor this year.
Basically if Kerry was smart, he would have missed the Iraq votes (or abstained), but what I think happened is that he voted for the war before he had hopes of the Presidency, then changed his mind later. Something he'll likely do in the future as he sees more and more polls and focus groups showing that they don't like him, since he'll interpret that as they don't like his policy on issue X.
Here's a thought... Why don't we enact legislation to pay 5 year olds in Asian sweatshops to to make new voting machines for us.
Secondly, one thing I don't think we need is instantaneous vote tallies. It's already bad enough that the press can sway election result by reporting on the east coast evening news that so and so candidate is winning the election while polling places on the west coast still have 3-4 hours of voting time left. I think this could be a real issue if the press can base their predictions off of real numbers, not exit polls.
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I find this list amazing simply in sheer numbers on it. But I'm called to question the nature of whether he who has the most money wins the contest or not. I mean #1 on the list has five times the number of processors that #2 does for less than 3 times the Tfops. I'm not a super computer clustering genius, the largest system I've worked on is the Aeroshark Linux System and NASA GRC ~128 nodes, but doesn't it just boil down to who can spend the most money to put the largest system together?
How bout some Kudos for the Hitachi systems with less than 100 processors making the top 100?
Let me guess, you're for the states in which there are laws that allow Felons to vote.
If the bill in question were actually enforced it would only be an extension allowing for real enforcement of existing Sex Offender Registration laws.
Honestly, though, I'll spend the rest of my life in prison or on death row, if I catch a shmuck messing with my kid. IMHO there is no amount of Justice that is punishment enough for a a sex offender.
I concur! I find it so ironic that Firefox is so proudly displayed as the Browser to use here on slashdot, and yet for whatever reason Taco can't seem to write slashdot such that it will display correctly in Firefox.
Or some other biometric unique identifier.
With the advent of more/cheaper biometric technology, would it not be worthwhile to actually stick the unique electronic data of your thumb print in the card and equip Police, credit card readers etc, with thumb scanners?
Personally I don't have an issue with being able to prove who I am when I need to. I imagine the crowd here will mostly think this is a bad idea.
I don't see a problem here. Immigration is a serious issue that needs to be more seriously addressed at the state and federal levels.
It's well known that the INS is understaffed to handle the problem of managing both legal and illegal immigrants. Look at the problem in California and several other states where the local law enforcement is instructed to ignore resident status when illegals are encountered/arrested/whatever. This is done due to a policitical fight over money. The local law enformcent will not enforce federal immigration law with out getting further financial aid from the INS.
It's shameful, but the reality is the illegal situation in California could completely overwhelm both the INS and the local law enforcement if they applied full enforcement.
Kudos to a State who's trying to make a difference in this arena.
I hope in the future of ID management that credit card transactions at retail stores and/or via the Internet become more of a two factor transaction, first requiring the card and then requiring a swipe of the driver's license or state id.
As a one time victim of id theft and credit card fraud, I hope that the technology being used to help law enforcement ID people when necessary could be used in the private sector to help secure our financial identities.
It would be difficult for someone who's stolen your credit card to make a purchase if they also had to produce your driver's license. Granted most people keep both of those items in their wallets/purses, but I still think it would be a deterrant.
I just have to say that the Clinton reference is commpletely appropriate here. Who better for the Chinese to stick on their flagship search engine than Clinton?
After who sold China dual use missle guidance technology so they can make their nuclear warhead hit their targets? Sure the Chinese needed it for their space program...Riiiight! *wink* *wink*...
Uhh, Clinton? *ding* *ding*
Let's see, who was it that gave the North Koreans the technology they needed to kick start their nuclear power program? Sure Kim Jong Il needed it for energy to power his hot tub...Riiight! *wink* *wink*...
Uhh, Clinton? *ding* *ding*
Oh, one more, who was it who came up with the great idea of managing terrorism through law enforcement and therefore preventing curcial intelligence information from being used to defend this country by sealing it under a Grand Jury? Hell no wonder the CIA didn't know what it was talking about.
Uhh, Clinton? *ding* ding* *ding*
If I were the Chinese, he's the first person I'd pick too. He's done more to weaken the US and put this country in danger than any President I've studied.
That's probably because Halo 1 was an Xbox Release Title wasn't it?
You have to figure with Halo 1 that people were just starting to buy Xboxen when it was released, so of course it's first day sales would be considerably lower.
Apparently, not to many /. readers care judging by the lack of posting activity.
I was thinking the same thing, except in refernce to my inlaws.
From what I picked up on the radio about this, basically the prisonners bought the games themselves and they were overlooked by an administrative clerk who overseas the prisonners' purchases.
On a side note to this, basically the rule of thumb on purchasing games is not necessarily based on content, but more ESRB rating. So they're not going to all Mature ESRB games to be purchased.
I guess that means no more Leisure Suit Larry: Larry Goes Meets Ben Dover in the Penn.
Yes, just think if we were all French war would never happen.
Well said. I wish I had mod points.
In many respects I think the bottom line here is accountability. The problem therein is that you can't please all the people all of the time. You also not create a fraud free system, as we know with the hacker culture, rules/systems/processes/et al. are meant to be bent and sometimes broken, and anyone who has the desire to attack the system can do so with enough effort.
I do find it very ironic that we have two distinct crowds, largely both in the Democrat leaning arena which desire to challenge the election results. There are those who want to challenge the electronic voting and those who want to challenge the paper voting. Each group implies the other system is the better system. You can't have it both ways.
No one likes to loose, and I'm not trying to rub a nose is someone's defeat. There are a many people out there who supported Kerry and who have just as deep convictions for his agenda as I do for Bush's. An old coach of mine used to say loosing builds muscle (because after a loss he'd basically kill us with PT) and character (because it should teach you to have dignity in your loss and to make sure you work hard enough not to loose the next time). I sincerely hope for the Democratic party that this election loss does both.
Funny how everyone has the same idea to defeat the ideas these folks have.
Funnier still is that they're all getting modded up.
Anyway, I had a slightly different idea. How about making the cameras broadcast an RF signal to make nearby tornado warning sirens go off or something.
I suppose it could be a financial investment issue, I'm not sure. The environment was a 4000+ desktop environment in a multi-building single location campus. I didn't use windows there, I was on one of the many unix teams, so I had solaris and linux desktops, but windows update and auto-update were completely disabled for reasons of not wanting end users to be involved in system updates.
I have to tell you (from some experience on a mixed linux windows desktop env.) That the Windows admins don't like windows update. They might like it if it was more configurable...e.g. you could stand up your own windows update servers locally.
Now being that Linux would be a more open way, I'm sure the linux desktop admins wouldn't mind having an auto updater which they could push updates through...again a locally controlled update server. This is certainly possible with Linux but unlikely with M$, so Windows admins are stuck download the "admin" version of service packs and such and then stuck using SMS or whatever to package and deliver the updates.
Interesting but searching for "more evil than satan" at Google doesn't seem to return Microsoft.
But you know what it'd be like if it did.
Isn't mach a unit of measure for the speed of sound at sea level?...700MPH. All it means is Mach 1 = 700MPH, Mach2 = 1400MPH, etc.
So mach 10 is just a differen way of saying 7000mph.
At an altitude of 110,000 feet, I don't think surface dwellers need to worry too much about sonic booms.
Or is the point of your post that the Government shouldn't fund research unless it's fruits can be made readily available to the public?
Almost as good...
Get a government IT job. You know, some place cool like NASA, the DOE or the DOD where they actually do some real computing.
Government jobs are great for slackers...no stress, great job security, decent pay, lots of vacation, and hey if you don't know how to do your own job, there's 50,000 contractors out there waiting in the wings to accomplish your task for the lowest bid.
Too funny, I was thinking the same thing.
Too bad their links don't work for the additional pages...they all point back to Hexus.net.
For example, there never was a true vote "on the war". Congress has not ever even voted on an official decloration of war during recent years. What was actually voted on was permission to use the armed forces if things couldn't be resolved any other way. Kerry claims that Bush forgot about that if-clause and went to war too quickly.
The reason Congress won't legislate a declaration of war is because they're too chicken shit to do it. That's been the precedent set over the last 60 years. Ever since WWII Congress hasn't had the balls to declare war on another country, and the only reason they did then was because the Japs attached Pearl Harbor. Before that Congress, and the US in general, was leading a fairly isolationsist approach to foreign affais.
What such a voting record indicates is not that the person was opposed to the main concept of the whole bill and then changed their mind. It instead indcates that there was some flaw in version A that was fixed by the time version B came around so they could now support the bill.
Except that Kerry tends to do the thing in reverse. He'll vote for it the first time and then not vote for it the second time...after a focus group, poll, or the DNC tells him he's on the wrong side of the fence. Congress also has the ability to abstain from voting instead of voting no for a bill. For instance, Kerry and Edwards have missed something like 80% of the votes on the Senate floor this year.
Basically if Kerry was smart, he would have missed the Iraq votes (or abstained), but what I think happened is that he voted for the war before he had hopes of the Presidency, then changed his mind later. Something he'll likely do in the future as he sees more and more polls and focus groups showing that they don't like him, since he'll interpret that as they don't like his policy on issue X.
Here's a thought...
Why don't we enact legislation to pay 5 year olds in Asian sweatshops to to make new voting machines for us.
Secondly, one thing I don't think we need is instantaneous vote tallies. It's already bad enough that the press can sway election result by reporting on the east coast evening news that so and so candidate is winning the election while polling places on the west coast still have 3-4 hours of voting time left. I think this could be a real issue if the press can base their predictions off of real numbers, not exit polls.
Please provide linkage to this t-shirt. I haven't seen it but would love to buy one!