I wish someone would actually use Outlook before disabusing it so much.
I use Outlook, every once in a while I hop on over to Windows Update and get the latest security patches. It's painless.
Guess what? I haven't been hit by SirCam or Code Red. I've gotten more than a few SirCam messages from people I don't even know (including one that was mailed to me by a stranger through my Slashdot sneakemail account).
An up-to-date and properly configured Outlook will not arbitrarily execute EXE/COM/BAT binaries. It won't even open HTML attachments without permission. Mine won't even let me see the attachment I was getting from SirCam victims. I had to ssh to my mail server, use Mutt to save the attachment and run "strings" on it to see what it was.
Not to mention, the really poor English in those SirCam messages is a dead giveaway.
Ooh... you better watch it there... This is Slashdot. Concepts such as research and development costs are foreign (read: evil).
If it isn't free (as in beer and speech), it must be bad (as in evil and wrong).
I guarantee you, somewhere in this discussion, some jackass is going to suggest that the Open Source community work to genetically engineer its own soya and corn, then release it under the GPL to farmers.
Then someone will respond with the idea that we covertly disseminate this OpenSoya into Monsanto supplies, so that it gets contaminated, forcing Monsanto to release their soya under the GPL too.
And they'll all be moderated up to +5: Informative.
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Like I said... first iMac to have DVD was the DV version. Other Macs, in particular, tower desktops, obviously had it sooner.
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The 233 iMacs did not offer DVD-ROM drives as an option.
The first iMac to offer DVD was the 400 MHz iMac DV, which, as a matter of fact, did offer hardware MPEG-2 decoding through its ATI Rage 128 VR graphics.
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You're suggesting that PowerPC machines, most of which are in the 200-500 MHz range (if they're to be supported), are going to have difficulty giving a CD burning or DVD playing process enough CPU time in a pre-emptive environment?
Hogwash... if you can burn CDs on Linux with a P133, you'll sure as hell be able to do it on MacOS. As for DVDs, I may be wrong, but I don't think Apple ever shipped any system with a DVD player that didn't run at least 300 MHz. And even then, they had hardware decoders.
If it's not ready, it's because it's not ready. Not because the hardware - which is easily among the best in its class - can't handle it when running a BSD OS.
I appreciate the kisses, but the Pentium-80286 analogy is still flawed. A Pentium will still run even 8086 code if I'm not mistaken. A PowerPC will NOT run programs assembled for the 68k.
There's a fundamental break there. There is no continuous lineage.
I could make a friendly Linux distribution if the hardware set were fixed and small.
No you couldn't, troll.
By the way, the 80286 was not the first x86 processor. Nor can the PowerPC G3 or G4, in ANY way, be considered a 68k. They're not even in the same ballpark. 68k is a CISC architecture. PowerPC is RISC. Go look up what those acronyms mean and come back and tell me why you don't know what you're talking about.
After a cursory review of the website, I get the impression that they really don't want you running this on anything other than Intel, Redhat (preferably 6.2) or Debian (preferably 2.2) Linux systems.
So what if we run FreeBSD (and let's for a moment assume there isn't Linux binary compatibility) or Solaris? For instance, in my lab at school, we've got a room chock full of Sparcs and Ultra Sparcs with Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.7. There are a ton of newbies who have a hell of a time figuring out Sun File Manager and there are also a few people like me who like the occasional eye candy.
So, my question. Is there any chance the source could be built to run stable on Solaris? And I'm assuming here that at least the core Gnome 1.2 libraries are available.
Tatu isn't saying that OpenSSH developers can't use the term SSH anywhere in their product or documentation. He's merely asking that they change the NAME of their implementation to something different so as to avoid confusion with his product.
So, what's the problem here? You know that sendmail is an SMTP daemon, you know that bind is a DNS server... will it be so mind-numbing to call an SSH client/server something OTHER than SSH? Oh god, the horror...
I trust my local telephone company. In my life, I've never been without telephone service. I'm serious. There was a tornado nearby once, and the power(and cable access) was out for nearly a day - but we still had our phones.
Heh, where were you during the Great BBQ of '99? When one of Bell's COs caught fire in downtown Toronto, knocking out phone and internet service for a good-sized chunk of Canada? That lasted a few days until they could get everything back up again, IIRC. =)
So your argument is that they just don't care about their customers?
Umm... not really. The point is that Microsoft has been satisfying most of their customers with every release. When you've got 90% of all PCs in the world, it's impossible to make everybody happy.
So far they've done a pretty good job at making everyone as happy as possible with the OSes they have. There are times I want to shoot them for still hanging on to archaic concepts like drive letters or that godawful registry.
You don't seem to understand that code monkeys like us are NOT MS' target audience. They're shooting for the crowd that doesn't want to work for their computer. Rather they expect it to be the other way around. In that aspect, they've succeeded. It is FAR, FAR easier to be productive in Windows with virtually no computer experience.
When it comes to tweaking under the hood, yeah Linux is far more conducive to that, but the vast majority doesn't want to (or doesn't know how to) build new kernels, compile Apache with mod_perl and PHP (not the easiest thing) or learn why their Winmodem/printer/scanner/etc won't work anymore.
Well, I'm not a rabid MS fanatic, but I disagree with your assumption that MS couldn't win on merit.
Neither Linux nor Windows is good enough to become dominant given tabula rasa. Microsoft, through luck and clever marketing, however, has the upper hand presently (at least in terms of marketshare).
Having said that, there's absolutely no evidence to suggest that Microsoft couldn't produce a significantly better OS given the impetus to do so. They've demonstrated in the past that they can produce excellent, excellent software (I point to IE5 for Mac as an example).
The problem, up until this point, has been that they haven't had the pressure to do it right the first time (or the second time, or the third time...). Good enough has been the prevailing theme from Redmond for some time now when it comes to operating systems.
This is rather unfortunate for us at times, but not for their bottom line it seems.
I welcome any DOJ ruling that brings increased competition into the OS market. I don't think a DOJ ruling against Microsoft is necessarily a victory for Linux though. It doesn't negate the giant headstart MS has in terms of vendor support, nor does it preclude the leagues of developers at Microsoft from building a better OS to compete on its own merit. If anything, it might just have the opposite effect.
Seagate has already demonstrated SCSI at 320 meg/s.
Parallel IDE only does 100 meg/s on a VERY, VERY good day. Most of the time, the difference between ATA66 and ATA100 is quite negligible.
Supposedly serial ATA will transparently work with OSs that support parallel ATA. So you can run MS-DOS 5 and Win3.1 on your new 4.3 GHz P5.
Now why in god's name would anyone want to do this? If this is the only other redeeming feature of serial ATA aside from the promised speeds, send it back.
I'll thank these bastards not to control what I can store on my own machine.
Oh come now... you'll forgive me if I don't buy it. Ukraine was under either Polish or Russian rule for the better part of 400 years. Before that, constantly at war with one faction or the other.
Do you think it makes much difference to Ukrainians whether the Russian empire is ruled by a czar or premier? Whether it's called a monarchy or "union of socialist republics"? The USSR was one thing and one thing alone: a vast Russian empire. Trying to pretend that the various "republics" had some sort of autonomy outside of that explicitly granted by Moscow is pretty lame.
Now, having said that, I'm not going to claim that Ukrainians are just victims here. Whoever was running that station had to be pretty stupid. Not only that, but the present president is an outright crook and everyone knows it. Hell, just last week some very Watergate-esque tapes surfaced that allege he had a particularly nosy journalist murdered.
Of course, that all of Ukraine's modern-day presidents are past Party apparatchiks doesn't exactly paint a glowing picture of the USSR, now does it?
The point is that the burden of Chornobyl has been dumped on Ukraine alone. That station was built by Soviet mandate and operated by a Soviet agency. Now that the great Soyuz no longer exists, the rotting legacy is left to Ukrainians to shoulder alone. That really pisses people off.
As for Russian/Soviet debts, the reason Russia hasn't gotten any foreign aid recently is because the astronomic sums they received in the past have vapourized in the most dubious of circumstances. You have your own mafia to thank for that. And don't think Russia hasn't tried to extort Ukraine's "share" of the Soviet debt either. This is what you get after centuries of subjugating entire nations - when it all falls apart. I won't shed a single tear for Russia.
I smell a troll, but I'll humour you. If I walk up to your front door and turn the doorknob, how is that a crime?
Whether or not the door opens is irrelevant. The only way a crime is committed is if I step through that doorway.
Portscanning is exactly the same.
The only difference is that in the real world, it's pretty hard to stop someone from coming back to check your doorknob every day. While, with a portscanner, it's pretty easy for a competent admin to automagically block out an IP (or ranges of them) after just one "offence".
Your statements here border on insulting. I'll try to address them factually:
the region, as far as i'm concerned, is still very much connected...and at the time of the chernobyl incident, far more connected.
The region is, as a consequence of geography, connected. Politically, culturally and historically, the region is anything but "connected". Were Pennsylvanians subjected to an artificial famine to force them into the Union? I'm sorry, but needlessly murdering 6 million of your own citizens in cold blood does not the basis for connectedness form.
The USSR was the primary lead for the cleanup operation, and took nearly all international commentary/focus.
This may appear to be true, but who first sounded the alarm about this disaster? Not Moscow. It took several days before Sweden raised its concerns. The "primary lead" USSR attempted - foolishly - to cover up this catastrophe. At the time, Ukraine, being a SSR (essentially a province) was controlled from Moscow. Now that the Soviet Union is no more, Moscow likes to point fingers at the Ukrainian gov't and insist they do more to clean up the mess they're left with.
With what resources? The country is economically very unstable and doesn't gain anything from the parade of G7 blank cheques that Russia receives. Instead they're threatened with economic sanctions if they don't shutdown a vital electrical generating station. Everybody knows it's a ticking timebomb, but when you've got heart disease, you don't just rip out the bad heart and wait for a new one to arrive. You have to have a backup system in place.
Ukraine has borne the brunt of this disaster, and since becoming independent, has been saddled almost entirely with this burden. Hundreds of square kilometres of fertile land are now a blight. An entire generation of children, along with their families, from the region has been doomed to an early, painful death. The money to clean up this mess is nowhere to be found. International pressure is forcing them to close this station without the necessary replacements - which will undoubtedly result in winter blackouts for a region which already suffers from periodic brownouts.
And yet, you believe that Ukrainians feel a kinship with "Mother Russia", who, not content to simply abandon them, has in fact stirred up the international community to increase pressure on Ukraine to give up its nuclear arsenal (to Russia) in exchange for token assistance in the massive cleanup operation that is necessary.
Pennsylvanians have not suffered at the hands of their brothers in New York or Ohio the way Ukrainians have suffered at the hands of Moscow - for centuries. Your comparison to Three Mile Island is simply not valid. Understanding this fundamental difference is crucial to understanding the politics of the region and the actions (not) undertaken by the Kremlin immediately following this tragedy and in the years since.
One stumbling block to finding out more information about Chornobyl is that the spelling is often different. The proper Ukrainian spelling is "Chornobyl". However, the English press has glossed over the name "change" since Ukraine became independent.
Either way, there are now plenty of books on the topic. Official Soviet statistics have always been suspect and more reliable estimates are, quite frankly, chilling. The thousands of military personnel who were sent in to cleanup this mess were equipped with little more than gas masks and were not well-informed of the extreme dangers they faced. Several respected television news programs have done documentaries on the aftermath (I recall seeing an excellent episode of the CBC's Fifth Estate a few years back).
I have quite a few friends in the Ukrainian community who are more actively involved in helping the victims - particulary children who have been saddled with radiation-related birth defects or sicknesses such as leukemia. The number of these children and their suffering is beyond tragic. Have a look at what you can do to help: www.childrenofchornobyl.org.
If you're seriously interested in learning more about this tragedy, feel free to email me. I'll consult with some fine folks I know who can better recommend insightful reading.
How likely is it that you'll be able to convince a judge to toss out an IP lawsuit - which will undoubtedly be sold as an industry-breaker on both sides - on the grounds that it's frivolous?
These clauses simply don't apply if you've got enough money to march into court with a pack of lawyers and a balance sheet that is the envy of most third world countries.
You might be able to stop Ma Barker from suing you for trampling her petunias using this clause - but big greasy corporate lawyers? Ha.
Voltage is not the same as Power. Voltage is like electrical pressure. You can have a canister of highly-pressurized gas sitting beside you for a long time, but if you don't open the canister, it's not going to do much.
When you get a "static shock", the voltage drop between you and the object you've brushed can be as high as several thousand volts. Yet you don't die because the current is so miniscule. Hence, since Power is the product of current and voltage, the effect on you is minor.
Likewise, when a telephone line is not in use, it's power requirements are exactly 0. And even when it IS in use, the current drawn is minor (for several reasons - not the least of which is efficiency).
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I see... thanks!
Now the question is, do I run the PR3 for Solaris, or a Mozilla nightly? =)
I've seen the final product for Windows and it is not ready for prime-time.
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This is something that has bothered me for some time now. Arguably, Netscape's biggest userbase is probably in the Unices now - since IE is clearly a far superior browser (free, don't start spouting Opera propaganda at me) for everyday use in Windows and Mac. Hell, the Mac IE is probably the best browser I've seen, bar none.
However, Netscape has yet to release a Solaris build, or an HP-UX build, or anything aside from a Linux 2.2 build. Now I see that the Mozilla folks are taking the same approach - which is disappointing.
Is there any reason for this? I mean, they're building a Solaris 2.6 nightly every day and it works beautifully (on 2.7, for me). Are they ever going to officially release a version or is the onus going to be on admins to compile their own version for anything other than the 3 big platforms? This kind of approach seems awfully shortsighted. I thought part of the whole point of Mozilla was platform independence and the ability to easily build a new port.
I'm not flaming the Mozilla folks here, I recognize quality work when I see it, but I'm just curious why they don't have a Mozilla 0.6 (or a Netscape 6 - yes, I realize that's a different story) for Solaris.
I say too late because I just didn't get a very satisfied feeling from someone busting up the bad guy after the bad guy already kills and terrorizes his victims
You know, it might be that was on purpose - a bit of metaphor if you will. Given the fact that he's had his abilities all his life and is only now beginning to do what he's meant to do. Although he's too late to save the older parents (he's waited until middle age to start being a hero - ergo, he's too late to help many other people who've fallen victims to crime), he has now realized his potential and is able to save the young girls (a fresh start and an opportunity to help others in the future).
Just because you don't agree with the story and would rather see him kick ass all over the place doesn't make it any less good.
I was rather disgusted at the way Shyamalan decided to have Dunn see a whole bunch of people's crap, but only decide that one was worth following up on. I guess it must be okay to smash Malt Liquor bottles on people's heads and rape girls who've passed out at parties.
I don't know what your problem is with him going after the home invader. That scenes shows us how much work there is for him to do, and to some degree the daunting task he faces. There is a lot he can't do, and it must be painful to see so much torment and feel powerless to make it better. With the home invader, he had the ability to do something to stop it - whereas the rape or the theft, what can he do? Kick the guy's ass? Steal the jewels back? Go tell the police that he has visions of things people have done wrong? He'd just end up in jail. Good call there Sparky.
This movie is fantastic if you aren't expecting it. It's even better if you don't anticipate it becoming a mega-action-Die-Hard-wannabe-starring-Bruce-Willis . With this movie and the Sixth Sense (actually, even Pulp Fiction), I'm starting to think Bruce Willis might even be a good actor. =)
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I use Outlook, every once in a while I hop on over to Windows Update and get the latest security patches. It's painless.
Guess what? I haven't been hit by SirCam or Code Red. I've gotten more than a few SirCam messages from people I don't even know (including one that was mailed to me by a stranger through my Slashdot sneakemail account).
An up-to-date and properly configured Outlook will not arbitrarily execute EXE/COM/BAT binaries. It won't even open HTML attachments without permission. Mine won't even let me see the attachment I was getting from SirCam victims. I had to ssh to my mail server, use Mutt to save the attachment and run "strings" on it to see what it was.
Not to mention, the really poor English in those SirCam messages is a dead giveaway.
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If it isn't free (as in beer and speech), it must be bad (as in evil and wrong).
I guarantee you, somewhere in this discussion, some jackass is going to suggest that the Open Source community work to genetically engineer its own soya and corn, then release it under the GPL to farmers.
Then someone will respond with the idea that we covertly disseminate this OpenSoya into Monsanto supplies, so that it gets contaminated, forcing Monsanto to release their soya under the GPL too.
And they'll all be moderated up to +5: Informative.
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The first iMac to offer DVD was the 400 MHz iMac DV, which, as a matter of fact, did offer hardware MPEG-2 decoding through its ATI Rage 128 VR graphics.
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Hogwash... if you can burn CDs on Linux with a P133, you'll sure as hell be able to do it on MacOS. As for DVDs, I may be wrong, but I don't think Apple ever shipped any system with a DVD player that didn't run at least 300 MHz. And even then, they had hardware decoders.
If it's not ready, it's because it's not ready. Not because the hardware - which is easily among the best in its class - can't handle it when running a BSD OS.
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There's a fundamental break there. There is no continuous lineage.
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Connectix makes VirtualPC which allows you to run Windows
LinuxPPC is well.. just that. Linux for PowerPC.
Sarcasm. Look into it.
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No you couldn't, troll.
By the way, the 80286 was not the first x86 processor. Nor can the PowerPC G3 or G4, in ANY way, be considered a 68k. They're not even in the same ballpark. 68k is a CISC architecture. PowerPC is RISC. Go look up what those acronyms mean and come back and tell me why you don't know what you're talking about.
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So what if we run FreeBSD (and let's for a moment assume there isn't Linux binary compatibility) or Solaris? For instance, in my lab at school, we've got a room chock full of Sparcs and Ultra Sparcs with Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.7. There are a ton of newbies who have a hell of a time figuring out Sun File Manager and there are also a few people like me who like the occasional eye candy.
So, my question. Is there any chance the source could be built to run stable on Solaris? And I'm assuming here that at least the core Gnome 1.2 libraries are available.
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Tatu isn't saying that OpenSSH developers can't use the term SSH anywhere in their product or documentation. He's merely asking that they change the NAME of their implementation to something different so as to avoid confusion with his product.
So, what's the problem here? You know that sendmail is an SMTP daemon, you know that bind is a DNS server... will it be so mind-numbing to call an SSH client/server something OTHER than SSH? Oh god, the horror...
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Umm... not really. The point is that Microsoft has been satisfying most of their customers with every release. When you've got 90% of all PCs in the world, it's impossible to make everybody happy.
So far they've done a pretty good job at making everyone as happy as possible with the OSes they have. There are times I want to shoot them for still hanging on to archaic concepts like drive letters or that godawful registry.
You don't seem to understand that code monkeys like us are NOT MS' target audience. They're shooting for the crowd that doesn't want to work for their computer. Rather they expect it to be the other way around. In that aspect, they've succeeded. It is FAR, FAR easier to be productive in Windows with virtually no computer experience.
When it comes to tweaking under the hood, yeah Linux is far more conducive to that, but the vast majority doesn't want to (or doesn't know how to) build new kernels, compile Apache with mod_perl and PHP (not the easiest thing) or learn why their Winmodem/printer/scanner/etc won't work anymore.
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Neither Linux nor Windows is good enough to become dominant given tabula rasa. Microsoft, through luck and clever marketing, however, has the upper hand presently (at least in terms of marketshare).
Having said that, there's absolutely no evidence to suggest that Microsoft couldn't produce a significantly better OS given the impetus to do so. They've demonstrated in the past that they can produce excellent, excellent software (I point to IE5 for Mac as an example).
The problem, up until this point, has been that they haven't had the pressure to do it right the first time (or the second time, or the third time...). Good enough has been the prevailing theme from Redmond for some time now when it comes to operating systems.
This is rather unfortunate for us at times, but not for their bottom line it seems.
I welcome any DOJ ruling that brings increased competition into the OS market. I don't think a DOJ ruling against Microsoft is necessarily a victory for Linux though. It doesn't negate the giant headstart MS has in terms of vendor support, nor does it preclude the leagues of developers at Microsoft from building a better OS to compete on its own merit. If anything, it might just have the opposite effect.
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'course, if they are naming this the way they name current ATA specs... then we might just get 100 MB/s out of it.
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Seagate has already demonstrated SCSI at 320 meg/s.
Parallel IDE only does 100 meg/s on a VERY, VERY good day. Most of the time, the difference between ATA66 and ATA100 is quite negligible.
Now why in god's name would anyone want to do this? If this is the only other redeeming feature of serial ATA aside from the promised speeds, send it back.
I'll thank these bastards not to control what I can store on my own machine.
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Do you think it makes much difference to Ukrainians whether the Russian empire is ruled by a czar or premier? Whether it's called a monarchy or "union of socialist republics"? The USSR was one thing and one thing alone: a vast Russian empire. Trying to pretend that the various "republics" had some sort of autonomy outside of that explicitly granted by Moscow is pretty lame.
Now, having said that, I'm not going to claim that Ukrainians are just victims here. Whoever was running that station had to be pretty stupid. Not only that, but the present president is an outright crook and everyone knows it. Hell, just last week some very Watergate-esque tapes surfaced that allege he had a particularly nosy journalist murdered.
Of course, that all of Ukraine's modern-day presidents are past Party apparatchiks doesn't exactly paint a glowing picture of the USSR, now does it?
The point is that the burden of Chornobyl has been dumped on Ukraine alone. That station was built by Soviet mandate and operated by a Soviet agency. Now that the great Soyuz no longer exists, the rotting legacy is left to Ukrainians to shoulder alone. That really pisses people off.
As for Russian/Soviet debts, the reason Russia hasn't gotten any foreign aid recently is because the astronomic sums they received in the past have vapourized in the most dubious of circumstances. You have your own mafia to thank for that. And don't think Russia hasn't tried to extort Ukraine's "share" of the Soviet debt either. This is what you get after centuries of subjugating entire nations - when it all falls apart. I won't shed a single tear for Russia.
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Whether or not the door opens is irrelevant. The only way a crime is committed is if I step through that doorway.
Portscanning is exactly the same.
The only difference is that in the real world, it's pretty hard to stop someone from coming back to check your doorknob every day. While, with a portscanner, it's pretty easy for a competent admin to automagically block out an IP (or ranges of them) after just one "offence".
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The region is, as a consequence of geography, connected. Politically, culturally and historically, the region is anything but "connected". Were Pennsylvanians subjected to an artificial famine to force them into the Union? I'm sorry, but needlessly murdering 6 million of your own citizens in cold blood does not the basis for connectedness form.
This may appear to be true, but who first sounded the alarm about this disaster? Not Moscow. It took several days before Sweden raised its concerns. The "primary lead" USSR attempted - foolishly - to cover up this catastrophe. At the time, Ukraine, being a SSR (essentially a province) was controlled from Moscow. Now that the Soviet Union is no more, Moscow likes to point fingers at the Ukrainian gov't and insist they do more to clean up the mess they're left with.
With what resources? The country is economically very unstable and doesn't gain anything from the parade of G7 blank cheques that Russia receives. Instead they're threatened with economic sanctions if they don't shutdown a vital electrical generating station. Everybody knows it's a ticking timebomb, but when you've got heart disease, you don't just rip out the bad heart and wait for a new one to arrive. You have to have a backup system in place.
Ukraine has borne the brunt of this disaster, and since becoming independent, has been saddled almost entirely with this burden. Hundreds of square kilometres of fertile land are now a blight. An entire generation of children, along with their families, from the region has been doomed to an early, painful death. The money to clean up this mess is nowhere to be found. International pressure is forcing them to close this station without the necessary replacements - which will undoubtedly result in winter blackouts for a region which already suffers from periodic brownouts.
And yet, you believe that Ukrainians feel a kinship with "Mother Russia", who, not content to simply abandon them, has in fact stirred up the international community to increase pressure on Ukraine to give up its nuclear arsenal (to Russia) in exchange for token assistance in the massive cleanup operation that is necessary.
Pennsylvanians have not suffered at the hands of their brothers in New York or Ohio the way Ukrainians have suffered at the hands of Moscow - for centuries. Your comparison to Three Mile Island is simply not valid. Understanding this fundamental difference is crucial to understanding the politics of the region and the actions (not) undertaken by the Kremlin immediately following this tragedy and in the years since.
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One stumbling block to finding out more information about Chornobyl is that the spelling is often different. The proper Ukrainian spelling is "Chornobyl". However, the English press has glossed over the name "change" since Ukraine became independent.
Either way, there are now plenty of books on the topic. Official Soviet statistics have always been suspect and more reliable estimates are, quite frankly, chilling. The thousands of military personnel who were sent in to cleanup this mess were equipped with little more than gas masks and were not well-informed of the extreme dangers they faced. Several respected television news programs have done documentaries on the aftermath (I recall seeing an excellent episode of the CBC's Fifth Estate a few years back).
I have quite a few friends in the Ukrainian community who are more actively involved in helping the victims - particulary children who have been saddled with radiation-related birth defects or sicknesses such as leukemia. The number of these children and their suffering is beyond tragic. Have a look at what you can do to help: www.childrenofchornobyl.org.
If you're seriously interested in learning more about this tragedy, feel free to email me. I'll consult with some fine folks I know who can better recommend insightful reading.
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These clauses simply don't apply if you've got enough money to march into court with a pack of lawyers and a balance sheet that is the envy of most third world countries.
You might be able to stop Ma Barker from suing you for trampling her petunias using this clause - but big greasy corporate lawyers? Ha.
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Voltage is not the same as Power. Voltage is like electrical pressure. You can have a canister of highly-pressurized gas sitting beside you for a long time, but if you don't open the canister, it's not going to do much.
When you get a "static shock", the voltage drop between you and the object you've brushed can be as high as several thousand volts. Yet you don't die because the current is so miniscule. Hence, since Power is the product of current and voltage, the effect on you is minor.
Likewise, when a telephone line is not in use, it's power requirements are exactly 0. And even when it IS in use, the current drawn is minor (for several reasons - not the least of which is efficiency).
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Now the question is, do I run the PR3 for Solaris, or a Mozilla nightly? =)
I've seen the final product for Windows and it is not ready for prime-time.
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However, Netscape has yet to release a Solaris build, or an HP-UX build, or anything aside from a Linux 2.2 build. Now I see that the Mozilla folks are taking the same approach - which is disappointing.
Is there any reason for this? I mean, they're building a Solaris 2.6 nightly every day and it works beautifully (on 2.7, for me). Are they ever going to officially release a version or is the onus going to be on admins to compile their own version for anything other than the 3 big platforms? This kind of approach seems awfully shortsighted. I thought part of the whole point of Mozilla was platform independence and the ability to easily build a new port.
I'm not flaming the Mozilla folks here, I recognize quality work when I see it, but I'm just curious why they don't have a Mozilla 0.6 (or a Netscape 6 - yes, I realize that's a different story) for Solaris.
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Just because you don't agree with the story and would rather see him kick ass all over the place doesn't make it any less good.
I don't know what your problem is with him going after the home invader. That scenes shows us how much work there is for him to do, and to some degree the daunting task he faces. There is a lot he can't do, and it must be painful to see so much torment and feel powerless to make it better. With the home invader, he had the ability to do something to stop it - whereas the rape or the theft, what can he do? Kick the guy's ass? Steal the jewels back? Go tell the police that he has visions of things people have done wrong? He'd just end up in jail. Good call there Sparky.
This movie is fantastic if you aren't expecting it. It's even better if you don't anticipate it becoming a mega-action-Die-Hard-wannabe-starring-Bruce-Willis . With this movie and the Sixth Sense (actually, even Pulp Fiction), I'm starting to think Bruce Willis might even be a good actor. =)
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