This is the first time I've seen the term "the programming code is exposed" used. Will this be a new definition to be used beside "free" and "open source"? Will there be an "exposure initiative" to determine which licenses are sufficiently exhibitionistic?
I say yes to all of these questions, and to express my enthusiasm for the exposure, I will now moon Slashdot: ( | )
The long waits are a deliberate creation of Congress, which has starved the INS of resources, and increased its paperwork burden because too many recently naturalized citizens voted Democrat in 1996.
If I were badly wronged by someone with green eyes, and afterwards came to hate everyone with green eyes and believe that most of them were criminals, I would be considered a candidate for the insane asylum. To be a racist, one first has to believe that race explains behavior. Your friends know, and even like some black persons, but chose to believe that those they know are the exceptions, while those who have wronged them, or another white person they know, or heard about second or third hand, or found out about through the media are the representatives of their race. If you don't already have the basic assumption of racism, no experience can make you one. White racism is more prevalent in all-white suburbs, than in big diverse cities where one is more likely to be harmed by someone of another race.
Naturally, racists tend to exaggerate the depredations of the other race upon their own. They are outraged by Jesse Jackson's making political hay out of black resentment, but are not outraged by white politicians who do the same with white resentment. In fact, they are probably attracted to them. They beleive the media downplays examples of discrimination against whites, while exaggerating those of discrimination against blacks, apparently not realizing that the latter is a far larger and more serious problem. (Perhaps they believe that the media is controled by a conspiracy of Jews and Freemasons, no doubt also gleaned from their personal experiences.) You seem to imply that if the media reported more instances of black misbehavior, they would be satisfied and give up their racism. Somehow, I doubt it.
It is interesting that you mention the Nazis. While the particular instance of the Dresden bombing may have been unnecessary, the only way to deal them ultimately was with guns and bombs, by burning down their cities and killing millions of their soldiers. The attempts between the years 1933 and 1939 by the world's leaders to moderate the Nazis by being nice to them was a dismal failure. The argument was, well, maybe the Versailles treaty provisions were unfair to them, so these would be repealed. And maybe they resented being treated as an outcast nation, so they were given power and influence in international organizations, and maybe they were upset that some of their ethnic brethren had to live as minorities in other countries, so they were allowed to enlarge their borders. And the result? Two years later they were halfway to conquering the world, and had launched the greatest crimes in human history, all in the name of their "race".
And of the resentment felt survivors of the Dresden bombing? Most of them got over it, (and the rest couldn't do anything about it) just as most white southerners got over desegregation, and most Afrikaners will eventually get over the end of apartheid. Germany was bombed, conquered, occupied, shrunk and divided. The result? They now enjoy a prosperous and stable democracy, and most of them no longer harbor Nazi ideas. Today they get along well with their neighbors and with the world. This is the result of the violent destruction of Nazism, not its appeasement.
The problem with GUIs in Linux is that the programmers who write them don't use them. If KDE and Gnome are too much like Windows it's because the programmers who write them do so running Emacs from the command line, but are familiar with Windows from having been forced to use it in other contexts. Good GUIs will ultimately have to be written by people who use (and even like) GUIs. Since existing programmers are not going to give up their command line tools, the only answer is to create new programmers with a different outlook. New tools like Kdevelop, which make learning to program under Linux easier, and use a GUI, are a good start toward the goal of turning Linux newbies into Linux newbie programmers. Linux gurus can help in other ways at well. Make Gtk or Qt interfaces to your favorite command line tools. (grep, find, diff, etc.) They don't have to be good, they just have to be there, so that GUI users become aware of them and can improve them. Above all, though, write documentation that a newbie can read and understand. Tutorials and extensive and exampled explanations of everything a user need to know to cease being a newbie are needed (and currently lacking) almost everywhere.
To see an example of this, try to figure out how to use grep (my favorite tool) from the man page, while pretending that you've never used grep, and have never read a man page before.
The only way to stop racism is to eliminate agents that cause flare-ups. (including the censorship that evidently the UN is proposing, hate crime laws, affirmative action legislation) And hope that through education, and compassion human kind will eventually give it up.
The agents that cause "flare ups" of racism are not affirmative action, or hate-crimes laws. Racism long predated these measures, and burned far brighter before they were introduced. While someone who is already a racist may feel additionally aggrieved by these things, they have no ability make a racist out of someone who isn't one.
Southern (US) politicians used to argue that segregation was necessary to maintain peace between the races, and that ending it would be a gift to the KKK. Guess what? The forced end of segregation, and the concessions made to minority groups greatly reduced both the degree of racism, and especially its consequences, even in the ost benighted parts of Mississippi. I'm not advocating censorship, but history is shown that being nice to racists only encourages racism, and fighting them, in one way or another, is the only way to reduce it.
Marshall was certainly a good man and a great military leader. Brin, however, exaggerates his importance. The "Marshall Plan" was principally Truman's idea and project, but he let Marshall take credit for it, because Marshall's standing as a "non-partisan" Secretary of State allowed him to sell the plan to a Republican controlled Congress, which would have reflexively opposed anything associated with Truman.
Even more importantly, however, it must be stressed that W.W.II was not primarily an American war: the bulk of the Nazi forces were defeated by the Soviet Union. The United States participated in the ultimate victory in a number of ways, but the assessment of its involvement must go far beyond the army it built and introduced to the European and Mediterranean theater starting in late 1942. In fact, for the most important decisions, one has to look before Pearl Harbor.
In June of 1940, Roosevelt met with his military advisors (including Marshall), who unanimously recommended that all military goods be immediately embargoed, on the grounds that they were desperately needed for America's own military buildup, and any sent to Britain would end up in German hands soon enough. Roosevelt rejected their advice, and actually stepped up shipments to Britain (and the other, by now minor, powers still holding out in various parts of the world), on the grounds that it was more important to keep those countries still in the fight alive, rather than to focus solely on future US military involvement. Allies were more important than weapons.
This was an extraordinarily courageous decision, and may have decided the outcome of the war. Aid was extended to all countries fighting Nazi Germany (and later Japan as well) including the Soviet Union, over considerable public opposition. Shipments of what became Lend Lease aid had (informally) higher priority than the needs of America's own military services. The courage to make this happen was FDR's, and if an American is to be picked for "person of the century", he deserves the selection. Of course, he had the help of better subordinates than presidents' enjoy today. The military leaders who were overruled, and repeatedly denied in their requests kept their silence in public, and didn't leak. if a current president were to do as FDR did, the headlines in the the next day's papers would read, "Pres. Rejects Unanimous Pentagon Recommendation! Will send 'Vitally Needed' Military Hardware to Brits!", and that would be that.
Ummmm--- all of the tests listed are for determining what a compound is made of, not what it does.
Don't let the impressive-sounding titles fool you.
*************** quote ************************ The Company's proprietary compounds have been analyzed at 24 independent laboratories. The tests indicated were performed at the following laboratories: Lehigh University (XPS), University of Massachusetts, Amherst (proton NMR), Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Raman spectroscopy), National Research Counsel of Canada (proton NMR), Charles Evans & Associates East (TOF-SIMS, XPS, EDS, scanning electron microscopy--SEM), Charles Evans & Associates West (TOF-SIMS), Northeastern University (Mossbauer Spectroscopy), Spectral Data Services (proton and NMR), Surface Science Associates (FTIR), IC Laboratories (XRD), PerSeptive Biosystems (ESITOFMS), Franklin and Marshall College (XRD), Pennsylvania State University (plasma torch synthesis, Calvet calorimetry, XRD), INP (EUV), Galbraith Laboratories (elemental analysis), TA Instruments (TGA/DTA), M-Scan Inc. (fast atom bombardment magnetic sector mass spectroscopy--FABMSMS, electrospray ionization quadrapole mass spectroscopy--ESIMS, solids probe magnetic sector mass spectroscopy), Xerox Corporation (TOF-SIMS, XPS), Physical Electronics (TOF-SIMS), Ricerca, Inc. (liquid chromatography-ESITOFMS), BlackLight Power, Inc. (ToF-SIMS, XPS, liquid chromatography-ESITOFMS, UV and EUV spectroscopy, cryogenically cooled column gas chromatography, thermal decomposition/cryogenically cooled column gas chromatography, quadrapole mass spectroscopy of gasses, solids probe quadrapole mass spectroscopy, Calvet and heat loss calorimetry), Micromass (ESITOFMS), and Southwest Research Institute (solids probe magnetic sector mass spectroscopy, direct exposure probe magnetic sector mass spectroscopy).
I think anyone who goes swimming off the coast of Britain in January has bigger problems to worry about than sewage...
>>The system operates via a cut-off date/time combo, after which it will stop pouring sewage into the sea. Unfortunately, last I heard, the system date will "overflow" to 1900 (or something similar) and will thus never reach the stop time. A word of advice: don't go swimming in the sea anywhere in Britain (or anywhere) very soon after the Millennium, let them clarify the situation first. Surfers beware!:-)
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>>Well, actually, they did kill Patrick Henry. Actually, they didn't. He went on to become governor of Virginia, and proceeded to do his very best to dispose of the the liberty of the inhabitants of that state. (and was cordially hated for it by Madison, Jefferson, et al)
Most of the posts here apparently take the webmaster's perspective. From a user's perspective things look somewhat different. As anyone who has surfed with the *warn before accepting cookie* option enabled knows, cookies are extremely voluminous and only a tiny proportion add any functionality that benefits the user. Most sites that use cookies act the same way whether the cookies are sent back or not. While I have no doubt that the use of cookies makes the job of operating a website easier, from the user's perspective they add little or nothing. I generally browse with cookies off (turning them on only for sites that require them... inevitably with a few choice words for the site designer) and I find sites of all kind (including many e-commerce sites) manage to do without them. The problem with cookies is not that they make credit card numbers insecure, but that put the user out of the loop in the interaction between his/her own computer and the website. While Novell's proprietary solution probably isn't the answer, one can easily imagine a better setup than one has today. An electronic wallet, preferably with an open spec, would allow a user to easily manage what information he/she wanted to go to each site, and to send such information only when it added desired functionality to the site. This would encourage sites to use cookies only when they can come up with a good explanation of why they need to make or alter a listing in the wallet. Of course that would make some site administration tasks, such as gathering info on how the site is being used, more difficult. This shouldn't be of too much concern to the users, though. Many excellent sites do just fine without cookie.
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28,000 bugs in the code,
28,000 bugs,
take one down,
pass it around,
27,999 bugs in the code.
(repeat)
And BTW, it's Commander Taco.,
Maybe he's been promoted?
This is the first time I've seen the term "the programming code is exposed" used. Will this be a new definition to be used beside "free" and "open source"? Will there be an "exposure initiative" to determine which licenses are sufficiently exhibitionistic?
I say yes to all of these questions, and to express my enthusiasm for the exposure, I will now moon Slashdot: ( | )
The long waits are a deliberate creation of Congress, which has starved the INS of resources, and increased its paperwork burden because too many recently naturalized citizens voted Democrat in 1996.
If I were badly wronged by someone with green eyes, and afterwards came to hate everyone with green eyes and believe that most of them were criminals, I would be considered a candidate for the insane asylum. To be a racist, one first has to believe that race explains behavior. Your friends know, and even like some black persons, but chose to believe that those they know are the exceptions, while those who have wronged them, or another white person they know, or heard about second or third hand, or found out about through the media are the representatives of their race. If you don't already have the basic assumption of racism, no experience can make you one. White racism is more prevalent in all-white suburbs, than in big diverse cities where one is more likely to be harmed by someone of another race.
Naturally, racists tend to exaggerate the depredations of the other race upon their own. They are outraged by Jesse Jackson's making political hay out of black resentment, but are not outraged by white politicians who do the same with white resentment. In fact, they are probably attracted to them. They beleive the media downplays examples of discrimination against whites, while exaggerating those of discrimination against blacks, apparently not realizing that the latter is a far larger and more serious problem. (Perhaps they believe that the media is controled by a conspiracy of Jews and Freemasons, no doubt also gleaned from their personal experiences.) You seem to imply that if the media reported more instances of black misbehavior, they would be satisfied and give up their racism. Somehow, I doubt it.
It is interesting that you mention the Nazis. While the particular instance of the Dresden bombing may have been unnecessary, the only way to deal them ultimately was with guns and bombs, by burning down their cities and killing millions of their soldiers. The attempts between the years 1933 and 1939 by the world's leaders to moderate the Nazis by being nice to them was a dismal failure. The argument was, well, maybe the Versailles treaty provisions were unfair to them, so these would be repealed. And maybe they resented being treated as an outcast nation, so they were given power and influence in international organizations, and maybe they were upset that some of their ethnic brethren had to live as minorities in other countries, so they were allowed to enlarge their borders. And the result? Two years later they were halfway to conquering the world, and had launched the greatest crimes in human history, all in the name of their "race".
And of the resentment felt survivors of the Dresden bombing? Most of them got over it, (and the rest couldn't do anything about it) just as most white southerners got over desegregation, and most Afrikaners will eventually get over the end of apartheid. Germany was bombed, conquered, occupied, shrunk and divided. The result? They now enjoy a prosperous and stable democracy, and most of them no longer harbor Nazi ideas. Today they get along well with their neighbors and with the world. This is the result of the violent destruction of Nazism, not its appeasement.
The problem with GUIs in Linux is that the programmers who write them don't use them. If KDE and Gnome are too much like Windows it's because the programmers who write them do so running Emacs from the command line, but are familiar with Windows from having been forced to use it in other contexts. Good GUIs will ultimately have to be written by people who use (and even like) GUIs. Since existing programmers are not going to give up their command line tools, the only answer is to create new programmers with a different outlook. New tools like Kdevelop, which make learning to program under Linux easier, and use a GUI, are a good start toward the goal of turning Linux newbies into Linux newbie programmers. Linux gurus can help in other ways at well. Make Gtk or Qt interfaces to your favorite command line tools. (grep, find, diff, etc.) They don't have to be good, they just have to be there, so that GUI users become aware of them and can improve them. Above all, though, write documentation that a newbie can read and understand. Tutorials and extensive and exampled explanations of everything a user need to know to cease being a newbie are needed (and currently lacking) almost everywhere.
To see an example of this, try to figure out how to use grep (my favorite tool) from the man page, while pretending that you've never used grep, and have never read a man page before.
The only way to stop racism is to eliminate agents that cause flare-ups. (including the
censorship that evidently the UN is proposing, hate crime laws, affirmative action legislation)
And hope that through education, and compassion human kind will eventually give it up.
The agents that cause "flare ups" of racism are not affirmative action, or hate-crimes laws. Racism long predated these measures, and burned far brighter before they were introduced. While someone who is already a racist may feel additionally aggrieved by these things, they have no ability make a racist out of someone who isn't one.
Southern (US) politicians used to argue that segregation was necessary to maintain peace between the races, and that ending it would be a gift to the KKK. Guess what? The forced end of segregation, and the concessions made to minority groups greatly reduced both the degree of racism, and especially its consequences, even in the ost benighted parts of Mississippi. I'm not advocating censorship, but history is shown that being nice to racists only encourages racism, and fighting them, in one way or another, is the only way to reduce it.
Marshall was certainly a good man and a great military leader. Brin, however,
exaggerates his importance. The "Marshall Plan" was principally Truman's idea and
project, but he let Marshall take credit for it, because Marshall's standing as a
"non-partisan" Secretary of State allowed him to sell the plan to a Republican controlled
Congress, which would have reflexively opposed anything associated with Truman.
Even more importantly, however, it must be stressed that W.W.II was not primarily an
American war: the bulk of the Nazi forces were defeated by the Soviet Union. The
United States participated in the ultimate victory in a number of ways, but the assessment
of its involvement must go far beyond the army it built and introduced to the European
and Mediterranean theater starting in late 1942. In fact, for the most important decisions,
one has to look before Pearl Harbor.
In June of 1940, Roosevelt met with his military advisors (including Marshall), who
unanimously recommended that all military goods be immediately embargoed, on the
grounds that they were desperately needed for America's own military buildup, and any
sent to Britain would end up in German hands soon enough. Roosevelt rejected their
advice, and actually stepped up shipments to Britain (and the other, by now minor, powers
still holding out in various parts of the world), on the grounds that it was more important
to keep those countries still in the fight alive, rather than to focus solely on future US
military involvement. Allies were more important than weapons.
This was an extraordinarily courageous decision, and may have decided the outcome of
the war. Aid was extended to all countries fighting Nazi Germany (and later Japan as
well) including the Soviet Union, over considerable public opposition. Shipments of what
became Lend Lease aid had (informally) higher priority than the needs of America's own
military services. The courage to make this happen was FDR's, and if an American is to
be picked for "person of the century", he deserves the selection. Of course, he had the help
of better subordinates than presidents' enjoy today. The military leaders who were
overruled, and repeatedly denied in their requests kept their silence in public, and didn't
leak. if a current president were to do as FDR did, the headlines in the the next day's
papers would read, "Pres. Rejects Unanimous Pentagon Recommendation! Will send
'Vitally Needed' Military Hardware to Brits!", and that would be that.
Ummmm--- all of the tests listed are for determining what a compound is made of, not what it does.
Don't let the impressive-sounding titles fool you.
*************** quote ************************
The Company's proprietary compounds have been analyzed at 24 independent laboratories. The
tests indicated were performed at the following laboratories: Lehigh University (XPS),
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (proton NMR), Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Raman
spectroscopy), National Research Counsel of Canada (proton NMR), Charles Evans &
Associates East (TOF-SIMS, XPS, EDS, scanning electron microscopy--SEM), Charles
Evans & Associates West (TOF-SIMS), Northeastern University (Mossbauer Spectroscopy),
Spectral Data Services (proton and NMR), Surface Science Associates (FTIR), IC Laboratories
(XRD), PerSeptive Biosystems (ESITOFMS), Franklin and Marshall College (XRD),
Pennsylvania State University (plasma torch synthesis, Calvet calorimetry, XRD), INP (EUV),
Galbraith Laboratories (elemental analysis), TA Instruments (TGA/DTA), M-Scan Inc. (fast
atom bombardment magnetic sector mass spectroscopy--FABMSMS, electrospray ionization
quadrapole mass spectroscopy--ESIMS, solids probe magnetic sector mass spectroscopy),
Xerox Corporation (TOF-SIMS, XPS), Physical Electronics (TOF-SIMS), Ricerca, Inc.
(liquid chromatography-ESITOFMS), BlackLight Power, Inc. (ToF-SIMS, XPS, liquid
chromatography-ESITOFMS, UV and EUV spectroscopy, cryogenically cooled column gas
chromatography, thermal decomposition/cryogenically cooled column gas chromatography,
quadrapole mass spectroscopy of gasses, solids probe quadrapole mass spectroscopy, Calvet
and heat loss calorimetry), Micromass (ESITOFMS), and Southwest Research Institute (solids
probe magnetic sector mass spectroscopy, direct exposure probe magnetic sector mass
spectroscopy).
*************** End Quote ********************
I think anyone who goes swimming off the coast of Britain in January has bigger problems to worry about than sewage...
:-)
>>The system operates via a cut-off date/time combo, after which it will stop pouring sewage into the sea. Unfortunately, last I heard, the system date will "overflow" to 1900 (or something similar) and will thus never reach the stop time. A word of advice: don't go swimming in the sea anywhere in Britain (or anywhere) very soon after the Millennium, let them clarify the situation first.
Surfers beware!
>>Well, actually, they did kill Patrick Henry. Actually, they didn't. He went on to become governor of Virginia, and proceeded to do his very best to dispose of the the liberty of the inhabitants of that state. (and was cordially hated for it by Madison, Jefferson, et al)
Most of the posts here apparently take the webmaster's perspective. From a user's perspective things look somewhat different. As anyone who has surfed with the *warn before accepting cookie* option enabled knows, cookies are extremely voluminous and only a tiny proportion add any functionality that benefits the user. Most sites that use cookies act the same way whether the cookies are sent back or not. While I have no doubt that the use of cookies makes the job of operating a website easier, from the user's perspective they add little or nothing. I generally browse with cookies off (turning them on only for sites that require them... inevitably with a few choice words for the site designer) and I find sites of all kind (including many e-commerce sites) manage to do without them. The problem with cookies is not that they make credit card numbers insecure, but that put the user out of the loop in the interaction between his/her own computer and the website. While Novell's proprietary solution probably isn't the answer, one can easily imagine a better setup than one has today. An electronic wallet, preferably with an open spec, would allow a user to easily manage what information he/she wanted to go to each site, and to send such information only when it added desired functionality to the site. This would encourage sites to use cookies only when they can come up with a good explanation of why they need to make or alter a listing in the wallet. Of course that would make some site administration tasks, such as gathering info on how the site is being used, more difficult. This shouldn't be of too much concern to the users, though. Many excellent sites do just fine without cookie.