The total NASA budget ( $15+ Billion ) is a very small sub 1% fraction of US Gummint spending. Unfortunately it is in the discretionary category and lumped in with some agencies that often have a rancorous debate attached to their estimates. If other gummint agencies' budgets had been constrained the way NASA has been for the last 15 years or so, we probably wouldn't have a deficit, War On Terror notwithstanding.
You'll notice IIRC that law enforcement are exempt from the requirement to use the technology and that the manufacturers of the technology are supposed to be immune to lawsuits (in striking contrast to everyone else involved with firearms). Having a demonstration system that works in the lab is one thing having a system that works reliabily under all field conditions is yet another. Expect this to be litigated up to the Supreme Court. It is after all merely another attempt at civilian firearms prohibition.
So: A Dhimmicrapic run county elections board designs a ballot that confuses some people ( although oddly enough not the elderly ailing grade school educated father of a friend, who, be it noted, voted for Algore and was not registered to vote elsewhere ), many don't bother to clean out the chads from the last election on the voting machines, and fail to have enough ballots on hand. The election is then so close that no one is absolutely certain who won ( although most of the likely scenarios examined by a coalition of media orgs had Bush winning ). And of course its the Republicans fault. November 3rd is going to be a very good day indeed.
Is it just me or does anyone else find it interesting that Longhorn is delayed until just about the time the M$ Antitrust settlement encumbrances ( such as they are) go away.
Switzerland is behind the times. Its been that way in the US for many years. The only way IIRC you can operate with a warranty which is voided if 3rd parties work on something is if the OEM is picking up the tab for everything.
Kind of reminds me about fools who whine that they'd like to be able to withhold the part of their taxes that goes to the military. I start on my list of things I'd withhold from and they go very silent usually after some sputtering about their wants and wishes being different.
He's entitled to his opinion. He's wrong and I'd tell him in no uncertain terms but, unlike Iraqis prior to the "invasion", no one is going to drag him out of his bed at 03:00 and make him watch while his family are fed to a shredder.
The reason property taxes in CA do not necessarily increase with the value of your property is that Prop 13 put the brakes on such increases. Howard Jarvis saw what was happening to property owners in Taxachusetts and ensured it wouldn't happen here. Repealing Prop 13 is the Holy Grail of the tax and spend crowd, fortunately its also the third rail of CA politics. Not, mind you that the usual suspects don't come up with some clever schemes for trying to end-run Prop 13.
Here's a thought. Why don't these use tax states set up inspection stations on their borders to check for out-of-state purchases by residents.... Heck there's even a term for this, "excise tax". Oh wait isn't taxing of interstate commerce regulated by article 10 of the Constitution. Seriously though why isn't a use tax simply a stealth excise tax and therefore unconstitutional.
Evidently you haven't been paying attention or have forgotten the billions of dollars that were sent to Russia for work they were supposedly doing on the International Space Station. Much of the money basically disappeared. This was a Klinton administration boondoggle run by Algore. Still think its a good idea to involve the Russians?
Paper ballots work but it requires some commitment from those with an interest in the process. What I would suggest is drafting poll workers from the voter registries like unto jury duty. Each party having more than oh say 5% ( at any level of gummint involved in the election ) of the vote in the preceding election would be entitled to one poll position to be selected at random from their registered partisans. Bottom line is being election monitor should be considered a civic duty.
We already know they are getting ready to use the DMCA to prevent OSS from reading their XML based binary files. They won't then need to sabotage anything. Until the US gummint mandates open standards for document files M$ will continue doing this. Their pre- and post- monopoly conviction behavio(u)r hasn't altered one iota.
If the problem is anything that involves the word "window" or some fraction thereof isn't Microsoft kind of vulnerable. Seems to me X Windows has been around longer. M$ may have the larger mindshare but I'm not sure that matters. Heck, I may have used the terms windows and panes in a program I wrote for contour plotting 20+ years ago.
IIRC doesn't Darth Vacant ( Miiiiister McBride ) need to put together 4 successive profitable quarters before he can cash in? My feeling is that SCO feels they can do this by endlessly shifting the goal posts in their legal game. I'm still not sure how Monkey Boy McBride plans to maintain his grip on the filberts once the excreta have hit the "giant fan" mentioned by another poster.
"The Utah legislature is trying to figure out how to get the state out of the program but the question is how was the Governor able to enroll the -whole state- without anyone knowing?"
Some years ago Cameron toured the NASA simulator facility at Ames Research Center. He was interested in seeing the Mars database that was installed on the airline grade flight sims. SOunds like interest is picking up again. Gee, I wonder why that could be:)
Ah yes, Lemelson of Incline Village Nevada. If there was ever a poster child for patent reform this outfit would be a prime candidate. AIUI Lemelson is a patent mill consisting ( not unlike RAMBUS ) of lawyers and a few eggheads who sit around running the changes on wild-ass ideas that might someday be profitable. Implementations do they not.... That sort of activity ought not to be rewarded and indeed perhaps should be punished. Is there a patent equivalent of a vexatious litigant?
One wonders if this is the same sort of certification that Winders obtained years ago. Yeah it was secure but only in a locked room with no connection to a network.
A short history lesson. As a result of the Seven Years War (1756-1763), France lost much of its North American holdings to Britain. This included what is now Quebec. On the whole British rule over this part of their empire was relatively benign. Things that directly affected the everyday lives of the (in)habitants were left as they were. So land holding, inheritance, religion, everyday language etc continued roughly as they had before. However, the British were very much interested in business and that was run according to the way the British thought it should be done. In English and by English Law. As a consequence of this dichotomy and through the influence of the Church the range of professions French Canadians adopted was limited. Local retail, lawyer, doctor, etc were OK but the Church frowned on science and industry. Education was largely run on a confessional ( Protestant=English and Catholic=French ) basis This state continued more or less for some 200 years. Then in the 50's and 60's French Canada woke up and realised they'd been holding the wrong end of the stick. Technology, industry, and science became more important in Quebec and for instance the third largest aerospace conglomerate in the world ( Bombardier ) is based in Quebec. Meanwhile most immigrants who've come to Quebec had assimilated into the English side of the equation. Some 19th century Irish ( hence Francophones named O'Neil ) and 18th century Highland Scots married into and were absorbed by the French majority. Fast forward to 1970. A nationalist party, the Parti Quebecois is elected to govern the province of Quebec and proceeds to pass legislation which among other things says you must use French in business and immigrants must send their children to French schools, the term immigrant included even Canadian Citizens. The law is Bill 101 and its father is one Dr Camille Laurin ( considered something of an asshole even by members of his own family ). It took something like 15 years to get some of the more blatantly unconstitutional aspects of that law overturned. What the nationalists couldn't ignore they tried to subvert. As for instance school boards. Protestant school boards were controlled by English speakers and that was unlikely to change so for a long time the PQ was trying to get the education regime changed notwithstanding it was constitutionally protected. Quebec now has non-confessional shool boards but quess what they aren't protected and have far less protection against the ill intentions of future governments of Quebec. Anyhow, I digress, the means of enforcement of Bill 101 is the Office De La Langue Francaise or the Language Police. They can fine people if they have too much English on commercial signs and are generally about as popular as Nazis at a bar mitzvah in the English community of Quebec. Something else that probably isn't well known is that one man-one vote is something of a farce in Canada and that the population of a parliamentary didstrict in Quebec can be approx half what it is in places like Alberta. And here endeth the lesson.
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The total NASA budget ( $15+ Billion ) is a very small sub 1% fraction of US Gummint spending. Unfortunately it is in the discretionary category and lumped in with some agencies that often have a rancorous debate attached to their estimates. If other gummint agencies' budgets had been constrained the way NASA has been for the last 15 years or so, we probably wouldn't have a deficit, War On Terror notwithstanding.
You'll notice IIRC that law enforcement are exempt from the requirement to use the technology and that
the manufacturers of the technology are supposed to be immune to lawsuits (in striking contrast to everyone else involved with firearms).
Having a demonstration system that works in the lab is one thing having a system that works reliabily under all field conditions is yet another.
Expect this to be litigated up to the Supreme Court.
It is after all merely another attempt at civilian firearms prohibition.
Hasn't the German legal systems already put SCO
in a put up or shut up state? Quite some time ago
in fact.
IBM
The ability to selectively degrade ( and I assume ) to turn off GPS in extremsis was built in from day one.
This isn't anything new....
So: A Dhimmicrapic run county elections board designs a ballot that confuses some people ( although oddly enough not the elderly ailing grade school educated father of a friend, who, be it noted, voted for Algore and was not registered to vote elsewhere ), many don't bother to clean out the chads from the last election on the voting machines, and fail to have enough ballots on hand. The election is then so close that no one is absolutely certain who won ( although most of the likely scenarios examined by a coalition of media orgs had Bush winning ).
And of course its the Republicans fault.
November 3rd is going to be a very good day indeed.
Is it just me or does anyone else find it interesting that Longhorn is delayed until just about the time the M$ Antitrust settlement encumbrances ( such as they are) go away.
OK, no streak through campus then how about punting along the Backs shrieking "I am utterly ignorant of
Physicks"
Switzerland is behind the times. Its been that way in the US for many years. The only way IIRC you can operate with a warranty which is voided if 3rd parties work on something is if the OEM is picking up the tab for everything.
Kind of reminds me about fools who whine that they'd like to be able to withhold the part of their taxes that goes to the military. I start on my list of things I'd withhold from and they go very silent usually after some sputtering about their wants and wishes being different.
He's entitled to his opinion. He's wrong and I'd tell him in no uncertain terms but, unlike Iraqis prior to the "invasion", no one is going to drag him out of his bed at 03:00 and make him watch while his family are fed to a shredder.
The reason property taxes in CA do not necessarily increase with the value of your property is that Prop 13 put the brakes on such increases. Howard Jarvis saw what was happening to property owners in Taxachusetts and ensured it wouldn't happen here. Repealing Prop 13 is the Holy Grail of the tax and spend crowd, fortunately its also the third rail of CA politics. Not, mind you that the usual suspects don't come up with some clever schemes for trying to end-run Prop 13.
Here's a thought. Why don't these use tax states set up inspection stations on their borders to check for out-of-state purchases by residents....
Heck there's even a term for this, "excise tax".
Oh wait isn't taxing of interstate commerce regulated by article 10 of the Constitution.
Seriously though why isn't a use tax simply a stealth excise tax and therefore unconstitutional.
Evidently you haven't been paying attention or have forgotten the billions of dollars that were sent to Russia for work they were supposedly doing on the International Space Station. Much of the money basically disappeared. This was a Klinton administration boondoggle run by Algore. Still think its a good idea to involve the Russians?
Paper ballots work but it requires some commitment from those with an interest in the process. What I would suggest is drafting poll workers from the voter registries like unto jury duty. Each party having more than oh say 5% ( at any level of gummint involved in the election ) of the vote in the preceding election would be entitled to one poll position to be selected at random from their registered partisans. Bottom line is being election monitor should be considered a civic duty.
Umm, given behaviour of the AI in the offending vehicle are you sure the victim isn't really a rockhound lawyer?
We already know they are getting ready to use the DMCA to prevent OSS from reading their XML based binary files. They won't then need to sabotage anything. Until the US gummint mandates open standards for document files M$ will continue doing this. Their pre- and post- monopoly conviction behavio(u)r hasn't altered one iota.
Red Hat?
Blue Hat?
Stetson Hat?
If the problem is anything that involves the word "window" or some fraction thereof isn't Microsoft
kind of vulnerable. Seems to me X Windows has been around longer. M$ may have the larger mindshare but I'm not sure that matters. Heck, I may have used the terms windows and panes in a program I wrote for contour plotting 20+ years ago.
IBM
IIRC doesn't Darth Vacant ( Miiiiister McBride ) need to put together 4 successive profitable quarters before he can cash in? My feeling is that SCO feels they can do this by endlessly shifting the goal posts in their legal game. I'm still not sure how Monkey Boy McBride plans to maintain his grip on the filberts once the excreta have hit the "giant fan" mentioned by another poster.
"The Utah legislature is trying to figure out how to get the state out of the program but the question is how was the Governor able to enroll the -whole state- without anyone knowing?"
Well d'uh. Never heard of an opt-out list?
Some years ago Cameron toured the NASA simulator facility at Ames Research Center. He was interested in seeing the Mars database that was installed on the airline grade flight sims. SOunds like interest is picking up again. Gee, I wonder why that could be :)
Ah yes, Lemelson of Incline Village Nevada.
If there was ever a poster child for patent reform this outfit would be a prime candidate. AIUI Lemelson is a patent mill consisting ( not unlike RAMBUS ) of lawyers and a few eggheads who sit around running the changes on wild-ass ideas that might someday be profitable. Implementations do they not.... That sort of activity ought not to be rewarded and indeed perhaps should be punished. Is there a patent equivalent of a vexatious litigant?
"so I wonder if they just plan to sit around and threaten people so they can collect royalties."
Hey it works for Rambus.....
IBM
One wonders if this is the same sort of certification that Winders obtained years ago.
Yeah it was secure but only in a locked room with no connection to a network.
IBM
Guess I'll have to dust off my dad's old 1947 Vibroplex bug Or go buy a new one.
http://www.vibroplex.com/origstd.htm
Aside from the cord and plug there haven't really been any design changes that I can see over some five and a half decades.
A short history lesson.
As a result of the Seven Years War (1756-1763), France lost much of its North American holdings to Britain. This included what is now Quebec.
On the whole British rule over this part of their empire was relatively benign. Things that directly affected the everyday lives of the (in)habitants were left as they were. So land holding, inheritance, religion, everyday language etc continued roughly as they had before.
However, the British were very much interested in business and that was run according to the way the British thought it should be done. In English and by English Law.
As a consequence of this dichotomy and through the influence of the Church the range of professions French Canadians adopted was limited. Local retail, lawyer, doctor, etc were OK but the Church frowned on science and industry. Education was largely run on a confessional ( Protestant=English and Catholic=French ) basis
This state continued more or less for some 200 years. Then in the 50's and 60's French Canada woke up and realised they'd been holding the wrong end of the stick. Technology, industry, and science became more important in Quebec and for instance the third largest aerospace conglomerate in the world ( Bombardier ) is based in Quebec. Meanwhile most immigrants who've come to Quebec had assimilated into the English side of the equation. Some 19th century Irish ( hence Francophones named O'Neil ) and 18th century Highland Scots married into and were absorbed by the French majority.
Fast forward to 1970. A nationalist party, the Parti Quebecois is elected to govern the province of Quebec and proceeds to pass legislation which among other things says you must use French in business and immigrants must send their children to French schools, the term immigrant included even Canadian Citizens. The law is Bill 101 and its father is one Dr Camille Laurin ( considered something of an asshole even by members of his own family ). It took something like 15 years to get some of the more blatantly unconstitutional aspects of that law overturned. What the nationalists couldn't ignore they tried to subvert. As for instance school boards. Protestant school boards were controlled by English speakers and that was unlikely to change so for a long time the PQ was trying to get the education regime changed notwithstanding it was constitutionally protected. Quebec now has non-confessional shool boards but quess what they aren't protected and have far less protection against the ill intentions of future governments of Quebec.
Anyhow, I digress, the means of enforcement of Bill 101 is the Office De La Langue Francaise or the Language Police. They can fine people if they have too much English on commercial signs and are generally about as popular as Nazis at a bar mitzvah in the English community of Quebec.
Something else that probably isn't well known is that one man-one vote is something of a farce in Canada and that the population of a parliamentary didstrict in Quebec can be approx half what it is in places like Alberta.
And here endeth the lesson.