1: Go rent a black and white movie called 'Mr. Smith Goes To Washington' for an insightful commentary into the foibles of the Senate.
2: Find the episode of the Simpsons where Mel Gibson does a remake of that movie.
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Just to put it into more context...
Lets say that a bill is going through Congress to put better controls on Ketchup manufacturing, because some people got e.coli from ketchup. This is going to sail right through; think of the children! So they start tacking on little bits that have nothing to do, really, with the problem at hand. "100 million to the FDA for improved Ketchup testing. And 500 Million to NASA. For, umm...space..ketchup...testing."
Now, the President has the ability to only say 'yes' or 'no' to the entire law, as presented to him. This is, I think, how it should be; y'all need to attack the root problem of fucked up laws going through Congress. I've said it before, and I'll say it again; America's political system would work far better if y'all used it as intended, and abolished the concept of the 'career politician.'
1: There once was an OS designed, from the ground up, to be secure, stable, good, and non-fattenting. It was called MULTICS. Some people decided to strip out much of the security and robustness features of it. This begat UNIX; literally, a castrated version of MULTICS.
2: All of the software that you know and love in the OSS world was just as bad as the MS stuff was, in it's day. The good old days of being able to telnet to sendmail, type 'wizard' or 'debug' and simply being presented with a root shell. Or SunOS and IRIX LPR daemons doing similar things.
WARNING! Nuclear-powered laptops ARE NOT CERTIFIED for use on your lap. Using your NPL(tm) on your lap will result in STERILITY, or children which simply AREN'T RIGHT.
Tribes had the same behaviour; it was designed for Voodoo cards, then had an OpenGL renderer built. Well, Voodoo cards kicked ass at memory transfer, or somesuch, which Tribes took advantage of. So the OpenGL port would stutter like a bitch on hardware that was over-all superior to the voodoo1.
Well, CPU heat, for one thing. Most OSes nowadays send a HALT/HLT or equivalent instruction, when not doing anything, which powers down the CPU and lowers the temperature in doing so.
Sure, it's reaching, but it's also a valid resposne.:-)
Don't forget that once in office, an MP is complelled to vote as his party dictates; not as his consistuency dictates. We democratically elect our dictators.
Multiple desktops have been in since, ummm, NT4, at least. Half the stuff that Microsoft 'comes out with' have actually been in the OS for years; just never bothered with. Half the features of NTFS, for example, are still unused; quotas are an example. 'Debuted' in Windows 2000, but were always a part of NTFS; just never bothered with.
I stopped playing FT:BOS when I figured out that my crack team of commandos were completely undone by a waist-high pile of sandbags. They couldn't climb over them, move them, cut them open to pour out the sand, dynamite them, blow them up with C4, incinerate them with flamethrowers, or anything. That was stupid, and that's just poor design.
Yes, and if this woman's account had been 'killed' as she suggests, she'd be complaining that important emails got bounced, and if they'd just accepted them until she could call up with a new credit card number, she'd have gotten them, so it's all their fault, and they didn't have the right to deny service, and blah blah blah.
Don't get me wrong; Reuters is in the right, as far as I'm concerned. The company fucked up by posting their shit; saying 'but it wasn't linked to, therefore it was secret' is like saying that, in a dead-tree book, any section that isn't reference in the Table of Contents shouldn't be read; it's a secret.
So, the common case is software crashes, and the uncommon case is disk failure. This solution doesn't seem to save you much, if anything, in the common case, and saves you nothing at all in the catastrophic case. I think you'd be better off with one server which can be quickly rebooted, easily debugged.
Journeled filesystem, or, better yet, a filesystem that doesn't report a 'successful write' until the bits are on the hard disk.
Similar to a ACID database; transaction logs vs data files.
Actually:
5a) kills power to the primary machine using a serial/networked power bar to avoid any possibility of the other computer doing something like trying to mount the FS
5b) remounts the filesystem read-write
My little iMac can encode MPEG4 video in realtime. Show me an x86 that can do that. Or, shut up about x86 performance.
How..inefficient. MPEG video is supposed to be encoder heavy; if you're not doing multiple passes to see where you can save bits, you know, that whole variable bit rate thing, you're winding up with a file that's much bigger than it needs to be.
'Shin Seiki' translates as 'new century.' 'Evangelion' is an adaptation of a German word meaning 'gospel.' Therefore, the Japanese title would translate as 'Gospel for a New Century' or 'New Century Gospel.' Gainex themselves, by the way, chose the title 'Neon Genesis: Evangelion' for the English title, which is why the average hardcore anime fan doesn't scream about it. It makes sense, if you think about it; 'Neon' invokes images of modernity, technology, cold and sterile science. 'Genesis,' aside from meaning 'beginning,' of course, evokes religious overtones to the average North American. 'Evangelion' is close enough to English words such as 'evangelism' to evoke similar images, yet odd enough to feel somehow different, or other. Kind of evocative, when you put it all together.
You'll notice all sorts of German-isms throughout the series, if you know what you're looking for.
The 'rule of thumb' for disk partitions for databases is thus: a mirrored set for the OS and apps, a mirrored set of the fastest bloody disks you can find for the transaction logs, and a raid 5, or if you can afford it, 0+1, for the actual database files.
Note that this also applies to Exchange, which is a database too.
If a CEO walks into a press conference, starts reading his speech, but it turns out that he brought the wrong speech, and instead of announcing a new contract that will bring in massive bucks, he announces a round of layoffs next week that was supposed to be confidental, are the journalists doing wrong to go with that story? Of course not. The CEO fucked up, and his head should roll. He, of course, will blame it on his assistant.
In this case, whoever put the document up early, or authorized it to go up early, should get nailed.
The arguments about "but that means burglarly is allowed if you have no security" are completely specious. This has nothing to do with security. Through deliberate action, or even accidentally, they made the document publically available. It's as simple as that.
Somebody has a table, on a street, with a sign saying 'free newspapers.' Covered in newspapers, and people are used to walking past, and picking up a copy.
One day, they guy puts his banking documents on the table, then turns around to do something. Somebody wanders up, grabs the papers on the top of the stack, and goes on his merry way.
Who, if anybody, did the bad thing in this scenerio?
See, therein lies the problem. The paradigm has changed, and the military needs to change with it.
Who cares if your chobham armour can shrug off 120 mm rounds, if the attack isn't coming from a T-80, but rather from a child who is willing to sacrifice their life to smuggle a small container of nerve gas into your bivouac?
Or, put another way, ask the Soviets how much help their tank armour was when they invaded Afghanistan.
Tip to potential news channels: news stories do NOT need Movie Titles. Desert War: A Line In The Sand, 9/11: America Under Siege, Sniper on the Loose: The Hunt for A Killer, and so on. By doing this, you betray the fact that you're aiming to entertain and captivate, not inform and educate.
Don't propound the Gaia theory myself; as far as I'm concerned, humans are doing exactly what evolution taught/predisposed them to do. Humanity will perservere, even if it has to alter the environment to unrecognizable levels to do so.
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1: Go rent a black and white movie called 'Mr. Smith Goes To Washington' for an insightful commentary into the foibles of the Senate.
2: Find the episode of the Simpsons where Mel Gibson does a remake of that movie.
Just to put it into more context...
Lets say that a bill is going through Congress to put better controls on Ketchup manufacturing, because some people got e.coli from ketchup. This is going to sail right through; think of the children! So they start tacking on little bits that have nothing to do, really, with the problem at hand. "100 million to the FDA for improved Ketchup testing. And 500 Million to NASA. For, umm...space..ketchup...testing."
Now, the President has the ability to only say 'yes' or 'no' to the entire law, as presented to him. This is, I think, how it should be; y'all need to attack the root problem of fucked up laws going through Congress. I've said it before, and I'll say it again; America's political system would work far better if y'all used it as intended, and abolished the concept of the 'career politician.'
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Two people modern 'UNIX' users tend to forget:
1: There once was an OS designed, from the ground up, to be secure, stable, good, and non-fattenting. It was called MULTICS. Some people decided to strip out much of the security and robustness features of it. This begat UNIX; literally, a castrated version of MULTICS.
2: All of the software that you know and love in the OSS world was just as bad as the MS stuff was, in it's day. The good old days of being able to telnet to sendmail, type 'wizard' or 'debug' and simply being presented with a root shell. Or SunOS and IRIX LPR daemons doing similar things.
WARNING! Nuclear-powered laptops ARE NOT CERTIFIED for use on your lap. Using your NPL(tm) on your lap will result in STERILITY, or children which simply AREN'T RIGHT.
Tribes had the same behaviour; it was designed for Voodoo cards, then had an OpenGL renderer built. Well, Voodoo cards kicked ass at memory transfer, or somesuch, which Tribes took advantage of. So the OpenGL port would stutter like a bitch on hardware that was over-all superior to the voodoo1.
Well, CPU heat, for one thing. Most OSes nowadays send a HALT/HLT or equivalent instruction, when not doing anything, which powers down the CPU and lowers the temperature in doing so.
Sure, it's reaching, but it's also a valid resposne. :-)
Doesn't help if the gateway is intelligent enough to log your traffic....
Don't forget that once in office, an MP is complelled to vote as his party dictates; not as his consistuency dictates. We democratically elect our dictators.
Multiple desktops have been in since, ummm, NT4, at least. Half the stuff that Microsoft 'comes out with' have actually been in the OS for years; just never bothered with. Half the features of NTFS, for example, are still unused; quotas are an example. 'Debuted' in Windows 2000, but were always a part of NTFS; just never bothered with.
I stopped playing FT:BOS when I figured out that my crack team of commandos were completely undone by a waist-high pile of sandbags. They couldn't climb over them, move them, cut them open to pour out the sand, dynamite them, blow them up with C4, incinerate them with flamethrowers, or anything. That was stupid, and that's just poor design.
Yes, and if this woman's account had been 'killed' as she suggests, she'd be complaining that important emails got bounced, and if they'd just accepted them until she could call up with a new credit card number, she'd have gotten them, so it's all their fault, and they didn't have the right to deny service, and blah blah blah.
Don't get me wrong; Reuters is in the right, as far as I'm concerned. The company fucked up by posting their shit; saying 'but it wasn't linked to, therefore it was secret' is like saying that, in a dead-tree book, any section that isn't reference in the Table of Contents shouldn't be read; it's a secret.
If you broadcast a signal at someone's house, AND REFUSE TO LET THEM GIVE YOU MONEY FOR IT, you're obviously giving it to them for free.
Journeled filesystem, or, better yet, a filesystem that doesn't report a 'successful write' until the bits are on the hard disk.
Similar to a ACID database; transaction logs vs data files.
Actually:
5a) kills power to the primary machine using a serial/networked power bar to avoid any possibility of the other computer doing something like trying to mount the FS
5b) remounts the filesystem read-write
Slightly cleaner.
How..inefficient. MPEG video is supposed to be encoder heavy; if you're not doing multiple passes to see where you can save bits, you know, that whole variable bit rate thing, you're winding up with a file that's much bigger than it needs to be.
'Shin Seiki' translates as 'new century.' 'Evangelion' is an adaptation of a German word meaning 'gospel.' Therefore, the Japanese title would translate as 'Gospel for a New Century' or 'New Century Gospel.' Gainex themselves, by the way, chose the title 'Neon Genesis: Evangelion' for the English title, which is why the average hardcore anime fan doesn't scream about it. It makes sense, if you think about it; 'Neon' invokes images of modernity, technology, cold and sterile science. 'Genesis,' aside from meaning 'beginning,' of course, evokes religious overtones to the average North American. 'Evangelion' is close enough to English words such as 'evangelism' to evoke similar images, yet odd enough to feel somehow different, or other. Kind of evocative, when you put it all together.
You'll notice all sorts of German-isms throughout the series, if you know what you're looking for.
The 'rule of thumb' for disk partitions for databases is thus: a mirrored set for the OS and apps, a mirrored set of the fastest bloody disks you can find for the transaction logs, and a raid 5, or if you can afford it, 0+1, for the actual database files.
Note that this also applies to Exchange, which is a database too.
If a CEO walks into a press conference, starts reading his speech, but it turns out that he brought the wrong speech, and instead of announcing a new contract that will bring in massive bucks, he announces a round of layoffs next week that was supposed to be confidental, are the journalists doing wrong to go with that story? Of course not. The CEO fucked up, and his head should roll. He, of course, will blame it on his assistant.
In this case, whoever put the document up early, or authorized it to go up early, should get nailed.
Who, if anybody, did the bad thing in this scenerio?
See, therein lies the problem. The paradigm has changed, and the military needs to change with it.
Who cares if your chobham armour can shrug off 120 mm rounds, if the attack isn't coming from a T-80, but rather from a child who is willing to sacrifice their life to smuggle a small container of nerve gas into your bivouac?
Or, put another way, ask the Soviets how much help their tank armour was when they invaded Afghanistan.
Tip to potential news channels: news stories do NOT need Movie Titles. Desert War: A Line In The Sand, 9/11: America Under Siege, Sniper on the Loose: The Hunt for A Killer, and so on. By doing this, you betray the fact that you're aiming to entertain and captivate, not inform and educate.
Don't propound the Gaia theory myself; as far as I'm concerned, humans are doing exactly what evolution taught/predisposed them to do. Humanity will perservere, even if it has to alter the environment to unrecognizable levels to do so.
America needs to learn that Freedom of the Press requires Responsibility of the Press.