Wrong, the Viking spacecraft made direct observations of the Martian atmosphere, and its these observations that are the basis of the claim that these meteorites are Martian in origin.
The Viking observations were made around 1975;
even using the new, younger age of the meteorites, this assumes that the Martian atmosphere has remained unchanged for millions of years (or
using the older age, billions of years.)
(Personally I think the Martians got pissed off by Earthlings making fun of their Face, and lobbed a few yonnies their way...)
As the sysadm/BOFH responsible for maintaining the Internet service for a government department in Oz, I'm required to maintain a filtering proxy server that blocks access to pr0n and "non work-related sites". In practice, it's almost entirely a pr0n filter. (Threatening to block HotMail/Yahoo Mail etc. - we have our own mail service - or sports sites is usually sufficient to demonstrate why filtering *all* non work-related sites is not advisable...;-)
I use Squid's url_regex (regex_url?) patterns to match which sites to block (playboy.com, natalieportman.com, hotgrits.com etc.) I started off with a list of sites and words extracted from the Squid logs, and then revised the list based upon user activity. I look for which users hit the filters, and see what other sites they visited that weren't blocked which may also be pr0n. (Conversely, some rules needed to be revised since they blocked non-pr0n site e.g. "naked" blocked "The Naked Chef" - a BBC cooking show.) Over time, you get a pretty good filter without having to find every pr0n site on the Internet or relying on flawed commercial "black box" products. (My ISP select CyberPatrol as the "official" filtering product - I told them exactly what I thought of it with references to the relevant Slashdot threads.)
With Squid, you can build ACLs that apply the url_regex filters to only selected IP address ranges etc. This might be the best approach in your case, since you may be able to filter only the Junior High School.
$1995 is chicken feed. It'll cost you at least 10 times that for Sun Cluster - with no support (but including "knowledge transfer" for the initial installation.) Not that that's unusual for Sun, but it still made me choke when I saw the invoice... If RedHat (or whoever) can offer an equivalent product to Sun DiskSuite/Veritas VolumeManager with similar price advantages, Linux servers will be very saleable.
The last thing I need to have to deal with is coming home from the lab only to find the parrot, that I plan on buying, has downloaded 1 gig worth of parrot porn.
This reminds me of an old musical bon mot about crossing the road: "If you don't C# you'll Bb." Change this to "Microsoft C#", and it takes on a whole new meaning...
"When a bug is found, Alan sends me a patch, and I sprinkle holy penguin pee on it, and it magically becomes official."
There's one slight problem with this explanation; birds don't "pee". If you sprinkle "holy penguin pee" on the patch, you will also sprinkle it with, ah, let's call it "processed herring."
He's right in the tradition sense of "trusted" i.e. "tried and true". These systems are trusted because they're a veritable Rock of Gibraltar - they're been around for a long time and have weathered all storms. Fair enough, as long as you can live within such a framework. (Change something, however trivial, and you may well ruin its trustworthiness.)
Open Source, OTOH, takes a different approach. Instead of standing still, it is constantly changing - any problems that are discovered are fixed quickly; it's very difficult to besiege a moving target. Exactly how fast it moves depends on what you are looking for - Linux is probably the fastest evolving Open Source OS; OpenBSD takes the slowly but surely approach. Exactly which approach is best depends on what the user wants - the way it should be.
... It was a pretty funny picture--the napkins are in a tiny pile in the foreground and boxes are mounded up all over the room.
Sounds like our office after unpacking a shipment from Sun. Every item must be prepacked in boxes (foam-lined and/or bubble wrapped), so if you order twenty cables, you get a pile of twenty boxes, even though all the cables could have fit in one box. (Sun Australia is a little smarter with their power cords - they are usually shipped without a box; we're still left with a pile of US power cables, since Sun USA is unable to cope an order without US powercords...)
Have you applied the recent 5.01 patch? It has a replacement media player amongst other things that may help. (I don't have an SMP box to confirm this, but if someone would like to send me one...:-)
Sadly, it hasn't fixed the poor OpenGL framerate on my TNT2 Ultra; this was apparently broken in 5.0 - 4.5 was apparently much faster.
I also note for the record that Mr. Valenti is here at considerable personal inconvenience. He is not feeling well this morning and has some kind of bug.
A memory leak, judging by the number of "I don't recalls" etc.
Then you just compensate for the error. Seems like sort of a pointless exercise all around...
No, because to be useful, you have to broadcast the correction. Broadcasts can be scrambled or spoofed.
If which case, while jam the DGPS signal (which may or may not be present), when you can just as easily jam the GPS signal itself? If the "enemy" can jam your GPS signal, or circumvent the artificial error, why bother with it? Both sides can jam the GPS signal if they wish, so it's time to look for an advantage elsewhere (or be really sneaking and lull them into relying on the non-SA signal, then turn it on again if war breaks out.)
Creative was not going to release SBLive! drivers as open source, but that changed rather rapidly when they realized that they could harness Open Source development to reduce development costs and keep up with the enternally evolving Linux kernel.
There are two Creative SBLive! drivers - the open source drivers and the yet-to-be-released closed source drivers, based on the Windows LiveWare code. The open source drivers still lack major features (e.g./dev/sndstat,/dev/sequencer) but generally work; when the (presumably fully featured) closed source drivers are released, will your average user care about the open source drivers?
..."Military Intelligence," which is a contradiction, but there you go anyway.
That's why smart military intelligence agencies (is that doubly contradictory, or a tautological contradiction?:-) hire civilian staff. While there's no guarantee the civilians aren't stupid, at least they choose to be there rather than just doing their tour of duty.
Back to the original topic - so what? Any schmuck along the delivery path could read your email. If you are concerned about people reading your free text email, encrypt it - that'll guarantee that MI5 et al. will at least try to read it. (Since the US now permits export of 128-bit encryption technology to most places, one can assume that it no longer presents a problem to NSA crypto systems/staff.) The assumption made by all paranoic assessments of (assumed) security agency capabilities is that they read all messages - I doubt it. Decrypting/filtering vast amounts of data isn't easy, so my money's on them knowing exactly what they want, and "anti-Echelon Day" etc. is merely a source of amusement that has no effect on their operations. (See: "Occam's Razor".)
Given the perchant for geeks to wear T-shirts and blue jeans where a wallet can be a challenge, calling this a "pocket PC" is stretching things a little (and I don't mean denim.) Even so, it's a great idea - if you don't need a keyboard and screen when moving from place to place, why lug them around? You could use a Palm as a console while on the move, use it as a (somewhat bulky) MP3 player etc. etc.
Has this government sold out it's people by selling this domain or has there government pulled down a really cool score.
Tuvalu is one of the nations most at risk of rising sea levels - already parts of it go underwater if there are particularly high tides. The $50M may go some way to combating the problem; if Tuvalu does go under (literally), so does the.tv domain name! If TV companies can afford large sums of money for their domain name, they should be able to spare some to build a sea wall around a mere 26 sq. km of land.
If you can't beat them, join them. Small businesses go out of business for a number of reasons:
Economics - if income
Unreal expectations - the Acme Plastic Dog Poo Co. may have the market cornered, but does anyone want plastic dog poo?
Competition - if you're selling the same product as Big Co. around the corner, but they can buy and sell in volume, you're hosed.
Internet sales can help small businesses by reducing their costs and therefore improving their chance of breaking even. Claims that Internet sales are "unfair" to traditional businesses simply indicates that they are either trying to stifle competition, or have a vested interest in the status quo (e.g. own real estate in shopping malls.)
In Australia, local governments already tax bank deposits and credit card transactions, so they are already making money from Internet sales, even overseas purchases. Existing taxes and the new GST will make money from sales originating in Australia. I'm sure other countries are the same, but differences will mean that some countries will be more of an Internet sales tax haven than others - competition. Any country foolish enough to impose large taxes on Internet sales to either make money or prop up traditional businesses will simply see the sales move offshore, thus losing more than just tax revenue.
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The BBC series from the early eighties was very good. However, the movie from the sixties (which I had the misfortune to watch thinking it was the BBC version) is very cheesy and is best avoided. While the blindness that affected the humans was caused by meteors (comet debris?), the triffids were genetically engineered plants developed to produce an oil substitute. Given the current controversy with GM plants, a rerun of the BBC series would be fantastic!
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It's amazing what a little 16MHz processor in a Palm can do these days; 20 minutes of animated video is no mean feat for a palmtop.
Oh wait, you mean the anime is called "Dragonball Z"?
Wrong, the Viking spacecraft made direct observations of the Martian atmosphere, and its these observations that are the basis of the claim that these meteorites are Martian in origin.
The Viking observations were made around 1975; even using the new, younger age of the meteorites, this assumes that the Martian atmosphere has remained unchanged for millions of years (or using the older age, billions of years.)
(Personally I think the Martians got pissed off by Earthlings making fun of their Face, and lobbed a few yonnies their way...)
Seems that what used to be a comfortable icefield at 0 degrees north lattitude is now swimming in seawater.
About the only ice you'd find at 0 degrees north (or south) latitude is in a long, cold drink - unless the weather is really fscked up...
As the sysadm/BOFH responsible for maintaining the Internet service for a government department in Oz, I'm required to maintain a filtering proxy server that blocks access to pr0n and "non work-related sites". In practice, it's almost entirely a pr0n filter. (Threatening to block HotMail/Yahoo Mail etc. - we have our own mail service - or sports sites is usually sufficient to demonstrate why filtering *all* non work-related sites is not advisable... ;-)
I use Squid's url_regex (regex_url?) patterns to match which sites to block (playboy.com, natalieportman.com, hotgrits.com etc.) I started off with a list of sites and words extracted from the Squid logs, and then revised the list based upon user activity. I look for which users hit the filters, and see what other sites they visited that weren't blocked which may also be pr0n. (Conversely, some rules needed to be revised since they blocked non-pr0n site e.g. "naked" blocked "The Naked Chef" - a BBC cooking show.) Over time, you get a pretty good filter without having to find every pr0n site on the Internet or relying on flawed commercial "black box" products. (My ISP select CyberPatrol as the "official" filtering product - I told them exactly what I thought of it with references to the relevant Slashdot threads.)
With Squid, you can build ACLs that apply the url_regex filters to only selected IP address ranges etc. This might be the best approach in your case, since you may be able to filter only the Junior High School.
There is no gravity - the Earth sucks.
If you thought flakes of paint hitting the shuttle window at high velocity was scary, just wait until you see what those McPickles can do...
$1995 is chicken feed. It'll cost you at least 10 times that for Sun Cluster - with no support (but including "knowledge transfer" for the initial installation.) Not that that's unusual for Sun, but it still made me choke when I saw the invoice... If RedHat (or whoever) can offer an equivalent product to Sun DiskSuite/Veritas VolumeManager with similar price advantages, Linux servers will be very saleable.
The last thing I need to have to deal with is coming home from the lab only to find the parrot, that I plan on buying, has downloaded 1 gig worth of parrot porn.
You mean like this?
Gives a whole new meaning to "jumpstarting"...
This reminds me of an old musical bon mot about crossing the road: "If you don't C# you'll Bb."
Change this to "Microsoft C#", and it takes on a whole new meaning...
"When a bug is found, Alan sends me a patch, and I sprinkle holy penguin pee on it, and it magically becomes official."
There's one slight problem with this explanation; birds don't "pee". If you sprinkle "holy penguin pee" on the patch, you will also sprinkle it with, ah, let's call it "processed herring."
He's right in the tradition sense of "trusted" i.e. "tried and true". These systems are trusted because they're a veritable Rock of Gibraltar - they're been around for a long time and have weathered all storms. Fair enough, as long as you can live within such a framework. (Change something, however trivial, and you may well ruin its trustworthiness.)
Open Source, OTOH, takes a different approach. Instead of standing still, it is constantly changing - any problems that are discovered are fixed quickly; it's very difficult to besiege a moving target. Exactly how fast it moves depends on what you are looking for - Linux is probably the fastest evolving Open Source OS; OpenBSD takes the slowly but surely approach. Exactly which approach is best depends on what the user wants - the way it should be.
"Child Safety Network appreciates the enthusiastic interest in the Mach 5 prototype."
"Additional Features: 18" McCulla retractable pneumatic saw blades."
Anybody else find this insanely funny?
Just the thing for cutting corners, or getting into (or out of) tight parking spots.
Mind you, the first speed bump you come to, that nose is history! (Good luck finding spares...)
If you've seen the program execute 500 times, you've got a pretty good idea how it's going to behave next time in a lot of cases.
;-)
Great. That's all I need: an optimized death in Quake...
... It was a pretty funny picture--the napkins are in a tiny pile in the foreground and boxes are mounded up all over the room.
Sounds like our office after unpacking a shipment from Sun. Every item must be prepacked in boxes (foam-lined and/or bubble wrapped), so if you order twenty cables, you get a pile of twenty boxes, even though all the cables could have fit in one box. (Sun Australia is a little smarter with their power cords - they are usually shipped without a box; we're still left with a pile of US power cables, since Sun USA is unable to cope an order without US powercords...)
Have you applied the recent 5.01 patch? It has a replacement media player amongst other things that may help. (I don't have an SMP box to confirm this, but if someone would like to send me one... :-)
Sadly, it hasn't fixed the poor OpenGL framerate on my TNT2 Ultra; this was apparently broken in 5.0 - 4.5 was apparently much faster.
I also note for the record that Mr. Valenti is here at considerable personal inconvenience. He is not feeling well this morning and has some kind of bug.
A memory leak, judging by the number of "I don't recalls" etc.
Then you just compensate for the error. Seems like sort of a pointless exercise all around...
No, because to be useful, you have to broadcast the correction. Broadcasts can be scrambled or spoofed.
If which case, while jam the DGPS signal (which may or may not be present), when you can just as easily jam the GPS signal itself? If the "enemy" can jam your GPS signal, or circumvent the artificial error, why bother with it? Both sides can jam the GPS signal if they wish, so it's time to look for an advantage elsewhere (or be really sneaking and lull them into relying on the non-SA signal, then turn it on again if war breaks out.)
Creative was not going to release SBLive! drivers as open source, but that changed rather rapidly when they realized that they could harness Open Source development to reduce development costs and keep up with the enternally evolving Linux kernel.
/dev/sndstat, /dev/sequencer) but generally work; when the (presumably fully featured) closed source drivers are released, will your average user care about the open source drivers?
There are two Creative SBLive! drivers - the open source drivers and the yet-to-be-released closed source drivers, based on the Windows LiveWare code. The open source drivers still lack major features (e.g.
..."Military Intelligence," which is a contradiction, but there you go anyway.
:-) hire civilian staff. While there's no guarantee the civilians aren't stupid, at least they choose to be there rather than just doing their tour of duty.
That's why smart military intelligence agencies (is that doubly contradictory, or a tautological contradiction?
Back to the original topic - so what? Any schmuck along the delivery path could read your email. If you are concerned about people reading your free text email, encrypt it - that'll guarantee that MI5 et al. will at least try to read it. (Since the US now permits export of 128-bit encryption technology to most places, one can assume that it no longer presents a problem to NSA crypto systems/staff.) The assumption made by all paranoic assessments of (assumed) security agency capabilities is that they read all messages - I doubt it. Decrypting/filtering vast amounts of data isn't easy, so my money's on them knowing exactly what they want, and "anti-Echelon Day" etc. is merely a source of amusement that has no effect on their operations. (See: "Occam's Razor".)
"Pocket EPC system", "Pocket PC & docking" etc.
Given the perchant for geeks to wear T-shirts and blue jeans where a wallet can be a challenge, calling this a "pocket PC" is stretching things a little (and I don't mean denim.) Even so, it's a great idea - if you don't need a keyboard and screen when moving from place to place, why lug them around? You could use a Palm as a console while on the move, use it as a (somewhat bulky) MP3 player etc. etc.
Has this government sold out it's people by selling this domain or has there government pulled down a really cool score.
.tv domain name! If TV companies can afford large sums of money for their domain name, they should be able to spare some to build a sea wall around a mere 26 sq. km of land.
Tuvalu is one of the nations most at risk of rising sea levels - already parts of it go underwater if there are particularly high tides. The $50M may go some way to combating the problem; if Tuvalu does go under (literally), so does the
To truly be a TR movie, the following must be adhered to:
.45's never run out of ammo.
1.
You mean there's an action movie where guns do run out of ammo?
Dammit - that should read "if income is less than expenses, you're hosed."
Internet sales can help small businesses by reducing their costs and therefore improving their chance of breaking even. Claims that Internet sales are "unfair" to traditional businesses simply indicates that they are either trying to stifle competition, or have a vested interest in the status quo (e.g. own real estate in shopping malls.)
In Australia, local governments already tax bank deposits and credit card transactions, so they are already making money from Internet sales, even overseas purchases. Existing taxes and the new GST will make money from sales originating in Australia. I'm sure other countries are the same, but differences will mean that some countries will be more of an Internet sales tax haven than others - competition. Any country foolish enough to impose large taxes on Internet sales to either make money or prop up traditional businesses will simply see the sales move offshore, thus losing more than just tax revenue.
The BBC series from the early eighties was very good. However, the movie from the sixties (which I had the misfortune to watch thinking it was the BBC version) is very cheesy and is best avoided. While the blindness that affected the humans was caused by meteors (comet debris?), the triffids were genetically engineered plants developed to produce an oil substitute. Given the current controversy with GM plants, a rerun of the BBC series would be fantastic!