After a flurry of editing, the Hamilton article has already been corrected - every factual nit the reviewer noted has been fixed. Now, as to the quality of the writing - you get what you pay for...
Since when did going to a library and using a book or a computer terminal cost money josh? Or just thinking critically?
Time or money. They are both costs. As for thinking critically - I do so no matter what the source of information or the cost of acquisition.
If you need an answer to a question, arguing that an answer is "fine" based on its price or ease of finding as opposed to its accuracy is just absurd and ignorant.
I argue that it's fine because it is a reasonably accurate source of information. Cost is not always a justification for accepting lower accuracy, but we make this very compromise every day of our lives without it being "just absurd and ignorant." We accept delayed stock quotes because they are generally free. Many people rely on blogs as a source of news, rather than paying for online or print subscription. Higher quality information typically costs more. Who are you to say that those who chose to compromise and accept lower quality for lower cost or greater convenience are "ignorant". Quite the elitist.
As for the Wikipedia entry that was the focus of the review. It is reasonably accurate. It may not be well written, but it provides a good overview of Hamilton's life. As to the reviewer's nitpicking over birthyear innaccuracy, the article has already been corrected, adding this footnote:
"1. The year of Hamilton's birth is not known with certainty, although the day and month are. Historians have found two sets of birth records, one claiming 1755, the other 1757. Throughout his life, Hamilton maintained the latter was correct."
I don't know, but for what I payed for it (nothing) that entry on Alexander Hamilton is just fine. If people want to pay for higher quality information, so be it, no one is stopping them - but I don't know why they feel the need to complain about those who chose to except lower quality sources at a greatly reduced price.
It strikes me that this gentleman wouldn't be writing such a scatheing review of Wikipedia if he did not feel his job is threatened. If Wikipedia is really so bad, he shouldn't have anything to worry about. What he is really upset about, but can't say because it would smack of elitism, is that the public in general doesn't seem to notice or care about the higher editorial quality of print Encyclopedias.
For most people Wikipedia is just fine. And the price is right.
I will grant you that in normal scientific usage 'atom splitting' usually refers to splitting the nucleus, but technically the atom is composed of a nucleus and the surrounding electron cloud, so separating an electron from the atom could be considered 'splitting' the atom.
From the article: "Since opening its first store last year, Sony has quietly opened stores in seven other cities. The Japanese giant will open its 11th and 12th U.S. stores this month, in Denver and Las Vegas, and expects to have about 30 Sony Style stores in the United States by April 2006."
I bought my Vaio at the Sony store on Michigan Ave in Chicago almost 4 years ago. I think that store has since closed, but this is definitely not Sony's first foray into retail stores.
What I am talking about is a cygwin installation with a full X server. Many of the apps in the distro mentionned in the write-up have cygwin ports (much easier than a full Windows port). As far as I know no one has yet ported Firefox to cygwin. I imagine you could run the native windows version from your keyfob, but that nixes some of the nice encapsulation cygwin provides.
I wrote up a review on my blog and ran into this problem in the process of putting the software through it's paces. I found that searching for my wive's name produced a number of cached web mail pages, some containing entire email conversations.
On my home machine my wife and I have different accounts, but in general I've only locked down file system access by making files read-only. So I guess you could say that this is not a problem with GDS, but with my security settings. I could have read her emails anyway, GDS just catalogued them for me and made them easier to search.
Still, I'd like to see the default GDS configuration changed so that it only searches the web history and email of the user who installs it. Yes, this is security/privacy through obscurity, but most people simply aren't going to go to the trouble of locking down their file system.
I just tried this on two reasonably modern machines, and it's slow as hell. Unusably slow. QEMU claims to be a 'FAST!' emulator. It is not.
Why not use Cygwin instead? Almost all of the apps in this distro has have been ported to cygwin, and I doubt there'd be much trouble porting Firefox if someone got serious about it.
A cygwin based distro could pack a minimal installation (including X) on a USB keyfob that would provide all of the same functionality, but running the apps as native code, at near native speed (minus the small cygwin/POSIX to win32 api translation penalty).
Now of course this solution won't work on a Linux machine, but I think it would be rare that you'd encounter a Linux machine that you'd want to run this on. Most likely you'd be at a friend's house, or in a computer lab where everything runs windows.
I'm with you about the Java Applets. F-U-G-L-Y. However, I'm going to use your post to illustrate my point earlier in this thread about Java. However, I've used Azureus quite regularly on multiple platforms. It's an excellent application. I've also used BitComet, a Windows-only C++ native BitTorrent client. Although the latter is only available for Windows, the performance differences between Azureus and BitComet are astonishing. BitComet's memory and CPU utilization are significantly lower, and from an antecdotal "application snappiness" level, BitComet just crushes Azureus.
Actually, Azureus uses SWT (the mostly native GUI toolkit that comes with Eclipse). SWT allows java developers to create fully functional java applications that have a native look, feel, and performance level on any of the platforms supported by SWT. I've not used BitComet, but I'd suggest the reason Azureus is more sluggish is because it does so damned much with the GUI. Azureus displays a remarkable amount of status information on the download and an all active connections, updated in real time.
Anyway, back to the original point of the thread. As SWT and Eclipse mature, they may very well be the enabler for true cross-platform java development, in the form of IBM's Rich Client Platform - think Java Web Start on steroids, with a native, high performance GUI toolkit (SWT) on every target platform.
I don't really know what it means to be 'immune' to HIV, but I can tell you there are a large number of highly qualified scientists out there who either question the very existance of the HIV virus or whether or not HIV is capable of causing AIDS. These are not your normal run of the mill Internet whack-jobs with a pet conspiracy theory. A good place to start is http://www.aliveandwell.org/, click the "Rethinking AIDS" link.
This site was founded by Christine Maggiore, a married, heterosexual white women (not the normal risk group), who has tested positive for the 'HIV' virus in 1992. At first she became an AIDS activist, but as she delved deeper into AIDS/HIV research she began to question everything she though she knew about the virus and the disease, and wrote a book about her findings. She calls into question the accuracy of the HIV test, the assumption that HIV causes AIDS, and the efficacy/safety of anti-retroviral drugs.
Today, over 12 years after her diagnosis, she takes no anti-retroviral drugs, and is in perfect health. She has had two healthy children since her diagnosis, and refuses to test or treat either of them for HIV. She actively campaigns for mother's rights to refuse the HIV test and AIDS drug treatments for themselves and their children.
Don't just assume that the mainstream scientific beliefs about HIV and AIDS are correct. Do some research on your own. Google 'AIDS dissidents' and 'Rethinking AIDS'. There is a lot out there. Judge for yourself.
Nowhere in the linked articles can I find an announcement of the millionth article. In fact, the Wikipedia home page mentions 352860 articles - you'd think they'd update the number if it were one million.
Many people reboot just because an app has gotten itself in some sort of an indeterminant state but hasn't fully unloaded. This happens to me all of the time with Lotus Notes. The damned thing will crash, but leave remnant processes hanging that keep me from launching Notes again.
Sure, I know how to go into the process manager and kill the zombie processes, but most of the people around here reboot when this happens. It happens quite frequently.
"The company is keen to avoid the term "emulator," instead calling its technology "hardware virtualization.""
I suspect that they are emulating a hardware environment and running an entire OS in a virtual machine. Sound familiar? VMWare accomplished this several years ago, and they did in on multiple platforms. Transitive might might have some new performance tricks up its sleeves, but I'm betting they have a similar approach to the problem.
As others in the discussion pointed out, you can't just run the Linux version of the Quake III executable on OS/X in an emulator, because the executable makes calls to OS routines that simply aren't there. So you either provide native libraries that reimplement the foreign OS routines on the new platform, or you run the entire OS in the emulator. It sounds like the latter is what was used for the Quake III demo mentionned in the article.
Payroll processing in the US and Canada is relatively complex (not to mention Europe). Mistakes happen on a regular bases due to no fault of the payroll processing software. PeopleSoft has one of the most mature Payroll processing engines on the market.
Other than operator error (miskeying, employee misunderstanding of withholding, etc...) errors happen because all 50 states are constantly changing their tax laws and rates, forcing PeopleSoft to issue upwards of 6-10 updates to their payroll product every year. You can imagine the administrative and testing overhead this can cause, especially in payroll departments that lack experience with applying software updates.
As for your strange preference for a paper check, ACH processing is much more reliable than mail delivery. Also ACH processing really has very little at all to do with PeopleSoft's core payroll engine - at the very end of the processing cycle, a file is cut with net check amounts. This file is then sent to a bank for processing. If PeopleSoft screws something up, it would be wrong on a printed check, and on the ACH file.
"If you had, you might have noticed that there have been papers posted from labs around the world with consistent, reproducible results, for the past 10 years."
Ok, I'll bite. Why aren't these people now all billionaires, having developed and sold their new fusion technologies as a practical energy source?
If it is reliably reproducable, someone ought to be able to make a practical 'cold fusion reactor' and sell it, even if we don't entirely understand the effect. People were burning wood for energy long before we knew anything about combustion chemistry.
Yep, I've seen this sort of behavior in Office 97 and 2000 - a perfectly good installation of Office seems to get it in it's head that something is amiss, and needs to be reinstalled from the original media. You go through the installation, and the next time you do whatever you did you get prompted to do the reinstall all over again.
I've seen this in Win 95, 2000, NT and with different versions of office.
Yes, obviously something was wrong with the installation, but whatever went wrong happens far to frequently in my experience.
He's obviously someone that just doesn't get it. He must of missed out on the whole MP3 thing. In his rant, he talks about how no one he's run into has ever uploaded or downloaded an HD movie from the net. He fails to ask, however, if anyone's ever uploaded or downloaded a movie that came from HDTV sources.
No, you don't get it. He specifically asks if anyone has uploaded or downloaded full quality HD content from the net. I am sure he is well aware people swap downsampled and compressed HD streams 24/7. But that wasn't his question.
The writeup gets it wrong when it suggests Cuban is saying the solution is bigger file formats. What he is really saying is that the solution is higher quality (larger files being a side-effect). If your product is high quality HD content, sure people will rip it off and download it at lower qualities - but they will have to come to you if they want the high quality product. Certainly there will be some with the bandwidth and patience to trade the high quality uncompressed 1080p HD content, some have posted to this discussion already - but they are in the minority.
As long as Cuban can keep increasing the quality, he keeps himself on the money making side of this equation, as there will always be those who are willing to pay for his content rather than downloading a lower quality version quickly, or having the patience to find the high quality version online and wait for the download (if they even have that kind of bandwidth).
You might say bandwidth is catching up fast, but Cuban has a lot of room to increase quality. Current broadcast HDTV is heavily compressed. The uncompressed masters contain much more detail than can fit in the limited spectrum HD broadcasters have been allocated. The TV can display that detail as well - Cuban just has no way of getting that quality to you - yet.
I live in the US. The incident I spoke about was on the return trip from Scotland. The plane's destination was Chicago. The people who failed to do their job where all employees of a major US airline.
To answer your points:
1) see above. 2) Doesn't mean that ID check points should be able to get away with not actually checking ID. 3) I don't know what paranoia has to do with checking ID. As far back as I can remember flying they've check ID before you are allowed to board. 4) Au Contraire - your new Scottish Parliament building. If anything needs a bulldozing, that architectural abortion does.
I recently took a trip to Scotland. On the return leg the woman at the check-in desk was convinced that I had already check in. I told her repeatedly no, that I had not check in. It turned out that they had mistakenly checked someone else in as me (both our last names have 'Van' in them, I commonly have this problem, everyone who is Van* is lumped together in the dim-witted minds that run the world's bureaucracies)
Eventually they sort out the problem, and my wife and I board the plane. We find our seats and get comfortable (well, as comfortable as one can be with 19 inches of leg room). A few minutes later a women stops at our row, and claims we are sitting in her seats. I profer my boarding pass, which shows me in the proper seat, she looks at hers - it has my name on it!
Now think about this. We were stopped and our IDs compared to our boarding passes at no less than 3 check points in the airport. This woman managed to get on the airplane with a boarding pass that not only didn't have her name on it, it had an obviously male name on it. She was quite obviously not male.
The entire system is badly broken. In my situation at least three different employees utterly failed to perform the most basic component of their job - validating ID. I have absolutely no confidence in our airline security systems. If they ever catch someone in the act, it will be purely accidental. My sole consolation is that, as others in the thread have noted, the 'evil-doers' of the world have most likely abandonned hijacking as means to whatever nefarious ends they seek, as the passengers are no longer likely to be so compliant as they were pre-9/11.
There is no "bittorrent" traffic from suprnova.org. If you haven't noticed, people don't even download the torrents from suprnova.org. Every request for suprnova.org is round robin'd to volunteer servers. Each time you hit the site you get a different server.
When you click on a link to download a torrent you download the.torrent from yet another server.
Even if the MPAA monitored the.torrent download, this is not legal proof that the downloader of the torrent actually downloaded the file the.torrent points to.
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After a flurry of editing, the Hamilton article has already been corrected - every factual nit the reviewer noted has been fixed. Now, as to the quality of the writing - you get what you pay for...
-josh
Since when did going to a library and using a book or a computer terminal cost money josh? Or just thinking critically?
Time or money. They are both costs. As for thinking critically - I do so no matter what the source of information or the cost of acquisition.
If you need an answer to a question, arguing that an answer is "fine" based on its price or ease of finding as opposed to its accuracy is just absurd and ignorant.
I argue that it's fine because it is a reasonably accurate source of information. Cost is not always a justification for accepting lower accuracy, but we make this very compromise every day of our lives without it being "just absurd and ignorant." We accept delayed stock quotes because they are generally free. Many people rely on blogs as a source of news, rather than paying for online or print subscription. Higher quality information typically costs more. Who are you to say that those who chose to compromise and accept lower quality for lower cost or greater convenience are "ignorant". Quite the elitist.
As for the Wikipedia entry that was the focus of the review. It is reasonably accurate. It may not be well written, but it provides a good overview of Hamilton's life. As to the reviewer's nitpicking over birthyear innaccuracy, the article has already been corrected, adding this footnote:
"1. The year of Hamilton's birth is not known with certainty, although the day and month are. Historians have found two sets of birth records, one claiming 1755, the other 1757. Throughout his life, Hamilton maintained the latter was correct."
The price is still right.
I don't know, but for what I payed for it (nothing) that entry on Alexander Hamilton is just fine. If people want to pay for higher quality information, so be it, no one is stopping them - but I don't know why they feel the need to complain about those who chose to except lower quality sources at a greatly reduced price.
It strikes me that this gentleman wouldn't be writing such a scatheing review of Wikipedia if he did not feel his job is threatened. If Wikipedia is really so bad, he shouldn't have anything to worry about. What he is really upset about, but can't say because it would smack of elitism, is that the public in general doesn't seem to notice or care about the higher editorial quality of print Encyclopedias.
For most people Wikipedia is just fine. And the price is right.
I will grant you that in normal scientific usage 'atom splitting' usually refers to splitting the nucleus, but technically the atom is composed of a nucleus and the surrounding electron cloud, so separating an electron from the atom could be considered 'splitting' the atom.
-josh
Actually that's E^2=m^2c^4 + p^2c^2.
From the article: "Since opening its first store last year, Sony has quietly opened stores in seven other cities. The Japanese giant will open its 11th and 12th U.S. stores this month, in Denver and Las Vegas, and expects to have about 30 Sony Style stores in the United States by April 2006."
I bought my Vaio at the Sony store on Michigan Ave in Chicago almost 4 years ago. I think that store has since closed, but this is definitely not Sony's first foray into retail stores.
Not under cygwin.
What I am talking about is a cygwin installation with a full X server. Many of the apps in the distro mentionned in the write-up have cygwin ports (much easier than a full Windows port). As far as I know no one has yet ported Firefox to cygwin. I imagine you could run the native windows version from your keyfob, but that nixes some of the nice encapsulation cygwin provides.
I wrote up a review on my blog and ran into this problem in the process of putting the software through it's paces. I found that searching for my wive's name produced a number of cached web mail pages, some containing entire email conversations.
On my home machine my wife and I have different accounts, but in general I've only locked down file system access by making files read-only. So I guess you could say that this is not a problem with GDS, but with my security settings. I could have read her emails anyway, GDS just catalogued them for me and made them easier to search.
Still, I'd like to see the default GDS configuration changed so that it only searches the web history and email of the user who installs it. Yes, this is security/privacy through obscurity, but most people simply aren't going to go to the trouble of locking down their file system.
I was running it off my hard drive.
I just tried this on two reasonably modern machines, and it's slow as hell. Unusably slow. QEMU claims to be a 'FAST!' emulator. It is not.
Why not use Cygwin instead? Almost all of the apps in this distro has have been ported to cygwin, and I doubt there'd be much trouble porting Firefox if someone got serious about it.
A cygwin based distro could pack a minimal installation (including X) on a USB keyfob that would provide all of the same functionality, but running the apps as native code, at near native speed (minus the small cygwin/POSIX to win32 api translation penalty).
Now of course this solution won't work on a Linux machine, but I think it would be rare that you'd encounter a Linux machine that you'd want to run this on. Most likely you'd be at a friend's house, or in a computer lab where everything runs windows.
I'm with you about the Java Applets. F-U-G-L-Y. However, I'm going to use your post to illustrate my point earlier in this thread about Java. However, I've used Azureus quite regularly on multiple platforms. It's an excellent application. I've also used BitComet, a Windows-only C++ native BitTorrent client. Although the latter is only available for Windows, the performance differences between Azureus and BitComet are astonishing. BitComet's memory and CPU utilization are significantly lower, and from an antecdotal "application snappiness" level, BitComet just crushes Azureus.
Actually, Azureus uses SWT (the mostly native GUI toolkit that comes with Eclipse). SWT allows java developers to create fully functional java applications that have a native look, feel, and performance level on any of the platforms supported by SWT. I've not used BitComet, but I'd suggest the reason Azureus is more sluggish is because it does so damned much with the GUI. Azureus displays a remarkable amount of status information on the download and an all active connections, updated in real time.
Anyway, back to the original point of the thread. As SWT and Eclipse mature, they may very well be the enabler for true cross-platform java development, in the form of IBM's Rich Client Platform - think Java Web Start on steroids, with a native, high performance GUI toolkit (SWT) on every target platform.
I don't really know what it means to be 'immune' to HIV, but I can tell you there are a large number of highly qualified scientists out there who either question the very existance of the HIV virus or whether or not HIV is capable of causing AIDS. These are not your normal run of the mill Internet whack-jobs with a pet conspiracy theory. A good place to start is http://www.aliveandwell.org/, click the "Rethinking AIDS" link.
This site was founded by Christine Maggiore, a married, heterosexual white women (not the normal risk group), who has tested positive for the 'HIV' virus in 1992. At first she became an AIDS activist, but as she delved deeper into AIDS/HIV research she began to question everything she though she knew about the virus and the disease, and wrote a book about her findings. She calls into question the accuracy of the HIV test, the assumption that HIV causes AIDS, and the efficacy/safety of anti-retroviral drugs.
Today, over 12 years after her diagnosis, she takes no anti-retroviral drugs, and is in perfect health. She has had two healthy children since her diagnosis, and refuses to test or treat either of them for HIV. She actively campaigns for mother's rights to refuse the HIV test and AIDS drug treatments for themselves and their children.
Don't just assume that the mainstream scientific beliefs about HIV and AIDS are correct. Do some research on your own. Google 'AIDS dissidents' and 'Rethinking AIDS'. There is a lot out there. Judge for yourself.
Nowhere in the linked articles can I find an announcement of the millionth article. In fact, the Wikipedia home page mentions 352860 articles - you'd think they'd update the number if it were one million.
Many people reboot just because an app has gotten itself in some sort of an indeterminant state but hasn't fully unloaded. This happens to me all of the time with Lotus Notes. The damned thing will crash, but leave remnant processes hanging that keep me from launching Notes again.
Sure, I know how to go into the process manager and kill the zombie processes, but most of the people around here reboot when this happens. It happens quite frequently.
From the end of the Wired article:
"The company is keen to avoid the term "emulator," instead calling its technology "hardware virtualization.""
I suspect that they are emulating a hardware environment and running an entire OS in a virtual machine. Sound familiar? VMWare accomplished this several years ago, and they did in on multiple platforms. Transitive might might have some new performance tricks up its sleeves, but I'm betting they have a similar approach to the problem.
As others in the discussion pointed out, you can't just run the Linux version of the Quake III executable on OS/X in an emulator, because the executable makes calls to OS routines that simply aren't there. So you either provide native libraries that reimplement the foreign OS routines on the new platform, or you run the entire OS in the emulator. It sounds like the latter is what was used for the Quake III demo mentionned in the article.
VMWare all over again.
Payroll processing in the US and Canada is relatively complex (not to mention Europe). Mistakes happen on a regular bases due to no fault of the payroll processing software. PeopleSoft has one of the most mature Payroll processing engines on the market.
Other than operator error (miskeying, employee misunderstanding of withholding, etc...) errors happen because all 50 states are constantly changing their tax laws and rates, forcing PeopleSoft to issue upwards of 6-10 updates to their payroll product every year. You can imagine the administrative and testing overhead this can cause, especially in payroll departments that lack experience with applying software updates.
As for your strange preference for a paper check, ACH processing is much more reliable than mail delivery. Also ACH processing really has very little at all to do with PeopleSoft's core payroll engine - at the very end of the processing cycle, a file is cut with net check amounts. This file is then sent to a bank for processing. If PeopleSoft screws something up, it would be wrong on a printed check, and on the ACH file.
If the college can tell me not to use a microwave or a hotplate, they can certainly tell me not to use a wi-fi access point.
"If you had, you might have noticed that there have been papers posted from labs around the world with consistent, reproducible results, for the past 10 years."
Ok, I'll bite. Why aren't these people now all billionaires, having developed and sold their new fusion technologies as a practical energy source?
If it is reliably reproducable, someone ought to be able to make a practical 'cold fusion reactor' and sell it, even if we don't entirely understand the effect. People were burning wood for energy long before we knew anything about combustion chemistry.
Yep, I've seen this sort of behavior in Office 97 and 2000 - a perfectly good installation of Office seems to get it in it's head that something is amiss, and needs to be reinstalled from the original media. You go through the installation, and the next time you do whatever you did you get prompted to do the reinstall all over again.
I've seen this in Win 95, 2000, NT and with different versions of office.
Yes, obviously something was wrong with the installation, but whatever went wrong happens far to frequently in my experience.
He's obviously someone that just doesn't get it. He must of missed out on the whole MP3 thing. In his rant, he talks about how no one he's run into has ever uploaded or downloaded an HD movie from the net. He fails to ask, however, if anyone's ever uploaded or downloaded a movie that came from HDTV sources.
No, you don't get it. He specifically asks if anyone has uploaded or downloaded full quality HD content from the net. I am sure he is well aware people swap downsampled and compressed HD streams 24/7. But that wasn't his question.
The writeup gets it wrong when it suggests Cuban is saying the solution is bigger file formats. What he is really saying is that the solution is higher quality (larger files being a side-effect). If your product is high quality HD content, sure people will rip it off and download it at lower qualities - but they will have to come to you if they want the high quality product. Certainly there will be some with the bandwidth and patience to trade the high quality uncompressed 1080p HD content, some have posted to this discussion already - but they are in the minority.
As long as Cuban can keep increasing the quality, he keeps himself on the money making side of this equation, as there will always be those who are willing to pay for his content rather than downloading a lower quality version quickly, or having the patience to find the high quality version online and wait for the download (if they even have that kind of bandwidth).
You might say bandwidth is catching up fast, but Cuban has a lot of room to increase quality. Current broadcast HDTV is heavily compressed. The uncompressed masters contain much more detail than can fit in the limited spectrum HD broadcasters have been allocated. The TV can display that detail as well - Cuban just has no way of getting that quality to you - yet.
-josh
I live in the US. The incident I spoke about was on the return trip from Scotland. The plane's destination was Chicago. The people who failed to do their job where all employees of a major US airline.
To answer your points:
1) see above.
2) Doesn't mean that ID check points should be able to get away with not actually checking ID.
3) I don't know what paranoia has to do with checking ID. As far back as I can remember flying they've check ID before you are allowed to board.
4) Au Contraire - your new Scottish Parliament building. If anything needs a bulldozing, that architectural abortion does.
-josh
I recently took a trip to Scotland. On the return leg the woman at the check-in desk was convinced that I had already check in. I told her repeatedly no, that I had not check in. It turned out that they had mistakenly checked someone else in as me (both our last names have 'Van' in them, I commonly have this problem, everyone who is Van* is lumped together in the dim-witted minds that run the world's bureaucracies)
Eventually they sort out the problem, and my wife and I board the plane. We find our seats and get comfortable (well, as comfortable as one can be with 19 inches of leg room). A few minutes later a women stops at our row, and claims we are sitting in her seats. I profer my boarding pass, which shows me in the proper seat, she looks at hers - it has my name on it!
Now think about this. We were stopped and our IDs compared to our boarding passes at no less than 3 check points in the airport. This woman managed to get on the airplane with a boarding pass that not only didn't have her name on it, it had an obviously male name on it. She was quite obviously not male.
The entire system is badly broken. In my situation at least three different employees utterly failed to perform the most basic component of their job - validating ID. I have absolutely no confidence in our airline security systems. If they ever catch someone in the act, it will be purely accidental. My sole consolation is that, as others in the thread have noted, the 'evil-doers' of the world have most likely abandonned hijacking as means to whatever nefarious ends they seek, as the passengers are no longer likely to be so compliant as they were pre-9/11.
-josh
There is no "bittorrent" traffic from suprnova.org. If you haven't noticed, people don't even download the torrents from suprnova.org. Every request for suprnova.org is round robin'd to volunteer servers. Each time you hit the site you get a different server.
.torrent from yet another server.
.torrent download, this is not legal proof that the downloader of the torrent actually downloaded the file the .torrent points to.
When you click on a link to download a torrent you download the
Even if the MPAA monitored the
-josh
er, that should read "native code generated by gcj"
I'd be interested in comparing the speed of the native code generated by gjc to the that of JVM.
-josh