Don't denigrate people because of associations. I've seen no evidence that Dan Geer is in a position to know about what the NSA and CIA have been lying to us about; indeed it would be gross operational incompetence for him to be in that position. His responsibility is to make near-future dual use security technology available to intelligence agencies. Although I'd prefer to see the CIA abolished and the NSA completely redirected and reorganized, that doesn't mean everyone associated those organizations are liberty destroying liars. For that, you need to be directly responsible for violating fourth amendment rights and lying about it to congress, e.g., James Clapper.
The Z80 processor had no memory management unit, so there was no virtualizing the 16 address lines to anything more than 65536 bytes. The bottom 8k or so were reserved to the operating system and basic interpreter in ROM.
I don't know where that 512 K number came from. Was that the max storage on the 5 1/4 " floppy?
We don't know if the software was unauthorized, unless we see the terms and conditions under which the child/parent received the laptop. Anything with a barely modern web browser is constantly running javascript programs, and the vast majority of folks have no idea it's running on their machines, much less knowingly authorizing it.
The Northern Mariana Islands are a top ten candidate for the farthest habitable point from everywhere else in the world. I'm surprised there was more than one FBI agent on the island, and it's a good bet any one of the top quartile of slashdot's readership would instantly be the most computer literate person on the island were they to move there.
Hanlon's razor is particularly applicable here.
Mark Geston,criticizing technology worship. The cover blurb:
"The ship was to be seven miles long, a third of a mile in diameter and have a wing-spread of three and a half miles. It would take two and a half centuries to construct. Its announced purpose: to carry humanity away from its ruined world, from the world that had become a perpetual purgatory.
To build this vast ship would require the undivided activity of an entire nation and would mean carrying out a ruthless program of war and conquest, of annihilation and reconstruction, and of education and rediscovery.
But was this starship really what it was claimed to be? Or was there a greater secret behind its incredible cost -- a secret so strange that no man dared reveal it?"
Suppose I want a quarter size replica of Hiram Power's bust of George Washington (completed 1844, so no copyright issues). I'd like to walk into the museum, innocuously wave around a small device, then go home and print. How close are we?
"There is absolutely nothing wrong with swatting a kid on the behind if he/she refuses to behave." That statement has been falsified by the epidemiologic evidence (it obviously being unethical to have an un-spanked control group and a spanked test group). Children subject to physical discipline are more likely to be charged with crimes once they mature. Unfortunately, I can't find an un-paywalled citation.
Nope. This is what a trillion dollars looks like: $1000000000000.00
This kind of money only exists in financial institution computers, it never gets moved around on pallets. The most that was ever moved around that way was the billion or so that got "misplaced" in Iraq.
RFMD has licensed some NREL 3-junction technology, and is in the midst of the approx. 3-year project to take it from "we made one in the lab" to "we're mass-producing them in our foundry". I think they're going to rock the market in one to two years. http://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2011/MAR/RFMD_030311.html
"All forward-looking statements are present expectations of future events and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements."
Unix is a trademark owned by the The Open Group, and you may use that trademark to describe your system if you pay money to have them run their tests to verify compliance with the Single Unix Specification. I believe Red Hat has done that in the past, and that particular version of Linux was thus bona fide Unix(R), but it seems Red Hat has not chosen to continue certifying their systems. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
I believe Red Hat sent back upstream all the changes they needed to make to pass the test; I presume many others also worked on conformance to the standard. Sometimes those behaviors aren't there unless the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set.
Thus, while not "legally" Unix, Linux normally does realize all the concepts and behaviors of real Unix.
The original article was concerned with expected longevity for mature adults. General "life expectancy", such as being cited in these comments, includes life expectancies for children and young adults as well as mature adults. Assuming both the original article and these general life expectancy figures are correct, one must conclude it is more dangerous to be a child or young adult in the U.S.
I'm of the opinion that panspermia has so far no confirmed evidence behind it (including this incident), but the argument from first principles is that the universe is larger and older than the earth with a larger variety of conditions, and therefore is more likely to have generated the chemical reactions we might classify as "life". It's not an absurd hypothesis, but I entirely agree that it lacks evidence.
Since the Supreme Court has held that corporations have the rights of natural persons, Microsoft is now eligible to run for president.
Seriously, they haven't ruled on election qualification, but the logic of their decision allowing unlimited corporate spending in elections forces that conclusion.
Up to now, every "cloud" solution has been completely different, meaning that once you invest in getting one to work, you lose much of that investment if try moving to another. There are *lots* of important dimensions to compete on -- bandwidth cost, CPU cost, RAM cost, OS selection, security, privacy, reliability, reliability, and did I mention reliability? -- but until there is a common platform among vendors, it's all apples and oranges comparison.
Open source would change all that.
Suddenly, I can compare the cost of building it myself to the cost of having Amanzon do it. Due to scale, Amazon should win, but maybe I want to pay for less reliability for my development environment, or I want to pay for more reliability by duplicating that environment among several vendors, or I want to keep the super-sensitive data on my own data haven. Win, win, win.
The 60% figure is bogus. Of the thousands of decisions she's made, only 5 have been taken up by the Supreme Court, and of those 3 were reversed, one affirmed and one has not yet been decided. That is similar to the outcome for most appeals court judge decisions: thousands are never taken up by the Supreme court, 70% of those which are taken up are reversed, and 30% of those which are taken up are affirmed. The Supreme Court only looks at cases it seems likely to reverse. Appeals court judges decide the vast majority of cases in the same way the Supreme Court would, so the Supreme Court doesn't say anything about them, letting them stand. The vast majority of the time, the system works.
From a quick reading of the decision, this was a license *not* a contract. And instead of making people click an "I Agree" button, the license link was non-obviously tucked away. The defendants did not present sufficient reason to overturn the lower court ruling. In my non-lawyer opinion: ggod decision.
I subscribe to a traditional print paper, so I do pay something for news. If there's government corruption or incompetency, I want to read about it. If there's a war going on, I want to read about it. I want to read about major - or even minor - crime and accidents, depending on how close to home they occur. I want to read about changes in law that affect me. I want to read about major economic and business stories (e.g., "IBM terminates several hundred contractors"; "UNC drops effort to open airport"). I want to read about major social trends. I like the editorial cartoons, the comics, and the sudoku.
This morning I read a story on the new Governor's agenda, and I read a story that the outgoing Governor just signed an order that e-mail should be treated as a public record.
I suspect there are all kinds of proposals going to the state legislature that I'd be curious about, but that I don't know about.
I blame java because "compile once, run anywhere" was sold as an attribute of the language, not the developers.
In my experience, whenever I try to use a different Java applet, it's better than even odds I'll have to spend an hour installing the specific jvm for which it was built. Of the two applets pointed to by the article, only the baseball simulation worked with my Mozilla 3.0 plus Sun built jdk 1.6 RPM.
Perhaps if I were running Windows, life with java would be easier, but that's like noting that khat is easier to obtain in Somalia than the U.S.
Take a look at Leo ( http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html ) which works wherever the python libraries it uses work (Linux and Windows, at a minimum). It supports multiple languages but does particularly well in python. The workflow concepts it introduces are *very* well worth the effort to learn. If you want to change Leo's behavior, you can add buttons, scripts or "plugins" in ways similar to (better than?) the way you can program emacs in lisp -- of course, the language you'll use is python.
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Don't denigrate people because of associations. I've seen no evidence that Dan Geer is in a position to know about what the NSA and CIA have been lying to us about; indeed it would be gross operational incompetence for him to be in that position. His responsibility is to make near-future dual use security technology available to intelligence agencies. Although I'd prefer to see the CIA abolished and the NSA completely redirected and reorganized, that doesn't mean everyone associated those organizations are liberty destroying liars. For that, you need to be directly responsible for violating fourth amendment rights and lying about it to congress, e.g., James Clapper.
Senator Stevens has left this vale of tears; someone else will need to confound this with the internet.
The Z80 processor had no memory management unit, so there was no virtualizing the 16 address lines to anything more than 65536 bytes. The bottom 8k or so were reserved to the operating system and basic interpreter in ROM. I don't know where that 512 K number came from. Was that the max storage on the 5 1/4 " floppy?
We don't know if the software was unauthorized, unless we see the terms and conditions under which the child/parent received the laptop. Anything with a barely modern web browser is constantly running javascript programs, and the vast majority of folks have no idea it's running on their machines, much less knowingly authorizing it.
The Northern Mariana Islands are a top ten candidate for the farthest habitable point from everywhere else in the world. I'm surprised there was more than one FBI agent on the island, and it's a good bet any one of the top quartile of slashdot's readership would instantly be the most computer literate person on the island were they to move there. Hanlon's razor is particularly applicable here.
Mark Geston,criticizing technology worship. The cover blurb:
"The ship was to be seven miles long, a third of a mile in diameter and have a wing-spread of three and a half miles. It would take two and a half centuries to construct. Its announced purpose: to carry humanity away from its ruined world, from the world that had become a perpetual purgatory.
To build this vast ship would require the undivided activity of an entire nation and would mean carrying out a ruthless program of war and conquest, of annihilation and reconstruction, and of education and rediscovery.
But was this starship really what it was claimed to be? Or was there a greater secret behind its incredible cost -- a secret so strange that no man dared reveal it?"
Trolling will just be mistaken for another enemy sect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Suppose I want a quarter size replica of Hiram Power's bust of George Washington (completed 1844, so no copyright issues). I'd like to walk into the museum, innocuously wave around a small device, then go home and print. How close are we?
"There is absolutely nothing wrong with swatting a kid on the behind if he/she refuses to behave." That statement has been falsified by the epidemiologic evidence (it obviously being unethical to have an un-spanked control group and a spanked test group). Children subject to physical discipline are more likely to be charged with crimes once they mature. Unfortunately, I can't find an un-paywalled citation.
Which answers the question: what could possibly go wrong?
The currently #13 petition is to end software patents. Sign it now!
Nope. This is what a trillion dollars looks like: $1000000000000.00
This kind of money only exists in financial institution computers, it never gets moved around on pallets. The most that was ever moved around that way was the billion or so that got "misplaced" in Iraq.
RFMD has licensed some NREL 3-junction technology, and is in the midst of the approx. 3-year project to take it from "we made one in the lab" to "we're mass-producing them in our foundry". I think they're going to rock the market in one to two years. http://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2011/MAR/RFMD_030311.html
"All forward-looking statements are present expectations of future events and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements."
Unix is a trademark owned by the The Open Group, and you may use that trademark to describe your system if you pay money to have them run their tests to verify compliance with the Single Unix Specification. I believe Red Hat has done that in the past, and that particular version of Linux was thus bona fide Unix(R), but it seems Red Hat has not chosen to continue certifying their systems. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
I believe Red Hat sent back upstream all the changes they needed to make to pass the test; I presume many others also worked on conformance to the standard. Sometimes those behaviors aren't there unless the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set.
Thus, while not "legally" Unix, Linux normally does realize all the concepts and behaviors of real Unix.
this store is now a cell-phone free environment."
There. If I predict it, it will be less likely. ;-)
The original article was concerned with expected longevity for mature adults. General "life expectancy", such as being cited in these comments, includes life expectancies for children and young adults as well as mature adults. Assuming both the original article and these general life expectancy figures are correct, one must conclude it is more dangerous to be a child or young adult in the U.S.
I'm of the opinion that panspermia has so far no confirmed evidence behind it (including this incident), but the argument from first principles is that the universe is larger and older than the earth with a larger variety of conditions, and therefore is more likely to have generated the chemical reactions we might classify as "life". It's not an absurd hypothesis, but I entirely agree that it lacks evidence.
Since the Supreme Court has held that corporations have the rights of natural persons, Microsoft is now eligible to run for president.
Seriously, they haven't ruled on election qualification, but the logic of their decision allowing unlimited corporate spending in elections forces that conclusion.
Up to now, every "cloud" solution has been completely different, meaning that once you invest in getting one to work, you lose much of that investment if try moving to another. There are *lots* of important dimensions to compete on -- bandwidth cost, CPU cost, RAM cost, OS selection, security, privacy, reliability, reliability, and did I mention reliability? -- but until there is a common platform among vendors, it's all apples and oranges comparison.
Open source would change all that.
Suddenly, I can compare the cost of building it myself to the cost of having Amanzon do it. Due to scale, Amazon should win, but maybe I want to pay for less reliability for my development environment, or I want to pay for more reliability by duplicating that environment among several vendors, or I want to keep the super-sensitive data on my own data haven. Win, win, win.
The 60% figure is bogus. Of the thousands of decisions she's made, only 5 have been taken up by the Supreme Court, and of those 3 were reversed, one affirmed and one has not yet been decided. That is similar to the outcome for most appeals court judge decisions: thousands are never taken up by the Supreme court, 70% of those which are taken up are reversed, and 30% of those which are taken up are affirmed. The Supreme Court only looks at cases it seems likely to reverse. Appeals court judges decide the vast majority of cases in the same way the Supreme Court would, so the Supreme Court doesn't say anything about them, letting them stand. The vast majority of the time, the system works.
From a quick reading of the decision, this was a license *not* a contract. And instead of making people click an "I Agree" button, the license link was non-obviously tucked away. The defendants did not present sufficient reason to overturn the lower court ruling. In my non-lawyer opinion: ggod decision.
I subscribe to a traditional print paper, so I do pay something for news. If there's government corruption or incompetency, I want to read about it. If there's a war going on, I want to read about it. I want to read about major - or even minor - crime and accidents, depending on how close to home they occur. I want to read about changes in law that affect me. I want to read about major economic and business stories (e.g., "IBM terminates several hundred contractors"; "UNC drops effort to open airport"). I want to read about major social trends. I like the editorial cartoons, the comics, and the sudoku.
This morning I read a story on the new Governor's agenda, and I read a story that the outgoing Governor just signed an order that e-mail should be treated as a public record.
I suspect there are all kinds of proposals going to the state legislature that I'd be curious about, but that I don't know about.
I blame java because "compile once, run anywhere" was sold as an attribute of the language, not the developers.
In my experience, whenever I try to use a different Java applet, it's better than even odds I'll have to spend an hour installing the specific jvm for which it was built. Of the two applets pointed to by the article, only the baseball simulation worked with my Mozilla 3.0 plus Sun built jdk 1.6 RPM.
Perhaps if I were running Windows, life with java would be easier, but that's like noting that khat is easier to obtain in Somalia than the U.S.
bash-3.2$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
bash-3.2$ date
Thu Jan 1 22:32:01 EST 2009
bash-3.2$ uptime
22:32:03 up 27 days, 8:33, 6 users, load average: 2.01, 1.94, 1.87
I do a "sudo yum update" approximately weekly.
Take a look at Leo ( http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html ) which works wherever the python libraries it uses work (Linux and Windows, at a minimum). It supports multiple languages but does particularly well in python. The workflow concepts it introduces are *very* well worth the effort to learn. If you want to change Leo's behavior, you can add buttons, scripts or "plugins" in ways similar to (better than?) the way you can program emacs in lisp -- of course, the language you'll use is python.