Correction, character assassination via *facts*. As opposed to, say, "plausible deniability".
In fact, if you will read Christopher Hitchens' fascinating study on the relationship between CNN and the CIA, you will quickly see why the best source of reports in support of the CIA's external claims is CNN news.
> Today groups like Al Qaeda bomb buildings and take full responsibility for it.
Oh? When did Al Qaeda take responsibility for the WTC implosions? Did I miss something? I thought it was paid for by the Pakistani intelligence service (the director of which wired Mohammed Atta 100,000$ a week before, and then went to the U.S. to meet with CIA and Senators on the 11th of September, if the Washington Post is to be believed).
As I recall, Tony Blair's dossier of "evidence" presented to Parliament to justify the invasion of Pipelineistan contained approximately NO evidence of a connection between bin Laden and the Saudi and Egyptian passengers who the FBI claimed hijacked the planes on 2001/9/11.
I suppose that it may be fashionable in some circles to blame every depredation of the current administration on the party, but do you really think that this condition would be improved by a Demonrat administration? It was a Democrat administration that gave us Manzanar, a Democrat administration that gave us COINTELPRO, a Democrat administration that gave us MK-ULTRA, Operation Northwoods, the CIA, and the Chicago 7. Clinton used the IRS to assassinate his enemies, incinerated 100 women and children in Texas, and found the "collateral damage" of more than 500,000 dead Iraqi children to be "acceptable".
I certainly won't defend the criminal acts of the current administration, or it's obvious intention to create a repressive police state in the US, and exercise terroristic power over all of the people of the planet, but to blame these crimes on one party or the other is a partisan absurdism which I cannot brook. There is more than enough blame for both parties to be crushed into dust under its moral weight.
Execution of prisoners of war is a war crime, so you couldn't have done it anyway, at least not without deserving the gallows.
As regards the inspections of Lord Judd, if you find them inconvenient, just wait until God pronounces His verdict to learn what incovenience really means.
> The 9th A. doesn't really do anything. at least as it's been construed for over 200 years.
Make that 120 years and I might agree with you.
I ask, which is more unfortunate, the European who is deprived of rights under law but enjoys the effective liberty of those rights in fact, or the American who's rights are protected by law which is inoperative, disregarded by the system of established governance, and denied to him in practice?
> Giving liberty to intentionaly harm your fellow > man means you will eventually have no liberty > yourself. Hate speech, as I have described it, is > an attempt to do just that - justify harm to and > the discrimination of humans
Hate speech, as the EU describes it, includes any views which are disapproved by the prosectutor as topics of public discourse.
Sucn laws have already been used to persecute historians to the point where even those who endeavor to correct errors in the historical record of the Nazi extermination campaigns must use weasel words and misrepresentation to demonstrate proper reverence for the Shoah. Putting a few good historians in prison or penury is a great way to stifle any truths which are inconvenient to the holocaust industry, and its principal beneficiaries, the 21st century fascists in the middle east.
All of those platforms can be easily accomodated with gmake, with cygwin as the windows build environment. There should be nearly zero conditional code, just a few link options, if it is done properly.
> it's also unclear how mission-critical systems, > properly cut off from the outside world, would > become infected in the first place."
They come pre-infected from the vendor. Infected with backdoors. E.g. the proliferating IIS vulnerabilities, just one of which allowed Code Red and Nimda to own the Internet for over a year now. E.g. the NSA backdoor Kerberos keys. E.g. SP3 and Media Player auto-install "features". Infected also with DOS modes. E.g. Media Player DRM.
Who needs viruses to make the platform unstable and unreliable? The vendor does a good enough job, in this case.
Oh, and then there's the issue of real-time mission-critical response. What is the peak interrupt latency of a Windoes 2000 Adv Server system? What is it for an up-to-date Mach or Linux system? Clue: With Windows it is effectively unlimited. With Linux, it is measured in microseconds. With Mach it is measured in milliseconds.
Firstly, why would you seriously expect to find candidates with rich experience at a college? That comes from years in the real world, not from jumping through imaginary hoops.
Secondly, the students are doing exactly what the job market demands. Employers constantly write very over-specialized job requirements, so naturally anyone training to enter the market has to focus on specific narrow requirements in order to get a job.
I'm a perfect case in point. After 12 years in commercial software development, I've got a stunning variety of bullets on my resume, but they don't do any good in finding a job when they all require narrow specialization.
Students: Ignore this man. If you want to get hired out of school, specialize on a hot toolset, and get some intership experience. If you want to start your own company, or continue in academia, by all means, generalize, but your fallback is in tatters, you must be warned.
It takes the preemptive and low-latency patches to make the linux kernel suitable for general- purpose use on low-powered hardware. If you want to watch smooth mpeg decodes while running a POVRay job and serving web pages out of a database, it takes a top-end current box to keep you happy, unless you have preemptive and low-latency patches applied.
Multimedia *is* realtime, so general-purpose implies realtime.
Now that strikes me as a truly bizarre statement. Chretien is as corrupt as a month-old haggis. The best PM they've had in 50 years was Trudeau and he was responsible for the insipid spineless "multiculturalism" that has turned Canada into a toy of political correctness. Canada is one messed up place, with loons at the helm. About the only good thing you can say about the government of Canada is that they don't kill very many people in other countries, compared to the U.S. or U.K.
I have to second that motion. I've only ever approximated the XP process, but every XP-like process environment I've been in has kicked butt over the bloated, beaurocratic, unrealistic process models of, e.g. Unified, or the hopelessly out-of-date and irrelevant (to OO environments) waterfall models. Heavy process is only good when predictability outweighs productivity. Maybe if you get a DoD contract, that will be the case, but the F500's tend to do everything in-house, so your role as a small consultancy nearly precludes a process-heavy model.
You'd quickly change your mind if a dud nuke failed to deflect an asteroid.
> Nuclear weapons cause long-term irreversable > destruction and human death.
Well, Doh! That's what they're *for*.
Really, if we're going to keep a stock pile, we should test them. I suggest testing them by building a big glass tunnel underneath Costa Rica connecting the Pacific to the Atlantic, so that China (via the PLA proxy, Li Ka-ching's Hutchinson Wampoa), doesn't control the *only* canal.
In what sense is Athlon not competetive with P4? An Athlon 2600+ will stomp a P4-2.53GHz, and with DDR-2700 will parallel a P4-2.8GHz for about $200 less per chip. That's the top-of-the-line, in both cases. I don't see that as uncompetitive in the least.
Intel has a lot of lines of business. If you consider each line of business, each product class, individually, Intel is likely to lose money on 64-bit CPUs for a long time to come, while AMD is likely to make money on them very soon, just on the basis of currently disclosed bookings, not even considering the established performance issues and the expected importance of 64-bit x86 extensions in the Linux server space. Intel is making some money on the P4 line, and a LOT of money on glue chips and embedded RISC CPUs, but Itanic is a terrible looser, as it always has been. Itanic 2 is likely to be the last generation, unless they are dead set on throwing good money after bad until their engineers can pull the bacon out of the fire with some as yet uninvented virtuoso trick.
As I understand it, your basic position is that democracy and rule of law don't work because the U.S. is an authoritarian dictatorship ruled by a small plutocracy which will happily kill anyone who is percieved as a threat to their total power.
That's why I qualified my statement with the words "clearly detectible". For raw triangulation, in which no more than 3 points are used, a directional antenna does create a new degree of freedom in the solution space, but that degree can be eliminated with just one more sample point.
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Correction, character assassination via *facts*.
As opposed to, say, "plausible deniability".
In fact, if you will read Christopher Hitchens'
fascinating study on the relationship between
CNN and the CIA, you will quickly see why the
best source of reports in support of the CIA's
external claims is CNN news.
> Today groups like Al Qaeda bomb buildings and take full responsibility for it.
Oh? When did Al Qaeda take responsibility for
the WTC implosions? Did I miss something?
I thought it was paid for by the Pakistani
intelligence service (the director of which wired
Mohammed Atta 100,000$ a week before, and then
went to the U.S. to meet with CIA and Senators
on the 11th of September, if the Washington Post
is to be believed).
As I recall, Tony Blair's dossier of "evidence"
presented to Parliament to justify the invasion
of Pipelineistan contained approximately NO
evidence of a connection between bin Laden and
the Saudi and Egyptian passengers who the FBI
claimed hijacked the planes on 2001/9/11.
I suppose that it may be fashionable in some
circles to blame every depredation of the current
administration on the party, but do you really
think that this condition would be improved by a
Demonrat administration? It was a Democrat
administration that gave us Manzanar, a Democrat
administration that gave us COINTELPRO, a Democrat
administration that gave us MK-ULTRA, Operation
Northwoods, the CIA, and the Chicago 7. Clinton
used the IRS to assassinate his enemies, incinerated
100 women and children in Texas, and found the
"collateral damage" of more than 500,000 dead
Iraqi children to be "acceptable".
I certainly won't defend the criminal acts of
the current administration, or it's obvious
intention to create a repressive police state
in the US, and exercise terroristic power over
all of the people of the planet, but to blame
these crimes on one party or the other is a
partisan absurdism which I cannot brook. There
is more than enough blame for both parties to
be crushed into dust under its moral weight.
Execution of prisoners of war is a war crime,
so you couldn't have done it anyway, at least
not without deserving the gallows.
As regards the inspections of Lord Judd, if you
find them inconvenient, just wait until God
pronounces His verdict to learn what incovenience
really means.
> The 9th A. doesn't really do anything. at least as it's been construed for over 200 years.
Make that 120 years and I might agree with you.
I ask, which is more unfortunate, the European
who is deprived of rights under law but enjoys
the effective liberty of those rights in fact, or
the American who's rights are protected by law
which is inoperative, disregarded by the system
of established governance, and denied to him in
practice?
> Giving liberty to intentionaly harm your fellow
> man means you will eventually have no liberty
> yourself. Hate speech, as I have described it, is
> an attempt to do just that - justify harm to and
> the discrimination of humans
Hate speech, as the EU describes it, includes
any views which are disapproved by the prosectutor
as topics of public discourse.
Sucn laws have already been used to persecute
historians to the point where even those who
endeavor to correct errors in the historical
record of the Nazi extermination campaigns must
use weasel words and misrepresentation to
demonstrate proper reverence for the Shoah.
Putting a few good historians in prison or
penury is a great way to stifle any truths which
are inconvenient to the holocaust industry,
and its principal beneficiaries, the 21st century
fascists in the middle east.
And "stupid" isn't a race?
All of those platforms can be easily accomodated
with gmake, with cygwin as the windows build
environment. There should be nearly zero
conditional code, just a few link options, if
it is done properly.
gcc 3.2 is generally superior to VC++ emitted code,
in my experience.
Mingw32 is the target of choice if you don't want
to license Cygwin.
> it's also unclear how mission-critical systems,
> properly cut off from the outside world, would
> become infected in the first place."
They come pre-infected from the vendor. Infected
with backdoors. E.g. the proliferating IIS
vulnerabilities, just one of which allowed
Code Red and Nimda to own the Internet for
over a year now. E.g. the NSA backdoor Kerberos
keys. E.g. SP3 and Media Player auto-install
"features". Infected also with DOS modes. E.g.
Media Player DRM.
Who needs viruses to make the platform unstable
and unreliable? The vendor does a good enough
job, in this case.
Oh, and then there's the issue of real-time
mission-critical response. What is the peak
interrupt latency of a Windoes 2000 Adv Server
system? What is it for an up-to-date Mach or
Linux system? Clue: With Windows it is effectively
unlimited. With Linux, it is measured in
microseconds. With Mach it is measured in
milliseconds.
>"Advanced Web Design" doesn't sound like something in a degree, it sounds like a Dummies book.
Aye, there's the rub.
MIT cranks out PhDs that can't do what a dummy
can do.
This time, I want to walk around town with a marker,
putting swastikas on all the butterflies.
> These weapons wont help the US. They'll equalize the playing field
And this is a bad thing how? The US needs its wick trimmed big-time.
Firstly, why would you seriously expect to find
candidates with rich experience at a college?
That comes from years in the real world, not from
jumping through imaginary hoops.
Secondly, the students are doing exactly what the
job market demands. Employers constantly write
very over-specialized job requirements, so naturally
anyone training to enter the market has to focus
on specific narrow requirements in order to get a
job.
I'm a perfect case in point. After 12 years in
commercial software development, I've got a stunning
variety of bullets on my resume, but they don't
do any good in finding a job when they all
require narrow specialization.
Students: Ignore this man. If you want to get
hired out of school, specialize on a hot toolset,
and get some intership experience. If you want
to start your own company, or continue in academia,
by all means, generalize, but your fallback
is in tatters, you must be warned.
It takes the preemptive and low-latency patches
to make the linux kernel suitable for general-
purpose use on low-powered hardware. If you want
to watch smooth mpeg decodes while running a POVRay
job and serving web pages out of a database,
it takes a top-end current box to keep you happy,
unless you have preemptive and low-latency patches
applied.
Multimedia *is* realtime, so general-purpose implies
realtime.
Now that strikes me as a truly bizarre statement.
Chretien is as corrupt as a month-old haggis.
The best PM they've had in 50 years was Trudeau
and he was responsible for the insipid spineless
"multiculturalism" that has turned Canada into
a toy of political correctness. Canada is one
messed up place, with loons at the helm. About
the only good thing you can say about the government
of Canada is that they don't kill very many people
in other countries, compared to the U.S. or U.K.
kewpie
I have to second that motion. I've only ever
approximated the XP process, but every XP-like
process environment I've been in has kicked butt
over the bloated, beaurocratic, unrealistic
process models of, e.g. Unified, or the hopelessly out-of-date and irrelevant (to OO environments)
waterfall models. Heavy process is only good when
predictability outweighs productivity. Maybe if
you get a DoD contract, that will be the case, but
the F500's tend to do everything in-house, so your
role as a small consultancy nearly precludes a
process-heavy model.
> Nuclear testing is sorta pointless.
You'd quickly change your mind if a dud nuke
failed to deflect an asteroid.
> Nuclear weapons cause long-term irreversable
> destruction and human death.
Well, Doh! That's what they're *for*.
Really, if we're going to keep a stock pile, we
should test them. I suggest testing them by
building a big glass tunnel underneath Costa Rica
connecting the Pacific to the Atlantic, so that
China (via the PLA proxy, Li Ka-ching's Hutchinson
Wampoa), doesn't control the *only* canal.
In what sense is Athlon not competetive with P4?
An Athlon 2600+ will stomp a P4-2.53GHz, and with
DDR-2700 will parallel a P4-2.8GHz for about $200
less per chip. That's the top-of-the-line, in both
cases. I don't see that as uncompetitive in the least.
Intel has a lot of lines of business. If you consider each line of business, each product class, individually, Intel is likely to lose money on 64-bit
CPUs for a long time to come, while AMD is likely to
make money on them very soon, just on the basis of
currently disclosed bookings, not even considering
the established performance issues and the expected
importance of 64-bit x86 extensions in the Linux
server space. Intel is making some money on the P4
line, and a LOT of money on glue chips and embedded
RISC CPUs, but Itanic is a terrible looser, as it
always has been. Itanic 2 is likely to be the
last generation, unless they are dead set on
throwing good money after bad until their engineers
can pull the bacon out of the fire with some
as yet uninvented virtuoso trick.
Capt. Opteron: Opteron powers unite! Form of, RED STORM!
During the cold war, there's no WAY a codename like
"red storm" would have flown.
It's clearly enough to take over a party caucus,
however, and subsequently to swing an election.
There are only ~400,000 people living in Wyoming.
As I understand it, your basic position is that
democracy and rule of law don't work because the U.S.
is an authoritarian dictatorship ruled by a small
plutocracy which will happily kill anyone who is
percieved as a threat to their total power.
Sounds like a damn good reason to join the FSP.
That's why I qualified my statement with the words
"clearly detectible". For raw triangulation, in
which no more than 3 points are used, a directional
antenna does create a new degree of freedom in the
solution space, but that degree can be eliminated
with just one more sample point.