Planting trees is pretty ineffective compared to growing plankton. You do realize that reducing emissions, in practical terms, means killing millions of innocent people?
> Show me ONE successful human-created environmental "solution" to a human-created > environmental "problem" and I'll show you a thousand that went horribly wrong, and > are still going wrong today.
Chernobyl dome.
DDT.
Antibiotics.
I think you just hang out with a bunch of whiners.
Wow, you sure got a lot of facts wrong in that short article. Iron compounds will be used to seed equatorial, not arctic, waters. Phytoplankton remediate haloorganic polution by fixing the compounds. They do not extract volatile halides from solution for aspiration.
web-conferencing-central.com and gatherplace.net both support Linux and OSX as well as Windows, with no downloads required (just an applet). Neither gotomeeting nor webex can match that. And webex costs much more.
Assign each user a specific port for bittorrent traffic. Tell them to configure their client software to use that port. DNAT that port. Voila, full-speed bittorrent. Moreover, the user is identifiable by port, so you need not fear liability any more than does my cable company. You are protected under U.S. law, as long as you do take downs upon accusation, and restore service if the accusation is contested.
In the university environment, I think you'll find that illicit use of BT is probably lower than is illicit use of the library.
Actually, the British isles include Britain (the big island) and it's smaller affiliated land masses, such as the Isle of Skye, the Isle of Man, etc. The Republic of Ireland occupies the bulk of another, larger, island, Hibernia, which, at 84.000 sq km, is somewhat larger than Britain, at 80.000 sq km.
Ireland is not a part of the British Isles, and has never been. Thus references to "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" are used to include the latter within the scope of the United Kingdom.
Were crime to stop, it would be very disruptive, and a manifestation not of obedience to the demands of society, but of disobedience. For some value of "crime".
> A skilled and motivated sniper is far, far more dangerous than a dozen nutballs with a litre of VX.
But they had that too. Remember John Malvo? Oh, and Anthrax. And snakes...um...muslims on planes. All at the same time. Sort of a...trifecta...no...new Pearl Harbor.
> When I heard Bush say that it suddenly made perfect sense: two sides, both of whom have an interest in a war that is by > definition practically unwinnable. And the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth claiming the blitherings of a man > hiding in a cave constitute a creditable attack on our world-spanning civilization. Neither is interested in victory. > Both are interested in pervasive warfare and fear. That is what secures their own power-base.
This is well-described in the book 1984, by George Orwell. But I object to some details of your description. Osama bin Laden died in Balochistan in 2001, according to President Mussharaf of Pakistan, at the time. After a discussion with the U.S. ambassador, he changed his mind, but Osama remained dead. Moreover, at that time, Osama had already won the war, although he did not know it: The U.S. left Saudi Arabia, as he had demanded all along, in 2003. The war is thus over. bin Laden won the war. Now the global campaign to stamp out Islam and secure global petroleum supplies will continue for a while, but the original two-sided conflict is over.
I read your comments to mean that if someone is chinese, then they are guilty until proven innocent. Seems like a classic definition of racial bigotry to me.
Do searches and other violations of human rights and dignity increase or decrease the conditioning of the population to tolerate conditions of inhumane degradation?
My understanding of the grandparent is that the system should limit any individual process to some substantial fraction of available time, in order that a small reserve should remain available to initiate new processes, etc. If windows were to adopt this simple expedient, it would be substantially more responsive and useable, more Linux-like, if you will.
So let me get this straight: Writing a program that people find useful and offering it for sale is somehow an evil deed? I'm sorry, but I think you've completely detached yourself from any sort of moral perspective, and quite possibly from reality itself. Hate to see you go.
The impact of the loss of an unsecured laptop is probably very low, as the data will probably be wiped immediately to anonymize the item for resale. Much more significant risk derives from the vulnerability of unsecured mobile devices to the injection of a REAL Trojan Horse (not in the sense of a UI deceit, but in the sense of a rootkit that turns the laptop itself into a hostile agent). I should know, I made BIG bucks building scanners for these things, fairly recently.
But of course, it's not feasible to (1) get work done and (2) retain employees without providing them with usable laptops. The solution can only be to secure the laptops using something like SELinux, which is largely immune to rooting.
As regards the thin line of defense, that's just a matter of deploying some free software on disused hardware, so you've got only yourself to blame if it hits the fan.
if your debugger supports fortran statement evaluation, it's arrayname(1:1000:4).
don't think that the limitations of visual studio are universal constraints on debuggers.
i particularly like trace and trap operations that keep updating a view while code executes, and then halts when an error condition is first detected, for inspection. the time required to trace backwards is vastly reduced over recompiling with printfs by binary search. even better debuggers will let you roll back state incrementally, to see how a bogus condition arose.
> if everyone burned CF's, there'd be a lot less mercury released from coal plants.
But if you burned CF's in power generation stations, wouldn't all their mercury be released into the atmosphere? And by the way, do coal plants grow in zone 4? If we can grow something that produces both coal and mercury, that's a mighty impressive dual-use crop!
So what happens to the data that is already in swap, if your swap is all required in order to hibernate? It's an endless recursion, unless you have a swap partition that you are not currently swapping on, to which your system is yet clever enough to hibernate.
Well you can't vote for the best candidate, because they keep killing them. Like JFK, RFK, Wellstone, Carnahan... And of course if you do vote for a candidate which has been selected for the official list of two practically equivalent options, it doesn't mean that your vote will be *counted*. The U.S. hasn't had a legitimate presidential election outcome since 1996, for example.
If you're looking to legitimize the raw exercise of the sword on the grounds of democratic mandate, I don't think you'll find adequate grounds south of the 49th parallel or north of Costa Rica. The principal distinctions between, say, Cuba and the U.S. appear to be the length of the tyrant's tenure and the health and wealth of his slaves. (The slaves in Cuba are generally healthier, and those in the U.S. are generally wealthier.) In both cases the masses labor largely for the benefit of the state. In both cases the masses cower in fear of their protective big brother. In both cases there are no firm protections of inherent and inalienable human rights. In both cases there are innocent people imprisioned indefinitely on political grounds, many on the same island, in fact. In both cases the official policy is one of suppression of disfavored religious groups by force of arms.
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> Some fanboys still stubbornly cling to their favorite underdog
True. The rest of us get incredible SMP scaling up to 32 cores on one motherboard, using Opteron socket F CPUs.
Planting trees is pretty ineffective compared to growing plankton. You do realize that reducing emissions, in practical terms, means killing millions of innocent people?
> Show me ONE successful human-created environmental "solution" to a human-created
> environmental "problem" and I'll show you a thousand that went horribly wrong, and
> are still going wrong today.
Chernobyl dome.
DDT.
Antibiotics.
I think you just hang out with a bunch of whiners.
It is appropriate to distinguish power as in authority of law from power as in brute strength of arms.
Wow, you sure got a lot of facts wrong in that short article. Iron compounds will be used to seed equatorial, not arctic, waters. Phytoplankton remediate haloorganic polution by fixing the compounds. They do not extract volatile halides from solution for aspiration.
web-conferencing-central.com and gatherplace.net both support Linux and OSX as well as Windows, with no downloads required (just an applet). Neither gotomeeting nor webex can match that. And webex costs much more.
Assign each user a specific port for bittorrent traffic. Tell them to configure their client software to use that port.
DNAT that port. Voila, full-speed bittorrent. Moreover, the user is identifiable by port, so you need not fear liability any more than does my cable company. You are protected under U.S. law, as long as you do take downs upon
accusation, and restore service if the accusation is contested.
In the university environment, I think you'll find that illicit use of BT is probably lower than is illicit use of the library.
Actually, the British isles include Britain (the big island) and it's smaller affiliated land masses, such as the Isle of Skye, the Isle of Man, etc. The Republic of Ireland occupies the bulk of another, larger, island, Hibernia, which, at 84.000 sq km, is somewhat larger than Britain, at 80.000 sq km.
Ireland is not a part of the British Isles, and has never been. Thus references to "Great Britain and Northern Ireland" are used to include the latter within the scope of the United Kingdom.
Were crime to stop, it would be very disruptive, and a manifestation not of obedience
to the demands of society, but of disobedience. For some value of "crime".
Then the politicians have already won.
> A skilled and motivated sniper is far, far more dangerous than a dozen nutballs with a litre of VX.
But they had that too. Remember John Malvo? Oh, and Anthrax. And snakes...um...muslims on planes.
All at the same time. Sort of a...trifecta...no...new Pearl Harbor.
> When I heard Bush say that it suddenly made perfect sense: two sides, both of whom have an interest in a war that is by
> definition practically unwinnable. And the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth claiming the blitherings of a man
> hiding in a cave constitute a creditable attack on our world-spanning civilization. Neither is interested in victory.
> Both are interested in pervasive warfare and fear. That is what secures their own power-base.
This is well-described in the book 1984, by George Orwell. But I object to some details of your description.
Osama bin Laden died in Balochistan in 2001, according to President Mussharaf of Pakistan, at the time. After
a discussion with the U.S. ambassador, he changed his mind, but Osama remained dead. Moreover, at that time, Osama
had already won the war, although he did not know it: The U.S. left Saudi Arabia, as he had demanded all along, in 2003.
The war is thus over. bin Laden won the war. Now the global campaign to stamp out Islam and secure global petroleum
supplies will continue for a while, but the original two-sided conflict is over.
I read your comments to mean that if someone is chinese, then they are guilty until proven innocent. Seems like a classic definition of racial bigotry to me.
Since he has refused to conduct any investigation of the largest mass-murder in New York history, I guess this helps keep his name in the press.
Do searches and other violations of human rights and dignity increase or decrease the conditioning of the population to tolerate conditions of inhumane degradation?
What really made me laugh out loud when reading the article was the concept of Canadians fighting back.
My understanding of the grandparent is that the system should limit any individual process to some substantial fraction of available time, in order that a small reserve should remain available to initiate new processes, etc. If windows were to adopt this simple expedient, it would be substantially more responsive and useable, more Linux-like, if you will.
So let me get this straight: Writing a program that people find useful and offering it for sale is somehow an evil deed? I'm sorry, but I think you've completely detached yourself from any sort of moral perspective, and quite possibly from reality itself. Hate to see you go.
The impact of the loss of an unsecured laptop is probably very low, as the data will probably be wiped immediately to anonymize the item for resale. Much more significant risk derives from the vulnerability of unsecured mobile devices to the injection of a REAL Trojan Horse (not in the sense of a UI deceit, but in the sense of a rootkit that turns the laptop itself into a hostile agent). I should know, I made BIG bucks building scanners for these things, fairly recently.
But of course, it's not feasible to (1) get work done and (2) retain employees without providing them with usable laptops. The solution can only be to secure the laptops using something like SELinux, which is largely immune to rooting.
As regards the thin line of defense, that's just a matter of deploying some free software on disused hardware, so you've got only yourself to blame if it hits the fan.
Cisco has one, but it's expensive.
if your debugger supports fortran statement evaluation, it's arrayname(1:1000:4).
don't think that the limitations of visual studio are universal constraints on debuggers.
i particularly like trace and trap operations that keep updating a view while code executes, and then halts when an error condition is first detected, for inspection. the time required to trace backwards is vastly reduced over recompiling with printfs by binary search. even better debuggers will let you roll back state incrementally, to see how a bogus condition arose.
> if everyone burned CF's, there'd be a lot less mercury released from coal plants.
But if you burned CF's in power generation stations, wouldn't all their mercury be released into the atmosphere?
And by the way, do coal plants grow in zone 4? If we can grow something that produces both coal and mercury,
that's a mighty impressive dual-use crop!
Oh. Nevermind.
So what happens to the data that is already in swap, if your swap is all required in order to hibernate? It's an endless recursion, unless you have a swap partition that you are not currently swapping on, to which your system is yet clever enough to hibernate.
sorry, mm. it's just a zero.
Well you can't vote for the best candidate, because they keep killing them. Like JFK, RFK, Wellstone, Carnahan... And of course if you do vote for a candidate which has been selected for the official list of two practically equivalent options, it doesn't mean that your vote will be *counted*. The U.S. hasn't had a legitimate presidential election outcome since 1996, for example.
If you're looking to legitimize the raw exercise of the sword on the grounds of democratic mandate, I don't think you'll find adequate grounds south of the 49th parallel or north of Costa Rica. The principal distinctions between, say, Cuba and the U.S. appear to be the length of the tyrant's tenure and the health and wealth of his slaves. (The slaves in Cuba are generally healthier, and those in the U.S. are generally wealthier.) In both cases the masses labor largely for the benefit of the state. In both cases the masses cower in fear of their protective big brother. In both cases there are no firm protections of inherent and inalienable human rights. In both cases there are innocent people imprisioned indefinitely on political grounds, many on the same island, in fact. In both cases the official policy is one of suppression of disfavored religious groups by force of arms.