Great, more disposable consumer things. There are many great uses for such a memory config, but the world does not need more disposable devices...
Ok, mister enviro-conservo-nut-job step away from the tofu and put all animal friendly artifacts down!;-)
Now that I have your attention, I would think, as an (assumed) environmentalist you would welcome the miniturization of potentially landfill-filling consumer goods. After all, isn't some thing smaller than a pill going to cause a much smaller overall environmental impact than, say, a DVD video disc or a VHS cassette tape?
And it never will be until the slimeballs behind this (movie industry) get what they want. They are willing to pay more and wield more influence than the electronics makers. Watch for some legislation to be bought soon.
Let's be a little bit realistic about this. The movie industry brings in ~$9 billion a year in revenue. The consumer electronics industry brings in over $100 billion in revenue a year. For now, the consumer electronics industry has been like a sleeping giant. I think what happened here is that the sleeping giant has finally been awakened.
I expect the MPAA to be soundly bitch-slapped by higher-paid lobbyists and PR firms that work for the consumer electronics industry any minute now.
When it comes down to it, these battles are simply all about money. Remember the golden rule: Whoever has the most gold, makes the rules.
The consumer electronics industry is not going to let the MPAA dictate how they make products.
The FCC is an independent agency. It does not take orders from the executive branch. Its powers are delegated to it by Congress through the Communications Act of 1934.
Yes, but it's high level positions are directly appointed by the executive branch, and therefore, it is essentially an extension of the executive branch for all intents and purposes.
I need sources of this one single component. And they lay there on the harddrives of SUN employees, ready to release, waiting till some completely different parts are finished, and in the meantime I lose $1000 a day because the kludge doesn't do its job well enough. So why won't they release it?
If you wrote an app on Solaris that generates $1000 a day and you can't fix your bugs because you don't have access to the Solaris source code, you need to check your head because I'm sorry, but you're an idiot...
Sun has always had a binary compatibility promise. If you write your code to spec and use their APIs properly you'll never have to worry about a new version of Solaris breaking your app.
If you can't be bothered to learn how to write proper code, and just want to kludge something that might work right now, but breaks when you install Solaris 15 - Xtreme Edition, how is that Sun's fault?
BTW, you can also look at the Solaris source code right now if you sign a license agreement. The code isn't free as in speech, but if you need to look at it to fix a bug and you're a paying customer, I'm sure they'll let you see it.
It looks like the first 3 games that were ripped were each less than 500MB.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a few bold assumptions:
1. The developers of the PSP launch titles needed a way to easily QA many different beta builds of their games. 2. Sony, wanting to keep a tight lid on the UMD format, refused to give any developers a desktop UMD burner to burn beta builds. 3. Instead, Sony gave each developer a code-signing certificate that allowed them to sign beta builds, write them to a memory stick, and run through QA.
You know what made me jump to these conclusions?
The size of the games...
At the time the launch titles were being developed, the largest Memory Stick Duo available was 512MB, which would explain the small size of all the launch titles. Even now the 1GB memory stick duos are just barely becoming available, and are in such short supply that I'm still wondering if they have been released or not (I have one on pre-order through Amazon).
What makes this really interesting is that if the game developers knew how to write games to Memory Stick and play them for QA and testing purposes, that means the modders are going to figure out how to do it to... It's going to get real interesting when 4GB sticks are ~$50 US and plentiful and games are still only max ~1.8GB...
That's not a 0-day exploit. You have to already be root to read the swap files. Explain to me how this exploit would happen on an average home users computer? Much less over the internet...
There's a coupon for CD media, but you've got to surrender your DVD media to get it. I _like_ my DVD media...but I've also got an (pre firewire) iMac that can't read DVD's....can I make a dmg on an external usb/firewire drive and install it that way?
Tiger isn't supported on any Mac that is pre-firewire, but I'm betting that OWC will release support for it pretty soon on older Macs. That having been said, the only way to install it without a DVD drive is:
Get a firewire card for your iMac.
Plug your other Mac (with the DVD drive) into your ancient iMac.
Put the DVD in your other Mac, and boot it in Firewire target disk mode.
It should be able to install using the DVD drive of the other computer, sending it across Firewire.
Their new automator framework, which let applications send streams of objects to each other and have them propose interfaces to interact with.
Dude, automator just rocks for pr0n! It even has a built in action that downloads all linked images from the current web page in Safari, and imports them into an iPhoto album automatically!
In the Mac world, there's this wierd feeling you get that "this probably works" and you try it. Usually it works. It is difficult to explain, but the global drag and drop feature is so thightly integrated that one tend to use it.
I think I can explain this really well. Do you know people that compulsively select text in the web page with their mouse while they read it? I'm one of those people...:-) Anyway, I discovered by accident one day that if you select text in a webpage, then click and drag it onto the desktop, OS X actually makes a text document for you, out of the bit of text you dragged off the web-page... Global drag and drop is pervasive... You just have to really delve into it and push the limits and usually what you're trying to do will work. It's kinda creepy.
This is a slight spoiler, but if you're a male character and you play your cards EXACTLY right, it is actually possible to arrange a threesome of sorts with the game's two female lead NPCs. I'm not certain if something similar is possible playing as female, but I just started a run as Wu the Lotus Blossum, so I guess I'll have the chance to find out.
Hey, I played as Radiant Jen Zi, and after sweet-talking the princess for a while I got her to basically proclaim her love for me (pretty hot, that kung-fu-girl-on-princess action:-), but I never got any type of threesome.... You must tell us how to arrange that...
You mean, like, to keep them all from going too fast?
No kidding. These things damn well better have the 970MP on the top end, because a 200 mhz. speed bump in almost 1 year (June 1, 2004 since the 2.5 was top of the line) is pretty poor. I have my credit card all charged up and ready to rock if they release a dual 3.0 970MP (4 cores total)!
I'll never buy another linksys again. After getting 2 BEFW11S4 Wireless routers+switches that had bad switches (connections randomly die, the router needs to be reooted) and then not being able to get any support from the Indian Tech Support because I run linux (despite the fact that the damn router management is accessed via HTT-Fricki-P!), I've decided that I've wasted more than too much money on them.
You should rethink your anti-Linksys strategy. I know the routers you speak of. I had a BEFSR11 router and it sucked. Had to be rebooted every few days just to stay stable. But I'm here to tell you that Linksys has changed... drastically. Since they were acquired by Cisco they've actually started putting out products that don't suck. When the WRT54G was released, running all Linux as it's OS, it opened up the hardware to a whole bunch of hackers that are modifying it. The Sveasoft firmware on a Linksys WRT54G has more functionality than almost any other router out there. You can do things like:
Increase the power output by 900%
Setup QoS, even using layer 7 packet inspection to determine QoS priority.
Run an Asterisk PBX on your router.
Setup a wireless hotspot (which stores billing data in a back-end SQL database).
Setup a wireless mesh network.
This is just a few. I firmly believe that the merger with Cisco brought the high-end technology down to the mass-market. Take a look at their SRW2016 switch... 16 gigabit copper ports, plus two Gigabit fibre ports, with QoS support, for less than $400. That is enterprise level hardware at consumer level prices.
I'll agree with you that Linksys hardware used to suck in the past, but you should try them again now. They've improved quite a bit.
The real problem though isn't MAPS and their attitude, it's the spammers. Get rid of the spammers and you get rid of the need for MAPS. These lowlife internet-scum are where any ire ought to be directed, again IMHO.
I disagree. The problem with MAPS is they take the "vigilante with a shotgun" approach to eliminating spam. You get a couple of spam vigilantes that want to cause "the most financial harm possible" to spammers and anyone that associates with spammers, and you have the potential for a lot of abuse.
Just to give you an example, I used to host a couple of vanity domains on a webhost in a colocation facility. A customer of a completely different webhost in the same facility decided to webhost some spammers. This is 3 or 4 degrees of separation from my vanity domains. MAPS decided to blacklist the entire freaking colocation facility until the spam stopped.
That is borderline ridiculous, and their admins have some serious attitude problems. They feel like it's better to penalize many just because a few bad eggs are mixed in. Well, they need to tune their blacklists because I don't trust them.
Philosophical question for you:
If MAPS decides to punish everyone in a colocation facility because a few spammers are customers of a customer in the same facility, how is that any different than Al-Qaeda deciding to punish all of the US on 9/11 for the actions of a few people in the US government?
If I was going to try Lime Coke, and I was, I would already have tried it -- which I did -- and decided whether I wanted to continue buying it, which I do. The sale is over.
You just disproved your own point. You also illustrate a perfect example of why marketers use repetitive advertising in the first place. Sure, you may not have consciously purchased lime Coke because of the advertisement, but I would bet that a catchy song, combined with the repetitive nature of advertising (same commercial repeated every 10 minutes, ad nauseum) caused lime Coke to "bubble to the surface" of your consciousness and resulted in an impulse buy at the checkout counter. That's why advertising works. It implants itself in your subconscious through repetition, and bubbles to the surface at just the right moment to turn a person that would have normally said "Lime Coke, never heard of it..." into someone that says "Lime Coke, I gotta try that!"
As long as advertising works, advertisers will continue to figure out ways to annoy us with it. Want to stop advertising? Stop buying Lime Coke... Seriously, you are just giving them reinforcement that their advertising works, and therefore you are guaranteeing that more of those Lime Coke ads will show on TV.
Remember that Seinfeld episode where George gets that Mennen commercial jingle stuck in his head? That is what advertising tries to do: push a meme on us that is catchy and simple and hopefully it will get stuck in our head on an endless feedback loop, turning us all into helpless zombies chanting ".... must BUY MENNEN!":-)
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How long will it be before Bittorrent (or one of the other file sharing/downloading programs) is ported to the PSP. Sony will be so pleased.
It occurs to me that BitTorrent, coupled with some type of mesh networking, might be the killer app for the PSP. When memory stick duos get larger in capacity and cheaper in price, you could conceivably have a 4GB memory stick duo, and setup a "wishlist" of content. While you're out and about, your PSP runs with the screen off in wireless mesh mode grabbing content from other PSPs and from the internet at large. From what I've read, people in Japan are already sharing video clips that are in the PSP native format. This would just eliminate the need to download them on your computer.
How cool would it be for your PSP to automatically download some new TV shows while you're at work? You could watch them on the train ride home...
The China crash might be fun for a few moments in a sort of "now they finally get payback" kind of way, but wouldn't the collapse of one of the world's largest economies have repercussions that would be felt all over the world? I'm not an economist, but you seem to have a lot of insight into this. How might it affect those of us in the US or EU?
Agree 100%. If the U.S. propped up Detroit automakers and allowed them to sell their cars in foreign markets at below cost in order to steal market share, you'd have the EU and China up in arms about it. Why is it that when China does the same thing it gets a green light by the world? Not to mention tying their currency to the dollar so that cheap chinese goods can always undercut US made goods in the stores.
I hope our next regime^H^H^H^H^H^Hadministration will have the balls to wean us off of foreign money by reducing the deficit. While they're at it, it wouldn't hurt to reduce our dependency on foreign energy...
It costs 4.6x10E9 euros in parts and will take about 10 years to build.
I don't mean to nitpick, but what's with the geeky obsession with writing big numbers in scientific notation? Can't you just say $46 billion euros and mean the same exact thing, without making everyone reading have to do decimal conversion in their head? It really smacks of elitism to me, and if you wrote it as $46B you'd even use less characters.
I also heard that the next Debian installs will include Paris' latest video and her hacked TMobile phonebook by default. No more searching around the net for your favorite downloads!
Pete Ashdown, the owner and president of Xmission, one of Utah's first and best locally owned and operated ISP's posted the following message to NANOG today:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 02:59:20PM -0600, Rachael Treu wrote:
> How, exactly, *did* this pass, anyway?
Any bill with "anti-pornography" as its title is going to be a freight train in the Utah legislature. Nobody is going to get in front of it for fear of being portrayed as "pro-pornography".
I knew this sobering fact early on in the life of this bill. In its original form, it would have used IP addresses for blocking and would have introduced criminal penalties on ISPs if anything managed to slip by. Regardless of whether the ISP's filter was being circumvented or not.
The bill's sponsor was good in working with me, the only ISP here that knew or was willing to come out against the bill. However, I was well aware that all I could strive for was to reduce the ISP impact of the bill, not make large deletions or changes. There were also a handful of individuals here who had direct experience with commercial software who were appalled at the nature of the bill and also worked against it. Large nationwide ISPs, who were involved in discussions early on, were strangely silent, instead letting the Internet Alliance write a letter for them.
I do not believe the Attorney General's office here knows what they are signing up for. You may remember they had a "porn-czar" a few years back whose position was dissolved over lack of funding. Somehow the AG believes that maintaining and arbitrating an Internet blacklist will be easier and cheaper.
In the end the bill itself doesn't have a big impact on this ISP's business. We have used Dansguardian for many years now along with URLblacklist.com for our customers that request filtering. The fact that its lists and software are open for editing and inspection is the reason I chose this over other commercial methods.
This bill is a waste of time and money. It also does further damage to the Utah tech industry, portraying it as an idiotic backwater. Please do not generalize and think everyone here agrees with the methods promoted by a select few.
dondelelcaro wrote: Or maybe it's just that you don't really understand the amount of work that it takes to actually release a stable distribution without RC bugs on all of the architectures that Debian supports?
Agreed. They definitely are supporting too many architectures at this point.
From TFA: If the proposal ends up being approved by the Debian community, Debian will end up supporting only the i386, PowerPC, IA64 and AMD64 architectures and dropping several architectures such as Sun Microsystem's SPARC and IBM's S/390.
See, this is where they are going wrong. Why on earth would you drop support for Sparc and S/390, two of the most popular architectures in the enterprise market, and keep support for the bastard stepchild that is IA64? It seems like this move to drop architectures is mostly political and probably because Debian receives so much funding from HP. Don't leave two of your best architectures out in the cold.
The poker sites themselves are not directly to blame, however it's their affiliate programs such as this one which encourage the spamsters.
Actually, they are pretty much to blame. When the bot submits comments to my blog that contain the following text, it's pretty blatantly obvious that the owner of the site is trying to googlebomb as many key search phrases as possible: Comment:
Slashdot Mirror
Great, more disposable consumer things. There are many great uses for such a memory config, but the world does not need more disposable devices...
;-)
Ok, mister enviro-conservo-nut-job step away from the tofu and put all animal friendly artifacts down!
Now that I have your attention, I would think, as an (assumed) environmentalist you would welcome the miniturization of potentially landfill-filling consumer goods. After all, isn't some thing smaller than a pill going to cause a much smaller overall environmental impact than, say, a DVD video disc or a VHS cassette tape?
You need the advice of a solictor. Especially if he is withholding pay, and damaging your reputation.
Is Solicitor what you UK chaps call a Lawyer? If so, I just found a whole new use for my No Soliciting sign!
And it never will be until the slimeballs behind this (movie industry) get what they want. They are willing to pay more and wield more influence than the electronics makers. Watch for some legislation to be bought soon.
Let's be a little bit realistic about this. The movie industry brings in ~$9 billion a year in revenue. The consumer electronics industry brings in over $100 billion in revenue a year. For now, the consumer electronics industry has been like a sleeping giant. I think what happened here is that the sleeping giant has finally been awakened.
I expect the MPAA to be soundly bitch-slapped by higher-paid lobbyists and PR firms that work for the consumer electronics industry any minute now.
When it comes down to it, these battles are simply all about money. Remember the golden rule: Whoever has the most gold, makes the rules.
The consumer electronics industry is not going to let the MPAA dictate how they make products.
The FCC is an independent agency. It does not take orders from the executive branch. Its powers are delegated to it by Congress through the Communications Act of 1934.
Yes, but it's high level positions are directly appointed by the executive branch, and therefore, it is essentially an extension of the executive branch for all intents and purposes.
I need sources of this one single component. And they lay there on the harddrives of SUN employees, ready to release, waiting till some completely different parts are finished, and in the meantime I lose $1000 a day because the kludge doesn't do its job well enough. So why won't they release it?
If you wrote an app on Solaris that generates $1000 a day and you can't fix your bugs because you don't have access to the Solaris source code, you need to check your head because I'm sorry, but you're an idiot...
Sun has always had a binary compatibility promise. If you write your code to spec and use their APIs properly you'll never have to worry about a new version of Solaris breaking your app.
If you can't be bothered to learn how to write proper code, and just want to kludge something that might work right now, but breaks when you install Solaris 15 - Xtreme Edition, how is that Sun's fault?
BTW, you can also look at the Solaris source code right now if you sign a license agreement. The code isn't free as in speech, but if you need to look at it to fix a bug and you're a paying customer, I'm sure they'll let you see it.
It looks like the first 3 games that were ripped were each less than 500MB.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a few bold assumptions:
1. The developers of the PSP launch titles needed a way to easily QA many different beta builds of their games.
2. Sony, wanting to keep a tight lid on the UMD format, refused to give any developers a desktop UMD burner to burn beta builds.
3. Instead, Sony gave each developer a code-signing certificate that allowed them to sign beta builds, write them to a memory stick, and run through QA.
You know what made me jump to these conclusions?
The size of the games...
At the time the launch titles were being developed, the largest Memory Stick Duo available was 512MB, which would explain the small size of all the launch titles. Even now the 1GB memory stick duos are just barely becoming available, and are in such short supply that I'm still wondering if they have been released or not (I have one on pre-order through Amazon).
What makes this really interesting is that if the game developers knew how to write games to Memory Stick and play them for QA and testing purposes, that means the modders are going to figure out how to do it to... It's going to get real interesting when 4GB sticks are ~$50 US and plentiful and games are still only max ~1.8GB...
Would you like fries with that?
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5125
That's not a 0-day exploit. You have to already be root to read the swap files. Explain to me how this exploit would happen on an average home users computer? Much less over the internet...
Go back to your bridge, fucking troll.
Sure, unless you consider that compared to linux running on the same systems it is slow and has had numerous 0-day exploits in its short lifetime.
You're a troll. Name one 0-day exploit that affects Mac OS X.
Tiger isn't supported on any Mac that is pre-firewire, but I'm betting that OWC will release support for it pretty soon on older Macs. That having been said, the only way to install it without a DVD drive is:
Get a firewire card for your iMac.
Plug your other Mac (with the DVD drive) into your ancient iMac.
Put the DVD in your other Mac, and boot it in Firewire target disk mode.
It should be able to install using the DVD drive of the other computer, sending it across Firewire.
Their new automator framework, which let applications send streams of objects to each other and have them propose interfaces to interact with.
Dude, automator just rocks for pr0n! It even has a built in action that downloads all linked images from the current web page in Safari, and imports them into an iPhoto album automatically!
In the Mac world, there's this wierd feeling you get that "this probably works" and you try it. Usually it works. It is difficult to explain, but the global drag and drop feature is so thightly integrated that one tend to use it.
:-) Anyway, I discovered by accident one day that if you select text in a webpage, then click and drag it onto the desktop, OS X actually makes a text document for you, out of the bit of text you dragged off the web-page... Global drag and drop is pervasive... You just have to really delve into it and push the limits and usually what you're trying to do will work. It's kinda creepy.
I think I can explain this really well. Do you know people that compulsively select text in the web page with their mouse while they read it? I'm one of those people...
This is a slight spoiler, but if you're a male character and you play your cards EXACTLY right, it is actually possible to arrange a threesome of sorts with the game's two female lead NPCs. I'm not certain if something similar is possible playing as female, but I just started a run as Wu the Lotus Blossum, so I guess I'll have the chance to find out.
:-), but I never got any type of threesome.... You must tell us how to arrange that...
Hey, I played as Radiant Jen Zi, and after sweet-talking the princess for a while I got her to basically proclaim her love for me (pretty hot, that kung-fu-girl-on-princess action
On the other hand, Macromedia's web centric software is unstable, (IMHO) appallingly designed, inconsistent and very hard to learn.
Who are you kidding? I'd take stable and easy-to-use Dreamweaver over buggy and complex as hell Golive any day of the week.
You mean, like, to keep them all from going too fast?
No kidding. These things damn well better have the 970MP on the top end, because a 200 mhz. speed bump in almost 1 year (June 1, 2004 since the 2.5 was top of the line) is pretty poor. I have my credit card all charged up and ready to rock if they release a dual 3.0 970MP (4 cores total)!
You should rethink your anti-Linksys strategy. I know the routers you speak of. I had a BEFSR11 router and it sucked. Had to be rebooted every few days just to stay stable. But I'm here to tell you that Linksys has changed... drastically. Since they were acquired by Cisco they've actually started putting out products that don't suck. When the WRT54G was released, running all Linux as it's OS, it opened up the hardware to a whole bunch of hackers that are modifying it. The Sveasoft firmware on a Linksys WRT54G has more functionality than almost any other router out there. You can do things like:
Increase the power output by 900%
Setup QoS, even using layer 7 packet inspection to determine QoS priority.
Run an Asterisk PBX on your router.
Setup a wireless hotspot (which stores billing data in a back-end SQL database).
Setup a wireless mesh network.
This is just a few. I firmly believe that the merger with Cisco brought the high-end technology down to the mass-market. Take a look at their SRW2016 switch... 16 gigabit copper ports, plus two Gigabit fibre ports, with QoS support, for less than $400. That is enterprise level hardware at consumer level prices.
I'll agree with you that Linksys hardware used to suck in the past, but you should try them again now. They've improved quite a bit.
The real problem though isn't MAPS and their attitude, it's the spammers. Get rid of the spammers and you get rid of the need for MAPS. These lowlife internet-scum are where any ire ought to be directed, again IMHO.
I disagree. The problem with MAPS is they take the "vigilante with a shotgun" approach to eliminating spam. You get a couple of spam vigilantes that want to cause "the most financial harm possible" to spammers and anyone that associates with spammers, and you have the potential for a lot of abuse.
Just to give you an example, I used to host a couple of vanity domains on a webhost in a colocation facility. A customer of a completely different webhost in the same facility decided to webhost some spammers. This is 3 or 4 degrees of separation from my vanity domains. MAPS decided to blacklist the entire freaking colocation facility until the spam stopped.
That is borderline ridiculous, and their admins have some serious attitude problems. They feel like it's better to penalize many just because a few bad eggs are mixed in. Well, they need to tune their blacklists because I don't trust them.
Philosophical question for you:
If MAPS decides to punish everyone in a colocation facility because a few spammers are customers of a customer in the same facility, how is that any different than Al-Qaeda deciding to punish all of the US on 9/11 for the actions of a few people in the US government?
If I was going to try Lime Coke, and I was, I would already have tried it -- which I did -- and decided whether I wanted to continue buying it, which I do. The sale is over.
:-)
You just disproved your own point. You also illustrate a perfect example of why marketers use repetitive advertising in the first place. Sure, you may not have consciously purchased lime Coke because of the advertisement, but I would bet that a catchy song, combined with the repetitive nature of advertising (same commercial repeated every 10 minutes, ad nauseum) caused lime Coke to "bubble to the surface" of your consciousness and resulted in an impulse buy at the checkout counter. That's why advertising works. It implants itself in your subconscious through repetition, and bubbles to the surface at just the right moment to turn a person that would have normally said "Lime Coke, never heard of it..." into someone that says "Lime Coke, I gotta try that!"
As long as advertising works, advertisers will continue to figure out ways to annoy us with it. Want to stop advertising? Stop buying Lime Coke... Seriously, you are just giving them reinforcement that their advertising works, and therefore you are guaranteeing that more of those Lime Coke ads will show on TV.
Remember that Seinfeld episode where George gets that Mennen commercial jingle stuck in his head? That is what advertising tries to do: push a meme on us that is catchy and simple and hopefully it will get stuck in our head on an endless feedback loop, turning us all into helpless zombies chanting ".... must BUY MENNEN!"
How long will it be before Bittorrent (or one of the other file sharing/downloading programs) is ported to the PSP. Sony will be so pleased.
It occurs to me that BitTorrent, coupled with some type of mesh networking, might be the killer app for the PSP. When memory stick duos get larger in capacity and cheaper in price, you could conceivably have a 4GB memory stick duo, and setup a "wishlist" of content. While you're out and about, your PSP runs with the screen off in wireless mesh mode grabbing content from other PSPs and from the internet at large. From what I've read, people in Japan are already sharing video clips that are in the PSP native format. This would just eliminate the need to download them on your computer.
How cool would it be for your PSP to automatically download some new TV shows while you're at work? You could watch them on the train ride home...
The China crash might be fun for a few moments in a sort of "now they finally get payback" kind of way, but wouldn't the collapse of one of the world's largest economies have repercussions that would be felt all over the world? I'm not an economist, but you seem to have a lot of insight into this. How might it affect those of us in the US or EU?
a) violating the WTO rules currently.
Agree 100%. If the U.S. propped up Detroit automakers and allowed them to sell their cars in foreign markets at below cost in order to steal market share, you'd have the EU and China up in arms about it. Why is it that when China does the same thing it gets a green light by the world? Not to mention tying their currency to the dollar so that cheap chinese goods can always undercut US made goods in the stores.
I hope our next regime^H^H^H^H^H^Hadministration will have the balls to wean us off of foreign money by reducing the deficit. While they're at it, it wouldn't hurt to reduce our dependency on foreign energy...
It costs 4.6x10E9 euros in parts and will take about 10 years to build.
I don't mean to nitpick, but what's with the geeky obsession with writing big numbers in scientific notation? Can't you just say $46 billion euros and mean the same exact thing, without making everyone reading have to do decimal conversion in their head? It really smacks of elitism to me, and if you wrote it as $46B you'd even use less characters.
Yay!
Pete Ashdown, the owner and president of Xmission, one of Utah's first and best locally owned and operated ISP's posted the following message to NANOG today:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 02:59:20PM -0600, Rachael Treu wrote:
> How, exactly, *did* this pass, anyway?
Any bill with "anti-pornography" as its title is going to be a freight train
in the Utah legislature. Nobody is going to get in front of it for fear of
being portrayed as "pro-pornography".
I knew this sobering fact early on in the life of this bill. In its original
form, it would have used IP addresses for blocking and would have introduced
criminal penalties on ISPs if anything managed to slip by. Regardless of
whether the ISP's filter was being circumvented or not.
The bill's sponsor was good in working with me, the only ISP here that
knew or was willing to come out against the bill. However, I was well aware
that all I could strive for was to reduce the ISP impact of the bill, not make
large deletions or changes. There were also a handful of individuals here who
had direct experience with commercial software who were appalled at the nature
of the bill and also worked against it. Large nationwide ISPs, who were
involved in discussions early on, were strangely silent, instead letting the
Internet Alliance write a letter for them.
I do not believe the Attorney General's office here knows what they are
signing up for. You may remember they had a "porn-czar" a few years back
whose position was dissolved over lack of funding. Somehow the AG believes
that maintaining and arbitrating an Internet blacklist will be easier and
cheaper.
In the end the bill itself doesn't have a big impact on this ISP's business.
We have used Dansguardian for many years now along with URLblacklist.com for
our customers that request filtering. The fact that its lists and software
are open for editing and inspection is the reason I chose this over other
commercial methods.
This bill is a waste of time and money. It also does further damage to the
Utah tech industry, portraying it as an idiotic backwater. Please do not
generalize and think everyone here agrees with the methods promoted by a
select few.
dondelelcaro wrote: Or maybe it's just that you don't really understand the amount of work that it takes to actually release a stable distribution without RC bugs on all of the architectures that Debian supports?
Agreed. They definitely are supporting too many architectures at this point.
From TFA: If the proposal ends up being approved by the Debian community, Debian will end up supporting only the i386, PowerPC, IA64 and AMD64 architectures and dropping several architectures such as Sun Microsystem's SPARC and IBM's S/390.
See, this is where they are going wrong. Why on earth would you drop support for Sparc and S/390, two of the most popular architectures in the enterprise market, and keep support for the bastard stepchild that is IA64? It seems like this move to drop architectures is mostly political and probably because Debian receives so much funding from HP. Don't leave two of your best architectures out in the cold.
The poker sites themselves are not directly to blame, however it's their affiliate programs such as this one which encourage the spamsters.
Actually, they are pretty much to blame. When the bot submits comments to my blog that contain the following text, it's pretty blatantly obvious that the owner of the site is trying to googlebomb as many key search phrases as possible:
Comment:
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Wouldn't you agree?