Just what are YOU trolling for here? There ARE other outlets for that elsewhere.
Oh, back to the real topic: the so called monolithic kernels are always crashing when I use them! I just push them to the limits almost without even trying. For example, Mac OSX Mach XeNU kernel has crashed on my at least 30 times in the last year alone! So much for "monolithic kernels performing better".
EVERYTIME, which is way to frequent, that my mac book Pro crashes, running the monolithic microkernel MacOSX (10.4 - 10.5.1), the Mac asks if I want to report it to Apple. I always say yes and berate them for having IO Drivers in the Kernel (since that's been the reason for the crashes - every time. I encourage them to remove the drivers from the their monolithic microkernel and put them into their own protected space.
Someone has to tell Apple that their Kernel design implementation sucks big time - simply because it crashes WAY TOO OFTEN. MacOSX 10.4 through the current up to date Mac OSX 10.5.1 Leopard (System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B18), Kernel Version: Darwin 9.1.0) crashes very frequently week with IO problems (see the actual crash logs at the end of this posting). Usually these problems are with device drivers such as EyeTV or Parallels. If this was a true microkernel design like Minix or QNX the entire machine would not have to be rebooted, just the EyeTV or Parallels apps would need to be rebooted. Why the heck should a problem with the USB driver bring down the entire OS? How on earth can that be justified Apple? It can't so improve the quality by removing ALL drivers from the Kernel and put them in their own processes. Thank you very much in advance.
APPLE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REMOVE ALL DRIVERS FROM THE MACH XNU MICROKERNEL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THANKS. AT LEAST GIVE ME THE CHOICE OF HAVING THEM SEPARATED - THE EXTRA CPU % COST IS A PRICE THAT I AS A USER WOULD MAKE TO GAIN THE FAULT TOLERANCE AND RELIABILITY. Below you'll see my actual kernel crash logs for six months - as you can see the number of crashes are intolerable and just amazing to behold when a true microkernel that separates out drivers would have prevented reboots in all these cases.
I HEREBY Challenage ALL Mac OSX users to publish their Kernel Crash Logs for ALL the world to see. Maybe this way APPLE will take microkernels seriously.
Links to the issue of the flawed XNU kernel. (Gee, XNU, almost sounds like the XeNU character out of the Scientology creation mythology. XeNU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu.;--).
"Frankly, I think it's a piece of crap," Torvalds says of Mach [XeNU], the microkernel on which Apple's new operating system is based. "It contains all the design mistakes you can make, and manages to even make up a few of its own." - Linus Torvalds, http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,2085525,00.htm
I only quote Linus because he's right regarding MACh XeNU. However, he's wrong about microkernels in general as the frequent crashing of Linux reveals.
---- ACTUAL MacBook Pro Monolithic XNU Kernel Crash Logs ----- REAL WORLD CRASHES REVEALED -----
This was the last time Tom is on Oprah. Really funny. Gut splitting really. http://www.lulu.tv/?p=52
Finally there is the making of war by the spooky Anonymous who has declared war against the cult of Scientology. A video manifesto of sorts. Oh, this was already linked. Well, it's here just for completeness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCbKv9yiLiQ
Let's see, (1) first there were the reports of a huge UFO hovering over parts of Texas.
(2) Then there were reports that NASA had tasked ALL their space transmission-reception dishes to "look" for a space probe that got lost; this of course delayed the reception of pictures from the Mercury probe.
(3) Now there is the report of SETI receiving transmissions from space aliens.
Could it all be related?
Well, it is possible, however improbable, that we could be visited by extraterrestrial aliens in our lifetime, isn't it?
While it's very important to know low level languages such as Assembly Language, C, C++, etc... as well as middle level languages such as Java, SQL, C#, etc... it's crucial to learn high level dynamic systems such as Smalltalk and LISP as they provide flexibility that you'll never find in low level and typed systems.
A well rounded education and set of skills as a developer will provide you the best chances in the work environment. While languages like Java and C# are the new COBOL and might be the "language de jure" (language of the day) times are a changing (as the saying goes) and it's best to be prepared. Beyond that, the most interesting problems are best solved in languages that approach things from a freedom of expression that Smalltalk and LISP provide.
The simply fact is that typed systems put a straight jacket upon the mind when they are used. Free your mind.
Assembly Language, Smalltalk and LISP are three languages that share a tremendous amount of freedom for the mind. Somehow that's lost with C as the so called "type safety" begins to constrain ones thinking. It gets worse, as the other article pointed out, as you head contracts into the limiting space of Java and C#. Goo languages that the mind's creativity gets stuck in. At least that's the case for me and a great many programmers that I know.
Assembly language is the most important language for programmers and developers to learn as it's the foundation for almost ALL other computing and programming languages. Once you've mastered assembly language all the other languages can be related to from a common perspective.
LISP is an important language to learn since it's the quintessential paradigm shift where programs are data and data can be programs!
Smalltalk is a crucial language to learn to grasp with fluidity the concepts of a pure Messaging language where Objects communicate. Smalltalk also has Block Closures, aka Lambda's, where code is a full first class object. In addition everything in Smalltalk is an Object that can be reflected upon, that is you can write programs that manipulate the program, or parts thereof. This provides incredible power in what kinds of programs can be written.
There are of course a number of other programming paradigms that are also important to learn as they might be of occasional use, and who knows, your brain might find them easy or compatible with your way of thinking. Check out Prolog and Functional Languages such as Erlang.
There are thousands of programming languages and even more implementations. The key is to learn one or more from each paradigm, that way you're flexible as possible in the types of work that you can deal with.
Anyone who tells you that the "only" language is X is a fool or has an agenda for you that might not be of your choosing.
A good starting point for Smalltalk is smalltalk.org. Seek out the best resources of the other languages.
Beyond programming languages it's crucial to have excellent debugging skills to find out what's really going on in a program or system or between systems. Without that forget it. Debugging is a huge win in the work place as if you can debug systems to find out what's really going on a lot of money can be saved by businesses.
The other most important area to study is concurrency and parallel programming as with multi-core processors a whole new generation of applications need to be written. The current single core focused applications can't be easily converted to multi core without being rethought. That goes for the current crop of boring operating systems such as Linux, Macosx, Windows Vista/XP/NT, etc... All these systems have got serious concurrency problems. There's gold in them concurrent systems. Users are waiting to access the full power potential that the N-Core processors provide. Oh, and those "New Cobol" (Java, C#, etc...) programmers don't get concurrency - I know as I've earned excellent money cleaning up their many messes as they attempt
Since it's next to impossible for a reality based person to be elected president due to the overwhelming prejudice among the faith driven belief nuts it's quite an oxymoronic statement to suggest that a faith based presidential candidate could even possibly have a real "science" policy. For if they did have a real science based policy they'd have to give up their precious and sad devotion to whacked out unprovable beliefs in their own thinking.
Yes, it's not possible for a person of faith or belief to make decisions in the area of science. They simply are not qualified due to their inability to give up their belief in that which can't be tested. Any policy they create regarding science would be faith based due to their inability to distinguish reality from their "god" delusional fantasies.
Reality is the cure. Try it out for a change in your life. It's a harsh mistress but it's worth it. When you realize that you get only one life life becomes infinitely more valuable. Decisions take on a more important role. A reality based President would be a much more careful and caring person.
By the way Mitt Romney broke the law - if not the spirit of the law - of Separation of Church and State when he made his prejudicial speech last week against atheists. If he becomes President he would immediately need to be impeached for violation of the US Constitution and Laws regarding this.
The "receiver reputation" method of anti-spam in the article sounds like bullshit. Sweet bullshit.
The ratio of good email to spam as an identifier? Who the heck cares? How the heck would that help? Many emails have only one receiver so comparing the reputation of a receiver isn't relevant.
Can you spell last chance to make money before he croaks from cancer? Hey, he doen't need to make sure that it has a return... as no one can punish him when he's dust.
Ok, maybe this is a bit cynical... but his technique sure sounds like bullshit to me - just looking at the receiver of an email. Sheesh... what the gullable will fall for. Their IPO is next week. I've got a bridge to sell you, cash only please.
Who watches the people in the Government who abuse their - so called - powers? This plan of action that the US Government is taking is akin to 1983 - the year before 1984. Where will it end? Manditory implanted GPS units?
When they collect information on people on that scale they are the terrorists.
IF "WE THE PEOPLE" has any meaning you'll tell your elected officials to abort this plan which makes the government the terrorists even more than they are. If they refuse TELL them that they must comply with the people.
While a simple HTML version 5 might seem like a good idea, HTML and AJAX (JavaScript, etc...) are what is wrong with the Internet. Document formats do not make a programming language. They are just a continuation of mainframe (server) control over applications. Even web enabled desktop applications like Google Earth which break out of the stale browsers metaphor tie the end user with a ball and chain to the Internet as they require always on connections to work.
How about fully downloadable and distributed application environment that enables concurrent and collaborative document and information sharing as defined by the web site AND as defined by it's users. Sure many site will want to still be basically documents but many want to break out from the ball and chains of, ick, web browsers.
And don't think that the pathetic Java language is an answer for it isn't for many reasons that are apparent to anyone doing distributed information systems work.
The Web Technologies deployed and in the pipe are Archaic Technologies belonging to an extinction primed era.
What's next? Power to the user. That's what the "Personal Computer" revolution was supposed to be about. Not more power to the mainframe under central control of corporations or others. Personal Computing in an internet age means ditching the notion of servers and moving to a mesh network independent of the control imposed by servers. Sure there will be people wanting to deploy with the current control matrix that web servers give them, if that's what they want to do, but they are missing the revolution - Meshed Personal Computers - that's coming.
Power to the People.
For example. I'd like to visit a site like WikiPedia and download the whole darn site to my Personal Computer and keep it updated (on a schedule that is acceptable to me). That allows me to have a "disconnected internet" experience. Sure I can download it now if I'm a tech guru but it's not really designed for wide spread distributed usage from millions of independent nodes. WikiPedia is designed for control by a few so that they can line their pockets with a nice cash flow and control of ideas. (WikiPedia is notorious for deleting valid content). In any event, distributed technologies are way too democratic for the power hungry since without control you don't have power (unless you enter the world of using weapons where you have power as long as you have ammo and the will or the threat to use it).
HTML sucks big time. All versions of it. Past. Present. Future.
AJAX. ditto.
Web Browsers: FireFox, Explorer, etc.... Take them out back and shoot them please. Send them to bit heaven.
Yup. 12 so far. Mostly Parallels but not always. It sucks.
The Mach Kernel is supposed to prevent this but I suppose they've mutilated the microkernel concept so much that it's useless at preventing Apple's MacOSX 10.5 Leopard from biting the big one over and over and over again.
Get it fixed Apple. Get it fixed.
No application should ever crash an operating system. That's the theory at least. Why is it that Apple and Microsoft can't get it together?
Would somebody please park a couple of web enabled video cameras - with stop motion capture - there already. IT should be easy to "see" what's doing it. Maybe you'll also need to park a park ranger there too. The multiple cameras - pointed at each other - are to ensure that no one is tampering with the cameras or the rocks. Sometimes science is easy.
No, your solution isn't going to work. Votes can be bought now - you don't need a receipt to verify a vote - so that is a bogus argument anyhow. Besides there are ways around that too if you put your thinking cap on.
Whether or not you can "buy a vote" is completely relevant regardless. What is more important is that republican agents can't get their candidates elected with faked votes as they did in Ohio and Florida.
What is important is that voters can verify that the count is correct and valid.
What is more important is that EVERY voter can verify that the vote count is correct and valid.
That's the way towards a secure election.
Any vote that doesn't let me and every voter verify the vote (in the voting booth and later on) is an invalid election as the counters can NOT be trusted. This was demonstrated with the two stolen elections by Bush.
Has anyone found a single downloadable file for the Multics gizmo yet? If not has someone made one that contains ALL the files and docs? If so please link us to it. Thanks very much.
I prefer to have a copy on my computer naturally where, gasp, I can study it off line. Shivers... off line...
When I vote I require a paper receipt that has an encrypted certificate of how I voted. I have the password for it which is also shared with the vote counters.
ANY citizen or group of citizens who are voting have the right to have their own independent vote counting. If anything is certain about elections is that they can be gamed by those in various positions of power. Simply take away those gaming possibilities and we have a verifiable voting system at the local level.
At anytime I can go to any web browser or vote counting location in my community and verify that my voting certificate was counted with the various votes that I cast. If there are any discrepancies they will be noted.
Even better is that as I vote my certificate is verified by ALL the online voting counting sites or more importantly the vote counting site of my choice.
Ensuring that my vote is counted is much more valuable than completely ensuing the privacy of my vote. Now some might complain about that, and some in the voting business have, but they miss the point, it's much better for a citizen to know their vote counted.
Of course there are ways to have anonymity as well with instant third (or Nth) independent watchers in real time before you even leave the voting booth.
ANY current system can be gamed. Take the elections in Canada for example. The paper ballots that supposedly provide anonymity are actually tagged with a serial number! The paper tears can be lined up with the tear on the tab with the serial number. Finger prints can be lifted and election officials eliminated leaving only the person who voted. The forms of course can have invisible serial numbers printed on them to make identification of who voted for what by the government clear and apparent - so much for anonymity of your vote - what's that sound, the boots of the government storm troopers coming for you since you didn't vote for them... Any voting system can be gamed. The key is to make sure that you vote was counted and that only votes by eligible voters were counted and that they were counted correctly. At anytime you can type your certificate in - which was copied to N independent voting repositories while you were still in the voting booth - and ensure that your vote was counted.
By the way, who the hell gave these people in government the right to form a government anyhow? All they did was rebel against the British (in the USA)? So force of arms is the only hold on power that these people have? Not a legitimate form of government to this sovereign individual - just another bunch of thugs imposing their values and rules in asymmetric ways upon hapless sheep.
Stand up and revoke your governments sovereign powers to attack other countries and commit murder and mass killings in your name. Send a letter today to all your elected officials telling them that you - as the sovereign they work for - hereby and forthwith withdraw their power to kill or tax in your name.
While you're at it send them a letter impeaching Bush and Cheney and other members of the government. If you government is really for and by the people then stand up and register your vote to impeach all your leaders who have lead you to this despicable war. A people's vote does not ever require the consent of approval of the government in power. No government is legitimate if they ignore the will of the people via a people's vote that can happen at anytime - the only proviso is that the people can't harm minorities with their votes.
Anyway you should know that your vote has been correctly counted before you leave the voting booth!
Then this is YOUR opportunity to buy a couple of these computers and contribute one to a child in a developing country AND one to a child in America. Or even better, N to each. The best part is is that you'll be able to pick the child in America that you want to donate yours to.
The issue is that when the external usb hard drive got bumped it lost it's connection with the Mac Book Pro which then proceeded to abort the file move and DELETE the files. The problem are the brainless programmers at Apple who don't know about fault tolerant programming techniques - which are especially important in an actual operating system! This is both a hardware fault and a software fault.
It could have just been a hardware fault though if the Apple programmers know anything about fault tolerant programming which they obviously don't. (The frequency with which my mac book pro crashes with Leopard and Tiger is also an indication that they don't know what they are doing. Sheeh. Who would risk putting device drivers, file system servers, etc... into a micro kernel? Please upgrade to minux or exokernel, Apple!!! Thanks).
Note: the data was being copied from one usb drive to another when the lap top got bumped (not a big bump either).
I lost a huge amount of data being MOVED (not copied) from one volume into a virtual volume DMG file. Lost and gone forever, lots of important files. What happened? I simply bumped the laptop Mac Book Pro during the move... zap... gone forever. The DMG file was blank! Yes, complely zero bytes except for a bit of header non-file data. It sucks bad.
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Just what are YOU trolling for here? There ARE other outlets for that elsewhere.
Oh, back to the real topic: the so called monolithic kernels are always crashing when I use them! I just push them to the limits almost without even trying. For example, Mac OSX Mach XeNU kernel has crashed on my at least 30 times in the last year alone! So much for "monolithic kernels performing better".
EVERYTIME, which is way to frequent, that my mac book Pro crashes, running the monolithic microkernel MacOSX (10.4 - 10.5.1), the Mac asks if I want to report it to Apple. I always say yes and berate them for having IO Drivers in the Kernel (since that's been the reason for the crashes - every time. I encourage them to remove the drivers from the their monolithic microkernel and put them into their own protected space.
;--).
Someone has to tell Apple that their Kernel design implementation sucks big time - simply because it crashes WAY TOO OFTEN. MacOSX 10.4 through the current up to date Mac OSX 10.5.1 Leopard (System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B18), Kernel Version: Darwin 9.1.0) crashes very frequently week with IO problems (see the actual crash logs at the end of this posting). Usually these problems are with device drivers such as EyeTV or Parallels. If this was a true microkernel design like Minix or QNX the entire machine would not have to be rebooted, just the EyeTV or Parallels apps would need to be rebooted. Why the heck should a problem with the USB driver bring down the entire OS? How on earth can that be justified Apple? It can't so improve the quality by removing ALL drivers from the Kernel and put them in their own processes. Thank you very much in advance.
APPLE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REMOVE ALL DRIVERS FROM THE MACH XNU MICROKERNEL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THANKS. AT LEAST GIVE ME THE CHOICE OF HAVING THEM SEPARATED - THE EXTRA CPU % COST IS A PRICE THAT I AS A USER WOULD MAKE TO GAIN THE FAULT TOLERANCE AND RELIABILITY. Below you'll see my actual kernel crash logs for six months - as you can see the number of crashes are intolerable and just amazing to behold when a true microkernel that separates out drivers would have prevented reboots in all these cases.
I HEREBY Challenage ALL Mac OSX users to publish their Kernel Crash Logs for ALL the world to see. Maybe this way APPLE will take microkernels seriously.
Links to the issue of the flawed XNU kernel. (Gee, XNU, almost sounds like the XeNU character out of the Scientology creation mythology. XeNU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu.
The culprit: bad monolithic design of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU#I.2FO_Kit and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_kernel
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6105
http://www.maconintel.com/news.php?article=177
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/architecture/index.html
http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/how-long-will-apple-keep-the-mach-microkernel/
"Frankly, I think it's a piece of crap," Torvalds says of Mach [XeNU], the microkernel on which Apple's new operating system is based. "It contains all the design mistakes you can make, and manages to even make up a few of its own." - Linus Torvalds, http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,2085525,00.htm
I only quote Linus because he's right regarding MACh XeNU. However, he's wrong about microkernels in general as the frequent crashing of Linux reveals.
---- ACTUAL MacBook Pro Monolithic XNU Kernel Crash Logs ----- REAL WORLD CRASHES REVEALED -----
Sat Mar 24 07:38:10 2007
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0035AE53): freeing free mbuf
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x36563ca8 : 0x128d08 (0x3c9ac4 0x36563ccc 0x131de5 0x0)
0x36563ce8 : 0x35ae53 (0x3ea228 0x9cfc 0x36563d28 0x2)
0x36563d08 : 0x35b1f3 (0x4835b800 0x804c 0x36563d28 0x800)
0x36563d28 : 0xa3d6ad (0x4835b800 0x36563dec 0x6 0x6007c0e0)
from ID4 - the invasion begins in a few hours.
Smilentology is funny.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/041c85aa17
Darn, someone took down the Jerry O'Connell video alreay. Arrrrrrggggg....
Ok, here it is at Funny or Die.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/3f716ffebe
First scary Tom Cruise revealing how damaged he has become from his involvement in the cult of Scientology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l6a8rvn1Ig&feature=related
Then funny Jerry O'Connell spoofing Tom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6s9OzSSeeo
Oh, yeah then there is Darth Vader, Sithentologist. Ultra funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GanPoPcyjLI
This was the last time Tom is on Oprah. Really funny. Gut splitting really.
http://www.lulu.tv/?p=52
Finally there is the making of war by the spooky Anonymous who has declared war against the cult of
Scientology. A video manifesto of sorts. Oh, this was already linked. Well, it's here just for completeness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCbKv9yiLiQ
I fully agree. Most things I think of are impossible.
Of course the opposite is true too, just because you don't think it's possible doesn't make it possible or impossible.
Let's see, (1) first there were the reports of a huge UFO hovering over parts of Texas.
(2) Then there were reports that NASA had tasked ALL their space transmission-reception dishes to "look" for a space probe that got lost; this of course delayed the reception of pictures from the Mercury probe.
(3) Now there is the report of SETI receiving transmissions from space aliens.
Could it all be related?
Well, it is possible, however improbable, that we could be visited by extraterrestrial aliens in our lifetime, isn't it?
While it's very important to know low level languages such as Assembly Language, C, C++, etc... as well as middle level languages such as Java, SQL, C#, etc... it's crucial to learn high level dynamic systems such as Smalltalk and LISP as they provide flexibility that you'll never find in low level and typed systems.
A well rounded education and set of skills as a developer will provide you the best chances in the work environment. While languages like Java and C# are the new COBOL and might be the "language de jure" (language of the day) times are a changing (as the saying goes) and it's best to be prepared. Beyond that, the most interesting problems are best solved in languages that approach things from a freedom of expression that Smalltalk and LISP provide.
The simply fact is that typed systems put a straight jacket upon the mind when they are used. Free your mind.
Assembly Language, Smalltalk and LISP are three languages that share a tremendous amount of freedom for the mind. Somehow that's lost with C as the so called "type safety" begins to constrain ones thinking. It gets worse, as the other article pointed out, as you head contracts into the limiting space of Java and C#. Goo languages that the mind's creativity gets stuck in. At least that's the case for me and a great many programmers that I know.
Assembly language is the most important language for programmers and developers to learn as it's the foundation for almost ALL other computing and programming languages. Once you've mastered assembly language all the other languages can be related to from a common perspective.
LISP is an important language to learn since it's the quintessential paradigm shift where programs are data and data can be programs!
Smalltalk is a crucial language to learn to grasp with fluidity the concepts of a pure Messaging language where Objects communicate. Smalltalk also has Block Closures, aka Lambda's, where code is a full first class object. In addition everything in Smalltalk is an Object that can be reflected upon, that is you can write programs that manipulate the program, or parts thereof. This provides incredible power in what kinds of programs can be written.
There are of course a number of other programming paradigms that are also important to learn as they might be of occasional use, and who knows, your brain might find them easy or compatible with your way of thinking. Check out Prolog and Functional Languages such as Erlang.
There are thousands of programming languages and even more implementations. The key is to learn one or more from each paradigm, that way you're flexible as possible in the types of work that you can deal with.
Anyone who tells you that the "only" language is X is a fool or has an agenda for you that might not be of your choosing.
A good starting point for Smalltalk is smalltalk.org. Seek out the best resources of the other languages.
Beyond programming languages it's crucial to have excellent debugging skills to find out what's really going on in a program or system or between systems. Without that forget it. Debugging is a huge win in the work place as if you can debug systems to find out what's really going on a lot of money can be saved by businesses.
The other most important area to study is concurrency and parallel programming as with multi-core processors a whole new generation of applications need to be written. The current single core focused applications can't be easily converted to multi core without being rethought. That goes for the current crop of boring operating systems such as Linux, Macosx, Windows Vista/XP/NT, etc... All these systems have got serious concurrency problems. There's gold in them concurrent systems. Users are waiting to access the full power potential that the N-Core processors provide. Oh, and those "New Cobol" (Java, C#, etc...) programmers don't get concurrency - I know as I've earned excellent money cleaning up their many messes as they attempt
Agnostics are fools.
People with moderate religious beliefs are one of the prime reasons the extremists get away with murder.
See the recent books "The End of Faith", "The God Delusion" and "God is Not Great" for a clear explanation of the above.
I'm not a "militant atheist" by the way... I'm a realist.
Since it's next to impossible for a reality based person to be elected president due to the overwhelming prejudice among the faith driven belief nuts it's quite an oxymoronic statement to suggest that a faith based presidential candidate could even possibly have a real "science" policy. For if they did have a real science based policy they'd have to give up their precious and sad devotion to whacked out unprovable beliefs in their own thinking.
Yes, it's not possible for a person of faith or belief to make decisions in the area of science. They simply are not qualified due to their inability to give up their belief in that which can't be tested. Any policy they create regarding science would be faith based due to their inability to distinguish reality from their "god" delusional fantasies.
Reality is the cure. Try it out for a change in your life. It's a harsh mistress but it's worth it. When you realize that you get only one life life becomes infinitely more valuable. Decisions take on a more important role. A reality based President would be a much more careful and caring person.
By the way Mitt Romney broke the law - if not the spirit of the law - of Separation of Church and State when he made his prejudicial speech last week against atheists. If he becomes President he would immediately need to be impeached for violation of the US Constitution and Laws regarding this.
Religion and Beliefs Poison Everything.
Yup, The Laws of Nature come from my Aunt Matilda. She's a force of nature. No, that's not accurate, she is the force of Nature.
The "receiver reputation" method of anti-spam in the article sounds like bullshit. Sweet bullshit.
The ratio of good email to spam as an identifier? Who the heck cares? How the heck would that help? Many emails have only one receiver so comparing the reputation of a receiver isn't relevant.
Can you spell last chance to make money before he croaks from cancer? Hey, he doen't need to make sure that it has a return... as no one can punish him when he's dust.
Ok, maybe this is a bit cynical... but his technique sure sounds like bullshit to me - just looking at the receiver of an email. Sheesh... what the gullable will fall for. Their IPO is next week. I've got a bridge to sell you, cash only please.
Who watches the people in the Government who abuse their - so called - powers? This plan of action that the US Government is taking is akin to 1983 - the year before 1984. Where will it end? Manditory implanted GPS units?
When they collect information on people on that scale they are the terrorists.
IF "WE THE PEOPLE" has any meaning you'll tell your elected officials to abort this plan which makes the government the terrorists even more than they are. If they refuse TELL them that they must comply with the people.
While a simple HTML version 5 might seem like a good idea, HTML and AJAX (JavaScript, etc...) are what is wrong with the Internet. Document formats do not make a programming language. They are just a continuation of mainframe (server) control over applications. Even web enabled desktop applications like Google Earth which break out of the stale browsers metaphor tie the end user with a ball and chain to the Internet as they require always on connections to work.
How about fully downloadable and distributed application environment that enables concurrent and collaborative document and information sharing as defined by the web site AND as defined by it's users. Sure many site will want to still be basically documents but many want to break out from the ball and chains of, ick, web browsers.
And don't think that the pathetic Java language is an answer for it isn't for many reasons that are apparent to anyone doing distributed information systems work.
The Web Technologies deployed and in the pipe are Archaic Technologies belonging to an extinction primed era.
What's next? Power to the user. That's what the "Personal Computer" revolution was supposed to be about. Not more power to the mainframe under central control of corporations or others. Personal Computing in an internet age means ditching the notion of servers and moving to a mesh network independent of the control imposed by servers. Sure there will be people wanting to deploy with the current control matrix that web servers give them, if that's what they want to do, but they are missing the revolution - Meshed Personal Computers - that's coming.
Power to the People.
For example. I'd like to visit a site like WikiPedia and download the whole darn site to my Personal Computer and keep it updated (on a schedule that is acceptable to me). That allows me to have a "disconnected internet" experience. Sure I can download it now if I'm a tech guru but it's not really designed for wide spread distributed usage from millions of independent nodes. WikiPedia is designed for control by a few so that they can line their pockets with a nice cash flow and control of ideas. (WikiPedia is notorious for deleting valid content). In any event, distributed technologies are way too democratic for the power hungry since without control you don't have power (unless you enter the world of using weapons where you have power as long as you have ammo and the will or the threat to use it).
HTML sucks big time. All versions of it. Past. Present. Future.
AJAX. ditto.
Web Browsers: FireFox, Explorer, etc.... Take them out back and shoot them please. Send them to bit heaven.
Yup. 12 so far. Mostly Parallels but not always. It sucks.
The Mach Kernel is supposed to prevent this but I suppose they've mutilated the microkernel concept so much that it's useless at preventing Apple's MacOSX 10.5 Leopard from biting the big one over and over and over again.
Get it fixed Apple. Get it fixed.
No application should ever crash an operating system. That's the theory at least. Why is it that Apple and Microsoft can't get it together?
Would somebody please park a couple of web enabled video cameras - with stop motion capture - there already. IT should be easy to "see" what's doing it. Maybe you'll also need to park a park ranger there too. The multiple cameras - pointed at each other - are to ensure that no one is tampering with the cameras or the rocks. Sometimes science is easy.
A flame fest sounds like it would be tasty way to burn calories!! ;--)
A bug update from Apple for MacOSX 10.5.1 arrived this morning. Looking down the list we find the following relevant fix noted:
"System and Finder: Addresses a potential data loss issue when moving files across partitions in the Finder.".
Let's start testing it boys and girls and report back on how it went... Thanks.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306907
No, your solution isn't going to work. Votes can be bought now - you don't need a receipt to verify a vote - so that is a bogus argument anyhow. Besides there are ways around that too if you put your thinking cap on.
Whether or not you can "buy a vote" is completely relevant regardless. What is more important is that republican agents can't get their candidates elected with faked votes as they did in Ohio and Florida.
What is important is that voters can verify that the count is correct and valid.
What is more important is that EVERY voter can verify that the vote count is correct and valid.
That's the way towards a secure election.
Any vote that doesn't let me and every voter verify the vote (in the voting booth and later on) is an invalid election as the counters can NOT be trusted. This was demonstrated with the two stolen elections by Bush.
Has anyone found a single downloadable file for the Multics gizmo yet? If not has someone made one that contains ALL the files and docs? If so please link us to it. Thanks very much.
I prefer to have a copy on my computer naturally where, gasp, I can study it off line. Shivers... off line...
When I vote I require a paper receipt that has an encrypted certificate of how I voted. I have the password for it which is also shared with the vote counters.
ANY citizen or group of citizens who are voting have the right to have their own independent vote counting. If anything is certain about elections is that they can be gamed by those in various positions of power. Simply take away those gaming possibilities and we have a verifiable voting system at the local level.
At anytime I can go to any web browser or vote counting location in my community and verify that my voting certificate was counted with the various votes that I cast. If there are any discrepancies they will be noted.
Even better is that as I vote my certificate is verified by ALL the online voting counting sites or more importantly the vote counting site of my choice.
Ensuring that my vote is counted is much more valuable than completely ensuing the privacy of my vote. Now some might complain about that, and some in the voting business have, but they miss the point, it's much better for a citizen to know their vote counted.
Of course there are ways to have anonymity as well with instant third (or Nth) independent watchers in real time before you even leave the voting booth.
ANY current system can be gamed. Take the elections in Canada for example. The paper ballots that supposedly provide anonymity are actually tagged with a serial number! The paper tears can be lined up with the tear on the tab with the serial number. Finger prints can be lifted and election officials eliminated leaving only the person who voted. The forms of course can have invisible serial numbers printed on them to make identification of who voted for what by the government clear and apparent - so much for anonymity of your vote - what's that sound, the boots of the government storm troopers coming for you since you didn't vote for them... Any voting system can be gamed. The key is to make sure that you vote was counted and that only votes by eligible voters were counted and that they were counted correctly. At anytime you can type your certificate in - which was copied to N independent voting repositories while you were still in the voting booth - and ensure that your vote was counted.
By the way, who the hell gave these people in government the right to form a government anyhow? All they did was rebel against the British (in the USA)? So force of arms is the only hold on power that these people have? Not a legitimate form of government to this sovereign individual - just another bunch of thugs imposing their values and rules in asymmetric ways upon hapless sheep.
Stand up and revoke your governments sovereign powers to attack other countries and commit murder and mass killings in your name. Send a letter today to all your elected officials telling them that you - as the sovereign they work for - hereby and forthwith withdraw their power to kill or tax in your name.
While you're at it send them a letter impeaching Bush and Cheney and other members of the government. If you government is really for and by the people then stand up and register your vote to impeach all your leaders who have lead you to this despicable war. A people's vote does not ever require the consent of approval of the government in power. No government is legitimate if they ignore the will of the people via a people's vote that can happen at anytime - the only proviso is that the people can't harm minorities with their votes.
Anyway you should know that your vote has been correctly counted before you leave the voting booth!
We have poverty in America to ...
Then this is YOUR opportunity to buy a couple of these computers and contribute one to a child in a developing country AND one to a child in America. Or even better, N to each. The best part is is that you'll be able to pick the child in America that you want to donate yours to.
Action is what counts, not complaints.
I just put in my order for the Give 1 Get 1.
The issue is that when the external usb hard drive got bumped it lost it's connection with the Mac Book Pro which then proceeded to abort the file move and DELETE the files. The problem are the brainless programmers at Apple who don't know about fault tolerant programming techniques - which are especially important in an actual operating system! This is both a hardware fault and a software fault.
It could have just been a hardware fault though if the Apple programmers know anything about fault tolerant programming which they obviously don't. (The frequency with which my mac book pro crashes with Leopard and Tiger is also an indication that they don't know what they are doing. Sheeh. Who would risk putting device drivers, file system servers, etc... into a micro kernel? Please upgrade to minux or exokernel, Apple!!! Thanks).
Note: the data was being copied from one usb drive to another when the lap top got bumped (not a big bump either).
I lost a huge amount of data being MOVED (not copied) from one volume into a virtual volume DMG file. Lost and gone forever, lots of important files. What happened? I simply bumped the laptop Mac Book Pro during the move... zap... gone forever. The DMG file was blank! Yes, complely zero bytes except for a bit of header non-file data. It sucks bad.