I live in Arizona too. Here, we have the country's largest nuclear power plant and on it's most unsafe nuclear power plants. Here too, we have no water. And we also have so much sun that only Australians get more skin cancer.
So there you have it, no water, too much sun, not a whole lot of agriculture, or oil (we have to pipe in our gas), and the country's worst and largest nuclear power plant.
It's a freakin paradise and incredibly safe from disasters as well.
He may be able to sue for a declarative judgement that he has not infringed any patents owned by Microsoft. They would have to show up in court and produce convincing evidence of infringement of specific patents (i.e., version, file, and line...) or have the court rule that Linux does not infringe any of their patents.
If what Microsoft is saying isn't true, isn't this harming Red Hat's, Ubuntu's, Novell's, etc., businesses? Or harming various consultants that have lost contracts to install or implement Linux solutions?
I am no lawyer, but it seems to run afoul of Deceptive Trade Practices, or making a false and misleading claim.
Can't just one poor shmoe consultant that lost business when their client told them Microsoft gave them this speech sue Microsoft and ask for the proof in discovery?
This is clearly Rove at work again. To take the Daily Show down two weeks before the election shows that there is no end that these diabolical fiends won't take.
Straight from OrwellOrwell's vision of repression and the even stronger image of Big Brother was clear in Orwell's mind as early as 1944. After all, the great purge trials of the 1930s were now part of history, a history Orwell knew quite well as a journalist. "Out in the street," he wrote, "the loudspeakers bellow, the flags flutter from the rooftops, the police with their tommy-guns prowl to and fro, the face of the Leader, four feet wide, glares from every point." Image all those huge paintings of Stalin and Hitler that seemed to adorn every street corner of Germany and the Soviet Union, and you'll know where Orwell obtained his imagery
Sorry but that's not how it works at the Wikipedia, because at the Wiki, there is Facts, Opinions, NPOV, and endless battles over whose NPOV is more POV than N and so my NPOV IS REALLY THE ONLY NPOV and that other guy's NPOV IS POV POV POV POV!!!!!!
Check out the history of cyberstalking, for one. See how repeatedly it morphs into a completely bland and useless article that makes no mention of the use of an false accusation of cyberstalking as a means to suppress dissent.
Try adding mentioning, with citations, that people can be falsely accused of cyberstalking. Watch how that is reverted away. That has happened repeatedly on this article. On July 11th, a section containing the DOJ description of cyberstalking and how it compares to physical stalking was added, along with a section containing a link concerning the problem of false accusations, and the use of the accusation of cyberstalking itself as a means of well, stalking. Note how in the span of 15 days, Aine63 repeatedly attacks the article, until by July 21st, there is no indication that the DOJ itself say that cyberstalking has no universal definition but that stalking laws generally require a credible threat of violence. And also gone by July 21st is any mention of the problem of false accusations.
So who is the cyberstalker here? Is it Aine63 who stalks that article to keep out for his/her own reasons any discussion of false accusations? Or is it me because I a) used the compare feature to find out why a section was removed, b) noted Aine63's involvement, and here state that Aine63 is a Wikinazi, who has a definite POV and should be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
I wonder why Aine63 is so worried about false accusations as to remove their discussion from the wikipedia.... What a fucktard though.
If you read the talk page you find out that this has happened repeatedly. Someone puts in sections about false accusations and things like that, and it gets expunged by some sort of article stalker. In fact, the discussions of this behavior have themselves been removed from the talk page. Why is the wiki so worried about talking about false accusations? Well you might look at how the wiki itself has been used to promote false accusations against John Seigenthaler.
My sense is that the Wikipedia ultimately is doomed due to its insistence on Neutral Point of View articles and all of the fights that that causes. The traditional media is encountering the same thing with the bloggers. An open, but non neutral point of view is far superior in terms of presenting information AND context than a supposedly neutral, objective, point of view that can only fail to provide context and that hides a hidden agenda.
Because let's face, to claim that cyberstalking is not subject to false accusations is just bullshit, and definitely not a neutral point of view.
So what have we learned here? Wiki's NPOV is fatally flawed. Wikiality, truth based on majority rule is fatally flawed. Aine63 is fucktard that probably uses the false accusation of cyberstalking as a tool in his/her life.
I don't know how their new editing rules will prevent Aine63's malicious attacks, we shall see.
So my kids would love for me to get one or two, knowing that we would also be buying them for kids in underpriveledged nations.
But, I am not buying my kids in this country a computer with a built-in webcam.
Wifi is broken, at least for apartment dwellers. Qwest gives out dsl routers with built-in wifi, which means that EVERY apartment now runs its own wifi on the few channels that there are. As a result, wifi is completely unreliable as channel interference occurs. Oh you can connect, but how long until you are knocked off?
Don't forget about Management by Resume. Many silly, inefficent, dollar wasting projects are committed because they will look better on a resume than the alternative. In this case which would you put on your resume?
A: Obtained patent on secure network firewall protocols valued at $3 billion B: Researched secure network firewall stacks. Described implementation with publically available PDF?
Besides which, Navy attorneys are probably a sunk cost, therefore the cost of the patent itself is zero.
People laugh at me when I tell them about my "resume theory of management", which is that you are doing something stupid because some manager somewhere gets to put on his resume "implemented $5,000,000 system that does X!", and next year they get to say, "implemented $1,000,000 cost savings system".
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five-dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way:
Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face--miles and miles of face--of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp on the whole.
Multivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting. It had to be, for nothing human could adjust and correct it quickly enough or even adequately enough. --So Adell and Lupov attended the monstrous giant only lightly and superficially, yet as well as any men could. They fed it data, adjusted questions to its needs and translated the answers that were issued. Certainly they, and all others like them, were fully entitled to share in the glory that was Multivac's.
For decades, Multivac had helped design the ships and plot the trajectories that enabled man to reach the Moon, Mars, and Venus, but pas that, Earth's poor resources could not support the ships. Too much energy was needed for the long trips. Earth exploited its coal and uranium with increasing efficiency, but there was only so much of both.
But slowly Multivac learned enough to answer deeper questions more fundamentally, and on May 14, 2061, what had been theory, became fact.
The energy of the sun was stored, converted and utilized directly on a planet-wide scale. All Earth turned off its burning coal, its fissioning uranium, and flipped the switch that connected all of it to a small station, one mile in diameter, circling the Earth at half the distance of the Moon. All Earth ran by invisible beams of sunpower.
Seven days had not sufficed to dim the glory of it and Adell and Lupov finally managed to escape from the public function, and to meet in quiet where no one would think of looking for them, in the deserted underground chambers, where portions of the might buried body of Multivac showed. Unattended, idling, sorting data with contented lazy clickings, Multivac, too, had earned its vacation and the boys appreciated that. They had no intention, originally, of disturbing it.
They had brought a bottle with them, and their only concern at the moment was to relax in the company of each other and the bottle.
"It's amazing when you think of it," said Adell. His broad face had lines of weariness in it, and he stirred his drink slowly with a glass rod, watching the cubes of ice slur clumsily about. "All the energy we can possibly ever use for free. Enough energy, if we wanted to draw on it, to melt all Earth into a big drop of impure liquid iron, and still never miss the energy so used. All the energy we could ever use, forever and forever and forever."
Lupov cocked his head sideways. He had a trick of doing that when he wanted to be contrary, and he wanted to be contrary now, partly because he had had to carry the ice and glassware. "Not forever," he said.
"Oh, hell, just about forever. Till the sun runs down, Bert."
"That's not forever."
"All right, then. Billions and billions of years. Twenty billion, maybe. Are you satisfied?"
Lupov put his fingers through his thinning hair as though to reassure himself that some was still left and sipped gently at his own drink. "Twenty billion years isn't forever."
"Well, it will last our time, won't it?"
"So would the coal and uranium."
"All right, but now we can hook up each individual spaceship to the Solar Station, and it can go to Pluto and back a
That's very cool, but frankly it would scare the shite out of me if I could look down and see molten lava through the cracks in the surface I'm standing on. Fall through and it's instant death, and lava rock is relatively brittle.
Why is this a game that most kids play on the playground? "Don't touch the ground, it's LAVA!!!!"
If I have 802.11g, and an internal network, I don't compare my bandwidth to my DSL connection, I care about my own internal network speed and my own internal network's stability wrt connectivity. In that sense the poster is deadon, in my apartment complex there are way too many access points.
What makes it more problematical is that for understandable reasons the cable and dsl companies hand out wireless routers on purpose.
In 2030, as mankind pulls itself out of the ashes caused by the great net meltdown of 2006, observers will point to Microsoft's extension of RSS as the straw that broke the camel's back.
With the right ractors, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, commissioned by Lord Finkle-McGraw and designed by John Percival Hackwort could be used to teach a young girl how to think for herself. Take Nell for example, Nell learns many valuable lessons from the Primer over the years, everything from martial arts, to cooking, and computer theory..
I never thought I'd have an issue with identity theft, as a Vice President at a top 5 U.S. bank (in IT, of course). Two years ago, I was building a MythTV DVR PC, and wanted to get a good deal. I scoured the internet for the lowest prices on every individual component, and along the way, apparently ended up giving my Visa CheckCard number to the wrong person.
Too bad the execs didn't do time for it. That would have been funny.
More like righteous. More like the way to put an end to white collar crime.
"Some men rob you with a gun, others rob you with a pen."
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I live in Arizona too. Here, we have the country's largest nuclear power plant and on it's most unsafe nuclear power plants. Here too, we have no water. And we also have so much sun that only Australians get more skin cancer.
So there you have it, no water, too much sun, not a whole lot of agriculture, or oil (we have to pipe in our gas), and the country's worst and largest nuclear power plant.
It's a freakin paradise and incredibly safe from disasters as well.
Mod parent down as arrogant dumbass.
I think you're absolutely right. There's also these two which you somewhat suggest in 2)
3) Choose chips and chipsets that are support opensource
4) Keep APIs for your buttons, sleep/suspect, whatever, relatively stable from model to model
1) is important as an existence proof. If you support ANY distribution, that will enable all distributions to support you.
He may be able to sue for a declarative judgement that he has not infringed any patents owned by Microsoft. They would have to show up in court and produce convincing evidence of infringement of specific patents (i.e., version, file, and line...) or have the court rule that Linux does not infringe any of their patents.
Interesting. Thank you.
If what Microsoft is saying isn't true, isn't this harming Red Hat's, Ubuntu's, Novell's, etc., businesses? Or harming various consultants that have lost contracts to install or implement Linux solutions?
I am no lawyer, but it seems to run afoul of Deceptive Trade Practices, or making a false and misleading claim.
Can't just one poor shmoe consultant that lost business when their client told them Microsoft gave them this speech sue Microsoft and ask for the proof in discovery?
The sooner it bursts the better as I hold the trademark to Web3.0, Web4.0, Web5.0
Yeah, tasers are working out so well, why not add these devices?
We can blame the blindness and 3rd degree burns on stupid idiots that insist on using threatening and violent techniques like going limp.
This is clearly Rove at work again. To take the Daily Show down two weeks before the election shows that there is no end that these diabolical fiends won't take.
Straight from Orwell Orwell's vision of repression and the even stronger image of Big Brother was clear in Orwell's mind as early as 1944. After all, the great purge trials of the 1930s were now part of history, a history Orwell knew quite well as a journalist. "Out in the street," he wrote, "the loudspeakers bellow, the flags flutter from the rooftops, the police with their tommy-guns prowl to and fro, the face of the Leader, four feet wide, glares from every point." Image all those huge paintings of Stalin and Hitler that seemed to adorn every street corner of Germany and the Soviet Union, and you'll know where Orwell obtained his imagery
Sorry but that's not how it works at the Wikipedia, because at the Wiki, there is Facts, Opinions, NPOV, and endless battles over whose NPOV is more POV than N and so my NPOV IS REALLY THE ONLY NPOV and that other guy's NPOV IS POV POV POV POV!!!!!!
Check out the history of cyberstalking, for one. See how repeatedly it morphs into a completely bland and useless article that makes no mention of the use of an false accusation of cyberstalking as a means to suppress dissent.
Try adding mentioning, with citations, that people can be falsely accused of cyberstalking. Watch how that is reverted away. That has happened repeatedly on this article. On July 11th, a section containing the DOJ description of cyberstalking and how it compares to physical stalking was added, along with a section containing a link concerning the problem of false accusations, and the use of the accusation of cyberstalking itself as a means of well, stalking. Note how in the span of 15 days, Aine63 repeatedly attacks the article, until by July 21st, there is no indication that the DOJ itself say that cyberstalking has no universal definition but that stalking laws generally require a credible threat of violence. And also gone by July 21st is any mention of the problem of false accusations.
So who is the cyberstalker here? Is it Aine63 who stalks that article to keep out for his/her own reasons any discussion of false accusations? Or is it me because I a) used the compare feature to find out why a section was removed, b) noted Aine63's involvement, and here state that Aine63 is a Wikinazi, who has a definite POV and should be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
I wonder why Aine63 is so worried about false accusations as to remove their discussion from the wikipedia.... What a fucktard though.
If you read the talk page you find out that this has happened repeatedly. Someone puts in sections about false accusations and things like that, and it gets expunged by some sort of article stalker. In fact, the discussions of this behavior have themselves been removed from the talk page. Why is the wiki so worried about talking about false accusations? Well you might look at how the wiki itself has been used to promote false accusations against John Seigenthaler.
My sense is that the Wikipedia ultimately is doomed due to its insistence on Neutral Point of View articles and all of the fights that that causes. The traditional media is encountering the same thing with the bloggers. An open, but non neutral point of view is far superior in terms of presenting information AND context than a supposedly neutral, objective, point of view that can only fail to provide context and that hides a hidden agenda.
Because let's face, to claim that cyberstalking is not subject to false accusations is just bullshit, and definitely not a neutral point of view.
So what have we learned here? Wiki's NPOV is fatally flawed. Wikiality, truth based on majority rule is fatally flawed. Aine63 is fucktard that probably uses the false accusation of cyberstalking as a tool in his/her life.
I don't know how their new editing rules will prevent Aine63's malicious attacks, we shall see.
So my kids would love for me to get one or two, knowing that we would also be buying them for kids in underpriveledged nations. But, I am not buying my kids in this country a computer with a built-in webcam.
Googling "small low-powered directional EMP generator for use in apartment dwellings" did little for me.
Wifi is broken, at least for apartment dwellers. Qwest gives out dsl routers with built-in wifi, which means that EVERY apartment now runs its own wifi on the few channels that there are. As a result, wifi is completely unreliable as channel interference occurs. Oh you can connect, but how long until you are knocked off?
In other words, it allows for fatter pipes.
Agreed! It's always good to let private industry widen up those tubes!
hello.jpg!
Don't forget about Management by Resume. Many silly, inefficent, dollar wasting projects are committed because they will look better on a resume than the alternative. In this case which would you put on your resume?
A: Obtained patent on secure network firewall protocols valued at $3 billion
B: Researched secure network firewall stacks. Described implementation with publically available PDF?
Besides which, Navy attorneys are probably a sunk cost, therefore the cost of the patent itself is zero.
People laugh at me when I tell them about my "resume theory of management", which is that you are doing something stupid because some manager somewhere gets to put on his resume "implemented $5,000,000 system that does X!", and next year they get to say, "implemented $1,000,000 cost savings system".
It's a Wildfire.
Woohoo, terrific reference to Asimov! Thank you!
The Last Question
by Isaac Asimov
Copyright © 1956 by Columbia Publications, Inc.
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five-dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way:
Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face--miles and miles of face--of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp on the whole.
Multivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting. It had to be, for nothing human could adjust and correct it quickly enough or even adequately enough. --So Adell and Lupov attended the monstrous giant only lightly and superficially, yet as well as any men could. They fed it data, adjusted questions to its needs and translated the answers that were issued. Certainly they, and all others like them, were fully entitled to share in the glory that was Multivac's.
For decades, Multivac had helped design the ships and plot the trajectories that enabled man to reach the Moon, Mars, and Venus, but pas that, Earth's poor resources could not support the ships. Too much energy was needed for the long trips. Earth exploited its coal and uranium with increasing efficiency, but there was only so much of both.
But slowly Multivac learned enough to answer deeper questions more fundamentally, and on May 14, 2061, what had been theory, became fact.
The energy of the sun was stored, converted and utilized directly on a planet-wide scale. All Earth turned off its burning coal, its fissioning uranium, and flipped the switch that connected all of it to a small station, one mile in diameter, circling the Earth at half the distance of the Moon. All Earth ran by invisible beams of sunpower.
Seven days had not sufficed to dim the glory of it and Adell and Lupov finally managed to escape from the public function, and to meet in quiet where no one would think of looking for them, in the deserted underground chambers, where portions of the might buried body of Multivac showed. Unattended, idling, sorting data with contented lazy clickings, Multivac, too, had earned its vacation and the boys appreciated that. They had no intention, originally, of disturbing it.
They had brought a bottle with them, and their only concern at the moment was to relax in the company of each other and the bottle.
"It's amazing when you think of it," said Adell. His broad face had lines of weariness in it, and he stirred his drink slowly with a glass rod, watching the cubes of ice slur clumsily about. "All the energy we can possibly ever use for free. Enough energy, if we wanted to draw on it, to melt all Earth into a big drop of impure liquid iron, and still never miss the energy so used. All the energy we could ever use, forever and forever and forever."
Lupov cocked his head sideways. He had a trick of doing that when he wanted to be contrary, and he wanted to be contrary now, partly because he had had to carry the ice and glassware. "Not forever," he said.
"Oh, hell, just about forever. Till the sun runs down, Bert."
"That's not forever."
"All right, then. Billions and billions of years. Twenty billion, maybe. Are you satisfied?"
Lupov put his fingers through his thinning hair as though to reassure himself that some was still left and sipped gently at his own drink. "Twenty billion years isn't forever."
"Well, it will last our time, won't it?"
"So would the coal and uranium."
"All right, but now we can hook up each individual spaceship to the Solar Station, and it can go to Pluto and back a
That's very cool, but frankly it would scare the shite out of me if I could look down and see molten lava through the cracks in the surface I'm standing on. Fall through and it's instant death, and lava rock is relatively brittle.
Why is this a game that most kids play on the playground? "Don't touch the ground, it's LAVA!!!!"
The First Amendment does not include the right to defame.
Must every wrong in the Wikipedia only be addressed by saying, "neiner neiner neiner, just edit it yourself?"
If I have 802.11g, and an internal network, I don't compare my bandwidth to my DSL connection, I care about my own internal network speed and my own internal network's stability wrt connectivity. In that sense the poster is deadon, in my apartment complex there are way too many access points.
What makes it more problematical is that for understandable reasons the cable and dsl companies hand out wireless routers on purpose.
In 2030, as mankind pulls itself out of the ashes caused by the great net meltdown of 2006, observers will point to Microsoft's extension of RSS as the straw that broke the camel's back.
With the right ractors, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, commissioned by Lord Finkle-McGraw and designed by John Percival Hackwort could be used to teach a young girl how to think for herself. Take Nell for example, Nell learns many valuable lessons from the Primer over the years, everything from martial arts, to cooking, and computer theory..
I never thought I'd have an issue with identity theft, as a Vice President at a top 5 U.S. bank (in IT, of course). Two years ago, I was building a MythTV DVR PC, and wanted to get a good deal. I scoured the internet for the lowest prices on every individual component, and along the way, apparently ended up giving my Visa CheckCard number to the wrong person.
What a liar. Hey Scooter, is that you?
Too bad the execs didn't do time for it. That would have been funny. More like righteous. More like the way to put an end to white collar crime. "Some men rob you with a gun, others rob you with a pen."
A post-apocalyptic tale based on a novella by Harlan Ellison. A boy communicates telepathically with his dog as they scavenge for food and sex, and they stumble into an underground society where the old society is preserved. The daughter of one of the leaders of the community seduces and lures him below, where the citizens have become unable to reproduce because of being underground so long. They use him for impregnation purposes, and then plan to be rid of him.