I hate to break it to you, but the US government has sovereignty over its citizens and that means it can do whatever it wants (up to an including killing them) without a "howdy hay" from anyone. Read up on Plato and Socrates before you post things you don't understand.
I hate to break it to you, but all people (citizens or not) have inalienable ("God-given") rights. That means that any law which attempts to take those rights is immoral, null and void. The founders of the United States believed these rights included freedom of speech, freedom of religion, self-defense against violence and tyranny, etc.
Persons in U.S. jurisdictions have more rights, and U.S. citizens still more. These rights are laid out in the Constitution. Any law which attempts to take those rights is null and void. The way to alter those rights is via a Constitutional amendment.
Read up on Federalist No. 84 before you post things you don't understand.
Keep the above, and the following, in mind when it comes time to vote (if you are registered Republican, that time is in the primaries): Ron Paul is the only U.S. Presidential candidate that understands and respects inalienable and Constitutional rights, and the rule of law. He's the only one to make specific pledges to give back excessive executive power rather than divert it to his own ends. And he has a 20 year consistent voting record to back up his excellent rhetoric.
Ted Stevens is currently under criminal investigation (reported in the WSJ yesterday). Wake me when he isn't. Then maybe this legislation will be relevant. Until then, he is obviously talking about bigger crimes to distract from his "smaller" ones.
Kathryn Ford of Louisville, Ky., the gambler who alerted the casino, said going after the other patrons was unfair.
When a slot machine jams and gamblers lose money, they don't get it back, she said.
"It doesn't work in the reverse," Ford said. "They need to forget it and move on."
It would be hypocritical if the guy didn't have a problem with sending out someone he decided was "the enemy" to walk through the mine field to try to stumble across as many mines as he could while making a path.
Unfortunately, lots of folks would have no problem with that.
I am a Florida resident, live in Orlando, and just got back from St Petersburg by train actually.
Central Florida desperately needs commuter rail and other forms of mass transportation. They are doing good work expanding the local highway system but a 1-car-per-person-per-trip system will never scale as the city keeps growing and more points of interest form as the city fills in after the instant uncultured growth around the theme parks.
Imagine fast efficient (more than once per day, less than 2 hrs per trip) trains between the major cities of Florida, theme parks, beaches, and airports. Imagine transportation spokes reaching out from downtown Orlando to residential areas. Drunk driving would plummet. Traffic jams would be less frequent. Mass transit could move out-of-band from pedestrians and drivers, making the system more efficient for everyone.
I have a map on my office wall right now of the "Downtown Orlando Transportation Plan". Some _limited_ light rail is being pursued but they told me (I went to a city meeting on the transportation improvements) that far superior infrastructures were planned but struck down by Jeb.
I look at the map and I see things that need doing. Why is the advice of the people, and of transit engineers, thwarted by Yet Another Bush?
I don't at present have the cycles to manage such a project but I can promise to be an active member in such a community. I'm not even a fan of Democracy as such (I prefer a Republic generally) but I feel democratic influences are extremely important in such a system. Given the high thresholds for something such as a ballot initiative to even take effect it's galling when the overwhelmingly clear demand by We The People to our employees is casually disregarded. Time to start bringing this to light.
I had a more consistant Linux desktop with Slackware and FVWM2, over a decade ago. One used to configure things, and they stayed configured: I used to tell people that the coolest part about Linux was that sometimes it was hard to make something work, but once you finally figured it out it would stay working indefinately.
But that's not the case anymore.
To be fair, though, in technical terms the Common Language Infrastructure/Runtime was designed from the ground up with far more emphasis on language interoperability.
As long as it walks, talks, and quacks like C#.
As for closures, I'm a big fan, and I used to wish for their inclusion in Java. But I've come to reconsider that. Java is -- leaving aside for a moment the schizophrenia that is the primitive type system -- extremely object-oriented, at least in that it wants every user-defined type to be an Object. Of late Java has been piling on a lot of synactic sugar but I think it may be too little too late; introducing these epochs of major language change doesn't seem wise when the only thing keeping your userbase together has been the knowledge and workflow they've accumulated.
I think people look, for example, to Larry Wall for innovation. They don't look to Sun Microsystems. It's a shame, but perhaps better to keep the appearance of stability.
Scheme/Lisp/Erlang/others. Every one of these I've looked at has one fatal flaw: It's not JIT'ed, or compiled. Erlang can be compiled, but then you lose one killer feature: even if they're just bytecode-compiled, compiled functions cannot be replaced at runtime, the way other Erlang functions can.
I know that in all of these you can replace a compiled function at runtime with another compiled function, both from personal experience and because the ANSI standard says so.
You seem to have made a mistake many people do: confusing Common Lisp with Scheme. Scheme is a useful language, but it's primarily a teaching language, and it's extremely limited. The simplicity of Scheme makes it useful as well as a simple base for embedded languages. However Common Lisp is far more useful as a language for developing large robust systems, because it doesn't force you to implement everything from scratch and much much more is standardized between implementations.
I don't want to be the cliché of the Lisp programmer saying "Lisp had it first", but I am amused when people find dynamic compilation new and exciting, or an integrated object system, or bemoan the lack of certification by a standards body.
What.. HP has had a woman CEO in thge past.. she was well respected until the HP - compaq merger didnt go as well as she ssaid it would.
According to who? You must not have every used a real HP product; say, a calculator or an oscilloscope.
Carly killed off everything except the most cutthroat and low-margin industry: commodity PCs and peripherals.
The current 700p version of the latest Treo has a slot for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards, but with the latest Nokia, Sony Ericsson and O2 offerings all boasting the technology in-built, Palm knows it can not afford to fall further behind as the competition heats up.
I have a Treo 700p and I can assure you that it has Bluetooth built-in, as did the 650 before it. With an error this basic at the heart of the article, who knows what other inaccuracies are lurking?
If not you are as culpable as the rest -- more, in fact, because you have demonstrated a clear understanding of the situation -- in working to circumvent the rights of the customer to use their own property.
If not you are an enslaver of your fellow man and a traitor.
Those of us in positions to advocate against the encroachment on fundamental freedoms have a sacred duty to do so. Technical knowledge and its associated power comes at the cost of responsibility.
(IOMega HipZip and your "phantom vorbis firmware", I'm looking at you!)
I would join your class action, except that I blame the xiph.org crew for poor prioritizing in writing fixed-point decoders, poor marketing to device manufacturers, and poor advocacy to the end user.
Why? By leaving it open they are following standards to tell me that they are kindly allowing me to use their network. I do, with thanks if I know whose it is.
Linus probably never thought he'd be writing code for missile trajectory systems.
I know a guy that does write code for missile trajectory systems. They do use Linux for some of their dev/build machines and rarely for limited unit tests and simulation. That's the limit though and I gathered it's mainly just because gcc and the like are convenient to run there. The missiles and their control systems run a bare-bones commercial real-time OS. Had I expected any commodity OS, the reality is about the maximum of what I would expect.
I for one am glad that missiles don't run Linux as far as I know. I'm glad the developers don't have to wonder if the developers getting bored and ripping out the VMM subsystem, or the scheduler, or the VFS, or whatever, in the midst of a stable release series (oh wait Linux doesn't have those anymore) might cause random guidance or detonation.
For the record I'm typing this from a Linux laptop and it's the least worst for hacking. But it's certainly not applicable to the vast majority of situations that people fantasize it is, at least not in its current state. I run FreeBSD and Solaris in production, when it matters that things are stable.
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I hate to break it to you, but all people (citizens or not) have inalienable ("God-given") rights. That means that any law which attempts to take those rights is immoral, null and void. The founders of the United States believed these rights included freedom of speech, freedom of religion, self-defense against violence and tyranny, etc.
Persons in U.S. jurisdictions have more rights, and U.S. citizens still more. These rights are laid out in the Constitution. Any law which attempts to take those rights is null and void. The way to alter those rights is via a Constitutional amendment.
Read up on Federalist No. 84 before you post things you don't understand.
Keep the above, and the following, in mind when it comes time to vote (if you are registered Republican, that time is in the primaries): Ron Paul is the only U.S. Presidential candidate that understands and respects inalienable and Constitutional rights, and the rule of law. He's the only one to make specific pledges to give back excessive executive power rather than divert it to his own ends. And he has a 20 year consistent voting record to back up his excellent rhetoric.
Found On Road Dead.....
I'm sure he is.
Good to know Apple's sync software doesn't properly back up an iPhone. I'll pass that on to anyone that asks me if they are a good buy.
Ted Stevens is currently under criminal investigation (reported in the WSJ yesterday). Wake me when he isn't. Then maybe this legislation will be relevant. Until then, he is obviously talking about bigger crimes to distract from his "smaller" ones.
Try right-clicking on the control menu.
I am a Florida resident, live in Orlando, and just got back from St Petersburg by train actually.
Central Florida desperately needs commuter rail and other forms of mass transportation. They are doing good work expanding the local highway system but a 1-car-per-person-per-trip system will never scale as the city keeps growing and more points of interest form as the city fills in after the instant uncultured growth around the theme parks.
Imagine fast efficient (more than once per day, less than 2 hrs per trip) trains between the major cities of Florida, theme parks, beaches, and airports. Imagine transportation spokes reaching out from downtown Orlando to residential areas. Drunk driving would plummet. Traffic jams would be less frequent. Mass transit could move out-of-band from pedestrians and drivers, making the system more efficient for everyone.
I have a map on my office wall right now of the "Downtown Orlando Transportation Plan". Some _limited_ light rail is being pursued but they told me (I went to a city meeting on the transportation improvements) that far superior infrastructures were planned but struck down by Jeb.
I look at the map and I see things that need doing. Why is the advice of the people, and of transit engineers, thwarted by Yet Another Bush?
I don't at present have the cycles to manage such a project but I can promise to be an active member in such a community. I'm not even a fan of Democracy as such (I prefer a Republic generally) but I feel democratic influences are extremely important in such a system. Given the high thresholds for something such as a ballot initiative to even take effect it's galling when the overwhelmingly clear demand by We The People to our employees is casually disregarded. Time to start bringing this to light.
As long as it walks, talks, and quacks like C#.
As for closures, I'm a big fan, and I used to wish for their inclusion in Java. But I've come to reconsider that. Java is -- leaving aside for a moment the schizophrenia that is the primitive type system -- extremely object-oriented, at least in that it wants every user-defined type to be an Object. Of late Java has been piling on a lot of synactic sugar but I think it may be too little too late; introducing these epochs of major language change doesn't seem wise when the only thing keeping your userbase together has been the knowledge and workflow they've accumulated.
I think people look, for example, to Larry Wall for innovation. They don't look to Sun Microsystems. It's a shame, but perhaps better to keep the appearance of stability.
I know that in all of these you can replace a compiled function at runtime with another compiled function, both from personal experience and because the ANSI standard says so.
You seem to have made a mistake many people do: confusing Common Lisp with Scheme. Scheme is a useful language, but it's primarily a teaching language, and it's extremely limited. The simplicity of Scheme makes it useful as well as a simple base for embedded languages. However Common Lisp is far more useful as a language for developing large robust systems, because it doesn't force you to implement everything from scratch and much much more is standardized between implementations.
I don't want to be the cliché of the Lisp programmer saying "Lisp had it first", but I am amused when people find dynamic compilation new and exciting, or an integrated object system, or bemoan the lack of certification by a standards body.
Java != JavaScript. n00b.
Have you seen Java Web Start? It accomplishes a lot of this.
Were you a voice for the end user?
If not you are as culpable as the rest -- more, in fact, because you have demonstrated a clear understanding of the situation -- in working to circumvent the rights of the customer to use their own property.
If not you are an enslaver of your fellow man and a traitor.
Those of us in positions to advocate against the encroachment on fundamental freedoms have a sacred duty to do so. Technical knowledge and its associated power comes at the cost of responsibility.
What's the point of keeping it running if you're sleeping and it has no connectivity? Why not just suspend the machine?
i have heard of an even worse vulnerabelity! if you hack yuor micthorwave oven to have teh door open it will JAM MY 80211 packets!!?!!?!!?!?!?!!?!
Also risk of cooking!
tell steve gibson of GRC he will save us
Why? By leaving it open they are following standards to tell me that they are kindly allowing me to use their network. I do, with thanks if I know whose it is.
I for one am glad that missiles don't run Linux as far as I know. I'm glad the developers don't have to wonder if the developers getting bored and ripping out the VMM subsystem, or the scheduler, or the VFS, or whatever, in the midst of a stable release series (oh wait Linux doesn't have those anymore) might cause random guidance or detonation.
For the record I'm typing this from a Linux laptop and it's the least worst for hacking. But it's certainly not applicable to the vast majority of situations that people fantasize it is, at least not in its current state. I run FreeBSD and Solaris in production, when it matters that things are stable.