Speaking of off topic, the post the guy was replying to specifically said FTL communication, not FTL travel.
The Night's Dawn series had no FTL communication and made quite a point of saying that it did not (Well, aside from affinity, and that was only good for in-system communication, and only by a subset of humanity).. Communication between star systems was more a pony express style system, where FTL ships would bring news, media, etc. from other systems. Mention is made more than once about pirates making a good chunk of money by delivering pirated copies of music to a system beforr the "official" copies made it in. The lack of a coherent communication system amongst the star-systems also contributes heavily to the main incident in the book (Being intentionally vague here), and is commented on by the characters in the book "Gee, if we didn't have to wait for ships to get from here to there, we'd be much better off".
Random Plug : The Night's Dawn series is a great set of books to read.. I'd recommend them to any sci-fi reader.
Yeah!!!! I wish my ISP would mirror porn locally too, thus alleviating all of the bandwidth problems they have because of me.. ermm, I mean, "people" (Yeah, that's it) downloading that stuff!!!!!!
I'd be willing to bet a large amount of money that any given broadband ISP sees a much larger usage because of porn than they do because of any OSS.
Amen. I figured that Memorial Day weekend was a good weekend to try and get this working.. I had found a handy-dandy step-by-step guide on how to install MythTV on Fedora Core here.. I figured, how hard can it be?
I was wrong, by far... I never could get LIRC to run under Fedora Core 1, let alone the two instances I need (One for my remote, and the other to control my homemade IR Transmitter to control my digital cable box).
So, I tried another alternative, that being KnoppMyth, a Knoppix disc customized for MythTV. By far, I've gotten much better results with this. I was able to get the second LIRC instance going too. I don't get the pretty gewgaws out of the box (KDE or Gnome, etc), but it does have the virtue of working.
For those considering building their own, and aren't Linux gurus, I would suggest going with the "standard" hardware in use (Nvidia video cards for TV Out+Hauppauge PVR250, or a Hauppauge PVR350).. You'll find much more help that way.
Tell me, how is a person supposed to "upgarde to the latest patches and remove the virus" if they don't have internet access? I don't know about you, but I don't consult the spirits, and channel in a new update from the ether.. I have to get it from the internet.. DOH. Can't do that, because the ISP has shut down my access.
It depends.. From my understanding of HIPAA, if the hospital makes you sign a waiver before receiving treatment, that waiver saying "Well, we may outsource some records to our subcontractors" or even "We may outsource some records to SubContractor Spanky McSpanksalot", then the hospital is A-OK. You, as a patient, have been duly informed of the privacy you will receive at the institution. You may then choose whether or not you wish to do business there.
I think SCO is a slashdot troll... It took the obvious comment of "Imagine a beowulf cluster of those" and applied that line of thought to filing lawsuits.
I think they have a rating of 1120945.57 BogoSuits
Like his previous project, K-bot, Hanson sculpted Hertz to resemble his girlfriend. It's sheathed in a high-tech polymer Hanson invented called "f'rubber," which resembles human skin. The face is embedded with tiny electronic motors, so Hertz can smile, frown or wrinkle its forehead.
So... It looks like his girlfriend, it can move it's face... If it can make an O with it's mouth, I'd REALLY start to think weird things. Oh hell, I'm thinking weird things now.
I'm finally managing to get some housework done, walls painted, I'm even thinking about putting down wood floors... And now I have to get news like this. I swear, if they release this and I become addicted like I was to TA1, I'm going to shoot somebo...
As I recall, we needed to install some directx hacks on a roommate's NT4.0 installation to get it to work.. But it did work. I can still remember him crying in frustration when I grabbed his commander with an atlas, and self-destructed the atlas.:)
There you go.. Many to many join table.. sure I omitted keys, but that's an exercide left to the reader. The relation_desc field is for a drop down list of relationship descriptions (Wife1, Wife2, etc., in your example). See, not so hard.:)
Soon, SCO will discover that their IP has been appropriated by Apache to facilitate multiple users. Why that IP wasn't being used by SCO itself is currently unknown, but it will come to light that the IP actually was written by a third company, and sorta kinda licensed back to SCO. Then, that third company gave the source to "them thar' evil open source fellers" and all will fall to ruin.
Darl McBride was quoted as saying "There is no way that the Apache people could have come up with enterprise level technoglogy, such as "multiple users connected to a website", without misappropriating SCO's valuable intellectual property."
As a final note, the hospital is already liable, because the woman sent patient records to the hospital via email. Unless the email was encrypted and only opened by the doctors giving care to the patients in record, then the hospital is liable. I expect the government will begin an investigation shortly, and the hospital will be fined within a year.
There's the possibility this isn't true at all. Hospitals/Clinics/Primary Care Physicians/etc can require patients to sign a waiver form, stating that certain named people, or certain classes of people, may access their records, that the patient understands this, and that the patient condones this. If the patient does not sign, then the medical facility can refuse service.
If this hospital has such a signed document, they may not be liable for that particular infraction (That of someone other than the doctor giving the patient their care opening the medical records via email).
America was formed on Christian principles, not Buddhist principles. It is a Christian country and it is defined and based on those assumptions. If you change that, then the assumptions loose their value. If you can change those assumptions, you can deny people their rights.
This argument seriously makes me angry. To state, I'm not a member of any organized religion... They piss me off.
Anyways, it smacks of the very religous elitism that caused the founders of this country to do things the way they did (That of the English church , complete with the First Amendment barring Congress from making a law respecting an establishment of religion.
If this is a Christian country, based on Christian assumptions, what exactly are those assumptions? Which flavor of Christianity are they based on? Many people before have decided they don't like the assumptions of a given Christian denomination. The first example that springs to mind is Martin Luther, nailing his writings up on the door of a church. Christian assumptions are not always the best assumptions. Unless you condone the Crusades, the Inquisition, the rank corruption that has been in the majority denominations, the various pedophile Catholic priests, the various Baptist preachers that have been caught with their hands in the offering plates, and many other low lights in the history of humanity. Such examples are hardly shining beacons of standing up for someone's rights.
It constantly amazes me that people say that since the country was founded on religion of one sort or another, the principles are intrinsically tied to religion. Personally, I'm more inclined to agree with the statement that it was founded on a mish-mash of different Christian religions, but the thoughts and ideals that it was founded on transcended any one religion. But, since you've tied the principles of the country to that of Christianity, it seems that you're implicitly saying that no one besides Christians can share in those principles. I'm glad that, according to you, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, and the myriad of other people out there that aren't Christians cannot partake in the ideals that the country was based on. Which I find rather funny, considering I have friends who are Muslims, and love this country with a passion.
Some religious ideals I can agree with, such as most religions having proscriptions against killing people, stealing, etc. Because those are concepts in religion does not mean that they are only religious concepts. There are plenty of animals that will not kill their own. You will face consequences if you try to steal an animal's food. Neither of these concepts are outrageous, or require praying to understand.
Basically, if you are going to say that the country is defined by and on Christian assumptions and concepts, I ask you to define, precisely, what those assumptions and concepts are. Then prove to me why, if you keep the assumptions and concepts while divorcing the religious aspect, why they all of a sudden fall down like a house of cards.
Manager : But... But... the key is right there! It's hanging on the wall, with a sign! How are you going to keep the evil nasty filthy hacker pirates out?!
Marketroid : Bob down in Engineering just explained it all to me, and I came up with this campaign. This one is pure genius, you'll just love it! We have the lock, the placard, the sign, everything... The thing of it is, turning the key counterclockwise does nothing.. You have to actually turn the key clockwise!
Manager 1 : That's... that's... GENIUS! Let's sell this to everyone! We'll be rich!!
Slashdot Mirror
You forgot Halo Kart Racing, Halo-Sims, Master Chief's Cook-off, Halo Fighter (And Halo Fighter 2, 3, 4, EX, Alpha, EX Alpha, Alpha EX Super, etc), and, finally, the Master Chief Dating Simulator.
And only on Slashdot would I read the original post and not think a thing of it. :)
Speaking of off topic, the post the guy was replying to specifically said FTL communication, not FTL travel.
The Night's Dawn series had no FTL communication and made quite a point of saying that it did not (Well, aside from affinity, and that was only good for in-system communication, and only by a subset of humanity).. Communication between star systems was more a pony express style system, where FTL ships would bring news, media, etc. from other systems. Mention is made more than once about pirates making a good chunk of money by delivering pirated copies of music to a system beforr the "official" copies made it in. The lack of a coherent communication system amongst the star-systems also contributes heavily to the main incident in the book (Being intentionally vague here), and is commented on by the characters in the book "Gee, if we didn't have to wait for ships to get from here to there, we'd be much better off".
Random Plug : The Night's Dawn series is a great set of books to read.. I'd recommend them to any sci-fi reader.
Yeah!!!! .. ermm, I mean, "people" (Yeah, that's it) downloading that stuff!!!!!!
I wish my ISP would mirror porn locally too, thus alleviating all of the bandwidth problems they have because of me
I'd be willing to bet a large amount of money that any given broadband ISP sees a much larger usage because of porn than they do because of any OSS.
Amen.
I figured that Memorial Day weekend was a good weekend to try and get this working.. I had found a handy-dandy step-by-step guide on how to install MythTV on Fedora Core here.. I figured, how hard can it be?
I was wrong, by far... I never could get LIRC to run under Fedora Core 1, let alone the two instances I need (One for my remote, and the other to control my homemade IR Transmitter to control my digital cable box).
So, I tried another alternative, that being KnoppMyth, a Knoppix disc customized for MythTV. By far, I've gotten much better results with this. I was able to get the second LIRC instance going too. I don't get the pretty gewgaws out of the box (KDE or Gnome, etc), but it does have the virtue of working.
For those considering building their own, and aren't Linux gurus, I would suggest going with the "standard" hardware in use (Nvidia video cards for TV Out+Hauppauge PVR250, or a Hauppauge PVR350).. You'll find much more help that way.
Tell me, how is a person supposed to "upgarde to the latest patches and remove the virus" if they don't have internet access? I don't know about you, but I don't consult the spirits, and channel in a new update from the ether.. I have to get it from the internet.. DOH. Can't do that, because the ISP has shut down my access.
It depends.. From my understanding of HIPAA, if the hospital makes you sign a waiver before receiving treatment, that waiver saying "Well, we may outsource some records to our subcontractors" or even "We may outsource some records to SubContractor Spanky McSpanksalot", then the hospital is A-OK. You, as a patient, have been duly informed of the privacy you will receive at the institution. You may then choose whether or not you wish to do business there.
I think SCO is a slashdot troll... It took the obvious comment of "Imagine a beowulf cluster of those" and applied that line of thought to filing lawsuits.
I think they have a rating of 1120945.57 BogoSuits
Like his previous project, K-bot, Hanson sculpted Hertz to resemble his girlfriend. It's sheathed in a high-tech polymer Hanson invented called "f'rubber," which resembles human skin. The face is embedded with tiny electronic motors, so Hertz can smile, frown or wrinkle its forehead.
So... It looks like his girlfriend, it can move it's face... If it can make an O with it's mouth, I'd REALLY start to think weird things. Oh hell, I'm thinking weird things now.
Crude, yes. Funny, I think so.
I'm finally managing to get some housework done, walls painted, I'm even thinking about putting down wood floors...
And now I have to get news like this. I swear, if they release this and I become addicted like I was to TA1, I'm going to shoot somebo...
Mmm... Berthas.....
As I recall, we needed to install some directx hacks on a roommate's NT4.0 installation to get it to work.. But it did work. :)
I can still remember him crying in frustration when I grabbed his commander with an atlas, and self-destructed the atlas.
We'll destroy Fark, we'll destroy SomethingAwful, we'll destroy Yahoo, we'll destroy PennyArcade, and then, we'll destroy Google!
YEEEARGHH!!!
OK, so it wasn't great. Sue me.
No, I think it's you that released it! Everyone knows there's no such thing as a female techie! You're just trying to throw everyone off your trail!
create table person {
:)
person_id integer,
name varchar(30)
};
create table relationships {
person1 integer,
person2 integer,
relation_desc varchar(100)
};
There you go.. Many to many join table.. sure I omitted keys, but that's an exercide left to the reader. The relation_desc field is for a drop down list of relationship descriptions (Wife1, Wife2, etc., in your example).
See, not so hard.
Soon, SCO will discover that their IP has been appropriated by Apache to facilitate multiple users. Why that IP wasn't being used by SCO itself is currently unknown, but it will come to light that the IP actually was written by a third company, and sorta kinda licensed back to SCO. Then, that third company gave the source to "them thar' evil open source fellers" and all will fall to ruin.
Darl McBride was quoted as saying "There is no way that the Apache people could have come up with enterprise level technoglogy, such as "multiple users connected to a website", without misappropriating SCO's valuable intellectual property."
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!!!!
I don't spend my days reading what RMS has said lately
You don't?
You do realize this is Slashdot, don't you?
As a final note, the hospital is already liable, because the woman sent patient records to the hospital via email. Unless the email was encrypted and only opened by the doctors giving care to the patients in record, then the hospital is liable. I expect the government will begin an investigation shortly, and the hospital will be fined within a year.
There's the possibility this isn't true at all. Hospitals/Clinics/Primary Care Physicians/etc can require patients to sign a waiver form, stating that certain named people, or certain classes of people, may access their records, that the patient understands this, and that the patient condones this. If the patient does not sign, then the medical facility can refuse service.
If this hospital has such a signed document, they may not be liable for that particular infraction (That of someone other than the doctor giving the patient their care opening the medical records via email).
America was formed on Christian principles, not Buddhist principles. It is a Christian country and it is defined and based on those assumptions. If you change that, then the assumptions loose their value. If you can change those assumptions, you can deny people their rights.
This argument seriously makes me angry. To state, I'm not a member of any organized religion... They piss me off.
Anyways, it smacks of the very religous elitism that caused the founders of this country to do things the way they did (That of the English church , complete with the First Amendment barring Congress from making a law respecting an establishment of religion.
If this is a Christian country, based on Christian assumptions, what exactly are those assumptions? Which flavor of Christianity are they based on? Many people before have decided they don't like the assumptions of a given Christian denomination. The first example that springs to mind is Martin Luther, nailing his writings up on the door of a church. Christian assumptions are not always the best assumptions. Unless you condone the Crusades, the Inquisition, the rank corruption that has been in the majority denominations, the various pedophile Catholic priests, the various Baptist preachers that have been caught with their hands in the offering plates, and many other low lights in the history of humanity. Such examples are hardly shining beacons of standing up for someone's rights.
It constantly amazes me that people say that since the country was founded on religion of one sort or another, the principles are intrinsically tied to religion. Personally, I'm more inclined to agree with the statement that it was founded on a mish-mash of different Christian religions, but the thoughts and ideals that it was founded on transcended any one religion. But, since you've tied the principles of the country to that of Christianity, it seems that you're implicitly saying that no one besides Christians can share in those principles. I'm glad that, according to you, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, and the myriad of other people out there that aren't Christians cannot partake in the ideals that the country was based on. Which I find rather funny, considering I have friends who are Muslims, and love this country with a passion.
Some religious ideals I can agree with, such as most religions having proscriptions against killing people, stealing, etc. Because those are concepts in religion does not mean that they are only religious concepts. There are plenty of animals that will not kill their own. You will face consequences if you try to steal an animal's food. Neither of these concepts are outrageous, or require praying to understand.
Basically, if you are going to say that the country is defined by and on Christian assumptions and concepts, I ask you to define, precisely, what those assumptions and concepts are. Then prove to me why, if you keep the assumptions and concepts while divorcing the religious aspect, why they all of a sudden fall down like a house of cards.
.... in the MediaMax boardrooms ....
... But... the key is right there! It's hanging on the wall, with a sign! How are you going to keep the evil nasty filthy hacker pirates out?!
... that's... GENIUS! Let's sell this to everyone! We'll be rich!!
Manager : But
Marketroid : Bob down in Engineering just explained it all to me, and I came up with this campaign. This one is pure genius, you'll just love it! We have the lock, the placard, the sign, everything... The thing of it is, turning the key counterclockwise does nothing.. You have to actually turn the key clockwise!
Manager 1 : That's
And if Sharman loses, it might lead to EULA's being declared illegal.... I like it either way.
LSD... BSD... What's a letter here and there?
Well.. Jennifer Lopez can come over to my place and breed with me. I'd be ok with that.
I hope not... I've seen what SeaLab turns into in 2020.. And then when they go stir crazy in 2021.
Diagnose their systems this very minute? Screw the systems, there's /. to read!!