Re:Arent there any mandatory insurances in the US?
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Linuxgruven Deorbits
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That would be so great! I could live on 60% of my income for 6 months, no problem. Plus a "3 salaries" severance check -- I could go to Jamaica, hang out on the beach for a couple of months, smoke pot every day, get a great tan, then go back to work. In fact, I could set up a company, hire my buddies, work for six months, go bankrupt, then six months later, one of them could set up a contracting company, hire me for six months, go bankrupt, then one of my other budz could set up the company... Man! we could do that for ages! Where can I sign up? Oh, do we have to speak German?
I would think that once a little fire started, the fact that the oxygen is cold wouldn't matter for long. The concern that I had about CO2 is that it is heavier than air, invisible, odorless, and displaces oxygen. Time for a big Doh! on the liquid factor, I did know that. Still, dry ice is transported by truck, isn't it? Didn't we have a big volcanic CO2-fart somewhere a few years back that wiped out a whole town? Or am I hallucinating again?
Did you know that the CEO, CTO, and one of the VPs were in those positions less than two months? They inherited the "train-to-hire" program that was part of Linuxgruven from the beginning. The CFO worked for the company less than two hours. It is pretty safe to assume that these people were set-up.
Very possibly. That's why I said I want to see what they do next. Who hired the CFO? Was it the founders alone, or did the CEO help.
This, they say, explains why cats survive falls from high buildings and why they are said to have "nine lives". Exposure to similar sound frequencies is known to improve bone density in humans.
This, they say, explains why mosh-divers survive leaps into crowds of drunken rock fans.
Could someone please post the names of the the CTO, COO and CFO of Linuxgruven? I'd like to see where they go next. It's been a little hobby of mine for about a decade or so. It seems to me that the public has a pretty short memory or else an awful lot of tolerance for screwups at the executive level. It seems that some executives destroy company after company after company. I don't know whether that's just coincidence or not -- most people don't live long enough to run enough companies to draw statistically valid conclusions without a *lot* of data, which I haven't gathered yet. Anyway -- this information doesn't seem to exist on their web site (not even in google's cache) and I can't find any mention of these people in newsgroups or on the web...
Interesting attitudes. Could you tell us something about the safety protocols around liquid oxygen? Seems to me that would be a lot more dangerous than liquid hydrogen. What about CO2?
Re:More important than it may seem
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While it's true that there are some spots on the chip that run hotter than others, keep in mind that this actually consumes additional power to provide that localised cooling. Therefore, it cools hot spots at the expense of heating up the whole chip. So it's not a pancea for, eg, the heating problems facing a rackmounted server. (And since this has to be designed into the chip, it's obviously of little use to the home overcoo^H^Hlocker.)
This technology would be useful for creating that 2GHz P4, but the thing would be hotter than a Kenner EZBake Oven, and it would be very difficult to get that heat out of the case before it cooked some other components.
If you used a "global" filesystem, like GFS or coda or AFS or something similar, all your content, bookmarks, email, everything, would be available to you anywhere.
Why screw around trying to fix one application at a time?
first off, trying to consolidate everything into a single authenticator is not a problem of biometrics. What you're looking for is something called "single sign-on", in which a single authenticator can be used to obtain authorization for a variety of different services. It's been a couple of years since I worked in that field, but in 1996 or so, IBM was doing some interesting work. I think they called their product something creative, like, GSO (Global Sign On). They did support the systems you named, and they provided an interface to develop authentication hooks for the other systems.
Now, if you want that single authentication process to include a biometric scan or hardware token, that would be sorted out after you design (or even implement) the single signon infrastructure.
So is the CDDB still accepting new entries from random people? What if the new entries collide with something else in the database already? In the event that the new entries don't collide, is there any validation done?
... I think it's time to start submitting some CDDB entries.
Why those incredible assaults come from countries where individual rights are paramount???? France doesn't have as high a reputation for individual rights as anglo-saxon countries, yet there are no widespread perception of wholesale government spying on and impersonating their citizens!!!!
Yeah, not for at least a hundred years! Ok, 75. No? Would you believe 50? Ok, 50. Sheesh, I know lots of people who are older than that. I hope to be older than that somebody, myself, and without having to live through my goverment spying on and/or impersonating me as they might well have done 50 years ago.
Mopeds don't really run clean, though. Maybe an electric moped would be better. My vote is for "if you really want to save the environment, walk, or ride a bike. Voluntarily limit yourself to 6000 automotive miles / year, and live within that limit."
Re:This ought to really catch on with Republicans
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Fiddler on the RUF
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I thought the Cato Institute were libertarians, not Republicans. There *is* a difference. Libertarians are much more pro-geek than Republicans.
That's what it what was written for, and it's pretty good. - "one-button" compilation,without moving your hands off the keyboard - integrated debugger (of your choice) - integrated source-browser (for instance, the id-tools: mkid, gid, aid, lid, etc). - integrated FTP (ange-ftp) - integrated web-browsing - fully extensible using a widely-known language - integrated source-control (rcs,cvs,perforce,cml,whatever)
It may not be point-n-clickity, but you're a programmer for god's sake, not a luser. Bite the bullet, face the learning curve, you'll be a better geek for it.
This is (was?) Roger Penrose's postulate as to why true AI was not possible -- because the human brain has truly random processes, and computers do not. His theory, not mine. I think it's hogwash.
I wrote a simple procmail script in the wake of ILOVEYOU that nails any attachment with active content and drops it on the floor. So far, it has trapped a few hundred copies of various.vbs or.exe viruses, and a dozen stupid flash animations, and two legitimately useful.exe files (which the users found another way to obtain) It's not hard to do, but since then, somebody else has put together something much more full-featured called html-trap.procmail. It's on freshmeat, and it does all that and more. Personally, I haven't quite got around to putting it into place because I want to customize it a bit.
Who needs checksums or signatures? That will only catch known viruses, it won't help you with the brand-new ones. To do that, ban active content in email. You'll be happier in the long run.
It's not enough that they "firmly believe their cause is noble and right," they must also be right. I think you've been confused by the relativists, who argue that we cannot determine right, but must rely on noble intent alone.
All data is encrypted, unless it is within a tamper-proof package. Basically, all your base are belong to.. Um, I mean, all your components are controlled by the media conglomerates, and they treat the bus, network, video cable and audio cables as though they are insecure channels. So "your PC" doesn't figure out how to execute the code, it's your "Intel Pentium 7" that figures out how to execute the code, after negotiating a session key with your disk drive.
(note to pedants, I am describing the next generation of CPRM, the current one isn't quite this strong.)
Look for "X multiplex", for example. There are a couple of different ways to do this, that have been around for a long time. One of them is named xmx. Another might be called xmove, or xmond. I haven't used them recently, but I did some stuff like this with XFree86.3.*
My guess is that it's really fairly poor speaker independent stuff. It probably does a quick, low quality word recognition algorithm
It doesn't always have to be speaker-independent. Since it doesn't have to be real-time, all you need to do is identify the speaker, and then start over. If we're really talking about TV and radio sources, then there are going to be a large number of regularly-appearing speakers. Just a SWAG, but I'll bet that under a million people account for 80% of all the TV and radio minutes worldwide.
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That would be so great! I could live on 60% of my income for 6 months, no problem. Plus a "3 salaries" severance check -- I could go to Jamaica, hang out on the beach for a couple of months, smoke pot every day, get a great tan, then go back to work.
In fact, I could set up a company, hire my buddies, work for six months, go bankrupt, then six months later, one of them could set up a contracting company, hire me for six months, go bankrupt, then one of my other budz could set up the company... Man! we could do that for ages!
Where can I sign up? Oh, do we have to speak German?
I would think that once a little fire started, the fact that the oxygen is cold wouldn't matter for long.
The concern that I had about CO2 is that it is heavier than air, invisible, odorless, and displaces oxygen. Time for a big Doh! on the liquid factor, I did know that. Still, dry ice is transported by truck, isn't it? Didn't we have a big volcanic CO2-fart somewhere a few years back that wiped out a whole town? Or am I hallucinating again?
Did you know that the CEO, CTO, and one of the VPs were in those positions less than two months? They inherited the "train-to-hire" program that was part of Linuxgruven from the beginning. The CFO worked for the company less than two hours. It is pretty safe to assume that these people were set-up.
Very possibly. That's why I said I want to see what they do next.
Who hired the CFO? Was it the founders alone, or did the CEO help.
This, they say, explains why cats survive falls from high buildings and why they are said to have "nine lives". Exposure to similar sound frequencies is known to improve bone density in humans.
This, they say, explains why mosh-divers survive leaps into crowds of drunken rock fans.
Could someone please post the names of the the CTO, COO and CFO of Linuxgruven? I'd like to see where they go next. It's been a little hobby of mine for about a decade or so. It seems to me that the public has a pretty short memory or else an awful lot of tolerance for screwups at the executive level. It seems that some executives destroy company after company after company. I don't know whether that's just coincidence or not -- most people don't live long enough to run enough companies to draw statistically valid conclusions without a *lot* of data, which I haven't gathered yet. Anyway -- this information doesn't seem to exist on their web site (not even in google's cache) and I can't find any mention of these people in newsgroups or on the web...
Interesting attitudes. Could you tell us something about the safety protocols around liquid oxygen? Seems to me that would be a lot more dangerous than liquid hydrogen. What about CO2?
While it's true that there are some spots on the chip that run hotter than others, keep in mind that this actually consumes additional power to provide that localised cooling. Therefore, it cools hot spots at the expense of heating up the whole chip. So it's not a pancea for, eg, the heating problems facing a rackmounted server. (And since this has to be designed into the chip, it's obviously of little use to the home overcoo^H^Hlocker.)
This technology would be useful for creating that 2GHz P4, but the thing would be hotter than a Kenner EZBake Oven, and it would be very difficult to get that heat out of the case before it cooked some other components.
If you used a "global" filesystem, like GFS or coda or AFS or something similar, all your content, bookmarks, email, everything, would be available to you anywhere.
Why screw around trying to fix one application at a time?
first off, trying to consolidate everything into a single authenticator is not a problem of biometrics. What you're looking for is something called "single sign-on", in which a single authenticator can be used to obtain authorization for a variety of different services. It's been a couple of years since I worked in that field, but in 1996 or so, IBM was doing some interesting work. I think they called their product something creative, like, GSO (Global Sign On). They did support the systems you named, and they provided an interface to develop authentication hooks for the other systems.
Now, if you want that single authentication process to include a biometric scan or hardware token, that would be sorted out after you design (or even implement) the single signon infrastructure.
So is the CDDB still accepting new entries from random people? What if the new entries collide with something else in the database already? In the event that the new entries don't collide, is there any validation done?
... I think it's time to start submitting some CDDB entries.
Why those incredible assaults come from countries where individual rights are paramount???? France doesn't have as high a reputation for individual rights as anglo-saxon countries, yet there are no widespread perception of wholesale government spying on and impersonating their citizens!!!!
Yeah, not for at least a hundred years! Ok, 75. No? Would you believe 50? Ok, 50.
Sheesh, I know lots of people who are older than that. I hope to be older than that somebody, myself, and without having to live through my goverment spying on and/or impersonating me as they might well have done 50 years ago.
Mopeds don't really run clean, though. Maybe an electric moped would be better. My vote is for "if you really want to save the environment, walk, or ride a bike. Voluntarily limit yourself to 6000 automotive miles / year, and live within that limit."
I thought the Cato Institute were libertarians, not Republicans. There *is* a difference. Libertarians are much more pro-geek than Republicans.
That's what it what was written for, and it's pretty good.
- "one-button" compilation,without moving your hands off the keyboard
- integrated debugger (of your choice)
- integrated source-browser (for instance, the id-tools: mkid, gid, aid, lid, etc).
- integrated FTP (ange-ftp)
- integrated web-browsing
- fully extensible using a widely-known language
- integrated source-control (rcs,cvs,perforce,cml,whatever)
It may not be point-n-clickity, but you're a programmer for god's sake, not a luser. Bite the bullet, face the learning curve, you'll be a better geek for it.
In fact, turn off the damned ESPN entirely. Give me the Sci-Fi Channel, 24/7.
This is (was?) Roger Penrose's postulate as to why true AI was not possible -- because the human brain has truly random processes, and computers do not. His theory, not mine. I think it's hogwash.
It's tempting to do a Junkbuster patch - just needs a separate lookup on www.netcraft.com
Why? Junkbuster can look at the "Server" response-header all by itself. It doesn't need netcraft for this.
I wrote a simple procmail script in the wake of ILOVEYOU that nails any attachment with active content and drops it on the floor. So far, it has trapped a few hundred copies of various .vbs or .exe viruses, and a dozen stupid flash animations, and two legitimately useful .exe files (which the users found another way to obtain) It's not hard to do, but since then, somebody else has put together something much more full-featured called html-trap.procmail. It's on freshmeat, and it does all that and more. Personally, I haven't quite got around to putting it into place because I want to customize it a bit.
Who needs checksums or signatures? That will only catch known viruses, it won't help you with the brand-new ones. To do that, ban active content in email. You'll be happier in the long run.
It's not enough that they "firmly believe their cause is noble and right," they must also be right. I think you've been confused by the relativists, who argue that we cannot determine right, but must rely on noble intent alone.
All data is encrypted, unless it is within a tamper-proof package. Basically, all your base are belong to.. Um, I mean, all your components are controlled by the media conglomerates, and they treat the bus, network, video cable and audio cables as though they are insecure channels. So "your PC" doesn't figure out how to execute the code, it's your "Intel Pentium 7" that figures out how to execute the code, after negotiating a session key with your disk drive.
(note to pedants, I am describing the next generation of CPRM, the current one isn't quite this strong.)
The time has come for the motion picture studios to present a proposal along these lines to the manufacturers of recording equipment.
Tellingly, he seems to view the world only in terms of the clash of corporate interests. Whatever happened to the citizens?
IPsec
CIPE
SSH
Basically, if you treat the wireless LAN as untrusted, and think about it that way, there are natural solutions that will present themselves.
But google is your friend.
Look for "X multiplex", for example.
There are a couple of different ways to do this, that have been around for a long time. One of them is named xmx. Another might be called xmove, or xmond. I haven't used them recently, but I did some stuff like this with XFree86.3.*
My guess is that it's really fairly poor speaker independent stuff. It probably does a quick, low quality word recognition algorithm
It doesn't always have to be speaker-independent. Since it doesn't have to be real-time, all you need to do is identify the speaker, and then start over. If we're really talking about TV and radio sources, then there are going to be a large number of regularly-appearing speakers. Just a SWAG, but I'll bet that under a million people account for 80% of all the TV and radio minutes worldwide.
The theory is that the Russian submarine Kursk was testing this technology (in the form of a torpedo) when it suffered its fatal explosion.
That's why there was a US Sub nearby, cuz we were snooping on the test.