War has a point . . . and it is at least as reasonable as most human activities.
War is as reasonable as most human activities? If you were an Iraqi soldier in the Gulf War, getting slaughtered by Americans, would you still think so?
The goal of warfare is to defeat the enemy; killing them is "merely" an expensive, risky, means of doing so.
Look, my major problem (well, one of my major problems, anyway) with war is this: the individual soldier on the ground, getting killed, does not have any say whatever on the policies of his/her government that started the war in the first place. Maybe some young German in the early '40s thought World Domination was not such a great idea. Can he just call up Hitler and say, "Um, sir, I'm not gonna get killed for this"? No, of course not! My gripe is that when we have a problem with the leadership of a foreign country, we murder (and I'm going to stick with that word) the individual 20-year old soldiers who don't really have anything to do with the issue. And for the record, I'm not in favor of political assasination either. As you might've guessed, I'm not really in favor of any sort of killing. And let's not even talk about the civillian deaths that seem to keep ocurring in modern warfare...
This post was marked 'funny' for some reason, but MobileC is right on... War is utterly pointless and beyond reason or law. murder, which is generally considered the worst crime in society, is *legal* in a war. Go figure.
Three cheers for me being offtopic, but, anyway...
Yes, Why I've even heard that some of our prisons only have BASIC cable!!! How do they live like that. Seriously, I don't think THAT is one of our problems, I'm way more concerned with conditions in our schools and cities.
If you think conditions in American prisons are so nice, go live in one for a couple months, [try this in a state prison, preferably one owned by a 'prison-for-profit' company] and tell us what you think when you get out.
As I understand it, the MP3s in question were not posted on the web but rather placed in shared folders on private computers. By my [weak] understanding of the law, that's less of the university's fault than putting them on a university-administered webserver.
My university's webserver is down at the moment [almost certainly for entirely unrelated reasons], so I can't check the policy here for further elucidation as to exactly what I signed when I signed up for Ethernet access.
Ok, I know this's been said before, but I actually bothered to read >90% of the whole damn thing, so I'm gonna post my comments whether you like it or not.
Basically, the Judge seems to know what he's talking about. It's awfully verbose and legalese-filled, but I'd hardly expect anything else on a document written by a judge in an important case. Anyway, the judge shows us exactly what MS did that's monopolistic; the two chief examples are MSIE promotion and Java extensions. And it seems to me a quite reasonable set of facts that have been found. We'll see what all this means whenever the next decision is made. (How long'll that take? Any ideas?)
Sorry to be rude, but if you bothered to create an account and log in to it, you could set a preference to not see any MS stories. Then those of us who see the relevance of this issue could still read about it, and you wouldn't have to.
an unrealistically high rate of, say, 10^4 (ten thousand) keys a second
I don't think that's unrealistically high at all. In fact, my Pentium II-333 is cracking 872 kilokeys in a second for distributed.net. Assuming that 40bit keys are easier to crack than 64bit keys and someone has slightly faster hardware than I do, they could easily reach a million keys in a second, likely more. Given that one could easily crack 10^6 keys in a second, it'd take only 10^6 seconds using your figures, which is only about 11 days. If we could reach 10^7 keys/second (not completely unreasonable, IMHO), it'd take only 10^5 seconds, or slightly more than a day.
Our LINUX-ZERO is SO ADVANCE, it exists EVERYWHERE and yet it requires NOTHING to run on, and it produces ABSOLUTELY NO SIDE EFFECT !!!
Hmm. Sounds like this distribution could target the Zen Buddhist segment of the Linux market. Perhaps it's be popular in Asia, or among students searching for meaning in their lives.
Um.... don't you think the 'right' answers would be a little less obvious? Even if the people making this test aren't perfect, they're almost certainly not that stupid, either.
It appears to be just some kind of UNIX/Linux/whatever system with some text strings changed. Instead of "Login:", we have "READY."; instead of "Password:", we have "10 PRINT""; instead of "Login Incorrect", we have "?Syntax error". Playing around with it for about 30 seconds, I did manage to make it say "Your kerberos account has expired.", which I don't think is quite the norm for a C64.
Massachussetts has always been a commonwealth (although not a Dot Commonwealth) - if you visit the Official Website of the Commonwealth of Massachussetts, you will see the word commonwealth all over the place. Looking around the website, I couldn't find an official explanation (though I'm sure it's there somewhere), but I did find out that our legislators have nothing better to do than create an official State Ceremonial March. If I remember my high school history classes correctly, there's no difference between a commonwealth and a state, someone it just thought it sounded funkier some 200+ yrs ago.
(im in the UK, so it doesnt affect me, sorry) At least officially, the CIA and NSA are only allowed to deal with foreign 'threats,' so, actually, it would affect you more than it would affect the average US/.er.
Of course it's not geard towards newbies. Compaq is trying to show nerds how fast their systems are, not newbies how easy Linux is. They sell boxes, not OSes; their target is technical people who already know UNIX but want to be amazed by the power of the Alpha. [And I must admit, it's pretty fast, though I haven't really tried too hard yet.]
Hm. Physics I: Wattage is a measure of power. 1 Watt = 1 Joule / sec. Using a 100-watt bulb for an hour is 0.1 kWh as your electric company bills it.
My current laptop (a Sony Vaio PCG-F270), according to the specs, draws 80 watts maximum; however, the 38.48 Wh battery lasts for about 2 hours (short, I know, but I leave it plugged in most of the time), which indicates an average power draw of about 19 W. I'm sure this has some relevance, but I'm not quite sure what.
This system was probably thought up by lawyers working with accountants. If the most confusing thing about it is the name, they've done a damn good job.
Hm. If one plugged the pass-through serial unit into a Pilot-modem cable, it shouldn't be too difficult to write software to make it go. One might even be able to make it work with the cradle. Kind of interesting...
If MS wants to give an OS away for free, we can't really complain. Although we'd prefer source code, getting a buggy OS for free is better than getting a buggy OS for $70. Then again, I doubt MS would ever be so generous.
On the Cutting Edge Linux page, it says to disable bdflush when installing the new kernel. Could someone explain exactly what this does, and why I have to disable it now?
I painted my PalmPilot w/ enamel paint (designed to paint models, etc., I think the stuff I have was made by Testor) and it came out allright. I just painted very very carefully and avoided the screen, buttons, etc. Although, the paint comes in small bottles with a tiny brush and I don't think that I'd have the patience to paint an entire laptop.
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War is as reasonable as most human activities? If you were an Iraqi soldier in the Gulf War, getting slaughtered by Americans, would you still think so?
The goal of warfare is to defeat the enemy; killing them is "merely" an expensive, risky, means of doing so.
Look, my major problem (well, one of my major problems, anyway) with war is this: the individual soldier on the ground, getting killed, does not have any say whatever on the policies of his/her government that started the war in the first place. Maybe some young German in the early '40s thought World Domination was not such a great idea. Can he just call up Hitler and say, "Um, sir, I'm not gonna get killed for this"? No, of course not! My gripe is that when we have a problem with the leadership of a foreign country, we murder (and I'm going to stick with that word) the individual 20-year old soldiers who don't really have anything to do with the issue. And for the record, I'm not in favor of political assasination either. As you might've guessed, I'm not really in favor of any sort of killing. And let's not even talk about the civillian deaths that seem to keep ocurring in modern warfare...
This post was marked 'funny' for some reason, but MobileC is right on... War is utterly pointless and beyond reason or law. murder, which is generally considered the worst crime in society, is *legal* in a war. Go figure.
Yes, Why I've even heard that some of our prisons only have BASIC cable!!! How do they live like that.
Seriously, I don't think THAT is one of our problems, I'm way more concerned with conditions in our schools and cities.
If you think conditions in American prisons are so nice, go live in one for a couple months, [try this in a state prison, preferably one owned by a 'prison-for-profit' company] and tell us what you think when you get out.
My university's webserver is down at the moment [almost certainly for entirely unrelated reasons], so I can't check the policy here for further elucidation as to exactly what I signed when I signed up for Ethernet access.
This reminds me of the Boston Museum of Science's Theater of Electricity... very neat.
Basically, the Judge seems to know what he's talking about. It's awfully verbose and legalese-filled, but I'd hardly expect anything else on a document written by a judge in an important case. Anyway, the judge shows us exactly what MS did that's monopolistic; the two chief examples are MSIE promotion and Java extensions. And it seems to me a quite reasonable set of facts that have been found. We'll see what all this means whenever the next decision is made. (How long'll that take? Any ideas?)
Sorry to be rude, but if you bothered to create an account and log in to it, you could set a preference to not see any MS stories. Then those of us who see the relevance of this issue could still read about it, and you wouldn't have to.
I don't think that's unrealistically high at all. In fact, my Pentium II-333 is cracking 872 kilokeys in a second for distributed.net. Assuming that 40bit keys are easier to crack than 64bit keys and someone has slightly faster hardware than I do, they could easily reach a million keys in a second, likely more. Given that one could easily crack 10^6 keys in a second, it'd take only 10^6 seconds using your figures, which is only about 11 days. If we could reach 10^7 keys/second (not completely unreasonable, IMHO), it'd take only 10^5 seconds, or slightly more than a day.
Um.... don't you think the 'right' answers would be a little less obvious? Even if the people making this test aren't perfect, they're almost certainly not that stupid, either.
It appears to be just some kind of UNIX/Linux/whatever system with some text strings changed. Instead of "Login:", we have "READY."; instead of "Password:", we have "10 PRINT""; instead of "Login Incorrect", we have "?Syntax error". Playing around with it for about 30 seconds, I did manage to make it say "Your kerberos account has expired.", which I don't think is quite the norm for a C64.
Massachussetts has always been a commonwealth (although not a Dot Commonwealth) - if you visit the Official Website of the Commonwealth of Massachussetts, you will see the word commonwealth all over the place. Looking around the website, I couldn't find an official explanation (though I'm sure it's there somewhere), but I did find out that our legislators have nothing better to do than create an official State Ceremonial March. If I remember my high school history classes correctly, there's no difference between a commonwealth and a state, someone it just thought it sounded funkier some 200+ yrs ago.
(im in the UK, so it doesnt affect me, sorry) At least officially, the CIA and NSA are only allowed to deal with foreign 'threats,' so, actually, it would affect you more than it would affect the average US /.er.
If there's more than one of something, it's no longer a single object. This applies also for points of failure.
Of course it's not geard towards newbies. Compaq is trying to show nerds how fast their systems are, not newbies how easy Linux is. They sell boxes, not OSes; their target is technical people who already know UNIX but want to be amazed by the power of the Alpha. [And I must admit, it's pretty fast, though I haven't really tried too hard yet.]
My current laptop (a Sony Vaio PCG-F270), according to the specs, draws 80 watts maximum; however, the 38.48 Wh battery lasts for about 2 hours (short, I know, but I leave it plugged in most of the time), which indicates an average power draw of about 19 W. I'm sure this has some relevance, but I'm not quite sure what.
This system was probably thought up by lawyers working with accountants. If the most confusing thing about it is the name, they've done a damn good job.
Hm. If one plugged the pass-through serial unit into a Pilot-modem cable, it shouldn't be too difficult to write software to make it go. One might even be able to make it work with the cradle. Kind of interesting...
If MS wants to give an OS away for free, we can't really complain. Although we'd prefer source code, getting a buggy OS for free is better than getting a buggy OS for $70. Then again, I doubt MS would ever be so generous.
For those of us who don't have the disk space needed to recompile the kernel, debs are nice.
On the Cutting Edge Linux page, it says to disable bdflush when installing the new kernel. Could someone explain exactly what this does, and why I have to disable it now?
I painted my PalmPilot w/ enamel paint (designed to paint models, etc., I think the stuff I have was made by Testor) and it came out allright. I just painted very very carefully and avoided the screen, buttons, etc. Although, the paint comes in small bottles with a tiny brush and I don't think that I'd have the patience to paint an entire laptop.