The nice thing about "suspected" is that there doesn't even need to be an allegation!
"You know, that uncle Bob... I always suspected he done somethin' wrong." No need to have anyone actually come forward with evidence, you can just "suspect" that they did something.
Like that nasty Jimbo Wales. Did you know that he's a suspected war criminal? It's true! Someone suspects him!
How much of the "userland" experience has anything at all to do with GNU? Other than the GPL, are there any GNU utilities that are used in the day-to-day operation of this system?
Really, on a command-line GNU utilities are common; but in the GUI, most GNU utilities go completely unused. Especially with a custom GUI like this.
My company's web-managed product just uses self-signed, with the option to add a third-party signed if the customer is willing to pay for and install it themselves.
Most people I know, including many gamers, aren't using expensive headphones in a quiet environment.
Most are using either cheap headphones, or cheap speakers. Yes, some have higher-end speakers, but not a majority by far. No classical music, no country music, no jazz, no bluegrass, no.... you get the point. They picked a bunch of rock/alternative tracks. They didn't even do blind listening tests for games, movies, or anything other than rock/alternative music.
Oh well. At least the testers were a variety of "audiophile"-ness.
Sorry, but there are plenty of airline pilots of equal caliber, and Sully is a partisan hack. (I know nothing of his personal politics, other than he testified at a hearing against a friend of mine, when Sully had no personal involvement in the case at all. It was a union dispute. Long story short: Smaller but more successful airline bought larger but failing airline, saving the larger airline from certain death. When it came time for contract renewal, pilots from the larger/failing half basically wanted to dominate the pilots from the smaller/successful half. Pilots from the larger half created a new union for the sole purpose of getting around an agreement that was negative to their side. Sully, who had done his heroics then retired, testified on behalf of the larger half, even though he wasn't personally affected by the issue at hand at all, and was already retired.)
And he's very down-to-earth. I had a chance to mingle with him back when his brother (and Jeana Yeager) flew Voyager around the world. He was more than happy to let his brother take the lime light; but I was an Aerospace Engineering student, so I pestered him more than his brother.:-P
THAT is okay. Just having people present in local parks can cut down on crime. Wearing a stupid costume will just get the costume-wearer laughed at or beat up.
Oh, come on! How many of these people have actually prevented a crime, stopped a crime in action, or caught a perpetrator of a crime? Compare to how many have been beaten senseless trying? Compared to how many who have witnessed a crime, and were too chicken to do anything about it?
Reading through Wikipedia's "article" on "RLSH", I find a couple who do things that are honestly good. The lady who goes to bars to keep overly-drunk women from going home with losers is a good one. Most are just losers in stupid outfits.. Don't get me wrong, I would *LOVE* to be a real-life Batman, Spider-Man, or Iron Man. But I actually have both a sense of pride, and some brains; so I don't go prancing around in a stupid outfit trying to get myself mugged.
*Subject line courtesy "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog"
If they do this, only one company will need to declare bankruptcy!
(If I knew were I first read this, I'd attribute. Needless to say, this quote was from another messageboard somewhere when this first came up a couple months ago.)
In my building, the "Close door" elevator button works on the elevator that goes to the parking garage levels, but it's debatable if it does anything on the main elevators. Those seem to close so quickly, they are often closing before you have even pressed your floor button! It takes some insane impatience (and impressively fast floor-button-pushing,) to want them to close any faster than they already do.
Crosswalk buttons in Portland are a mixed bag. There are some that are ancient, and likely don't do anything, and there are some that are required to trigger the signal. Then there are a couple newly installed ones downtown that I don't know if they do anything or not. Most of downtown has no buttons, they just turn when the light turns; but there are a couple intersections where they added them. I'm so impatient I rarely wait for the signal, I just wait for traffic to die down (as is pretty much standard in Portland,) but I suppose some day I'll have to wait and see if it changes WITHOUT pushing the button.
When you load any page, it does an HTML login request, and goes to a 401 if you don't login.
For the home page, it does a whole bunch of login requests, and if you click cancel on each, you finally get their homepage.
A homepage where all new stories since yesterday require a password.
And even dopier, EVERY SINGLE STORY has a "Tweet this/Post to Facebook/Digg/Del.icio.us" set of links! Uh, if you don't want people to get to it, why do you provide that crap?!?!?
Even more impressive since the site in question wasn't even directly targeted;./ linked to a story ABOUT the site in question. So two clicks (the second one requiring at least two seconds of scanning to find) were necessary.
It's actually a Stephen Colbert quote. (I had to look it up, I knew it was a quote, hence my "as has been said", I just didn't remember who said it.)
My feeling on the matter is that conservatism is for static, unchanging - what we have now is good enough, why bother changing? Liberalism is for constant changing. The idea is that this constant change would be toward better (your idealism part,) but yeah, sometimes it doesn't turn out correctly (Japanese internment camps - Communist witch hunts anyone?)
And, yes, I am one of the "very few". I am firmly *AGAINST* protectionist tarrifs, but at the same time, I'm against rewarding companies for shipping jobs and production overseas.
My general philosophy is to make the government as lean as it can get. The government is here to "provide for the common good", so it should only do things that it can provide better than private enterprise. National security is one. A very limited "safety net" is another (and my definition of limited is far more restrictive than most.) But that said safety net should *NOT* be simply forcing people to invest in a private organization. Social Security needs to be more limited in scope, but it definitely needs to be government-run.
Likewise with healthcare. The government should provide "last resort" healthcare, but it should be available to *EVERYONE* who needs it. Emergency room visits are *NOT* the answer. If the only way to get it done is through nationalization/socialization, I would *VERY* grudgingly accept it, but I think that it can be done correctly without going anywhere near that far. My own home state of Oregon did it right with the "Oregon Health Plan" a while ago.
The government should not replace private industry (in any manner) where private industry is willing to provide to all. But if private industry is NOT willing to provide, then there must be some government allowance for it.
Note that this does *NOT* apply to all industries, by any stretch. The current FDIC structure is about the right balance - but the government should *NOT* hesitate to let even large banks fail if they are poorly run. And the only reason banks deserve that treatment is because they are the privatized "storage of wealth" sanctioned by the government. No other industry deserves this treatment. If an auto maker is on death's door, let's help out the employees who are suffering from it, but not bail out the company that deserves to die. (And I am the great-great-grandnephew of the founder of Chrysler. Chrysler should have been allowed to die.)
Note I said "liberal", not "progressive", not "Democratic Party", not either libertarian or "Libertarian".
The problem is that too many people confuse "fiscal responsibility" with "conservatism". Fiscal policy is separate from "liberal" and "conservative". I am *EXTREMELY* fiscally 'conservative'. But I'm also *EXTREMELY* liberal.
In fact, one could even argue that fiscal responsibility is, itself, liberal by definition.
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Facebook hasn't gone public. Facebook hasn't been sold.
Facebook could collapse tomorrow, and he wouldn't have more than whatever he has saved of his yearly salary recently...
I'd love to know how Zuckerberg thinks he's rich right now.
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The nice thing about "suspected" is that there doesn't even need to be an allegation!
"You know, that uncle Bob... I always suspected he done somethin' wrong." No need to have anyone actually come forward with evidence, you can just "suspect" that they did something.
Like that nasty Jimbo Wales. Did you know that he's a suspected war criminal? It's true! Someone suspects him!
How much of the "userland" experience has anything at all to do with GNU? Other than the GPL, are there any GNU utilities that are used in the day-to-day operation of this system?
Really, on a command-line GNU utilities are common; but in the GUI, most GNU utilities go completely unused. Especially with a custom GUI like this.
It was at w00tstock in Seattle. That was in May.
Once per browser, that is.
My company's web-managed product just uses self-signed, with the option to add a third-party signed if the customer is willing to pay for and install it themselves.
...and leave it at that.
Most people I know, including many gamers, aren't using expensive headphones in a quiet environment.
Most are using either cheap headphones, or cheap speakers. Yes, some have higher-end speakers, but not a majority by far. No classical music, no country music, no jazz, no bluegrass, no .... you get the point. They picked a bunch of rock/alternative tracks. They didn't even do blind listening tests for games, movies, or anything other than rock/alternative music.
Oh well. At least the testers were a variety of "audiophile"-ness.
This wasn't a filibuster. This was a committee member filing an objection in such a way that it will require the committee to bring it up again.
Which they very well might. It was mostly the timing (at the end of a congressional session,) that made the objection "fatal" to the bill.
Reference: Look up "ALPA vs. USAPA" for more information on the dispute. My friend's side has prevailed in every court hearing so far.
Sorry, but there are plenty of airline pilots of equal caliber, and Sully is a partisan hack. (I know nothing of his personal politics, other than he testified at a hearing against a friend of mine, when Sully had no personal involvement in the case at all. It was a union dispute. Long story short: Smaller but more successful airline bought larger but failing airline, saving the larger airline from certain death. When it came time for contract renewal, pilots from the larger/failing half basically wanted to dominate the pilots from the smaller/successful half. Pilots from the larger half created a new union for the sole purpose of getting around an agreement that was negative to their side. Sully, who had done his heroics then retired, testified on behalf of the larger half, even though he wasn't personally affected by the issue at hand at all, and was already retired.)
Thirded.
And he's very down-to-earth. I had a chance to mingle with him back when his brother (and Jeana Yeager) flew Voyager around the world. He was more than happy to let his brother take the lime light; but I was an Aerospace Engineering student, so I pestered him more than his brother. :-P
That was my thought. Simple is one thing, painful to use is another.
To more quickly prepare software for easily installation.....
THAT is okay. Just having people present in local parks can cut down on crime. Wearing a stupid costume will just get the costume-wearer laughed at or beat up.
"Real Life Super Heroes"?
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Oh, come on! How many of these people have actually prevented a crime, stopped a crime in action, or caught a perpetrator of a crime? Compare to how many have been beaten senseless trying? Compared to how many who have witnessed a crime, and were too chicken to do anything about it?
Reading through Wikipedia's "article" on "RLSH", I find a couple who do things that are honestly good. The lady who goes to bars to keep overly-drunk women from going home with losers is a good one. Most are just losers in stupid outfits.. Don't get me wrong, I would *LOVE* to be a real-life Batman, Spider-Man, or Iron Man. But I actually have both a sense of pride, and some brains; so I don't go prancing around in a stupid outfit trying to get myself mugged.
*Subject line courtesy "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog"
If they do this, only one company will need to declare bankruptcy!
(If I knew were I first read this, I'd attribute. Needless to say, this quote was from another messageboard somewhere when this first came up a couple months ago.)
In my building, the "Close door" elevator button works on the elevator that goes to the parking garage levels, but it's debatable if it does anything on the main elevators. Those seem to close so quickly, they are often closing before you have even pressed your floor button! It takes some insane impatience (and impressively fast floor-button-pushing,) to want them to close any faster than they already do.
Crosswalk buttons in Portland are a mixed bag. There are some that are ancient, and likely don't do anything, and there are some that are required to trigger the signal. Then there are a couple newly installed ones downtown that I don't know if they do anything or not. Most of downtown has no buttons, they just turn when the light turns; but there are a couple intersections where they added them. I'm so impatient I rarely wait for the signal, I just wait for traffic to die down (as is pretty much standard in Portland,) but I suppose some day I'll have to wait and see if it changes WITHOUT pushing the button.
Yup. Using Intel's AHCI/RAID drivers, in Windows 7 booted in EFI-native installer rather than BIOS installer, I can install directly to a >2 TB drive.
I have a three year old "Intel Desktop Board" that can boot via UEFI, boot to 2TB+ drives, etc.
It's not exactly new. (And I have a server from 2001
When you load any page, it does an HTML login request, and goes to a 401 if you don't login.
For the home page, it does a whole bunch of login requests, and if you click cancel on each, you finally get their homepage.
A homepage where all new stories since yesterday require a password.
And even dopier, EVERY SINGLE STORY has a "Tweet this/Post to Facebook/Digg/Del.icio.us" set of links! Uh, if you don't want people to get to it, why do you provide that crap?!?!?
If you hit "Cancel" enough, you get a page with just headlines, and a password prompt below each headline to read the article.
Yup, their website is about to die to to COMPLETE lack of usability.
Even more impressive since the site in question wasn't even directly targeted; ./ linked to a story ABOUT the site in question. So two clicks (the second one requiring at least two seconds of scanning to find) were necessary.
It's actually a Stephen Colbert quote. (I had to look it up, I knew it was a quote, hence my "as has been said", I just didn't remember who said it.)
My feeling on the matter is that conservatism is for static, unchanging - what we have now is good enough, why bother changing? Liberalism is for constant changing. The idea is that this constant change would be toward better (your idealism part,) but yeah, sometimes it doesn't turn out correctly (Japanese internment camps - Communist witch hunts anyone?)
And, yes, I am one of the "very few". I am firmly *AGAINST* protectionist tarrifs, but at the same time, I'm against rewarding companies for shipping jobs and production overseas.
My general philosophy is to make the government as lean as it can get. The government is here to "provide for the common good", so it should only do things that it can provide better than private enterprise. National security is one. A very limited "safety net" is another (and my definition of limited is far more restrictive than most.) But that said safety net should *NOT* be simply forcing people to invest in a private organization. Social Security needs to be more limited in scope, but it definitely needs to be government-run.
Likewise with healthcare. The government should provide "last resort" healthcare, but it should be available to *EVERYONE* who needs it. Emergency room visits are *NOT* the answer. If the only way to get it done is through nationalization/socialization, I would *VERY* grudgingly accept it, but I think that it can be done correctly without going anywhere near that far. My own home state of Oregon did it right with the "Oregon Health Plan" a while ago.
The government should not replace private industry (in any manner) where private industry is willing to provide to all. But if private industry is NOT willing to provide, then there must be some government allowance for it.
Note that this does *NOT* apply to all industries, by any stretch. The current FDIC structure is about the right balance - but the government should *NOT* hesitate to let even large banks fail if they are poorly run. And the only reason banks deserve that treatment is because they are the privatized "storage of wealth" sanctioned by the government. No other industry deserves this treatment. If an auto maker is on death's door, let's help out the employees who are suffering from it, but not bail out the company that deserves to die. (And I am the great-great-grandnephew of the founder of Chrysler. Chrysler should have been allowed to die.)
Note I said "liberal", not "progressive", not "Democratic Party", not either libertarian or "Libertarian".
The problem is that too many people confuse "fiscal responsibility" with "conservatism". Fiscal policy is separate from "liberal" and "conservative". I am *EXTREMELY* fiscally 'conservative'. But I'm also *EXTREMELY* liberal.
In fact, one could even argue that fiscal responsibility is, itself, liberal by definition.