TrollMods can't agree on which way they prefer to deny the way incompatible SQL screws them. Sounds like competing DB astroturf teams.
Slashdot seems to have institutionalized the equation of "criticism = flamebait". If Mods had to write a reason why they downmodded, it might slow down the trolls among them, or just give MetaMods something to make their job easier.
In the moment that it absorbs the impact, the armor will become a skintight shell, while the human within keeps moving. That's got to hurt. Articulations would solve it, but that's a very complex material, either self-articulating or jumping across articulations in an integument carrying tiles.
Although SQL is defined by both ANSI and ISO, there are many extensions to and variations on the version of the language defined by these standards bodies. Many of these extensions are of a proprietary nature, such as Oracle Corporation's PL/SQL or Sybase, IBM's SQL PL (SQL Procedural Language) and Microsoft's Transact-SQL. It is also somewhat common for commercial implementations to omit support for basic features of the standard, such as the DATE or TIME data types, preferring some variant of their own. As a result, in contrast to ANSI C or ANSI Fortran, which can usually be ported from platform to platform without major structural changes, SQL code can rarely be ported between database systems without major modifications. There are several reasons for this lack of portability between database systems:
* the complexity and size of the SQL standard means that most databases do not implement the entire standard.
* the standard does not specify database behavior in several important areas (e.g. indexes), leaving it up to implementations of the standard to decide how to behave.
* the SQL standard precisely specifies the syntax that a conforming database system must implement. However, the standard's specification of the semantics of language constructs is less well-defined, leading to areas of ambiguity.
* many database vendors have large existing customer bases; where the SQL standard conflicts with the prior behavior of the vendor's database, the vendor may be unwilling to break backward compatibility.
* some believe the lack of compatibility between database systems is intentional in order to ensure vendor lock-in.
That's just the beginning of the very next section after the one you cited. A much longer section about incompatibility than the brief one you cited about the standard. That's why Oracle needs to learn about single interfaces at least as much as do Xen and VMWare.
So you get hit by a big slug, and all your clothes instantly stiffen with the absorbed energy, clubbing you across your whole body?
This tech will be really exciting when the stiffening material can leave creased joints for flexibility as the material stiffens.
It will have fully arrived when the material can combine nanoparticles upon impact, ejecting them back along the incoming vector of the impacting bullet. "Firing back" automatically.
I wish someone would get Xen and VMWare to work together for a single virtualization interface. Then they might be able to talk some sense into Oracle so there's a single SQL interface regardless of which SQL vendor or server or version or driver or language or OS...
The gas mileage on these things is going to suck, right when gas hits $10-20:gal when they finally arrive. Maybe jetpacks and flying cars will inspire inventors to produce alternate energy sources for them, just like Rudolf Diesel originally planned for the engine he invented.
When people do bad things, we can expect the police will arrest us. The cops almost never get arrested, certainly almost never go to jail.
If all you got for committing crime was a few days doing paperwork, or maybe getting fired, maybe you'd commit a lot more crimes. The crime rate would go up. Think about that the next time you see crime rates as reported by the police.
I think those false positives are just a means to an end. Along with counting them as "intercepted/suspected terrorists" (counted twice, no doubt). The ends are all the money to military contractors, namely Halliburton and the Carlyle Group. The Binladen construction company will probably get some subcontracts, likely in a joint venture with Dubai Ports World.
You mean the zionists who wrote the protocols? That would be the antisemitic Russian secret police, and the sickos like you who carry their torch.
We've had enough of you bigots winning for a while. Try redirecting your quivering antennae at the Bush government that is actually killing people every day, and try to earn back some humanity and respect.
There's no fine control over whether the government fights actual terrorism "outwards", or turns "inwards" into a police state. Fighting terrorism with war does both, while creating terrorism both outward and inward. That's why warmongers are terrorists, whether you're competing with other terrorists or not.
The more you fight terrorists with war, the more terror you make. And the more police state you make from the opportunists in our government who need terrorism to justify the police state that warmongers hand them.
Snap out of it. Don't get so excited at every military counterterrorist offering that just spirals the terrorism and police state out of control. That levelheadedness is the only way to defeat the terrorism, making the actual capture and even killing of actual terrorists more a cleanup operation than a perpetual war.
Oh, good, we've got nanosensors. Now we can stop overreacting maniacally to attacks, the wildfire of uncontrolled fear that destroys our freedom more than any bomb ever could. I can't wait to see our leaders appear on TV to tell us we can calm down.
Look, everything I'm writing applies as much to copyright as to patents and trademarks: intellectual property. The Constitution, which you asked me to clarify, doesn't distinguish between them. You're just trying to split hairs and look for rhetorical openings in my propositions. In a snotty way that adds nothing to this discussion, and in fact gets in the way quite a lot.
Go figure it out for yourself. You've worn out your welcome.
The KKKlan burns crosses on people's lawns (and then often beats them and/or burns their homes and even churches). Antiabortionists shoot doctors in Jesus' name; their fellow churchgoers beat gay people to death for the same god. The more religious the Israeli Jew, the more likely they are to want to kill their neighboring enemies in self defense. Hindus butcher Muslims in disputes over shared shrines. Buddhists look pretty peaceful, but in Vietnam they did a pretty good job defeating French, American and Chinese imperialism in a century of violent terrorism and war.
Of all of these, Christianity has the most fundamentally peaceful faith, but Christians have killed and wounded more people, including the tens of millions killed by Christians in WWII.
MLK was more than just Christian. He brought the Christian faith in peace and nonviolence to everyone, regardless of color or creed, without asking us to accept Jesus too. So we accepted Jesus' message without the religion, just as billions of people for millennia have accepted messages of Abraham, Moses, Mohammed, Krishna, and the Buddha. Because it's religion that kills, and faith that preserves. As long as we have faith in humans' humanity, we've got a chance. When we lose that faith in exchange for faith in some god, we're lost. When that god is just a cover for violent humans, we can lose it all.
What does my post have to do with the story of NASA websites defaced by Chilean vandals?
"Chileans vandalizing America when Israel attacks Lebanon".
A better question is "what does defending America, educating about terrorism, promoting enlightenment have to do with DKos?", or "what kid of jerk thinks that peace and nonescalation of wars is a "lefty circle jerk?". The answer is probably "Anonymous terrorist Cowards who love the fascists promoting war at every turn". Thanks for making that clear.
Anonymous terrorist Coward doesn't know anything except they want to deface some websites, like by posting stupid comments to them.
Did the epoxy joints, such a tiny but essential part of the Big Dig's engineering, originate in the plan that Gov. Michael Dukakis used to get the project approved and funded, or in the contracts that his successor, Gov. William Weld, awarded in Massachusetts?
When Martin Luther King led the nonviolent marches that pulled off a second American Revolution without a second Civil War, the marchers didn't trespass or tear down signs. That's why they changed the attitude and culture of America, which is the victory everyone needs in these conflicts. The victory that others who accepted or embraced violence lost, like Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, the Black Panthers, and all the hundreds of forgotten "freedom fighters". Even when their agenda and goals included important results that would be good for practically everyone, they polarized, alienated and pushed people into defensive positions on even indefensible parts of the status quo.
Chileans vandalizing America when Israel attacks Lebanon doesn't change anyone's minds for the better. It just escalates by a little bit the spiral of violence:
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The instant, complete stiffening makes your body bang into the now-rigid form of its last impression.
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TrollMods can't agree on which way they prefer to deny the way incompatible SQL screws them. Sounds like competing DB astroturf teams.
Slashdot seems to have institutionalized the equation of "criticism = flamebait". If Mods had to write a reason why they downmodded, it might slow down the trolls among them, or just give MetaMods something to make their job easier.
In the moment that it absorbs the impact, the armor will become a skintight shell, while the human within keeps moving. That's got to hurt. Articulations would solve it, but that's a very complex material, either self-articulating or jumping across articulations in an integument carrying tiles.
That's just the beginning of the very next section after the one you cited. A much longer section about incompatibility than the brief one you cited about the standard. That's why Oracle needs to learn about single interfaces at least as much as do Xen and VMWare.
So you get hit by a big slug, and all your clothes instantly stiffen with the absorbed energy, clubbing you across your whole body?
This tech will be really exciting when the stiffening material can leave creased joints for flexibility as the material stiffens.
It will have fully arrived when the material can combine nanoparticles upon impact, ejecting them back along the incoming vector of the impacting bullet. "Firing back" automatically.
I wish someone would get Xen and VMWare to work together for a single virtualization interface. Then they might be able to talk some sense into Oracle so there's a single SQL interface regardless of which SQL vendor or server or version or driver or language or OS...
Universal bigotry matches your nihilism. And your deep uptightness. How sad it must be to feel so alone. Go hug a teddybear or something.
The gas mileage on these things is going to suck, right when gas hits $10-20:gal when they finally arrive. Maybe jetpacks and flying cars will inspire inventors to produce alternate energy sources for them, just like Rudolf Diesel originally planned for the engine he invented.
Bernays' biography is illuminating.
More light can be found in The Mass Psychology of Fascism", by Wilhelm Reich in 1933.
When people do bad things, we can expect the police will arrest us. The cops almost never get arrested, certainly almost never go to jail.
If all you got for committing crime was a few days doing paperwork, or maybe getting fired, maybe you'd commit a lot more crimes. The crime rate would go up. Think about that the next time you see crime rates as reported by the police.
I think those false positives are just a means to an end. Along with counting them as "intercepted/suspected terrorists" (counted twice, no doubt). The ends are all the money to military contractors, namely Halliburton and the Carlyle Group. The Binladen construction company will probably get some subcontracts, likely in a joint venture with Dubai Ports World.
You mean the zionists who wrote the protocols? That would be the antisemitic Russian secret police, and the sickos like you who carry their torch.
We've had enough of you bigots winning for a while. Try redirecting your quivering antennae at the Bush government that is actually killing people every day, and try to earn back some humanity and respect.
Thank you, officer, for delivering my personal Rapture on time. Light me up!
There's no fine control over whether the government fights actual terrorism "outwards", or turns "inwards" into a police state. Fighting terrorism with war does both, while creating terrorism both outward and inward. That's why warmongers are terrorists, whether you're competing with other terrorists or not.
The more you fight terrorists with war, the more terror you make. And the more police state you make from the opportunists in our government who need terrorism to justify the police state that warmongers hand them.
Snap out of it. Don't get so excited at every military counterterrorist offering that just spirals the terrorism and police state out of control. That levelheadedness is the only way to defeat the terrorism, making the actual capture and even killing of actual terrorists more a cleanup operation than a perpetual war.
It's a cycle. Yoda and I are just highlighting those shiny points that are more easily seen by our respective novices.
Higher resolution:
Ignorance -> Fear -> Hate -> Anger -> Violence -> Suffering -> Alienation -> Ignorance
What would really help would be spelling out the mechanisms of all those "->" marks.
I thought the biggest flaw was their certification by states for use in actual elections.
I like the part best where these hybrids fund the R&D for pure transistor drives without moving parts.
Oh, good, we've got nanosensors. Now we can stop overreacting maniacally to attacks, the wildfire of uncontrolled fear that destroys our freedom more than any bomb ever could. I can't wait to see our leaders appear on TV to tell us we can calm down.
Look, everything I'm writing applies as much to copyright as to patents and trademarks: intellectual property. The Constitution, which you asked me to clarify, doesn't distinguish between them. You're just trying to split hairs and look for rhetorical openings in my propositions. In a snotty way that adds nothing to this discussion, and in fact gets in the way quite a lot.
Go figure it out for yourself. You've worn out your welcome.
Ditto to that dup.
The KKKlan burns crosses on people's lawns (and then often beats them and/or burns their homes and even churches). Antiabortionists shoot doctors in Jesus' name; their fellow churchgoers beat gay people to death for the same god. The more religious the Israeli Jew, the more likely they are to want to kill their neighboring enemies in self defense. Hindus butcher Muslims in disputes over shared shrines. Buddhists look pretty peaceful, but in Vietnam they did a pretty good job defeating French, American and Chinese imperialism in a century of violent terrorism and war.
Of all of these, Christianity has the most fundamentally peaceful faith, but Christians have killed and wounded more people, including the tens of millions killed by Christians in WWII.
MLK was more than just Christian. He brought the Christian faith in peace and nonviolence to everyone, regardless of color or creed, without asking us to accept Jesus too. So we accepted Jesus' message without the religion, just as billions of people for millennia have accepted messages of Abraham, Moses, Mohammed, Krishna, and the Buddha. Because it's religion that kills, and faith that preserves. As long as we have faith in humans' humanity, we've got a chance. When we lose that faith in exchange for faith in some god, we're lost. When that god is just a cover for violent humans, we can lose it all.
What does my post have to do with the story of NASA websites defaced by Chilean vandals?
"Chileans vandalizing America when Israel attacks Lebanon".
A better question is "what does defending America, educating about terrorism, promoting enlightenment have to do with DKos?", or "what kid of jerk thinks that peace and nonescalation of wars is a "lefty circle jerk?". The answer is probably "Anonymous terrorist Cowards who love the fascists promoting war at every turn". Thanks for making that clear.
Anonymous terrorist Coward doesn't know anything except they want to deface some websites, like by posting stupid comments to them.
How many petaFLOPS will IBM get out of a new Blue Gene made from Cell processors?
Did the epoxy joints, such a tiny but essential part of the Big Dig's engineering, originate in the plan that Gov. Michael Dukakis used to get the project approved and funded, or in the contracts that his successor, Gov. William Weld, awarded in Massachusetts?
When Martin Luther King led the nonviolent marches that pulled off a second American Revolution without a second Civil War, the marchers didn't trespass or tear down signs. That's why they changed the attitude and culture of America, which is the victory everyone needs in these conflicts. The victory that others who accepted or embraced violence lost, like Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, the Black Panthers, and all the hundreds of forgotten "freedom fighters". Even when their agenda and goals included important results that would be good for practically everyone, they polarized, alienated and pushed people into defensive positions on even indefensible parts of the status quo.
Chileans vandalizing America when Israel attacks Lebanon doesn't change anyone's minds for the better. It just escalates by a little bit the spiral of violence:
Ignorance -> Fear -> Anger -> Violence -> Alienation -> Ignorance
The central front in the Terror War is in our own minds, where that well-worn cycle can send us all to our doom.