AMD has never (or infrequently and briefly) ruled the market. Their often superior tech might sometimes "lead the pack", or even "lead the market" in the sense of directing development. But more people buy Intel desktop CPUs, which is what rules the market.
I remember when Steve Ciarcia reported in _Byte_ magazine on a RAM chip, its cover ripped off and replaced with a lens, offering a 256x128pxl (32Kpxl) imaging chip marketed by... Micron Technology.
TFA describes a tgz install, but Debian and Ubuntu have better package management. And lots of shoutcast and icecast servers are already installed, but need 3GP/RTSP support that Darwin provides.
That's not "Offtopic", anonymous coward TrollMod slashstalkers. How pathetic that you're compelled to attack my posts just because another one made you look like a fool.
A process for streaming AV to 3G mobile phones requires converting the AV to a 3G format: 3GP. A popular audio format conversion tool, sox, doesn't convert it. I ask when that tool can be used to "stream MythTV to your cell phone", and that's "Offtopic"?
TrollMod slashstalkers, phone home. Your mommy knows you need another spanking.
"We're hearing from federal law enforcement that they are getting more than one new case of online extortion each day"
Blue Security's network of over half a million hosts was dwarfed by a single Russian spammer.
Most spammers and extortionists perpetrate much more than a single act, using many hosts to launch the attacks. Certainly the Russian spammer is launching many attacks to justify their arsenal.
Why isn't the FBI and the State Department going after these attackers? Maybe they're too busy listening to American phone conversations. Those conversations must be very valuable, especially running up to elections...
Has anyone packaged the Darwin server in a Debian or Ubuntu.deb package? Has anyone got a Darwin server to act as a stream source for a shoutcast or icecast server?
Do you have a citation? I'd like the government to release the records, so we can decide for ourselves if we're bored. That's the skill in which Americans lead the world.
Your WTC7 site does wowrk to discredit some members of the ScholarsFor911Truth organization/website. But it does not question the integrity of the basic documents, especially the fundamental work of Steven Jones:
"instead of amplifying the excellent work of Steven Jones and some of the group's other researchers, it promises to undermine that work, and possibly the work of all scholars raising questions about the official story"
I have not researched the WTC7 site's membership and (possibly hidden) agenda. But their premise is that some low-quality (or downright bad) people have attached themselves to the good research challenging the official WTC collapse story. Their analysis is that the S911T group is probably deliberately poisoning the challenge story to discredit it - guilt by association. I think it's at least as likely that many of the losers are just hitching their wagons to the latest antigovernment wave, because their old careers denying or fighting even true government stories in the past is now preempted by the new, popular "9/11" story. None of which discredits the basic research the post to which you replied specified, or which I've read to seriously challenge the official story.
If every bad crazy could discredit a challenge to power by agreeing with it, noncrazy bad guys would recruit them all the time. That does happen, but we can distinguish between that trick and real defects in the challenge itself.
I agree with your rant about the system, the people, the limits of our choices and our career politicians. But those factors produce Republicans and Democrats who are different. Not different enough. And neither is generally "good". But Republicans are far worse. Compare Nixon and Bush to Johnson and Clinton. Compare the Cold War Democratic Congress to their successor Republican Congress - especially the Johnson/Democrat government to the Bush/Republican government. Republicans are much worse. For current differences in severe degree, Daily Kos runs stories documenting the difference. If you can find Republican promoters who can "balance" that with Democrats who are worse (on the facts, not just lies, innuendo and rhetoric), I'd like to see it. But I don't expect you will.
So until we change the system, we'll get much more dangerous career Republicans than Democrats. That's the difference we have to vote on for real in real elections.
The system would be much more balanced with a series of improvements. First, no donations by corporations whatsoever to politicians. Unions are corporations, as are parties and nonprofits, PACs, whatever. Only live humans can donate. No donations to individuals, either. All donations must be made by a human to a race, like the race for representative from a single district. All registered candidates can draw equally from the total donations. The donations/withdrawals are administered by the FEC, which can be audited by any candidate, the government, or watchdog group registered with the FEC. We'd see bribes drop, total donations drop, total campaign expenses drop, the media layer drop, and just enough money sent and received to ensure every candidate spends money that the people want them to use to get their message to their voters. So the return favors would drop to nearly nothing.
Every elected official should be audited every two years for life. That's about 30,000 officials nationwide, with a 50 year career window, for a maximum 750,000 audits a year. Reelections and late-start careers drop the number of audits; we're probably talking about 200,000 audits at average $5,000 apiece, for $1B every 2 years, $500M a year. Out of a $3-5T local+federal budget, that's 0.001%.
Make every elected official's salary automatically equal to the median income of their constituents - for life. With all other income prohibited, except investment in government securities. The only way to increase their income is to increase their constituents', even over decades. Pay their income for the rest of their life, regardless of reelection. Pay an extra term income bonus to any who forego reelection. We might not get the most talented people elected, but we'll get more people interested in the public service and power - and keep them from financial control by narrow interests. Criminal and civil penalties for wrongdoing will also deter them much more, without riches to cover those "business costs". And it will probably drop the audit cost to closer to $100M a year or less.
If we got all that under control and stabilized, we could fix the structure to account for what we've learned about voters over the past 200 years. We could add a lot more representatives. People like modern Americans can personally relate to at most 30,000 other people, like our town. So we need about 6700 representatives for about 200M American constituents (eligible voters). We could make voting first by mail, then by phone, then by Internet as we learn about the security of those systems, with voting booths in every post office and one or two alternate locations as final resort, during the entire month of November. With a second confirmation election in December, triggering a final election in January if not confirmed. When a district resizes beyond 20,000 or 40,000 November voters,
I'm not going to bother responding to an Anonymous Coward perpetuating the same Bush bullshit we've seen debunked for years. Especially when you start your screed with insistence that WMD were found in Iraq after our invasion, but don't actually link to them. Then proceed to demand I get facts, which I provided in quantity. Then wind up with some strawman about Bush staging the WTC/Pentagon attacks.
I've already wasted over 5 years dealing with you Bush apologists. When he was riding the popularity of a terrorized nation, it was necessary to confront your PR. Now that the last few wagons are circled, I'm more interested in talking with sensible people about how to rebuild the country, not argue with you about how badly you've trashed it.
The government has not reported even discovering the very tough boxes, let alone intact recordings. Though the boxes record on a metal tape designed to survive the firey crash, not the plastic stuff we use at home or a hard disk.
The point about steel's melting point is a reference to the steel that composed the towers, not the boxes. Some credible analyses of the towers' collapse point out that the burning jet fuel wasn't hot enough to melt the steel and collapse the towers.
FWIW, jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel.
Lots of plane parts were found mostly intact, without the toughness of the black boxes. I've read several reports, some firsthand, of witnesses in the crater seeing at least 2 or 3 of the 4 boxes (2 per plane) being discovered in the rubble. And other plane-borne material was discovered, including apparently one of the hijackkers' passport.
I didn't mention a government conspiracy to destroy the WTC and the Pentagon, or any of that other strawman crap you just made up, Anonymous prattling Coward. Mere insults are just the icing on the cake when calling out morons by citing the simple facts that are against Bush at every turn.
Judging from the other replies to your loaded response, I'm not the only one who sees right through the BushCo apology gibberish you're still spewing, even 5 years into Bush's catastrophic regime. But since it's fun kicking you fascists when you're down (past 29% like a stone), here's some more truth you can ignore.
First, I'm just going to ignore your "but Clinton..." crapola. I'll probably refer to Nixon, or maybe just drop his name as a background context here, but Clinton hasn't been president for over 5 years. Bush has had the whole government his whole miserable term, and your Republicans have had Congress for over a decade - including most of Clinton's term. The rest of the country recently reported that we prefer Clinton over Bush in every category we're asked. So save your "but Clinton..." misdirections for your Clinton-hating Anti-Sex league meetings.
On to some actually relevant lies you spun. I never said "Iraq never had WMD". You made that up. Though the Iraq WMD you're still yapping about was delivered to Saddam during the 1980s Reagan/Bush regime, by current Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld. Who lied when he told us in 2002 that not only did Saddam have WMD then, but that he knew where they were. All he knew was that lying about WMD would get warmongering fascists like you to not only demand invading Iraq, but never admit that it was wrong, even when it's obvious that your Republican government has screwed it up every way they could touch.
The promise of cheaper, more plentiful oil was made by your Bush Republicans testifying to your Republican Congress, leading up to the war. While also saying the war could "pay for itself", through that increased oil output. You are the one who should try applying your brain when you go pump some gas, paying those privatized taxes to both the American oil companies raking unprecedented profits atop unprecedented subsidies, as well as to our enemies like Iran and Saudi Arabia. You're so demented in your Bush worship that you convert my complaint, that the "cheap, plentiful oil" lies were dropped in favor of fatter oil profits, into some kind of promise by me, who has no control over oil supplies, nor claims to any such control - or any promises of such. Your strawman suggestion is even more insane than the strawman you tried in your first blather about WMD.
Then there's your copout that "they're all liars" to you. I bet that's different from what you were saying when you voted for Bush a couple of times, when you get on your knees and pray for more "Conservative politics" to fix the damage that fake Conservatives have already done.
Then you cherrypick history for some warped "perspective", to "even the score". You're getting totally shut out, by my facts and the catastrophic reality they report, and you think you have a chance to "even the score"? With some nonsensical fictional retrospective history of Clinton's foreign policy?
OK, when the WTC was bombed in 1993, in my NYC hometown, Clinton's government caught the terrorists and extracted enough info from them to not only bring them to justice, but also derail the other terrorist plots. There was no further successful attack on the under Clinton, except for two overseas embassies and a ship in a foreign port. The embassies didn't cause a war, but rather counterattacks. Counterattacks that the Republican Congress thwarted, waving a blue dress and screaming "impeachment", and the Pentagon and CIA screwed up by each refusing to kill Osama when in their crosshairs. Nor did the ship attack provoke war, in Clinton's final months, which instead produced instructions for escalating against the Qaeda perpetrators that Bush ignored. Like he ignored further warnings, including his morning briefing saying "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside US". So there are actually points where Clinton's foreign/terror policy can be compared to Bush's, and Clinton makes Bush look like a catastrophe.
Clinton sensibly left war as a last resort, to which he didn'
TrollMods show yet another reason to distrust the BushCo that now includes the NSA, CIA, DIA and other agencies which failed to protect us through 9/11/2001. And an army of AsTrollMods.
Yeah, why would you want to read the truth when you can watch Fox News?
Copping a Republican talking point when dismissing something as a "talking point" is the kind of rightwing echochamber logic we expect from you Bushdroids.
What happens when the people who release the evidence have been shown to have been lying about everything else important during that time period? Like cooperation between Saddam and Osama. Like Iraq WMD, including Iraq-bound Niger uranium, nuke-only centrifuges, mobile bioweapon labs - none of which existed. Like preparation for the collapsed Iraqi state we broke, and now own, said to be a nation of flower-throwers. Like finishing the Afhanistan war.
Like no one anticipating that someone would use planes as missiles into our tall buildings - or that levees would collapse in Katrina. Like no domestic calls being spied on. Like cheaper, more plentiful oil. Like cutting federal spending. Like securing our borders. Like increasing the integrity and dignity of the White House.
When lying liars lie about all those important activities, there's no reason to trust evidence they produce that merely protects another story they tell, which if exposed would have kept our country from going down the track to hell it's been on for the past 5 years.
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"AMD has long reigned the desktop CPU market"
AMD has never (or infrequently and briefly) ruled the market. Their often superior tech might sometimes "lead the pack", or even "lead the market" in the sense of directing development. But more people buy Intel desktop CPUs, which is what rules the market.
I remember when Steve Ciarcia reported in _Byte_ magazine on a RAM chip, its cover ripped off and replaced with a lens, offering a 256x128pxl (32Kpxl) imaging chip marketed by... Micron Technology.
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TFA describes a tgz install, but Debian and Ubuntu have better package management. And lots of shoutcast and icecast servers are already installed, but need 3GP/RTSP support that Darwin provides.
That's not "Offtopic", anonymous coward TrollMod slashstalkers. How pathetic that you're compelled to attack my posts just because another one made you look like a fool.
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A process for streaming AV to 3G mobile phones requires converting the AV to a 3G format: 3GP. A popular audio format conversion tool, sox, doesn't convert it. I ask when that tool can be used to "stream MythTV to your cell phone", and that's "Offtopic"?
TrollMod slashstalkers, phone home. Your mommy knows you need another spanking.
Who is this "human" whose genome has been sequenced? Is this some kind of "Messiah on CD" spam offer?
I think it was those meddling kids: the Iran/Contra Reagan Youth Saudi connection.
Can Flumotion stream 3GP?
"We're hearing from federal law enforcement that they are getting more than one new case of online extortion each day"
Blue Security's network of over half a million hosts was dwarfed by a single Russian spammer.
Most spammers and extortionists perpetrate much more than a single act, using many hosts to launch the attacks. Certainly the Russian spammer is launching many attacks to justify their arsenal.
Why isn't the FBI and the State Department going after these attackers? Maybe they're too busy listening to American phone conversations. Those conversations must be very valuable, especially running up to elections...
What's the lightest-weight (CPU load) process that converts WAV to 3GP? Is it really the ffmpeg3gp specified in the HowTo?
Has anyone packaged the Darwin server in a Debian or Ubuntu .deb package? Has anyone got a Darwin server to act as a stream source for a shoutcast or icecast server?
When will sox support conversion from/to the 3gp format?
Do you have a citation? I'd like the government to release the records, so we can decide for ourselves if we're bored. That's the skill in which Americans lead the world.
Your WTC7 site does wowrk to discredit some members of the ScholarsFor911Truth organization/website. But it does not question the integrity of the basic documents, especially the fundamental work of Steven Jones:
"instead of amplifying the excellent work of Steven Jones and some of the group's other researchers, it promises to undermine that work, and possibly the work of all scholars raising questions about the official story"
I have not researched the WTC7 site's membership and (possibly hidden) agenda. But their premise is that some low-quality (or downright bad) people have attached themselves to the good research challenging the official WTC collapse story. Their analysis is that the S911T group is probably deliberately poisoning the challenge story to discredit it - guilt by association. I think it's at least as likely that many of the losers are just hitching their wagons to the latest antigovernment wave, because their old careers denying or fighting even true government stories in the past is now preempted by the new, popular "9/11" story. None of which discredits the basic research the post to which you replied specified, or which I've read to seriously challenge the official story.
If every bad crazy could discredit a challenge to power by agreeing with it, noncrazy bad guys would recruit them all the time. That does happen, but we can distinguish between that trick and real defects in the challenge itself.
I agree with your rant about the system, the people, the limits of our choices and our career politicians. But those factors produce Republicans and Democrats who are different. Not different enough. And neither is generally "good". But Republicans are far worse. Compare Nixon and Bush to Johnson and Clinton. Compare the Cold War Democratic Congress to their successor Republican Congress - especially the Johnson/Democrat government to the Bush/Republican government. Republicans are much worse. For current differences in severe degree, Daily Kos runs stories documenting the difference. If you can find Republican promoters who can "balance" that with Democrats who are worse (on the facts, not just lies, innuendo and rhetoric), I'd like to see it. But I don't expect you will.
So until we change the system, we'll get much more dangerous career Republicans than Democrats. That's the difference we have to vote on for real in real elections.
The system would be much more balanced with a series of improvements. First, no donations by corporations whatsoever to politicians. Unions are corporations, as are parties and nonprofits, PACs, whatever. Only live humans can donate. No donations to individuals, either. All donations must be made by a human to a race, like the race for representative from a single district. All registered candidates can draw equally from the total donations. The donations/withdrawals are administered by the FEC, which can be audited by any candidate, the government, or watchdog group registered with the FEC. We'd see bribes drop, total donations drop, total campaign expenses drop, the media layer drop, and just enough money sent and received to ensure every candidate spends money that the people want them to use to get their message to their voters. So the return favors would drop to nearly nothing.
Every elected official should be audited every two years for life. That's about 30,000 officials nationwide, with a 50 year career window, for a maximum 750,000 audits a year. Reelections and late-start careers drop the number of audits; we're probably talking about 200,000 audits at average $5,000 apiece, for $1B every 2 years, $500M a year. Out of a $3-5T local+federal budget, that's 0.001%.
Make every elected official's salary automatically equal to the median income of their constituents - for life. With all other income prohibited, except investment in government securities. The only way to increase their income is to increase their constituents', even over decades. Pay their income for the rest of their life, regardless of reelection. Pay an extra term income bonus to any who forego reelection. We might not get the most talented people elected, but we'll get more people interested in the public service and power - and keep them from financial control by narrow interests. Criminal and civil penalties for wrongdoing will also deter them much more, without riches to cover those "business costs". And it will probably drop the audit cost to closer to $100M a year or less.
If we got all that under control and stabilized, we could fix the structure to account for what we've learned about voters over the past 200 years. We could add a lot more representatives. People like modern Americans can personally relate to at most 30,000 other people, like our town. So we need about 6700 representatives for about 200M American constituents (eligible voters). We could make voting first by mail, then by phone, then by Internet as we learn about the security of those systems, with voting booths in every post office and one or two alternate locations as final resort, during the entire month of November. With a second confirmation election in December, triggering a final election in January if not confirmed. When a district resizes beyond 20,000 or 40,000 November voters,
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I'm not going to bother responding to an Anonymous Coward perpetuating the same Bush bullshit we've seen debunked for years. Especially when you start your screed with insistence that WMD were found in Iraq after our invasion, but don't actually link to them. Then proceed to demand I get facts, which I provided in quantity. Then wind up with some strawman about Bush staging the WTC/Pentagon attacks.
I've already wasted over 5 years dealing with you Bush apologists. When he was riding the popularity of a terrorized nation, it was necessary to confront your PR. Now that the last few wagons are circled, I'm more interested in talking with sensible people about how to rebuild the country, not argue with you about how badly you've trashed it.
The government has not reported even discovering the very tough boxes, let alone intact recordings. Though the boxes record on a metal tape designed to survive the firey crash, not the plastic stuff we use at home or a hard disk.
The point about steel's melting point is a reference to the steel that composed the towers, not the boxes. Some credible analyses of the towers' collapse point out that the burning jet fuel wasn't hot enough to melt the steel and collapse the towers.
FWIW, jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel.
Lots of plane parts were found mostly intact, without the toughness of the black boxes. I've read several reports, some firsthand, of witnesses in the crater seeing at least 2 or 3 of the 4 boxes (2 per plane) being discovered in the rubble. And other plane-borne material was discovered, including apparently one of the hijackkers' passport.
I didn't mention a government conspiracy to destroy the WTC and the Pentagon, or any of that other strawman crap you just made up, Anonymous prattling Coward. Mere insults are just the icing on the cake when calling out morons by citing the simple facts that are against Bush at every turn.
Judging from the other replies to your loaded response, I'm not the only one who sees right through the BushCo apology gibberish you're still spewing, even 5 years into Bush's catastrophic regime. But since it's fun kicking you fascists when you're down (past 29% like a stone), here's some more truth you can ignore.
First, I'm just going to ignore your "but Clinton..." crapola. I'll probably refer to Nixon, or maybe just drop his name as a background context here, but Clinton hasn't been president for over 5 years. Bush has had the whole government his whole miserable term, and your Republicans have had Congress for over a decade - including most of Clinton's term. The rest of the country recently reported that we prefer Clinton over Bush in every category we're asked. So save your "but Clinton..." misdirections for your Clinton-hating Anti-Sex league meetings.
On to some actually relevant lies you spun. I never said "Iraq never had WMD". You made that up. Though the Iraq WMD you're still yapping about was delivered to Saddam during the 1980s Reagan/Bush regime, by current Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld. Who lied when he told us in 2002 that not only did Saddam have WMD then, but that he knew where they were. All he knew was that lying about WMD would get warmongering fascists like you to not only demand invading Iraq, but never admit that it was wrong, even when it's obvious that your Republican government has screwed it up every way they could touch.
The promise of cheaper, more plentiful oil was made by your Bush Republicans testifying to your Republican Congress, leading up to the war. While also saying the war could "pay for itself", through that increased oil output. You are the one who should try applying your brain when you go pump some gas, paying those privatized taxes to both the American oil companies raking unprecedented profits atop unprecedented subsidies, as well as to our enemies like Iran and Saudi Arabia. You're so demented in your Bush worship that you convert my complaint, that the "cheap, plentiful oil" lies were dropped in favor of fatter oil profits, into some kind of promise by me, who has no control over oil supplies, nor claims to any such control - or any promises of such. Your strawman suggestion is even more insane than the strawman you tried in your first blather about WMD.
Then there's your copout that "they're all liars" to you. I bet that's different from what you were saying when you voted for Bush a couple of times, when you get on your knees and pray for more "Conservative politics" to fix the damage that fake Conservatives have already done.
Then you cherrypick history for some warped "perspective", to "even the score". You're getting totally shut out, by my facts and the catastrophic reality they report, and you think you have a chance to "even the score"? With some nonsensical fictional retrospective history of Clinton's foreign policy?
OK, when the WTC was bombed in 1993, in my NYC hometown, Clinton's government caught the terrorists and extracted enough info from them to not only bring them to justice, but also derail the other terrorist plots. There was no further successful attack on the under Clinton, except for two overseas embassies and a ship in a foreign port. The embassies didn't cause a war, but rather counterattacks. Counterattacks that the Republican Congress thwarted, waving a blue dress and screaming "impeachment", and the Pentagon and CIA screwed up by each refusing to kill Osama when in their crosshairs. Nor did the ship attack provoke war, in Clinton's final months, which instead produced instructions for escalating against the Qaeda perpetrators that Bush ignored. Like he ignored further warnings, including his morning briefing saying "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside US". So there are actually points where Clinton's foreign/terror policy can be compared to Bush's, and Clinton makes Bush look like a catastrophe.
Clinton sensibly left war as a last resort, to which he didn'
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TrollMods show yet another reason to distrust the BushCo that now includes the NSA, CIA, DIA and other agencies which failed to protect us through 9/11/2001. And an army of AsTrollMods.
Yeah, why would you want to read the truth when you can watch Fox News?
Copping a Republican talking point when dismissing something as a "talking point" is the kind of rightwing echochamber logic we expect from you Bushdroids.
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What happens when the people who release the evidence have been shown to have been lying about everything else important during that time period? Like cooperation between Saddam and Osama. Like Iraq WMD, including Iraq-bound Niger uranium, nuke-only centrifuges, mobile bioweapon labs - none of which existed. Like preparation for the collapsed Iraqi state we broke, and now own, said to be a nation of flower-throwers. Like finishing the Afhanistan war.
Like no one anticipating that someone would use planes as missiles into our tall buildings - or that levees would collapse in Katrina. Like no domestic calls being spied on. Like cheaper, more plentiful oil. Like cutting federal spending. Like securing our borders. Like increasing the integrity and dignity of the White House.
When lying liars lie about all those important activities, there's no reason to trust evidence they produce that merely protects another story they tell, which if exposed would have kept our country from going down the track to hell it's been on for the past 5 years.
Why don't they release the black box recordings of the inflight data?
Brazilians.