Like Google, Infiniti is also named using a different spelling. Probably for the same reason -- you can't copyright/patent a number or mathematical constant.
I generally don't have difficulty installing debian using bf24, but when I do I do a bootstrap install off of a knoppix cd for the extra hardware support.
As numerous people have pointed out, installing from Knoppix sounds like a trip down Easy Street until some later date when an upgrade hoses your system because of non-standard dependencies.
The best solution I've found (for odd network hardware, particularly) is to install as much as I can using the Debian installer and then load only the kernel and modules from Knoppix. Assuming the odd hardware is recognized by the Knoppix kernel, that will get me to the point where I can do a network update and download a new kernel source.
Will robots compete with us in the future for jobs and/or living space?
They already do, although not in the way you're suggesting. I doubt you'll ever see a day where a human and a robot/cyborg literally sit through interviews to compete directly for a vacancy, but we're already long past the stage where managers and engineers discuss whether a particular task (manufacturing, in particular) should be performed by a human or by a machine. In that sense, the competition is over and robots have already displaced humans to a significant degree. The machines perform skilled tasks (such as seam welding) much more consistently over a much longer period of time. Their only non-economic faults are that they don't learn on their own and can't provide insightful feedback to the engineers. Henry Ford wouldn't recognize today's automotive assembly line.
As for living space.... They don't "live" in the Blade Runner or Commander Data sense, but they obviously take up a certain volume of any space in which they work. In that sense, we voluntarily give them as much space as they need as long as we perceive a net benefit from having them around. Consider the 28-cubic-foot "intelligent" refridgerator. It probably takes up more space than any other single item you own other than a car. And you're glad to give up that space as long as your beer is cold and you can reorder by touching the front panel....
I believe there are be far more derogatory words one could use to insult on of asian decent.
Perhaps the worst is "banana". It's the Asian equivalent of "wigger", implying someone who is yellow on the outside and artificially white on the inside.
They should closely scrutinize the downloading habits, then create an album based on the popularity of certain tracks.
Advertising can manipulate popularity. This kind of thinking is what gave us two decades of formula pop performed by bands constructed on the basis of image and marketing instead of talent. You want more Milli Vanilli?
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That is so not how it works. On Law and Order, they show up, are shown into a court room, asked a question, then the go home to be bribed/terrorized/killed.
That only happens in the second half-hour of the show, after the jury has been selected (but never sequestered).
In any case Peter was reading while sitting through jury selection, not while acting as a juror at trial.
Off-topic question for Peter: Did they seat a dozen before they got to you, or did the lawyers see the title of the book you were reading and toss you out on a peremptory challenge? Lawyers usually hate to have people on the jury who know the law because they're harder to bluff.
Most communities regulate porn theaters, porn magazines, etc., very strictly.
Which is entirely possible when there's a locality involved. The theatre is in a known place and the magazines are tangible objects. The applicable community standard is that of the community in which the theatre or magazine is found. How does a politician in the USofA regulate a web server in Russia? If a teen in Oklahoma visits debbie.does.donkeys.da.ru where does the offense take place? Sure, YOU can create a.xxx domain, but what happens if Ivan-the-donkey-owner is a nationalist and takes pride in hosting in the.ru domain?
One answer is to abolish all TLDs other than country codes and make it illegal for citizens of your country to "fly under a foreign flag". That way your government can censor its citizens without bothering the rest of us simply by black-listing the two-letter codes of countries that refuse to bow down to the White House.
If your office had a magazine-swap rack in the break room, you probably wouldn't want your employees leaving porn there.
In my company the stuff tends to end up in the male washrooms (whether for practical or ethical reasons).
The real thing that bones up OE is that you need a static, public IP (since OE isn't defined for NAT'ed IPsec).
Hence the emergence of the OpenVPN project. It allows a variety of authentication and encryption methods to connect two hosts that can both have dynamic addresses with forward-only DNS service (such as DynDNS).
I've taken my Super FreeS/WAN tree, and formed a company with some other ex-FreeS/WAN folks.
One of the nice things about OSS is that there is less pressure to continue a bad line of development to "save face" or quell customer concerns. Unlike a commercial project, the OSS community can fork when the developers miss the bus (or make radical course changes when the original developer quits).
In the case of FreeS/WAN I can only hope that the new maintainers look at the OpenVPN project for inspiration. Thanks to broadband sharing and virus concerns, a huge and growing portion of the internet is hiding behind NAT-DHCP firewalls. FreeS/WAN's insistence on fixed addresses (on at least one end of the connection) places it at an extreme disadvantage. I switched to OpenVPN because I needed a solution that would allow me to plug my laptop into any network (friendly or not, behind NAT or not) and establish a tunnel with my DynDNS-domained, DHCP-addressed home system behind its LinkSys BEFSR NAT box.
Then again, maybe it's the underlying assuptions about ESP/AH/VPN that need to be challenges....
Jamming sounds like a great solution at first. but wouldn't Faraday cages be simpler? I drive past a theater that overpowers my FM radio along a few hundred ft stretch of roadway. If they lined the theater with copper foil, it would stop the cell phones and the interference the theater itself is producing.
I work at an air traffic control facility. The walls and ceiling of the older buildings are shielded to contain our RF and keep other RF out (a left-over from the old days, since our new equipment is all digital). At some point they decided the managers would be more responsive to the needs of the operation if they were issued cell phones. The signal strength inside the building was too low so the ring signal and caller-id would get through but when they answered the call the connection would be broken. Some people tried those stupid little stickers to boost their signal, but ultimately the telco was hired to come and install a cell antenna inside the building. It's not a full cell node but some sort of amplified bridge between an antenna on the roof and one inside the ceiling.
Going off topic... if everyone switched to VoIP, would the Internet be able to handle New Years Eve/Day?
And if it could, what about Mother's Day?
FWIW, Mother's Day (which is common to North America and a significant portion of Europe) blows New Year's Eve/Day out of the water when it comes to phone calls, both local and long-distance.
I live in Vancouver
where are they shooting the movie?
The 2003 mini-series was shot in Burnaby. Most of the work ws done on sound stages (presumably on Boundary Road) but SFU was also used for one or two scenes. The production office is in North Van.
Somehow I'm not surprised that such a harebrained idea as bringing back this television travesty came from BC. I can easily imagine the haze-filled board room and some junior exec taking a big toke and proclaiming how cool it would be if Battlestar Galactica came back.
More likely, it was some senior exec in Hollyweird deciding that he didn't have to spend millions of extra dollars shooting in the USA just because Ahhhnold was now The Governator. The fact that B.C. has the best marijuana in the world and is relatively unencumbered by the lunacy of the U.S. war on drugs probably had nothing to do with it...
Besides, when Canadian producers want to mine the 80's for remake potential we end up with less grass and more Degrassi...
The biggest problem I have with commercials, particularly during specials like the "movie of the week" or sports events is the way they hammer the same one at you over and over. It's not unusual in a 3-hour broadcast block to see the major sponsors included in every break. Do I really need to see the same breakfast/car/deoderant/tampon advertisement 12 times, six of which are in the last half-hour of the movie?
If the PVR industry wants to include commercials to keep the broadcasters happy, I'd really like to see some sort of AI that recognizes duplicates and links back to the original. That way they would take up less disk space, and it could present the commercial the first time and skip it after that for the rest of the current recording....
I wonder how many of the other screeners were "released" by other Academy members.
Ummm. All of them? Screeners are the copies sent to Academy members to facilitate voting.
The more interesting rips are the ones that come from inside the studios. I have a DVD (purchased in China) that shows a letter-box format with reel/scene/take/time/frame numbers in the upper black band. It's also devoid of score (rest of voice/effects soundtrack is present). Fairly obvious who did it. Anyway, at the time I had never heard of this movie and bought a copy and then when I got home to Canada they were just starting to run the trailer for it during the "coming attractions" at the theatre.
Sorry to burst their bubble, but Ahhhnold will never be PotUS. He meets most of the requirements (citizenship, age, residency, marriage into political family) but fails the "where were you born" test. It would take a constitutional ammendment to open the doors of the White House to immigrants.
What do you mean "101 ways to save the Internet from spammers, crackers and smothering regulation"? I can list off twice as many as that without even taking off my socks.
What really bugs me are companies that send faxes through long-distance brokers that obscure the Caller-ID of the sender. I own a small company that gets fax calls on a daily basis EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE NO FAX MACHINE. These calls invariably come at the busiest time of the day. Sure, it doesn't take long for someone to answer the phone and then hang up again, but it's a needless distraction. I did the *69 thing and the telco reported the number as belonging to Sprint Canada. When I called Sprint to complain they said that the number was one of the pool used for forwarding discount long-distance clients, so although the number reported by *69 was local the caller could be anywhere in the world. They couldn't (or wouldn't) say who was calling me.
Apparently the only way I'm going to get these calls to stop is to hook up a fax machine and receive the fax.
The program in question was revised in 1997. Most companies already had kicked off their Y2K programs by then.
The thing to remember is that "Y2K Program" doesn't neccessarily mean "fix the software". For example, one of the computer systems used for air traffic control in Canada is not Y2K-compliant. Rather than fixing the bug (which could have introduced more errors than were solved), the engineers looked at how the date was being used and what mitigation strategies could be applied. In the end, they determined that the simple solution was to change the clock back by exactly 24 years, as 1976 would match 2000 in both day-of-week and leap-year calculations. That computer is still running under the delusion that it's currently December 1979. In the end nobody cares that it's not Y2K compliant because we don't keep data for 24 years and therefore the erroneous date can never lead to confusion between current and historical data.
It seems to me that every GPS phone should have a rape button.
Many phones will automatically dial 9-1-1 and transmit your GPS location (if so equipped) if you simply hold down on the '9' button for a five seconds or more. This will generally work even if you don't have a contract for cell service and can't place or receive normal calls.
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Count the number of large scale commercial airports in Canada. Do the same for the US. Now, count the # of flights that pass in/out of each of those airports in Canada on a given day. Do the same for the US.
You guys have more airports and more aircraft but also more sectors and more controllers. The net effect is that the number of flights handled at any one display is roughly constant (and limited by human capabilities).
The real reason the FAA isn't using the Canadian solution is that it's not complete. As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, we are replacing systems one component at a time using emulation on modern hardware. Our components aren't interchangeable with your components due to differences in system architecture. They might do well to consider following our approach to the problem, but I doubt the resulting systems will ever converge.
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Like Google, Infiniti is also named using a different spelling. Probably for the same reason -- you can't copyright/patent a number or mathematical constant.
So you're saying that Linux has *two* fathers? Maybe those folks in Boston filing for marriage licenses have the right idea....
As numerous people have pointed out, installing from Knoppix sounds like a trip down Easy Street until some later date when an upgrade hoses your system because of non-standard dependencies.
The best solution I've found (for odd network hardware, particularly) is to install as much as I can using the Debian installer and then load only the kernel and modules from Knoppix. Assuming the odd hardware is recognized by the Knoppix kernel, that will get me to the point where I can do a network update and download a new kernel source.
They already do, although not in the way you're suggesting. I doubt you'll ever see a day where a human and a robot/cyborg literally sit through interviews to compete directly for a vacancy, but we're already long past the stage where managers and engineers discuss whether a particular task (manufacturing, in particular) should be performed by a human or by a machine. In that sense, the competition is over and robots have already displaced humans to a significant degree. The machines perform skilled tasks (such as seam welding) much more consistently over a much longer period of time. Their only non-economic faults are that they don't learn on their own and can't provide insightful feedback to the engineers. Henry Ford wouldn't recognize today's automotive assembly line.
As for living space.... They don't "live" in the Blade Runner or Commander Data sense, but they obviously take up a certain volume of any space in which they work. In that sense, we voluntarily give them as much space as they need as long as we perceive a net benefit from having them around. Consider the 28-cubic-foot "intelligent" refridgerator. It probably takes up more space than any other single item you own other than a car. And you're glad to give up that space as long as your beer is cold and you can reorder by touching the front panel....
Perhaps the worst is "banana". It's the Asian equivalent of "wigger", implying someone who is yellow on the outside and artificially white on the inside.
Advertising can manipulate popularity. This kind of thinking is what gave us two decades of formula pop performed by bands constructed on the basis of image and marketing instead of talent. You want more Milli Vanilli?
That only happens in the second half-hour of the show, after the jury has been selected (but never sequestered).
In any case Peter was reading while sitting through jury selection, not while acting as a juror at trial.
Off-topic question for Peter: Did they seat a dozen before they got to you, or did the lawyers see the title of the book you were reading and toss you out on a peremptory challenge? Lawyers usually hate to have people on the jury who know the law because they're harder to bluff.
Which is entirely possible when there's a locality involved. The theatre is in a known place and the magazines are tangible objects. The applicable community standard is that of the community in which the theatre or magazine is found. How does a politician in the USofA regulate a web server in Russia? If a teen in Oklahoma visits debbie.does.donkeys.da.ru where does the offense take place? Sure, YOU can create a .xxx domain, but what happens if Ivan-the-donkey-owner is a nationalist and takes pride in hosting in the .ru domain?
One answer is to abolish all TLDs other than country codes and make it illegal for citizens of your country to "fly under a foreign flag". That way your government can censor its citizens without bothering the rest of us simply by black-listing the two-letter codes of countries that refuse to bow down to the White House.
If your office had a magazine-swap rack in the break room, you probably wouldn't want your employees leaving porn there.
In my company the stuff tends to end up in the male washrooms (whether for practical or ethical reasons).
Hence the emergence of the OpenVPN project. It allows a variety of authentication and encryption methods to connect two hosts that can both have dynamic addresses with forward-only DNS service (such as DynDNS).
One of the nice things about OSS is that there is less pressure to continue a bad line of development to "save face" or quell customer concerns. Unlike a commercial project, the OSS community can fork when the developers miss the bus (or make radical course changes when the original developer quits).
In the case of FreeS/WAN I can only hope that the new maintainers look at the OpenVPN project for inspiration. Thanks to broadband sharing and virus concerns, a huge and growing portion of the internet is hiding behind NAT-DHCP firewalls. FreeS/WAN's insistence on fixed addresses (on at least one end of the connection) places it at an extreme disadvantage. I switched to OpenVPN because I needed a solution that would allow me to plug my laptop into any network (friendly or not, behind NAT or not) and establish a tunnel with my DynDNS-domained, DHCP-addressed home system behind its LinkSys BEFSR NAT box.
Then again, maybe it's the underlying assuptions about ESP/AH/VPN that need to be challenges....
You mean like Pentium?
I work at an air traffic control facility. The walls and ceiling of the older buildings are shielded to contain our RF and keep other RF out (a left-over from the old days, since our new equipment is all digital). At some point they decided the managers would be more responsive to the needs of the operation if they were issued cell phones. The signal strength inside the building was too low so the ring signal and caller-id would get through but when they answered the call the connection would be broken. Some people tried those stupid little stickers to boost their signal, but ultimately the telco was hired to come and install a cell antenna inside the building. It's not a full cell node but some sort of amplified bridge between an antenna on the roof and one inside the ceiling.
And if it could, what about Mother's Day?
FWIW, Mother's Day (which is common to North America and a significant portion of Europe) blows New Year's Eve/Day out of the water when it comes to phone calls, both local and long-distance.
The 2003 mini-series was shot in Burnaby. Most of the work ws done on sound stages (presumably on Boundary Road) but SFU was also used for one or two scenes. The production office is in North Van.
More likely, it was some senior exec in Hollyweird deciding that he didn't have to spend millions of extra dollars shooting in the USA just because Ahhhnold was now The Governator. The fact that B.C. has the best marijuana in the world and is relatively unencumbered by the lunacy of the U.S. war on drugs probably had nothing to do with it...
Besides, when Canadian producers want to mine the 80's for remake potential we end up with less grass and more Degrassi...
Are we really so out of ideas?
You're just noticing that now?
They played it during the "fly past" scene in the recent series when the Galactica was being officially decommissioned.
The biggest problem I have with commercials, particularly during specials like the "movie of the week" or sports events is the way they hammer the same one at you over and over. It's not unusual in a 3-hour broadcast block to see the major sponsors included in every break. Do I really need to see the same breakfast/car/deoderant/tampon advertisement 12 times, six of which are in the last half-hour of the movie?
If the PVR industry wants to include commercials to keep the broadcasters happy, I'd really like to see some sort of AI that recognizes duplicates and links back to the original. That way they would take up less disk space, and it could present the commercial the first time and skip it after that for the rest of the current recording....
Ummm. All of them? Screeners are the copies sent to Academy members to facilitate voting.
The more interesting rips are the ones that come from inside the studios. I have a DVD (purchased in China) that shows a letter-box format with reel/scene/take/time/frame numbers in the upper black band. It's also devoid of score (rest of voice/effects soundtrack is present). Fairly obvious who did it. Anyway, at the time I had never heard of this movie and bought a copy and then when I got home to Canada they were just starting to run the trailer for it during the "coming attractions" at the theatre.
Sorry to burst their bubble, but Ahhhnold will never be PotUS. He meets most of the requirements (citizenship, age, residency, marriage into political family) but fails the "where were you born" test. It would take a constitutional ammendment to open the doors of the White House to immigrants.
What do you mean "101 ways to save the Internet from spammers, crackers and smothering regulation"? I can list off twice as many as that without even taking off my socks.
What really bugs me are companies that send faxes through long-distance brokers that obscure the Caller-ID of the sender. I own a small company that gets fax calls on a daily basis EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE NO FAX MACHINE. These calls invariably come at the busiest time of the day. Sure, it doesn't take long for someone to answer the phone and then hang up again, but it's a needless distraction. I did the *69 thing and the telco reported the number as belonging to Sprint Canada. When I called Sprint to complain they said that the number was one of the pool used for forwarding discount long-distance clients, so although the number reported by *69 was local the caller could be anywhere in the world. They couldn't (or wouldn't) say who was calling me.
Apparently the only way I'm going to get these calls to stop is to hook up a fax machine and receive the fax.
The thing to remember is that "Y2K Program" doesn't neccessarily mean "fix the software". For example, one of the computer systems used for air traffic control in Canada is not Y2K-compliant. Rather than fixing the bug (which could have introduced more errors than were solved), the engineers looked at how the date was being used and what mitigation strategies could be applied. In the end, they determined that the simple solution was to change the clock back by exactly 24 years, as 1976 would match 2000 in both day-of-week and leap-year calculations. That computer is still running under the delusion that it's currently December 1979. In the end nobody cares that it's not Y2K compliant because we don't keep data for 24 years and therefore the erroneous date can never lead to confusion between current and historical data.
They call it "Canadian Automated Air Traffic System".
The controllers say "Can't Automate All That Shit".
Many phones will automatically dial 9-1-1 and transmit your GPS location (if so equipped) if you simply hold down on the '9' button for a five seconds or more. This will generally work even if you don't have a contract for cell service and can't place or receive normal calls.
You guys have more airports and more aircraft but also more sectors and more controllers. The net effect is that the number of flights handled at any one display is roughly constant (and limited by human capabilities).
The real reason the FAA isn't using the Canadian solution is that it's not complete. As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, we are replacing systems one component at a time using emulation on modern hardware. Our components aren't interchangeable with your components due to differences in system architecture. They might do well to consider following our approach to the problem, but I doubt the resulting systems will ever converge.