Re:Rules for intercepting NORDO/hijacked aircraft.
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"Interception" does not mean shooting down an aircraft.
An interception is when an aircraft makes visual contact with the aircraft in order to ascertain it's situation. Often the pilots will communicate via hand gestures or signs.
Until around 11 AM September 11th, any non-defensive attack against an aircraft or sea target in US territory had to be authorized by the president.
Today, a local theatre commander or duty air operations officer can make the call.
What were they supposed to do? Shoot the planes down and have them crash into a neighborhood?
Densely populated NYC suburbs extend out in a 75 mile or more radius. I suppose crashing fully loaded jets into schools and apartment buildings would have been an effective use of military power.
3dfx has been out of business for years now. Of course open code that old is so stable.
The kernel crew has no responsibility to fix the code of others. They do have a responsibility to make their own code usable and consistant.
If the kernel developers planned ahead and didn't arbitrarily make major changes to "stable" code at a whim, things like device drivers would be stabler and easier to write.
Closed source may be what the Linux kernel needs to keep things stable.
Maybe if it weren't so easy to diagnose what errors mean for more products, the kernel folks would take a more conservative stance toward keeping the api's and constructs more consisten, particularly in "stable" kernels.
Read the local newspaper where state and local RFPs get published. Submit a low bid, win a contract and subcontract other techies at 50% of your billing rate if you need more people.
Don't worry about coming up with an original idea. Every niche has had somebody hocking computers and/or software at them before. Other areas like agriculture, don't need your services or don't have the money to pay you.
Also avoid evangelism. If the customer wants to build a data warehouse in access, warn them against it, then do it and bill it. Then bill them again to do it right. If they hate linux, don't use it -- the customer is always right.
Thanks for the Holland != the Netherlands, I never knew that. In the histories of the formerly-dutch US city that I live in, Holland and the Netherlands are pretty much used interchangeably!
I am not trying to insult any judge or any nation -- but the issue is that by simply visiting a website, I have entered into some sort of contract. This is absurd. The issue is reminiscent of "Content Providers" claims that deep-linking to content on a webpage is theft because of their website EULA. In fact, reinforcing the notion that an unacknowledged EULA is a legally binding document reinforces the anti-deeplinking cause and endangers the WWW and contract law as we know it.
My example of the car dealer was a non-web example design to illustrate the absurdity of this ruling. If I can tuck a EULA somewhere in a website and bind people to conform to whatever that EULA says in other areas of the website, why can't I do that with real property?
Using that logic, it is perfectly reasonable for a car dealership to require you to purchase something when you step on their property. After all, they are providing you with a service by allowing you to browse their inventory.
In my opinion, computer software and alternate publishing techniques like the web should be legally treated like a book. If you choose to give access to your software or data away with stipulations, both parties must be mutually agreeable to the stipulations.
Logical volume managers (AIX and Veritas anyway) store a unique ID on the disk, and then keeps track of what volumes are there, how they are configured, etc.
Hardware controllers generally reserve a small slice of disk to store configuration data. Sometimes this slice is marked unusable and can only be accessed by low-level hardware.
One of the big, unadvertised problems with RAID, particularly with new/buggy controllers, is that a controller failure can trash your data.
Unless you have the time & knowledge to reconstruct the data structures, a controller failure that screws up the configuration data on disk effectively destroys your data.
I once booted a Toshiba Tecra laptop from a UW disk in an external enclosure (Pizzabox Sun workstation style) via a CardBus SCSI adapter.
Also, many higher-end "business" laptops allow you to boot from If you are running Windows 2000 or XP on the laptop, consider running a VMWare virtual machine on an encrypted directory. It would be probaly be slow, but an admin would have to actually log in as your user to do anything with the virtual machine.
If these so-called publishers were interested in academic integrity, they would GPL these so-called journals make distribute Free knowledge to the entire world.
Anyone who runs an "Enterprise ____ Group" is usually a moron more concered with accumulating political power than getting anything done.
I run into similar issues at my job. I always find it amusing that when the "Enterprise ____ Group" will give us shit over buying an "unjustified" extra hard disk, do not bat an eye over paying nearly $2,000 a year for a service contract on a $3000 piece of equipemnt.
wtf are you going to do with a laptop in the middle of a jungle?
if you want to keep a journal, go buy a notepad for $0.69 at Wal-Mart or Staples.
if you need a map, they sell them for a couple of bucks.
dragging a laptop through a primitive country without a real need is just plain dumb. you will either get robbed, drop the laptop, burn the thing out in the tropical climate, or just get shot for being an obnoxious tourist.
XML brings with it alot of overhead with it's markup structure. It seems to me that that parsing megabytes of text is far less efficient that reading data via some pre-defined binary structure.
The point that I was trying to make was that as computers in general get faster, the efficency of applications begins to matter.
In 1997 you could run the average Linux distro on a slow 486 or even a 386. Today, Red Hat 8 or Mandrake will choke an older Pentium 2 to a halt. The difference is that more robust GUIs like GNOME and KDE are creating object frameworks which add considerable overhead to the system.
GNOME 2 would not be acceptable performance-wise in 1997. Today it is ok, since computer performance has increased.
I think that the same argument could be made about java or other languages that operate on the same concept. While I don't know enough about swing to agree or disagree with you, I do believe IN GENERAL that memory and code bloat becomes more acceptable as computers get faster.
One of the guys that I work with used to tune applications, especially disk writes with assembly language on an old Unisys mainframe to optimize write speed. Who does that today?
Maybe because you are playing with crappy Java 1.1.8 applets using the MS Internet Explorer VM...
As java has matured, the speed has increased signifigantly, especially in the 1.3 and 1.4 implementations. We use java everyday to tie our backend databases to inter and intranet sites, financial systems, etc. It's as fast as any solution and provides a rich API that improves our overall product.
If you look at the big picture, coding in languages like Java, Perl and Python just makes more sense. Few applications justify the extra time and duplication of effort that coding something in C requires.
About your whine -- get over it and get a clue. There is no good reason why a 750mhz computer cannot run any Java app, other than lack of time or effort to download a recent JVM. As time and technology marches on, faster CPU's and storage, combined with improvments in the product, will eliminate the performance complaints altogether.
Assembly programmers made the same arguments against C in the 70's that you make about java today. They were just as much in the dark as you are as well.
Java runs nearly as fast as compiled code for most things.
In these days of 2Ghz cpus on $700 computers, bitching about performance on your 6-year old PC is really not realistic.
Think of XML. XML adds massive overhead to applications in terms of data stored. But when you analyze everything in the end, the benefits of using it outweigh the overhead in diskspace, processor time for parsing and network load.
I disagree... the is a distinct point when a regime moves from a normal-everyday repressive dictatorship to a system as evil as wartime germany.
Remember to that the German propaganda minister, Joeseph Goebbels, was a public affairs genius who portrayed a very different view of Germany. When people are given a choice between accepting a positive spin from an official source or accepting the unpleasant truth from an unknown source, they often choose the spin.
Also remember that the US was fervently anti-communist and the Nazis were fighting the communists in Spain. Reports about concentration camps existed, but were not widely circulated and often disbelieved. (Also remember that most camps in the 30's were more like the the US's interment camps for Japanese-Americans than the Nazi horrors of the war)
I am not trying to make excuses for the actions of corporations. But I do not think it is fair to cast blame without trying to realize their point of view.
Unfortunately, people aren't blessed with 20/20 hindsight.
In the 1930's, nobody knew the extent of what the Nazi regime was going to do -- including most of the Nazis. They were just one of many right-wing nationalist regimes.
If IBM was evil for selling typewriters and calculators to the Nazis, then you are evil for buying Arab oil, chinese consumer goods, or a korean car.
Apple does not sell a C compiler. Intel does. Intel's bread and butter is ia32 chips running Microsoft OS's -- contributing to project that would improve a free replacement to Microsoft's OS would be rather dumb.
Would it make sense for Toyota to provide engineering support to Fiat for free?
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"Interception" does not mean shooting down an aircraft.
An interception is when an aircraft makes visual contact with the aircraft in order to ascertain it's situation. Often the pilots will communicate via hand gestures or signs.
Until around 11 AM September 11th, any non-defensive attack against an aircraft or sea target in US territory had to be authorized by the president.
Today, a local theatre commander or duty air operations officer can make the call.
What were they supposed to do? Shoot the planes down and have them crash into a neighborhood?
Densely populated NYC suburbs extend out in a 75 mile or more radius. I suppose crashing fully loaded jets into schools and apartment buildings would have been an effective use of military power.
Why didn't you read my post?
3dfx has been out of business for years now. Of course open code that old is so stable.
The kernel crew has no responsibility to fix the code of others. They do have a responsibility to make their own code usable and consistant.
If the kernel developers planned ahead and didn't arbitrarily make major changes to "stable" code at a whim, things like device drivers would be stabler and easier to write.
Closed source may be what the Linux kernel needs to keep things stable.
Maybe if it weren't so easy to diagnose what errors mean for more products, the kernel folks would take a more conservative stance toward keeping the api's and constructs more consisten, particularly in "stable" kernels.
Read the local newspaper where state and local RFPs get published. Submit a low bid, win a contract and subcontract other techies at 50% of your billing rate if you need more people.
Don't worry about coming up with an original idea. Every niche has had somebody hocking computers and/or software at them before. Other areas like agriculture, don't need your services or don't have the money to pay you.
Also avoid evangelism. If the customer wants to build a data warehouse in access, warn them against it, then do it and bill it. Then bill them again to do it right. If they hate linux, don't use it -- the customer is always right.
Thanks for the Holland != the Netherlands, I never knew that. In the histories of the formerly-dutch US city that I live in, Holland and the Netherlands are pretty much used interchangeably!
I am not trying to insult any judge or any nation -- but the issue is that by simply visiting a website, I have entered into some sort of contract. This is absurd. The issue is reminiscent of "Content Providers" claims that deep-linking to content on a webpage is theft because of their website EULA. In fact, reinforcing the notion that an unacknowledged EULA is a legally binding document reinforces the anti-deeplinking cause and endangers the WWW and contract law as we know it.
My example of the car dealer was a non-web example design to illustrate the absurdity of this ruling. If I can tuck a EULA somewhere in a website and bind people to conform to whatever that EULA says in other areas of the website, why can't I do that with real property?
Using that logic, it is perfectly reasonable for a car dealership to require you to purchase something when you step on their property. After all, they are providing you with a service by allowing you to browse their inventory.
In my opinion, computer software and alternate publishing techniques like the web should be legally treated like a book. If you choose to give access to your software or data away with stipulations, both parties must be mutually agreeable to the stipulations.
So now if I am in Holland, by going to a website I am considered to have entered into a contract, which may or may not be readable to me?
If this law applied to car dealers, we'd be bound in a contract to purchase an automobile the second we stepped on the lot.
Weeble Wobbles were supposedly a choking hazard. The saftey fanatics ruined alot of great times that would have been had by little kids.
Logical volume managers (AIX and Veritas anyway) store a unique ID on the disk, and then keeps track of what volumes are there, how they are configured, etc.
Hardware controllers generally reserve a small slice of disk to store configuration data. Sometimes this slice is marked unusable and can only be accessed by low-level hardware.
One of the big, unadvertised problems with RAID, particularly with new/buggy controllers, is that a controller failure can trash your data.
Unless you have the time & knowledge to reconstruct the data structures, a controller failure that screws up the configuration data on disk effectively destroys your data.
VmWare also runs on Windows.
I'd run vmware from the encrypted disk to keep IT snoops out of it. The virtual computer resides in a file on disk.
It depends on the shop I suppose. I think that these days in general there are more and more Nazi sysadmins and "IT support" types out there though.
I once booted a Toshiba Tecra laptop from a UW disk in an external enclosure (Pizzabox Sun workstation style) via a CardBus SCSI adapter.
Also, many higher-end "business" laptops allow you to boot from
If you are running Windows 2000 or XP on the laptop, consider running a VMWare virtual machine on an encrypted directory. It would be probaly be slow, but an admin would have to actually log in as your user to do anything with the virtual machine.
If these so-called publishers were interested in academic integrity, they would GPL these so-called journals make distribute Free knowledge to the entire world.
Anyone who runs an "Enterprise ____ Group" is usually a moron more concered with accumulating political power than getting anything done.
I run into similar issues at my job. I always find it amusing that when the "Enterprise ____ Group" will give us shit over buying an "unjustified" extra hard disk, do not bat an eye over paying nearly $2,000 a year for a service contract on a $3000 piece of equipemnt.
leave the laptop at home.
wtf are you going to do with a laptop in the middle of a jungle?
if you want to keep a journal, go buy a notepad for $0.69 at Wal-Mart or Staples.
if you need a map, they sell them for a couple of bucks.
dragging a laptop through a primitive country without a real need is just plain dumb. you will either get robbed, drop the laptop, burn the thing out in the tropical climate, or just get shot for being an obnoxious tourist.
That is a valid point -- but looking at the big picture, why do I care?
A $2,000 workstation in 1999 had 64MB of ram. Now a $600 workstation has 256MB or 512MB ram. All of those 64MB machines will be gone in a few years.
Plenty of applications waste enormous chunks of virtual memory. Java only differs in degree.
XML brings with it alot of overhead with it's markup structure. It seems to me that that parsing megabytes of text is far less efficient that reading data via some pre-defined binary structure.
The point that I was trying to make was that as computers in general get faster, the efficency of applications begins to matter.
In 1997 you could run the average Linux distro on a slow 486 or even a 386. Today, Red Hat 8 or Mandrake will choke an older Pentium 2 to a halt. The difference is that more robust GUIs like GNOME and KDE are creating object frameworks which add considerable overhead to the system.
GNOME 2 would not be acceptable performance-wise in 1997. Today it is ok, since computer performance has increased.
I think that the same argument could be made about java or other languages that operate on the same concept. While I don't know enough about swing to agree or disagree with you, I do believe IN GENERAL that memory and code bloat becomes more acceptable as computers get faster.
One of the guys that I work with used to tune applications, especially disk writes with assembly language on an old Unisys mainframe to optimize write speed. Who does that today?
Maybe because you are playing with crappy Java 1.1.8 applets using the MS Internet Explorer VM...
As java has matured, the speed has increased signifigantly, especially in the 1.3 and 1.4 implementations. We use java everyday to tie our backend databases to inter and intranet sites, financial systems, etc. It's as fast as any solution and provides a rich API that improves our overall product.
If you look at the big picture, coding in languages like Java, Perl and Python just makes more sense. Few applications justify the extra time and duplication of effort that coding something in C requires.
About your whine -- get over it and get a clue. There is no good reason why a 750mhz computer cannot run any Java app, other than lack of time or effort to download a recent JVM. As time and technology marches on, faster CPU's and storage, combined with improvments in the product, will eliminate the performance complaints altogether.
Assembly programmers made the same arguments against C in the 70's that you make about java today. They were just as much in the dark as you are as well.
Java runs nearly as fast as compiled code for most things.
In these days of 2Ghz cpus on $700 computers, bitching about performance on your 6-year old PC is really not realistic.
Think of XML. XML adds massive overhead to applications in terms of data stored. But when you analyze everything in the end, the benefits of using it outweigh the overhead in diskspace, processor time for parsing and network load.
SENDING Spam is illegal.
Writing Spam is protected by the First Amendment.
English is the de facto language of government and commerce -- no myth.
Try setting up a company speaking and writing only German.
I disagree... the is a distinct point when a regime moves from a normal-everyday repressive dictatorship to a system as evil as wartime germany.
Remember to that the German propaganda minister, Joeseph Goebbels, was a public affairs genius who portrayed a very different view of Germany. When people are given a choice between accepting a positive spin from an official source or accepting the unpleasant truth from an unknown source, they often choose the spin.
Also remember that the US was fervently anti-communist and the Nazis were fighting the communists in Spain. Reports about concentration camps existed, but were not widely circulated and often disbelieved. (Also remember that most camps in the 30's were more like the the US's interment camps for Japanese-Americans than the Nazi horrors of the war)
I am not trying to make excuses for the actions of corporations. But I do not think it is fair to cast blame without trying to realize their point of view.
Unfortunately, people aren't blessed with 20/20 hindsight.
In the 1930's, nobody knew the extent of what the Nazi regime was going to do -- including most of the Nazis. They were just one of many right-wing nationalist regimes.
If IBM was evil for selling typewriters and calculators to the Nazis, then you are evil for buying Arab oil, chinese consumer goods, or a korean car.
Arsonists are usually psychotic and often admit to anything. I know of one guy who confessed to setting fires that were set when he was 3 years old!
This is probaly true -- but he may not be the guy without cooroborating evidence.
You circled around the answer alot.
Apple does not sell a C compiler. Intel does. Intel's bread and butter is ia32 chips running Microsoft OS's -- contributing to project that would improve a free replacement to Microsoft's OS would be rather dumb.
Would it make sense for Toyota to provide engineering support to Fiat for free?