Very nice. I particularly liked the reference to "FORTRAN 77 and high-level 'C' languages" as well as the notice that UNIX is "as-is" with no maintenance or tech support.
Yeah, but how many other Mars rocks were found in Antarctica that didn't have any evidence at all?
According to the article to which I linked above, "ALH84001 is one of only 12 meteorites world-wide identified as martian". I don't know how many of the twelve were found in Antartica.
If we brought back 10 tons of mars rocks, the chances of getting a fossil are still slim to none. Talk about needle in a haystack. Not to mention the fact that you have to land near some of it to begin with.
According to NASA, a meteorite that was discovered in Antartica contains indications that life once existed on Mars. If life was abundant enough that a rock could be ejected from Mars and subsequently make it to Earth with some evidence of life (structures similar to Earth fossils and organic molecules) then I think the chances of finding a fossil in a targeted sample are much greater than you assume.
there seem to be quite a few people with malfunctioning sarcasm sensors today.
CBG: Oh yeah, then everyone's REAL happy then. Lady: Do I detect a note of sarcasm? Frink: (reading sarcasm detector) Are you kidding me, this baby's off the charts, mmhay! CBG: Ooh, a sarcasm detector, well that's a REAL useful invention. (detector blows up)
Karma points to whoever is the first to notice the irony of my copying this from the OED.
This is precisely why there have been ruled "fair use" exemptions to copyright law. Sometimes it is beneficial to society if you are able to quote another work. This kind of usage is fine, as long as you don't publish the entire OED verbatiim.
While I have your undivided attention due to interest in the story, dare I ask why slashdot breaks links like that? Anyone know?
It is not just links, it is all long strings. It is so the trolls can't use long strings to mess up the page formatting. Without the spaces a troll could just put in a super-long string to make the page really wide.
Not to mention the fact that the Series 1 Tivos use a 2.2 kernel, and thus would not be subject to any action even if SCO's claims are true. SCO only alleges copied code in 2.4.x kernels. The article made no mention of Tivo, I guess the submitter made the assumption that Tivo would be subject to this.
I almost believed you, but then I remembered that if you really were from Nigeria, you would have typed your message in ALL CAPS. Shame on you! I am too smart to fall for your scam. I will wait for a REAL nigerian to split his FORTY SEVEN POINT EIGHT MILLION AMERICAN DOLLARS with me.
Just because what you do is legal now does not mean that it will be in the future. The "You shouldn't care about giving up your rights if you are doing nothing wrong" argument is one the government often uses when taking away those rights. I am just shocked they have such a big percentage of the population believing the propaganda.
As for Afghanistan and Iraq--the best way to console the orphans we create is to leave these countries far better off than when we got there.
I think we are better off not making them orphans in the first place. Of course if we did that we couldn't award multi-BILLION dollar contracts to Cheney's company Halliburton to "rebuild". So the US taxpayer pays to bomb the hell out of them, then pays to rebuild them. But it is all fine, since all the money goes to the friends of those in power. And since there have been massive tax cuts for these people they won't have to give any of that money back. Sounds like a win-win situation (both the rich people and the rich people win). Who cares if we make a few more enemies in the process? If we have more enemies then we can conduct more wars, have more "rebuilding" and line the pockets of our cronies. Sounds like a perfect plan.
If another country invaded my country, killed my parents and laid waste to my city, I doubt I would be pacified just because they also built a McDonalds when they were done bombing. Add the obvious religious and cultural schism between the US and middle eastern countries and you get a whole new crop of people who hate the US vehemently. If you really think "rebuilding" something that we blew up in the first place is going to console these orphans I weep for you.
I thank the author for not filling the book with dry-humored jokes, useless "real life" experiences...
...but rather allows you to learn through the introduction of real-life examples, explanations, and suggestions based on the author's actual installation experiences.
So you thank the author for not filling the book with "real life" experiences, then you applaud him for including real life examples. Let me make sure I'm reading correctly... real life experiences-bad. Real life examples-good. What is the difference between the two?
That makes no sense. If IBM holds a software patent in the US and a european company uses that technology then, without the ability to enforce that patent in euroupe, they have no legal recourse to challenge them. IOW their "patent" becomes useless.
Yes, but if the european company would like to sell their products in the US, the US patents would apply, no matter where the company is based.
I use RAV with my linux-based qmail email server (for a smallish ~50 person corporate domain).
If you do find another (effective, low-cost, easily administrated) solution for Qmail, let me know. I am in the same boat as you (2 domain RAV for Qmail license). I doubt MS is going to develop or support the cross-platform solutions that GeCAD offered. I am not as worried about Spam as I am about viruses.
This is really a shame. I have been very happy with the product (and I don't say that about much commercial software these days). Leave it to Bill to ruin my whole day.
I saw a job listing recently that had as a requirement "5+ years in administering Windows 2000." This was an entry-level position.
Maybe the reason there are such insane job requirements is because so many people lie on their resume. For example, we placed an ad for a web-content manager and received a resume claiming 15 years of HTML experience. I looked at the name and to my surprise it was not Tim Berners-Lee (must have just been a close friend). My point is that maybe the HR drones are putting "5 years experience in Windows 2000" because that is what they are seeing on the resumes they have.
Yep. The new apps "KPolarityReverse and KSensorArrayMod" are awesome.
Yeah, those apps are nice. However, my KEjectWarpCore always seems to crash when I need it most (although it appears to be running fine when not being used). Has anyone else experienced this problem in their enterprise?
All it takes is a little special coding and some database maintenance...
By maintaining a table of mail servers for each domain
There is already such a table. It's called DNS. (example: 'dig @localhost slashdot.org MX' returns: slashdot.org. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.egl.net.)
The procedure that you describe is how a mail server works, other than it gets the server IP via DNS rather than a local DB lookup. There is nothing preventing the spammers from running their own servers rather than using relays, other than the expense and overhead. It doesn't take any "special coding" or "database maintenence" all it takes is a few clicks of a mouse (or a 'make setup check' if they're using Qmail).
The reason is that the US Government would immediately seize the opportunity and embed eavesdropping on high-level protocols under the guise of "national security".
They don't need to rebuild the internet to spy on us. They can do it with IPv4 and it is already happening. Why do it in the high-level protocols when you can do it on an IP level?
Usually, with initial chip production at this scale, they lease out fab production time from other companies.
True, but what fab has the capabilities to produce the 65nm parts that they require for the chip? AFAIK, there aren't any current fabs that could produce the chips they want (at least not in volume).
Slashdot Mirror
Very nice. I particularly liked the reference to "FORTRAN 77 and high-level 'C' languages" as well as the notice that UNIX is "as-is" with no maintenance or tech support.
"Everybody Loves HypnoToad" has been going downhill since season 3.
Yeah, but how many other Mars rocks were found in Antarctica that didn't have any evidence at all?
According to the article to which I linked above, "ALH84001 is one of only 12 meteorites world-wide identified as martian". I don't know how many of the twelve were found in Antartica.
If we brought back 10 tons of mars rocks, the chances of getting a fossil are still slim to none. Talk about needle in a haystack. Not to mention the fact that you have to land near some of it to begin with.
According to NASA, a meteorite that was discovered in Antartica contains indications that life once existed on Mars. If life was abundant enough that a rock could be ejected from Mars and subsequently make it to Earth with some evidence of life (structures similar to Earth fossils and organic molecules) then I think the chances of finding a fossil in a targeted sample are much greater than you assume.
there seem to be quite a few people with malfunctioning sarcasm sensors today.
CBG: Oh yeah, then everyone's REAL happy then.
Lady: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
Frink: (reading sarcasm detector) Are you kidding me, this baby's off the charts, mmhay!
CBG: Ooh, a sarcasm detector, well that's a REAL useful invention. (detector blows up)
Both assumptions are erronous, unlearned, and emotionally modivated.
What we need to do hear folks is educate ourselves.
I don't think I will take advice on education from someone who has not even bothered to learn to spell.
Voila.
/., the correct spelling is 'walla' or 'wallah'.
Don't you mean 'walla'? Perhaps you forgot how to spell that word properly. On
Karma points to whoever is the first to notice the irony of my copying this from the OED.
This is precisely why there have been ruled "fair use" exemptions to copyright law. Sometimes it is beneficial to society if you are able to quote another work. This kind of usage is fine, as long as you don't publish the entire OED verbatiim.
While I have your undivided attention due to interest in the story, dare I ask why slashdot breaks links like that? Anyone know?
It is not just links, it is all long strings. It is so the trolls can't use long strings to mess up the page formatting. Without the spaces a troll could just put in a super-long string to make the page really wide.
Hmm, 4 comments and I can't get to Kuro5hin. Mirrors?
Not to mention the fact that the Series 1 Tivos use a 2.2 kernel, and thus would not be subject to any action even if SCO's claims are true. SCO only alleges copied code in 2.4.x kernels. The article made no mention of Tivo, I guess the submitter made the assumption that Tivo would be subject to this.
I almost believed you, but then I remembered that if you really were from Nigeria, you would have typed your message in ALL CAPS. Shame on you! I am too smart to fall for your scam. I will wait for a REAL nigerian to split his FORTY SEVEN POINT EIGHT MILLION AMERICAN DOLLARS with me.
I don't do anything illegal online (warez, stealing music, etc)
Then those in power will just have to make the things that you do illegal. It used to be legal (in my country) to talk about reverse engineering electronic devices, but it no longer is. It used to be illegal for law enforcement to place a wiretap without a warrant, but now they can place wiretaps indiscriminately since there are now no judicial checks on the system. It used to be legal in the UK to keep your encryption keys to yourself, but now if you don't reveal them to law enforcement you are commiting a crime.
Just because what you do is legal now does not mean that it will be in the future. The "You shouldn't care about giving up your rights if you are doing nothing wrong" argument is one the government often uses when taking away those rights. I am just shocked they have such a big percentage of the population believing the propaganda.
As for Afghanistan and Iraq--the best way to console the orphans we create is to leave these countries far better off than when we got there.
I think we are better off not making them orphans in the first place. Of course if we did that we couldn't award multi-BILLION dollar contracts to Cheney's company Halliburton to "rebuild". So the US taxpayer pays to bomb the hell out of them, then pays to rebuild them. But it is all fine, since all the money goes to the friends of those in power. And since there have been massive tax cuts for these people they won't have to give any of that money back. Sounds like a win-win situation (both the rich people and the rich people win). Who cares if we make a few more enemies in the process? If we have more enemies then we can conduct more wars, have more "rebuilding" and line the pockets of our cronies. Sounds like a perfect plan.
If another country invaded my country, killed my parents and laid waste to my city, I doubt I would be pacified just because they also built a McDonalds when they were done bombing. Add the obvious religious and cultural schism between the US and middle eastern countries and you get a whole new crop of people who hate the US vehemently. If you really think "rebuilding" something that we blew up in the first place is going to console these orphans I weep for you.
I thank the author for not filling the book with dry-humored jokes, useless "real life" experiences...
...but rather allows you to learn through the introduction of real-life examples, explanations, and suggestions based on the author's actual installation experiences.
So you thank the author for not filling the book with "real life" experiences, then you applaud him for including real life examples. Let me make sure I'm reading correctly... real life experiences-bad. Real life examples-good. What is the difference between the two?
That makes no sense. If IBM holds a software patent in the US and a european company uses that technology then, without the ability to enforce that patent in euroupe, they have no legal recourse to challenge them. IOW their "patent" becomes useless.
Yes, but if the european company would like to sell their products in the US, the US patents would apply, no matter where the company is based.
Here, Here...
Words of wisdom... Finally.
There, there? I think what you mean is "Hear, hear".
If you do your job right, no one notices you and if you do get noticed you get screamed at, usually by some halfwit
Sounds just like being in IT. Realizing this, I now have much more empathy for the umpires.
I use RAV with my linux-based qmail email server (for a smallish ~50 person corporate domain).
If you do find another (effective, low-cost, easily administrated) solution for Qmail, let me know. I am in the same boat as you (2 domain RAV for Qmail license). I doubt MS is going to develop or support the cross-platform solutions that GeCAD offered. I am not as worried about Spam as I am about viruses.
This is really a shame. I have been very happy with the product (and I don't say that about much commercial software these days). Leave it to Bill to ruin my whole day.
f you don't watch any advertiing at all, then how do you know when a new show is on?
:)
My Tivo records it for me as a suggestion
I saw a job listing recently that had as a requirement "5+ years in administering Windows 2000." This was an entry-level position.
Maybe the reason there are such insane job requirements is because so many people lie on their resume. For example, we placed an ad for a web-content manager and received a resume claiming 15 years of HTML experience. I looked at the name and to my surprise it was not Tim Berners-Lee (must have just been a close friend). My point is that maybe the HR drones are putting "5 years experience in Windows 2000" because that is what they are seeing on the resumes they have.
Yep. The new apps "KPolarityReverse and KSensorArrayMod" are awesome.
Yeah, those apps are nice. However, my KEjectWarpCore always seems to crash when I need it most (although it appears to be running fine when not being used). Has anyone else experienced this problem in their enterprise?
All it takes is a little special coding and some database maintenance...
By maintaining a table of mail servers for each domain
There is already such a table. It's called DNS. (example: 'dig @localhost slashdot.org MX' returns: slashdot.org. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.egl.net.)
The procedure that you describe is how a mail server works, other than it gets the server IP via DNS rather than a local DB lookup. There is nothing preventing the spammers from running their own servers rather than using relays, other than the expense and overhead. It doesn't take any "special coding" or "database maintenence" all it takes is a few clicks of a mouse (or a 'make setup check' if they're using Qmail).
The reason is that the US Government would immediately seize the opportunity and embed eavesdropping on high-level protocols under the guise of "national security".
They don't need to rebuild the internet to spy on us. They can do it with IPv4 and it is already happening. Why do it in the high-level protocols when you can do it on an IP level?
Usually, with initial chip production at this scale, they lease out fab production time from other companies.
True, but what fab has the capabilities to produce the 65nm parts that they require for the chip? AFAIK, there aren't any current fabs that could produce the chips they want (at least not in volume).