Your argument becomes entirely null and void the second anyone says "my birth date is 1st November 1989". 1/11/1989. The text matches the numbers.
You're assuming that noone uses a word order different from yours, which is as invalid an assumption as assuming that noone uses dd/mm/(yy)yy would be.
The Sicillian mafia was originally a community self-help organisation. What was to eventially become the IRA was also a community focused support group.
I run small programs on small datasets. I don't even need the sum total of the HD space that I currently have. The concept of getting a bigger disk which will thereafter remain 90% empty is absurd. So I have no intention to "get with the times" just for the sake of it. I will accept donations of kit though, obviously. (nearly half of what I own is donated, I guess.)
The systems that I have that actually have hard disks (5 out of 7 of the machines) are indeed small by today's standards, but large enough to get a simple workstation linux install up and running - ~4GB on average. The problem I had with the Gentoo install was that I had pre-partitioned the HD with the expectation of a typical/tmp requirement of only a few hundred megs (which has always worked fine for me in Debian). Alas it was waaaaaaay to small for Gentoo to bootstrap.
In the future, I'll partition the next drive differently, so I can install with a 1G/tmp, and then switch its role with a different partition (/usr/local, say) when it's up and running.
It seems like other systems are by default the equivalent of:
USE="every goddam thing possible, yes with bells, and whistles, and a cherry on top if that's OK too"
Which is scary really.
I do look forward to giving gentoo a proper run, certainly. However, I'm an uptime queen (uptime should be more usefully measured in years rather than months), and I demand absolute reliability. I'm not 100% sure Gentoo offers the reliability I'm used to from Debian.
Not true. It could offer you versions of the package which do not have the dependency. I don't need anything to to with lpr as I have no printers, and no desire to even print to file, yet my package manager had decided that package Z needs a2ps which needs lpr. However, as some person somewhere once wanted to create such a dependency, the rest of the world, or those that run the usual distributions, is now saddled with it. I want the version that can't print, please.
I believe that Gentoo offers such configurability, but have been put off installing Gentoo after a series of failures to install it on my small hard disks. (It wanted more than the size of the whole hard disk that previously contained 2 whole working modern OSes in order to install - and that's just plain crap behaviour.)
So I don't believe the Gentoo idea is simply that of adding rice-alcohol to your fuel, I believe that it could, if only it would bloody install, offer superior dependency management through the ability to actually _manage_ dependencies, not simply _cope with_ dependencies.
Slashdot's error - It's not 1000 times more accurate, it's 3 times more accurate (than the NIST's mercury ion resonator). The figure of 1000 is what they think the technology in the future, but that's purely hypothetical.
NPL's errors - Bombarding an ion with a blue laser in order to cool it is _in_no_way_ similar to firing a beam of light at a mirror-ball. Mirror balls do not get cooler when you fire beams of light at them. Explanations that use inappropriate analogies are as useful as wearing tie-died lab-coats in night-clubs.
If "one part in 10^18" is "nearly a thousand times more accurate than the best clocks of today", then today's best clocks must be accurate to 1 part in 10^15. Therefore this new clock, being "three times more accurate than the Americans", "3.4 parts in 10^15", cannot be the be the best clock of today. Either that or someone in NPL can't do simple maths.
But _terrorists_ could be using those PCs and modems. It's absolutely _vital_ that the FCC exercises its _legal mandate_ in order to control such _terroristic_ activity. I pray that Bush has the wisdom to back the FCC at every step.
It's important to note that I was only partly right about the bit I was right about. The company was divided, and the trademarks were treated differently on either side of the pond. My comment only applied to the US side.
"X-windows" had not been around officially under that name at all. The "X Window System" had, of course. _Colloqially_ people have been calling it X-Windows, of course. I do, even though I know its trademarked name, which is clumsy.
Aspirin was wrenched off Bayer as part of post-war reparations. Nothing to do with them not protecting it.
""" You think the government should have the right to seize property without due process, without judicial oversight, and without disclosing the nature of why they are seizing the property? """
Yes. What was your address, again? Purely for statistics purposes, of course.
"There's also a problem when there's overly broad warrents"
When Berlusconi ordered raids on Italian Communist Party headquarters back in 1994 almost _everything_ was siezed. Every computer, modem, telephone, fax. etc.
And of course, no reason was given.
And of course, none of it was returned.
(And for the still-remaining naive US citizens out there, 'Communist' does not mean 'tool of the devil', they were and are a legitimate, fairly sensible socialist party.)
Exactly. Anyone who's seen these discussions before knows that the above list basically stitches up 95% of proposals instantly. The 5% that are still gasping for breath either fall to a few quick real live exchanges before croaking or the rare exception may make it as an explicit addition to that list.
Slashdot Mirror
"""
1/11/04
Jan. 11, 2004
The text matches the numbers.
"""
Your argument becomes entirely null and void the second anyone says "my birth date is 1st November 1989". 1/11/1989. The text matches the numbers.
You're assuming that noone uses a word order different from yours, which is as invalid an assumption as assuming that noone uses dd/mm/(yy)yy would be.
FP.
It's not just the dictatorships.
The Sicillian mafia was originally a community self-help organisation.
What was to eventially become the IRA was also a community focused support group.
Noble aims indeed. Or so it seemed at the time.
FP.
"an instant 1d6 SAN loss"
I know STR, INT, WIS, CON, DEX, CHR, but don't know SAN.
An instant loss in sanitation?
What, you shit you pants?
FP.
There's a hypothetical simple solution - they should just find a BSD-licensed browser, and release their own version closed-source.
FP.
I run small programs on small datasets. I don't even need the sum total of the HD space that I currently have. The concept of getting a bigger disk which will thereafter remain 90% empty is absurd. So I have no intention to "get with the times" just for the sake of it. I will accept donations of kit though, obviously. (nearly half of what I own is donated, I guess.)
/tmp requirement of only a few hundred megs (which has always worked fine for me in Debian). Alas it was waaaaaaay to small for Gentoo to bootstrap.
/tmp, and then switch its role with a different partition (/usr/local, say) when it's up and running.
The systems that I have that actually have hard disks (5 out of 7 of the machines) are indeed small by today's standards, but large enough to get a simple workstation linux install up and running - ~4GB on average. The problem I had with the Gentoo install was that I had pre-partitioned the HD with the expectation of a typical
In the future, I'll partition the next drive differently, so I can install with a 1G
FP.
It seems like other systems are by default the equivalent of:
USE="every goddam thing possible, yes with bells, and whistles, and a cherry on top if that's OK too"
Which is scary really.
I do look forward to giving gentoo a proper run, certainly.
However, I'm an uptime queen (uptime should be more usefully measured in years rather than months), and I demand absolute reliability. I'm not 100% sure Gentoo offers the reliability I'm used to from Debian.
FP.
"You shouldn't have an internet server running SMB anyway"
But note that it's SMBFS that's flawed, _not_ the smbd daemon itself.
FP.
Not true. It could offer you versions of the package which do not have the dependency. I don't need anything to to with lpr as I have no printers, and no desire to even print to file, yet my package manager had decided that package Z needs a2ps which needs lpr. However, as some person somewhere once wanted to create such a dependency, the rest of the world, or those that run the usual distributions, is now saddled with it. I want the version that can't print, please.
I believe that Gentoo offers such configurability, but have been put off installing Gentoo after a series of failures to install it on my small hard disks. (It wanted more than the size of the whole hard disk that previously contained 2 whole working modern OSes in order to install - and that's just plain crap behaviour.)
So I don't believe the Gentoo idea is simply that of adding rice-alcohol to your fuel, I believe that it could, if only it would bloody install, offer superior dependency management through the ability to actually _manage_ dependencies, not simply _cope with_ dependencies.
FP.
For the same reason as Firefox 1.0 now becoming available is newsworthy.
/. carry pro-FF raving. Almost daily a few weeks back.
i.e. barely at all. However, if it carries pro-FF raving, it should also carry anti-FF ranting.
And by heck does
FP.
You seem to be forgetting the fact that all these standards are arbitrary, and could be changed at a committee's whim.
It's happened before, and it will happen again.
For example, thanks to committees pounds are metric units of mass. Yup - pounds are metric.
FP.
Slashdot's error -
It's not 1000 times more accurate, it's 3 times more accurate (than the NIST's mercury ion resonator). The figure of 1000 is what they think the technology in the future, but that's purely hypothetical.
NPL's errors -
Bombarding an ion with a blue laser in order to cool it is _in_no_way_ similar to firing a beam of light at a mirror-ball. Mirror balls do not get cooler when you fire beams of light at them. Explanations that use inappropriate analogies are as useful as wearing tie-died lab-coats in night-clubs.
If "one part in 10^18" is "nearly a thousand times more accurate than the best clocks of today", then today's best clocks must be accurate to 1 part in 10^15. Therefore this new clock, being "three times more accurate than the Americans", "3.4 parts in 10^15", cannot be the be the best clock of today. Either that or someone in NPL can't do simple maths.
FP.
But _terrorists_ could be using those PCs and modems.
It's absolutely _vital_ that the FCC exercises its _legal mandate_ in order to control such _terroristic_ activity.
I pray that Bush has the wisdom to back the FCC at every step.
FP.
It's important to note that I was only partly right about the bit I was right about. The company was divided, and the trademarks were treated differently on either side of the pond. My comment only applied to the US side.
Nice second link, thanks.
FP.
"X-windows" had not been around officially under that name at all. The "X Window System" had, of course. _Colloqially_ people have been calling it X-Windows, of course. I do, even though I know its trademarked name, which is clumsy.
Aspirin was wrenched off Bayer as part of post-war reparations. Nothing to do with them not protecting it.
FP.
However, the period in question is 1994-1996.
FP.
TO keep the script simpler, it ran firefox no matter what you answered. "/Okay/ to FireFox" vs. "/No/, I'm not sure".
FP.
Yup. I get the feeling that people haven't watched Fritz Lang's /Metropolis/ either.
However, they've already played the terrorism card.
To late to put it back in their hand, everyone else has seen it.
And now they should _justify_ it.
FP.
close - "on the whole"
quite close - "in general"
Such constructions are called idioms, they don't necessarily translate into foreign languages.
FP.
I'm sure we'll all be able to trust
Supreme Court Justice John Ashcroft
to be honest and accurate.
FP.
"""
/irony tag?)
You think the government should have the right to seize property without due process, without judicial oversight, and without disclosing the nature of why they are seizing the property?
"""
Yes. What was your address, again? Purely for statistics purposes, of course.
FP. (do I need to add a
"There's also a problem when there's overly broad warrents"
When Berlusconi ordered raids on Italian Communist Party headquarters back in 1994 almost _everything_ was siezed. Every computer, modem, telephone, fax. etc.
And of course, no reason was given.
And of course, none of it was returned.
(And for the still-remaining naive US citizens out there, 'Communist' does not mean 'tool of the devil', they were and are a legitimate, fairly sensible socialist party.)
FP.
We must start with The War On Pretzels.
They have already nearly successfully struck, at the highest level, once -- we cannot let that happen again.
FP.
Exactly.
Anyone who's seen these discussions before knows that the above list basically stitches up 95% of proposals instantly.
The 5% that are still gasping for breath either fall to a few quick real live exchanges before croaking or the rare exception may make it as an explicit addition to that list.
Nothing new here. Move along.
FP.
"""
(*) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
One word, one hyphen: white-listing.
"""
One word, one hyphen: header-forging
"""
(*) Users of email will not put up with it
Why? It's not costing them anything
"""
It costs them CPU cycles.
"""
(*) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
Need an order more worm riddled boxes, i.e. ONE ORDER LESS SPAM.
"""
What language is that in?
"""
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
None have ever been tried.
"""
If so, it's because none have been shown to be practical.
FP.