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Ok... I'm going to argue that the extra data doesn't matter. I know that doesn't make sense on the surface. For code that sits on the server to return data (Hibernate's market), it doesn't matter how much data gets returned. The pipe to the user is always smaller than the pipe to the database server. The biggest bottleneck is still the disk. Since the head is going to pass over the data anyhow, why not read it to put it in the cache? There's a decent enough chance to save a disk seek in the future if you happen to need that data.
The RIAA and copyrights are the worst things to happen to music. Music has existed long before copyright, and some of the best music was made before either. I doubt any of the current "stars" would be where they are today if not for that combination, and there would be a lot of others that would be doing much better off without the cram it down the consumer's throat BS music we have today. I have friends that sing and play better than anything I've heard from a label.
Alright, so the Catholics were worse, but not by much.:)
N.Korea has been threatening to build nuclear weapons for as long, and they had the technology to do it. Our best intelligence says they have them now. I would think a mad dictator with nukes would be more dangerous in terms of loosing or selling one to a terrorist than a dieing country. Saddam wasn't breaking that many UN resolutions either, and not any significant enough to warrent war, obviously, or we would have been able to get world support.
It's very naive to believe you can force democracy on a people that to this day believe their country should be run by religion. We're so heavily invested in Saudi Arabia, one would think that the Bushs approve of their government. If they are such model citizens, flourishing in the middle east, why are they not the grand example. Why are neither Kuwait nor Egypt examples? If they liked democracy so much, there are plenty examples throughout the world. They know what democracy is, and I doubt they think much of it.
It's not like N.Korea was the most significant threat either. The latest intelligence says that the mastermind behind 9/11 is in Pakistan. If we went to war anywhere, it should have been there.
I don't think it was contrived at all. If Bush had wanted to, he could have just declared war on Iraq and got approval later. I think the whole purpose of actually asking congress for the power was supposed to be symbolic that the US meant what it was saying.
Bush saying Saddam was a bad man that needed to be removed from power is niave. There were many other more significant threats to the US. He wants to handle N Korea with diplomacy through multiple nations, but he wanted to go to war with Iraq, even without help. I think that shows his bias toward war in Iraq pretty well.
He should be impeached on the grounds of gross incompetance even if he didn't blatently lie. No one wants to see him impeached though. No one wants to see Cheney in power of anything as deadly as a sharpened pencil. He's gone to the point of paranoid dillusions. He's not psycologically fit for office. Rumsfeild probably should have gotten shit-canned over the prisoner abuse scandle. Colin Powell is just a sell out, but I'm sure he would do a better job than any of the afore mentioned thugs and psychos. I would almost guess that he's being blackmailed into the stuff he does nowadays. I used to respect him a lot more before the Iraq war.
Anyone actually watch how Bush asked the UN for help? Before the war, he was telling the UN exactly what they were going to do, enforce one of their rules that was only used for a threat to keep inspectors regularly visiting in the first place. Recently he went in and pretty much said that he only supports the vague idea of the UN, and obviously no one was too thrilled to give him a hand. At least they had more composure than I would if I were in their position. I would have just got up and walked out, and I did, with my remote control.
Thanks... I was figuring someone was smarter than me, I was just curious how they dealt with these issues, or even if they were issues.
For those too lazy to read the site, I gather that the choice in blade numbers pretty much conqueres this. It seems that three blades is pretty magical at keeping the wind energy captured pretty constant and reducing stress. The lower blade even gets eclipsed by the tower.
I'm happy that the best and brightest seem to be working on these things! Now I want one!:) My average electrical consumption is about 800 watts right now. I could reduce that by using solar power to dry my clothes.:) It probably doesn't help that the other two tennants use my electricity for the dryer as well.:)
Yeah, but I was thinking you coud still get that kind of information with a simple ranking. It's not as though the current polling system works for all the polls either, which all the multiple choices.:)
I wonder if you could propose a patch to the/code polling system?
I just think it's good practice that if we are going to complain about voting systems, we should strive to make a model, and in the very least, have something better, even if we are using it as a toy. It's like the adage/cliche of not throwing stones when your home is made of glass, or things being good for various water fowl.:)
I think it would also lead to some interesting new technologies, and maybe we could come up with the model system, or maybe some intuitive way to make voting in alternative systems easy. There's a lot to be learned, and I think/. would be a great place to start. I know the goals are lofty, but so were Hans Reiser's, and look where his idea is today!
I would also like to pose the question of different wind currents at different altitudes as being a problem. With a big diameter (about 126m in this case) you are fighting yourself. You are actually moving faster than the wind would push at a lower altitude, presumably. I'm not even considering that the wind generally changes direction when you get higher, but I think that's actually much higher.
With these premises, would you not think that there is one good optimum size of the blades, and you should probably just build taller tower systems suspending many smaller generators?
Another consideration would be energy required to actually build and deploy smaller vs larger.
Any algorithm capable of choosing a winner is capable of sorting. Just remove the winner, and run the algorithm again.
In some polls, it is indeed to choose a winner! The poll up the last time I checked was about who won the debates.
I'm interested in seeing how the "cowboyneal" option would be effected.
I imagined more of a demonstration of the various algorithms simultaneously. A simple ranking is enough to get all the information needed for all the algorithms I've seen. Granted, this one allows equals, which would cause a problem with a few others, if we allow equals.
In the very least, it could be a "polling option" depending on what kind of poll it is. I would think that people would like to see how it works on something relatively inconsequential before they threw it up into practical use that could drastically effect the world.
So why doesn't the slashdot poll use this method...
If we want to argue that alternative voting isn't complicated, the best step in that direction is to implement it ourselves in a very simple manner./. has a decent sized community.
I propose the first poll on the new system ask what poll is best.:)
Until/. implements something other than plurality, I don't want to hear any complaining that the US Government should.
You could do that... me, I' would rather shoot them.:) Have you ever seen a program refence a file Config.ini, go edit the file, nothing changes, then you realize that there are two files!... Yeah, perhaps death is too good for them.:)
The only thing I miss from VMS was the versioning filesystem that wasn't case sensitive. I use Linux now, and get angry every time I have to hit the shift key. Anyone storing xxx.jpg in the same directory with XXX.jpg needs to be shot. No one uses case sensitivity, because it's stupid. I also miss the versioning. I could just open xxx.jpg;2 for an older version. Now you pretty much need CVS and a decent CVS browser to get anything close to that kind of functionality.
Why is there not one single case-insensitive filesystem for Linux? (FAT doesn't count, it's not a filesystem so much as a waste bin.)
If it's part of the XMPP spec to do internationalization, then it may not...
On the other hand, if XMPP relies on XML encodings, I'm sure it will. Java natively supports unicode as it's default character encoding. All the XML parsers support UTF-8 as well.
Just to completely blow away any idea of using/bin/sh for shading, I would like to say that if you spawned a new process for every opengl command you sent to the card, you would be waiting for the first frame over a cup of coffee.:)
Don't feel bad, I read the title the same way. Maybe they should change the title to not be so misleading, maybe something with fire in the name.:)
There is no reason why you couldn't modify bash to add internals to support opengl calls, but bash is completely interpreted, and it may not be able to keep up with the GPU for anything complicated.
If you really wanted to mess with GPU's in a scripting language, I suggest something designed to do something a little more programatically... like everyone's favorite snake, Python. I'm pretty sure there are opengl wrappers, which, by extension, would mean there is probably shading support in there somewhere.
Other than that, you could use SH to write a program to play with the shader.:)
I thought the point of this article is that it's tried, tested, and found lacking.:) Who says you can't actually test a system alongside the old until you feel comfortable with it? When the old Voodoo fails, you'll have the new stuff there to take it's place. Then once you've actually been on the new stuff for a while, jettison the old POS system out of one of the airplane at about 10,000 feet, because I doubt it will be missed.
It's Java... The only closed part you would need is the Java class library from SUN, which has freely available source that you can modify for your own internal use. The rest you can do with jikes and tomcat. Tomcat is used in all the big J2EE servers... IBM uses it in WebSphere, for example. Tomcat is the reference implementation of JSP/Servlets. You may need to use JBoss, Geronimo, or OpenEJB with SalesForce because I'm pretty sure they use Enterprise JavaBeans.
My bet on a fully open system would be with Python/ZOPE. It's missing a few things, but it's very eligant.
My favorite part was the human error part... It was human error, alright... the jack-a$$ that decided to use a 32bit millisecond counter for uptime, and crash when the counter overflows.
Granted Linux isn't the best solution, but it's a hell of a lot better than running "mission critical" systems on "voodoo and chicken wire"....and in the end, isn't it about getting marginally better for marginal cost? Take your above average/.er and give him a week in the airlines, and he'll probably have something more reliable set up using Wine running on Linux that runs off a USB keychain flash stick, and is administrable from anywhere in the world using SSH and VNC.
I feel for your plight, I do, but I also have sympathy for your parent.
How else are we supposed to know if something is worth it's price tag to us? Our only legal recourse for bad software was taken away years ago. We can't return it even if it doesn't work on our computer. A demo and/or piracy will probably be more likely to get your game bought if it works. You have to encourage them to buy it with extra functionality for actually buying a game, or else once they go through the trouble to pirate it, they aren't likely to go through the trouble of buying it.
That said, I'm so disgusted with the state of computer gaming that I'm about to make a switch to consoles. I used to be the biggest fan of computer gaming, but now consoles offer about the same level of enjoyment for less. You spend about 80-200$ of the system, then about 50$/game, and you are done. Now you have to spend 300+$ on hardware upgrades and 100-200$ on software upgrades every year or two to play computer games. They mostly don't support my operating system of choice, and require a lot of tweaking when they do. I just put a disk or cartridge in a slot on a console and play, sometimes instantly (ie no booting).
I'd be willing to bet most of them either dual boot, or have that idiotic mentality that linux can't do what they want. I just destroyed my installation of XP once it finally broke beyond repair. I was in that group and spent most of my time in Linux. I hope I don't have to install XP again just to test compatibility with the software I develop. Right now, I have another employee test out how it looks and acts on his iBook and PC with XP.
The other set of people running pirated windows either bought it unwittingly or had it installed on their machine for them because it was "free" that way, and don't want anything but windows.
I should go ahead and post to clear that up since people are saying it/.'d already. Yoper is built to be fast, and is supposed to be faster than Gentoo by what looks like 50% or more. A serious speed advantage.
I was thinking the same thing until I read the article. The blurb is a bit confusing. I think it supports apt as well.
It gets performance by pre-linking the binaries. Somewhere between dynamic and static there must exist "prelinking".
Looks like a fun idea that should be applied to VM languages dynamically if it isn't already.
Make your own SSL cert authenticity service specifically for email servers. Make it cheap, free, or open to let anyone choose which servers they trust and how much they trust them.
The next logical step is to require authentic SSL keys, I think. This gives the addition of an encryption, and moves authentication/authorization back to where it belongs... not in the DNS records. The extra effect is that in order to get a key to run a server like that, they have to publish more of their identity, and the companies selling keys say they check all the information provided.
The other alternative has been possible for a long time, and that's to use a web of trust built on a keyserver and require all email to be signed. This has never really gotten off the ground, though.
The best solution I could think of in a completely open fashion is to require someone to be able to recieve regular mail in order to send email. Then you have a physical address tied to the email address. Which no one is going to like, even me, because of the privacy issue. The honest truth is we can't have anonimity and not have spam. Because we have anonimity on slashdot, there are a lot of wierd things posted, but it just get's modded down. The air-tight solution is to do away with anonimity for professional messaging services, and have an "Untrusted Inbox" for everything that could be anonymous. So, if you want to be a trusted sender of email, you have to register your physical mailing address, you are sent a key, you are now responsible for every email that goes through that address, or any email address you vouch for (in case you have multiple). In the contract to be added to the list, you have to agree that you will pay something crazy like 50$/unsolicited mail that you send through the system. They sign the contract, and send it back. If you spam, you either commited two felonies (forgery and tampering with the mail) in the US, or a bill and/or a summons to court will make you liable for a pretty large sum. Of course you would have a privacy policy in the contract saying that the address is confidential between you and the user. That should make it at least palatable for professional use.
None of these methods will protect you from a virus/worm stealing your email information and sending from you. The best thing you can do for this is to have a secure operating environment, which is never gauranteed. You can at least suspend the user's email though.
Would carbon dating not apply? I know paper has carbon.
Maybe some tests on the ink will show if it's from a Lexmark or a ribbon.
Has Bush said these documents were a fake? If not, he may be worried that they are real, and if they are confirmed, he would be made out as a liar as well as a cheat, where both will go away if he just ignores them and they are fakes.
I ran top, and all my CPU usage was XFree86 and kernel. That tells me that the bottleneck is most likely ALSA/X11 calls on my system. My CPU usage hits around 50% on an Athlon XP 2100+. I'm running JDK 1.5.0.
I bet if I used OSS, it might make a difference. It may even be sending the sound through the X11 Server for all I know.
I'm satisfied since my Java was using 10%. Java either does, or will, use OpenGL at some point (ldd doesn't seem to think so, but Java loads all platform libraries dynamically except for a few basics, and X11 if it is being used as a plugin). Also, I don't know if the codec even bothers to support Java2D. It may be that I get 50% CPU utilization because it keeps sending X11 calls to the X server using X11 Accel. that is really old to be compatible with remote X11 servers.
I hope this sheds a little more light into what's going on, and maybe someone that knows a bit more about Java2D and Linux/ALSA/X11 workings can make some more educated guess that I can.
I use the NVIDIA OpenGL under Debian with the latest Debs for everything in unstable (I even have it working with Neverwinter, and get more than adequate FPS) 2.7.8 Kernel, NVIDIA's AGP driver.
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Ok... I'm going to argue that the extra data doesn't matter. I know that doesn't make sense on the surface. For code that sits on the server to return data (Hibernate's market), it doesn't matter how much data gets returned. The pipe to the user is always smaller than the pipe to the database server. The biggest bottleneck is still the disk. Since the head is going to pass over the data anyhow, why not read it to put it in the cache? There's a decent enough chance to save a disk seek in the future if you happen to need that data.
The RIAA and copyrights are the worst things to happen to music. Music has existed long before copyright, and some of the best music was made before either. I doubt any of the current "stars" would be where they are today if not for that combination, and there would be a lot of others that would be doing much better off without the cram it down the consumer's throat BS music we have today. I have friends that sing and play better than anything I've heard from a label.
:)
Alright, so the Catholics were worse, but not by much.
N.Korea has been threatening to build nuclear weapons for as long, and they had the technology to do it. Our best intelligence says they have them now. I would think a mad dictator with nukes would be more dangerous in terms of loosing or selling one to a terrorist than a dieing country. Saddam wasn't breaking that many UN resolutions either, and not any significant enough to warrent war, obviously, or we would have been able to get world support.
It's very naive to believe you can force democracy on a people that to this day believe their country should be run by religion. We're so heavily invested in Saudi Arabia, one would think that the Bushs approve of their government. If they are such model citizens, flourishing in the middle east, why are they not the grand example. Why are neither Kuwait nor Egypt examples? If they liked democracy so much, there are plenty examples throughout the world. They know what democracy is, and I doubt they think much of it.
It's not like N.Korea was the most significant threat either. The latest intelligence says that the mastermind behind 9/11 is in Pakistan. If we went to war anywhere, it should have been there.
I don't think it was contrived at all. If Bush had wanted to, he could have just declared war on Iraq and got approval later. I think the whole purpose of actually asking congress for the power was supposed to be symbolic that the US meant what it was saying.
Bush saying Saddam was a bad man that needed to be removed from power is niave. There were many other more significant threats to the US. He wants to handle N Korea with diplomacy through multiple nations, but he wanted to go to war with Iraq, even without help. I think that shows his bias toward war in Iraq pretty well.
He should be impeached on the grounds of gross incompetance even if he didn't blatently lie. No one wants to see him impeached though. No one wants to see Cheney in power of anything as deadly as a sharpened pencil. He's gone to the point of paranoid dillusions. He's not psycologically fit for office. Rumsfeild probably should have gotten shit-canned over the prisoner abuse scandle. Colin Powell is just a sell out, but I'm sure he would do a better job than any of the afore mentioned thugs and psychos. I would almost guess that he's being blackmailed into the stuff he does nowadays. I used to respect him a lot more before the Iraq war.
Anyone actually watch how Bush asked the UN for help? Before the war, he was telling the UN exactly what they were going to do, enforce one of their rules that was only used for a threat to keep inspectors regularly visiting in the first place. Recently he went in and pretty much said that he only supports the vague idea of the UN, and obviously no one was too thrilled to give him a hand. At least they had more composure than I would if I were in their position. I would have just got up and walked out, and I did, with my remote control.
Thanks... I was figuring someone was smarter than me, I was just curious how they dealt with these issues, or even if they were issues.
:) My average electrical consumption is about 800 watts right now. I could reduce that by using solar power to dry my clothes. :) It probably doesn't help that the other two tennants use my electricity for the dryer as well. :)
For those too lazy to read the site, I gather that the choice in blade numbers pretty much conqueres this. It seems that three blades is pretty magical at keeping the wind energy captured pretty constant and reducing stress. The lower blade even gets eclipsed by the tower.
I'm happy that the best and brightest seem to be working on these things! Now I want one!
Yeah, but I was thinking you coud still get that kind of information with a simple ranking. It's not as though the current polling system works for all the polls either, which all the multiple choices. :)
/code polling system?
:)
/. would be a great place to start. I know the goals are lofty, but so were Hans Reiser's, and look where his idea is today!
I wonder if you could propose a patch to the
I just think it's good practice that if we are going to complain about voting systems, we should strive to make a model, and in the very least, have something better, even if we are using it as a toy. It's like the adage/cliche of not throwing stones when your home is made of glass, or things being good for various water fowl.
I think it would also lead to some interesting new technologies, and maybe we could come up with the model system, or maybe some intuitive way to make voting in alternative systems easy. There's a lot to be learned, and I think
I would also like to pose the question of different wind currents at different altitudes as being a problem. With a big diameter (about 126m in this case) you are fighting yourself. You are actually moving faster than the wind would push at a lower altitude, presumably. I'm not even considering that the wind generally changes direction when you get higher, but I think that's actually much higher.
With these premises, would you not think that there is one good optimum size of the blades, and you should probably just build taller tower systems suspending many smaller generators?
Another consideration would be energy required to actually build and deploy smaller vs larger.
Any algorithm capable of choosing a winner is capable of sorting. Just remove the winner, and run the algorithm again.
In some polls, it is indeed to choose a winner! The poll up the last time I checked was about who won the debates.
I'm interested in seeing how the "cowboyneal" option would be effected.
I imagined more of a demonstration of the various algorithms simultaneously. A simple ranking is enough to get all the information needed for all the algorithms I've seen. Granted, this one allows equals, which would cause a problem with a few others, if we allow equals.
In the very least, it could be a "polling option" depending on what kind of poll it is. I would think that people would like to see how it works on something relatively inconsequential before they threw it up into practical use that could drastically effect the world.
So why doesn't the slashdot poll use this method...
/. has a decent sized community.
:)
/. implements something other than plurality, I don't want to hear any complaining that the US Government should.
If we want to argue that alternative voting isn't complicated, the best step in that direction is to implement it ourselves in a very simple manner.
I propose the first poll on the new system ask what poll is best.
Until
You could do that... me, I' would rather shoot them. :) Have you ever seen a program refence a file Config.ini, go edit the file, nothing changes, then you realize that there are two files! ... Yeah, perhaps death is too good for them. :)
HAHAHHA
:)
/tmp would be the only problem.
That could very well be so slow that I would need to put a Squid proxy in there to cache the requests!
I'll definately look up the mount arguements. I think
The only thing I miss from VMS was the versioning filesystem that wasn't case sensitive. I use Linux now, and get angry every time I have to hit the shift key. Anyone storing xxx.jpg in the same directory with XXX.jpg needs to be shot. No one uses case sensitivity, because it's stupid. I also miss the versioning. I could just open xxx.jpg;2 for an older version. Now you pretty much need CVS and a decent CVS browser to get anything close to that kind of functionality.
Why is there not one single case-insensitive filesystem for Linux? (FAT doesn't count, it's not a filesystem so much as a waste bin.)
If it's part of the XMPP spec to do internationalization, then it may not...
On the other hand, if XMPP relies on XML encodings, I'm sure it will. Java natively supports unicode as it's default character encoding. All the XML parsers support UTF-8 as well.
Maybe they'll put a CG character in the musical!
Just to completely blow away any idea of using /bin/sh for shading, I would like to say that if you spawned a new process for every opengl command you sent to the card, you would be waiting for the first frame over a cup of coffee. :)
:)
:)
Don't feel bad, I read the title the same way. Maybe they should change the title to not be so misleading, maybe something with fire in the name.
There is no reason why you couldn't modify bash to add internals to support opengl calls, but bash is completely interpreted, and it may not be able to keep up with the GPU for anything complicated.
If you really wanted to mess with GPU's in a scripting language, I suggest something designed to do something a little more programatically... like everyone's favorite snake, Python. I'm pretty sure there are opengl wrappers, which, by extension, would mean there is probably shading support in there somewhere.
Other than that, you could use SH to write a program to play with the shader.
I thought the point of this article is that it's tried, tested, and found lacking. :) Who says you can't actually test a system alongside the old until you feel comfortable with it? When the old Voodoo fails, you'll have the new stuff there to take it's place. Then once you've actually been on the new stuff for a while, jettison the old POS system out of one of the airplane at about 10,000 feet, because I doubt it will be missed.
It's Java... The only closed part you would need is the Java class library from SUN, which has freely available source that you can modify for your own internal use. The rest you can do with jikes and tomcat. Tomcat is used in all the big J2EE servers... IBM uses it in WebSphere, for example. Tomcat is the reference implementation of JSP/Servlets. You may need to use JBoss, Geronimo, or OpenEJB with SalesForce because I'm pretty sure they use Enterprise JavaBeans.
My bet on a fully open system would be with Python/ZOPE. It's missing a few things, but it's very eligant.
My favorite part was the human error part... It was human error, alright... the jack-a$$ that decided to use a 32bit millisecond counter for uptime, and crash when the counter overflows.
...and in the end, isn't it about getting marginally better for marginal cost? Take your above average /.er and give him a week in the airlines, and he'll probably have something more reliable set up using Wine running on Linux that runs off a USB keychain flash stick, and is administrable from anywhere in the world using SSH and VNC.
Granted Linux isn't the best solution, but it's a hell of a lot better than running "mission critical" systems on "voodoo and chicken wire".
I feel for your plight, I do, but I also have sympathy for your parent.
How else are we supposed to know if something is worth it's price tag to us? Our only legal recourse for bad software was taken away years ago. We can't return it even if it doesn't work on our computer. A demo and/or piracy will probably be more likely to get your game bought if it works. You have to encourage them to buy it with extra functionality for actually buying a game, or else once they go through the trouble to pirate it, they aren't likely to go through the trouble of buying it.
That said, I'm so disgusted with the state of computer gaming that I'm about to make a switch to consoles. I used to be the biggest fan of computer gaming, but now consoles offer about the same level of enjoyment for less. You spend about 80-200$ of the system, then about 50$/game, and you are done. Now you have to spend 300+$ on hardware upgrades and 100-200$ on software upgrades every year or two to play computer games. They mostly don't support my operating system of choice, and require a lot of tweaking when they do. I just put a disk or cartridge in a slot on a console and play, sometimes instantly (ie no booting).
I'd be willing to bet most of them either dual boot, or have that idiotic mentality that linux can't do what they want. I just destroyed my installation of XP once it finally broke beyond repair. I was in that group and spent most of my time in Linux. I hope I don't have to install XP again just to test compatibility with the software I develop. Right now, I have another employee test out how it looks and acts on his iBook and PC with XP.
The other set of people running pirated windows either bought it unwittingly or had it installed on their machine for them because it was "free" that way, and don't want anything but windows.
I should go ahead and post to clear that up since people are saying it /.'d already. Yoper is built to be fast, and is supposed to be faster than Gentoo by what looks like 50% or more. A serious speed advantage.
I was thinking the same thing until I read the article. The blurb is a bit confusing. I think it supports apt as well.
It gets performance by pre-linking the binaries. Somewhere between dynamic and static there must exist "prelinking".
Looks like a fun idea that should be applied to VM languages dynamically if it isn't already.
Make your own SSL cert authenticity service specifically for email servers. Make it cheap, free, or open to let anyone choose which servers they trust and how much they trust them.
The next logical step is to require authentic SSL keys, I think. This gives the addition of an encryption, and moves authentication/authorization back to where it belongs... not in the DNS records. The extra effect is that in order to get a key to run a server like that, they have to publish more of their identity, and the companies selling keys say they check all the information provided.
The other alternative has been possible for a long time, and that's to use a web of trust built on a keyserver and require all email to be signed. This has never really gotten off the ground, though.
The best solution I could think of in a completely open fashion is to require someone to be able to recieve regular mail in order to send email. Then you have a physical address tied to the email address. Which no one is going to like, even me, because of the privacy issue. The honest truth is we can't have anonimity and not have spam. Because we have anonimity on slashdot, there are a lot of wierd things posted, but it just get's modded down. The air-tight solution is to do away with anonimity for professional messaging services, and have an "Untrusted Inbox" for everything that could be anonymous. So, if you want to be a trusted sender of email, you have to register your physical mailing address, you are sent a key, you are now responsible for every email that goes through that address, or any email address you vouch for (in case you have multiple). In the contract to be added to the list, you have to agree that you will pay something crazy like 50$/unsolicited mail that you send through the system. They sign the contract, and send it back. If you spam, you either commited two felonies (forgery and tampering with the mail) in the US, or a bill and/or a summons to court will make you liable for a pretty large sum. Of course you would have a privacy policy in the contract saying that the address is confidential between you and the user. That should make it at least palatable for professional use.
None of these methods will protect you from a virus/worm stealing your email information and sending from you. The best thing you can do for this is to have a secure operating environment, which is never gauranteed. You can at least suspend the user's email though.
Why not just carbon date the paper and ink?
Would carbon dating not apply? I know paper has carbon.
Maybe some tests on the ink will show if it's from a Lexmark or a ribbon.
Has Bush said these documents were a fake? If not, he may be worried that they are real, and if they are confirmed, he would be made out as a liar as well as a cheat, where both will go away if he just ignores them and they are fakes.
I ran top, and all my CPU usage was XFree86 and kernel. That tells me that the bottleneck is most likely ALSA/X11 calls on my system. My CPU usage hits around 50% on an Athlon XP 2100+. I'm running JDK 1.5.0.
I bet if I used OSS, it might make a difference. It may even be sending the sound through the X11 Server for all I know.
I'm satisfied since my Java was using 10%. Java either does, or will, use OpenGL at some point (ldd doesn't seem to think so, but Java loads all platform libraries dynamically except for a few basics, and X11 if it is being used as a plugin). Also, I don't know if the codec even bothers to support Java2D. It may be that I get 50% CPU utilization because it keeps sending X11 calls to the X server using X11 Accel. that is really old to be compatible with remote X11 servers.
I hope this sheds a little more light into what's going on, and maybe someone that knows a bit more about Java2D and Linux/ALSA/X11 workings can make some more educated guess that I can.
I use the NVIDIA OpenGL under Debian with the latest Debs for everything in unstable (I even have it working with Neverwinter, and get more than adequate FPS) 2.7.8 Kernel, NVIDIA's AGP driver.