I think, perhaps, the terrorists didn't forsee the real end-result of that terror.
On the contrary, they foresaw it only too well, and the USA's reaction meant that they had succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Having the population of the USA live in a state of fear would be an important goal for them (after all, is this not the very definition of the word "terrorism"?), and in this the subsequent actions of the USA government, and their stoking of the perceived terrorist threat, helped Al Qaeda succeed in this.
If you recall, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, there was worldwide sympathy for the USA, and not just from its usual allies. How quickly, and how damagingly (to the USA itself) this goodwill was squandered by what happened in Iraq (and the decision to start a war there in the first place) and the more-extreme excesses of the "war on terror". Portraying the conflict as some sort of religious crusade also played into their hands.
The Bush administration was played like a fiddle by Al Qaeda.
What restriction is there on who can park on the street in front of your house? None. Anybody can do it. So while yes there's a physical radius, you have no idea who's within that radius and you know it. That one of those somebodies is from Google and they've got a tape recorder running is one of those things that everybody ought to be expecting.
Expecting? Really? And you really don't think anybody could conceivably be concerned about this?
those people were broadcasting in the clear to the world at large
Nobody thinks their wifi is broadcasting to the world at large. They realise they are broadcasting to neighbours and people nearby, but that's about the extent of it. It's the fact that a multi-billion-dollar company is recording that data and taking it away for analysis that some people have a problem with.
It's like standing outside the front door of your house. You expect your neighbours to be able to see you, and this isn't a problem. But if a multi-billion-dollar company was recording that information (taking a photograph) and then compiling a huge directory of photos of everybody who lives in every house in the developed world, people might have a different opinion of this.
Interesting that the US government is giving awards for not following the rules of other countries.
They are well qualified to judge, based on the fact that not following the rules of other countries would seem to be something the US government excels at.
It's a six-monthly world-wide release of one particular distribution of a free computer operating system, not the start of military manouevres in the Pacific basin.
Similar here. Don't watch much TV "live" at all, but iPlayer is great for many of the things I do want to see.
Seems like television is one of those things where too much competition is not necessarily a good thing. More channels means fewer and fewer viewers per channel, which means less money from advertisers, which means less money spent on programs. We're lucky we have the BBC to still produce some quality programs (with no adverts!), but it's got a unique funding method which seems to be coming under more and more fire.
I swear TV programs were better when there were only 4 channels (with the advertising pennies split between only 2 channels). And without Sky to pay big money for films, the terrestrial ("free") channels would get them more cheaply, too.
Now we have dozens, if not hundreds, of channels, most of which are complete crap, most of the time (for all its good stuff, the BBC makes a lot of rubbish too).
Not to mention what's going to happen to football in this country (soccer for you US-ians) when Murdoch pulls the plug on funding the Premier League, because he's already got all the viewers he needs.....
I'd agree with this. Get that Intel SSD and stick/usr on it, together with any other read-mainly filesystems (maybe the root filesystem too, if you have stuff like/var on separate partitions).
As well as faster reads, the biggest gains are in seek times, so it'd be helpful to have your home directory and all it's "dot" config files on there too (especially when starting up something like Gnome or KDE). However, if you're gonna fill your home directory with tons of stuff, then stick your home directory itself on the SSD, but mount a hard-drive-based partition into it and keep your space-using stuff on here. For example:
/ SSD /var Magnetic : [Paging] Magnetic /usr SSD /home SSD /homestorage Magnetic
For user X, create/homestorage/X, then create a symlink/home/X/stuff ->/homestorage/X.
Yes it's a slight pain to keep most of your personal stuff in a subdirectory below your home directory, but it's hardly going to kill you.
"most Windows phones tend to by made by companies who don't care about MS's image and so produce any old shit they can rustle up."
Bollocks.
You think they don't care about their own company's image?
Companies like HTC have been doing their best to get away from the shittiness that is Windows Mobile. But without having their own operating systems, they're a bit limited, so they don't want to piss off Microsoft too much. Apart from going with Google and Android, they've tried writing their own GUI to hide the poor Windows UI, but they can't really do anything about the basic bugginess of the OS.
Says a lot about the two companies that Apple can get it right virtually first time, while Windows Mobile is on releases 6.5 and 7, and Microsoft is still struggling to make it acceptable.
What he wanted to say was: "Our single greatest asset is the innovation of the American people.....innovation and ingenuity.....ingenuity and innovation. Our TWO greatest assets are the innovation and the ingenuity of the American people.....and their creativity.....our THREE greatest assets are the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people.....and an almost fanatical devotion to Hollywood and the RIAA.....our FOUR.....NO.....AMONGST our assets are such elements as innovation, ingenuity and creativity.....I'll come in again...
Except you wouldn't get any job because, you know, you shouldn't hire $OTHER_RACIAL_GROUPING as it's highly undesirable: They are very xenophobic and they will congregate into their respective groups and, in their native language, will badmouth and gossip about everybody who is not like they are.
Then why are so many people having so many problems with getting the most basic of these (the sound card itself) to work?
The DESIGN should cope with the situation you talk about, but the (early) IMPLEMENTATION should surely be able to handle the most simple case?
Isn't PulseAudio already on release 0.9.19 or something like that? Surely after this number of releases it can reliably handle the the simple case of dealing with a single sound card?
I'm also slightly disturbed by his attitude to other operating systems than just Linux. For example, this post on the OpenSolaris mailing list.
Comments such as the following:
Then, "Unix Admin" asked mumbled something about whether we might want to install Solaris on my machines. Thanks, but no thanks. I already got a good operating system, which is called "Fedora", and its audio system is what I am payed to work on by Red Hat.
As mentioned above, we have been adopted by all relevant Linux distributions. There's not much left we could win in Free Software land, except maybe that little OS that starts with "Slow" and ends with "aris".;-)
appear somewhat unprofessional for someone who is being paid for the development he is doing, and for someone on whom the future of Unix/Linux audio has been entrusted.
desktop ~ #/etc/init.d/pulseaudio start * Please don't use system wide PulseAudio unless you read the * documentation available at http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/WhatIsWrongWithSystemMode * * When you're done, please set the variable PULSEAUDIO_SHOULD_NOT_GO_SYSTEMWIDE in */etc/conf.d/pulseaudio . Please remember that upstream does not support this mode * when used for standard desktop configurations. * ERROR: pulseaudio failed to start
Quoted from that link: "The maintainer's interest in making sure system mode is well supported is rather minimal."
Slashdot Mirror
Dear Sir,
There must be some mistake. I know for a fact your line terminated with the first Divide B. Zero. Obviously, some kind of error has happened.
Regards,
C. P. Unit
I think, perhaps, the terrorists didn't forsee the real end-result of that terror.
On the contrary, they foresaw it only too well, and the USA's reaction meant that they had succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Having the population of the USA live in a state of fear would be an important goal for them (after all, is this not the very definition of the word "terrorism"?), and in this the subsequent actions of the USA government, and their stoking of the perceived terrorist threat, helped Al Qaeda succeed in this.
If you recall, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, there was worldwide sympathy for the USA, and not just from its usual allies. How quickly, and how damagingly (to the USA itself) this goodwill was squandered by what happened in Iraq (and the decision to start a war there in the first place) and the more-extreme excesses of the "war on terror". Portraying the conflict as some sort of religious crusade also played into their hands.
The Bush administration was played like a fiddle by Al Qaeda.
Well, given that such a low ID would have been given out a number of years ago now........
People do get older, you know.
What restriction is there on who can park on the street in front of your house? None. Anybody can do it. So while yes there's a physical radius, you have no idea who's within that radius and you know it. That one of those somebodies is from Google and they've got a tape recorder running is one of those things that everybody ought to be expecting.
Expecting? Really? And you really don't think anybody could conceivably be concerned about this?
those people were broadcasting in the clear to the world at large
Nobody thinks their wifi is broadcasting to the world at large. They realise they are broadcasting to neighbours and people nearby, but that's about the extent of it. It's the fact that a multi-billion-dollar company is recording that data and taking it away for analysis that some people have a problem with.
It's like standing outside the front door of your house. You expect your neighbours to be able to see you, and this isn't a problem. But if a multi-billion-dollar company was recording that information (taking a photograph) and then compiling a huge directory of photos of everybody who lives in every house in the developed world, people might have a different opinion of this.
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie show the correct way to deal with a complaint such as this.
Interesting that the US government is giving awards for not following the rules of other countries.
They are well qualified to judge, based on the fact that not following the rules of other countries would seem to be something the US government excels at.
That philosophy of his sounds exactly like bullying to me.
"Sometimes we only find the right balance by taking what we can get, and then backing off when a victim fights back".
Rapidly losing respect for this man. Shame - the books are (for the most part) great.
Jesus, lighten up on the paranoia.
It's a six-monthly world-wide release of one particular distribution of a free computer operating system, not the start of military manouevres in the Pacific basin.
Similar here. Don't watch much TV "live" at all, but iPlayer is great for many of the things I do want to see.
Seems like television is one of those things where too much competition is not necessarily a good thing. More channels means fewer and fewer viewers per channel, which means less money from advertisers, which means less money spent on programs. We're lucky we have the BBC to still produce some quality programs (with no adverts!), but it's got a unique funding method which seems to be coming under more and more fire.
I swear TV programs were better when there were only 4 channels (with the advertising pennies split between only 2 channels). And without Sky to pay big money for films, the terrestrial ("free") channels would get them more cheaply, too.
Now we have dozens, if not hundreds, of channels, most of which are complete crap, most of the time (for all its good stuff, the BBC makes a lot of rubbish too).
Not to mention what's going to happen to football in this country (soccer for you US-ians) when Murdoch pulls the plug on funding the Premier League, because he's already got all the viewers he needs.....
I'd agree with this. Get that Intel SSD and stick /usr on it, together with any other read-mainly filesystems (maybe the root filesystem too, if you have stuff like /var on separate partitions).
:
/homestorage/X, then create a symlink /home/X/stuff -> /homestorage/X.
As well as faster reads, the biggest gains are in seek times, so it'd be helpful to have your home directory and all it's "dot" config files on there too (especially when starting up something like Gnome or KDE). However, if you're gonna fill your home directory with tons of stuff, then stick your home directory itself on the SSD, but mount a hard-drive-based partition into it and keep your space-using stuff on here. For example:
/ SSD
/var Magnetic
[Paging] Magnetic
/usr SSD
/home SSD
/homestorage Magnetic
For user X, create
Yes it's a slight pain to keep most of your personal stuff in a subdirectory below your home directory, but it's hardly going to kill you.
Because your freedom seems to come with restrictions.
Tell me about this land that you come from.
It would appear to be a place without laws.
"most Windows phones tend to by made by companies who don't care about MS's image and so produce any old shit they can rustle up."
Bollocks.
You think they don't care about their own company's image?
Companies like HTC have been doing their best to get away from the shittiness that is Windows Mobile. But without having their own operating systems, they're a bit limited, so they don't want to piss off Microsoft too much. Apart from going with Google and Android, they've tried writing their own GUI to hide the poor Windows UI, but they can't really do anything about the basic bugginess of the OS.
Says a lot about the two companies that Apple can get it right virtually first time, while Windows Mobile is on releases 6.5 and 7, and Microsoft is still struggling to make it acceptable.
.....and speeches.
What he wanted to say was: "Our single greatest asset is the innovation of the American people.....innovation and ingenuity.....ingenuity and innovation. Our TWO greatest assets are the innovation and the ingenuity of the American people.....and their creativity.....our THREE greatest assets are the innovation and the ingenuity and creativity of the American people.....and an almost fanatical devotion to Hollywood and the RIAA.....our FOUR.....NO.....AMONGST our assets are such elements as innovation, ingenuity and creativity.....I'll come in again...
NOBODY expects the ACTA imposition.
Next week they're gonna start playing "Bye bye, Miss American pi" to counter that.
Except you wouldn't get any job because, you know, you shouldn't hire $OTHER_RACIAL_GROUPING as it's highly undesirable: They are very xenophobic and they will congregate into their respective groups and, in their native language, will badmouth and gossip about everybody who is not like they are.
Did you intend the irony shown in this post?
It isn't spelt 'checks' or 'cheques' - it's Czechs.
We want to "phase them out" by pretending to prefer American Budweiser to the wonderful Budweiser Budvar they make.
If you're using Gentoo, you might find this blog post interesting:
MythTV 0.22 & the database problem
You got moderated funny.
Read the appalling truth.
Then why are so many people having so many problems with getting the most basic of these (the sound card itself) to work?
The DESIGN should cope with the situation you talk about, but the (early) IMPLEMENTATION should surely be able to handle the most simple case?
Isn't PulseAudio already on release 0.9.19 or something like that? Surely after this number of releases it can reliably handle the the simple case of dealing with a single sound card?
I'm also slightly disturbed by his attitude to other operating systems than just Linux. For example, this post on the OpenSolaris mailing list.
Comments such as the following:
Then, "Unix Admin" asked mumbled something about whether we might want to install Solaris on my machines. Thanks, but no thanks. I already got a good operating system, which is called "Fedora", and its audio system is what I am payed to work on by Red Hat.
As mentioned above, we have been adopted by all relevant Linux distributions. There's not much left we could win in Free Software land, except maybe that little OS that starts with "Slow" and ends with "aris". ;-)
appear somewhat unprofessional for someone who is being paid for the development he is doing, and for someone on whom the future of Unix/Linux audio has been entrusted.
It definitely works as a daemon
On Gentoo:
Quoted from that link: "The maintainer's interest in making sure system mode is well supported is rather minimal."
Or suffer howls of division.
If wearing an Al-Qaeda tie is causing such a problem, why doesn't someone just ask him to take it off?
Or get one of those ones held on with elastic.
Or a spinning bow-tie maybe? Seems quite appropriate for the LHC.
Microsoft invested an incredible amount of time (and money) into usability research for the Ribbon...
They also invested an incredible amount of time (and money) into producing Vista.