. ..to take a slightly obsolete computer (something Pentium II or Celeron), load your favorite distro, and give it to a school, this is it.
M$ hit my office for a Software audit several months ago, and after doing it, and finding we were compliant. ..they asked for ANOTHER audit.
This, plus the widely mentioned corporate licensing changes, and Product Activation, all signs that Microsoft is scrounging for money any way they can, is likely also the beginning of the end for Microsoft. Hopefully, it's the beginning of wide-scale acceptance of Open-Source, GPL'd, and similar software. . . but I'm not betting the farm on it, sadly...
I have several email accounts. Never been to a porn site. And my HOTMAIL account has more porno spam than any other. So, methinks your theory about surfing prOn = prOn spam fails to hold water. . .
ThinkGeek is 6 or so people. We aren't ALL MegaCorps over here in the US. . . .
And if I put a warehouse in Asia, I'm not sure New Zealand is the spot I'd want it.
Singapore, maybe. Indonesia, perhaps. But not at the absolute edge of Australasia: the logistics
aren't smart.
. ..eats a LOT of computing power. I was involved in a test of bistatic/multistatic radar at NRL, years ago (unclassified, so I can discuss what I remember: I engineered the datalink from the receiving antenna, ~1km from the transmitting antenna . . . ). The math alone was daunting, the CPU power required to sort through the possible solutions was enormous: we're talking Cray-level/BIG Beowulf to do. ..and this was for an instrumented test range. ..
Admittedly, CPU power has increased, and cost has dropped astronomically, but this is a REALLY tough problem to solve. . . .
Yes, student demonstrations get noticed. But dissatisfaction from donating alumni gets a LOT more notice.
Find like-minded Alumni. Organize them. Then have them complain to both the Alumni Association and the University itself. And have them threaten to cut off all future donations.
Never appeal to a man's "better nature". He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
It's dirty pool, but VERY effective. . . .
Sorry, numbers do NOT make you legitmate. . .
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Numbers are just that: numbers. On a technical matter like DNS, technical expertise in name resolution, and insuring that no pertinent issues are overlooked make you legitimate. It's especially on the latter that ICANN fails miserably.
Claiming that sheer numbers give legitimacy is as idiotic as that old bromide about lemming hordes going over cliffs. . .
To quote the Constitution of the United States, 4th Amendment:
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and
no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or
affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the
persons or things to be seized.
Now, I realize that the USA isn't the entire world, but the EU also places a high value on privacy. . .
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To your first question:
Will it ?? Duration of a spaceflight depends on three variables: orbital path chosen, mass of probe, and the level of accelleration required.
Lets consider a trip to the "heart" of the Oort Cloud, roughly 20 trillion Km out. In such a trip, Earth-Sun distance is trivial. Accellerate halfway, flip, decelerate. Assume flip time is trivial.
At 10m/sec^2, it's a bit under 3 years (~1035 days). At 1m/sec^2, it's around 9 years (~3270 days).
Real question is, what kind of acceleration can you get for such a drive, and how much antimatter will you need for antimatter-assisted fission/fusion to sustain such accelerations over the required time. . .
Not a problem: in fact, it's in production.....
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I was visiting one of Above.Net's hosting facilities a few weeks ago, as my employer haqs decided to use them as a hosting facility. They use a flywheel storage/conditioning system, and have for some time now. Above Surface. And not all that big. . . Pretty slick, plus they have redundancy. As I recall, the flywheel/UPS/powerconditioner is a German product, sorry, no specs on the manufaturer. . .
That would explain the cancellation of The Lone Gunmen. After all they used LINUX (or at least Langley and Byers did. . . ). M$ obviously paid Fox to take 'em off the air. ..
The State Department has a rather archaic method of referring to things. There is, from what I've seen, a secure, encrypted message transfer system for communications between embassies and Washington. I'd speculate that No Such Agency is likely involved in running it, or at least the infrastructure of it.
But even so, the messages are STILL referred to as "cables". . . from experience with a US Mission overseas....
. . ..and their differences from nation to nation. Specifically, the USA versus places like Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. What is considered average Conservative politics there is generally fairly liberal by USA standards. Even our Left is fairly moderate by most standards.
So, by a lot of Yank standards, Australia's Tories are STILL left-wing from the American POV. . .
We're not all "little conservative christians on the outside, sleazy pr0n-surfing degenerates like the rest of us when they think noone's looking."
In fact, I'd wager that the majority aren't Christians at all, at least in the apparent Bible-thumping paradigm you seem to be alluding to. As for conservatives, that depends on what you call conservative. Last major election **I** saw, it was just about 50-50.
As to the OTHER image, we save the sleaze for lawyers, politicians, and, of course, executives of Micro$oft... Based on the volume, yeah, I'd say the pr0n-surfing is fairly accurate. But degenerates ?? Hardly. . .
That may well currently be the case. It wasn't, when I went through in 1984-85. And I doubt it was true in the early 1970's. I know it's changed significantly in the late 1980s, but when I was there, you needed a 3.0 average and 2 or more semesters of Calculus to even qualify. . .
Ever been to military flight school ? Trust me, idiots wash out FAST. No, I'm not a pilot. I was a USAF navigator, electronic warfare officer, and later a staff officer, before I argued with an ejection seat, and lost...
Remember your first day in college ?? Remember how the pace seemed like drinking from a fire hose, compared to high school (mind you, this was 22 years ago...). Well, Military Flight School is the same experience, just turned up a few notches. The academic and mental pressure is intense, and on purpose. Yes, nearly anyone with a full set of basic human capacities can pilot a plane. The military needs quite a bit more. Try flying at 450 knots, 300 feet off the ground, in total darkness. Or keeping your situational awareness in a many-on-many furball. And then, delivering weapons onto a 4 foot bullseye. Those are just SOME of the capabilities a military pilot needs to have.
Pilots redundant ?? They're getting to that point now. In another 20 years, they will be. But we're not talking now, or 20 years ago: we're talking the early 1970s, where man HAD to be in the loop, at the controls.
And I suspect, the graduates of Wharton, Harvard Business, Stanford Business, etc, would take umbrage at your calling them a trade school. Those graduates have, in aggregate, been responsible for the generation of trillions of dollars in wealth. I hate to flame, but where's your equivalent achievement???
If you don't like Dubya, fine. But underestimate him only at your peril. . .
I'll just drop one acronym: EEFI. Essential Elements of Friendly Information.
And remind you that when Tom Clancy originally wrote "The Hunt for Red October", Senior Navy people freaked. They figured that he HAD to have somebody who leaked intel to him. You CAN piece a lot of classified data together from unclassified sources, if you know your subject.
I remember, unpleasantly, the grilling **I** got as a young 2nd Lieutenant, I was briefed on the deployment, ranges and capabilities of and its' fighter aircraft. I flew B-52's at the time. 5 minutes with a map, and I pronounced them not a threat in a WWIII/nuclear secnario ?
Let's see, max range and max endurance from closest base put them in operations circle "a". We put maximum speed on, and in same time, can operate in maximum circle "b". Circles did not intersect. Hence, no threat. But until I showed them that on paper,
I was in big trouble for about 30 minutes. Soon thereafter, I had additional duties in the intelligence shop (g)
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M$ hit my office for a Software audit several months ago, and after doing it, and finding we were compliant. . .they asked for ANOTHER audit.
This, plus the widely mentioned corporate licensing changes, and Product Activation, all signs that Microsoft is scrounging for money any way they can, is likely also the beginning of the end for Microsoft. Hopefully, it's the beginning of wide-scale acceptance of Open-Source, GPL'd, and similar software. . . but I'm not betting the farm on it, sadly...
I didn't know they grew pot on the Blue Mountain in Jamaica. . .too busy growing coffee on it. . . .
Sorry, couldn't resist the obligatory jab at M$...
I have several email accounts. Never been to a porn site. And my HOTMAIL account has more porno spam than any other. So, methinks your theory about surfing prOn = prOn spam fails to hold water. . .
. . .and I'm curious to see what will leak out on exactly how much M$ paid them for the name...
And it crashed, badly. And kept crashing, badly. And thus, they quietly moved it back to FreeBSD.
Alas, no references, this is purely memory. Although I first heard that story here on Slashdot
That should be a laugh riot. . . .
Kind of shows the inconsistency in YOUR worldview, friend, unless you posit that God is a hypocrite....
ThinkGeek is 6 or so people. We aren't ALL MegaCorps over here in the US. . . . And if I put a warehouse in Asia, I'm not sure New Zealand is the spot I'd want it. Singapore, maybe. Indonesia, perhaps. But not at the absolute edge of Australasia: the logistics aren't smart.
Admittedly, CPU power has increased, and cost has dropped astronomically, but this is a REALLY tough problem to solve. . . .
Find like-minded Alumni. Organize them. Then have them complain to both the Alumni Association and the University itself. And have them threaten to cut off all future donations.
It's the advice of the late Robert A. Heinlein...:
It's dirty pool, but VERY effective. . . .
Claiming that sheer numbers give legitimacy is as idiotic as that old bromide about lemming hordes going over cliffs. . .
If SUN, as a Corporate Entity, chooses to ignore privacy, which consumers are demanding, then the market will quickly remedy that situation. . .
To quote the Constitution of the United States, 4th Amendment:
Now, I realize that the USA isn't the entire world, but the EU also places a high value on privacy. . .
Will it ?? Duration of a spaceflight depends on three variables: orbital path chosen, mass of probe, and the level of accelleration required.
Lets consider a trip to the "heart" of the Oort Cloud, roughly 20 trillion Km out. In such a trip, Earth-Sun distance is trivial. Accellerate halfway, flip, decelerate. Assume flip time is trivial.
At 10m/sec^2, it's a bit under 3 years (~1035 days). At 1m/sec^2, it's around 9 years (~3270 days).
Real question is, what kind of acceleration can you get for such a drive, and how much antimatter will you need for antimatter-assisted fission/fusion to sustain such accelerations over the required time. . .
I was visiting one of Above.Net's hosting facilities a few weeks ago, as my employer haqs decided to use them as a hosting facility. They use a flywheel storage/conditioning system, and have for some time now. Above Surface. And not all that big. . . Pretty slick, plus they have redundancy. As I recall, the flywheel/UPS/powerconditioner is a German product, sorry, no specs on the manufaturer. . .
That would explain the cancellation of The Lone Gunmen. After all they used LINUX (or at least Langley and Byers did. . . ). M$ obviously paid Fox to take 'em off the air. . .
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Make it so. . . . (evil grin)
But even so, the messages are STILL referred to as "cables". . . from experience with a US Mission overseas....
So, by a lot of Yank standards, Australia's Tories are STILL left-wing from the American POV. . .
In fact, I'd wager that the majority aren't Christians at all, at least in the apparent Bible-thumping paradigm you seem to be alluding to. As for conservatives, that depends on what you call conservative. Last major election **I** saw, it was just about 50-50.
As to the OTHER image, we save the sleaze for lawyers, politicians, and, of course, executives of Micro$oft... Based on the volume, yeah, I'd say the pr0n-surfing is fairly accurate. But degenerates ?? Hardly. . .
That may well currently be the case. It wasn't, when I went through in 1984-85. And I doubt it was true in the early 1970's. I know it's changed significantly in the late 1980s, but when I was there, you needed a 3.0 average and 2 or more semesters of Calculus to even qualify. . .
Remember your first day in college ?? Remember how the pace seemed like drinking from a fire hose, compared to high school (mind you, this was 22 years ago...). Well, Military Flight School is the same experience, just turned up a few notches. The academic and mental pressure is intense, and on purpose. Yes, nearly anyone with a full set of basic human capacities can pilot a plane. The military needs quite a bit more. Try flying at 450 knots, 300 feet off the ground, in total darkness. Or keeping your situational awareness in a many-on-many furball. And then, delivering weapons onto a 4 foot bullseye. Those are just SOME of the capabilities a military pilot needs to have.
Pilots redundant ?? They're getting to that point now. In another 20 years, they will be. But we're not talking now, or 20 years ago: we're talking the early 1970s, where man HAD to be in the loop, at the controls.
And I suspect, the graduates of Wharton, Harvard Business, Stanford Business, etc, would take umbrage at your calling them a trade school. Those graduates have, in aggregate, been responsible for the generation of trillions of dollars in wealth. I hate to flame, but where's your equivalent achievement???
If you don't like Dubya, fine. But underestimate him only at your peril. . .
And remind you that when Tom Clancy originally wrote "The Hunt for Red October", Senior Navy people freaked. They figured that he HAD to have somebody who leaked intel to him. You CAN piece a lot of classified data together from unclassified sources, if you know your subject.
I remember, unpleasantly, the grilling **I** got as a young 2nd Lieutenant, I was briefed on the deployment, ranges and capabilities of and its' fighter aircraft. I flew B-52's at the time. 5 minutes with a map, and I pronounced them not a threat in a WWIII/nuclear secnario ?
Let's see, max range and max endurance from closest base put them in operations circle "a". We put maximum speed on, and in same time, can operate in maximum circle "b". Circles did not intersect. Hence, no threat. But until I showed them that on paper, I was in big trouble for about 30 minutes. Soon thereafter, I had additional duties in the intelligence shop (g)
They're out there. . .you just have to know how and where to find them. M$ does NOT make it easy...