If one 'node' drops because of, say Ronald Reagan got an itchy trigger finger, then the others would still be able to talk to each other. It is not designed to stop a coordinated attack on the very infrastructure itself or to stop exploitation of the obvious (now) flaws in design.
Thomer Gil is a stuttering Dutch vi user, which means that even with a speech impediment, he speaks better English than most Americans and has better taste in editors that most Slashdotters.
It is fundamentally part of the WindowOS. This is the nut against it for Windows. Sure there are ports for OSX and Solaris (I think), but they will never let this go. Too close to home. Also, as it is the number one security hole on any Windows machine, they would hate to open a code tree with so much committing of patches. It would be SOOOO much trouble to maintain the code repository securely.;-) Get it?
2) Visual Studio
As far as universities go, Visual Studio.NET is free for non-commercial/academic use. This is part of an effort to get techie schools to teach MS technologies. Is it working? So-so.
3) MSN Messenger
My problem with this is that other than shiny knobs and squeeky whistles, one messenger is really no better than another other than amount of installed userbase. I am sure jabber, etc are the shiznit but it is essentially a little box that scrolls text and opens security holes.
4) Virtual PC
This is most compelling. I don't care what the zealots say, but Wine is a bitch to deal with and there are times when I need to use a windows app. Our Trouble Ticketing system pops to mind.
5) Direct X
This will never happen. 90% of the potential gamers use an operating system where this is the native graphics deal.
And discern shit. You need the dataset and some serious clustering/discriminant analysis, then make the map. Which is probably what they did, and if you know anything about ESRI products and how easy it is to noodle with the breaks among these indicators, then you would be very suspect of any thing like this. Simple matter is this: human studies have too much variance over space to make this anything other than an guess at such distributions.
BTW, there has been a long, long debate over what constitutes 'rural' and what constitutes 'urban.' It not clearcut at all. See Pierce Lewis' and Wilbur Zelinsky's work over the past 40 years. Not even the geographers can tell the difference for sure.
Um. You haven't been in Britain lately. Their commission headed by members of Blair's own party eviscerated the reasoning behind the invasion. Give up. It was a war for all the wrong reasons. I have to go a memorial service for a coworker's son tonight. He joined to pay off his college debt. He sure did.
Actually, 9/11 was a matter of failed Mid-East policies. There is inordinate emphasis on Israel as an important place. It is a contrived nation based on eschatological Christian desires for a 'Jesus Landing Pad' (that's what the British were thinking in the 1920-30s -- read the history -- and what drives Bush's right-wing Christian buddies) and 19th Century Realpolitik -- an utterly failed political mechanism that has resulted in the deaths of 100 million people since 1870 by war, famine and pestilence.
The funny thing is that the former demonstrates the lack of understanding of the Christian scripture that fundamentalists have and the latter demonstrates the lack of understanding that conservatives have about history. Santyana must be smiling. The irony is that the poor Jews are again being used by their 'benefactors' and scapegoated by their 'detractors.' This is the classic dyad of anti-semitism. It must have sounded like a smashing idea at the time...
with the two abandoned samurai in HF is directly ripped off by the sequence where R2D2 and C3P0 are walking away from the escape pod. Yep. There is no denying it.
Ummmm. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Nothing. Even Der Fuhrer has admitted this. They can always Cheney the truth by saying that the real connecting evidence is a matter of national security and therefore 'top secret,' but Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 until the US invaded. Now Radical Islam has the war it always wanted. I think Cheney and Rumsfeld made a major tactical error. Never give your enemy what it wants.
In which the only grades are two exams, 5 short papers and a final term paper. THe content is Contemporary Criticism in Social Sciences so pop quizzes and 'team projects' are out of the question. Our department has a strict rule against extra credit assignments unless said assignment is offered to the whole class. I do not offer extra credit. Here's the deal: I never have a problem catching cheaters especially on the term paper. Why? Because I use the short papers as a diagnostic tool. If Tom Fratboy tries to fuck me with a downloaded paper, I have 5 shorter examples of his writing style with which to compare it. The proposal for the paper is a short bibliography on the subject (15- 20 sources, none allowed from the Web -- you gotta go to the library). The paper is due 3 weeks before the end of the term, so I have plenty of time to grade them. I have nailed 4 cheats in the past year (out of 22 students) all of whom BTW where members of the same fraternity. Once you get the reputation of someone who can't be fooled, then either they straighten up or stay away from you classes. There is a reason these people major is psych and business. The classes are cattle calls and can't be managed like small courses. This is a good reason why class size matters when choosing a college or evaluating a university's graduates.
Yes, I should have quailfied the distinction that Slovene is an Indo-European language. Also, I don't think that the dual in Arabic affects every part of speech other than prepositions and exclamations as the dual does in Slovene. It really permeates the language.
As someone who speaks this dastardly Slavic language (but loves it!), there is nothing like trying to remember to conjugate and decline according to number when you have the added complication of the dual. That's right. Slovene counts in ones, twos and manys. Yes, they can process numbers greater than 3, but when speaking or writing the language you can actually compress sentences conceptually by context of number (for lack of the linguistic term). For example. I can say, 'Vlak vozi v Ljubljano" meaning "One train goes to Ljubljana." No ordinal number needed (but there are no articles in Slovene so it means "the/a train"). But I can say "Vlake vozista na Bledu" which means "Two trains go to Bled." Further, I can say "Vlaki vozijo v Dunaj" which means "Trains (3 or more) go to Vienna." You would refine with an ordinal number the previous sentence, but everyone knows you don't mean that it is 2 trains but three or more, and in the second example it is exactly 2 trains that go to Lake Bled. Just a example of weird little things that pop up in moderately 'small' languages. Serbian has an odd counting system as well which suffers from the counting of objects different by kind (eggs for example). This is not unlike Japanese.
Time is destroying the "Saddam Hussein had no WMD!!!" meme.
Problem is: the opposite is true. Keep believing that and you feel so good when Rush and O'Reilly are running the "President John Kerry pounds altar boys in the ass" stories sometime starting after Feb. 1st , 2005.
No doubt you have some other source of information?
Yes. It is called "Blind Faith in Evil People" or, alternately, failing to be able to admit one is wrong and therefore being willing to ruin oneself for this belief. It is a cornerstone of his great hero Bush's character, so he must integrate it into his own being. This is how you can be identified as a good Merikin.
They were funded by Bin Ladin and his network, who had support from Saddam Hussein.
Thank you, Dick Cheney. You know that this has been proven to be not true. Saddam Hussein never gave a penny to Bin Laden. Even the famous meeting in Prague never happened. The Czechs got the ID wrong. Even George Bush admits this. 9/11 was not funded by Saddam Hussein. It is true in the biblical sense of true. Get over it. You have lost.
You seem to have a tenuous grip on causality yourself.
I think you mean reality and I will agree with you on this.
He's just pissed because Alexander Cockburn drank all the fucking Bushmill's. He's such a notorious crank that he wrote a book calling out MOTHER TERESA!
Don't confuse the government, the citizens, and the group of individual
First off, I do confuse government, citizens and groups of individuals. This is the description of the nation I live in.
I suggest you read up on Saudi history. I suggest "The Gulf, Arabia, and the West" by J.B. Kelly -- he's the guy who came up with the term "The Arab Street." Each of these men were tied by familial bonds back to the government of Saudi Arabia. Don't conflate our concept of government with how the Sauds govern -- a nepotistic theocracy. Although, people like Jerry Falwell and such would love how Saudi Arabia is run....
Are you one of these people that thinks more laws will stop criminals, people who have already demonstrated utter contempt for laws?
No. If gun laws that are on the books are enforced, then children would not have access. What is interesting is that the NRA is against more gun laws, as am I, AND enforcing the ones already on the books.
I suggest if anyone sees Moore's film they also see what is considered to be one of the greatest documentaries ever. It might make you sick, but you'll see how movies can be used a a political tool. We have to be aware of the message of what we see, and question it. I'm not saying he's a nazi, but he is making a similar film for a similar motive.
Triumph of the Will -- a movie often mentioned but rarely seen -- was paid for by the German Reich and approved by Hitler. F9/11 is a movie produced by a private individual. TofW shows (without analysis, mind you) the vision of the Nazi State. F9/11 shows a person's take on what happened and why. These are fundamentally different works.
You will agree with me that when a cue ball strikes a pool ball and that pool ball strikes another pool ball, then that second pool ball moves, won't you? This is what is called causality. Interestingly, without causality you can't even type your reply to this post.
9/11 was the fault of 19 hijackers and the people who funded them.
OK. Here's a way out of the flybottle. I mean to say that even personal perspectives on matters become victims of the "history of this sort of behavior" argument. Given the granularity of analysis of even mundane personal behavior that most Americans are currently subject to, any sort of opinion on any sort of matter falls under the wheels of the "someone like X" juggernaut. Because there is a credit report out there or a personality profile or whatever out there, then we can assume that you can level this sort of argument against anyone. In fact, it happens everyday. See any poor sap who happens to get his 15 minutes for breaking the law.
Spin it back the other way and all you can assume is that 170+ people who should by all accounts would have at least had some ties or info, were allowed to leave when average American could not get on a plane.
Bush handed out $300 Treasury checks left and right after telling people throughout the campaign that it was their money due (to the budget surplus).
This piece of legislation was proposed by Joe Liebermann. Of course, the difference between Joe Liebermann and any Republican is about the width of the aisle separating the GOP from the Dems in the Senate.
Slashdot Mirror
M$ gives both ways, but the GOP gets the lion share. It's called nobbling the bets.
through attacks on the network.
If one 'node' drops because of, say Ronald Reagan got an itchy trigger finger, then the others would still be able to talk to each other. It is not designed to stop a coordinated attack on the very infrastructure itself or to stop exploitation of the obvious (now) flaws in design.
Thomer Gil is a stuttering Dutch vi user, which means that even with a speech impediment, he speaks better English than most Americans and has better taste in editors that most Slashdotters.
1) Internet Explorer
;-) Get it?
.NET is free for non-commercial/academic use. This is part of an effort to get techie schools to teach MS technologies. Is it working? So-so.
It is fundamentally part of the WindowOS. This is the nut against it for Windows. Sure there are ports for OSX and Solaris (I think), but they will never let this go. Too close to home. Also, as it is the number one security hole on any Windows machine, they would hate to open a code tree with so much committing of patches. It would be SOOOO much trouble to maintain the code repository securely.
2) Visual Studio
As far as universities go, Visual Studio
3) MSN Messenger
My problem with this is that other than shiny knobs and squeeky whistles, one messenger is really no better than another other than amount of installed userbase. I am sure jabber, etc are the shiznit but it is essentially a little box that scrolls text and opens security holes.
4) Virtual PC
This is most compelling. I don't care what the zealots say, but Wine is a bitch to deal with and there are times when I need to use a windows app. Our Trouble Ticketing system pops to mind.
5) Direct X
This will never happen. 90% of the potential gamers use an operating system where this is the native graphics deal.
And discern shit. You need the dataset and some serious clustering/discriminant analysis, then make the map. Which is probably what they did, and if you know anything about ESRI products and how easy it is to noodle with the breaks among these indicators, then you would be very suspect of any thing like this. Simple matter is this: human studies have too much variance over space to make this anything other than an guess at such distributions.
BTW, there has been a long, long debate over what constitutes 'rural' and what constitutes 'urban.' It not clearcut at all. See Pierce Lewis' and Wilbur Zelinsky's work over the past 40 years. Not even the geographers can tell the difference for sure.
Um. You haven't been in Britain lately. Their commission headed by members of Blair's own party eviscerated the reasoning behind the invasion. Give up. It was a war for all the wrong reasons. I have to go a memorial service for a coworker's son tonight. He joined to pay off his college debt. He sure did.
Actually, 9/11 was a matter of failed Mid-East policies. There is inordinate emphasis on Israel as an important place. It is a contrived nation based on eschatological Christian desires for a 'Jesus Landing Pad' (that's what the British were thinking in the 1920-30s -- read the history -- and what drives Bush's right-wing Christian buddies) and 19th Century Realpolitik -- an utterly failed political mechanism that has resulted in the deaths of 100 million people since 1870 by war, famine and pestilence.
The funny thing is that the former demonstrates the lack of understanding of the Christian scripture that fundamentalists have and the latter demonstrates the lack of understanding that conservatives have about history. Santyana must be smiling. The irony is that the poor Jews are again being used by their 'benefactors' and scapegoated by their 'detractors.' This is the classic dyad of anti-semitism. It must have sounded like a smashing idea at the time...
with the two abandoned samurai in HF is directly ripped off by the sequence where R2D2 and C3P0 are walking away from the escape pod. Yep. There is no denying it.
Ummmm. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Nothing. Even Der Fuhrer has admitted this. They can always Cheney the truth by saying that the real connecting evidence is a matter of national security and therefore 'top secret,' but Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 until the US invaded. Now Radical Islam has the war it always wanted. I think Cheney and Rumsfeld made a major tactical error. Never give your enemy what it wants.
In which the only grades are two exams, 5 short papers and a final term paper. THe content is Contemporary Criticism in Social Sciences so pop quizzes and 'team projects' are out of the question. Our department has a strict rule against extra credit assignments unless said assignment is offered to the whole class. I do not offer extra credit. Here's the deal: I never have a problem catching cheaters especially on the term paper. Why? Because I use the short papers as a diagnostic tool. If Tom Fratboy tries to fuck me with a downloaded paper, I have 5 shorter examples of his writing style with which to compare it. The proposal for the paper is a short bibliography on the subject (15- 20 sources, none allowed from the Web -- you gotta go to the library). The paper is due 3 weeks before the end of the term, so I have plenty of time to grade them. I have nailed 4 cheats in the past year (out of 22 students) all of whom BTW where members of the same fraternity. Once you get the reputation of someone who can't be fooled, then either they straighten up or stay away from you classes. There is a reason these people major is psych and business. The classes are cattle calls and can't be managed like small courses. This is a good reason why class size matters when choosing a college or evaluating a university's graduates.
Our wireless network is one huge private subnet. I mean fcuking huge. Currently I see 267 users and 450000+ songs total with OurTunes. Nice and evil.
Yes, I should have quailfied the distinction that Slovene is an Indo-European language. Also, I don't think that the dual in Arabic affects every part of speech other than prepositions and exclamations as the dual does in Slovene. It really permeates the language.
As someone who speaks this dastardly Slavic language (but loves it!), there is nothing like trying to remember to conjugate and decline according to number when you have the added complication of the dual. That's right. Slovene counts in ones, twos and manys. Yes, they can process numbers greater than 3, but when speaking or writing the language you can actually compress sentences conceptually by context of number (for lack of the linguistic term). For example. I can say, 'Vlak vozi v Ljubljano" meaning "One train goes to Ljubljana." No ordinal number needed (but there are no articles in Slovene so it means "the/a train"). But I can say "Vlake vozista na Bledu" which means "Two trains go to Bled." Further, I can say "Vlaki vozijo v Dunaj" which means "Trains (3 or more) go to Vienna." You would refine with an ordinal number the previous sentence, but everyone knows you don't mean that it is 2 trains but three or more, and in the second example it is exactly 2 trains that go to Lake Bled. Just a example of weird little things that pop up in moderately 'small' languages. Serbian has an odd counting system as well which suffers from the counting of objects different by kind (eggs for example). This is not unlike Japanese.
Time is destroying the "Saddam Hussein had no WMD!!!" meme.
Problem is: the opposite is true. Keep believing that and you feel so good when Rush and O'Reilly are running the "President John Kerry pounds altar boys in the ass" stories sometime starting after Feb. 1st , 2005.
second rate conspiracy theory
Are there any "First Rate Conspiracy Theories?"
No doubt you have some other source of information?
Yes. It is called "Blind Faith in Evil People" or, alternately, failing to be able to admit one is wrong and therefore being willing to ruin oneself for this belief. It is a cornerstone of his great hero Bush's character, so he must integrate it into his own being. This is how you can be identified as a good Merikin.
They were funded by Bin Ladin and his network, who had support from Saddam Hussein.
Thank you, Dick Cheney. You know that this has been proven to be not true. Saddam Hussein never gave a penny to Bin Laden. Even the famous meeting in Prague never happened. The Czechs got the ID wrong. Even George Bush admits this. 9/11 was not funded by Saddam Hussein. It is true in the biblical sense of true. Get over it. You have lost.
You seem to have a tenuous grip on causality yourself.
I think you mean reality and I will agree with you on this.
He's just pissed because Alexander Cockburn drank all the fucking Bushmill's. He's such a notorious crank that he wrote a book calling out MOTHER TERESA!
Don't confuse the government, the citizens, and the group of individual
First off, I do confuse government, citizens and groups of individuals. This is the description of the nation I live in.
I suggest you read up on Saudi history. I suggest "The Gulf, Arabia, and the West" by J.B. Kelly -- he's the guy who came up with the term "The Arab Street." Each of these men were tied by familial bonds back to the government of Saudi Arabia. Don't conflate our concept of government with how the Sauds govern -- a nepotistic theocracy. Although, people like Jerry Falwell and such would love how Saudi Arabia is run....
Are you one of these people that thinks more laws will stop criminals, people who have already demonstrated utter contempt for laws?
No. If gun laws that are on the books are enforced, then children would not have access. What is interesting is that the NRA is against more gun laws, as am I, AND enforcing the ones already on the books.
I suggest if anyone sees Moore's film they also see what is considered to be one of the greatest documentaries ever. It might make you sick, but you'll see how movies can be used a a political tool. We have to be aware of the message of what we see, and question it. I'm not saying he's a nazi, but he is making a similar film for a similar motive.
Triumph of the Will -- a movie often mentioned but rarely seen -- was paid for by the German Reich and approved by Hitler. F9/11 is a movie produced by a private individual. TofW shows (without analysis, mind you) the vision of the Nazi State. F9/11 shows a person's take on what happened and why. These are fundamentally different works.
It was the fault of the two teenagers who did it.
How did they acquire the weapons?
You will agree with me that when a cue ball strikes a pool ball and that pool ball strikes another pool ball, then that second pool ball moves, won't you? This is what is called causality. Interestingly, without causality you can't even type your reply to this post.
9/11 was the fault of 19 hijackers and the people who funded them.
So we SHOULD HAVE ATTACKED SAUDI ARABIA!
OK. Here's a way out of the flybottle. I mean to say that even personal perspectives on matters become victims of the "history of this sort of behavior" argument. Given the granularity of analysis of even mundane personal behavior that most Americans are currently subject to, any sort of opinion on any sort of matter falls under the wheels of the "someone like X" juggernaut. Because there is a credit report out there or a personality profile or whatever out there, then we can assume that you can level this sort of argument against anyone. In fact, it happens everyday. See any poor sap who happens to get his 15 minutes for breaking the law.
to contort the truth
I think you mean "distort."
So the basic lesson to learn here is that someone like Moore can't be trusted to tell the truth any more than the government itself.
So the basic lesson to learn here is that someone like X can't be trusted to tell the truth any more than the government itself.
Think about what you just said. Can you even trust yourself?
Spin it back the other way and all you can assume is that 170+ people who should by all accounts would have at least had some ties or info, were allowed to leave when average American could not get on a plane.
Bush handed out $300 Treasury checks left and right after telling people throughout the campaign that it was their money due (to the budget surplus).
This piece of legislation was proposed by Joe Liebermann. Of course, the difference between Joe Liebermann and any Republican is about the width of the aisle separating the GOP from the Dems in the Senate.