Would that be the Debian that was created in the early 70s, or the most recent fault tolerant version built around 1980. These things are _old_. Spaceflight hardware, even the newest, is often 2-3 generations behind for rad hard, verified parts - possibly more for "current" life-safety spaceflight hardware.
Usually I would't give the time of day to an AC, but the point is salient. There is no need for EULAs in purchased software, or in workplace logins. If the workplace has special rules of conduct (as would be fitting to protect the company from lawsuits, such as sexual harassment, or to "ensure" productivity), then that's something between the employee and the HR department, and can be negotiated face to face in most cases.
I say replace them with nothing (or, at the worst, a "statement").
On occasion I find it necessary to interact with these "children" of which you speak. I suspect the inability to communicate has already overtaken that generation.
You're sitting on the richest oil fields in the world, and you need nuclear power plants? Don't get me wrong - nuclear can be very efficient, but the only reason nuclear power is cost effective in most places is because fossil fuels need to be imported.
Welcome to OSS. The software is free, the support is not. Just as a musician performs music, the IT professional manages his servers. This works for non-fiction books, too, with the researchers/authors, doing seminars for the people interested in their work - they are "performers", just a different kind.
Yes, ballots do need to be stored for a few days after the election. Because those pieces of paper are the verifiable proof that the totals are accurate. A small expense, and they're typically destroyed fairly soon after the election is complete. I can't imagine the expense is significant.
Actually, the expense can be significant to properly destroy the records. I was amazed when my wife called to get some old financial records destroyed for her company. The only local "shredder" showed up wih the machine and a large van, and charged $180/hr to feed the paper into the machine. I'm not sure what the path was after that point, but to shred documents thousands of local storage sites, or shipping and shredding at a remote site would not necessarily be a trivial cost.
Still, it's worth it to have faith in the democratic process.
In the modern version, the receipts never leave the polling station. You vote electronically, verify your vote on the paper receipt, and then deposit the receipt in a lockbox. Should there be any question about the votes (or for random checks) the paper reciepts can then be counted.
How can you not put Boucher near the top of the list of Tech Friendly congressmen? He is consistently one of the few who "get it" and manage to vote for what aids the consumer instead of the corporation.
They included votes on Free Trade and Class Action Law Suits, but not Net Neutrality? No wonder the R's scored higher than the D's on that one. Good grief - if you're going to score on a subject, at least limit the scope to the subject at hand.
I wrote to him a few years ago about the SSSCA (acronym misspell?), and he write back a polite letter to the effect of "screw you, my consultants say I should vote for it," but thank you for your letter.
Nice. He has absolutely no concept of the consumer side of IP rights, and would mandate DRM and outlaw fair use if he even got a whiff of a chance.
Yes, I'm voting for Jim Webb. He can't be any worse.
10 minute intervals of change, that way everybody can see the sun rise at the prescribed "optimal" time within 10 minutes instead of a whole hour. We could do it by locality, county, and state. Heck, every town could chose their own implementation to match local custom and maximize efficiency. It will be a power and labor saving coup!
[/bizzaro politicians world]
I'd be happy to ditch the whole thing. For those of you who complain about skipping DST and having the sun wake you up at 4am I have one word: Curtains. If you ask me, DST is just a way for those folks who commute on east-west roads to have to look directly into the rising/setting sun for a good portion of every spring and fall.
Okay, so I've never heard of it. Not unusual - there are lots of killer apps out there I've never heard of. But, um, how does it stack up to the other "'fully-loaded raster graphics workhorse'" programs out there. More importantly, what are those others. ATTFA, MS Office Picture Manager isn't one. Okay. So it must be more like...um...anything in the article...no.
Okay, so where does it fit in the Photoshop, PaintShopPro, GIMP arena? Is it simpler, easier? More powerful (it is a fully loaded workhorse, after all)?
Maybe this is just a "hey - all you guys with the old Krita - there's a new.x version now". Which is fine, but really front page news?
So, is this really sliced bread, or just a little bump in the feature set of KOffice?
Somebody has to pay for the research. That means that the data and conclusions involved have some value to an entity. That's how much research gets done: an organization needs data, so they pay an expert to perform the research. The hope is that the results are valuable enough for the organization to justify the expense (profit, etc.)
If someone does the research without external funding, they are still "funding" the research themselves - on "speculation" if you will. They may keep the data secret/private until they find someone who believes the data worth the price they are paying. Alternatively, the researcher turns to the performance aspect - teaching. Experts in many fields give lectures on a regular basis to make money. Often, they create the texts and literature they use for parts of the course. They are, effectively, "performing" their works.
A recent two day seminar I attended had about 85 participants at $850 each. There were three presenters, one included meal, a small lecture hall, and "snacks". That's $72,250, less about $14,500 in materials and rental fees. Almost $20,000 a piece. Now, it just so happens that one of the presenters spent clost to 200 hours of time preparing his material, and in his field it isn't unusual to bill $100/hr for consulting. He'll probably be able to teach the class once every two years or so, given the narrow scope and audience. So he got paid at a "preferred" rate for his work (say 85-90/hr) for the first one, and in two years if he teaches again he'll see a significant return on his investment.
So, you see, there is a way to recoup the cost of non-fiction without book sales. Still, many folks like hard copies, and are willing to pay for them. Many texts (including references) are cheaper to buy and more convenient to store than a home-printed, three-ring bound version. So there will probably still be a market for real books. In some ways it just changes a business model _back_ to the way it used to be - performance for remuneration.
Personally, I'm all for 20 year copyrights with liberal fair-use laws. I mean - 20 years - get off your ass and do some more work.
NPR (al large licencee of low freq FM bands) is having problems because a proliferation of (unlicenced) devices are interfereing with their brodcasts, in violation of FCC regulations. It just so happens that XM receivers are a big chunk of that problem. And, apparently, they knew about the problem and chose to ignore it because it made their customers happy.
Whether you agree or disagree with what the FCC is doing in general, the idea behind frequency licensing is simple allocation of a scarce resource to prevent receptions problems so that consumers don't have to be pawns in a transmission power game. It ain't perfect, but it works the best when everybody follows the rules.
I guess my point was that allowing a tax deduction for charity is just the US government saying they'll match every 3 of your dollars with one from the US treasury. I'd like to see that deduction eliminated entirely - if you're giving to charity, you give your dollars and I'll give mine (and, for the record, I do).
I use a domain where I give every vendor a unique email. I also have a catch-all on my domain, with known compromized emails sent to:blackhole:. I have had three vendor emails startup with genuine spam (not the partner-marketing type), including one financial company - Emigrant Direct - for which the only time the email was used was during signup, and the only time the email in in the wild is when they send me information about the account - which might happen once per quarter. Now, the email address is EmigrantDirect@domain.com - capitalization and all (though it's insensitive, of course), so it's not really something that would be randomly generated (I get [partialname]@domain.com all the time). This has happened on only a couple of addresses, but I'm always interested to see it happen, as it means there's a weak link somehwere
I've had the same (main) email address for eight years now, and it has been effectively compromised, despite using it only with normally "trusted" recipients. All it really takes is a single Outlook virus by a trusted partner to fling your address far and wide. Heck, if you end up on a poorly formed mailing list with everyone in the "to" field (Real Estate agents are prime violators), it's out there and just waiting for a virus/malware to harvest.
If we could OCR these incoming images, maybe that would eliminate at least the deluge of stock pumpers. I made the mistake of setting an autoreply on my account recently (at the server end). Now I get a zillion bounce-spams using my domain (I monitor a catch-all) and randomly generated usernames.
I think law enforcement should be working harder at catching spammers (internationally, if necessary) than they are at tracking down copyright infringers. Not because of any moral posture, but because I suspect the total economic impact of spam is greater than infringing use of content. I also think the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment should be lifted.
Hey, now that I come to think of it, maybe spam is a bigger issue than oil. I say we start invading countries with spammers!
Yeah, 'cause what we really nead here in the US, with an effective deficit of 450-800B/yr (depending on how you count SS), is a way for people who can afford a $300 toy to pay less tax.
Thanks.
(BTW - I want a tax deduction, too. But I'd rather see the spending drop first.)
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Would that be the Debian that was created in the early 70s, or the most recent fault tolerant version built around 1980. These things are _old_. Spaceflight hardware, even the newest, is often 2-3 generations behind for rad hard, verified parts - possibly more for "current" life-safety spaceflight hardware.
Usually I would't give the time of day to an AC, but the point is salient. There is no need for EULAs in purchased software, or in workplace logins. If the workplace has special rules of conduct (as would be fitting to protect the company from lawsuits, such as sexual harassment, or to "ensure" productivity), then that's something between the employee and the HR department, and can be negotiated face to face in most cases.
I say replace them with nothing (or, at the worst, a "statement").
On occasion I find it necessary to interact with these "children" of which you speak. I suspect the inability to communicate has already overtaken that generation.
You're sitting on the richest oil fields in the world, and you need nuclear power plants? Don't get me wrong - nuclear can be very efficient, but the only reason nuclear power is cost effective in most places is because fossil fuels need to be imported.
Welcome to OSS. The software is free, the support is not. Just as a musician performs music, the IT professional manages his servers. This works for non-fiction books, too, with the researchers/authors, doing seminars for the people interested in their work - they are "performers", just a different kind.
How stupid can you get. That'd be like selling "subscriptions" to Slashdot. It'll never happen.
Well, Webb is really a Republican - you were expecting Ralph Nader? Hell, daffy duck could be running against Allen and I'd vote for daffy.
Yes, ballots do need to be stored for a few days after the election. Because those pieces of paper are the verifiable proof that the totals are accurate. A small expense, and they're typically destroyed fairly soon after the election is complete. I can't imagine the expense is significant.
Actually, the expense can be significant to properly destroy the records. I was amazed when my wife called to get some old financial records destroyed for her company. The only local "shredder" showed up wih the machine and a large van, and charged $180/hr to feed the paper into the machine. I'm not sure what the path was after that point, but to shred documents thousands of local storage sites, or shipping and shredding at a remote site would not necessarily be a trivial cost.
Still, it's worth it to have faith in the democratic process.
In the modern version, the receipts never leave the polling station. You vote electronically, verify your vote on the paper receipt, and then deposit the receipt in a lockbox. Should there be any question about the votes (or for random checks) the paper reciepts can then be counted.
No wonder he scored so well. If you check his detail, he didn't even vote on 7 of the 16 bills they used to classify the members.
How can you not put Boucher near the top of the list of Tech Friendly congressmen? He is consistently one of the few who "get it" and manage to vote for what aids the consumer instead of the corporation.
They included votes on Free Trade and Class Action Law Suits, but not Net Neutrality? No wonder the R's scored higher than the D's on that one. Good grief - if you're going to score on a subject, at least limit the scope to the subject at hand.
No, seriously.
I wrote to him a few years ago about the SSSCA (acronym misspell?), and he write back a polite letter to the effect of "screw you, my consultants say I should vote for it," but thank you for your letter.
Nice. He has absolutely no concept of the consumer side of IP rights, and would mandate DRM and outlaw fair use if he even got a whiff of a chance.
Yes, I'm voting for Jim Webb. He can't be any worse.
10 minute intervals of change, that way everybody can see the sun rise at the prescribed "optimal" time within 10 minutes instead of a whole hour. We could do it by locality, county, and state. Heck, every town could chose their own implementation to match local custom and maximize efficiency. It will be a power and labor saving coup!
[/bizzaro politicians world]
I'd be happy to ditch the whole thing. For those of you who complain about skipping DST and having the sun wake you up at 4am I have one word: Curtains. If you ask me, DST is just a way for those folks who commute on east-west roads to have to look directly into the rising/setting sun for a good portion of every spring and fall.
Okay, so I've never heard of it. Not unusual - there are lots of killer apps out there I've never heard of. But, um, how does it stack up to the other "'fully-loaded raster graphics workhorse'" programs out there. More importantly, what are those others. ATTFA, MS Office Picture Manager isn't one. Okay. So it must be more like...um...anything in the article...no.
.x version now". Which is fine, but really front page news?
Okay, so where does it fit in the Photoshop, PaintShopPro, GIMP arena? Is it simpler, easier? More powerful (it is a fully loaded workhorse, after all)?
Maybe this is just a "hey - all you guys with the old Krita - there's a new
So, is this really sliced bread, or just a little bump in the feature set of KOffice?
Somebody has to pay for the research. That means that the data and conclusions involved have some value to an entity. That's how much research gets done: an organization needs data, so they pay an expert to perform the research. The hope is that the results are valuable enough for the organization to justify the expense (profit, etc.)
If someone does the research without external funding, they are still "funding" the research themselves - on "speculation" if you will. They may keep the data secret/private until they find someone who believes the data worth the price they are paying. Alternatively, the researcher turns to the performance aspect - teaching. Experts in many fields give lectures on a regular basis to make money. Often, they create the texts and literature they use for parts of the course. They are, effectively, "performing" their works.
A recent two day seminar I attended had about 85 participants at $850 each. There were three presenters, one included meal, a small lecture hall, and "snacks". That's $72,250, less about $14,500 in materials and rental fees. Almost $20,000 a piece. Now, it just so happens that one of the presenters spent clost to 200 hours of time preparing his material, and in his field it isn't unusual to bill $100/hr for consulting. He'll probably be able to teach the class once every two years or so, given the narrow scope and audience. So he got paid at a "preferred" rate for his work (say 85-90/hr) for the first one, and in two years if he teaches again he'll see a significant return on his investment.
So, you see, there is a way to recoup the cost of non-fiction without book sales. Still, many folks like hard copies, and are willing to pay for them. Many texts (including references) are cheaper to buy and more convenient to store than a home-printed, three-ring bound version. So there will probably still be a market for real books. In some ways it just changes a business model _back_ to the way it used to be - performance for remuneration.
Personally, I'm all for 20 year copyrights with liberal fair-use laws. I mean - 20 years - get off your ass and do some more work.
Huh? Did you even read the summary?
NPR (al large licencee of low freq FM bands) is having problems because a proliferation of (unlicenced) devices are interfereing with their brodcasts, in violation of FCC regulations. It just so happens that XM receivers are a big chunk of that problem. And, apparently, they knew about the problem and chose to ignore it because it made their customers happy.
Whether you agree or disagree with what the FCC is doing in general, the idea behind frequency licensing is simple allocation of a scarce resource to prevent receptions problems so that consumers don't have to be pawns in a transmission power game. It ain't perfect, but it works the best when everybody follows the rules.
...Netcraft confirms it.
Oh. Whoops.
Hey, we're a week away from a congressional election - trust me, there are a lot of people already talking about regime change stateside.
I guess my point was that allowing a tax deduction for charity is just the US government saying they'll match every 3 of your dollars with one from the US treasury. I'd like to see that deduction eliminated entirely - if you're giving to charity, you give your dollars and I'll give mine (and, for the record, I do).
I use a domain where I give every vendor a unique email. I also have a catch-all on my domain, with known compromized emails sent to :blackhole:. I have had three vendor emails startup with genuine spam (not the partner-marketing type), including one financial company - Emigrant Direct - for which the only time the email was used was during signup, and the only time the email in in the wild is when they send me information about the account - which might happen once per quarter. Now, the email address is EmigrantDirect@domain.com - capitalization and all (though it's insensitive, of course), so it's not really something that would be randomly generated (I get [partialname]@domain.com all the time). This has happened on only a couple of addresses, but I'm always interested to see it happen, as it means there's a weak link somehwere
I've had the same (main) email address for eight years now, and it has been effectively compromised, despite using it only with normally "trusted" recipients. All it really takes is a single Outlook virus by a trusted partner to fling your address far and wide. Heck, if you end up on a poorly formed mailing list with everyone in the "to" field (Real Estate agents are prime violators), it's out there and just waiting for a virus/malware to harvest.
If they make money on the pump and dump, then they were successful. Causality is not required to be proven.
If we could OCR these incoming images, maybe that would eliminate at least the deluge of stock pumpers. I made the mistake of setting an autoreply on my account recently (at the server end). Now I get a zillion bounce-spams using my domain (I monitor a catch-all) and randomly generated usernames.
I think law enforcement should be working harder at catching spammers (internationally, if necessary) than they are at tracking down copyright infringers. Not because of any moral posture, but because I suspect the total economic impact of spam is greater than infringing use of content. I also think the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment should be lifted.
Hey, now that I come to think of it, maybe spam is a bigger issue than oil. I say we start invading countries with spammers!
You forgot to mention significantly supressed sex drive. Kinda defeats the purpose.
...there's no system in place to send a text message with the coordinates you read off of your gps-enable cell phone, right?
Yeah, 'cause what we really nead here in the US, with an effective deficit of 450-800B/yr (depending on how you count SS), is a way for people who can afford a $300 toy to pay less tax.
Thanks.
(BTW - I want a tax deduction, too. But I'd rather see the spending drop first.)