The hard part is actually getting back INTO the country. You can charge their visa card from a bank outside of the USA very easily.
Once you have a million dollars, you have to bring that money back INTO the US to buy that house and car, and with no legal income, that is what raises a red flag with the IRS, and the FEDS, who monitor all money transactions over $5,000 now (used to be 10k before 911). You can still make the money, but you can't spend it.
The traditional way is to open a "legit" biz with high margins, such as a bar/nightclub. You (quietly) give away the liquor, account for each giveaway as a "sale", then put that high margin money in the bank. You pay taxes on it, etc. but that is what you have to do if you launder money, make it "legit". (I used to work as an investigator, seen it many, many times with drug money).
So you end up with about half of your money, but it is laundered. The extra bonus is that owning a bar or nightclub and giving away a lot of liquor pretty much guarantees you lots of lady friends and minions.
They HAD them here in North Carolina, ran for about a year. Then someone brought up the fact that our State Constitution says that all traffic fines levied must go DIRECTLY to the schools, 100%. The camera companies were charging 50% royalty for each ticket given, and the counties were keeping the rest. Now there are a host of lawsuits out trying to force them both to give up 100% of the funds to the schools. The cameras are still here, but haven't been in operation for a couple of years.
It's hard for the camera companies to make any money (and pay for the cameras) if you have to give 100% to someone else.
But how many BogoMIPS is that? After all, that is most computers do, most of the time.
Think about it: This new chip can do nothing up to 2 to 3 times faster than any other chip on the market! We are talking about incredible productivity gains during idle times!
According to http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/thimerosal.htm it is still used in all flu vaccines. Other vaccines contain none or trace amounts as it is being phased out. Virtually all parents are encouraged to get their children vaccinated.
Vaccines aren't the only place where you find mercury by the way, and anything that has mercury is certainly a problem.
I'm not taking sides on vaccines in the debate, I'm just stating the fact that mercury is still used in trace amounts in many vaccines, and liberally in flu vaccines. It is also used in most dental amalgams. I work with mercury on a daily basis, and have very good reasons for believing it is worth avoiding. The fact that mercury may cause learning disabilities doesn't strike me as impossible at all. It's already proven to cause a whole host of central nervous issues and learning disabilities.
I can't help but notice that "the editor of the Open Document Format standard" published a letter in PDF format. Am I the only one who sees the irony here?
Suer he's not doing research on the autism/vaccination link?
Since most older vaccines and many current vaccines use a mercury based preservative (thimerosal), I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the link. Most sane people are suspicious of the mercury in the vaccines, not the actual vaccines. But of course, you already knew this. Right?
The jury is still out on this one. My better judgement says that injecting mercury into children, even in very very tiny amounts, is likely not a good thing.
More importantly, you can be FOR closed source software and still AGAINST patents. I prefer open source, but hey, I want the best software I can use, regardless if I get to see the source or not. I am against patents and DRM, which both restrict my right to use and create software of my own, each in their own way.
Are you in China? What is your reaction to this story? Is this your first time reading the BBC News website?
Followed by a block to enter your name, address and phone number. Yea right, that's a good idea, log on with your real info and complain about how your government censors you....and leave your contact info.
I think you are full of BS or just choosing your words poorly. Linux supports MANY times more hardware devices than Vista. There is NO contest on this. Ubuntu or any other distro will recognize older hardware that Vista is not aware of, and will RUN on this hardware. Perhaps some of the newer hardware *might* get support on Vista before Ubuntu, but you can still run several different versions of Linux (including the most current versions) on old Pentium I machines, all the way up to mainframe systems and clusters.
More people have problems running Vista than Linux on new machines. No one has a problem running Vista on older machines, because it simply won't install. That isn't exactly a testiment on how great the OS is, only on how narrow yet bloated it is.
why would I, an end user, WANT to bother learning the CLI?
1. I have a folder with all types of files in it, say 1000 or so, which is common for me. I only want to move the *.gif and/or *.jpg files to another place. In the CLI, it takes 2 seconds. With a GUI, it is a nightmare.
2. I want to compare two file versions. Diff vs. what?
3. My internet connection appears to not work. I hop in a shell and ping www.yahoo.com. If that doesn't work, I ping a known good IP address. That works? Then DNS is the problem. Now, do that in a GUI.
4. I want to download a file fast to ANOTHER computer (usually to the server so everyone can access it). I find the file in Explorer using the GUI, then I SSH into the server, use WGET to download the file automatically to the right shared place on my Linux server. You can do that with a GUI, but it takes longer.
5. I see a domain name and want to know who owns it. I can either use Explorer, click to a few pages, to find out in 1-2 minutes, or switch to my SSH shell and do a simple "whois somedomain.com" and know in about 3 seconds.
6. Traceroute, dig, nslookup, and even nmap functions are very difficult or too time consuming to do in a GUI when compared to a CLI.
7. I need to take a comma delimited database, change the order of the fields, delete a few fields, and assign a unique ID number to each record. I can't even tell you how to do it in a GUI, but I can write about 20 lines of Perl in two minutes, and convert a 100 mb database over in one more minute.
I could go on an on. Although I use a GUI 80%-90% of my computing time, the other 10%+ in a command line are either impossible to do in a GUI, or insanely time consuming. There really ARE reasons to use a CLI for those of us that do more than run ONE program all day in a GUI. If you spend all day doing a singular task, then maybe no. The rest of us that fill a dozen shoes every day (particularly IT work) find it much, much easier to use the CLI.
It isn't like learning a few easy commands is going to hurt you.
but if you lock down your data with volume encryption and encrypt it with your fingerprint data
Isn't that like using a deadbolt lock AND the little clasp on the screen door? Yes, the clasp is a "lock" just like the fingerprint scanner, but it isn't really the "secure" part of the solution.
They pay 3x for SCSI drives mainly because of the testing they undergo, not the technology. I am not sure if the flashdrive systems are ready for server apps yet. That is one hellofa different kind of load than desktop service.
"In a short demonstration of an Intel solid-state drive at work in a laptop, Saleski showed that the drive could read and write 680MB of data and related storage in 24 seconds. The read and write speed of the solid state drive will be three to four times faster than that of most hard drives, and it will initially cost as much as three times as much as a hard drive, he said."
If in a year they are twice the price of a regular hard drive, that is a bargain for some of us, if for no other reason that to use it as a swap drive for the OS and scratch drive for Photoshop. It would also making loading game levels much faster, so an 80gb version could make an affordable addition to a regular drive that has the OS.
.34% is pretty low. Even on my tanning bed owner's blog I get almost 1.5% Linux users. Does that mean that pasty white people are less technically inclided so use Linux less? That kinda bucks the stereotype, you know.;)
Some of us Linux users also use Windows and don't require every driver to be "free, as in speech" for our systems. We just use the best tool for the job. And we have consoles, which are the best tools for most gaming. I don't think you can make sweeping generalizations that Linux users don't prioritize gaming very high: Its not like there is much of a choice, now, is there?
As for porting to MAC, since it is FreeBSD based, then porting over to Linux shouldn't be that hard. Not trivial, mind you, but not that hard. I would bet more Linux users are gamers (as a percentage) than MAC users. But I don't see it happening quickly, if that way at all.
First, bring us some good quality, mainstream business applications on Linux (without WINE) so I can change the office over, then the games will follow, to give everyone something to do while avoiding work.
But the benefit of a 15% performance increase is almost never going to be sufficient reason to pick one computing technology over another!
So if you are google, and your software will all 100% run with Linux or BSD, you don't see the idea that 15% better performance means the same work with 15% less machines means something? In certain cases, 15% can mean thousands or millions of dollars, all for changing to an operating system that will basically run on the exact same hardware and run the exact same software, after a recompile.
No for most it isn't a big deal and may not make people CHANGE operating systems on existing hardware. We use both Linux and BSD, so it *might* make me consider BSD instead of Linux on the next new box. I'm likely not alone in this.
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The hard part is actually getting back INTO the country. You can charge their visa card from a bank outside of the USA very easily.
Once you have a million dollars, you have to bring that money back INTO the US to buy that house and car, and with no legal income, that is what raises a red flag with the IRS, and the FEDS, who monitor all money transactions over $5,000 now (used to be 10k before 911). You can still make the money, but you can't spend it.
The traditional way is to open a "legit" biz with high margins, such as a bar/nightclub. You (quietly) give away the liquor, account for each giveaway as a "sale", then put that high margin money in the bank. You pay taxes on it, etc. but that is what you have to do if you launder money, make it "legit". (I used to work as an investigator, seen it many, many times with drug money).
So you end up with about half of your money, but it is laundered. The extra bonus is that owning a bar or nightclub and giving away a lot of liquor pretty much guarantees you lots of lady friends and minions.
They HAD them here in North Carolina, ran for about a year. Then someone brought up the fact that our State Constitution says that all traffic fines levied must go DIRECTLY to the schools, 100%. The camera companies were charging 50% royalty for each ticket given, and the counties were keeping the rest. Now there are a host of lawsuits out trying to force them both to give up 100% of the funds to the schools. The cameras are still here, but haven't been in operation for a couple of years.
It's hard for the camera companies to make any money (and pay for the cameras) if you have to give 100% to someone else.
If they are reducing the yellow light phase to the point where it is physically impossible to stop before the light turns red, then what?
4. Profit!
That is the whole point of the article. Cities are making a profit doing this. Finally, a use for "4. Profit!" that isn't offtopic.
As someone else pointed out (and Mythbusters proved), those don't work.
Even if they did, I am pretty sure that constantly running red lights would result in a crash eventually.
Oh yea, and anything that *does* obscure your license plate is pretty much illegal in most states.
And even if all that wasn't true, it's still a stupid idea.
I think Mythbusters showed how you can beat those traffic cameras. You just have to drive about 240MPH.
But how many BogoMIPS is that? After all, that is most computers do, most of the time.
Think about it: This new chip can do nothing up to 2 to 3 times faster than any other chip on the market! We are talking about incredible productivity gains during idle times!
(why yes, I do work in marketing...)
I'm willing to be the pirate bay causes more bandwidth than all of those combined. And squared.
The RIAA is releasing it next month on their 'Best of the Live 19th Century Recordings' album, priced at $39.99.
And thepiratebay.org is releasing it 5 days before it hits the stores...
According to http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/thimerosal.htm it is still used in all flu vaccines. Other vaccines contain none or trace amounts as it is being phased out. Virtually all parents are encouraged to get their children vaccinated.
Vaccines aren't the only place where you find mercury by the way, and anything that has mercury is certainly a problem.
I'm not taking sides on vaccines in the debate, I'm just stating the fact that mercury is still used in trace amounts in many vaccines, and liberally in flu vaccines. It is also used in most dental amalgams. I work with mercury on a daily basis, and have very good reasons for believing it is worth avoiding. The fact that mercury may cause learning disabilities doesn't strike me as impossible at all. It's already proven to cause a whole host of central nervous issues and learning disabilities.
I can't help but notice that "the editor of the Open Document Format standard" published a letter in PDF format. Am I the only one who sees the irony here?
Suer he's not doing research on the autism/vaccination link?
Since most older vaccines and many current vaccines use a mercury based preservative (thimerosal), I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the link. Most sane people are suspicious of the mercury in the vaccines, not the actual vaccines. But of course, you already knew this. Right?
The jury is still out on this one. My better judgement says that injecting mercury into children, even in very very tiny amounts, is likely not a good thing.
More importantly, you can be FOR closed source software and still AGAINST patents. I prefer open source, but hey, I want the best software I can use, regardless if I get to see the source or not. I am against patents and DRM, which both restrict my right to use and create software of my own, each in their own way.
I love the tag at the bottom of the article:
Are you in China? What is your reaction to this story? Is this your first time reading the BBC News website?
Followed by a block to enter your name, address and phone number. Yea right, that's a good idea, log on with your real info and complain about how your government censors you....and leave your contact info.
I think you are full of BS or just choosing your words poorly. Linux supports MANY times more hardware devices than Vista. There is NO contest on this. Ubuntu or any other distro will recognize older hardware that Vista is not aware of, and will RUN on this hardware. Perhaps some of the newer hardware *might* get support on Vista before Ubuntu, but you can still run several different versions of Linux (including the most current versions) on old Pentium I machines, all the way up to mainframe systems and clusters.
More people have problems running Vista than Linux on new machines. No one has a problem running Vista on older machines, because it simply won't install. That isn't exactly a testiment on how great the OS is, only on how narrow yet bloated it is.
I know, I'm being flippant, but just how fast is God speed?
Easy one. Infinity + 1
If you turn on your headlights, you have to look back to see them.
why would I, an end user, WANT to bother learning the CLI?
1. I have a folder with all types of files in it, say 1000 or so, which is common for me. I only want to move the *.gif and/or *.jpg files to another place. In the CLI, it takes 2 seconds. With a GUI, it is a nightmare.
2. I want to compare two file versions. Diff vs. what?
3. My internet connection appears to not work. I hop in a shell and ping www.yahoo.com. If that doesn't work, I ping a known good IP address. That works? Then DNS is the problem. Now, do that in a GUI.
4. I want to download a file fast to ANOTHER computer (usually to the server so everyone can access it). I find the file in Explorer using the GUI, then I SSH into the server, use WGET to download the file automatically to the right shared place on my Linux server. You can do that with a GUI, but it takes longer.
5. I see a domain name and want to know who owns it. I can either use Explorer, click to a few pages, to find out in 1-2 minutes, or switch to my SSH shell and do a simple "whois somedomain.com" and know in about 3 seconds.
6. Traceroute, dig, nslookup, and even nmap functions are very difficult or too time consuming to do in a GUI when compared to a CLI.
7. I need to take a comma delimited database, change the order of the fields, delete a few fields, and assign a unique ID number to each record. I can't even tell you how to do it in a GUI, but I can write about 20 lines of Perl in two minutes, and convert a 100 mb database over in one more minute.
I could go on an on. Although I use a GUI 80%-90% of my computing time, the other 10%+ in a command line are either impossible to do in a GUI, or insanely time consuming. There really ARE reasons to use a CLI for those of us that do more than run ONE program all day in a GUI. If you spend all day doing a singular task, then maybe no. The rest of us that fill a dozen shoes every day (particularly IT work) find it much, much easier to use the CLI.
It isn't like learning a few easy commands is going to hurt you.
Fembots, and you couldn't make them fast enough for the demand on Slashdot alone. Bra gun not included.
but if you lock down your data with volume encryption and encrypt it with your fingerprint data
Isn't that like using a deadbolt lock AND the little clasp on the screen door? Yes, the clasp is a "lock" just like the fingerprint scanner, but it isn't really the "secure" part of the solution.
They pay 3x for SCSI drives mainly because of the testing they undergo, not the technology. I am not sure if the flashdrive systems are ready for server apps yet. That is one hellofa different kind of load than desktop service.
At the show in December, another article said:
"In a short demonstration of an Intel solid-state drive at work in a laptop, Saleski showed that the drive could read and write 680MB of data and related storage in 24 seconds. The read and write speed of the solid state drive will be three to four times faster than that of most hard drives, and it will initially cost as much as three times as much as a hard drive, he said."
If in a year they are twice the price of a regular hard drive, that is a bargain for some of us, if for no other reason that to use it as a swap drive for the OS and scratch drive for Photoshop. It would also making loading game levels much faster, so an 80gb version could make an affordable addition to a regular drive that has the OS.
.34% is pretty low. Even on my tanning bed owner's blog I get almost 1.5% Linux users. Does that mean that pasty white people are less technically inclided so use Linux less? That kinda bucks the stereotype, you know. ;)
Some of us Linux users also use Windows and don't require every driver to be "free, as in speech" for our systems. We just use the best tool for the job. And we have consoles, which are the best tools for most gaming. I don't think you can make sweeping generalizations that Linux users don't prioritize gaming very high: Its not like there is much of a choice, now, is there?
As for porting to MAC, since it is FreeBSD based, then porting over to Linux shouldn't be that hard. Not trivial, mind you, but not that hard. I would bet more Linux users are gamers (as a percentage) than MAC users. But I don't see it happening quickly, if that way at all.
First, bring us some good quality, mainstream business applications on Linux (without WINE) so I can change the office over, then the games will follow, to give everyone something to do while avoiding work.
Laws that can only be enforced selectively are simply another form of tyranny. (ie: dominance through threat of punishment and violence)
That is yet another and separate reason it should not pass, in addition the First Amendment issues.
Despite the impression many home users or small shops have, changing an OS in a large environment is far from "free".
but migrating new machines that are constantly be added weekly is much less expensive, and ROI *might* be reasonable in the right circumstances.
But the benefit of a 15% performance increase is almost never going to be sufficient reason to pick one computing technology over another!
So if you are google, and your software will all 100% run with Linux or BSD, you don't see the idea that 15% better performance means the same work with 15% less machines means something? In certain cases, 15% can mean thousands or millions of dollars, all for changing to an operating system that will basically run on the exact same hardware and run the exact same software, after a recompile.
No for most it isn't a big deal and may not make people CHANGE operating systems on existing hardware. We use both Linux and BSD, so it *might* make me consider BSD instead of Linux on the next new box. I'm likely not alone in this.