If I were to claim that I was expressing my ideas and concepts of justice by setting fire to the offices of the evil, corrupt county representative who sold out my community, I'd be laughed all the way to cell block 2.
As far as I know, the courts have never strictly defined what constitutes speech.
it doesn't mean that they agree with what you're saying, it means that each community gets to decide for themselves what is legal and what's not
Which is exactly the issue here. Because the Internet crosses over the boundary of communities, they have to figure out how to apply this to the world-wide community. It has nothing to do with Liberals or Conservatives.
While the Courts have never given a robust definition of what constitutes "speech" (to my knowledge), all of the case law regards spoken/recorded, written, or representational works. Firing a rifle does not fit into the rubric.
You're perfectly within your rights to go and tell those people that you don't like them.
The issue isn't child porn and its (il)legality. In fact, it has nothing to do with child porn at all. It's all about the standards which are used to determine what qualifies as offensive speech.
A mainframe transaction processor basically maintains process images which are ready to run a transaction, with all loading complete. When a process is needed to run a transaction, it's made by copying one of those process images (with read-only or copy-on-write sharing of pages) and launching it to do the job. The new process runs for a short period and exits. This is a facility that Linux/UNIX lack, because they were intended for interactive use, not server-side transactions.
Maybe I'm an idiot and am completely misunderstanding you, or maybe your analogy is breaking down here, but it seems to me that there is a Linux/Unix analog. For this kind of situation, you can do like many Unix servers do, and create a pool of processes with one controlling/listing process that uses IPC to hand off requests to them. This can drop the startup costs significantly, even if the child processes get swapped out.
A prime example of this kind of usage can be found in Apache. And it's not overwhelmingly difficult to write a high-performance server, combining such a multithreaded controller with pool of child "transaction" processes. Heck, I've done it myself.
Actually, it looks like one of the cannisters that failed to deploy in the 60s did either deploy or get hit by something and pop open more than 20 years later.
It'd be interesting to ask the LDEF and the Shuttle people if they've found any West Ford needles (or evidence of them) stuck in any of their gear...
Actually, I know someone who was doing research on this stuff using the radar systems out at Goldstone tracking station. Basically, you use two antennas - one transmitting a beam, the other pointing at some volumetric cross-section of that beam. The echo from stuff goimg through the beam gets detected by the other antenna, and you get phase information based upon the initial signal and the moving object's trajectory.
The analog is shining a flashlight up into the dark and watching the light hitting dust motes. You can see very small stuff this way.
And there's a lot more of it up there than you might think.
The hazard, of course, is that if you run into some tiny fleck of crap that's in orbit, you may well be in trouble. Now, if it's in the same orbit as you (or nearly the same), you're OK, since the relative velocity is low. But if you're headed in the opposite orbit (worst case), you've got a very hgh energy kinetic weapon that will probably blow right through you... consider that a powerful rifle gives a bullet a muzzle velocity on the order of 4 k ft/sec, while orbital velocity is on the order of 25.5 k ft/sec (sorry for the US units, but you get the point). Since energy goes with the square of the velocity, you're looking at one wicked bullet, even if it is a lightweight fleck of paint!
And historically, we've been pretty cavalier about spewing stuff around up there. Do a google search on the West Ford experiment, for example...
I'm not dead! I'm not! I'm getting better! I don't want to go on the cart! I feel fine! I think I'll go for a walk. [singing] I feel happy. I feel happy.
Not enough to discourage me from recommending it, but enough to be minor annoyances. (Like text editing sometimes getting confused about end of line, etc).
Not so very many years ago (~10), I was traveling around a country usually derided as "Third World."
One day, in a major city, I was walking near the river, and came across a small road where dozens of older men were squatting with old circuit boards and soldering irons. They would unsolder resisters, capacitors, etc, and place them into bins according to the kind of component.
A few streets further down, I came across another group of old men. These guys were pulling apart what looked like damaged automobile transmissions. One set of guys unscrewed, decoupled, and removed pieces, one set of guys cleaned the grease off of them, one set of guys sorted the parts (gears, synchros, etc) according to their size and level of damage.
It really got me thinking. Here in the States, you don't even think of repairing broken consumer electronic stuff -- it's cheaper to get a new one, and it'll probably have more features. There, the labor costs are virtually nil in comparison to the cost of the materials.
It made me think that there was a valuable process at work. Our garbage was recycled, and it actually benefits someone. Now, it is clear that this is an artifact of an unfair, unjust system. Obviously, fixing the overall system would be better. But within the context of the way things currently are, it's a reasonably good thing.
Actually, I've watched a number of camera auctions go way above list price on eBay. A simple visit to a reputable camera dealer site online, and people would *know* not to do that.
But that's how auctions are. I've been at real-life, stand-around-and-hold-up-a-sign auctions, where people just get hung up on something. I've seen cars go for 20% above blue-book. Now, maybe there's something I don't know about with those items, but my suspicion is that people just get caught up in the moment and the competition of things.
That's why real auctions have shills -- you may know about what you want to spend, by by God, you're not going to be outbid by that twerp over there!
It's an interesting "feature" of human psychology.
Einstein thought Hitler was evil, the reason why he DIDN'T work for the German's.
Einstein didn't work for the Germans because he was a Jew, and Jews were being driven out of Academia, Science, and, eventually, Germany itself. Einstein didn't have any choice in the matter whatsoever.
Attribution of that second quotation to Oppenheimer is incorrect. Oppenheimer was quoting from memory from the Mahabharata (specifically, from the Bhagavad Gita). The Mahabharata is attributed to Sage Vyasa, among others.
And actually, Oppenheimer quoted it as "the Shatterer or Worlds."
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Well, yes and no.
If I were to claim that I was expressing my ideas and concepts of justice by setting fire to the offices of the evil, corrupt county representative who sold out my community, I'd be laughed all the way to cell block 2.
As far as I know, the courts have never strictly defined what constitutes speech.
Which is exactly the issue here. Because the Internet crosses over the boundary of communities, they have to figure out how to apply this to the world-wide community. It has nothing to do with Liberals or Conservatives.
That's not speech.
While the Courts have never given a robust definition of what constitutes "speech" (to my knowledge), all of the case law regards spoken/recorded, written, or representational works. Firing a rifle does not fit into the rubric.
You're perfectly within your rights to go and tell those people that you don't like them.
The issue isn't child porn and its (il)legality. In fact, it has nothing to do with child porn at all. It's all about the standards which are used to determine what qualifies as offensive speech.
Maybe I'm an idiot and am completely misunderstanding you, or maybe your analogy is breaking down here, but it seems to me that there is a Linux/Unix analog. For this kind of situation, you can do like many Unix servers do, and create a pool of processes with one controlling/listing process that uses IPC to hand off requests to them. This can drop the startup costs significantly, even if the child processes get swapped out.
A prime example of this kind of usage can be found in Apache. And it's not overwhelmingly difficult to write a high-performance server, combining such a multithreaded controller with pool of child "transaction" processes. Heck, I've done it myself.
Actually, it looks like one of the cannisters that failed to deploy in the 60s did either deploy or get hit by something and pop open more than 20 years later.
It'd be interesting to ask the LDEF and the Shuttle people if they've found any West Ford needles (or evidence of them) stuck in any of their gear...
Actually, I know someone who was doing research on this stuff using the radar systems out at Goldstone tracking station. Basically, you use two antennas - one transmitting a beam, the other pointing at some volumetric cross-section of that beam. The echo from stuff goimg through the beam gets detected by the other antenna, and you get phase information based upon the initial signal and the moving object's trajectory.
The analog is shining a flashlight up into the dark and watching the light hitting dust motes.
You can see very small stuff this way.
And there's a lot more of it up there than you might think.
The hazard, of course, is that if you run into some tiny fleck of crap that's in orbit, you may well be in trouble. Now, if it's in the same orbit as you (or nearly the same), you're OK, since the relative velocity is low. But if you're headed in the opposite orbit (worst case), you've got a very hgh energy kinetic weapon that will probably blow right through you... consider that a powerful rifle gives a bullet a muzzle velocity on the order of 4 k ft/sec, while orbital velocity is on the order of 25.5 k ft/sec (sorry for the US units, but you get the point). Since energy goes with the square of the velocity, you're looking at one wicked bullet, even if it is a lightweight fleck of paint!
And historically, we've been pretty cavalier about spewing stuff around up there. Do a google search on the West Ford experiment, for example...
I'm not dead!
I'm not!
I'm getting better!
I don't want to go on the cart!
I feel fine!
I think I'll go for a walk.
[singing] I feel happy. I feel happy.
(etc. Credit due the fine fellows of Python)
Ain't chew nevah heard o' MP3s, mah fren?
It still has a few bugs.
Not enough to discourage me from recommending it, but enough to be minor annoyances. (Like text editing sometimes getting confused about end of line, etc).
I've been using as my "daily driver" exclusively since 0.9.2, and each new build is better.
It's even at the point where I recommend it to the non-tech savvy crowd...
Not so very many years ago (~10), I was traveling around a country usually derided as "Third World."
One day, in a major city, I was walking near the river, and came across a small road where dozens of older men were squatting with old circuit boards and soldering irons. They would unsolder resisters, capacitors, etc, and place them into bins according to the kind of component.
A few streets further down, I came across another group of old men. These guys were pulling apart what looked like damaged automobile transmissions. One set of guys unscrewed, decoupled, and removed pieces, one set of guys cleaned the grease off of them, one set of guys sorted the parts (gears, synchros, etc) according to their size and level of damage.
It really got me thinking. Here in the States, you don't even think of repairing broken consumer electronic stuff -- it's cheaper to get a new one, and it'll probably have more features. There, the labor costs are virtually nil in comparison to the cost of the materials.
It made me think that there was a valuable process at work. Our garbage was recycled, and it actually benefits someone. Now, it is clear that this is an artifact of an unfair, unjust system. Obviously, fixing the overall system would be better. But within the context of the way things currently are, it's a reasonably good thing.
Actually, I've watched a number of camera auctions go way above list price on eBay. A simple visit to a reputable camera dealer site online, and people would *know* not to do that.
But that's how auctions are. I've been at real-life, stand-around-and-hold-up-a-sign auctions, where people just get hung up on something. I've seen cars go for 20% above blue-book. Now, maybe there's something I don't know about with those items, but my suspicion is that people just get caught up in the moment and the competition of things.
That's why real auctions have shills -- you may know about what you want to spend, by by God, you're not going to be outbid by that twerp over there!
It's an interesting "feature" of human psychology.
Uh... Memory chips? Realtime clock chips? Capacitors and resistors and power supplies?
Here's a valid one:
limaceous cretin
(until this page gets indexed... get it while it's fresh!)
... that this is a classic case of "Too Little, Too Late."
Which really is too bad.
I'm not sure where you think you're getting your facts, but I'd like to see some reputable reference.
In fact, I'd like for you to just name three Jews who were in "high positions" within any of the German-controlled areas during WWII.
Einstein didn't work for the Germans because he was a Jew, and Jews were being driven out of Academia, Science, and, eventually, Germany itself. Einstein didn't have any choice in the matter whatsoever.
The CPU cycles were not being used, but the network bandwidth certainly could have been used by other stuff.
(Also, in many states, it's illegal to steal trash, but that's a totally different subject)
I suppose the specifics depend on your processor speed, but that's a delay loop.
If I recall correctly, a 16-bit load took 4 t states... Damn. it's been far too long.
Ah... for the good old days...
LD HL, 4345H
LD DE, 3C00H
LD BC, 3FFH
LDIR
Screen blasting was just so much more fun in those days...
Ah, bit the pessimists assert that it was half empty at the time of 'detonation'.
Or /etc/alias...
once you're done with an address, you remove it.
Or Hotmail for that matter.
Attribution of that second quotation to Oppenheimer is incorrect. Oppenheimer was quoting from memory from the Mahabharata (specifically, from the Bhagavad Gita). The Mahabharata is attributed to Sage Vyasa, among others.
And actually, Oppenheimer quoted it as "the Shatterer or Worlds."
When I install, my formerly encrypted partitions show up as being mounted on /dev/squeamish_ossifrage
???
That's it.
Go ahead and make the nudists look like criminals.
;)