What difference does it make? It's called "informed consent". Your doctor may think that an experimental procedure with a 5% chance of success is your only chance, but it's still your doctor's obligation to inform YOU, the person WHO WILL DO THE DYING, of what is going on. You may choose a different way of dying or ask for a second opinion.
NASA has a lot of smart people. Given the problem of a shuttle crew on-orbit in a shuttle with high-risk damage to the wing, they probably would have come up with some clever ideas. They may not have. However, by refusing to deal with the situation they ensured that that there would be no other options and played Russian Roulette with uninformed people's lives...and LOST.
Many communication lines are run along railroad right-of-ways because the railroad is mostly straight, runs between urban centers and is uninterrupted. Remember a couple of years ago when a tank car caught fire in a train tunnel and took out Internet connectivity for half the Eastern US? Sprint, one of the big US carriers, started life as part of the Southern Pacific railway. Here in Tokyo a lot of fibre got laid in the subway tunnels.
How about fixing sattelites? It doesn't make sense when you have to spend billions to go retrieve a sattelite costing millions, but if you can get your cost down to $1 million per launch, it might start making sense to go out and repair sattelites or assemble bigger ones in orbit.
Calling Burt Rutan and the Scaled Composites team "home builders" is a pretty big insult. These guys do the engineering behind lots of home-built planes (e.g. Vari-Ez) making them work well and safely and built the first plane to fly around the world on one tank of gas. Small, yes. Small budget, yes. Unprofessional? NO
San Francisco International Airport takes up about 4 square miles of space. A 2 rail train right-of-way should be approximately 50 feet across so 104 of them side by side should be about a mile wide. Hence, SFO == ~416 miles of train right of way. There are a _lot_ of airports in this country, so I'd be curious to see what the ratio of land taken up by airports vs the amount of land taken up by trains is.
That's what I hate about airports and airplanes. It's not just the hurry up and wait, it's the stress that the place generates. You're constantly worried about being late or missing something. You have to wait in the lobby so long that you'd like to take a nap, but then the plane will probably board and take off while you're sleeping.
The shinkansen (bullet trains) here in Japan run every 5-15 minutes between Tokyo and Osaka. You can buy a non-reserved seat and get on ANY train. Miss the 9:00 AM train? No problem, get on the 9:10 AM train. No security checks, no lobbys, no boarding passes.
I live in Japan and I really like the bullet train. Going from Tokyo to Kyoto is great. It is faster than the plane but it is NOT cheaper. We live in Tokyo and when we go down to visit my wife's family in Shizuoka (about half-way to Kyoto) it is both faster AND cheaper to drive rather than take the train (that includes the super high highway tolls). Japan Rail is still trying to get out of its state owned, pork barrel mode and pull its act together as a competitive business.
Yes, you can break water into hydrogen and oxygen with the application of enough heat. Now, if you leave them mixed together and a spark comes along, what happens?
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You're correct, I should have said "many" instead of "any." Though, you could look at a block cipher as being a PRNG with the key + plaintext block as the seed.
A key part of the header files is the #define's of all of the magic numbers needed for the various parameters. There's no way to derive those from the binaries.
His point in buying the card was to have something that would work under Linux WITHOUT having to write a bunch of code. Other people have pointed out the basic problem for binary only drivers, namely that Linux is such a moving target that it's almost impossible to produce binary drivers that run under "Linux" rather than some specific version.
You did not explain why his conclusion shouldn't be "Fuck the binary drivers".
The SCO case will have some far reaching effects if a sufficiently bone-headed judge rules in certain ways. One of the cornerstones of SCO's "case" is their theory on derivative works: notably, JFS. JFS is in the same category of kernel module as AFS which Linus references. SCO claims that JFS is a derivative work of Unix and therefore falls under IBM's contract obligations and SCO's copyright. Were SCO's theory to be accepted, it would be theoretically possible to try to force AFS to be GPL'd under the same theory.
An even more interesting stretch of the theorem would depend on how this "derivativeness" would be defined. Why is JFS a derivative work? If it's because it has substantial similarities to other Unix file systems (tree structured directories, permissions) there's an interesting case against MS for NTFS and DOS FAT, as these both have tree-structured directories and MS has been a Unix licensee. Now, wouldn't that be fun. Unfortunately the only entity that could bring that case would be our good friends Darl and SCO at this time.
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Congratulations - you've invented symmetric key cryptography! Looked at from a far enough distance, any symmetric key crypto algorithm is basically a pseudo-random number generator that combines the pseudo-random number stream with the plaintext and the key is the seed to the random number generator.
Most first-line managers do not have P&L responsibilities. Working to a budget is very different than managing P&L. It really depends on the size of the project. The term "project manager" or "program manager" is badly abused (actually most role titles are badly abused these days). I've seen it used for people who are truly managing a large project with 100's of people working for them and also for people who just track the schedule and go around reminding eveyrone they're missing deadlines.
If you're managing at a high enough level to have true P&L responsibility you're either on top of a big organization with multiple teams reporting to you and you wouldn't be assigning work to individuals or you're in a very small organization (in other words, your title is "owner").
No, it's one role. We used to call it "tech lead". Unfortunately it's hard to find people who can handle the whole role so it started to be split. However, splitting the role makes it much harder to do well. Who reports to whom and on what? When the "architect" wants to make an architecture change that will mess up the schedule, who gets the final call? When the "project manager" decides to people with the wrong skill sets who undoes it?
During one ill-fated project I worked on the role was split into four parts - architect, technical lead, manager and project manager. The architect was supposed to be responsible for the overall design, the technical lead was supposed to be responsible for the actual implementation, the manager was supposed to manage (and was theoretically in overall control) and the project manager was supposed to track the schedule. That was a complete disaster.
I don't know about bypassing the Bill of Rights, however from what I know about a Bill of Discovery, you have to get a judge to issue it for you. Take-down requests under the DMCA are issued by the court clerk and the court clerk doesn't apply any discretion to it.
Talk about a poorly crafted piece of legislation. There are so many ways to abuse this ridiculous thing. It really needs to be amended to get rid of all of these legal like mechanisms that do not involve the courts. You should have to get a judge to issue an injunction to take material offline, not just say "You have to do it".
Diebold's defense that the plantiffs "did not suffer irreparable harm" because Diebold didn't actually sue them is outrageous. The threat to sue, especially by a party with deep pockets vs a small party definitely causes a chilling effect on free speech. If Diebold had not intention to sue, why did they ask for the material to be removed?
The logic being it's their cabling. The last startup I did, the previous tenants had done exactly that. The cabling was cut within about two feet of the ceiling. There was a bit of slack in the cables, though, and we were cheap, so we wound up with our patch panels right up at ceiling level. Saved us a bunch of time and money upfront though any work afterwards had to be done on top of a ladder.
It's MS' fault because they developed the idea and evangelized it to the hardware manufacturers. This was MS' big push and it's a big fizzle. Makes you wonder if anybody ever really does good marketing or if people just get lucky sometimes.
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And what's wrong with the money going into the wages?
What difference does it make? It's called "informed consent". Your doctor may think that an experimental procedure with a 5% chance of success is your only chance, but it's still your doctor's obligation to inform YOU, the person WHO WILL DO THE DYING, of what is going on. You may choose a different way of dying or ask for a second opinion.
NASA has a lot of smart people. Given the problem of a shuttle crew on-orbit in a shuttle with high-risk damage to the wing, they probably would have come up with some clever ideas. They may not have. However, by refusing to deal with the situation they ensured that that there would be no other options and played Russian Roulette with uninformed people's lives...and LOST.
Many communication lines are run along railroad right-of-ways because the railroad is mostly straight, runs between urban centers and is uninterrupted. Remember a couple of years ago when a tank car caught fire in a train tunnel and took out Internet connectivity for half the Eastern US? Sprint, one of the big US carriers, started life as part of the Southern Pacific railway. Here in Tokyo a lot of fibre got laid in the subway tunnels.
How about fixing sattelites? It doesn't make sense when you have to spend billions to go retrieve a sattelite costing millions, but if you can get your cost down to $1 million per launch, it might start making sense to go out and repair sattelites or assemble bigger ones in orbit.
Calling Burt Rutan and the Scaled Composites team "home builders" is a pretty big insult. These guys do the engineering behind lots of home-built planes (e.g. Vari-Ez) making them work well and safely and built the first plane to fly around the world on one tank of gas. Small, yes. Small budget, yes. Unprofessional? NO
Hey, let's get nine pregnant women together and have a baby in 1 month!
San Francisco International Airport takes up about 4 square miles of space. A 2 rail train right-of-way should be approximately 50 feet across so 104 of them side by side should be about a mile wide. Hence, SFO == ~416 miles of train right of way. There are a _lot_ of airports in this country, so I'd be curious to see what the ratio of land taken up by airports vs the amount of land taken up by trains is.
That's what I hate about airports and airplanes. It's not just the hurry up and wait, it's the stress that the place generates. You're constantly worried about being late or missing something. You have to wait in the lobby so long that you'd like to take a nap, but then the plane will probably board and take off while you're sleeping.
The shinkansen (bullet trains) here in Japan run every 5-15 minutes between Tokyo and Osaka. You can buy a non-reserved seat and get on ANY train. Miss the 9:00 AM train? No problem, get on the 9:10 AM train. No security checks, no lobbys, no boarding passes.
I live in Japan and I really like the bullet train. Going from Tokyo to Kyoto is great. It is faster than the plane but it is NOT cheaper. We live in Tokyo and when we go down to visit my wife's family in Shizuoka (about half-way to Kyoto) it is both faster AND cheaper to drive rather than take the train (that includes the super high highway tolls). Japan Rail is still trying to get out of its state owned, pork barrel mode and pull its act together as a competitive business.
Yah, you can. It just has to be _really_ hot (2500 C) http://voltaicpower.com/Hydrogen/Production.htm
Yes, you can break water into hydrogen and oxygen with the application of enough heat. Now, if you leave them mixed together and a spark comes along, what happens?
You're correct, I should have said "many" instead of "any." Though, you could look at a block cipher as being a PRNG with the key + plaintext block as the seed.
A key part of the header files is the #define's of all of the magic numbers needed for the various parameters. There's no way to derive those from the binaries.
His point in buying the card was to have something that would work under Linux WITHOUT having to write a bunch of code. Other people have pointed out the basic problem for binary only drivers, namely that Linux is such a moving target that it's almost impossible to produce binary drivers that run under "Linux" rather than some specific version.
You did not explain why his conclusion shouldn't be "Fuck the binary drivers".
Well, that's really SCO's case no matter what you think of it. And, you're not the judge. Let's hope that sanity prevails.
The SCO case will have some far reaching effects if a sufficiently bone-headed judge rules in certain ways. One of the cornerstones of SCO's "case" is their theory on derivative works: notably, JFS. JFS is in the same category of kernel module as AFS which Linus references. SCO claims that JFS is a derivative work of Unix and therefore falls under IBM's contract obligations and SCO's copyright. Were SCO's theory to be accepted, it would be theoretically possible to try to force AFS to be GPL'd under the same theory.
An even more interesting stretch of the theorem would depend on how this "derivativeness" would be defined. Why is JFS a derivative work? If it's because it has substantial similarities to other Unix file systems (tree structured directories, permissions) there's an interesting case against MS for NTFS and DOS FAT, as these both have tree-structured directories and MS has been a Unix licensee. Now, wouldn't that be fun. Unfortunately the only entity that could bring that case would be our good friends Darl and SCO at this time.
Congratulations - you've invented symmetric key cryptography! Looked at from a far enough distance, any symmetric key crypto algorithm is basically a pseudo-random number generator that combines the pseudo-random number stream with the plaintext and the key is the seed to the random number generator.
Most first-line managers do not have P&L responsibilities. Working to a budget is very different than managing P&L. It really depends on the size of the project. The term "project manager" or "program manager" is badly abused (actually most role titles are badly abused these days). I've seen it used for people who are truly managing a large project with 100's of people working for them and also for people who just track the schedule and go around reminding eveyrone they're missing deadlines.
If you're managing at a high enough level to have true P&L responsibility you're either on top of a big organization with multiple teams reporting to you and you wouldn't be assigning work to individuals or you're in a very small organization (in other words, your title is "owner").
No, it's one role. We used to call it "tech lead". Unfortunately it's hard to find people who can handle the whole role so it started to be split. However, splitting the role makes it much harder to do well. Who reports to whom and on what? When the "architect" wants to make an architecture change that will mess up the schedule, who gets the final call? When the "project manager" decides to people with the wrong skill sets who undoes it?
During one ill-fated project I worked on the role was split into four parts - architect, technical lead, manager and project manager. The architect was supposed to be responsible for the overall design, the technical lead was supposed to be responsible for the actual implementation, the manager was supposed to manage (and was theoretically in overall control) and the project manager was supposed to track the schedule. That was a complete disaster.
I don't know about bypassing the Bill of Rights, however from what I know about a Bill of Discovery, you have to get a judge to issue it for you. Take-down requests under the DMCA are issued by the court clerk and the court clerk doesn't apply any discretion to it.
Talk about a poorly crafted piece of legislation. There are so many ways to abuse this ridiculous thing. It really needs to be amended to get rid of all of these legal like mechanisms that do not involve the courts. You should have to get a judge to issue an injunction to take material offline, not just say "You have to do it".
Diebold's defense that the plantiffs "did not suffer irreparable harm" because Diebold didn't actually sue them is outrageous. The threat to sue, especially by a party with deep pockets vs a small party definitely causes a chilling effect on free speech. If Diebold had not intention to sue, why did they ask for the material to be removed?
The logic being it's their cabling. The last startup I did, the previous tenants had done exactly that. The cabling was cut within about two feet of the ceiling. There was a bit of slack in the cables, though, and we were cheap, so we wound up with our patch panels right up at ceiling level. Saved us a bunch of time and money upfront though any work afterwards had to be done on top of a ladder.
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It's not a federal bill. Unless you live in Tennessee those senators are not real interested in your input.
It's MS' fault because they developed the idea and evangelized it to the hardware manufacturers. This was MS' big push and it's a big fizzle. Makes you wonder if anybody ever really does good marketing or if people just get lucky sometimes.