"If the court had really wanted to serve justice, some school officials should have been given the boot today."
They probably won't be given the boot today. Setting the school system up for an expensive out of court settlement will probably not be considered a career enhancing achievement, however.
In the US very paper check you write has enough information preprinted on the front of it to create an e-check that withdraws money diretly from your checking account.
In the US the system is set up so that ad-hoc electronic funds transfers occur by having the recipiant withdraw money from the account of the sender.
In Europe, I understand that the reverse is true. If you want to
make an electronic payment the payer electronicly deposits money in the account of the payee. This is a much saner system.
The whole electronic check scenario is potentialy much more dangerous than credit card fraud.
Southeastern costal areas? That's the part closest to Tasmania.
There are big cats native to the islands north of Australia. A lot of WWII happend there, too. If American service men obtained big cats for mascots this is probably where they came from.
Where were the bases where Americans were stationed? I think that for the Americans Austrailia was a base for air crews flying missions into the war zone, a forward base of operations closer to the war zone, and a R&R destination closer to the war zone. I think many of the Americans in Australia were in the Northern part. I'm speculating. Can somebody out there who knows clue us in?
I would imagine that the climate etc of the northern part of Australia would be more like the native teritory of these cats. I think they would be more likly to establish a self sustaining breeding population. This is possibly a weak argument, non-native species somtimes do well outside their native climate.
South Eastern Austrailia is, however, the part that is the nearest to Tasmainia, home of the Thylacine.
Tasmania does have a fauna distinct fauna that of the mainland of Australia. However, it may be that something similar, or filling a similar niche could have evolved on the mainland. Or humans may have introduced them to the mainland.
This is an incredable long shot, obviously. But it would not be the first time that an animal thought to be extinct was discovered alive outside of what its native ranged was believed to be. If it was a new, large marsupial this would be truly exciting.
Also, the prefixes are a result of international agreement. Before the agreement hams had calls like 3FG. The holder of 3FG became W3FG afterwards. This implies WARC or its predecessor(s) sat down and devided up the alphabet. Presumably countries had some influance over what they got, so we can assume the US wanted A, K, N and W for some reason.
Some of the others sort of make sense, G for Great Britan. F for france. Canada gets only some of C.
Lots of little balloons.
Remember that the volume (and therfore lift) of a balloon varies as the cube of the dimmension. Shape does not matter as long as you are comparing similar shapes.
A three foot ballon has nine times the lift of a one foot balloon. A one meter balloon has nine times the lift of a 33cm balloon in the rest of the world.
A typical party ballon is about 10 inches. An 8 foot weather ballon would have almost the same lift as 9.6**3 = 885 of those 10 inch balloons, and weigh a lot less.
I was looking at a similar situation a while ago. All advertisements were for experienced applicants. I wasn't an experianced applicant. My father gave me some good advice, reply to each advertisement anyway. You are hoping for one of two circumstances. They may not bother advertising the entry level positions. They may not get what they are asking for and settle for you.
It worked for me. 200+ resumes, about 5 interviews, one job.
Mac os, as far back as 6, the oldest I've had contact with, had single, double and long mouse clicks. To change the label on a desktop icon you would click and hold on it long enough for the OS to recognize that it wasn't a single click. I always thought that this was a poor substitute for having a right mouse button.
Unfortunatly this suggests that we shouldn't be so worked up about one little band in a big sea of bandwidth.
To legitamate users of the bands it is much like saying that given the bazillion acres of realestate in the U.S. you shouldn't get so worked up if the quarter acre your house sits on should get "reallocated".
Checking some dates, that is about three years after the official publication of DES as a standardard. I suppose it was publicly available for comment for some time before that.
I was obviously confusing post-publication controversy with pre-publication controversy.
1979 is about when I was starting to use Version 7.
It is a much more astounding wrongness to wrongly accuse another of astounding wrongness.
UNIX, and by implecation the encryption of passwords in/etc/passwd predates the publication of DES by a number of years. It would have been impossible for the password hash to have always used DES.
I was actualy USING Unix version 7 when the adoption of DES as a standard was being debated. My Version 7 UNIX manuals (all two volumes) are boxed away somewhere. I recall a warning in the manual about the enigma based crypt having known weakness. My understanding was that this same algorithm was used for the/etc/passwd hash, but I cannot state that with certainty at this late date. What is certain is that it wasn't DES.
Odd thing, I could only understand this by di-dahing quietly under my breath.
When I was first learning code (mid 1970's) I had an ARRL practice tape. It introduced a few letters, had some practice, introduced some more letters etc.
My father had been a US Navy communications officer in WWII, but left radio behind at the end of the war. He went straight thru the tape making extremly minimal errors. He was doing better after 30 years of not practicing than I was doing after hours of practicing.
Some people are impressed by their parents.
DE WD4OMI
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It helps Sun by letting them get their foot in your door by letting you get your feet wet.
Sun needs an entry level system to get users that may graduate to enterprise SPARC systems to get started with Sun.
Sun's situation without Solaris x86 would be much like Apple's situation before the introduction of the I-Macs. All of Apple's systems were quite good and quite expensive. All of Sun's systems are quite good and quite expensive. Apple did and Sun does have a fiercly loyal and satisfied customer base being erroded thru attrition. Few new customers translates into slow death. Introduction of the I-Mac gave apple a shot in the arm. A viable Solaris x86 could help Sun the same way.
Unfortunatly I don't think Solaris x86 is quite enough like Solaris SPARC to fill this role for Sun. I also think it isn't a good enough product to encourage users that do try it to consider graduating to the SPARC product.
Where I work we have a handfull of smart people tearing their hair out trying to migrate some of our systems from Linux to Solaris x86 to satisfy our management. Our own applications seem to run (so far as we can tell) but the OS install for our production hardware environment (Proliant servers with Qlogic fiberchannel connection to a SAN the only disk on the system) has so far been impossible.
Add another discovered back door or other security hole added to an open source software product.
There have been several now.
Looks bad? Think about it.
Each one I've heard of has been detected, corrected and publicised within hours. We don't know about any that haven't been found, of course, but I haven't known of one that went undetected for even a day. If it was easy to slip in a deliberate security hole that escaped initial detection we would hear about holes that were detected only after months or more.
This has been a test of the proposition that all those eyeballs don't realy improve security because most don't realy read the source. The proposition has failed.
All those eyeballs make for an almost certanty that at least one will take a critical look. That is all it takes.
Usage probably varies with locale and time, but where I come from using knot as a unit of distance earns the same sort of look as "knots per hour" for velocity.
We just tend to say mile and assume you know which one we are talking about this time.
RPN does the calculation the way YOU would do it by hand, from the inside out. You get the intermediate results handy for inspection. If you actualy understand the formula this can help prevent gross errors. You can also do some realy complicated calculations without stopping to write down the formula first.
What does this have to do with identifing folks by smell?
The Mac OS actualy has clicks, double clicks, long clicks and mouse clicks while holding keyboard shift keys. At least this was true in 7.5.5, the most recent version that still boots around here. I'd rather have a three button mouse.
I am not talking about some crappy app that ignores interface conventions -- I'm talking about the finder itself.
I got an old Mac and a bunch of games late just so the kids could learn that not every computer is a PC. It had the interesting side effect that I had to learn about Macs myself.
One of the first things I learned was that the user interface isn't exactly intuitive, just easy to learn. I'm still getting used to the idea of a single menu bar accross the top of the screen that changes with keyboard/mouse focus.
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In the US the system is set up so that ad-hoc electronic funds transfers occur by having the recipiant withdraw money from the account of the sender.
In Europe, I understand that the reverse is true. If you want to make an electronic payment the payer electronicly deposits money in the account of the payee. This is a much saner system.
The whole electronic check scenario is potentialy much more dangerous than credit card fraud.
There are big cats native to the islands north of Australia. A lot of WWII happend there, too. If American service men obtained big cats for mascots this is probably where they came from.
Where were the bases where Americans were stationed? I think that for the Americans Austrailia was a base for air crews flying missions into the war zone, a forward base of operations closer to the war zone, and a R&R destination closer to the war zone. I think many of the Americans in Australia were in the Northern part. I'm speculating. Can somebody out there who knows clue us in?
I would imagine that the climate etc of the northern part of Australia would be more like the native teritory of these cats. I think they would be more likly to establish a self sustaining breeding population. This is possibly a weak argument, non-native species somtimes do well outside their native climate.
South Eastern Austrailia is, however, the part that is the nearest to Tasmainia, home of the Thylacine. Tasmania does have a fauna distinct fauna that of the mainland of Australia. However, it may be that something similar, or filling a similar niche could have evolved on the mainland. Or humans may have introduced them to the mainland.
This is an incredable long shot, obviously. But it would not be the first time that an animal thought to be extinct was discovered alive outside of what its native ranged was believed to be. If it was a new, large marsupial this would be truly exciting.
All we have here are opossums.
What happens when you leave the parking lot?
For the metric challenged 20 kmph is about 12 mph.
Somebody else can supply the furlongs per fortnight.
I suspect that they found out that they were "unsecured creditors" when PanAm went belly up, and got nothing.
A less likely alternative would be that somebody bought their contracts at the liquidation sale. I doubt this would happen.
Also, the prefixes are a result of international agreement. Before the agreement hams had calls like 3FG. The holder of 3FG became W3FG afterwards. This implies WARC or its predecessor(s) sat down and devided up the alphabet. Presumably countries had some influance over what they got, so we can assume the US wanted A, K, N and W for some reason.
Some of the others sort of make sense, G for Great Britan. F for france. Canada gets only some of C.
As somebody with a WD call, I think WD has a nice sound to it. dit-dah-dah, dah-dit-dit. They obviously had me in mind.
/.ers seem to know a bit of Morse.
hi.
I'm also amazed from time to time how many
As well as K and W the US also gets N and some of the possibilities starting with A. N and A just don't get used for comercial broadcast stations.
I've always wondered if US aircraft tail numbers starting with N have somthing to do with using tail numbers for radio call signs.
You forgot the check off list of why this won't solve the SPAM problem.
A three foot ballon has nine times the lift of a one foot balloon. A one meter balloon has nine times the lift of a 33cm balloon in the rest of the world.
A typical party ballon is about 10 inches. An 8 foot weather ballon would have almost the same lift as 9.6**3 = 885 of those 10 inch balloons, and weigh a lot less.
Sometimes felix is substituted for felix, but this draws protests.
felis silvestris sounds like it can't decide which cartoon it is in.
Is this like the brontosaurus/apotosaurous business?
That makes more sense than how I read it. I thought it was a ROT by a generalized value. I just wondered why they called it ROTK instead of ROTn.
I was looking at a similar situation a while ago. All advertisements were for experienced applicants. I wasn't an experianced applicant. My father gave me some good advice, reply to each advertisement anyway. You are hoping for one of two circumstances. They may not bother advertising the entry level positions. They may not get what they are asking for and settle for you.
It worked for me. 200+ resumes, about 5 interviews, one job.
Mac os, as far back as 6, the oldest I've had contact with, had single, double and long mouse clicks. To change the label on a desktop icon you would click and hold on it long enough for the OS to recognize that it wasn't a single click. I always thought that this was a poor substitute for having a right mouse button.
Unfortunatly this suggests that we shouldn't be so worked up about one little band in a big sea of bandwidth.
To legitamate users of the bands it is much like saying that given the bazillion acres of realestate in the U.S. you shouldn't get so worked up if the quarter acre your house sits on should get "reallocated".
Slackware 9.1 works for me. It doesn't include a 2.6.x kernel, but a kernel compiled from unmodified kernel.org sources works.
Slackware isn't fancy, but it generaly works.
Checking some dates, that is about three years after the official publication of DES as a standardard. I suppose it was publicly available for comment for some time before that.
I was obviously confusing post-publication controversy with pre-publication controversy.
1979 is about when I was starting to use Version 7.
It is a much more astounding wrongness to wrongly accuse another of astounding wrongness.
/etc/passwd predates the publication of DES by a number of years. It would have been impossible for the password hash to have always used DES.
/etc/passwd hash, but I cannot state that with certainty at this late date. What is certain is that it wasn't DES.
UNIX, and by implecation the encryption of passwords in
I was actualy USING Unix version 7 when the adoption of DES as a standard was being debated. My Version 7 UNIX manuals (all two volumes) are boxed away somewhere. I recall a warning in the manual about the enigma based crypt having known weakness. My understanding was that this same algorithm was used for the
Odd thing, I could only understand this by di-dahing quietly under my breath.
When I was first learning code (mid 1970's) I had an ARRL practice tape. It introduced a few letters, had some practice, introduced some more letters etc.
My father had been a US Navy communications officer in WWII, but left radio behind at the end of the war. He went straight thru the tape making extremly minimal errors. He was doing better after 30 years of not practicing than I was doing after hours of practicing.
Some people are impressed by their parents.
DE WD4OMI
It helps Sun by letting them get their foot in your door by letting you get your feet wet.
Sun needs an entry level system to get users that may graduate to enterprise SPARC systems to get started with Sun.
Sun's situation without Solaris x86 would be much like Apple's situation before the introduction of the I-Macs. All of Apple's systems were quite good and quite expensive. All of Sun's systems are quite good and quite expensive. Apple did and Sun does have a fiercly loyal and satisfied customer base being erroded thru attrition. Few new customers translates into slow death. Introduction of the I-Mac gave apple a shot in the arm. A viable Solaris x86 could help Sun the same way.
Unfortunatly I don't think Solaris x86 is quite enough like Solaris SPARC to fill this role for Sun. I also think it isn't a good enough product to encourage users that do try it to consider graduating to the SPARC product.
Where I work we have a handfull of smart people tearing their hair out trying to migrate some of our systems from Linux to Solaris x86 to satisfy our management. Our own applications seem to run (so far as we can tell) but the OS install for our production hardware environment (Proliant servers with Qlogic fiberchannel connection to a SAN the only disk on the system) has so far been impossible.
There have been several now.
Looks bad? Think about it.
Each one I've heard of has been detected, corrected and publicised within hours. We don't know about any that haven't been found, of course, but I haven't known of one that went undetected for even a day. If it was easy to slip in a deliberate security hole that escaped initial detection we would hear about holes that were detected only after months or more.
This has been a test of the proposition that all those eyeballs don't realy improve security because most don't realy read the source. The proposition has failed.
All those eyeballs make for an almost certanty that at least one will take a critical look.
That is all it takes.
Usage probably varies with locale and time, but where I come from using knot as a unit of distance earns the same sort of look as "knots per hour" for velocity.
We just tend to say mile and assume you know which one we are talking about this time.
as
but that is just a matter of taste.
Which explains the how - but not the why.
RPN does the calculation the way YOU would do it by hand, from the inside out. You get the intermediate results handy for inspection. If you actualy understand the formula this can help prevent gross errors. You can also do some realy complicated calculations without stopping to write down the formula first.
What does this have to do with identifing folks by smell?
The Mac OS actualy has clicks, double clicks, long clicks and mouse clicks while holding keyboard shift keys. At least this was true in 7.5.5, the most recent version that still boots around here. I'd rather have a three button mouse.
I am not talking about some crappy app that ignores interface conventions -- I'm talking about the finder itself.
I got an old Mac and a bunch of games late just so the kids could learn that not every computer is a PC. It had the interesting side effect that I had to learn about Macs myself.
One of the first things I learned was that the user interface isn't exactly intuitive, just easy to learn. I'm still getting used to the idea of a single menu bar accross the top of the screen that changes with keyboard/mouse focus.
Bacteria, actualy.
Antibiotics don't work against a virus.
The PC-cillin folks chose a dumb name for an anti-virus product.