When the government is breaking its own laws on a daily basis, keeping that fact immediately in front of a readership is the definion of substantive, in my opinion. We have a constutional freedom of the press specifically for that capability. Our constitution doesn't guarantee that freedom so that Slashdot can post the next dupe or anti-Microsoft story, but rather so people can, and hopefully will, keep repeating the governments transgressions over and over ad nauseum.
What this story is talking about is beuracratic nonsense... its the absolute right thing to do.
The only way we'll ever compete, or advance beyond the 70's in space technology, is to kill the shuttle and space station once and for all. Both were utter wastes of resources designed from the start to be nothing more than a civilian funding source for military research, then warped into corporate and international welfare programs with the fall of the cold war in the 80's.
The space station was never meant to be finished... it was meant to be as expensive and difficult to build as possible, to keep pumping billions into defense contractors, ensuring they were still around when the next big war came along.
It worked. Now our actions around the world more than support the funding of our defense contractors. Time to stop wasting money on the space station and put NASA's budget doing what it does best.
To be more generic, the reason we have so many web security compromises at all is because we have legions of web programmers who have never been taught how to write code.
90% of the friends I have who are web developers have no formal engineering training.
It shows. (No offense to any of them who may read this... but seriously, your code sucks.)
Lotteries are idiot taxes. The odds are so far against you, relative to potential payout, that its just throwing away your money.
However, lots of forms of gambling are not an individual being bad at math against the house which is better at math, its an individual against another individual, with the house just facilitating. They're chess, not the roll of the dice.
There are also a number of "person vs house" table games where the odds are so narrowly in the houses favor that one can pretty easily win in the very short term, if you follow very strict rules when to stop, or in the long term. Those games work for the casino because 99% of the people who play them don't play them well.
Back in the 80's and early 90's I was doing a lot of programming using Modula-2 as well. (To be honest, I still miss the language to this day... I wish I knew why it never took off the way it seemed it should've). One interesting feature the compiler/IDE system I was using at the time (TopSpeed's) had was this concept that all their language compilers (M2, C, C++, etc) all compiled into an intermediate binary form, and their final compiler did very heavy optimizations on that "byte code".
It always tended to crank out really bizarre code, but usually at least as good as I could've hand-optimized directly in assembly.
You assume the odds are the people he hit are smart.
Try driving around Boston for a couple days. You could grab your nano at 90 and wipe out ten other cars and likely not hit someone who isn't also driving like an idiot!
Mopar (Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep/etc) has a system that gives iPod control to most of their vehicle's radios over the last five or so years.
The problem is, it doesn't work. They claim it works with all Dock iPods, and explicitly list all of them, but it just plain doesn't work with any 3G iPods. The radio comes up and says to update the firmware on the iPod. Of course 3G iPods haven't gotten any updates in a LONG time.
My girlfriends Mini (4G?) works with it... sort of. Only half the albums, artists or playlists show up... even if those songs play just fine in a playlist that references them.
It remains to be seen if later iPods actually work as advertised. The problem is, these products are not well supported (or supported at all). An iPod cable is a different beast from most car accessories or features. A quick search through various car support forums makes it sound like the problem is pretty common -- these non-Apple integrations sometimes work great, sometimes work some, and sometimes just don't work.
First generation Porsche 911 with a race configuration engine running a little on the rich side and a power curve that necessitates keeping it above 4500rpm. 10mpg is optimistic... thats when I'm just putzing around.
Or maybe they could just run a data center off DC power supplies.
You know, make energy efficient hardware. Like the article said.
Virtualization doesn't impact your energy usage per CPU cycle at all, you just reduce the number of servers if you weren't efficiently using them to begin with.
2) You should've downloaded and tried the Vista beta before commenting on what they've done and not done.
Hint: an awful lot of software will not run on it. Many of those that don't can be run in a "compatibility" sandbox, which is pretty isolated from the system.
VMWare + Citrix presents an interesting new way of looking at providing remote access, but IMO it hooks VMWare's very strong wagon to Citrix' aging horse. IT Administrators tend to like Citrix because it gives them an easy way of centrally managing their remote users, but non-LAN-connected users hate Citrix because of the reduced graphics quality and poor performance over slow links.
There are some other interesting solutions out there that use virtualization concepts to provide better end user experiences. (Thats not my site, or anyone I know, in case anyone thinks I'm trying to boost my blog -- I have no idea who it is, I just ran across that the other day).
Yeah I'm sure thats exactly what both companies are thinking.
*rolls eyes*
Here's a tip about the real world: If you take off the Slashdot blinders, the fact most people have never heard of open source, most people don't care about open source, and companies tend to have better motives for multibillion dollar investments than killing free software.
But feeding the Slashbot sheeple (to use your term) is a good way to get modded up, just as calling someone on it is a good way to get modded down.
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D'OH
I totally missed that. Force of habit.
When the government is breaking its own laws on a daily basis, keeping that fact immediately in front of a readership is the definion of substantive, in my opinion. We have a constutional freedom of the press specifically for that capability. Our constitution doesn't guarantee that freedom so that Slashdot can post the next dupe or anti-Microsoft story, but rather so people can, and hopefully will, keep repeating the governments transgressions over and over ad nauseum.
What this story is talking about is beuracratic nonsense... its the absolute right thing to do.
The only way we'll ever compete, or advance beyond the 70's in space technology, is to kill the shuttle and space station once and for all. Both were utter wastes of resources designed from the start to be nothing more than a civilian funding source for military research, then warped into corporate and international welfare programs with the fall of the cold war in the 80's.
The space station was never meant to be finished... it was meant to be as expensive and difficult to build as possible, to keep pumping billions into defense contractors, ensuring they were still around when the next big war came along.
It worked. Now our actions around the world more than support the funding of our defense contractors. Time to stop wasting money on the space station and put NASA's budget doing what it does best.
Weird, you sure it was RLL and not MFM?
The smallest RLL I remember seeing was 30. (20 gig MFM drive with an RLL controller made it 30)
Interesting...
They dropped pants and gave him a Cleveland Steamer?
Oh, you just mean they said no to his motion?
Oh well. One could have hoped...
They may be giving the count of cells, not the count of batteries.
Most laptops have 4-6 lithium ion cells in the battery.
Probably a metric conversion error. 7,457 metric crimes committed... thats 22,000 foot crimes.
To be more generic, the reason we have so many web security compromises at all is because we have legions of web programmers who have never been taught how to write code.
90% of the friends I have who are web developers have no formal engineering training.
It shows. (No offense to any of them who may read this... but seriously, your code sucks.)
I managed to lose my 2gb USB dongle within a few days of buying it a couple months ago...
I can't imagine how quickly I'd lose one of those!
Lotteries are idiot taxes. The odds are so far against you, relative to potential payout, that its just throwing away your money.
However, lots of forms of gambling are not an individual being bad at math against the house which is better at math, its an individual against another individual, with the house just facilitating. They're chess, not the roll of the dice.
There are also a number of "person vs house" table games where the odds are so narrowly in the houses favor that one can pretty easily win in the very short term, if you follow very strict rules when to stop, or in the long term. Those games work for the casino because 99% of the people who play them don't play them well.
I'm not sure "constitutional" really matters much here anymore.
Back in the 80's and early 90's I was doing a lot of programming using Modula-2 as well. (To be honest, I still miss the language to this day... I wish I knew why it never took off the way it seemed it should've). One interesting feature the compiler/IDE system I was using at the time (TopSpeed's) had was this concept that all their language compilers (M2, C, C++, etc) all compiled into an intermediate binary form, and their final compiler did very heavy optimizations on that "byte code".
It always tended to crank out really bizarre code, but usually at least as good as I could've hand-optimized directly in assembly.
I wonder what ever happened to them...
You assume the odds are the people he hit are smart.
Try driving around Boston for a couple days. You could grab your nano at 90 and wipe out ten other cars and likely not hit someone who isn't also driving like an idiot!
Mopar (Dodge/Chrysler/Jeep/etc) has a system that gives iPod control to most of their vehicle's radios over the last five or so years.
The problem is, it doesn't work. They claim it works with all Dock iPods, and explicitly list all of them, but it just plain doesn't work with any 3G iPods. The radio comes up and says to update the firmware on the iPod. Of course 3G iPods haven't gotten any updates in a LONG time.
My girlfriends Mini (4G?) works with it... sort of. Only half the albums, artists or playlists show up... even if those songs play just fine in a playlist that references them.
It remains to be seen if later iPods actually work as advertised. The problem is, these products are not well supported (or supported at all). An iPod cable is a different beast from most car accessories or features. A quick search through various car support forums makes it sound like the problem is pretty common -- these non-Apple integrations sometimes work great, sometimes work some, and sometimes just don't work.
Caveat Emptor.
First generation Porsche 911 with a race configuration engine running a little on the rich side and a power curve that necessitates keeping it above 4500rpm. 10mpg is optimistic... thats when I'm just putzing around.
Cost me $10 to drive to work today.
And was SO worth it.
Thankfully Isrealis, Palestinians, and Lebanese don't tend to fly migratory patterns that cross New Hampshire.
Mass pandemic scares me more than $100 oil, even with a 10mpg car and a 15mpg truck.
Barely, though. I had to fill the car up this morning!
Or maybe they could just run a data center off DC power supplies.
You know, make energy efficient hardware. Like the article said.
Virtualization doesn't impact your energy usage per CPU cycle at all, you just reduce the number of servers if you weren't efficiently using them to begin with.
I suppose thats better than Scullying around.
Um.
Go install it and try it. You'll see what it does.
Every damn program that needs to do anything with any sort of escalated privlidges pops up a window. A window you CAN'T say "don't show again" to.
There's a lot under the covers that has changed as well. The whole security model is totally different.
Apparently, some of us have elevated levels of a cellular enzyme, monoamine oxidase A, and are more in need of stimulation from new things.
I keep telling my girlfriend that, but she just won't go for it.
1) Carriage return is your friend
2) You should've downloaded and tried the Vista beta before commenting on what they've done and not done.
Hint: an awful lot of software will not run on it. Many of those that don't can be run in a "compatibility" sandbox, which is pretty isolated from the system.
VMWare + Citrix presents an interesting new way of looking at providing remote access, but IMO it hooks VMWare's very strong wagon to Citrix' aging horse. IT Administrators tend to like Citrix because it gives them an easy way of centrally managing their remote users, but non-LAN-connected users hate Citrix because of the reduced graphics quality and poor performance over slow links.
There are some other interesting solutions out there that use virtualization concepts to provide better end user experiences. (Thats not my site, or anyone I know, in case anyone thinks I'm trying to boost my blog -- I have no idea who it is, I just ran across that the other day).
Anyway, its an interesting concept...
*calming voice*
Sssshhhh... Its okay. This is Slashdot. Your sarsasm, while funny, is misplaced.
Here drink this kool aid. You'll understand.
Shhhhh... it'll all be clear soon.
Thats funny, after reading the article I thought:
Gee, there's good looking ladies in Physics.
But thats just because I read physics articles mostly for the pictures.
Yeah I'm sure thats exactly what both companies are thinking.
*rolls eyes*
Here's a tip about the real world: If you take off the Slashdot blinders, the fact most people have never heard of open source, most people don't care about open source, and companies tend to have better motives for multibillion dollar investments than killing free software.
But feeding the Slashbot sheeple (to use your term) is a good way to get modded up, just as calling someone on it is a good way to get modded down.
*takes a deep breath*