...is that it only dictates that you must eventually release the information.
Not to sound too much the paranoid alarmist, but of the documents that the CIA and others have destroyed, "don't exist", or were not released -- what do those say?
Until the Freedom of Information Act Part Now Redux states that all information must be archived (no more paper shredders and incinerators), we the Public will never know just what's going on.
PcPowerCooling.com has a few web pages to cycle through that does some power supply sizing. You pick what type of power supply, how big a case, how many CPUs, RAM, disks, and it suggests. And they sell some really good stuff.
And while I'm on the topic of selector web pages, APCC.Com also has some interesting selectors. UPS, Cable, surge, and other things.
The blunt truth of The Law is that it's The Law only if The Authorities catch you. Otherwise, you needn't change your modus operandi.
While it may be illegal in the local country to do what the U.S. has, and does, do, who will stand up to the U.S.? Or for that matter, what country will stand up to the bigger bully? (I'm lumping the French and their hidden trials and executions of terrorists in there, as well as the historical Brits, because modern Brits are much less imperialist lately.)
I mean that the rights granted in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and any subsequent ramblings of Congress and the Supremes, apply only to U.S. citizens. Since our CIA can, quite legally, kill anyone overseas that they wish, and they cannot kill any U.S. citizen that they want (at least not on U.S. soil), then there is definitely a double standard.
As everything gets more global, it's going to be interesting to see how the different countries deal with this issue. Since this showed up in the Your Rights Online section, I guess this means that Americans feel that Iranians don't have enough rights. I know that my British friends feel that the number of gun-related crimes here indicates that we have too many rights. However, given that their Bobbies are just starting to carry guns, and that they're just starting to get the "madman with a gun" crimes, I imagine public sentiment may shift. I think the whole British camera-surveillance thing is a bit much.
I think that V-chip TVs did finally hit the market. I don't know if all the programming that's being broadcast carries the necessary coding.
The real shame here is that the U.S. ever felt the need to interfere in Iranian politics. Given the number of countries that my country (America) has interfered with, I'm surprised that there haven't been widespread arrests and convictions of Federal employees. Of course, I'm cynical enough to beleive that Rights are the right of only U.S. citizens, and not of folks overseas, or of non-citizens on U.S. soil.
The fact that extremist governments must use dictatorial power to enforce order (Cuba, which is leftist, and Iran, which is conservative) shows just how much the average citizen of that country differs in opinion from their own government. If it were not for the stranglehold the Mullahs have on Iran now, I think the country would be about as liberal as Turkey, which is still not that liberal and open.
I do agree that it's a relatively new concept that the citizens of a country agree to give the government the right to rule. Many countries exist on the idea that someone (not you) rules. The question of liking it, or wanting to change it never culturally enters the argument.
As for moderating you up or down, I think your post deserves at least a one-point mod up. However, it's the decision of the/. authors to equate flamebait and trolls as "speech that must be squelched," hence the whole -1 to +5 moderation and filtering system. If you have issues, take it up with the./ royalty. *grin*
I mean, the thing is estimated to sell for 9000Rs, which is about $200 U.S. Considering the "minimum" wage in India is supposed to be around 2000Rs per month, and the actual wage people are paid is down around 1000Rs per month, then how the hell are they supposed to afford this?
It is impossible to seperate functional and expressive in all forms of communication.
Instructions on how to perform a task, be it setting up a stereo, or computer code in any form, are as expressive as the author intended it to be. A program that generates art (like a screen saver) expresses and conveys something to the audience in a manner that the programmer/artist intended. There is the continuum of emotion on one end, and functionality on the other, and all communication falls somewhere between the two extremes -- and never quite reaches either extreme.
Computer code is a merely another language. If I tell a joke in a foreign language, who gets the joke depends upon how well they understand that language. What the language is (Swahili, C, Python, Urdu) does not change the logical outcome. Someone who does not understand the language may not get the joke, but even without understanding the language, they can tell that something was conveyed; that something was expressed.
You've probably already got what you need, but Lotus Notes does non-relational DB stuff, and it looks good from the web. There's also a "rich text applet", which is a piece of Java, that allows you to do exactly what you're talking about. There's actually quite a few newspapers out there that use Notes for their web engine.
On the plus side of commercial software, the server part runs on Linux.
Few household appliances have external power supplies. The ones that do all draw very little power (radios, answering machines, ZIP drives).
I know PCs don't draw very much power, either, but if the power supply were external, you'd have to include special internal cables, a power socket (or two or three) on the case for these connectors, and some stylish, fancy case for the external power supply. All of which would drive up the cost of the machine $20 (which is a lot these days).
The real issue here is that Intel and the hardware manufacturers are deliberately picking case designs that require several fans to cool correctly. It's as if these engineers never heard of the word convection.
The answer? Buy a decent, quiet power supply, and some cooling fans. Note that pcpowercooling.com has a new cooling fan that includes a thermistor. The fan spins only fast enough to keep cool, so it actually spins slower, and quieter, most of the time.
Most people don't care if they're going deaf from that little whirring noise, and OSHA's rules don't apply to the home....
...and if trips to the loo are private, and if postal mail is private, and if DNA is private, and if credit records are private, and if naughty-illegal things you did as a teenager are private, then why, praytell, are emails not also private?
Try the Kensington Mouse-in-a-Box Optical Pro. Five buttons, plus a scroller. USB, with a PS/2 adapter.
Not ergonomic, but comfortably contoured, and perfectly symmetrical.
As a rightie, I'd like for there to be less stuff on the right. The cursor keys are to the right, the number pad, and my mouse. With the text keys centered on my monitor, my mouse is forced to be too far to the right. Anyone know of a good, ergo keyboard that ain't huge? Not a mini-keyboard, but a normal-sized-keys keyboard.
Distributing a binary that's a plug-in that provides licensed AIM support is what comes to mind right away. They hit a menu, the program asks for a credit card number, the plug-in is downloaded and installed in the correct location, and licensed AIM support is off and running. You could probably even compile in, realtime, the AIM name of the user that the plug-in was meant for. Then the plug-in can be shifted between multiple computers, but pirated less easily. (Note I didn't say it couldn't be pirated.)
My real point is, I think that the open-source brain trust is better used for creation and innovation, rather than licensing circumvention.:-)
Lotus's product, SameTime (http://www.lotus.com/sametime) legally connects to AIM servers because Lotus paid a licensing fee to AOL to allow it to happen. So far they've licensed just the chat module (no file transfer), but it's a start.
GAIM and Jabber could do the same. Free, unless you want to connect to an AIM server, then it's $5/year, or something like that. Then connections are legal, and the GAIM and Jabber teams don't have to spend time re-reverse engineering things every time AOL makes a change.
Payphones are mandatory. Digital cell phones in my home state have hit two cities, for a grand total of about 800 sq. miles of spotty coverage. Analog coverage is severly limited by the mountains. PCS isn't even on the map yet. Take a look at this map. All those grey areas are "no coverage."
Plus, strangely, the cell coverage goes out frequently. Some farmer in the Yakima Valley will plow through a fiber line, and suddenly Idaho and Montana are without cell phones. I'm not kidding. A month ago we lost cell coverage for four days because a backhoe in Ballard severed a fiber line. Sheesh.
I think I have a great idea of how to put Verisign out of business.
Why not just create one central authority (U.N. manages, so that there's at least the illusion of the U.S. not controlling it) that doles out words/numbers/character sequences to various groups, hereafter called a root domain, and analogous to the current.org,.com,.net root domains.
Each group that buys one of these word spaces can then sell namespace to anyone they want. In exchange for money, the root domain owners will maintain root servers for that root domain, and send information back the master root servers about who owns what word or character sequence (should you desire your domain to be named in binary, or code, or even be an encrypted string).
Thus VA Linux buys the rights to the.linux domain. They sell me the domain CluelessAbout.linux. When someone wants to hit my domain, it asks the U.N. root servers if.linux exists as a domain, and who owns it. The U.N. root server returns pointer to the VA Linux owned.linux root servers, who then answer the query.
This works nicely for multilingual domain names (and even non-ASCII), since we're after character sequences, and not Verisign-owned.com domains, and allows for some folks to own, say, the.CocaCola domain, but have no legitimate rights to CocaCola.Sucks, or even SnortSome.Coke.
Engage in the sort of meta-tagging and keyword placement that will keep your pages about their practices ranked higher in search engines than their own web site. Thus the public, when searching for that producer or product, will instead find your pages revealing all that the producer did not want revealed.
It's sort of the digital equivalent of an informational picket line.
I mean, if I can tell the difference between the two, then why couldn't the engine? Maybe grammar engine is the wrong phrase. Maybe "context engine" is more what I'm after.
I don't think it'd take full A.I. to do it. I think the guys like Systran who do translation are 80% of the way there. Their engines understand part of context.
We need filters that understand grammar, not just pathetic keyword filters.
If they existed, we'd all actually use them. Search results would be screened. Email would be screened (no more spam, or lame jokes from co-workers). The only part of the news you'd read is what interested you. No more advertising. Those little new nuggets that are hidden away on page 26 (or perhaps never printed) would instead be read.
It's the first, best step toward an intelligent agent that assists the user.
Good point, so I'll reword my statement
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I'm using discovery in the more modern meaning as a synonym for exploration, or the fruits thereof. The old meaning makes little distinction, and that has held true till today.
So, I'll reword my little saying:
"I can no more patent a comet than I can patent a genetic sequence. Neither is forged from the fires of the imagination."
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I mean, just because "they" say it's ultra-mega-secret, then how does anyone know unless an independent auditor comes snooping around?
Where the @#!! is Congressional Oversight in all this? Or is it an intentional oversight that Congress isn't overseeing it?
...is that it only dictates that you must eventually release the information.
Not to sound too much the paranoid alarmist, but of the documents that the CIA and others have destroyed, "don't exist", or were not released -- what do those say?
Until the Freedom of Information Act Part Now Redux states that all information must be archived (no more paper shredders and incinerators), we the Public will never know just what's going on.
PcPowerCooling.com has a few web pages to cycle through that does some power supply sizing. You pick what type of power supply, how big a case, how many CPUs, RAM, disks, and it suggests. And they sell some really good stuff.
And while I'm on the topic of selector web pages, APCC.Com also has some interesting selectors. UPS, Cable, surge, and other things.
The blunt truth of The Law is that it's The Law only if The Authorities catch you. Otherwise, you needn't change your modus operandi.
While it may be illegal in the local country to do what the U.S. has, and does, do, who will stand up to the U.S.? Or for that matter, what country will stand up to the bigger bully? (I'm lumping the French and their hidden trials and executions of terrorists in there, as well as the historical Brits, because modern Brits are much less imperialist lately.)
I mean that the rights granted in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and any subsequent ramblings of Congress and the Supremes, apply only to U.S. citizens. Since our CIA can, quite legally, kill anyone overseas that they wish, and they cannot kill any U.S. citizen that they want (at least not on U.S. soil), then there is definitely a double standard.
As everything gets more global, it's going to be interesting to see how the different countries deal with this issue. Since this showed up in the Your Rights Online section, I guess this means that Americans feel that Iranians don't have enough rights. I know that my British friends feel that the number of gun-related crimes here indicates that we have too many rights. However, given that their Bobbies are just starting to carry guns, and that they're just starting to get the "madman with a gun" crimes, I imagine public sentiment may shift. I think the whole British camera-surveillance thing is a bit much.
I think that V-chip TVs did finally hit the market. I don't know if all the programming that's being broadcast carries the necessary coding.
The real shame here is that the U.S. ever felt the need to interfere in Iranian politics. Given the number of countries that my country (America) has interfered with, I'm surprised that there haven't been widespread arrests and convictions of Federal employees. Of course, I'm cynical enough to beleive that Rights are the right of only U.S. citizens, and not of folks overseas, or of non-citizens on U.S. soil.
/. authors to equate flamebait and trolls as "speech that must be squelched," hence the whole -1 to +5 moderation and filtering system. If you have issues, take it up with the ./ royalty. *grin*
The fact that extremist governments must use dictatorial power to enforce order (Cuba, which is leftist, and Iran, which is conservative) shows just how much the average citizen of that country differs in opinion from their own government. If it were not for the stranglehold the Mullahs have on Iran now, I think the country would be about as liberal as Turkey, which is still not that liberal and open.
I do agree that it's a relatively new concept that the citizens of a country agree to give the government the right to rule. Many countries exist on the idea that someone (not you) rules. The question of liking it, or wanting to change it never culturally enters the argument.
As for moderating you up or down, I think your post deserves at least a one-point mod up. However, it's the decision of the
...so that we get an idea of what you're actually talking about.
I mean, the thing is estimated to sell for 9000Rs, which is about $200 U.S. Considering the "minimum" wage in India is supposed to be around 2000Rs per month, and the actual wage people are paid is down around 1000Rs per month, then how the hell are they supposed to afford this?
It is impossible to seperate functional and expressive in all forms of communication.
Instructions on how to perform a task, be it setting up a stereo, or computer code in any form, are as expressive as the author intended it to be. A program that generates art (like a screen saver) expresses and conveys something to the audience in a manner that the programmer/artist intended. There is the continuum of emotion on one end, and functionality on the other, and all communication falls somewhere between the two extremes -- and never quite reaches either extreme.
Computer code is a merely another language. If I tell a joke in a foreign language, who gets the joke depends upon how well they understand that language. What the language is (Swahili, C, Python, Urdu) does not change the logical outcome. Someone who does not understand the language may not get the joke, but even without understanding the language, they can tell that something was conveyed; that something was expressed.
Thus it is speech, and thus it is protected.
You've probably already got what you need, but Lotus Notes does non-relational DB stuff, and it looks good from the web. There's also a "rich text applet", which is a piece of Java, that allows you to do exactly what you're talking about. There's actually quite a few newspapers out there that use Notes for their web engine.
On the plus side of commercial software, the server part runs on Linux.
I know PCs don't draw very much power, either, but if the power supply were external, you'd have to include special internal cables, a power socket (or two or three) on the case for these connectors, and some stylish, fancy case for the external power supply. All of which would drive up the cost of the machine $20 (which is a lot these days).
The real issue here is that Intel and the hardware manufacturers are deliberately picking case designs that require several fans to cool correctly. It's as if these engineers never heard of the word convection.
The answer? Buy a decent, quiet power supply, and some cooling fans. Note that pcpowercooling.com has a new cooling fan that includes a thermistor. The fan spins only fast enough to keep cool, so it actually spins slower, and quieter, most of the time.
Most people don't care if they're going deaf from that little whirring noise, and OSHA's rules don't apply to the home....
...and if trips to the loo are private, and if postal mail is private, and if DNA is private, and if credit records are private, and if naughty-illegal things you did as a teenager are private, then why, praytell, are emails not also private?
The medium of the message matters not.
Try the Kensington Mouse-in-a-Box Optical Pro. Five buttons, plus a scroller. USB, with a PS/2 adapter.
Not ergonomic, but comfortably contoured, and perfectly symmetrical.
As a rightie, I'd like for there to be less stuff on the right. The cursor keys are to the right, the number pad, and my mouse. With the text keys centered on my monitor, my mouse is forced to be too far to the right. Anyone know of a good, ergo keyboard that ain't huge? Not a mini-keyboard, but a normal-sized-keys keyboard.
Quick, someone get a honeypot up in the .ru domain. Then we can all see exactly how the FBI hacks.
Distributing a binary that's a plug-in that provides licensed AIM support is what comes to mind right away. They hit a menu, the program asks for a credit card number, the plug-in is downloaded and installed in the correct location, and licensed AIM support is off and running. You could probably even compile in, realtime, the AIM name of the user that the plug-in was meant for. Then the plug-in can be shifted between multiple computers, but pirated less easily. (Note I didn't say it couldn't be pirated.)
:-)
My real point is, I think that the open-source brain trust is better used for creation and innovation, rather than licensing circumvention.
Lotus's product, SameTime (http://www.lotus.com/sametime) legally connects to AIM servers because Lotus paid a licensing fee to AOL to allow it to happen. So far they've licensed just the chat module (no file transfer), but it's a start.
GAIM and Jabber could do the same. Free, unless you want to connect to an AIM server, then it's $5/year, or something like that. Then connections are legal, and the GAIM and Jabber teams don't have to spend time re-reverse engineering things every time AOL makes a change.
Not very optimistic, are they?
Plus, strangely, the cell coverage goes out frequently. Some farmer in the Yakima Valley will plow through a fiber line, and suddenly Idaho and Montana are without cell phones. I'm not kidding. A month ago we lost cell coverage for four days because a backhoe in Ballard severed a fiber line. Sheesh.
I think I have a great idea of how to put Verisign out of business.
.org, .com, .net root domains.
.linux domain. They sell me the domain CluelessAbout.linux. When someone wants to hit my domain, it asks the U.N. root servers if .linux exists as a domain, and who owns it. The U.N. root server returns pointer to the VA Linux owned .linux root servers, who then answer the query.
.com domains, and allows for some folks to own, say, the .CocaCola domain, but have no legitimate rights to CocaCola.Sucks, or even SnortSome.Coke.
Why not just create one central authority (U.N. manages, so that there's at least the illusion of the U.S. not controlling it) that doles out words/numbers/character sequences to various groups, hereafter called a root domain, and analogous to the current
Each group that buys one of these word spaces can then sell namespace to anyone they want. In exchange for money, the root domain owners will maintain root servers for that root domain, and send information back the master root servers about who owns what word or character sequence (should you desire your domain to be named in binary, or code, or even be an encrypted string).
Thus VA Linux buys the rights to the
This works nicely for multilingual domain names (and even non-ASCII), since we're after character sequences, and not Verisign-owned
Engage in the sort of meta-tagging and keyword placement that will keep your pages about their practices ranked higher in search engines than their own web site. Thus the public, when searching for that producer or product, will instead find your pages revealing all that the producer did not want revealed.
It's sort of the digital equivalent of an informational picket line.
Not as bad as me with translation dictionary -- by a long shot. But I think it's pretty decent. It's not great on context, but it's close.
I mean, if I can tell the difference between the two, then why couldn't the engine? Maybe grammar engine is the wrong phrase. Maybe "context engine" is more what I'm after.
I don't think it'd take full A.I. to do it. I think the guys like Systran who do translation are 80% of the way there. Their engines understand part of context.
We need filters that understand grammar, not just pathetic keyword filters.
If they existed, we'd all actually use them. Search results would be screened. Email would be screened (no more spam, or lame jokes from co-workers). The only part of the news you'd read is what interested you. No more advertising. Those little new nuggets that are hidden away on page 26 (or perhaps never printed) would instead be read.
It's the first, best step toward an intelligent agent that assists the user.
I'm using discovery in the more modern meaning as a synonym for exploration, or the fruits thereof. The old meaning makes little distinction, and that has held true till today.
:-)
So, I'll reword my little saying:
"I can no more patent a comet than I can patent a genetic sequence. Neither is forged from the fires of the imagination."
Hope that one passes muster.
African, or European hamsters?