Aruba lied to a customer calling "power loss" a police action to acquire all data contained in the harddisks of the AUT/INV collective,
reads, to me, that they had a "power loss" and when people called to complain they were told the "power loss" was really a police action to acquire all data contained in the harddisks of the AUT/INV collective, when in fact it was a "power loss." At least, that's how it reads to me.
Maybe they meant that the citizens have lost all power over the Police.
Look, you play how you like, I'll play how I like. I shoot at humans all the time in Halo 1 -- especially my wife! Damn nephew always gets me with the sniper rifle.
Really, you're probably right, it's been a while since I played it last, I just remember that it's not something I want my boy to play right now. If it's because I mistakenly think you shoot marines or because I don't like the color of the box, it's my business. That's what parental control is all about.
Exactly. We let our 8 year old play Halo -- occasionally, with our supervision. We won't let him play Halo 2 no matter how he begs, because you play as Covenent and shoot at humans, and we don't think he's ready for that. Let him play Halo last year? Not on your life! He wasn't ready then.
Maybe when he's 10 we'll let him have Halo whenever he wants, and Halo 2 when we're around. As parents, that's our responsibility. Not the government's, not the shopkeeper's, and not yours. You don't tell me how to raise my kids and I won't tell you how to raise yours. If the parent is there, let the kid have the game. For all you know it's a present for his older brother.
I feel the reasonable ground is a shade of grey and lies somewhere in the middle between black and white.
You're not from around here, are you? Look, not to intrude, but isn't it a bit, uh, uncomfortable sitting there on that fence? You'd be much better off on the ground -- on either side, take your pick: over there with the heathens from hell or here with us righteous saved bretheren.
somebody should just take one of the open source kernels, preferably a modular one, and add support for the.NET, Win32 and POSIX APIs to it, do a kickass no-bloat GUI
Yeah, and nowhere here do I see Rossi's reason for not appealing to the Washington State Supreme Court: He said, "Due to the political makeup of the Supreme Court, we are unlikely to win" (not an exact quote, but close). Great way to end the campaign (seven months later) -- by insulting the Supreme Court. What a true Republican! Blame "activist judges"!
The good news for Republican's is that Gregoire ("that bitch") knows she's Governor of a divided state, and she'll lead accordingly, respecting both sides of the issues. Rossi, being a Repubican, would have lead like Bush, as if he had a "mandate" to do as he damn well pleased. Look at the Repubican's recent actions, locally and nationally, and you'll see a group of people to truely believe that Democracy is all about "majority rules" and has nothing to do with "minority rights". Hell, you see this pattern with Republicans going back to the Nixon days, maybe before (I frankly wasn't paying much attention before Nixon).
Look at how much money Enron was making before they got greedy and started to lie, cheat, and steal. I'd gladly live on 1/10th of what Ken Lay made back in the days before he led Enron to distruction. Why on Earth did he think he needed more money so badly that he had to break the law to get it? Greed, pure and simple. Greed can never be satisfied, and look what it got him in the long run. There are countless cases like his. The poster was talking about this amount of money, not "enough to avoid starvation, infection, etc." Everyone deserves enough to survive, everyone should have the opportunity to earn enough to be comfortable, but how many private jets does one person need? And if number 4 didn't make you happy, why do you think number 5 will be any different?
Transform the output of any psudo-random noise generator into a stream of 8 bit bytes. If a byte is between 0 and 127, call it "heads"; if it's between 128 and 255, call it "tails". Run that stream of "heads" and "tails" through your protocol and I think you've got a true random number generator. It's essentially a filter for a psudo-random number generator that removes the non-random bits, leaving the truly random bits. The cost is that at best, with a truly random input, it takes 32 input bits to get one output bit.
IANAM (I am not a mathematician), but I believe this may be a true random noise generator. I can't be the first person to think of this. What's wrong with this proposal? What am I overlooking?
Read the post immediately above yours. If you can feed your application with random data stored on a file, then you can use a cheap but slow RNG if you buffer it's output via a simple (but huge) data file. If you go this route, then you can cut the time in half by adding another cheap but slow RNG. Halve the time and double the cost recursively until you run out of money or reach a reasonable time. The side effect of this is that you also get twice the files at half the size, which could allow you to spread the data across multiple partitions or even machines, possibly saving data storage costs. Stitch the files together at run time.
Name some. I've used UNIX workstations from Apollo, HP, IBM, Sun, and SGI. They all had proprietary compilers, not GCC. I know because our code had to compile on all of them.
Are you really claiming that the chip manufacturers are the ones who port GCC to the latest CPUs? How many times has Intel ported GCC? AMD? Anyone?
More to the point, do you seriously think that if your scenario played out the BSD folks could not port their compiler to the new CPU as easily as the GCC folks port thiers today?
If I changed my keyboard mapping (with our without painting over the keys) I'd become one of those monkees banging out random Shakespear sonets.
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Just picture a bunch of little BSD Daemon guys killing Stallman
Hey! That's my "happy place"! I saw it first! Thanks for blabbing about it on Slashdot. Now everyone will want to go there, it'll get all crowded, then I'll have to find some other place to go in the middle of meetings...
If you release it at $200, everyone will buy it for $200, including the folks who would have paid $500. So you relase it at $500, then when sales drop you figure you've tapped that market and you lower the pricepoint to get all those willing to pay $400. Then when sales dip you reach out to all those willing to pay $300. It's only after you've sucked those dudes dry that you lower the price to $200. Even if your cost to make it was $100 all along. Especially if your cost to make it was $100 all along.
None of it, but that doesn't matter. Under CAN-SPAM, as a regular citizen I'm not allowed to do anything to stop this spam. Only my ISP can complain about it; the US Government simply does not care if your or I are flooded with spam, they only care if Microsoft or Comcast or AOL are hurt by it.
Oddly enough, they're not. For them, spam is a cost of doing business. As email volume rises, add more servers. Who cares if the reason for that volume is spam? Volume is volume. As costs rise, you raise prices -- retaining your profit margin, of course. Say it costs you $25/month to provide Internet connectivity and you charge $50, then if spam raises your costs to $30/month you get to raise your rates to $60. Thanks to spam, your profit just went from $25/month/customer to $30/month/customer. With a racket like this, the ISPs are going to complain about spam? Hell, I'll bet they finance it. Is it any coincidence that the number one enabler of spam -- Microsoft's endless security flaws -- is provided by a company that aims to be the #1 ISP? I think not. (not that I'm claiming they're this clever; I'm claiming they take advantage of anything, including their own mistakes) MSFT is only now giving lip service to spam because they're getting angry customer feedback (and when I say "customer" I of course mean Dell and HP, not you or me). Billg claims Longhorn will eliminate spam and spywear and trojans and zombie spambots and all the rest. Just like he claimed XP made the BSoD a thing of the past.
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Maybe they meant that the citizens have lost all power over the Police.
Really, you're probably right, it's been a while since I played it last, I just remember that it's not something I want my boy to play right now. If it's because I mistakenly think you shoot marines or because I don't like the color of the box, it's my business. That's what parental control is all about.
OK, that's weird. Why the big gap between my last line and the sig?
Maybe when he's 10 we'll let him have Halo whenever he wants, and Halo 2 when we're around. As parents, that's our responsibility. Not the government's, not the shopkeeper's, and not yours. You don't tell me how to raise my kids and I won't tell you how to raise yours. If the parent is there, let the kid have the game. For all you know it's a present for his older brother.
They sure act like they do.
The good news for Republican's is that Gregoire ("that bitch") knows she's Governor of a divided state, and she'll lead accordingly, respecting both sides of the issues. Rossi, being a Repubican, would have lead like Bush, as if he had a "mandate" to do as he damn well pleased. Look at the Repubican's recent actions, locally and nationally, and you'll see a group of people to truely believe that Democracy is all about "majority rules" and has nothing to do with "minority rights". Hell, you see this pattern with Republicans going back to the Nixon days, maybe before (I frankly wasn't paying much attention before Nixon).
Look at how much money Enron was making before they got greedy and started to lie, cheat, and steal. I'd gladly live on 1/10th of what Ken Lay made back in the days before he led Enron to distruction. Why on Earth did he think he needed more money so badly that he had to break the law to get it? Greed, pure and simple. Greed can never be satisfied, and look what it got him in the long run. There are countless cases like his. The poster was talking about this amount of money, not "enough to avoid starvation, infection, etc." Everyone deserves enough to survive, everyone should have the opportunity to earn enough to be comfortable, but how many private jets does one person need? And if number 4 didn't make you happy, why do you think number 5 will be any different?
How many buttons does your mouse have? With an upper limit of infinity, I'd say your mouse needs at least 10k buttons to be really cool.
If the trackball you found is for a Mac and has two buttons, what's the second button for? Isn't that confusing?
Nevermind. It didn't take long to figure out where I made my mistake, but it took longer than it took me to post the above nonsense. Sorry.
Transform the output of any psudo-random noise generator into a stream of 8 bit bytes. If a byte is between 0 and 127, call it "heads"; if it's between 128 and 255, call it "tails". Run that stream of "heads" and "tails" through your protocol and I think you've got a true random number generator. It's essentially a filter for a psudo-random number generator that removes the non-random bits, leaving the truly random bits. The cost is that at best, with a truly random input, it takes 32 input bits to get one output bit.
IANAM (I am not a mathematician), but I believe this may be a true random noise generator. I can't be the first person to think of this. What's wrong with this proposal? What am I overlooking?
Read the post immediately above yours. If you can feed your application with random data stored on a file, then you can use a cheap but slow RNG if you buffer it's output via a simple (but huge) data file. If you go this route, then you can cut the time in half by adding another cheap but slow RNG. Halve the time and double the cost recursively until you run out of money or reach a reasonable time. The side effect of this is that you also get twice the files at half the size, which could allow you to spread the data across multiple partitions or even machines, possibly saving data storage costs. Stitch the files together at run time.
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
There you go, no charge. You wanna see the other half?
God, I love Meta Moderation. Payback's a bitch.
More to the point, do you seriously think that if your scenario played out the BSD folks could not port their compiler to the new CPU as easily as the GCC folks port thiers today?
If I changed my keyboard mapping (with our without painting over the keys) I'd become one of those monkees banging out random Shakespear sonets.
I've often said we should start by writing a User's Guide for each application we create, not a Requirements Document.
If you release it at $200, everyone will buy it for $200, including the folks who would have paid $500. So you relase it at $500, then when sales drop you figure you've tapped that market and you lower the pricepoint to get all those willing to pay $400. Then when sales dip you reach out to all those willing to pay $300. It's only after you've sucked those dudes dry that you lower the price to $200. Even if your cost to make it was $100 all along. Especially if your cost to make it was $100 all along.
Oddly enough, they're not. For them, spam is a cost of doing business. As email volume rises, add more servers. Who cares if the reason for that volume is spam? Volume is volume. As costs rise, you raise prices -- retaining your profit margin, of course. Say it costs you $25/month to provide Internet connectivity and you charge $50, then if spam raises your costs to $30/month you get to raise your rates to $60. Thanks to spam, your profit just went from $25/month/customer to $30/month/customer. With a racket like this, the ISPs are going to complain about spam? Hell, I'll bet they finance it. Is it any coincidence that the number one enabler of spam -- Microsoft's endless security flaws -- is provided by a company that aims to be the #1 ISP? I think not. (not that I'm claiming they're this clever; I'm claiming they take advantage of anything, including their own mistakes) MSFT is only now giving lip service to spam because they're getting angry customer feedback (and when I say "customer" I of course mean Dell and HP, not you or me). Billg claims Longhorn will eliminate spam and spywear and trojans and zombie spambots and all the rest. Just like he claimed XP made the BSoD a thing of the past.