If you're going to use solar cells they should be out in the sunshine, not inside your backpack. A solar cell vest, perhaps, or maybe cover the outside of the backpack.
Powered by the sun, but we'll stuff it in the darkest place we have -- brilliant!
I have to disagree. I bought my first Linux book years ago, long before billg even heard of it. Also, I use OpenBSD as my firewall, and while I'm an experienced Unix user I'm by no means a seasoned admin. I'm a computing professional and I'd never claim admin skills when applying for a job, yet here I am running an OpenBSD firewall. I need all the help I can get, and while the OpenBSD man pages are great, the Linux HowTos are where I turn for generic help -- an OpenBSD specific book would be a blessing.
You might consider touring places where they make things that are really big (commercial airplanes, locomotives) and things that are really small (semiconductors, watches). To see the bleeding-edge stuff you may need to visit universities.
Another location for really big stuff is strip mines; the Germans are big (pun intended) on really huge digging machines. Also, I believe the Chunnel between England and France has on display the equipment that drilled/dug it.
The ultimate, of course, would be a trip to the Space Station (at the moment it's both the largest and the smallest space station). More reachable is a trip to Biosphere 2, in Arizona.
I second that! This was going to be my recommendation, but drenehtsral beat me to it. So I'll nominate the obvious: The Kennedy Space Center. Another place you might stop, if you're in the area, is the Boeing Everett plant, the largest building in the world by volume.
I didn't see any instructions on how to compile it (then again, I didn't download it, so maybe the instructions are included). I doubt you can compile it with gcc; if it requires Microsoft's Visual Studio it would be cheaper to just buy PGP!
So, any idea if/when we'll see a *nix version, with source code the customer can compile on Linux, *BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc. etc.?
I agree. For a company that's marketing proprietary code (and as much as you may support Open or Free software, only RMS would claim there's something morally wrong with selling proprietary software), they are being very open and above-board about this.
It's only reasonable for them to require 30 days to fix any bugs you might find, lest their customer's secrets be compromised in the meantime. Would you buy PGP if you knew any loopholes would be revealed before they could be closed, potentially exposing the secrets you're buying it to protect?
I see your point, but since we don't get to moderate (or meta-moderate) Taco or Michael, then applying this rule to the readers is a double-standard. If we could moderate the Editors, I'd mark damn near every-other thing they write "Redundant." How many times do we need to hear the New York Times requires registration? They've even shortened it to "RRYYY" for "Registration Required, Yada, Yada, Yada" -- geeze, they can't even get their own hint!
The imperial system wouldn't be so strange if it was 10 inches to a foot, but it's not.
12 inches to a foot isn't strange at all. It's three barlycorns to an inch, and one foot is 1/10th the length of the right feet of the first ten men out of church on Sunday; thus it works out, more or less (depending on who cuts out early and who stays for coffee on any given Sunday) to 12 inches per foot.
It's all quite simple, really. Just because the French can't understand it is no reason for us to abandon a perfectly good system of measurement.
I disagree. When I meta-moderate a -1 Redundant, I always look at the story to see if any earlier posts raised similar points. You'd be amazed how many un-deserving Redundants are handed out. I consider the first "First Post" non-redundant (although, as I said, an Off-Topic or Troll is quite appropriate); any following "First Post"s could be fairly moderated Redundant. Maybe I'm a stickler, but I meta-moderate them as I see them.
My wife works for the Evile Beastie, and occasionally she has to work from home. They use a flavor of VPN that won't work with NAT, so she has to bypass our OpenBSD firewall/router/NAT-box/whatever-you-want-to-call- it and connect directly to our ISP. Naturally, her corporate laptop uses XP. I keep waiting for the day she gets hacked, but so far she's been lucky.
When you create an account, instead of just being an anonymous coward, you get to set what are called "preferences" which allow you to hide stuff you don't want to see. You can use these "preferences" to hide Ask Slashdot. Or Anonymous Cowards, for that matter.
Damn right this doesn't make sense. If it's optical, it's not a cell phone. Unless they're going to set up a network of optical cells -- and if so, how can the public leverage their investment and use this new cell network, because I'd love to switch carriers. Also, since optical is literally line-of-sight, these are gonna be damn tall cell towers!
I take the opposite position. Don't free the waves, lease them! Why do we give the airwaves away? OK, we don't give them away anymore, we sell them -- same thing, really. McCaw paid what people thought were obscene amounts of money for the cellular licenses, and it turns out he paid pennies on the dollar. Every year that passes we, the public, lose more on that deal because the cell companies OWN the licences outright. Why? Why didn't we LEASE those licenses? At first, when the technology's new, companies will bid less for the leases, but once the business is established you can bet competitors will bid up those leases and, in the long run, the public will get a decent return for the private use of their airwaves.
Microsoft? I thought this was RMS pushing his agenda.
Let's see: Darwin, so it's in the Apple section; OK, I get that. Darwin, so it's got the BSD icon; OK, I get that. Darwin, so it's released under the Apple-like BSD license (or is that the BSD-like Apple license?); WTF has this got to do with GNU?
I dropped Linux and switched to OpenBSD because I got sick and tired of people falling for the propaganda and saying I was running "GNU-Linux". Now this. What's next? "GNU-OS X"? If people start saying "GNU-OpenBSD" I'm switching back to Windows!
So by your logic, if I leave my door unlocked I should be sued by all the retail merchants in my area for depriving them of the opportunity to sell to the theves what they instead stole from me?
The only difference is if a thief enters my unlocked house and takes my VCR then I'm out a VCR; if a thief enters my unlocked C: drive and takes my MP3s I still have the MP3s.
Now, what if someone enters my unlocked C: drive and erases my MP3s (without copying them) -- am I still guilty by your reasoning, even though the only person harmed was me?
No this is not what Slashdot has wanted all along. What we have wanted all along is for them to bust people who are DOWNLOADING / possesiing songs they don't have the licence to; versus the simple act of posting a legal song.
Did you RTFA? They are going after the people who downloaded the files, not those who served them. The servers could be in a country with no copyright laws (and thus legal); they don't care about the servers, they're going after the downloaders. Hell, for all we know these clowns ran the servers (would that be entrapment?)
Of course, as others have pointed out: 1) These guys are not the copyright holders and thus have no standing to demand payment, and 2) They have no proof that these are illegal copies. But what do they care? If I wasn't encumbered with ethics, I might try this scam myself. Then again, if I wasn't encumbered with ethics I'd be spamming you all with ads to my porn sites.
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Powered by the sun, but we'll stuff it in the darkest place we have -- brilliant!
I have to disagree. I bought my first Linux book years ago, long before billg even heard of it. Also, I use OpenBSD as my firewall, and while I'm an experienced Unix user I'm by no means a seasoned admin. I'm a computing professional and I'd never claim admin skills when applying for a job, yet here I am running an OpenBSD firewall. I need all the help I can get, and while the OpenBSD man pages are great, the Linux HowTos are where I turn for generic help -- an OpenBSD specific book would be a blessing.
Another location for really big stuff is strip mines; the Germans are big (pun intended) on really huge digging machines. Also, I believe the Chunnel between England and France has on display the equipment that drilled/dug it.
The ultimate, of course, would be a trip to the Space Station (at the moment it's both the largest and the smallest space station). More reachable is a trip to Biosphere 2, in Arizona.
If you shift your exponents down one, you get ounces:
2^-1 : 0.5 oz = 1 mouthful
2^0 : 1 oz = 1 jigger
2^1 : 2 oz = 1 jack
2^2 : 4 oz = 1 gill/jill
2^3 : 8 oz = 1 cup
2^4 : 16 oz = 1 pint
2^5 : 32 oz = 1 quart
2^6 : 64 oz = 1 pottle
2^7 : 128 oz = 1 gallon
2^8 : 256 oz = 1 peck
2^9 : 512 oz = 1 pail
2^10 : 1024 oz = 1 bushel
2^11 : 2048 oz = 1 strike
2^12 : 4096 oz = 1 coomb
2^13 : 8192 oz = 1 cask
2^14 : 16384 oz = 1 barrel
2^15 : 32768 oz = 1 hogshead
2^16 : 65536 oz = 1 pipe
2^17 : 131072 oz = 1 tun
Gee, my computer has 4 kilo-pipes of RAM!
I've seen Moderators On Crack before, but whoever gave this a "+1 Informative" is just sick.
So, any idea if/when we'll see a *nix version, with source code the customer can compile on Linux, *BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc. etc.?
It's only reasonable for them to require 30 days to fix any bugs you might find, lest their customer's secrets be compromised in the meantime. Would you buy PGP if you knew any loopholes would be revealed before they could be closed, potentially exposing the secrets you're buying it to protect?
I wish Mr. Zimmerman success.
It's all quite simple, really. Just because the French can't understand it is no reason for us to abandon a perfectly good system of measurement.
I hope I get a shot at this one in M2.
Let's see: Darwin, so it's in the Apple section; OK, I get that. Darwin, so it's got the BSD icon; OK, I get that. Darwin, so it's released under the Apple-like BSD license (or is that the BSD-like Apple license?); WTF has this got to do with GNU?
I dropped Linux and switched to OpenBSD because I got sick and tired of people falling for the propaganda and saying I was running "GNU-Linux". Now this. What's next? "GNU-OS X"? If people start saying "GNU-OpenBSD" I'm switching back to Windows!
The only difference is if a thief enters my unlocked house and takes my VCR then I'm out a VCR; if a thief enters my unlocked C: drive and takes my MP3s I still have the MP3s.
Now, what if someone enters my unlocked C: drive and erases my MP3s (without copying them) -- am I still guilty by your reasoning, even though the only person harmed was me?
By that logic, if we stop referencing 9/11 then the terrorists have already won, and if they've already won then they'll stop attacking us, right?
Now, now, give the Editors a break. If that particular filter worked there'd be no need for "-1 Redundant."
Oh, you were using O'Hare as an example? Nevermind.
Of course, as others have pointed out: 1) These guys are not the copyright holders and thus have no standing to demand payment, and 2) They have no proof that these are illegal copies. But what do they care? If I wasn't encumbered with ethics, I might try this scam myself. Then again, if I wasn't encumbered with ethics I'd be spamming you all with ads to my porn sites.