These are patents on classified technology, which have very funky rules. Once a classified and patented item is declassified, the patent period begins, so whoever is the patent holder has an additional 17 years of pretty much a monopoly on this technology.
Believe me, the government makes sure that "those evil __________'s" don't get their hands on information they truly don't want to be widely known.
A lot of the technology behind the last time congress/the prez tried to cram crypto backdoors down our throat is unfortunately classified, but the basic way it would work is that each key would have its own identifier it shouts out in the process of sending packets back and forth. Upon court order (or not, if there are crooked lawmen), the mandatory escrow part, which is how most what modern crypto backdoor setups work, is used to get the private key and decrypt the message.
Steven Levy's excellent book "Crypto", which was reviewed here a few months back has the basic gist of the technology. As the technology is mired in classified work and patents, it's a minefield that will have to be carefully traversed
Unfortunately, your theory has a few flaws. The most glaring is the fact that although the US economy is chugging along at a very, very slow growth rate, it is still growing, thus, not in recession. Things were much, much worse economically under Jimmy Carter, or even the post cold war pararecession of Bush Sr. However, because of this attack, the US is almost guaranteed a recession for a couple of quarters before rebounding. Second, and probably more importantly, if it ever leaked out that the US government had any part in the attack, there'd be rioting so bad you'd probably be able to see the smoke up there in Canada.
Nice conspiracy theory, though. I give you 4 Art Bell's out of a possible 5.
Did I say I voted for Nader? No. Did I say we should force people to vote a certain way? No. All I said was that Democrats shouldn't blame Nader for the fact that Gore lost, that's all. If you've got a problem with the way someone voted, maybe you should ask yourself why they didn't like your candidate instead of blaming them for the defeat.
I think the real thing people are missing here is that something like this is a VERY big bug, a show stopper, yet it wasn't caught... why is that?
You'll have to ask the vendor. This was a vendor-supplied driver, not a generic driver in the distro (just checked, there is only an MCA madge token ring driver in the official kernel). Added to the fact that people with other token ring cards are running Linux just fine, this seems like this is much like most windows problems are claimed to be, just a bad vendor-supplied driver.
How should I have done this differently so that using Linux would have been a more positive experience for my company?"
The same way you test any new solution you're going to bring in to the company, slowly, under controlled circumstances. You sould have asked your boss for a loaner PC and token ring lobe (hope that's the right terminology for the technology) and made sure that your setup wouldn't screw up the network. For testing, try pure torture - try huge pings, small pings, flood pings, stack ssh sessions so they zip back and forth between the two machines a couple dozen times, just make sure that any failures happen where you don't have to incur the wrath of your co-workers.
Don't just throw things on a corporate network, 'cuz that's where trouble starts.
A vote for Nader was a vote for big business... maybe that should be his new slogan!
You wouldn't happen to be a male cow by any chance, 'cuz that was one of the biggest loads of bullshit I've ever seen unloaded. People voted for Nader because they felt he was the best candidate for the job. Most of the voters for Nader had principal, and were willing to stand behind that principal, instead of simply voting for the lesser of two evils.
The "two party system" myth that the media perpetuates is damaging to this country. Maybe if more people voted for the third party candidates, instead of simply voting for either Tweedle Dumb or Tweedle Dumber, we'd have a much more free society.
Reading your comments, and the responders gave me the perfect trial implementation for taco et al. They already set up one sort of testing/personal site (just checked the link, tacohell. Taco killed it when they upgraded slashdot to 2.2, why not set up another, call it wtcnews. Important true news stuff regarding the case can be brought to the front page for everyone to post to, and people who look for just the wtc information can go there, but updates, personal reactions, etc can take place on the subsite. As an added benefit, they could raise/lower thresholds so that more flexible moderations can take place, so that people could mod things up to eleven if they were so inclined.
It's because Mozilla is still not running builds with greater optimization (-O2) (reference). Once they finally get all of the bugs worked out so that they can go full steam, I'll bet you'll see a huge difference in the speed of the browser. Give 'em time. Mozilla is still beta, albeit in the very late stages of beta, so they're still getting everything working. I'll bet though that in the next month or two you'll see a huge speedup.
Just can't wait for it to finish downloading so that I can test it out..9.3 has a fairly significant memory leak that bites you on the ass after time; it gets me somewhat quickly the way I browse - opening most links as new windows. Other than that, it is for the most part rocking.
I woke up a few minutes late, took a shower, brushed my teeth, bushed my hair, threw on some clothes, pulled a frozen lunch out of the freezer, and looked at the clock. 6:01, wouldn't be late, no need to panic.
Went into my car, turned on the engine and started to pull away. Talk on the radio about a tower burning, a plane had crashed into it. Figured that it was a crash at an airport. At first I wondered why they weren't going to the normal morning talk show, probably because of the plane crash; I thought they'd stay with this story a little while, then move over to the normal news.
Suddenly, a voice full of panic and anxiety got on the radio. A second plane had crashed into the other tower at the World Trade Center. It hit me. Some asshole had decided to ram some planes and kill a lot of people. I listened in shock as I continued to work. Why the hell would someone want to do this?
I arrived to work to find, like eveyone else, eveyone there glued to teh TV, watching as the two magnificent towers smoldered. I was getting angry; there were innocent people in those towers, people who would never hurt a fly. Why are there such mean motherfuckers in the world?
My anger simered there as I worked, watching the news of what was going on at the same time. Suddenly, one of the towers collapsed. It brought me over the edge, I was cursing up a blue streak about the idiots who did this. A co-worker suggested I go outside, take a walk, get some fresh air, this was affecting me way too much.
The rational side of my mind agreed with that analysis and I went out for a walk, to allow my frustration to simmer down somewhat. I returned still angry and saddened at what happened, but in a much more rational state.
I proceeded to try to return to work, accomplishing a little before the news that the second tower had collapsed. By this point, I was angry, but I wasn't going to allow this to get to me any more than it already did.
Work continued. The tone in the office, which is normally fairly upbeat, was subdued and quiet. Everyone was in shock. Boss instructed to call the airline inquring about a flight for a business trip that was supposed to happen tomorrow. Probably cancelled at this point in time.
Driving home, everything seemed odd. Usually, the route I take to get home is fairly heavy with people, but this afternoon, it was incredibly light, about as light as it usually is when I leave in the morning. From the people I've talked to, the LA freeways are incredibly light, most people probably decided to use today as one of their personal days.
Sitting here right now, it seems eerie. I live right under the flight path of the Hawthorne Airport, and about a mile or two from LAX. With the grounding of all air traffic, everything seems too quiet. I've only lived in this apartment for about a week and a half, and it is already unusually silent, save the occasional car passing by.
Emotionally, I've still got that anger towards those who did this, may god use their souls as toilet paper. I also feel sorrow towards those who lost a loved one, a friend, a relative, or anyone close due to this attack. My thoughts are with all of you.
Latest I'm hearing is that they're already executing search warrents regarding this despicable act. I hope they find those responsible quickly, and that after a trial, are drawn and quartered
Go to your local hospital, tell them you've got a vein that they can tap. If they don't take donations there, they can tell you where to go to donate. But the most important thing is to donate.
Heard the same stuff. LAX area is all fscked up, just general shock, confusion, anger. Though the evacuations in many places aren't bad ideas, there's still a rumor of a missing plane as of ~9:45 PDT.
I'm just nervous because I live about a mile from LAX, it's gonna be chaos going home today.
May god have mercy on the souls of those who perished today, and may the assholes who did this be forced to suffer a slow, whithering, painful death.
Mod Parent Up. This looks like it has the reason why this technology that could be so promising is so crappy. They've got this thing as a simple binary thing - either shaking or not, when they should have this thing with varying degrees of vibration, plus varying amounts of difficulty in moving the ball - a very stiff, rough movement if you're moving over gravel, a very slick movement if your're going over ice, with several points in between.
Having 'tactile responsiveness' to this sort of thing I do would be a God-send for me, but I don't know how else it can be useful
3-d Games, for one, for another, you could put this in a drawing program so that when going over the drawing area, the mouse can't move as fast, thus giving you greater control. Then, there are the very evil things you could do, like putting this on certain beloved websites that shall remain nameless...
This is probably the first production (non-laboratory) use of this part. And if I were this guy's boss, I would commend him, as this is one of the uses of rapid prototyping equipment - building replacement parts on the fly.
Besides, this was a temporary fix. They didn't have any downtime while they waited for a replacement pulley to come in, so they figured what the hell. It was obvious from the article that this is a business that any downtime is a Bad Thing, so he may have saved the company thousands of dollars due to the fact that they were up while the part was down.
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You can have a stack trace and access to a debugger in assembly - even GDB can follow assembly instructions. Also, you have to remember that the earliest parts of the Linux operating system, back when it was Linus' toy to learn x86 assembly, had a different, yet still very useful way of debugging. He would set hard break points in the routine he was working on, and then running the resulting (ultra-primitive) operating system code. If it halted, he knew that it hit is infinite loop and that section worked. If it rebooted due to an exception being thrown, then he knew that there was something wrong with that section of code that he would have to investigate.
Assembly debugging may be harder, but when it does break, you sure know it. If you've been using it long enough, you can tell how it broke, and maybe even close to where it broke.
Forgot about that episode, great ethical dilema we may have to deal with in the future. What exactly do we do with modified beings if there are laws against such manipulation passed? Do we punish them with death just because their parents decide to modify their genes? Do we exile them to some future variety of a leper colony, forcing them to live out the rest of their days as an exile? IIRC, in that episode of the show, Bashir was to be kicked out of Star Fleet, although it was decided that he could stay, but who's to say that when we truly get to that point we'd be so lenient.
Though I'm fairly sure that if they did allow GEed humans, they'd ban all of the "fun" stuff - no tails, no fur, no androgyny, no fun at all.
It's not clear if this bunch are from the main mirror universe or a side-line mirror universe, as some of the suggestions from our man at Paramount seem to be that the time travellers are descendants of Khan-like warlords... heavily enhanced by genetic engineering. This is the future they want for humanity... turning everyone into Bashir-like geniuses (even if the poor old normals don't want super-powers).
Why is it that everyone who wants to genetically enhance some people is automatically classified as being a monomaniacal fascist who wants to take over the country/world/universe/whatever? Hey, I'm for revising the human race's source code, but not for upgrading by humanity by force. Why can't we have one scifi show or movie that shows modified people in a good light.
Though I would think it would be interesting to androgynize the human race. Probably solve a lot of problems, too...
I gotta get out an antenna and try to get UPN outta neighboring cities. Talk about lame...
Not as lame as the boat I'm in. For an antenna, I've got a resistor, a coat hanger, and a $20 radio shack signal amplifier. Seriously. I'd flash up a picture for one and all, but my digital camera is unavailable at the moment. Though I think you should bash heads at TW to get them to start carrying your local UPN affiliate.
Most of the trade-offs you listed are also present with many of the other alternative fuel sources being floated around. Plus, if you couple a good drivetrain and engineering technique then a diesel has the same, if not lower, maintenance problems than a conventional powered vehicle.
I know someone with a Mercedes Diesel, built about '95-'96, and it does 80-85 on the highway with no problems, is a decent sized car, and is no louder than a car with a conventional engine. Diesel got pretty much screwed over by the incredibly cheap small cars that were produced during the energy crunch (very few people would want to drive a chevette with a diesel), but are worth a second look now that there is some better technology.
I agree that lousy diesel cars are worse than lousy gasoline cars, but good diesel cars are very competetive with good gasoline cars.
So do you also look down upon real estate speculation, where someone buys land out in the middle of nowhere, does nothing with it for several years until the land is worth something?
Yeah, sometimes people do get screwed to some degree when someone buys a domain name. But to compare it to the people who extort money after a hurricane blows through is a bit excessive.
Why? By your arguement, if a large company has a specific telephone number in one area code, they should have that same number in every area code without paying extra. The whole point of having different domain names is so that joe blow's auto parts could have joesauto.com, but joe smith's automatic internet provider can have joesauto.net. I know the given example is kind of lame, but the point is simple. People misdial phone numbers, people mistype websites. Under both circumstances there are consequences, and you will get over them.
Then diesel should be your bag, baby. Diesel cars have been getting pretty close to the mileage of hybrid powered cars for several years now. You get a good particulate trap on a diesel engine and they run just as clean as a conventional car, and that signature diesel rattle is non-existant with a good design. Put a diesel engine into the drivetrain of a hybrid vehicle would probably get incredible efficiency. As an added bonus, I've heard from several sources that diesel is very easily converted to running on pure biomass - used fry oil is the most common (and best smelling) fuel
Diesel rocks. Only reason my car isn't diesel is because the only reasonably priced, decent built diesels are 20 year old Mercedes, and I am apprehensive about getting a car with that many years on all the systems.
The journal looks cool, other than a bug which I have dutifully submitted. The hardware seems impressive (can you imagine a beowulf of/. clusters?). I haven't had a chance to play around with the archives yet, that'll probably be the next thing I do; god I hated digging through the archive's viewing mode. Nested viewing is SO much better than the flat mode.
One question, though. What kind of CSS is allowed with that <DIV> tag? Anything fun, or is it one of those you could tell me but then you'd have to kill me sort of deals?
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I've got your mirror right here.</New Yorker> Bandwidth should be no problem, lemme know if you have any troubles.
Believe me, the government makes sure that "those evil __________'s" don't get their hands on information they truly don't want to be widely known.
Steven Levy's excellent book "Crypto", which was reviewed here a few months back has the basic gist of the technology. As the technology is mired in classified work and patents, it's a minefield that will have to be carefully traversed
Nice conspiracy theory, though. I give you 4 Art Bell's out of a possible 5.
Did I say I voted for Nader? No. Did I say we should force people to vote a certain way? No. All I said was that Democrats shouldn't blame Nader for the fact that Gore lost, that's all. If you've got a problem with the way someone voted, maybe you should ask yourself why they didn't like your candidate instead of blaming them for the defeat.
You'll have to ask the vendor. This was a vendor-supplied driver, not a generic driver in the distro (just checked, there is only an MCA madge token ring driver in the official kernel). Added to the fact that people with other token ring cards are running Linux just fine, this seems like this is much like most windows problems are claimed to be, just a bad vendor-supplied driver.
The same way you test any new solution you're going to bring in to the company, slowly, under controlled circumstances. You sould have asked your boss for a loaner PC and token ring lobe (hope that's the right terminology for the technology) and made sure that your setup wouldn't screw up the network. For testing, try pure torture - try huge pings, small pings, flood pings, stack ssh sessions so they zip back and forth between the two machines a couple dozen times, just make sure that any failures happen where you don't have to incur the wrath of your co-workers.
Don't just throw things on a corporate network, 'cuz that's where trouble starts.
You wouldn't happen to be a male cow by any chance, 'cuz that was one of the biggest loads of bullshit I've ever seen unloaded. People voted for Nader because they felt he was the best candidate for the job. Most of the voters for Nader had principal, and were willing to stand behind that principal, instead of simply voting for the lesser of two evils.
The "two party system" myth that the media perpetuates is damaging to this country. Maybe if more people voted for the third party candidates, instead of simply voting for either Tweedle Dumb or Tweedle Dumber, we'd have a much more free society.
Reading your comments, and the responders gave me the perfect trial implementation for taco et al. They already set up one sort of testing/personal site (just checked the link, tacohell. Taco killed it when they upgraded slashdot to 2.2, why not set up another, call it wtcnews. Important true news stuff regarding the case can be brought to the front page for everyone to post to, and people who look for just the wtc information can go there, but updates, personal reactions, etc can take place on the subsite. As an added benefit, they could raise/lower thresholds so that more flexible moderations can take place, so that people could mod things up to eleven if they were so inclined.
Just can't wait for it to finish downloading so that I can test it out. .9.3 has a fairly significant memory leak that bites you on the ass after time; it gets me somewhat quickly the way I browse - opening most links as new windows. Other than that, it is for the most part rocking.
Went into my car, turned on the engine and started to pull away. Talk on the radio about a tower burning, a plane had crashed into it. Figured that it was a crash at an airport. At first I wondered why they weren't going to the normal morning talk show, probably because of the plane crash; I thought they'd stay with this story a little while, then move over to the normal news.
Suddenly, a voice full of panic and anxiety got on the radio. A second plane had crashed into the other tower at the World Trade Center. It hit me. Some asshole had decided to ram some planes and kill a lot of people. I listened in shock as I continued to work. Why the hell would someone want to do this?
I arrived to work to find, like eveyone else, eveyone there glued to teh TV, watching as the two magnificent towers smoldered. I was getting angry; there were innocent people in those towers, people who would never hurt a fly. Why are there such mean motherfuckers in the world?
My anger simered there as I worked, watching the news of what was going on at the same time. Suddenly, one of the towers collapsed. It brought me over the edge, I was cursing up a blue streak about the idiots who did this. A co-worker suggested I go outside, take a walk, get some fresh air, this was affecting me way too much.
The rational side of my mind agreed with that analysis and I went out for a walk, to allow my frustration to simmer down somewhat. I returned still angry and saddened at what happened, but in a much more rational state.
I proceeded to try to return to work, accomplishing a little before the news that the second tower had collapsed. By this point, I was angry, but I wasn't going to allow this to get to me any more than it already did.
Work continued. The tone in the office, which is normally fairly upbeat, was subdued and quiet. Everyone was in shock. Boss instructed to call the airline inquring about a flight for a business trip that was supposed to happen tomorrow. Probably cancelled at this point in time.
Driving home, everything seemed odd. Usually, the route I take to get home is fairly heavy with people, but this afternoon, it was incredibly light, about as light as it usually is when I leave in the morning. From the people I've talked to, the LA freeways are incredibly light, most people probably decided to use today as one of their personal days.
Sitting here right now, it seems eerie. I live right under the flight path of the Hawthorne Airport, and about a mile or two from LAX. With the grounding of all air traffic, everything seems too quiet. I've only lived in this apartment for about a week and a half, and it is already unusually silent, save the occasional car passing by.
Emotionally, I've still got that anger towards those who did this, may god use their souls as toilet paper. I also feel sorrow towards those who lost a loved one, a friend, a relative, or anyone close due to this attack. My thoughts are with all of you.
Latest I'm hearing is that they're already executing search warrents regarding this despicable act. I hope they find those responsible quickly, and that after a trial, are drawn and quartered
Go to your local hospital, tell them you've got a vein that they can tap. If they don't take donations there, they can tell you where to go to donate. But the most important thing is to donate.
I'm just nervous because I live about a mile from LAX, it's gonna be chaos going home today.
May god have mercy on the souls of those who perished today, and may the assholes who did this be forced to suffer a slow, whithering, painful death.
Mod Parent Up. This looks like it has the reason why this technology that could be so promising is so crappy. They've got this thing as a simple binary thing - either shaking or not, when they should have this thing with varying degrees of vibration, plus varying amounts of difficulty in moving the ball - a very stiff, rough movement if you're moving over gravel, a very slick movement if your're going over ice, with several points in between.
3-d Games, for one, for another, you could put this in a drawing program so that when going over the drawing area, the mouse can't move as fast, thus giving you greater control. Then, there are the very evil things you could do, like putting this on certain beloved websites that shall remain nameless...
Besides, this was a temporary fix. They didn't have any downtime while they waited for a replacement pulley to come in, so they figured what the hell. It was obvious from the article that this is a business that any downtime is a Bad Thing, so he may have saved the company thousands of dollars due to the fact that they were up while the part was down.
Assembly debugging may be harder, but when it does break, you sure know it. If you've been using it long enough, you can tell how it broke, and maybe even close to where it broke.
Though I'm fairly sure that if they did allow GEed humans, they'd ban all of the "fun" stuff - no tails, no fur, no androgyny, no fun at all.
Why is it that everyone who wants to genetically enhance some people is automatically classified as being a monomaniacal fascist who wants to take over the country/world/universe/whatever? Hey, I'm for revising the human race's source code, but not for upgrading by humanity by force. Why can't we have one scifi show or movie that shows modified people in a good light.
Though I would think it would be interesting to androgynize the human race. Probably solve a lot of problems, too...
Not as lame as the boat I'm in. For an antenna, I've got a resistor, a coat hanger, and a $20 radio shack signal amplifier. Seriously. I'd flash up a picture for one and all, but my digital camera is unavailable at the moment. Though I think you should bash heads at TW to get them to start carrying your local UPN affiliate.
I know someone with a Mercedes Diesel, built about '95-'96, and it does 80-85 on the highway with no problems, is a decent sized car, and is no louder than a car with a conventional engine. Diesel got pretty much screwed over by the incredibly cheap small cars that were produced during the energy crunch (very few people would want to drive a chevette with a diesel), but are worth a second look now that there is some better technology.
I agree that lousy diesel cars are worse than lousy gasoline cars, but good diesel cars are very competetive with good gasoline cars.
Yeah, sometimes people do get screwed to some degree when someone buys a domain name. But to compare it to the people who extort money after a hurricane blows through is a bit excessive.
Why? By your arguement, if a large company has a specific telephone number in one area code, they should have that same number in every area code without paying extra. The whole point of having different domain names is so that joe blow's auto parts could have joesauto.com, but joe smith's automatic internet provider can have joesauto.net. I know the given example is kind of lame, but the point is simple. People misdial phone numbers, people mistype websites. Under both circumstances there are consequences, and you will get over them.
Diesel rocks. Only reason my car isn't diesel is because the only reasonably priced, decent built diesels are 20 year old Mercedes, and I am apprehensive about getting a car with that many years on all the systems.
One question, though. What kind of CSS is allowed with that <DIV> tag? Anything fun, or is it one of those you could tell me but then you'd have to kill me sort of deals?
Congrats all around, you guys kick ass!