Actually they can. Just that the content producers don't want them to be. But there comes a point where the graphic designer's desire to make bling bling websites intrudes on my privacy and security. If the content delivery chain can't get their shit together... well fuck 'em.
Apple's Magic Mouse is a one button mouse. Literally. The entire top surface depresses a mechanical switch. The fact that it's also a multi touch surface doesn't change that.
However the conversation was about drugs and this thread is what grounds the federal government claims authority to regulate them. I pointed to an actual case that demonstrates their position.
What people are talking about is pixel density. When pixels are so small that you can't distinguish from one to the next then you've reached the limit of benefit from making smaller pixels. You still can have rendering issues but they are not issues with your display technology. For example if you are ray tracing an infinite checker boarded plane you still need to do some kind of anti-aliasing but smaller pixels won't help the problem.
I'm surprised that this is what you think having a net connected fridge will do for you. If you actually go look into all the people proposing smart grids and smart appliances, these connected devices are connected so that the central planners can turn your shit off during "peak" usage periods.
You make it sound like people without basic life skills should be allowed to ignore the law. That's absurd. There are literally millions of people who have had worse interactions with the government and spend much more time in much more difficult incarcerations than Mr. Swartz faced. If Mr. Swartz was particularly unable to deal with the world he should not have made such an effort to cause trouble for himself.
Speaking of which, your post was posted on Friday, July 26, 2013 at what appears to be working hours (2:27 PM Eastern, so no earlier than 11:27 if you're in California). Are you taking a vacation day today? An investigation seems legitimate.
If I were a government employee it would be entirely appropriate for you to be concerned about whether I was using tax payer funds to post on slashdot. Since I'm not a government employee it's of no concern to you at all. Any interaction between you and my employer is entirely voluntary on your part and if my posting on slashdot raises the cost of the services my employer provides you are free to go to a competing company or even choose not to do any business at all. When I have those same choices with government agencies -- to not fund them if I so desire -- then I'll not care whether they are wasting money or not. But as long as it's an involuntary transaction I have no problem with a senator sending an email or making a phone call asking wtf?
Seems perfectly valid to inquire as to why NASA employees are participating in a non-work activity during working hours. Since the photographs are identified as having been taken on Friday Dec 14, 2012 and the photos appear to have been taken during the day, it's completely valid to determine whether the NASA employees took a vacation day or whether they just slipped away from the office.
You're getting way too detailed to be implicating the highly generic term RAID in your list of fault conditions.
I will point out however that your premise that a system won't know which way to sync the data is wrong. Any running RAID implementation that syncs from a recently attached disk to the currently in use disk is just broken and would never get out of QA.
However using a RAID1 to mirror to an external drive isn't going to be a particular benefit unless the raid implementation manages a changed block map. If the implementation does have a changed block map then this is the exact use case intended.
PKD must have been a prodigy if he wrote and published a time loop story before he was 12 years old.
Not to mention mythology such as Prometheus -- while not being a time travel story -- ends with him chained to a rock and a bird eating out his liver every day. I.e. the same events every day.
You have it backwards. AIG was a counter party to deals far in excess of its assets. When everything fell apart, Goldman Sachs and friends came calling and asked that AIG pay up on all the agreements they made. Since AIG didn't have the assets to pay, well goodbye AIG. The government then stepped in and said it was bailing out AIG, but in reality AIG was just a conduit to send money to the big banks.
If all the gold ever mined and brought to the surface it'd fill something like 3 or 4 Olympic sized swimming pools. That's it. We don't have that much.
You do realize that the kernel has already has a bunch of active forks? Red Hat has their own fork, Oracle has theirs, IBM has theirs, Google, Amazon, etc. Yes, they go back to the well periodically, but they are forks.
And it's not because I don't like Torvalds, it's because for Oracle/Red Hat/IBM/Intel to make a condition of employment being abused by an unrelated third party is a violation of employment laws. If Linus continues his path of becoming more abusive, then they won't have a choice but to stop working with him.
Also note that Linus doesn't have to work. The documented moneys he has received -- assuming he's not a complete financial moron -- mean he's completely financially secure. Possibly this contributes to his dickheadedness. But the point is that they won't work with him. New structures and procedures will come into place that exclude him.
Most worth things created in this world came from unprofessional people.
You pretty much made that up and the fact that it even gets past your plausibility filters just shows how much you take for granted the things that make civilization possible.
Here's what you can expect to happen if the linux kernel dev space continues being juvenile and narcissistic: the money will dry up. Every year there is more than five million dollars contributed to the Linux Foundation by large corporations. That money will disappear when it becomes a liability for them to have to deal with the completely toxic nature of the kernel development process.
The real labor done in the kernel already happens inside the big corps. Torvalds appears to be completely insecure in his role, I won't be surprised to see him bypassed and then just become irrelevant in the next few years.
A simple bing search suggests otherwise. On prominent example called out last time the farm bill was up for renewal was milk, the price of which would double as the current farm bill regulates the price of dairy products. Furthermore the food stamp program is part of the farm bill. Without which whole swaths of the populace would be unable to find sufficient calories to get through the day.
Yeah? How you going to do all the bustling economic activity in the dark? The bulk of the hydro electric dams are out in the rural areas, as are fossil fueled power plants. Not to mention all your fresh water comes from rivers and aquifers generally supplied by rainfall in rural areas and mountains. Every city has an area around it that supplies basic necessities to keep the city alive. The larger the city, the further its tendrils have to reach to keep it running and livable.
If the complaint here is that rural areas are being unfairly subsidized, well that's fine, but... HELLO FARM BILL! The only reason urban areas have any affordable food available is because the government subsidizes farms to keep the cost of produce down.
I see what you are getting at and I see that compression certainly does leak information about the content of the message, namely how compressible it is.
First, compression is semantically identical to the uncompressed data. Anything "leaked" by compression would be "leaked" by the uncompressed data.
Second, compression removes entropy making it more difficult to predict the cleartext. Which is why it's common to compress data before encryption (assuming your application is amenable, full disk encryption would be a case where compression would be awkward.)
Your post is really fucking confused. I didn't restate what Mitt Romney said, I answered the question asked: "I wonder why they lost?" If you don't like the answer that's fine but don't put my words in someone else's mouth. For whatever else anyone claims the fundamental principle of the Democratic party is that you don't have to be responsible for anything.
The real problem with the It's All Bush's Fault!(*) argument is that Obama asked for this job. The democrats asked for this job. It's one thing if you were conscripted, it's something else entirely to volunteer to take charge.
* - also note that it's fairly disingenuous to blame the president when there are 534 other elected assholes who had a hand in the mess and a bunch of them are still there still fucking things up.
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Actually they can. Just that the content producers don't want them to be. But there comes a point where the graphic designer's desire to make bling bling websites intrudes on my privacy and security. If the content delivery chain can't get their shit together... well fuck 'em.
Apple's Magic Mouse is a one button mouse. Literally. The entire top surface depresses a mechanical switch. The fact that it's also a multi touch surface doesn't change that.
However the conversation was about drugs and this thread is what grounds the federal government claims authority to regulate them. I pointed to an actual case that demonstrates their position.
*head explodes*
WTF? Do you happen to know the etymology of "internet"?
Prior to ACA, it was Gonzales v. Raich and Raich lost on commerce clause grounds.
What people are talking about is pixel density. When pixels are so small that you can't distinguish from one to the next then you've reached the limit of benefit from making smaller pixels. You still can have rendering issues but they are not issues with your display technology. For example if you are ray tracing an infinite checker boarded plane you still need to do some kind of anti-aliasing but smaller pixels won't help the problem.
I'm surprised that this is what you think having a net connected fridge will do for you. If you actually go look into all the people proposing smart grids and smart appliances, these connected devices are connected so that the central planners can turn your shit off during "peak" usage periods.
You make it sound like people without basic life skills should be allowed to ignore the law. That's absurd. There are literally millions of people who have had worse interactions with the government and spend much more time in much more difficult incarcerations than Mr. Swartz faced. If Mr. Swartz was particularly unable to deal with the world he should not have made such an effort to cause trouble for himself.
Not to mention that he wasn't a student at MIT.
If I were a government employee it would be entirely appropriate for you to be concerned about whether I was using tax payer funds to post on slashdot. Since I'm not a government employee it's of no concern to you at all. Any interaction between you and my employer is entirely voluntary on your part and if my posting on slashdot raises the cost of the services my employer provides you are free to go to a competing company or even choose not to do any business at all. When I have those same choices with government agencies -- to not fund them if I so desire -- then I'll not care whether they are wasting money or not. But as long as it's an involuntary transaction I have no problem with a senator sending an email or making a phone call asking wtf?
Seems perfectly valid to inquire as to why NASA employees are participating in a non-work activity during working hours. Since the photographs are identified as having been taken on Friday Dec 14, 2012 and the photos appear to have been taken during the day, it's completely valid to determine whether the NASA employees took a vacation day or whether they just slipped away from the office.
You're getting way too detailed to be implicating the highly generic term RAID in your list of fault conditions.
I will point out however that your premise that a system won't know which way to sync the data is wrong. Any running RAID implementation that syncs from a recently attached disk to the currently in use disk is just broken and would never get out of QA.
However using a RAID1 to mirror to an external drive isn't going to be a particular benefit unless the raid implementation manages a changed block map. If the implementation does have a changed block map then this is the exact use case intended.
PKD must have been a prodigy if he wrote and published a time loop story before he was 12 years old.
Not to mention mythology such as Prometheus -- while not being a time travel story -- ends with him chained to a rock and a bird eating out his liver every day. I.e. the same events every day.
You have it backwards. AIG was a counter party to deals far in excess of its assets. When everything fell apart, Goldman Sachs and friends came calling and asked that AIG pay up on all the agreements they made. Since AIG didn't have the assets to pay, well goodbye AIG. The government then stepped in and said it was bailing out AIG, but in reality AIG was just a conduit to send money to the big banks.
... brought to the surface was brought together it'd fill something...
Jesus, sometimes I get ahead of what I've typed.
If all the gold ever mined and brought to the surface it'd fill something like 3 or 4 Olympic sized swimming pools. That's it. We don't have that much.
You do realize that the kernel has already has a bunch of active forks? Red Hat has their own fork, Oracle has theirs, IBM has theirs, Google, Amazon, etc. Yes, they go back to the well periodically, but they are forks.
And it's not because I don't like Torvalds, it's because for Oracle/Red Hat/IBM/Intel to make a condition of employment being abused by an unrelated third party is a violation of employment laws. If Linus continues his path of becoming more abusive, then they won't have a choice but to stop working with him.
Also note that Linus doesn't have to work. The documented moneys he has received -- assuming he's not a complete financial moron -- mean he's completely financially secure. Possibly this contributes to his dickheadedness. But the point is that they won't work with him. New structures and procedures will come into place that exclude him.
You pretty much made that up and the fact that it even gets past your plausibility filters just shows how much you take for granted the things that make civilization possible.
Here's what you can expect to happen if the linux kernel dev space continues being juvenile and narcissistic: the money will dry up. Every year there is more than five million dollars contributed to the Linux Foundation by large corporations. That money will disappear when it becomes a liability for them to have to deal with the completely toxic nature of the kernel development process.
The real labor done in the kernel already happens inside the big corps. Torvalds appears to be completely insecure in his role, I won't be surprised to see him bypassed and then just become irrelevant in the next few years.
This has nothing to do with that kind of virtualization. A much better headline would be:
A simple bing search suggests otherwise. On prominent example called out last time the farm bill was up for renewal was milk, the price of which would double as the current farm bill regulates the price of dairy products. Furthermore the food stamp program is part of the farm bill. Without which whole swaths of the populace would be unable to find sufficient calories to get through the day.
Yeah? How you going to do all the bustling economic activity in the dark? The bulk of the hydro electric dams are out in the rural areas, as are fossil fueled power plants. Not to mention all your fresh water comes from rivers and aquifers generally supplied by rainfall in rural areas and mountains. Every city has an area around it that supplies basic necessities to keep the city alive. The larger the city, the further its tendrils have to reach to keep it running and livable.
If the complaint here is that rural areas are being unfairly subsidized, well that's fine, but... HELLO FARM BILL! The only reason urban areas have any affordable food available is because the government subsidizes farms to keep the cost of produce down.
I see what you are getting at and I see that compression certainly does leak information about the content of the message, namely how compressible it is.
What?
First, compression is semantically identical to the uncompressed data. Anything "leaked" by compression would be "leaked" by the uncompressed data.
Second, compression removes entropy making it more difficult to predict the cleartext. Which is why it's common to compress data before encryption (assuming your application is amenable, full disk encryption would be a case where compression would be awkward.)
Your post is really fucking confused. I didn't restate what Mitt Romney said, I answered the question asked: "I wonder why they lost?" If you don't like the answer that's fine but don't put my words in someone else's mouth. For whatever else anyone claims the fundamental principle of the Democratic party is that you don't have to be responsible for anything.
The real problem with the It's All Bush's Fault!(*) argument is that Obama asked for this job. The democrats asked for this job. It's one thing if you were conscripted, it's something else entirely to volunteer to take charge.
* - also note that it's fairly disingenuous to blame the president when there are 534 other elected assholes who had a hand in the mess and a bunch of them are still there still fucking things up.