The other two really good reasons are: 1) Hierarchical domains, which reduce routing overhead. 2) A namespace so huge that scanning subnets will be too much work for worms to accomplish.
"Terrorist" is the new "Communist." Labelling someone as a commie just doesn't evoke the same irrational fear and hatred anymore, but terrorist will do the job. Plus, as an added bonus, anti-communist legislation is mostly dead while there's a whole new host of semi-constitutional and thoroughly unconstitutional bad things that can be done to terrorists nowdays.
Since people don't seem to think the communial ideals behind Free Software are so dirty anymore, it's time to demonize Linux users with the new label for "Evil."
I think you're confusing real life with Red Alert again.
Considering that Tesla's "death ray" ideas were purely based on throwing around massive amounts of electricity and that the laser wasn't invented until 7 years before his death in 1943, I seriously doubt there is any connection. Plus, considering the fact that Tesla was living in America during the time period that loony Tesla fanboys claim he did his tests in the USSR, I wouldn't assign much credibility to their theories.
You are probably correct on both accounts. I reread the description of the chip, and it seems that the physically layout is different from what I first thought it was. I had assumed that a clean break in the chip would most likely open up several grooves simultaneously and that this would lead to an overdose. It seems that it's likely that opening several grooves along a line is actually part of the design of how it releases drugs, so this is unlikely, as you say, to release more than a 2-3x dose.
I withdraw my statement. It's probably extremely unlikely to contribute significantly to trauma at an accident.
I just spent last night watching the trauma/ER block of Discover's Health channel's Sunday night programming. I think you'd be surprised just how much horrific damage the human body can survive with modern surgical techniques. One person had a car accident with a chain link fence that resulted in a hollow metal pole being driven into his chest. His right lung collapsed, his collarbone snapped in two, and the artery pumping blood into his arm was completely severed for several hours before it could be reattached. Seven years later, he's perfectly fine and the doctors didn't have to amputate his now fully-functioning right arm. In my own life, my high-school's art teacher's husband survived a car wreck that resulted in his intestines and spleen being practically "liquified" due to severe blunt trauma. (Of course, he was in the hospital undergoing repeated surgery, healing, and physical therapy for well over a year.)
Dumping several days' dose of heparin into your someone's bloodstream would cause her to die a horrible death of hemorraging. This could be more harm than good to the average person. On the other hand, I think this is a good idea for the elderly, especially those prone to bouts of forgetfulness. I'd just hate to see this enter the mainstream as a total replacement for pills without some good safeguarding. He makes a good point.
Take the top 5 years of American history in which discretionary spending increased the most (as a percentage of the previous year's spending). Two of those years were during WWII. Three of them were under a GOP-dominated Congress within the last five years. So much for Republican's lowering spending!
Even supposedly "tax-and-spend" president Bill Clinton managed to only have a 3.5% increase in discretionary spending during his administration (with a 0.7% decrease in non-defense discretionary spending). Reagan was famous for increasing discretionary spending 7%, while GWB has increased discretionary spending 15.6% and has increased non-defense spending a whopping 20.8% in merely three years of office! This has led to a whopping $450 billion dollar budget deficit for this year alone.
From the fiscally-conservative Cato Institute: here and here
This is in spite of approving huge tax-cuts to the rich in spite of the fact that we already have some of the lowest taxes in the world. This has twice required massive accounting trickery and Congressional action to avoid having our nation default on its debt. Bush is driving us into the ground with his lunatic economics! All of the recovery under the Republican "Contract with America" and under the Clinton administration has been brushed aside by Bush reckless combination of tax cuts and spending increases. Remember back when Clinton said that we were looking at an end to the national debt after paying off $600 billion and with it at a mere $5.7 billion back in 2000 instead of the $6.8 trillion that it is now?
In the mean time, Howard Dean has managed to keep a balanced budget on his state for 10 years, through two recessions all while paying for the social programs that needed support. Maybe we should compare Bush's record as a governor? It's pretty obvious who's gonna be better as President if you're looking to see the deficit taken care of. Then again, if you weren't aware of Bush's spend-thrift ways to begin with, you probably won't bother to read the links and get informed.
I agree as a pretty hardcode Liberal Georgia voter that Democratic incumbent Roy Barnes was doomed from the get-go. My parent's were teachers, and I was more than willing to hold my nose and vote Republican just to get Barnes out. (We'll ignore whether Perdue's campaign promises about helping teachers have been upheld or not.)
However, as angry as the thought of potential election tampering makes me, I'm equally angry at the prospect that this kind of closed-door, behind the scenes changes were allowed to take place (regardless of whether it was maliciously intended to steal the election or just an honest bugfix). "Democracy dies behind closed doors." It get my blood boiling that this may have been done to cover the ass of Diebold's executives and keep the money rolling in. That's fraud by a company contracted to our state, plain and simple, regardless of whether or not it's also vote-tampering.
Fuck Diebold. I want their heads on a pike for pushing an insecure and unaccountable system on Georgia's voters and then violating election law to cover their own profits. I'm hoping that we can stoke up enough controversy over this to get the machines replaced with accountable ones. Whether that's through auditable paper-trails or more advanced cryptographic solutions (which I wouldn't trust Diebold's programmers to pull off) doesn't matter. We need voter assurance that their votes counted for what they wanted.
A problem, as I see it, is unless the paper printouts are withheld by the election committee afterwards, there's no way of verifying that what's on the paper is what the machine actually recorded. Electronic voting machines are just an inherently bad idea except as a more user-friendly front-end to an accountable, paper-based voting system.
Personally, as a Georgia citizen, I'm pretty angered by this news. I think I'm going to call up the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CNN, and my representatives and demand coverage and inquiry into this. (Of course, since my representative is a Republican who replaced a Democrat and who may have benefitted from this, I doubt I'll get anywhere...)
This is why skinnable software sucks -- it allows the creators of an application to get away with having an awful interface instead of being forced through user complaints to create one that is usable. Of course, most skins for winamp and xmms are nothing but the same horrible interface (with its tiny illegible buttons) only with some bright picture in the background (that makes the buttons even more illegible).
Personally, I consider ALL of those to be examples of bad aesthetics and design.
Skinnable software is often an excuse for the default appearance to suck and often creates hundreds of pretty, but unusable interfaces.
HTML email is waste of space and is often extremely ugly -- especially in the hands of commercial companies.
I've only seen a few cases with light mods that didn't look like ass.
(Hint: Throwing cold cathode light onto your exposed circuit boards is at about as cool as a riced-out Honda with foot-high spoilers and underside light-kits.)
[Why] have or download data that you never see or listen to?
*Glances over at spindles of discs ~50 days of anime fansubs, which I will never have time to watch.* *Glances at 25 DVD-Rs of video game background music, which I will never have time to listen to.*
Personally, I'm tempted to try to see if I can pay them money to put in a feature to allow you to turn off those god-awful voices. I'd also like a return to the text-based menus. The new (textless) picture-based menus are really unintuitive. If they did that, it would have truly been returned to its former glory.
I will love this plan more than you can imagine if they can find a way to make it easy to upload information in such a fashion that it's organized and easy to find. One of the main reasons I gave up on FreeNet was the nigh impossibility of finding new and interesting content. If they could fix this, I think it would be a great thing for increasing government accountability.
Yeah. I can see his hand clutched around the tape eraser that he just used to knock-out the trainer. Having people who could see through his BS is not a good thing for his long-term employment. In fact, I kind of hope that Simon gets around to writing on the subject.
There are some situations in which the X11 method of text-selection can be extremely annoying. The worst of which is when you want to stow something in the clipboard and do some other tasks before pasting. This is especially bad, when you want to grab a piece of text from one window and replace another chunk of text elsewhere. Instead of highlighting the section to be replaced and performing the paste action, you must delete that text before you highlight the section elsewhere. This is not a natural workflow, at least for me. Plus, X11 requires you to use the mouse for navigation (especially if you have that irritating mouse-over lazy-focus setting turned on in your window manager). That isn't easier and faster than a purely keyboard-navigable interface.
Captain Planet was a straight rip-off of the Japanese sentai format. You have a five-man team, comprised to diverse personalities and appearances (though the show was too compulsively PC to have just one token female character). The heroes are commonly linked to certain colors/elements/types of terrain, and summon their robots or super powers from these associations. The main characters each have some trivial fighting abilities to deal with the rotating villian of the day. In the end, though, to defeat any major villian, you have to combine your powers to use the stupid deus ex machina power of the day which they should've used from the very beginning (e.g. Captain Planet or Voltron's Blazing Sword). Lastly, they are led by the wise creator of their weapons against evil who lives in a remote base of operations.
Besides, the kids in Captain Planet didn't really have huge mental problems. That's mostly a 90's giant robot anime thing.
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The other two really good reasons are:
1) Hierarchical domains, which reduce routing overhead.
2) A namespace so huge that scanning subnets will be too much work for worms to accomplish.
No, but you could get it at Fry's!
Research? On unpublished theories? Exactly what sort of "research" did this involve?
"Terrorist" is the new "Communist." Labelling someone as a commie just doesn't evoke the same irrational fear and hatred anymore, but terrorist will do the job. Plus, as an added bonus, anti-communist legislation is mostly dead while there's a whole new host of semi-constitutional and thoroughly unconstitutional bad things that can be done to terrorists nowdays.
Since people don't seem to think the communial ideals behind Free Software are so dirty anymore, it's time to demonize Linux users with the new label for "Evil."
Also, his death ray had nothing to do with lasers.
No kidding. If only someone has said something to that effect...
I think you're confusing real life with Red Alert again.
Considering that Tesla's "death ray" ideas were purely based on throwing around massive amounts of electricity and that the laser wasn't invented until 7 years before his death in 1943, I seriously doubt there is any connection. Plus, considering the fact that Tesla was living in America during the time period that loony Tesla fanboys claim he did his tests in the USSR, I wouldn't assign much credibility to their theories.
You are probably correct on both accounts. I reread the description of the chip, and it seems that the physically layout is different from what I first thought it was. I had assumed that a clean break in the chip would most likely open up several grooves simultaneously and that this would lead to an overdose. It seems that it's likely that opening several grooves along a line is actually part of the design of how it releases drugs, so this is unlikely, as you say, to release more than a 2-3x dose.
I withdraw my statement. It's probably extremely unlikely to contribute significantly to trauma at an accident.
I just spent last night watching the trauma/ER block of Discover's Health channel's Sunday night programming. I think you'd be surprised just how much horrific damage the human body can survive with modern surgical techniques. One person had a car accident with a chain link fence that resulted in a hollow metal pole being driven into his chest. His right lung collapsed, his collarbone snapped in two, and the artery pumping blood into his arm was completely severed for several hours before it could be reattached. Seven years later, he's perfectly fine and the doctors didn't have to amputate his now fully-functioning right arm. In my own life, my high-school's art teacher's husband survived a car wreck that resulted in his intestines and spleen being practically "liquified" due to severe blunt trauma. (Of course, he was in the hospital undergoing repeated surgery, healing, and physical therapy for well over a year.)
Dumping several days' dose of heparin into your someone's bloodstream would cause her to die a horrible death of hemorraging. This could be more harm than good to the average person. On the other hand, I think this is a good idea for the elderly, especially those prone to bouts of forgetfulness. I'd just hate to see this enter the mainstream as a total replacement for pills without some good safeguarding. He makes a good point.
Take the top 5 years of American history in which discretionary spending increased the most (as a percentage of the previous year's spending). Two of those years were during WWII. Three of them were under a GOP-dominated Congress within the last five years. So much for Republican's lowering spending!
Even supposedly "tax-and-spend" president Bill Clinton managed to only have a 3.5% increase in discretionary spending during his administration (with a 0.7% decrease in non-defense discretionary spending). Reagan was famous for increasing discretionary spending 7%, while GWB has increased discretionary spending 15.6% and has increased non-defense spending a whopping 20.8% in merely three years of office! This has led to a whopping $450 billion dollar budget deficit for this year alone.
From the fiscally-conservative Cato Institute: here and here
This is in spite of approving huge tax-cuts to the rich in spite of the fact that we already have some of the lowest taxes in the world. This has twice required massive accounting trickery and Congressional action to avoid having our nation default on its debt. Bush is driving us into the ground with his lunatic economics! All of the recovery under the Republican "Contract with America" and under the Clinton administration has been brushed aside by Bush reckless combination of tax cuts and spending increases. Remember back when Clinton said that we were looking at an end to the national debt after paying off $600 billion and with it at a mere $5.7 billion back in 2000 instead of the $6.8 trillion that it is now?
In the mean time, Howard Dean has managed to keep a balanced budget on his state for 10 years, through two recessions all while paying for the social programs that needed support. Maybe we should compare Bush's record as a governor? It's pretty obvious who's gonna be better as President if you're looking to see the deficit taken care of. Then again, if you weren't aware of Bush's spend-thrift ways to begin with, you probably won't bother to read the links and get informed.
I agree as a pretty hardcode Liberal Georgia voter that Democratic incumbent Roy Barnes was doomed from the get-go. My parent's were teachers, and I was more than willing to hold my nose and vote Republican just to get Barnes out. (We'll ignore whether Perdue's campaign promises about helping teachers have been upheld or not.)
However, as angry as the thought of potential election tampering makes me, I'm equally angry at the prospect that this kind of closed-door, behind the scenes changes were allowed to take place (regardless of whether it was maliciously intended to steal the election or just an honest bugfix). "Democracy dies behind closed doors." It get my blood boiling that this may have been done to cover the ass of Diebold's executives and keep the money rolling in. That's fraud by a company contracted to our state, plain and simple, regardless of whether or not it's also vote-tampering.
Fuck Diebold. I want their heads on a pike for pushing an insecure and unaccountable system on Georgia's voters and then violating election law to cover their own profits. I'm hoping that we can stoke up enough controversy over this to get the machines replaced with accountable ones. Whether that's through auditable paper-trails or more advanced cryptographic solutions (which I wouldn't trust Diebold's programmers to pull off) doesn't matter. We need voter assurance that their votes counted for what they wanted.
A problem, as I see it, is unless the paper printouts are withheld by the election committee afterwards, there's no way of verifying that what's on the paper is what the machine actually recorded. Electronic voting machines are just an inherently bad idea except as a more user-friendly front-end to an accountable, paper-based voting system.
Personally, as a Georgia citizen, I'm pretty angered by this news. I think I'm going to call up the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CNN, and my representatives and demand coverage and inquiry into this. (Of course, since my representative is a Republican who replaced a Democrat and who may have benefitted from this, I doubt I'll get anywhere...)
This is why skinnable software sucks -- it allows the creators of an application to get away with having an awful interface instead of being forced through user complaints to create one that is usable. Of course, most skins for winamp and xmms are nothing but the same horrible interface (with its tiny illegible buttons) only with some bright picture in the background (that makes the buttons even more illegible).
- Skinnable software is often an excuse for the default appearance to suck and often creates hundreds of pretty, but unusable interfaces.
- HTML email is waste of space and is often extremely ugly -- especially in the hands of commercial companies.
- I've only seen a few cases with light mods that didn't look like ass.
(Hint: Throwing cold cathode light onto your exposed circuit boards is at about as cool as a riced-out Honda with foot-high spoilers and underside light-kits.)Well, committing such violence against another is a Syn, and I'm sure that as the the victim died from the impact, you'd hear, "Ack!" so sure!
[Why] have or download data that you never see or listen to?
*Glances over at spindles of discs ~50 days of anime fansubs, which I will never have time to watch.*
*Glances at 25 DVD-Rs of video game background music, which I will never have time to listen to.*
Um... Obsessive-compulsive disorder?
IIRC, the problem with all of these languages is proper right-to-left text support.
ZIM: I helped with the DNS problem.
Tallest: You made the DNS problem worse!
ZIM: Worse..? or better?
Because then it would still be complicated, but run on Linux. Whoopty-freakin'-doo.
Personally, I'm tempted to try to see if I can pay them money to put in a feature to allow you to turn off those god-awful voices. I'd also like a return to the text-based menus. The new (textless) picture-based menus are really unintuitive. If they did that, it would have truly been returned to its former glory.
I will love this plan more than you can imagine if they can find a way to make it easy to upload information in such a fashion that it's organized and easy to find. One of the main reasons I gave up on FreeNet was the nigh impossibility of finding new and interesting content. If they could fix this, I think it would be a great thing for increasing government accountability.
Yeah. I can see his hand clutched around the tape eraser that he just used to knock-out the trainer. Having people who could see through his BS is not a good thing for his long-term employment. In fact, I kind of hope that Simon gets around to writing on the subject.
There are some situations in which the X11 method of text-selection can be extremely annoying. The worst of which is when you want to stow something in the clipboard and do some other tasks before pasting. This is especially bad, when you want to grab a piece of text from one window and replace another chunk of text elsewhere. Instead of highlighting the section to be replaced and performing the paste action, you must delete that text before you highlight the section elsewhere. This is not a natural workflow, at least for me. Plus, X11 requires you to use the mouse for navigation (especially if you have that irritating mouse-over lazy-focus setting turned on in your window manager). That isn't easier and faster than a purely keyboard-navigable interface.
Is Poland honestly lawless enough for this not to be illegal there? Can no one sic Interpol on these jokers?
Captain Planet was a straight rip-off of the Japanese sentai format. You have a five-man team, comprised to diverse personalities and appearances (though the show was too compulsively PC to have just one token female character). The heroes are commonly linked to certain colors/elements/types of terrain, and summon their robots or super powers from these associations. The main characters each have some trivial fighting abilities to deal with the rotating villian of the day. In the end, though, to defeat any major villian, you have to combine your powers to use the stupid deus ex machina power of the day which they should've used from the very beginning (e.g. Captain Planet or Voltron's Blazing Sword). Lastly, they are led by the wise creator of their weapons against evil who lives in a remote base of operations.
Besides, the kids in Captain Planet didn't really have huge mental problems. That's mostly a 90's giant robot anime thing.
Lawyers? Drat. Compared to what happened to the last intellectual pirates that Jupiter dealt with, I think they're getting off too easy.