Random note after I clicked submit - The designers of the DEC Alpha chip designed it as a 64bit Big Endian chip. Microsoft convinced DEC to add a feature to the Alpha that switched CPU to a 32bit Little Endian chip so that Microsoft wouldn't have to recode all their the apps that processed binary files with the assumption that integers were four byte little endian.
Windows NT was designed to run on i386, MIPS, PPC and Alpha. Over the years, Microsoft discontinued support for the various platforms - IIRC MIPS and Alpha ended with NT3.51 - PPC ended with NT4. NT5 (aka - Windows 2000) was the first i386 only version of NT.
and you will see all three xclock windows with different times. The REAL problem of the Timezone change is that Noon of March 12th, 2007 is now an hour off from what we used to assume it would be.
The Diesel Engine was invented by Rudolf Diesel. That's why Diesel should always be capitalised and why it's pronounced "deesil" and "dyesil".
As the parent post noted, the fuel is named Diesel because it's designed to be used in Diesel engines. In North America, most fuel sold as Diesel is "Diesel #2" - I have no idea if there is a #1 or #3, but my car is speced to run on #2. The fact that other fuels can be used in Diesel engines and Diesel fuels can be used in other engines is all pure coincidence.
It should go without saying that other agencies derive their authority from similar Acts of Congress.
So the mystery committee of five people was created (albiet through layers of abstraction and indirection) from the electorate.
A take home lesson from this is that if you like or dislike the regulations of some government agency, let you elected representatives know. What regulatory powers Congress give to agencies, Congress can increase or decrease.
Okay - I realise it's unfashionable to read legislation before commenting on Slashdot - instead it's far more fun to leap into hyperbole. I at least read the general remarks that preceed the statutory changes.
This seems to be legislation that tries to strike a fair balance. It grants ISP's common carrier status [so your ISP doesn't have a legal incentive to add content filtering]. Specifically clarifies libraries, archives and education right to the work [the bill intends to continue existing standards of fair use]. Allows for format shifting [Your ripping your CD to your iPod is safe].
This bill does legitimise DRM (TPM is the phrase in the bill), but it does seem to suggest that if a DRM measure is too enerous to the user, the user has some recourse to access the content.
There is no doubt that there is a lot of sex and violence in the Bible; but, if you focus on the Gospels (the part with quotes actually attributed to Jesus) it's pretty tame. Jesus associated with a variety of unsavory characters like tax collectors, prostitutes, and samaritians just to name a few. Never once, did I read that he encouraged that any of them were beneath anyone else in the eyes of God.
Now if you start wandering out of the Gospels, you can find all kinds of things to justify sex and violence by example. But if you remain inside the Gospels, the worst thing I could imagine justifying by example is making a big scene inside a payroll advance / check cashing store.
I call myself a Christian and attend church regularly. I'm having a hard time with the use of the word Christian in the context of this game. I see sectarian violence, a lack of forgiveness, and vengance. The only times I've need these topics come in the Sunday sermon is to condem such things.
The distinction is that in the US, film and game ratings are done by a industry consortium. This is a two edged sword. On the one hand, it's not government censorship. This is good. On the other hand the first amendment doesn't apply to private entities. Who is the film ratings board? Who are they accountable to? Can I make petitions to them? They have de facto censorship powers. This isn't good. The same issues and problems apply to games as well.
How operating systems and applications use TPM can be good or evil
In all that I've read about TPM, I've concluded that TPM is not much more than a glorified hardware based public/private key management system. The reference implementations I seen attach to the same slow hardware buses that PS/2 keyboard and mice sit. There is not enough bandwidth on that bus to encrypt/decrypt whole disks in real time.
The point about introducing Nazis into the thread is well taken. Because disgusting depravity of the Nazi regime sits at the farthest reaches of our ability to truly grasp, any comparison to Nazis reduces that comparison to emotional hyperbole.
First, let me say clearly that I am not suggesting that Neocons are Nazis.
As others have pointed out, my intent was to highlight the paranoia and jingoism coming from Washington and how it influences Americans. Paranoia and jingoism are dangerously powerful tools of manipulation. Göring's frank admission of their use is a potent example of just how powerful and dangerous they can be. They cloud rational judgement and quash thoughtful debate.
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Göring at the Nuremberg trials
Let's recap: 1) We're under attack by Terrorists. 2) America hating Cut-and-Run Democrats will harm the nation. It's the same chapter from the same playbook the Nazi's used.
I would be interested to see if there is a digital certificate included in the data that is validated against each countries master certificate (stored at the reader - not the passport) that ensures the passport was actually produced by that country.
Otherwise, if the passport has all the elements required to validate itself (the article claims it already has all the encryption key information), then it follows anyone could create a self-validating passport. Including whatever bad guys this programme is intentended to prevent from doing so.
It's worked for me - twice. That said, I interpret the raw SMART data on my own. I look at reallocated sectors. Many tools will report I drive as "fine" with a few reallocated sectors. Not me. The first sign of sector reallocation and I'm at the store buying a new drive to replace it.
I replace drives at the first sign of trouble from the drives internal SMART tables. This has saved my butt twice in three years. I also mirror when possible.
I use smartmontools on Linux and PassMark's diskcheckup on Windows. MacOSX has SMART built into diskutility.
You keep saying "the State." There are more than one. The actions of the EU are not at all similar to the actions of the US.
Also, I don't subscribe to the idea that governments see fines as revenue. There may be odd small town that pays for it's police vehicles from speeding tickets, but I feel this is the exception rather than the norm. Fines are economic sanctions designed to coercively change inappropriate behaviour.
As far as inconsistent government behaviour goes, remember that governments usually strive to find balance between conflicting forces. A purely free market would be dreadful. Governments that prop-up one economic aspect have a duty to make sure it doesn't tip too far the other way. The obvious and topical discussion, if a government grants a limited monopoly via patents, copyrights and trade secrets, that government must and should be alert to growing abuses of patents, copyrights and trade secrets.
Actually I did walk into it on season three. The transition was made easier with two things. A good mentor and Lurker's Guide. I think Lurker's Guide still sets the benchmark for what an episode guide should be.
Perhaps it might have been better to say, "Suitable for all GNU/Linux distributions." Some distributions, Debian for example, are fairly strict about keeping all the packages OSI pure. You have to go out of your way to get "non-free" installed and manually install Java.
With GPL Java, I expect that Java on Debian will be as easy as "apt-get install java".
Except the cards in Florida weren't paper - insofar as it wasn't designed to be a human readable device.
I define Paper Ballot as an election device that is easily readable by anyone old enough to vote without any special tools more complicated than reading glasses.
A punch card, although constructed from heavy-weight paper, is a machine readable device and requires training to be able to read manually. Not that the training is terribly complicated for the average Slashdotter.
I agree with the E911 - with an additional step. Put a classic analog phone on that same line in the main office. If you feel pretentious, make it a red phone. My aunt used to be the Dean at a university branch campus and they did the same thing - PBX everywhere on campus and legacy analog line on the wall of the Dean's office.
Social conservatives are a fickle electorate. In order to ensure they turn out, Republican strategists toss stuff like this out there to appeal to them.
Because registering the copyright can be an important step in being able to defend a copyright claim in court because registering is a strong governmental acknowledgement of the work.
I think people watch Doctor Who for different reasons. Some like the cheese. Some like the stories. I suspect those who enjoy the cheese would go to auto races to see the crashes. I'm in the stories camp. I've always been able to suspend my disbelief enough to ignore the obvious problems of dressing a man in brown-green bubble wrap.
I also enjoy how as a 28 year series, Doctor Who is a time capsule of history. Tom Baker being mid to late 70's, Peter Davison being the early 80's and so forth.
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Random note after I clicked submit - The designers of the DEC Alpha chip designed it as a 64bit Big Endian chip. Microsoft convinced DEC to add a feature to the Alpha that switched CPU to a 32bit Little Endian chip so that Microsoft wouldn't have to recode all their the apps that processed binary files with the assumption that integers were four byte little endian.
Windows NT was designed to run on i386, MIPS, PPC and Alpha. Over the years, Microsoft discontinued support for the various platforms - IIRC MIPS and Alpha ended with NT3.51 - PPC ended with NT4. NT5 (aka - Windows 2000) was the first i386 only version of NT.
This is fine well and good except - all UNIX systems (Linux, *BSD included) already work in UTC and convert to localtime on the fly.
Try the following on any UNIX system...
and you will see all three xclock windows with different times. The REAL problem of the Timezone change is that Noon of March 12th, 2007 is now an hour off from what we used to assume it would be.The Diesel Engine was invented by Rudolf Diesel. That's why Diesel should always be capitalised and why it's pronounced "deesil" and "dyesil".
As the parent post noted, the fuel is named Diesel because it's designed to be used in Diesel engines. In North America, most fuel sold as Diesel is "Diesel #2" - I have no idea if there is a #1 or #3, but my car is speced to run on #2. The fact that other fuels can be used in Diesel engines and Diesel fuels can be used in other engines is all pure coincidence.
You did notice the date of the Evil Bit RFC?
OMG - Someone who understands government.
It should go without saying that other agencies derive their authority from similar Acts of Congress.
So the mystery committee of five people was created (albiet through layers of abstraction and indirection) from the electorate.
A take home lesson from this is that if you like or dislike the regulations of some government agency, let you elected representatives know. What regulatory powers Congress give to agencies, Congress can increase or decrease.
Okay - I realise it's unfashionable to read legislation before commenting on Slashdot - instead it's far more fun to leap into hyperbole. I at least read the general remarks that preceed the statutory changes.
This seems to be legislation that tries to strike a fair balance. It grants ISP's common carrier status [so your ISP doesn't have a legal incentive to add content filtering]. Specifically clarifies libraries, archives and education right to the work [the bill intends to continue existing standards of fair use]. Allows for format shifting [Your ripping your CD to your iPod is safe].
This bill does legitimise DRM (TPM is the phrase in the bill), but it does seem to suggest that if a DRM measure is too enerous to the user, the user has some recourse to access the content.
My broad analsys: no real winners or losers
There is no doubt that there is a lot of sex and violence in the Bible; but, if you focus on the Gospels (the part with quotes actually attributed to Jesus) it's pretty tame. Jesus associated with a variety of unsavory characters like tax collectors, prostitutes, and samaritians just to name a few. Never once, did I read that he encouraged that any of them were beneath anyone else in the eyes of God.
Now if you start wandering out of the Gospels, you can find all kinds of things to justify sex and violence by example. But if you remain inside the Gospels, the worst thing I could imagine justifying by example is making a big scene inside a payroll advance / check cashing store.
I call myself a Christian and attend church regularly. I'm having a hard time with the use of the word Christian in the context of this game. I see sectarian violence, a lack of forgiveness, and vengance. The only times I've need these topics come in the Sunday sermon is to condem such things.
I think a new word is required: Jesu-fascists.
The distinction is that in the US, film and game ratings are done by a industry consortium. This is a two edged sword. On the one hand, it's not government censorship. This is good. On the other hand the first amendment doesn't apply to private entities. Who is the film ratings board? Who are they accountable to? Can I make petitions to them? They have de facto censorship powers. This isn't good. The same issues and problems apply to games as well.
TPM is neither good nor bad
How operating systems and applications use TPM can be good or evil
In all that I've read about TPM, I've concluded that TPM is not much more than a glorified hardware based public/private key management system. The reference implementations I seen attach to the same slow hardware buses that PS/2 keyboard and mice sit. There is not enough bandwidth on that bus to encrypt/decrypt whole disks in real time.
The point about introducing Nazis into the thread is well taken. Because disgusting depravity of the Nazi regime sits at the farthest reaches of our ability to truly grasp, any comparison to Nazis reduces that comparison to emotional hyperbole.
First, let me say clearly that I am not suggesting that Neocons are Nazis.
As others have pointed out, my intent was to highlight the paranoia and jingoism coming from Washington and how it influences Americans. Paranoia and jingoism are dangerously powerful tools of manipulation. Göring's frank admission of their use is a potent example of just how powerful and dangerous they can be. They cloud rational judgement and quash thoughtful debate.
Because they know how to manipulate "the people." The recipe is hundreds of years old. Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring summed it up very nicely.
From Snopes, http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Göring at the Nuremberg trials
Let's recap: 1) We're under attack by Terrorists. 2) America hating Cut-and-Run Democrats will harm the nation. It's the same chapter from the same playbook the Nazi's used.
I would be interested to see if there is a digital certificate included in the data that is validated against each countries master certificate (stored at the reader - not the passport) that ensures the passport was actually produced by that country.
Otherwise, if the passport has all the elements required to validate itself (the article claims it already has all the encryption key information), then it follows anyone could create a self-validating passport. Including whatever bad guys this programme is intentended to prevent from doing so.
It's worked for me - twice. That said, I interpret the raw SMART data on my own. I look at reallocated sectors. Many tools will report I drive as "fine" with a few reallocated sectors. Not me. The first sign of sector reallocation and I'm at the store buying a new drive to replace it.
I replace drives at the first sign of trouble from the drives internal SMART tables. This has saved my butt twice in three years. I also mirror when possible.
I use smartmontools on Linux and PassMark's diskcheckup on Windows. MacOSX has SMART built into diskutility.
a few points:
Microsoft was convicted of being a monopoly
You keep saying "the State." There are more than one. The actions of the EU are not at all similar to the actions of the US.
Also, I don't subscribe to the idea that governments see fines as revenue. There may be odd small town that pays for it's police vehicles from speeding tickets, but I feel this is the exception rather than the norm. Fines are economic sanctions designed to coercively change inappropriate behaviour.
As far as inconsistent government behaviour goes, remember that governments usually strive to find balance between conflicting forces. A purely free market would be dreadful. Governments that prop-up one economic aspect have a duty to make sure it doesn't tip too far the other way. The obvious and topical discussion, if a government grants a limited monopoly via patents, copyrights and trade secrets, that government must and should be alert to growing abuses of patents, copyrights and trade secrets.
Actually I did walk into it on season three. The transition was made easier with two things. A good mentor and Lurker's Guide. I think Lurker's Guide still sets the benchmark for what an episode guide should be.
Perhaps it might have been better to say, "Suitable for all GNU/Linux distributions." Some distributions, Debian for example, are fairly strict about keeping all the packages OSI pure. You have to go out of your way to get "non-free" installed and manually install Java.
With GPL Java, I expect that Java on Debian will be as easy as "apt-get install java".
Except the cards in Florida weren't paper - insofar as it wasn't designed to be a human readable device.
I define Paper Ballot as an election device that is easily readable by anyone old enough to vote without any special tools more complicated than reading glasses.
A punch card, although constructed from heavy-weight paper, is a machine readable device and requires training to be able to read manually. Not that the training is terribly complicated for the average Slashdotter.
I agree with the E911 - with an additional step. Put a classic analog phone on that same line in the main office. If you feel pretentious, make it a red phone. My aunt used to be the Dean at a university branch campus and they did the same thing - PBX everywhere on campus and legacy analog line on the wall of the Dean's office.
why was a bill needed?
Because elections are six weeks away.
Social conservatives are a fickle electorate. In order to ensure they turn out, Republican strategists toss stuff like this out there to appeal to them.
Because registering the copyright can be an important step in being able to defend a copyright claim in court because registering is a strong governmental acknowledgement of the work.
I use a technique that professional stage hands use to keep their wiring neat and portable - tie line.
The usual technique is to use 18" cuts, tie a clove-hitch first, then finish with a bow knot like your shoes
I think people watch Doctor Who for different reasons. Some like the cheese. Some like the stories. I suspect those who enjoy the cheese would go to auto races to see the crashes. I'm in the stories camp. I've always been able to suspend my disbelief enough to ignore the obvious problems of dressing a man in brown-green bubble wrap.
I also enjoy how as a 28 year series, Doctor Who is a time capsule of history. Tom Baker being mid to late 70's, Peter Davison being the early 80's and so forth.