You're confusing the Judicial Branch of government with the Department of Justice.
The Judicial Branch which is composed of "one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish." In pratice, the inferior Courts are District Courts, Courts of Appeals and other courts.
Yes, federal justices serve life-time appointments or more accurately they "shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour" (they don't get into trouble which might be grounds for removal)
The Department of Justice is a department of the Executive Branch and therefore subject to the priorities of the President. Some of the more famous DOJ agencies include the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, Drug Enforcement Agency. They basically prosecute cases by bringing those cases before courts. Prosecutors have tremendous latitude to prioritize which cases are more important. Under Bush/Ashcroft, Microsoft anti-trust was not seen as important as it was under Clinton/Reno.
I largely agree. In any endevor, you will find gaps in documentation as well as other flaws.
In Business America, if a manager want to axe someone, all they have to do write up every little flaw, every little gaff, every little hiccup. They'll give the employee a bad review. Then one day they plant a big folder of all the "problems" on a table and instruct the employee to find another job.
I wonder if the audit is part of a larger plan to justify a shut down of the ISS.
I have to agree with your remarks. I use ETC consoles quite frequently. They main thing that sets a dedicated console apart from a PC is that there is a specialized keyboard with buttons for "Cue" and "Channel" and "Time". It's easier to plug in a show at the console. Hell, the ETC Remote Focus Unit can do a decent job too.
I've noticed that in many specalty applications the key benifit is the special user interface.
Pro Tools has USB based hardware plugins. I've used dedicated MIDI sequencer with a very nice job wheel.
When my sister was in high school, she discoverd that her GM key opened someones #include <non/gm.h> car. Being high school he was worried about his parents finding out. She swore that she would never under any circumstances use her key in his car.
One day he locked his keys in his car. The ass kissing began.
I've written programs on VAX, Dec Alpha, RS6000, PowerPC, PA-RISC, 6502, Sparc, Ultra Sparc, 68000 and every version of x86 since the original PC.
Really, don't get hung up about x86. In the grand scheme, it's just another CPU. Unit cost, energy cost in a million unit device will more than out weigh nearly anything that might make you choose x86.
Agreed. Any energy source ultimately gets it's energy from the sun or from geothermics. And geothermics might be leftover solar too - I am not an astronomer.
The laws of physics, notably the conservation of energy says that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Any time energy is converted from one form to another form it is never a pure convertion. There is always some "loss" of energy due to some energy being converted into non-useful form - usually heat.
I would agree that long cycles is probably better for enterprise customers. Having worked with HP-UX systems before, I know first hand that Debian is downright snappy compared to HP "Official" packages. I my memory is correct, the version of Perl that installs with HP-UX 11i is Perl 4.036.
Developed editions of NT4, and I presume more recent versions, ship with debug symbols, device driver headers and a wealth of information that can be used to facilitate the reverse engineering process.
Also, I don't know if you've ever looked at the reversed engineered code the the 1988 Morris Internet Worm source code. Sure it's small compared to an operating system, but it's an amazing testament to the power of good reverse engineers.
Sure the source code will make it easier to find exploits, but I've believed for a few years that "institutional hackers" those who have long ago reversed compiled Windows into something suitable for writting worms. How else does the Code Red author decide, "Hey! I found this buffer overflow routine in the unicode support for URLs in the IIS Indexing Server"?
There are probably paranoid governments who have teams who do this just this kind of work just to make sure those fabled NSA back doors in either are or aren't windows.
For that matter, if you want pay-per-view, there's you can always use the web site to request a movie. I've had my non-tivo directtv system in a room without a phone jack for five years.
No, the downstream server (An off-the-shelf timeclock system) was a canned product. It used BASIC authentication. There is a portal product which is a little bit client, and a little bit server. And, of course, the end users' browser. The user logs into the portal site and gets a summary of hours worked. (among other things.) The timeclock system released the hours because the portal site impersonated the end user and provided the data to be scrapped be the portal. Both the portal and timeclock system authenticated to a central password system (eDir), to the time clock system demands basic authentication from anyone who asks for data (good for it) and a portal is just another browser. The fact a user logged into the portal has no relevance if the user want to follow a link on the portal site and get more information like shift assignments or trading shifts with someone else. The links on the portal site were built with the username password in them save the user the hassle of signing in twice when he transitioned off the portal site to the timeclock site.
Because the problem is also with the web server that supplied the credientials. I worked with a portal package that logged into a downstream web server, got some aggreagate data, then supplied drill-down links that linked directly to the downstream server that had the authentication information in the URL. The downstream web server was a package that we couldn't modify. Technically, it's the only way (short of exotic technology like Kerberos) to do this with three different computers that shouldn't trust each other.
We were willing to live with that, out out big hang up was that when your mouse hovered over the link, the status bar displayed the full URL with the plaintext authentication information.
That's also how the OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) catch people with radar detectors. Radar detectors are illegal in Ontario. They have "Radar Detector Detectors" which look for super-heterodyne noise.
Ahh, yes - Socapex. The ones I've used were fairly flexible and not bad. Much better than six individual 20 Amp circuits. they are overkill if you only need three circuits.
I couldn't agree more with what you said about cable length! More cable requires more cable management.
I thought socapex were 19 conductor. I'm going to have to check the house I work in if pin 19 is used or not.
Stage hands have needed to deal with cable management for years. Granted 50amp power cables are much heavier than cat5 cable, but the problem remains. And theatres with rotating productions need to reconfigure the lighting and the cabling with each new production.
The most common technique is to use good old fashioned string. Most hands refer to it as Tie Line. Run a wire where you need it, tie it up. Tie line is usually cut to about half a yard (or metre), tied in a clove knot, and finished with the same knot you tie your shoes with.
After a year or two, they wear out, but it's cheap and easy.
Many rental shops will put Velcro ties on their cables. I think it's silly given that's it's 50x more exprensive, but it's their money.
I recall an article from a previous Slashdot Post on the subject about Adobe that Adobe was provided a pre-compiled binary from the government that implemented the detection algorithm. Adobe engineers absolutely couldn't see the code.
It stands to reason, that HP would be in a similar situation which is probably why this feature is implemented in the driver. The Windows driver and presumably MacOS too.
The significance of this is that it's not really part of the printer firmware. The detection algorithm is on the same side of the printer cable as the OS. Okay, I'm splitting hairs because many users won't or can't make a distinction between their computer refusing to print and the printer refusing to print.
According to some of the articles I've read, Adobe was provided binary code that implements the feature by the US Treasury.
Given the Open Source nature of Gimp, I'd be hard pressed to see that the feature would RUN on my DEC Alpha workstation FreeBSD much less in GIMP which I had to compile myself.
I'm normally a privacy nut and I have no use for those greedy, slimey casinos. For the most part, I don't have a problem with it. A casino chip is basically the same thing as currency in a casino. It's money. Our privacy expectations should be the same as money.
Basically it's an anti-theft device. If I walk into Wal-mart and try to slip stolen, tagged merchandise past the doorway I expect to set off the alarms. I think people trying to slip casino chips out side doors is wrong. Since a chip is money, counterfeit protections are also good. It's wrong to mint a counterfeit chip and expect a casino to pay for them.
I know people are worried that a casino will start tracking that a Customer Relations person gave a well-known married male High Roller $1000 chip number 87654321 which four hours later was cashed by a woman of "questionable employment." Is it fair that the casino now knows the "social habits" of that high roller? Probably not. Suppose the well-know high roller was a Senator.
The real problem is that a chip is only good in one place - the casino. The gives the casino more power. And power currupts.
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The Judicial Branch which is composed of "one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish." In pratice, the inferior Courts are District Courts, Courts of Appeals and other courts. Yes, federal justices serve life-time appointments or more accurately they "shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour" (they don't get into trouble which might be grounds for removal)
The Department of Justice is a department of the Executive Branch and therefore subject to the priorities of the President. Some of the more famous DOJ agencies include the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, Drug Enforcement Agency. They basically prosecute cases by bringing those cases before courts. Prosecutors have tremendous latitude to prioritize which cases are more important. Under Bush/Ashcroft, Microsoft anti-trust was not seen as important as it was under Clinton/Reno.
Just wait until they bump into Mrs. Frisby. Never thought I'd see that childhood book come to life in my lifetime.
In Business America, if a manager want to axe someone, all they have to do write up every little flaw, every little gaff, every little hiccup. They'll give the employee a bad review. Then one day they plant a big folder of all the "problems" on a table and instruct the employee to find another job.
I wonder if the audit is part of a larger plan to justify a shut down of the ISS.
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I've noticed that in many specalty applications the key benifit is the special user interface.
Pro Tools has USB based hardware plugins. I've used dedicated MIDI sequencer with a very nice job wheel.
One day he locked his keys in his car. The ass kissing began.
I've written programs on VAX, Dec Alpha, RS6000, PowerPC, PA-RISC, 6502, Sparc, Ultra Sparc, 68000 and every version of x86 since the original PC. Really, don't get hung up about x86. In the grand scheme, it's just another CPU. Unit cost, energy cost in a million unit device will more than out weigh nearly anything that might make you choose x86.
The laws of physics, notably the conservation of energy says that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Any time energy is converted from one form to another form it is never a pure convertion. There is always some "loss" of energy due to some energy being converted into non-useful form - usually heat.
I would agree that long cycles is probably better for enterprise customers. Having worked with HP-UX systems before, I know first hand that Debian is downright snappy compared to HP "Official" packages. I my memory is correct, the version of Perl that installs with HP-UX 11i is Perl 4.036.
Also, I don't know if you've ever looked at the reversed engineered code the the 1988 Morris Internet Worm source code. Sure it's small compared to an operating system, but it's an amazing testament to the power of good reverse engineers.
The way I've been misspelling lately, I'd make it:
s/ISS/IIS/g
There are probably paranoid governments who have teams who do this just this kind of work just to make sure those fabled NSA back doors in either are or aren't windows.
For that matter, if you want pay-per-view, there's you can always use the web site to request a movie. I've had my non-tivo directtv system in a room without a phone jack for five years.
We were willing to live with that, out out big hang up was that when your mouse hovered over the link, the status bar displayed the full URL with the plaintext authentication information.
Radar Detector Detector Detector? George Boole would be proud. Or furious.
That's also how the OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) catch people with radar detectors. Radar detectors are illegal in Ontario. They have "Radar Detector Detectors" which look for super-heterodyne noise.
Ahh, yes - Socapex. The ones I've used were fairly flexible and not bad. Much better than six individual 20 Amp circuits. they are overkill if you only need three circuits. I couldn't agree more with what you said about cable length! More cable requires more cable management. I thought socapex were 19 conductor. I'm going to have to check the house I work in if pin 19 is used or not.
The most common technique is to use good old fashioned string. Most hands refer to it as Tie Line. Run a wire where you need it, tie it up. Tie line is usually cut to about half a yard (or metre), tied in a clove knot, and finished with the same knot you tie your shoes with. After a year or two, they wear out, but it's cheap and easy.
Many rental shops will put Velcro ties on their cables. I think it's silly given that's it's 50x more exprensive, but it's their money.
It stands to reason, that HP would be in a similar situation which is probably why this feature is implemented in the driver. The Windows driver and presumably MacOS too.
The significance of this is that it's not really part of the printer firmware. The detection algorithm is on the same side of the printer cable as the OS. Okay, I'm splitting hairs because many users won't or can't make a distinction between their computer refusing to print and the printer refusing to print.
According to some of the articles I've read, Adobe was provided binary code that implements the feature by the US Treasury.
Given the Open Source nature of Gimp, I'd be hard pressed to see that the feature would RUN on my DEC Alpha workstation FreeBSD much less in GIMP which I had to compile myself.
And a Slashdot ID > 700000? Something smells fishy.
Basically it's an anti-theft device. If I walk into Wal-mart and try to slip stolen, tagged merchandise past the doorway I expect to set off the alarms. I think people trying to slip casino chips out side doors is wrong. Since a chip is money, counterfeit protections are also good. It's wrong to mint a counterfeit chip and expect a casino to pay for them.
I know people are worried that a casino will start tracking that a Customer Relations person gave a well-known married male High Roller $1000 chip number 87654321 which four hours later was cashed by a woman of "questionable employment." Is it fair that the casino now knows the "social habits" of that high roller? Probably not. Suppose the well-know high roller was a Senator.
The real problem is that a chip is only good in one place - the casino. The gives the casino more power. And power currupts.
Too bad more often than not its users who are social engineered to click "Ok" and authorise windows to install it.
A UK mate of mine says that once knighted, the press are required to respect and use the title.