I just loaded this new grub on my system. I got a strange new boot menu:
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I re-implemented getopt, getopt_long, and getopt_long_only because
there were noticable bugs in several versions of the GNU
implementations, and because the GNU versions aren't always available
on some systems (*BSD, for example.) Other systems don't include any
sort of standard argument parser (Win32 with Microsoft tools, for
example, has no getopt.)
its not like it takes a long time to download the ISO
You've obviously never tried to download a major distro in the first couple of days after release. You can waste a lot of time just trying to find a mirror that will let you log in, not to mention babysitting your system to see if your FTP session gets dropped by an overloaded server. OTOH, since bittorrent arrived on the scene, I've never had any problems getting ISOs at the full speed if my net connection, even on the release day. Downloading huge files from a bottlenecked source is just uncivilized.
You've described the current law for resistive loads. You've neglected capacitance and inductance. In particular, for a capacitor (which an LCD basically is), V = Q/C. Thus, you can have a voltage without a current, as long as you have a static charge.
are any and all organizations that collect a fixed 9-digit number (that is assigned at birth and revealed to hundreds of parties over a lifetime), and then use it in such a way that just knowing that number would ever be a security risk. The fact that this absurd practice is almost universal is just sheer stupidity on a national scale.
Maybe there should be a law that automobile license plate numbers should be the same as the owner's SSN. That would put a damper on the temptation to use SSNs as some kind of secret passphrase.
It would have been so much easier if Congress had just made the law say "must have been a registered U.S. patent attorney for at least 5 years before appointment."
To me, that sounds like putting the inmates in charge of the asylum.
No, most airports that handle large planes exclusively use jetways. They wouldn't let you use stairs even if you asked them nicely. Not to mention that the rear exits are usually monopolized by the food service truck during stopovers.
According to this site, if you fly every day, you'd get killed once every 19,000 years. That's about a 1 in 7 million odds per flight, which sounds about right.
When you sit in the back, it takes longer to get off of the plane because you have to wait for all the bozos in front of you to fumble for their personal belongings. I'd say that a conservative estimate is an average of 5 extra minutes. So before your first expected crash, you'd waste 5 * 7,000,000 minutes, or 66 solid years waiting at the back of planes. So to save each life, you're essentially using up an entire lifetime standing hunched over watching old codgers wrestle with their suitcases. (It's actually much worse than that, because only a fraction of fatal crashes even have a difference in outcome between the front and the back. A lot of times, everybody dies and sitting in the back doesn't help anyway.)
'One researcher predicts it will be five to seven years before only the "die-hard" desktop users are left.
So it will end up like it started. I was there with my desktop when only "die-hards" had ever even used a computer, and I'll be there with one when die hard users are the only ones left (and everyone else has moved on to some kind of cellphone). Eventually I'll probably look as silly as a Civil War reenactor, but so what.
The atmosphere on earth is dense enough to slow down a capsule or winged orbiter to below hypersonic speeds just using the shape of the vehicle itself. Then the parachutes can be deployed without them getting burned up or ripped to shreds by a hypersonic gas stream.
And before anyone moans that the market should dictate prices etc, bear this in mind. If one of your customers is worth over $60,000,000 a year, and they are working on small margins, retail sites and are getting undercut by some guy flogging stuff in the back of his van/ebay, how long till they turn round and stop selling your product, and therefore you potentially just lost $60 million.
That's not our problem. In a true free market, if you're smart enough, you'd figure out how to make the more efficient van/ebay people your new customers. If you're not smart enough, another manufacturer will step in to supply the demand for your type of goods.
Of course, in reality the system is rigged so that it's usually not a free market, so you can probably continue to sit back and rake in your artificially inflated profits.
1. One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning, such as bank (embankment) and bank (place where money is kept).
2. a. A word used to designate several different things. b. A namesake.
In fact the CUPS on OS X is so flawlessly working that nobody has clue they have "CUPS" or ever visited the famous 127.0.0.1:631 on their browser.
That's already the case on my KDE system. The printers just work, and any mention of CUPS is buried in an advanced settings dialog box somewhere. I guess that Apple won't have all that much to do.
There just aren't enough humans to keep track of all that stuff unless there's an event connected with your movements that makes it worthwhile to dig up that data.
It won't need humans. That data will most likely be around forever, and data mining algorithms will keep improving all the time. In the future, you may be continuously profiled by government algorithms based on decade's worth of your movement records. You may not think that that prospect is a concern, but you'd be wrong.
As far as civil liberties go, isn't the reduced likelihood of false prosecution a benefit worth giving up some privacy that we don't actually have?
People who think that they need alibis could always sign up to be voluntarily minded after by a private company.
if a system of license plate readers can detect a plate that has been flagged by some agency and prevents one, e.g., car bombing, why is that not a valid mechanism to use?
Because for every person killed by terrorists in the past century, hundreds have been killed by their own governments. Why would you give powerful new tools the the statistically more dangerous institution?
Sure, here in the US, we've mostly avoided government abuses. But that's mainly because we have a constitution that makes law enforcement MUCH harder than it could be. This check on government abuse has probably saved millions of lives over the centuries. So it's pretty clear that the issue is not how some new technology can enhance law enforcement efforts. The principles that this country was founded on, and centuries of history in other countries, make it clear that the primary overriding issue must be how to prevent abuse of new technology. Only after that has been carefully addressed, then should new powers be handed over to the government. Unfortunately, abuse prevention is almost always an afterthought, kept secret, and/or put in the trust of the same people who control the technology.
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Likewise, a nuclear weapon is not much different than a box of dynamite, just more efficient.
Yes, and you'd be a creep for doing it.
Probably because people don't want the police getting too accustomed to acting like creeps all the time.
I am the boss.
You've obviously never tried to download a major distro in the first couple of days after release. You can waste a lot of time just trying to find a mirror that will let you log in, not to mention babysitting your system to see if your FTP session gets dropped by an overloaded server. OTOH, since bittorrent arrived on the scene, I've never had any problems getting ISOs at the full speed if my net connection, even on the release day. Downloading huge files from a bottlenecked source is just uncivilized.
Most likely one designed by old-school figure skating fans who don't like the new ISU scoring system.
You've described the current law for resistive loads. You've neglected capacitance and inductance. In particular, for a capacitor (which an LCD basically is), V = Q/C. Thus, you can have a voltage without a current, as long as you have a static charge.
Maybe there should be a law that automobile license plate numbers should be the same as the owner's SSN. That would put a damper on the temptation to use SSNs as some kind of secret passphrase.
To me, that sounds like putting the inmates in charge of the asylum.
No, most airports that handle large planes exclusively use jetways. They wouldn't let you use stairs even if you asked them nicely. Not to mention that the rear exits are usually monopolized by the food service truck during stopovers.
The 15-foot drop onto the tarmac would be too painful.
When you sit in the back, it takes longer to get off of the plane because you have to wait for all the bozos in front of you to fumble for their personal belongings. I'd say that a conservative estimate is an average of 5 extra minutes. So before your first expected crash, you'd waste 5 * 7,000,000 minutes, or 66 solid years waiting at the back of planes. So to save each life, you're essentially using up an entire lifetime standing hunched over watching old codgers wrestle with their suitcases. (It's actually much worse than that, because only a fraction of fatal crashes even have a difference in outcome between the front and the back. A lot of times, everybody dies and sitting in the back doesn't help anyway.)
So it will end up like it started. I was there with my desktop when only "die-hards" had ever even used a computer, and I'll be there with one when die hard users are the only ones left (and everyone else has moved on to some kind of cellphone). Eventually I'll probably look as silly as a Civil War reenactor, but so what.
Now we'll finally know if crucial ZIP+4 zones like my regional IRS tax return mail basket are getting suitable broadband hookups.
The atmosphere on earth is dense enough to slow down a capsule or winged orbiter to below hypersonic speeds just using the shape of the vehicle itself. Then the parachutes can be deployed without them getting burned up or ripped to shreds by a hypersonic gas stream.
That's not our problem. In a true free market, if you're smart enough, you'd figure out how to make the more efficient van/ebay people your new customers. If you're not smart enough, another manufacturer will step in to supply the demand for your type of goods.
Of course, in reality the system is rigged so that it's usually not a free market, so you can probably continue to sit back and rake in your artificially inflated profits.
That's exactly what I was pointing out.
I would only have a problem with the term "hacker" if my mind were too feeble to grasp the concept of a homonym.
(The same goes for holiday gift certificates.)
Write once, pwn anywhere!
That's already the case on my KDE system. The printers just work, and any mention of CUPS is buried in an advanced settings dialog box somewhere. I guess that Apple won't have all that much to do.
It won't need humans. That data will most likely be around forever, and data mining algorithms will keep improving all the time. In the future, you may be continuously profiled by government algorithms based on decade's worth of your movement records. You may not think that that prospect is a concern, but you'd be wrong.
People who think that they need alibis could always sign up to be voluntarily minded after by a private company.
Because for every person killed by terrorists in the past century, hundreds have been killed by their own governments. Why would you give powerful new tools the the statistically more dangerous institution?
Sure, here in the US, we've mostly avoided government abuses. But that's mainly because we have a constitution that makes law enforcement MUCH harder than it could be. This check on government abuse has probably saved millions of lives over the centuries. So it's pretty clear that the issue is not how some new technology can enhance law enforcement efforts. The principles that this country was founded on, and centuries of history in other countries, make it clear that the primary overriding issue must be how to prevent abuse of new technology. Only after that has been carefully addressed, then should new powers be handed over to the government. Unfortunately, abuse prevention is almost always an afterthought, kept secret, and/or put in the trust of the same people who control the technology.