You must be too young to remember the late-70s sitcom "Mork & Mindy". Mork (Robin Williams) came from a planet so chickenshit they'd hide the entire planet to avoid confrontation.
Obviously Mr. Hawking was a big fan.
That and he exactly described the plot of Independence Day right off the bat. Maybe he is just a fan of actor-comedians?
Yeah, booted a Windows Vista box connected directly to the cable modem and got IPv4 *AND* IPv6 addresses. It didn't look like a link local address, but I might have been mistaken. It was late, and I was compelled to work with Vista. I'll find out tomorrow when swap the Comcast-supplied wireless router (NOT in line when I tested before) with my dd-wrt box (Linksys WRT600N) and turn on radvd and the gang.
I just relocated to Virginia and to my surprise, Comcast is providing IPv6 addresses on their residential links. I'm going to activate IPv6 on my dd-wrt router and all my PCs sometime this weekend.
Yeah, all 5 of them out of a country of 330,000,000.
An Anthrax Epidemic?
Killed in car accidents 42,116* Killed by the common flu 20,000* Killed by murders 15,517* Killed in airline crashes (of 477m passenger trips) 120 (1) Killed by lightning strikes 90* Killed by Anthrax 5
(1) Annual average over 19 year period. *Average annual totals in United States.
While their deaths were tragic, putting it in perspective puts death by Anthrax WAY down the list of things to really worry about. Somewhere way down after the 58 / year by lightning, 57 by tornadoes, 48 by hurricanes, etc.
Geez...50 comments and NONE of them make mention that Truro, Mass not too long ago lost their Postmaster. Not to mention the entire contingent of postal employees is ineligible to vote!
If an officer of the law requests to see your ID, you must present it.
You are factually incorrect. You are not required to produce any form of ID on demand in the United States. The worst anyone can do is deny you entry or purchase, if it is based on ID or ID as proof of age/residency/etc/. The exception would be driving a motor vehicle on public roads, where you are required to be licensed and show proof on demand.
There is nothing to lobby your Representative about, because this isn't against any law.
What they DON'T show -- and I've sent feedback asking for -- is how many of these are legal demands, such as warrants or court orders, versus informal requests.
Is that sarcasm or are you impressed? I'm having a hard time telling. 380 lines of C for "Hello World" is a tad much, but using OpenGL to fade between images...
The tool detects all USB events, but the main focus is on mass storage devices.
You are over estimating the threat model they're targeting. This isn't about spies or coordinated data theft. It is designed to deal with the 99% part of the problem that is clueless users plugging in USB drives because it is faster and more convenient than the approved methods.
"Burning to a CD takes too long! I'm just gonna use this USB drive I found in the office..."
It might not happen in the NSA, but it is pervasive in the other civilian gov't agencies.
It isn't going to help much if the bullet has enough force to make the t-shirt penetrate you. If we're talking a 2-inch stretch, then it'll make things less messy, but no less lethal.
Nokia N900 with Joikuspot. With true multitasking, you can run it in the background while also running the turn-by-turn navigation on the main screen. Just to annoy the iPhone addicts, run the media player and pipe it thru your FM radio with the built-in FM transmitter.
It'll even gracefully handle a call while doing all that, properly muting the music and gracefully interjecting the voice commands from the GPS.
I've had it do all that once, just to show it could be done. Be sure to have the phone plugged into power, or your battery is going to drain faster than you can believe.
I mention this only for completeness and that they seem to be forgotten.
We had German-American and Italian-American detention facilities during WW2 as well. They seem to get overlooked by most people. They were mostly on the east coast, though there were some in Texas as well.
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You must be too young to remember the late-70s sitcom "Mork & Mindy". Mork (Robin Williams) came from a planet so chickenshit they'd hide the entire planet to avoid confrontation.
Obviously Mr. Hawking was a big fan.
That and he exactly described the plot of Independence Day right off the bat. Maybe he is just a fan of actor-comedians?
dd-wrt on a Linksys WRT600N (atheros chipset) has had N for quite some time now.
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Yeah, booted a Windows Vista box connected directly to the cable modem and got IPv4 *AND* IPv6 addresses. It didn't look like a link local address, but I might have been mistaken. It was late, and I was compelled to work with Vista. I'll find out tomorrow when swap the Comcast-supplied wireless router (NOT in line when I tested before) with my dd-wrt box (Linksys WRT600N) and turn on radvd and the gang.
I just relocated to Virginia and to my surprise, Comcast is providing IPv6 addresses on their residential links. I'm going to activate IPv6 on my dd-wrt router and all my PCs sometime this weekend.
Yeah, all 5 of them out of a country of 330,000,000.
An Anthrax Epidemic?
Killed in car accidents 42,116*
Killed by the common flu 20,000*
Killed by murders 15,517*
Killed in airline crashes
(of 477m passenger trips) 120 (1)
Killed by lightning strikes 90*
Killed by Anthrax 5
(1) Annual average over 19 year period.
*Average annual totals in United States.
While their deaths were tragic, putting it in perspective puts death by Anthrax WAY down the list of things to really worry about. Somewhere way down after the 58 / year by lightning, 57 by tornadoes, 48 by hurricanes, etc.
Hey, the government got something right!
Whoa there, pardner! Before jumping to any wild conclusions, re-read what he said.
...on some of the work we do for the government.
That most likely means contractor, not actual government employee.
The gov't didn't do something right. The world is not going to end. Moped Jesus was not spotted on I-55 heading west.
How many times do I have to say it? ROLL the maps!
Geez...50 comments and NONE of them make mention that Truro, Mass not too long ago lost their Postmaster. Not to mention the entire contingent of postal employees is ineligible to vote!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120912/
If an officer of the law requests to see your ID, you must present it.
You are factually incorrect. You are not required to produce any form of ID on demand in the United States. The worst anyone can do is deny you entry or purchase, if it is based on ID or ID as proof of age/residency/etc/. The exception would be driving a motor vehicle on public roads, where you are required to be licensed and show proof on demand.
There is nothing to lobby your Representative about, because this isn't against any law.
How about the Quake 3 engine? That has been GPLed for some time, and extended quite a bit.
Pick one and pull out your checkbook.
A +4 Insightful the hard way, congratulations.
What they DON'T show -- and I've sent feedback asking for -- is how many of these are legal demands, such as warrants or court orders, versus informal requests.
For anyone else interested in requesting the same info, here is the link: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/request.py?contact_type=privacy&ctx=contactpolicy
As a non-OpenGL programmer, help me out here.
Is that sarcasm or are you impressed? I'm having a hard time telling. 380 lines of C for "Hello World" is a tad much, but using OpenGL to fade between images...
FYI: NEON is ARM and AltiVec is PPC. They're the other processor equivalents to SSE.
This is just typical of IBM Services missing a delivery target.
The article is really an April 1st joke, but the 12th was the closest they could come. Probably need a few more contractor billable hours next time.
The tool detects all USB events, but the main focus is on mass storage devices.
You are over estimating the threat model they're targeting. This isn't about spies or coordinated data theft. It is designed to deal with the 99% part of the problem that is clueless users plugging in USB drives because it is faster and more convenient than the approved methods.
"Burning to a CD takes too long! I'm just gonna use this USB drive I found in the office..."
It might not happen in the NSA, but it is pervasive in the other civilian gov't agencies.
Bless you! I filled out the form and I'll see what Adobe says.
I just purchased Dreamweaver CS4 3 weeks ago. I wonder what their upgrade policy is?
Hmmm...maybe turn that into a TV show. The nerd version of MTV Cribs! Geek Garage!
"And how does the 3000' square foot garage bring in the babes, Andy?"
"Well, over here is the OC-3 connection. I can download porn so fast it'll make your head spin!"
It isn't going to help much if the bullet has enough force to make the t-shirt penetrate you. If we're talking a 2-inch stretch, then it'll make things less messy, but no less lethal.
They only want to support 1 OS that works everywhere, and that's Windows.
You had a point until right there. Windows doesn't work everywhere, and the places it does then it is only for some definitions of "work".
Nokia N900 with Joikuspot. With true multitasking, you can run it in the background while also running the turn-by-turn navigation on the main screen. Just to annoy the iPhone addicts, run the media player and pipe it thru your FM radio with the built-in FM transmitter.
It'll even gracefully handle a call while doing all that, properly muting the music and gracefully interjecting the voice commands from the GPS.
I've had it do all that once, just to show it could be done. Be sure to have the phone plugged into power, or your battery is going to drain faster than you can believe.
Curse you for teasing us like that!
I mention this only for completeness and that they seem to be forgotten.
We had German-American and Italian-American detention facilities during WW2 as well. They seem to get overlooked by most people. They were mostly on the east coast, though there were some in Texas as well.