How dare you imply that the undead do not have a social life!!! Vampires are suave and sophisticated, indeed much more so than normally-lived people. They have a "von" in their name. They're educated. And they plan for the long term. To assert anything else is simply speciesist propoganda!
In some cases there are more for BSD, as things not clearly legal for Linux and the GPL do not present a problem with BSD's license. Linux tends to be more developed. In general Linux is more friendly to the less experienced user.
I like that the BSD kernel runs close to equally now, just because it means that Linux is no longer essential to the GNU system.
The GNU system works equally well today with Linux and BSD. Debian has released a BSD version, and a Linux version, both with essentially the same software from GNU LIBC up, just a different kernel.
What is it then? Surely not a "Linux" system when it's using the BSD kernel but is otherwise identical. RMS has always called this a "GNU system", and he had a point.
It's not unusual for a retail store to have a 3-year-old computer. Is there a big warning on the box to the effect of "Warning: Warranties will not be honored if registered after April 2012"?
Unget updandered. The point is that this could happen in many cities just as easily, and while something more pernicious is carried out at the same time. And the fact that the hospital was not ready indicates that yes, people need to be awakened.
San Jose and Santa Clara had other communications sources and do not seem to have had outages nearly so complete, and didn't (as far as I'm aware) need to get hams to help them run the hospital. So, I focused on Morgan Hill.
I did mention that redundancy might not have helped this case.
Yes, one beige box and one operator would be the wrong way to go for a hospital. I think database replication is the best way to handle this.
So, I reported all of the implications that I thought of.
Could it be that if there was enough speculation on the possibility of use of a passenger aircraft as a suicide bomb, taking advantage of the then-established protocol for handling hijackers, that such a thing might have been prevented? I know there was some speculation, and some dramatic presentations, but not enough to shake the responsible people up into taking it seriously, and then making new policy and implementing it in time.
On this issue, the only power I have is to try to attract attention and shake people up with my words. I did my best.
The problem with storing diesel is that most communities will have you build secondary containment so that a breach of the tank doesn't result in an uncontrolled spill. Most communities have clued in enough not to require this for things that are gases at atmospheric pressure, although there are some who even require it for liquid oxygen!
He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword. We really were getting a bit too close for that. Obama is a tremendous improvement, not that I am saying he is without flaw. Not even Obama can rewind all of what went wrong in one term.
If we want to be respected as a nation and to be treated as we desire, yes, we really do have to treat everyone else as we would have them treat us. And this, unfortunately, means that sometimes innocent, non-combatant U.S. citizens will die because preserving our values was more important than catching every bad guy and hurting a lot of other folks in the name of doing that.
IMO, 911 was a crime and should always have been treated as such. The dirtbags who carried it out are not any entity that the U.S. could be at war with.
That's nonsense. DARPA isn't "sponsored" by anybody. It's an arm of the DoD with it's own director and funding sources, completely separate from the army.
I had an ARPA grant while I was at Pixar. While the agency may have been its own part of DoD, I think you are overstating its independence from the military branches. Our project was entirely non-military, except that it encouraged companies producing 3D hardware in the U.S. to stay in business so that we would have a defense supply if such was needed. Anyone who did not understand that goal would have called it corporate welfare.
Although I would like to see more folks become hams, I did not work to eliminate the Morse test just for quantity, but because having Morse on the test didn't make sense for the (then) next century's amateur radio. The survival of Amateur Radio was a goal. Some hams asked me to let it "die with dignity". To heck with them.
I would be happy to see a more intensive technical exam.
As it happens, U.S. ham numbers are around 8000 higher this year than last, but about 20,000 down since 2002. We still have yet to see if we can achieve stability or increase, or if the service is still declining in numbers. Some of us still wonder if we will see it die in our lifetime. That would be really sad.
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How dare you imply that the undead do not have a social life!!! Vampires are suave and sophisticated, indeed much more so than normally-lived people. They have a "von" in their name. They're educated. And they plan for the long term. To assert anything else is simply speciesist propoganda!
In some cases there are more for BSD, as things not clearly legal for Linux and the GPL do not present a problem with BSD's license. Linux tends to be more developed. In general Linux is more friendly to the less experienced user.
I like that the BSD kernel runs close to equally now, just because it means that Linux is no longer essential to the GNU system.
We can all tell Linus to *uck off now :-)
The GNU system works equally well today with Linux and BSD. Debian has released a BSD version, and a Linux version, both with essentially the same software from GNU LIBC up, just a different kernel.
What is it then? Surely not a "Linux" system when it's using the BSD kernel but is otherwise identical. RMS has always called this a "GNU system", and he had a point.
Here's the latest report from my sunspot guru.
We're at a sunspot minimum right now. It's gone on for a long time. Long enough that folks are scratching their heads.
It's not unusual for a retail store to have a 3-year-old computer. Is there a big warning on the box to the effect of "Warning: Warranties will not be honored if registered after April 2012"?
The computers were still new in the box, from reseller stock, but the warranties were expired?
I don't think there's any question that they were actual Dell equipment. So, why should the warranties have expired?
I added a paragraph derived from your information to the story.
Bruce
Apparently they have speculative war games. I was invited to one to drive the theorization regarding Open Source, and unfortunately had to decline.
Unget updandered. The point is that this could happen in many cities just as easily, and while something more pernicious is carried out at the same time. And the fact that the hospital was not ready indicates that yes, people need to be awakened.
San Jose and Santa Clara had other communications sources and do not seem to have had outages nearly so complete, and didn't (as far as I'm aware) need to get hams to help them run the hospital. So, I focused on Morgan Hill.
I did mention that redundancy might not have helped this case.
Yes, one beige box and one operator would be the wrong way to go for a hospital. I think database replication is the best way to handle this.
I was thinking of Vinge when I wrote the article.
Jeremy,
I said the implications were unreported.
So, I reported all of the implications that I thought of.
Could it be that if there was enough speculation on the possibility of use of a passenger aircraft as a suicide bomb, taking advantage of the then-established protocol for handling hijackers, that such a thing might have been prevented? I know there was some speculation, and some dramatic presentations, but not enough to shake the responsible people up into taking it seriously, and then making new policy and implementing it in time.
On this issue, the only power I have is to try to attract attention and shake people up with my words. I did my best.
They reported the incident. Not the implications. I said the implications were unreported.
You can do a lot better than having the repeater feedline go up a phone pole from ground level. That really should be taken care of.
It seems to me that fail-over would be pretty easy to implement for a trunked system.
The problem with storing diesel is that most communities will have you build secondary containment so that a breach of the tank doesn't result in an uncontrolled spill. Most communities have clued in enough not to require this for things that are gases at atmospheric pressure, although there are some who even require it for liquid oxygen!
Bumpkin: You can take my electrons out of my cold, dead, fingers!
Alien: That will be acceptable!
Alien uses his anode...
Is it sensitive to chloramine too? If not, I think I want to have a chat with someone at my water company.
He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword. We really were getting a bit too close for that. Obama is a tremendous improvement, not that I am saying he is without flaw. Not even Obama can rewind all of what went wrong in one term.
If we want to be respected as a nation and to be treated as we desire, yes, we really do have to treat everyone else as we would have them treat us. And this, unfortunately, means that sometimes innocent, non-combatant U.S. citizens will die because preserving our values was more important than catching every bad guy and hurting a lot of other folks in the name of doing that.
IMO, 911 was a crime and should always have been treated as such. The dirtbags who carried it out are not any entity that the U.S. could be at war with.
The point is that ARPA contracts, what I saw of them, were all related to needs of the four services for the future.
HandiHam.org will help you. And if you can't afford the equipment, they will help with that too.
They do a lot of war-gaming, but not so much in your backyard as in their own.
Have you gotten your ham license yet? You should.
I had an ARPA grant while I was at Pixar. While the agency may have been its own part of DoD, I think you are overstating its independence from the military branches. Our project was entirely non-military, except that it encouraged companies producing 3D hardware in the U.S. to stay in business so that we would have a defense supply if such was needed. Anyone who did not understand that goal would have called it corporate welfare.
"Ramrod" is an interesting way to refer to me :-)
Although I would like to see more folks become hams, I did not work to eliminate the Morse test just for quantity, but because having Morse on the test didn't make sense for the (then) next century's amateur radio. The survival of Amateur Radio was a goal. Some hams asked me to let it "die with dignity". To heck with them.
I would be happy to see a more intensive technical exam.
As it happens, U.S. ham numbers are around 8000 higher this year than last, but about 20,000 down since 2002. We still have yet to see if we can achieve stability or increase, or if the service is still declining in numbers. Some of us still wonder if we will see it die in our lifetime. That would be really sad.