You'll love it here in DC. A small village in the city voted to ban smoking OUT DOORS. Soon there after the head of the effort was arrested for child molestation. I am sure it is just a coincidence (either the accusation of child molestation or the act of child molestation buy the self-appointed health-czar).
I live in Maryland (specifically Montgomery County directly boardering DC on the NW). Our county government sells all the liquor and most of the beer. Every buisness owner can have only one alcohol license. Hence, you can't own two bars, and only one grocery store of each chain sells beer. Further it is illegal for women to be on top during sex, and our state sport is Jousting (though that's kinda cool).
I've concidered North Carolina and California as places I could move to for jobs. But I've rejected the idea cuz they have crazy politicians/politics.
The morons who live in california screw everything up by letting fads run their political system. How many stupid propositions do the dumb califonians get conned into every election cycle? Look at their utility deregulation and three-strike laws. I agree with both on principle, but California screwed the pooch on implementing both.
North Carolina. Can you say Jesse Helms. The man introduced Benazir Bhutto as the Prime Minister of India before the full congress (she was the prime minister of pakistan; for the americans^W^W^Wthose clueless about international affairs Pakistan and India have been voted most likely to nuke each other in the 21st century). Further Jesse is on Chairman of the Foreign Relations Commitee (or as he renamed it "Killin' Fereners Commitee).
So I live blissfully in the Socialist Republic of Maryland. Resting safely in the knowlege that my power will stay on, my roads will be paved, and the worst thing you can say about my senator is she's 5' tall in heels and might be a lesbian, but I bet you my senator can kick your senator's ass.
Re:Aaaah yes, the charming ignorance of Americans.
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Hey! I as jingoist an american as you can find. I think euro-turds sacrifice an aweful lot to buy their social safty net. But the USA and our neighboring client states (canada and mexico) have some economic issues too.
[ insulting europeans is just a joke btw. Socialism bought you guys comprehensive health care, mass transit, and high level of education; not bad, just a matter of trade offs]
China has the advantage of being a command economy. They hired Nortel to build (not re-build) their telecom infrastructure. The chose Nortel cuz it ain't AT&T and a Canadian (not US) company. AT&T strived to be a pseudo-nationalized monopoly, so the sucked up to the US gov alot (aka put spy stuff in alot of telco hardware sold outside the US). Nortel jumped on the fibre game early to compete against the behemoth of AT&T. Hence China's burgeoning telco infrastructure was the most advanced fibre availble during the 70s and 80s.
Further, the US economy favors monopolies for all kinds of reasons SlashDotters are familiar with (patents, armies of lawyers, stuffing politicians pockets thru PACs, etc.). Monopolists don't give up their cash cows easy. And the incredable wired infrastructure of the US is a cash cow. Hence our telcos don't like competition from wireless or fibre (unless they own it). They really don't like investing alot of money in areas where it'll create lower profit margins; they love those fixed fees set by politicians they own. New unregulated competitive areas suck balls to these guys.
It's a strange burden to have the greatest infrastructure of the 50, 60s, and 70s. The entrenched powers don't want to replace it. Many emerging economies are going straight to fibre infrastructure and wireless for the last few miles.
From the US Constitution. Article I Section 8 The Congress shall have Power... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; . So copyright is a limited right. I actually think it is nessesary in our modern world, but I also think it is being abused by coperations.
Then there is the much ignored Ninth Amendment and Tenth Amendments : The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people and The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
There is a quote I can't remember who to attribute it to that goes: "Your right ends where my right starts". Corperations seem to believe that their rights end some where around my lower intestine.
I'd like to say up front that I like Konqueror alot. But there are few things I don't.
I'd like to add my hopefully constuctive critisism of the otherwise excellent Konqueror.
I can't drag and drop links to another Konqueror window.
I don't like spawning new windows all the time and then killing them when I finished reading a page. I keep one window open with slashdot and one window to drag the article link over to.
There are no application specific Fonts.
What I want for a fixed font in Konqueror is different than what I want for a fixed font in Kmail. Why is there only one global font settings for nearly all of KDE2.
Please, anyone knowlegable about KDE developement, tell me why these bain drammaged choices were made.
Mount takes forever on large partitions too. I had mandrake 7.1 installed on a 40GB drive. It took about 5 minutes to mount the root partition every boot cycle.
This is easy to fix if you care. There is a mount option for ext2 called "nocheck". This turns off an obsolete consistantcy checking step in ext2 mounting. Ted Tso said he's probably making nocheck default in 2.4.x . Maybe it alread is.
Over a year ago (jul-aug 1999) I worked for SunPS.
We were rolling out E3500-E6500s. Because our client, Bell Atlantic, had gotten a seriously bad
batch of systems, we were running full SunVTS (Verification Test Suite), as well as a special
CPU cache testing program. I automated a system to dump images on boot disks than run the SunVTS tests and then the CPU cache testing program.
I was never asked to sign a non-discolsure over
this issue. I am probably violating an overly general NDA now thought. F*ck it, f*ck them, and
f*ck NDAs.
There is no reason to think that humanity has had any affect on the weather. If there is a warming trend today, it is most likely a return to the between-ice age conditions of 1000 years ago.
Yes there is. It is called "Science" or more specifically "Climatology". We are doing things that affect the world within the current climate models. That affect, within the models, is to increase the energy retained by the earth's atmosphere. BTW, this isn't strictly resulting in a warmer climate. Think of adding energy to a pendulumn.
The real question in the models is what dynamic counter forces are there. For example, if the world were to get warmer due to carbon dioxide the surface of the oceans would warm there by be able to absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Ofcourse you then have to wonder what warmer more acidic sea water would due to the sea-critters. But the point is that we don't know what counter-effects of the carbon dioxide we are dumping in the air are. But we do know what the first order effects are.
Finnaly, you can be correct about these mini ice ages and that we are coming out of one. But both man made global warming and coming out of a mini ice age can be true at the same time. You can be skiing down hill and then turn on a jet pack to go faster.
The climatologists don't really argue the amount or effect of carbon dioxide on the climate. The questions really revolve around how the world reacts to the increased energy retention.
Ever heard of shared memory? Each of those applets may be using 1 MB, but 80% - 90% of that 1 MB is shared. I really think we need a new version of "top" that makes this properly obvious to people who are a little slow to get it.
It is very difficult to come up with a policy for accounting shared memory. Say you load a terminal window (this is the first load of all the nessesary libraries). Now create a second (this shares alot of the library code from the first so it's memory foot print is much smaller). Finnaly, close the first (do you resuffle your accounting of the share mem to the second terminal instance).
Sure you think this will work. Now imagine an arbitrarily complex start and stop of terminal windows; throw in a few other apps that share the same libraries; and viola who do you account the share memory to?
It would take alot of kernel level accounting code and a lot of policy to try to reflect real memory usage in top. Pretty quick it wouldn't be any more meaningful than typing 'free'.
In order to get a feel for a programs non-shared memory footprint just read the RSS field of 'ps aux'. Memory management is a black art.
I have been a Unix SysAdmin for 6 years and I am
a damn good one with lots of experience. I have
admined more kinds of unix than most Unix SysAdmins can name, and I can go deep on HP/UX, Solaris, and Linux.
That being said. I am also a PERL desciple. Easy things should be easy and hard things possible. When tweaking one little DNS entry, I'd rather use a dork gui and have it handle the logic of incrementing the zone file's serial number with out my needing to remember.
Easy things easy => GUI interface
Hard things possible => all config is a text file accessably via ed in single user mode.
P.S. I also want a secure way to share user info across platforms. NIS ain't secure; NIS+ ain't cross platform enough, nor easy things easy; you
have to pay for NDS. Anybody working on a LDAP/SSL/PAM/Multi-Unix system? I'll help.
So you overflow the stack allocated char[] (or whatever); write a return address; the return address jumps you into some part of libc.
What part of libc? How is any code in libc usefull without a function call setup?
Wait, I think I get it. Your tailor your overflow to write a return adress AND overwrite the previous functions stack layout so that when the libc code executes it uses the previous (now overwritten) stack. You've also writen the stack so that upon a return from function the registers are poped from the stack that you've tailored.
Plus or minus some code. I think I now get it.
It is still quite a bit harder than current shell code.
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I don't know much about the XFree code. But I have studied both libc and the linux kernel. They are NOT bloated.
The glibc is spartan down to counting asembly instructions. Other than some linker tricks I am not familiar with, it is straight forward code.
Linux has VERY LITTLE code it doesn't need. Some cruft exists but you have to hunt for it. The issue is NEED. A LOT of the code in Linux 2.x is to support functionality QNX will NEVER attempt. This functionality goes to scalability; the dcache, VFS, and VM layers are huge compared the the simplistic implementations on QNX, BUT they HAVE to be to scale like we want Linux to scale.
The QNX comparison was BULLSHIT. Concidering the obvious ignorance this author had of Glibc and Linux, I can't trust his critique of X.
Yes we have to get Sub-pixel awareness (anti-aliasing) into X. Yes we need to accelerate X more (XFree 4.0 is a good beginning). The XFree folk SHOULD NOT wait for standards to come from XOpen (or whom ever is in charge of "standard" X). XFree should FORK from the X11R6 code base/standards. We should make XFree become the standard X by force of numbers.
THAT is a realistic, yet aggressive, GOAL (but I say so in humber ignorance;).
The compiler warnings are a mis-feature of the latest binuitls. That is a bug in gas. The warnings don't matter.
As to the security bug, it takes much more sophisticated shell code than exec("/bin/sh") to exploit. But once the smart hackers make that kind of shellcode available to the dumb script kiddies, it will become a problem.
Actually, Ford moved a Factory to Canada, because of their health care system.
Ford bean counters calculated that difference in the cost of health care between Canada and the US would shave off nearly $700US from the cost of the car (I don't remember the model) that this factory was to produce.
I favor Laissez Fare Capitalist Government mostly, but don't forget that each flavor of Democracy (really a continuous range from Capitalism to Socialism) has advantages and disadvantages.
If you combine Health Care Insurance costs and Health Care costs. Our capitalist way is less provides basic care less efficiently. It provide high end care with greater quality though.
If Microsoft moved out of the US. They could avoid Anti-Trust Litigation, but they would not be able to avoid US Trade Laws.
Specifically, Anti-Dumping laws. If they started giving products away for free to hurt US competitors. The US has laws to cause automatic retaliation agains the corperationa and country of origin.
If Microsoft had been a foreign company, then Microsoft's buisness practices would have been dealt with long ago. Microsoft has recieved a free ride, BECAUSE it is a US company.
Here in the Washington DC area, we had a small ebola outbreak. It is call Ebola Reston, as in Reston VA. It was air bourne. It jumped from room to room in a medial animal quarenteen(sp) building.
Fortunatly, it was not infectious to humans. It was definitely ebola and more simmilar to Ebola Zaire than to Ebola Sudan. I have read several accounts of the Ebola Reston outbreak. The book "The Hot Zone" (i think) was a easy to read and quite chilling.
An outbreak of Ebola Zaire this close to Dullas and National Airport could have ended the world as we know it.
This is the single best route for linux to get on the Big Iron. While Linux is known to run on Sun E4000s (sun boxen w/ upto 14CPUs), nobody is going to run Linux full time on a machine that cost $200,000+ and the vendor provides the "Official" OS for that hardware.
Itanium is aimed at the $50k+ server market. Linux is looking like one of the "Official" or "Intel Supported" OSs for this platform. Therefor people will be buying $50K to $500K machines from VALinux and running Linux on them.
The Itanium port will "make" Linux on the Big Iron machines.
Actually, the 2nd and 10th Amendments. But, yes they are State Rights.
Your reasoning that most of the Bill of Rights are rights of individuas, there for all of them are for individuals is sylogistic (aka. primitive and invalid).
Origional intent, Supreme Court rulings, the Militia Act of 1918 (if I remember correctly), and common sense reading of the 2nd amendment all point to the 2nd amendment as a State's Right.
Do you wish the States to not have the right to maintain armies? I think states having the right to maintain armies protects my freedom from a tyranical Federal Government more than every individual having a pistol or rifle.
I am in favor of broad eligibilty of the citizenry to own guns. But I think it is a lesser "right". One which must, for practical reasons, come with reasonable regulations.
The real challenge is to hold the line on "reasonable regulations". So that these appropriate limitations on gun ownership don't become defacto banning of gun ownership.
Gun advocates are loosing the battle, because they won't engage in these discussions over reasonable regulations. The "all or nothing" battle will result in the "nothing" side winning.
It bothers me how much argument, devoid of facts, surrounds the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Here are some good links with a little bit of my reading of them to help raise the level of discussion.
The Second Amendment, currently, is not interpreted to say the individuals have the unrestricted right to "bear arms".
First there is US v Miller which says that the second amendment is a State Right and not an Individual Right. The power to regulate militias is the right of the states. To this end the states have the right to arm their militias. Also this ruleing of the Supreme Court has been repeatedly upheld (mostly by denying cert, which is usually interpreted as a strong affirmantion of the earlier ruling). Here are some references.
Should you be inclined to argue that US v Miller is just a liberal court ruling which ignores the origional intent of the founding fathers; it would be good to remember that the Federalists won the big battles in the US Constitution. But the Jeffersonians wrote the Bill of Rights. I think the most direct source of the Bill of Rights is the Virginia Declaration of Rights; written by Thomas Jefferson as adopted on June 12, 1776 (3 weeks before the signing of Declaration of Independence). Please look at Section 13 which begins "That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state;"
None of this says that the US Congress or the States couldn't pass a law specifying that individuals have the right to own and carry small arms. Further the 9th and 10th amendments roughly state that rights and powers not specifically granted the Federal Government are retained by the States and/or people.
Further, much like the legalize drugs arguments the proponents of gun rights focus on small arms and not on shoulder launched Stinger Missles or Mustard Gas, which are clearly military arms. The interpretation of the 2nd Amendment as a State Right allows the states to maintain fully armed militias.
Lastly, I personally think the argument that individuals should have to right to carry small arms, because the small arms could be used to defend ourselves from a Federal Government gone tyranical is a very weak argument. I think Afganistan is a good example of this. The Afgan freedom fighters were getting their asses kicked until the CIA began running Stinger Missles and anti-tank wepons to them. These wepons allowed the Afgan rebels to neutralize the HIND Helicopters and other Soviet heavy wepons. This made numbers matter, and they bled the Soviets into retreat. Simmilar lessons come from the US "Police Action" in Vietnam.
The US Government was the largest Iridium customer/partner.
There were 12 downlink stations around the world. Most were owned by Iridium Operating Companies who were partners of Iridium. This was to bypass all the national laws around the world. In other words the downlink in China was owned and operated by a Chinese company. BTW, this is were one of the the illegal chinese technology transfers occured.
The US Gov't owned and operated the 12th downlink in Hawaii. This was for Spooks and Grunts.
Hey, You people send those yahoos here. The overwhelming majority of those clueless polititians weren't born and bred here.
Also, you are spared the constant political ads on radio and TV we get here. Political groups target the DC area cuz of all the temporary vistors you send here.
I was born in DC, I live in Maryland, and I work in Virginia. THANKS:}
This review was just testing the ability to deliver static documents. So the configuration he suggested is valid for the benchmarks he was responding to.
I think what everyone of these "benchmarks" of apache are missing is that delivering static content is the least of the reasons to use apache.
Slashdot is a real example of a dynamic website. No one is benchmarking dynamic content delivery thru web servers.
Slashdot Mirror
You'll love it here in DC. A small village in the city voted to ban smoking OUT DOORS. Soon there after the head of the effort was arrested for child molestation. I am sure it is just a coincidence (either the accusation of child molestation or the act of child molestation buy the self-appointed health-czar).
I live in Maryland (specifically Montgomery County directly boardering DC on the NW). Our county government sells all the liquor and most of the beer. Every buisness owner can have only one alcohol license. Hence, you can't own two bars, and only one grocery store of each chain sells beer. Further it is illegal for women to be on top during sex, and our state sport is Jousting (though that's kinda cool).
I've concidered North Carolina and California as places I could move to for jobs. But I've rejected the idea cuz they have crazy politicians/politics.
The morons who live in california screw everything up by letting fads run their political system. How many stupid propositions do the dumb califonians get conned into every election cycle? Look at their utility deregulation and three-strike laws. I agree with both on principle, but California screwed the pooch on implementing both.
North Carolina. Can you say Jesse Helms. The man introduced Benazir Bhutto as the Prime Minister of India before the full congress (she was the prime minister of pakistan; for the americans^W^W^Wthose clueless about international affairs Pakistan and India have been voted most likely to nuke each other in the 21st century). Further Jesse is on Chairman of the Foreign Relations Commitee (or as he renamed it "Killin' Fereners Commitee).
So I live blissfully in the Socialist Republic of Maryland. Resting safely in the knowlege that my power will stay on, my roads will be paved, and the worst thing you can say about my senator is she's 5' tall in heels and might be a lesbian, but I bet you my senator can kick your senator's ass.
[ insulting europeans is just a joke btw. Socialism bought you guys comprehensive health care, mass transit, and high level of education; not bad, just a matter of trade offs]
China has the advantage of being a command economy. They hired Nortel to build (not re-build) their telecom infrastructure. The chose Nortel cuz it ain't AT&T and a Canadian (not US) company. AT&T strived to be a pseudo-nationalized monopoly, so the sucked up to the US gov alot (aka put spy stuff in alot of telco hardware sold outside the US). Nortel jumped on the fibre game early to compete against the behemoth of AT&T. Hence China's burgeoning telco infrastructure was the most advanced fibre availble during the 70s and 80s.
Further, the US economy favors monopolies for all kinds of reasons SlashDotters are familiar with (patents, armies of lawyers, stuffing politicians pockets thru PACs, etc.). Monopolists don't give up their cash cows easy. And the incredable wired infrastructure of the US is a cash cow. Hence our telcos don't like competition from wireless or fibre (unless they own it). They really don't like investing alot of money in areas where it'll create lower profit margins; they love those fixed fees set by politicians they own. New unregulated competitive areas suck balls to these guys.
It's a strange burden to have the greatest infrastructure of the 50, 60s, and 70s. The entrenched powers don't want to replace it. Many emerging economies are going straight to fibre infrastructure and wireless for the last few miles.
From the US Constitution. Article I Section 8 The Congress shall have Power... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries; . So copyright is a limited right. I actually think it is nessesary in our modern world, but I also think it is being abused by coperations.
Then there is the much ignored Ninth Amendment and Tenth Amendments : The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people and The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
There is a quote I can't remember who to attribute it to that goes: "Your right ends where my right starts". Corperations seem to believe that their rights end some where around my lower intestine.
I'd like to add my hopefully constuctive critisism of the otherwise excellent Konqueror.
I don't like spawning new windows all the time and then killing them when I finished reading a page. I keep one window open with slashdot and one window to drag the article link over to.
What I want for a fixed font in Konqueror is different than what I want for a fixed font in Kmail. Why is there only one global font settings for nearly all of KDE2.
Please, anyone knowlegable about KDE developement, tell me why these bain drammaged choices were made.
I think I am going to put a hook in my CVS repository to submit a patent filing for every CVS checkin.
BTW, I hereby declare patent on this idea, so you can't have it.
This is easy to fix if you care. There is a mount option for ext2 called "nocheck". This turns off an obsolete consistantcy checking step in ext2 mounting. Ted Tso said he's probably making nocheck default in 2.4.x . Maybe it alread is.
I was never asked to sign a non-discolsure over this issue. I am probably violating an overly general NDA now thought. F*ck it, f*ck them, and f*ck NDAs.
Yes there is. It is called "Science" or more specifically "Climatology". We are doing things that affect the world within the current climate models. That affect, within the models, is to increase the energy retained by the earth's atmosphere. BTW, this isn't strictly resulting in a warmer climate. Think of adding energy to a pendulumn.
The real question in the models is what dynamic counter forces are there. For example, if the world were to get warmer due to carbon dioxide the surface of the oceans would warm there by be able to absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Ofcourse you then have to wonder what warmer more acidic sea water would due to the sea-critters. But the point is that we don't know what counter-effects of the carbon dioxide we are dumping in the air are. But we do know what the first order effects are.
Finnaly, you can be correct about these mini ice ages and that we are coming out of one. But both man made global warming and coming out of a mini ice age can be true at the same time. You can be skiing down hill and then turn on a jet pack to go faster.
The climatologists don't really argue the amount or effect of carbon dioxide on the climate. The questions really revolve around how the world reacts to the increased energy retention.
It is very difficult to come up with a policy for accounting shared memory. Say you load a terminal window (this is the first load of all the nessesary libraries). Now create a second (this shares alot of the library code from the first so it's memory foot print is much smaller). Finnaly, close the first (do you resuffle your accounting of the share mem to the second terminal instance).
Sure you think this will work. Now imagine an arbitrarily complex start and stop of terminal windows; throw in a few other apps that share the same libraries; and viola who do you account the share memory to?
It would take alot of kernel level accounting code and a lot of policy to try to reflect real memory usage in top. Pretty quick it wouldn't be any more meaningful than typing 'free'.
In order to get a feel for a programs non-shared memory footprint just read the RSS field of 'ps aux'. Memory management is a black art.
I have been a Unix SysAdmin for 6 years and I am a damn good one with lots of experience. I have admined more kinds of unix than most Unix SysAdmins can name, and I can go deep on HP/UX, Solaris, and Linux.
That being said. I am also a PERL desciple. Easy things should be easy and hard things possible. When tweaking one little DNS entry, I'd rather use a dork gui and have it handle the logic of incrementing the zone file's serial number with out my needing to remember.
Easy things easy => GUI interface
Hard things possible => all config is a text file accessably via ed in single user mode.
P.S. I also want a secure way to share user info across platforms. NIS ain't secure; NIS+ ain't cross platform enough, nor easy things easy; you have to pay for NDS. Anybody working on a LDAP/SSL/PAM/Multi-Unix system? I'll help.
What part of libc? How is any code in libc usefull without a function call setup?
Wait, I think I get it. Your tailor your overflow to write a return adress AND overwrite the previous functions stack layout so that when the libc code executes it uses the previous (now overwritten) stack. You've also writen the stack so that upon a return from function the registers are poped from the stack that you've tailored.
Plus or minus some code. I think I now get it.
It is still quite a bit harder than current shell code.
The glibc is spartan down to counting asembly instructions. Other than some linker tricks I am not familiar with, it is straight forward code.
Linux has VERY LITTLE code it doesn't need. Some cruft exists but you have to hunt for it. The issue is NEED. A LOT of the code in Linux 2.x is to support functionality QNX will NEVER attempt. This functionality goes to scalability; the dcache, VFS, and VM layers are huge compared the the simplistic implementations on QNX, BUT they HAVE to be to scale like we want Linux to scale.
The QNX comparison was BULLSHIT. Concidering the obvious ignorance this author had of Glibc and Linux, I can't trust his critique of X.
Yes we have to get Sub-pixel awareness (anti-aliasing) into X. Yes we need to accelerate X more (XFree 4.0 is a good beginning). The XFree folk SHOULD NOT wait for standards to come from XOpen (or whom ever is in charge of "standard" X). XFree should FORK from the X11R6 code base/standards. We should make XFree become the standard X by force of numbers.
THAT is a realistic, yet aggressive, GOAL (but I say so in humber ignorance ;).
> Does 2.2.16 still have these compiler warnings?
The compiler warnings are a mis-feature of the latest binuitls. That is a bug in gas. The warnings don't matter.
As to the security bug, it takes much more sophisticated shell code than exec("/bin/sh") to exploit. But once the smart hackers make that kind
of shellcode available to the dumb script kiddies, it will become a problem.
Actually, Ford moved a Factory to Canada, because of their health care system.
Ford bean counters calculated that difference in the cost of health care between Canada and the US would shave off nearly $700US from the cost of the car (I don't remember the model) that this factory was to produce.
I favor Laissez Fare Capitalist Government mostly, but don't forget that each flavor of Democracy (really a continuous range from Capitalism to Socialism) has advantages and disadvantages.
If you combine Health Care Insurance costs and Health Care costs. Our capitalist way is less provides basic care less efficiently. It provide high end care with greater quality though.
Just a trade off we learn to live with.
If Microsoft moved out of the US. They could avoid Anti-Trust Litigation, but they would not be able to avoid US Trade Laws.
Specifically, Anti-Dumping laws. If they started giving products away for free to hurt US competitors. The US has laws to cause automatic retaliation agains the corperationa and country of origin.
If Microsoft had been a foreign company, then Microsoft's buisness practices would have been dealt with long ago. Microsoft has recieved a free ride, BECAUSE it is a US company.
This is a serious question, which might have a
good answer. I just don't know it.
Why should I upgrad from a SSHv1 client/server
to a SSHv2 client/server?
Fortunatly, it was not infectious to humans. It was definitely ebola and more simmilar to Ebola Zaire than to Ebola Sudan. I have read several accounts of the Ebola Reston outbreak. The book "The Hot Zone" (i think) was a easy to read and quite chilling.
An outbreak of Ebola Zaire this close to Dullas and National Airport could have ended the world as we know it.
Itanium is aimed at the $50k+ server market. Linux is looking like one of the "Official" or "Intel Supported" OSs for this platform. Therefor people will be buying $50K to $500K machines from VALinux and running Linux on them.
The Itanium port will "make" Linux on the Big Iron machines.
they are State Rights.
Your reasoning that most of the Bill of Rights are
rights of individuas, there for all of them are for individuals is sylogistic (aka. primitive and
invalid).
Origional intent, Supreme Court rulings, the Militia Act of 1918 (if I remember correctly),
and common sense reading of the 2nd amendment
all point to the 2nd amendment as a State's Right.
Do you wish the States to not have the right to
maintain armies? I think states having the right
to maintain armies protects my freedom from a tyranical Federal Government more than every individual having a pistol or rifle.
I am in favor of broad eligibilty of the citizenry to own guns. But I think it is a lesser "right". One which must, for practical reasons, come with
reasonable regulations.
The real challenge is to hold the line on "reasonable regulations". So that these appropriate limitations on gun ownership don't become defacto banning of gun ownership.
Gun advocates are loosing the battle, because they
won't engage in these discussions over reasonable regulations. The "all or nothing" battle will result in the "nothing" side winning.
The Second Amendment, currently, is not interpreted to say the individuals have the unrestricted right to "bear arms".
First there is US v Miller which says that the second amendment is a State Right and not an Individual Right. The power to regulate militias is the right of the states. To this end the states have the right to arm their militias. Also this ruleing of the Supreme Court has been repeatedly upheld (mostly by denying cert, which is usually interpreted as a strong affirmantion of the earlier ruling). Here are some references.
What a militia is, and is not, is defined in US Code Title 10, Subtitle A, Part I, Chapter 13. By the way this excludes female US Citizens who are not a member of the National Guard.
Should you be inclined to argue that US v Miller is just a liberal court ruling which ignores the origional intent of the founding fathers; it would be good to remember that the Federalists won the big battles in the US Constitution. But the Jeffersonians wrote the Bill of Rights. I think the most direct source of the Bill of Rights is the Virginia Declaration of Rights; written by Thomas Jefferson as adopted on June 12, 1776 (3 weeks before the signing of Declaration of Independence). Please look at Section 13 which begins "That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state;"
None of this says that the US Congress or the States couldn't pass a law specifying that individuals have the right to own and carry small arms. Further the 9th and 10th amendments roughly state that rights and powers not specifically granted the Federal Government are retained by the States and/or people.
Further, much like the legalize drugs arguments the proponents of gun rights focus on small arms and not on shoulder launched Stinger Missles or Mustard Gas, which are clearly military arms. The interpretation of the 2nd Amendment as a State Right allows the states to maintain fully armed militias.
Lastly, I personally think the argument that individuals should have to right to carry small arms, because the small arms could be used to defend ourselves from a Federal Government gone tyranical is a very weak argument. I think Afganistan is a good example of this. The Afgan freedom fighters were getting their asses kicked until the CIA began running Stinger Missles and anti-tank wepons to them. These wepons allowed the Afgan rebels to neutralize the HIND Helicopters and other Soviet heavy wepons. This made numbers matter, and they bled the Soviets into retreat. Simmilar lessons come from the US "Police Action" in Vietnam.
The US Government was the largest Iridium
customer/partner.
There were 12 downlink stations around the
world. Most were owned by Iridium Operating
Companies who were partners of Iridium. This was
to bypass all the national laws around the
world. In other words the downlink in China
was owned and operated by a Chinese company.
BTW, this is were one of the the illegal chinese
technology transfers occured.
The US Gov't owned and operated the 12th downlink
in Hawaii. This was for Spooks and Grunts.
I am typing this on a Sony Vaio Z505S. It has
the neomagic chipset with the sound integrated.
I think it is a NM256AV or some such.
The stock Mandrake 6.5 install was flawless. I
have no problems with my video. I don't know if
it is the same video chipset.
Hey, You people send those yahoos here. The
:}
overwhelming majority of those clueless
polititians weren't born and bred here.
Also, you are spared the constant political
ads on radio and TV we get here. Political groups
target the DC area cuz of all the temporary
vistors you send here.
I was born in DC, I live in Maryland, and I work
in Virginia. THANKS
This review was just testing the ability to
deliver static documents. So the configuration
he suggested is valid for the benchmarks he
was responding to.
I think what everyone of these "benchmarks" of
apache are missing is that delivering static
content is the least of the reasons to use apache.
Slashdot is a real example of a dynamic website.
No one is benchmarking dynamic content delivery
thru web servers.
-LL