All well and good, but I don't have the option of converting the NAS server to AFS. This would have to be a totally client-side cache; write-through obviously.
... I'm much more interested in a cache filesystem that will use local storage as a cache for network storage. Our corporate computing is horribly bottlenecked at the NAS while we have hundreds of gigabytes on every server and workstation sitting unused.
Keep in mind that financial institutions have only a minor interest in preventing identity theft, since the victim is legally stuck with the consequences unless s/he acts quickly -- which is often impossible since someone financing a car in my name won't exactly be sending me a notice of the fact. In fact, it could be argued that they have an incentive to make some ID theft easy since it increases business.
The last time this came up before Congress, with the bankruptcy "reforms" of a few years ago, the main effect was to make it harder for victims of identity theft to get out of being held responsible for the thief's actions.
Personally, I think the broadband penetration number ("our rank has fallen to #22") is a bit of a red herring because the US is far less densely populated than most other countries and thus perfect broadband penetration is not feasible. And while I'm all for net neutrality, that issue alone is not going to determine who I vote for.
Was the USA more densely populated eight years ago?
I'll point out that Arizona is more urban than the Netherlands. Almost all of Arizona's population lives in major urban areas; the Netherlands has a higher net population density but a much higher percentage of their population lives in nonurban villages.
This is by way of saying that population density is a red herring, because broadband penetration is measured by people, not square miles. The USA's ranking isn't being driven down by the lack of broadband on the Yuma Proving Grounds or the Plains of St. Augustin.
The 486 hit the market and the only chipset support available was from 386 chipsets with kludged logic that covered the differences, notably in clock timing. This did not make Intel happy, since it resulted in processors coming off the line with no homes waiting for them.
In response to this fiasco, Intel engaged more directly with the chipset vendors; at the time, VLSI Technology was the leading one. Intel was in the process of coming out with the original Pentium, and VLSI needed detailed specifications so that they could have chipsets available when the processor debuted. Intel promised VLSI information as quickly as Intel's own engineers had it.
Since VLSI had an operation in Chandler, very near Intel's own chipset design operations, VLSI inevitably heard when Intel started up their own chipset team. VLSI was understandably concerned that they were becoming dependent on cooperation from a company that had gone into competition with them, and approached Intel. Intel reassured VLSI that Intel's team would not have any "unfair" advantage over VLSI's engineers, and reiterated that VLSI would have processor specifications as soon as Intel's engineers did.
So, VLSI worked away at their design. Intel released the final Pentium specs, and the Intel chipset engineers accomplished an unheard-of feat: they finished their design, streamed out the chip, fabricated it, packaged it, tested it, and released samples the same day!
Later, Intel found other ways to make life difficult for chipset companies, such as suing chipset vendors for using their bus designs or pricing the processor plus chipset at the same price as the processor alone. This has periodically led to chipset vendors deciding that the business isn't worth it, followed by Intel screwing the pooch with a chipset design, followed by Intel realizing that having more than one chipset provider is good for the processor business, followed by Intel making nice to the chipset vendors, lather, rinse, repeat.
Here we go again. This could be the last time around the merry-go-round, or maybe not.
Isn't this the same government that reads our e-mails as a matter of course and tells the courts that intercepting electronic communications isn't as serious as reading someone's mail?
Which only applies to operating systems [uspto.gov], computers [uspto.gov] and related crap [uspto.gov]. It does not cover the use of the word for sheets of glass.
... and "X Windows," which predates Microsoft's trademark application by more than a decade.
And, yes, I know that's not the official name of the X windowing system -- but it's common usage, and now illegal.
I think you misunderstood the excerpt. What it says is that KDE lost ground in the last few years, which it did. Even SuSE, once a cornerstone of KDE's market share, defaults to Gnome now. Kubuntu is not on par with Ubuntu, and Red Hat/Fedora always was a Gnome shop. Today, no major distro has KDE as its default desktop environment. I'd call that "losing ground".
And how much of that loss was due to any technical deficits in KDE? How many places to the right of the decimal point will you need for your answer?
Bottom line: GNOME has better marketing. It started with the "we don't use the eeeeeevil proprietary QT library" thing and hasn't let up. SuSE switched to GNOME after Novell bought SuSE, for instance, and Miguel de Icaza took over. Nothing that KDE can do about that.
For those who don't like the GNOME environment (count me in, but that's taste) this isn't going to change. GNOME has won the marketing war, and due to its total lock on default distro desktops it's impossible to avoid installing GNOME libraries -- but all too easy to skip installing KDE libraries. Which means that developers can count on having the GNOME libraries present, and can't count on the KDE enviroment. Which means that they're going to develop for GNOME, not KDE.
It's not quite over yet, but it's getting there. I'm seeing a fair number of complaints about Amarok requiring KDE libs; some traffic asking when a native GNOME version will be available. KDE 4.x may or may not achieve technical maturity, but right now I'm pretty sure that there won't be a 5.x series.
Ah, but think of the potential! All of those STBs out there, just waiting to be tuned to... interesting programming.
The cable company doesn't need to know that the screen is blanked, the audio is off, and you've left for the weekend -- meantime, your STB is religiously searching out reruns of Speed Racer or maybe the original Star Trek. If one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and
they'll ignore it. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they'll ignore both of them.
And three people do it, they may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
fifty people a day? And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
Well, Arlo, what if millions -- yes, millions -- of people sold their non-watching cable time to run up the viewership for worthy programs like My Little Pony? Easy enough to coordinate over the internet, after all. Either the producers go into panic mode changing their programming or else they give up on spying on their "customers." Either way, it's all good.
Since the new powers require no accountability to anyone, Amnesty International cannot guarantee confidentiality to anyone speaking to them, which means that no one will.
I understand "chilling effect" but I don't know if it creates standing.
Well, it's all armchair quarterbacking from two IANAL types anyway. We'll see soon enough I suppose.
Isn't the ACLU a form of the people assembling to petition the Government for a redress of grievences?
Yes, and nobody is trying to keep them from assembling. That doesn't give the Court subject jurisdiction, though, against the Constitution's restrictions on "cases and controversies" and the need for a plaintiff with standing.
But now the attack has moved to a bill passed into law by congress that in and of itself violates the right to be secure against unreasonable searches of every American. You should, at least in theory, be able to establish standing by simply showing that you are one of the broad class of people who might now be subject to unwarranted surveillance at some point, since by that very fact the bill has violated your right to be secure against such an eventuality.
IANAL, of course -- but when has that stopped anyone on/.?
However, I recall that it's still necessary to have an "actual case or controversy" where the plaintiff has a redressable wrong. "Maybe" and "could" don't count. Of course, the ACLU could cite the Court's ruling in the Massachusetts greenhouse-gas case to establish standing on behalf of people not yet born, but I think that only applies where a government body is acting as plaintiff on their behalf.
We've been here before. The ACLU doesn't have standing to bring the case unless they have a plaintiff who can show that s/he's been the subject of an unConstitutional investigation, and the law allows the Government to claim a "State secret" basis for refusing to confirm that any particular individual fits the bill.
Therefore, regardless of whether the law itself is Constitutional, it can't be reviewed by the courts.
The problem is that BMI only scales with the square of height -- but at constant proportion, weight goes up as the cube.
Shaquille O'Neil is not exactly fat at 7'1" and 325, but he has a BMI of 31.6 -- well into the "obese" range. A 5'2" woman would have to weigh 173 pounds to have the same BMI as Shaq -- and I know damn well that 173 and 5'2 is rolling fat.
So tell us how useful the BMI is as a gauge of obesity again.
Well, right off the top of my head, evaporation isn't the only cooling method available, but perhaps more importantly, the article is about trees, and I'm pretty sure kudzu isn't is a type of tree.
No, pines and oaks also flourish there -- they're just slower than kudzu.
As for "other cooling methods," the tree trunks are also warm (thus not conduction), no cool air for convection, and night-time radiation (even if it were worth much in the soup called "air" in the Delta) isn't much help to cool at the same time as photosynthesis.
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Well, the security implications certainly give a new meaning to "putting the touch on him."
Now, that is exactly what I'm looking for!
All well and good, but I don't have the option of converting the NAS server to AFS. This would have to be a totally client-side cache; write-through obviously.
... I'm much more interested in a cache filesystem that will use local storage as a cache for network storage. Our corporate computing is horribly bottlenecked at the NAS while we have hundreds of gigabytes on every server and workstation sitting unused.
Keep in mind that financial institutions have only a minor interest in preventing identity theft, since the victim is legally stuck with the consequences unless s/he acts quickly -- which is often impossible since someone financing a car in my name won't exactly be sending me a notice of the fact. In fact, it could be argued that they have an incentive to make some ID theft easy since it increases business.
The last time this came up before Congress, with the bankruptcy "reforms" of a few years ago, the main effect was to make it harder for victims of identity theft to get out of being held responsible for the thief's actions.
Was the USA more densely populated eight years ago?
I'll point out that Arizona is more urban than the Netherlands. Almost all of Arizona's population lives in major urban areas; the Netherlands has a higher net population density but a much higher percentage of their population lives in nonurban villages.
This is by way of saying that population density is a red herring, because broadband penetration is measured by people, not square miles. The USA's ranking isn't being driven down by the lack of broadband on the Yuma Proving Grounds or the Plains of St. Augustin.
In response to this fiasco, Intel engaged more directly with the chipset vendors; at the time, VLSI Technology was the leading one. Intel was in the process of coming out with the original Pentium, and VLSI needed detailed specifications so that they could have chipsets available when the processor debuted. Intel promised VLSI information as quickly as Intel's own engineers had it.
Since VLSI had an operation in Chandler, very near Intel's own chipset design operations, VLSI inevitably heard when Intel started up their own chipset team. VLSI was understandably concerned that they were becoming dependent on cooperation from a company that had gone into competition with them, and approached Intel. Intel reassured VLSI that Intel's team would not have any "unfair" advantage over VLSI's engineers, and reiterated that VLSI would have processor specifications as soon as Intel's engineers did.
So, VLSI worked away at their design. Intel released the final Pentium specs, and the Intel chipset engineers accomplished an unheard-of feat: they finished their design, streamed out the chip, fabricated it, packaged it, tested it, and released samples the same day!
Later, Intel found other ways to make life difficult for chipset companies, such as suing chipset vendors for using their bus designs or pricing the processor plus chipset at the same price as the processor alone. This has periodically led to chipset vendors deciding that the business isn't worth it, followed by Intel screwing the pooch with a chipset design, followed by Intel realizing that having more than one chipset provider is good for the processor business, followed by Intel making nice to the chipset vendors, lather, rinse, repeat.
Here we go again. This could be the last time around the merry-go-round, or maybe not.
Isn't this the same government that reads our e-mails as a matter of course and tells the courts that intercepting electronic communications isn't as serious as reading someone's mail?
And, yes, I know that's not the official name of the X windowing system -- but it's common usage, and now illegal.
Microsoft trademarked "windows."
And how much of that loss was due to any technical deficits in KDE? How many places to the right of the decimal point will you need for your answer?
Bottom line: GNOME has better marketing. It started with the "we don't use the eeeeeevil proprietary QT library" thing and hasn't let up. SuSE switched to GNOME after Novell bought SuSE, for instance, and Miguel de Icaza took over. Nothing that KDE can do about that.
For those who don't like the GNOME environment (count me in, but that's taste) this isn't going to change. GNOME has won the marketing war, and due to its total lock on default distro desktops it's impossible to avoid installing GNOME libraries -- but all too easy to skip installing KDE libraries. Which means that developers can count on having the GNOME libraries present, and can't count on the KDE enviroment. Which means that they're going to develop for GNOME, not KDE.
It's not quite over yet, but it's getting there. I'm seeing a fair number of complaints about Amarok requiring KDE libs; some traffic asking when a native GNOME version will be available. KDE 4.x may or may not achieve technical maturity, but right now I'm pretty sure that there won't be a 5.x series.
Tell that to my exercise bicycle.
[1] Despite facing the wrath of Jenny McCarthy
The cable company doesn't need to know that the screen is blanked, the audio is off, and you've left for the weekend -- meantime, your STB is religiously searching out reruns of Speed Racer or maybe the original Star Trek. If one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they'll ignore it. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they'll ignore both of them. And three people do it, they may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day? And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
Well, Arlo, what if millions -- yes, millions -- of people sold their non-watching cable time to run up the viewership for worthy programs like My Little Pony? Easy enough to coordinate over the internet, after all. Either the producers go into panic mode changing their programming or else they give up on spying on their "customers." Either way, it's all good.
I understand "chilling effect" but I don't know if it creates standing.
Well, it's all armchair quarterbacking from two IANAL types anyway. We'll see soon enough I suppose.
Yes, and nobody is trying to keep them from assembling. That doesn't give the Court subject jurisdiction, though, against the Constitution's restrictions on "cases and controversies" and the need for a plaintiff with standing.
Examples? I know of several instances where challenges to a law had to wait for an appropriate case, DC v. Heller being a recent example.
IANAL, of course -- but when has that stopped anyone on /.?
However, I recall that it's still necessary to have an "actual case or controversy" where the plaintiff has a redressable wrong. "Maybe" and "could" don't count. Of course, the ACLU could cite the Court's ruling in the Massachusetts greenhouse-gas case to establish standing on behalf of people not yet born, but I think that only applies where a government body is acting as plaintiff on their behalf.
Therefore, regardless of whether the law itself is Constitutional, it can't be reviewed by the courts.
So how come the AARP keeps pestering me and the stores offer me the "seniors discount?"
[1] Thanks very much, $HERSELF's boobs here are still very worth watching.
Steven Hawking.
Shaquille O'Neil is not exactly fat at 7'1" and 325, but he has a BMI of 31.6 -- well into the "obese" range. A 5'2" woman would have to weigh 173 pounds to have the same BMI as Shaq -- and I know damn well that 173 and 5'2 is rolling fat.
So tell us how useful the BMI is as a gauge of obesity again.
Then there are the Sumo ...
As for "other cooling methods," the tree trunks are also warm (thus not conduction), no cool air for convection, and night-time radiation (even if it were worth much in the soup called "air" in the Delta) isn't much help to cool at the same time as photosynthesis.