Then we could have hundreds of little wars, like we had in the Middle Ages and Wars of Religion - think of the fun if Vermont and New Hampshire went to war, while California was busy conquering Oregon, And New York trying to annex Jersey.
Yes, just look at all the little wars going on all over Europe - why Switzerland is massing its forces on the border of Liechtenstein as we speak!
Seriously, though, the only reasons nations go to war are economic calamity or power-aspirations of the government. The more such governments drain their economies to build their arsenals, the more both odds increase. The reason Europe is at peace is prosperity and relatively unarmed governments.
The State is the cause of strife on Earth, not the solution.
Does anybody know if it supports writing POPM (ID3v2 ratings) tags?
I was just about to switch to Clementine-trunk for this, but if Nightingale has it, I might give that a spin. Or use both, since my metadata would be in the files now anyway.
I don't even understand this story. The smoking gun has already been found, reported, and Jon Stewart did a whole send-up of it last week.
Why would anybody still be trying to figure out if the attempted cover-up was bogus or not?
I realize the guy has aspirations for power, but if he were successful we can be confident he'd appoint the same kind of viscous, vindictive, psychopathic cronies who would do similar things at his behest (irrespective of whether he know about this incident). That's not a tradition we can afford to continue in Washington.
Do you think Vermont could go to the moon or build the LHC?
For every terrible action a large nation could do that small ones can't, there are strides of progress that large nations can make that small ones can't.
No, and that's OK, because we don't always need nation states to do great things.
Since the Vermonters won't be sending their wealth in to the military industrial complex to build ever-faster planet-destroying weapons, they'll have more of that wealth to invest in ways they see fit. Some of them will choose to fund planetary-scale space exploration ventures (and possibly at a greater rate than currently exists). Even if they just invest in SpaceX, the ROI is greater than NASA.
Even if they don't, it's folly to claim that we should endure extinction-level threats to get more rapid space exploration.
I personally love space exploration, but neither my preferences nor yours justifies putting the species at an existential risk.
I see a jumble of improperly decoded UTF-8 in grub2 despite defining that as my charset
Yep, and I bet this was the real impetus for scratching the names - one had become embarrassing. That's not to say that there might not be good reasons for it, but really nobody ever uses the names when filing bug reports, discussing on lists, etc., and that grub2 blunder stares you in the face on every reboot.
just have those where the connections come into the house and extend the HDMI outputs instead
That's the really smart thing to do. For now you'll still need an IR repeater, but, man, after having using XBMC's remote and a DLNA controller over WiFi, I can't wait to never use an IR remote again.
I don't see how Oracle gains squat by promoting SPARC
Oracle only bought Sun for two reasons: SPARC and Java. Both are related to Oracle's database business.
The massively multi-threaded version of SPARC (Niagara, IIRC) is better at scaling Oracle's databases than other architectures.
Oracle's database architecture does not scale indefinitely. They need architectural changes, but those are covered by Google's patents.
Hence, Java, as a club to sue Google with, to try to force a patent cross-licensing deal.
Everything else from Sun is a toy business. I suppose as long as there's profit, they'll be allowed to exist, but watch out if you're in any of those Sun technologies and you fail to turn a profit, because Oracle doesn't need you.
Who here believes that Vermont would maintain a huge hypersonic nuclear missile delivery system?
The danger to human society is these huge nation-states. The only rational thing to do is to reduce the size of these states to the point where they don't pose such risks. Yeah, that's a hard planet-wide challenge, and we have a few of them to contend with, but articles like these show that there's still far too much effort going into the wrong projects.
It might take more courage to make these required changes than currently exists within humanity.
They have no right to those people's first born children.
You seem to forget that these children are the property of society, and only on loan to the parents at the pleasure of the State, and only so long as they maintain good behavior.
Are you advocating that people who have these means...sacrifice the lives of their children, send them for a poor education merely to prove a social "point"?
Isn't that why the Obama girls are in DC public schools?
The only difference is the Principal, and yet there is never any focus on Principals
One exceptional trait about your principal is that he was able to make it through all the processes required to become a principal these days. Most of the people I know who would be great at the job would never put up with that process.
This wasn't always the case - school boards used to often hire dynamic community leaders to be a school principal when they needed one. These days they seem to be mostly worried about what the thesis topic was on the Ed.D. and barely look at their management skills.
As long as charter schools are publicly funded privately run institutions that is all it is.
If the schools cost less and produce better results (that is, do better by the students), why do you care if somebody (other than the employees) makes a profit? Is there some level of corruption involved?
That insurance company's squad of auditors would be no more and no less effective than the PCI/DSS audit system.
I've sat across the table from a PCI auditor and told him, "no, we are not going to encrypt our passwords - they're hashed for a good reason" and had him give me a blank stare. Forgive me for not putting faith in the PCI system.
The "fix" is to hold the breaches responsible for every fraudulent charge and re-issued card.
Not just the card itself, the bank's time and to send a letter, reissue all the cards, mail them.
And then, I read earlier today, 140 million Americans are affected by the Target breach. Each of them with a current card that's getting cancelled has to go set up new automatic payments on their various autopay services, etc.
Target should be giving them a concession, say $100 or so per person for all the time they'll waste.
Now then, given acutal liability for their actions, Target would never assume such risk without getting an insurance policy to cover it. And the insurance company would have a squad of auditors in their IT center to scour the thing before they issued the policy.
In the end, we'd wind up with the secure solution we're actual looking for. So the actual problem here is that corporations aren't held responsible for their negligence. Which is exactly why they form these big corporations in the first place.
Speaking of postfix, you can put this in a virtual regex file in postfix:/(.*)\-(.*)@example.com/ ${1}+${2}@example.com
And then register on sites using '-' instead of '+'.
This way, I can register on ecommerce sites with me-somesite.com-883hj3af@example.com and when they get hacked or sell their list, they can deny that it came from them and either way I block it in an access file.
Unfortunately, capture doesn't seem to work on the domain side, so you need one entry for each domain.
The fed is buying back a bunch of T-Bonds and Mortgage Bonds at the rate of 75 billion a month as part of the stimulus package, but that's not "printing money."
Where is the Fed getting the money to pay for the purchases?
I think the market has indicated that the release of a zero-day exploit is preferred. As here, "responsible disclosure" results in harm to a good-faith actor, while zero-day exploits are quickly patched, and users quickly learn of the danger so that they may take whatever precautions each user deems appropriate until the danger has passed.
Wow - you're quite right, though I haven't seen it so clearly explained. Such a shame - people need to get over this default reaction of retaliation.
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Then we could have hundreds of little wars, like we had in the Middle Ages and Wars of Religion - think of the fun if Vermont and New Hampshire went to war, while California was busy conquering Oregon, And New York trying to annex Jersey.
Yes, just look at all the little wars going on all over Europe - why Switzerland is massing its forces on the border of Liechtenstein as we speak!
Seriously, though, the only reasons nations go to war are economic calamity or power-aspirations of the government. The more such governments drain their economies to build their arsenals, the more both odds increase. The reason Europe is at peace is prosperity and relatively unarmed governments.
The State is the cause of strife on Earth, not the solution.
Does anybody know if it supports writing POPM (ID3v2 ratings) tags?
I was just about to switch to Clementine-trunk for this, but if Nightingale has it, I might give that a spin. Or use both, since my metadata would be in the files now anyway.
I don't even understand this story. The smoking gun has already been found, reported, and Jon Stewart did a whole send-up of it last week.
Why would anybody still be trying to figure out if the attempted cover-up was bogus or not?
I realize the guy has aspirations for power, but if he were successful we can be confident he'd appoint the same kind of viscous, vindictive, psychopathic cronies who would do similar things at his behest (irrespective of whether he know about this incident). That's not a tradition we can afford to continue in Washington.
The important base programs and libraries need to be utf-8 safe.
So true! I remember the pain when we went through with this in the perl community, but - really now - that was 1999. Once it's done, it's done.
Fifteen years later, it's "past-due" in the free OS base.
Do you think Vermont could go to the moon or build the LHC?
For every terrible action a large nation could do that small ones can't, there are strides of progress that large nations can make that small ones can't.
No, and that's OK, because we don't always need nation states to do great things.
Since the Vermonters won't be sending their wealth in to the military industrial complex to build ever-faster planet-destroying weapons, they'll have more of that wealth to invest in ways they see fit. Some of them will choose to fund planetary-scale space exploration ventures (and possibly at a greater rate than currently exists). Even if they just invest in SpaceX, the ROI is greater than NASA.
Even if they don't, it's folly to claim that we should endure extinction-level threats to get more rapid space exploration.
I personally love space exploration, but neither my preferences nor yours justifies putting the species at an existential risk.
I see a jumble of improperly decoded UTF-8 in grub2 despite defining that as my charset
Yep, and I bet this was the real impetus for scratching the names - one had become embarrassing. That's not to say that there might not be good reasons for it, but really nobody ever uses the names when filing bug reports, discussing on lists, etc., and that grub2 blunder stares you in the face on every reboot.
just have those where the connections come into the house and extend the HDMI outputs instead
That's the really smart thing to do. For now you'll still need an IR repeater, but, man, after having using XBMC's remote and a DLNA controller over WiFi, I can't wait to never use an IR remote again.
I don't see how Oracle gains squat by promoting SPARC
Oracle only bought Sun for two reasons: SPARC and Java. Both are related to Oracle's database business.
The massively multi-threaded version of SPARC (Niagara, IIRC) is better at scaling Oracle's databases than other architectures.
Oracle's database architecture does not scale indefinitely. They need architectural changes, but those are covered by Google's patents.
Hence, Java, as a club to sue Google with, to try to force a patent cross-licensing deal.
Everything else from Sun is a toy business. I suppose as long as there's profit, they'll be allowed to exist, but watch out if you're in any of those Sun technologies and you fail to turn a profit, because Oracle doesn't need you.
Who here believes that Vermont would maintain a huge hypersonic nuclear missile delivery system?
The danger to human society is these huge nation-states. The only rational thing to do is to reduce the size of these states to the point where they don't pose such risks. Yeah, that's a hard planet-wide challenge, and we have a few of them to contend with, but articles like these show that there's still far too much effort going into the wrong projects.
It might take more courage to make these required changes than currently exists within humanity.
She, actually.
But I did not mention the gender, so, just a clarification.
Fair enough (I didn't either - 'he' is the proper English neuter form - we had a good principal in high school who got us an AP English class!).
They have no right to those people's first born children.
You seem to forget that these children are the property of society, and only on loan to the parents at the pleasure of the State, and only so long as they maintain good behavior.
Are you advocating that people who have these means...sacrifice the lives of their children, send them for a poor education merely to prove a social "point"?
Isn't that why the Obama girls are in DC public schools?
The only difference is the Principal, and yet there is never any focus on Principals
One exceptional trait about your principal is that he was able to make it through all the processes required to become a principal these days. Most of the people I know who would be great at the job would never put up with that process.
This wasn't always the case - school boards used to often hire dynamic community leaders to be a school principal when they needed one. These days they seem to be mostly worried about what the thesis topic was on the Ed.D. and barely look at their management skills.
Schools exist for the benefit of the students -- not for the benefit of the school system.
You so silly. (not The Onion)
As long as charter schools are publicly funded privately run institutions that is all it is.
If the schools cost less and produce better results (that is, do better by the students), why do you care if somebody (other than the employees) makes a profit? Is there some level of corruption involved?
The CIA came up with a clever ruse
The CIA endangers everybody on the planet with their little game(s) - 'clever' could only be applied superficially.
That insurance company's squad of auditors would be no more and no less effective than the PCI/DSS audit system.
I've sat across the table from a PCI auditor and told him, "no, we are not going to encrypt our passwords - they're hashed for a good reason" and had him give me a blank stare. Forgive me for not putting faith in the PCI system.
Most of the time because incredibly stupid managers DEMAND the systems be accessible from the internet.
How does this not drive their insurance premiums through the roof? It should, and it's not, so something is broken in the process.
Do they have government protection from liability?
The "fix" is to hold the breaches responsible for every fraudulent charge and re-issued card.
Not just the card itself, the bank's time and to send a letter, reissue all the cards, mail them.
And then, I read earlier today, 140 million Americans are affected by the Target breach. Each of them with a current card that's getting cancelled has to go set up new automatic payments on their various autopay services, etc.
Target should be giving them a concession, say $100 or so per person for all the time they'll waste.
Now then, given acutal liability for their actions, Target would never assume such risk without getting an insurance policy to cover it. And the insurance company would have a squad of auditors in their IT center to scour the thing before they issued the policy.
In the end, we'd wind up with the secure solution we're actual looking for. So the actual problem here is that corporations aren't held responsible for their negligence. Which is exactly why they form these big corporations in the first place.
Speaking of postfix, you can put this in a virtual regex file in postfix: /(.*)\-(.*)@example.com/ ${1}+${2}@example.com
And then register on sites using '-' instead of '+'.
This way, I can register on ecommerce sites with me-somesite.com-883hj3af@example.com and when they get hacked or sell their list, they can deny that it came from them and either way I block it in an access file.
Unfortunately, capture doesn't seem to work on the domain side, so you need one entry for each domain.
Why do cosmological theories of any merit always sound like they were written by Douglas Adams?
You have to understand that turtles are only the part of them that manifests in this universe.
The fed is buying back a bunch of T-Bonds and Mortgage Bonds at the rate of 75 billion a month as part of the stimulus package, but that's not "printing money."
Where is the Fed getting the money to pay for the purchases?
Does it really matter if it was planned or spontaneous?
Yeah, because a man died (in an ambulance) because of it. Our society cares whether a death is accidental or negligent.
I think the market has indicated that the release of a zero-day exploit is preferred. As here, "responsible disclosure" results in harm to a good-faith actor, while zero-day exploits are quickly patched, and users quickly learn of the danger so that they may take whatever precautions each user deems appropriate until the danger has passed.
Wow - you're quite right, though I haven't seen it so clearly explained. Such a shame - people need to get over this default reaction of retaliation.
I saw an MySQL error on the page I was viewing. That's it, lol.
If the database driver errors are making it out to the public then it's the systems' developers who should be questioned.
It's a shame you were trying to be helpful and these dorks don't know how to be gracious.