That's because what we REALLY want to know is how you fit 12 million taxpayers on a USB stick... This is the modern version of "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" meets "Honey, I shrunk the kids!"
"12M Taxpayers Lost With USB Stick" - or did they lose both a USB stick AND 12 million taxpayers? That must be one heck of a recession.
Or is it "M" as in metric measurement, so that taxpayers who are taller than 12 meters/metres got lost? If so, they should check with the circus or Guiness book of World Records. How DO you "lose" anyone who's almost 40 feet tall, anyway?
btw - to restore the default kde menus, just delete.kde and.kderc in the home directory - on login, it will copy the skeletons in/usr/share.
for gnome, create a new dummy account, and copy the menu structure to your home directory - or even simpler, copy your files to the new home directory (give you a chance to clean up the mess, get rid of old files, etc), and delete the old home.
for extra ease-of-use, open a terminal, type mc, and you should be able to figure out the rest.
Look, I'm pulling your leg about the "notepad" thing, but seriously, being able to run things from the command line is not a sign of computer prowess. Back in the good old DOS days, everyone did it. Everyone.
To this day, real programmers don't need integrated development environments or application frameworks to get things done. Real programmers understand what goes on "behind the scenes". They're not only not initmidated by the command line, they embrace it as one of life's simplifiers.
Case in point - a friend of mine tried to use Microsofts' latest.net framework on a web app project. Sure, the initial code went quickly, but any time there was a problem, he ended up fighting both the problem, the development environment, the framework, and the os. After 3 months, not being willing to delay any more, he passed the whole thing on to me this weekend.
I had warned him earlier that his choice of development tools and platform would prove to be wrong, come with too much overhead, and, because it was from Microsoft, just plain suck in general. So, since he's a longtime friend, I'll write it in my spare time, and he'll maintain it. This is a guy who cut his teeth on Windows 3.1, but after all this time, he's finally admitted that Microsoft in general, and Windows in particular, is a dead end.
As for myself, I dumped Microsoft and Windows before the end of the last millenium. I couldn't see myself paying for Windows98, after all the lies about how great Windows95 was going to be. Windows7 will be an even bigger disaster than Vista.
I am not an astroturfer for MS... I'm a computer programmer and consider myself to be in around the 95%+ percentile of techsavvyness.
I got an EeePC loaded with Linux
Wanted to customize the shell, the way I would customize a start menu. Found out that this involved editing config files in notepad, and if I screwed up with a typo, this could potentially be a major problem.
If this isn't astroturfing, I don't know what is. Notepad? In linux? Have you ever even USED linux?
And 9 times out of 10, a person who can hear those things is in their twenties or younger. The ability to hear those very high pitched sounds goes away with age. Of course, there are exceptions. I'm in my 40's and can still hear them.
... or you're just so used to them that you ignore it, but when it stops, you go "WOW!". Like the difference between a laptop and a desktop. Laptops are QUIET!
Users being able to override style sheets is, in fact, a negative to separating style and content to most content producers, not a positive.
And most "content producers" need to get a f*cking clue. Too many major sites are still designed as if everyone has a monitor that only goes 800 pixels wide. And they use the smallest font they can get away with, because it looked GOOD on that old POS 14" CRT.
You know the sites I'm talking about - on modern laptops or LCDs, they either have a huge void on both sides, or the content is squished on one side, and half the screen is wasted real estate.
The <menu> tag has been around since the beginning. Check the date - 1993.
There's no reason not to use menu tags to mark content as being a menu, rather than to use divs or spans. Same as, if your data is really a table of information, there's no reason not to use the table tag - it's "the right thing to do" since it really IS a table, and not just being used for hacking a layout.
Looks like we have two choices - tryanny of the majority or tyranny of the minority.
Much easier to corrupt a few senators... more return on your investment, etc., so the system is flawed.
We have laws to prevent the tyranny of the majority from interfering with the civil rights of the minority; on questions of taxation, why can't the majority define how they think the money should be raised and spent?
... and some of those reforms could be along lines that were not even possible in times past, because of the length of time it took to communicate, the problems with amassing votes on individual topics or voting someone out of office in a recall election, etc.
Already, email has made real-time consultative democracy practical. Instant feedback from your constituents.
Proportional representation is another "new old thing" that is now practical, as would be the ability for people who are too lazy to vote to transfer their voting right to someone they trust - bring democracy right down to the friends/family unit....
Just thoughts. Use your imagination, and I'm sure you can think of a few other things tht can be changed - like dumping the electoral college.
Every democracy worth living in has mechanisms set up to protect individuals from "the will of the people."
In Bush's case, the mechanism is the Secret Service, and "the will of the people" is to tar and feather him. nd that's just for starters.
Your statement is inaccurate and should be rephrased as "Every democracy currentlyworth living in"... we now have the means to devise a future democraciy that would have been unimaginable in times past.
I imagine the issue is simply money. It would cost a lot of programming time to put something good together, especially spread across all of the local departments.
The only way to convince them to do it (without major public demand) would be to show it would somehow save them money in the long run. Maybe automating output in standard formats would allow other common systems to aggregate reports and generate graphs, saving manual labor, for example.
The information is already there in electronic form. I seriously doubt any government still uses a typewriter. Can you even buy one any more?
I hate to break it to you, but Excel/Word/PowerPoint are exceedingly useful skills in a lot of workplaces and for a lot of careers. Much more so than programming for a lot of those careers.
Excel, Word, and Powerpoint, or their open-source equivalents, are not "college" material. They're something that any semi-literate knuckle-dragging, mouth-breather should be able to learn themselves, either on their own, or with the help of a Dummies book.
If they can't even do that, they have already demonstrated a serious lack of any sort of initiative, and shouldn't be in college in the first place.
Why is the lack of human habitation required for testing a buggy?:P
Well, I don't think you get a realistic test driving it on the streets of, say, LA, Houston, or any city/town.
They can always test it at the White House. There hasn't been signs of human life there for months.
Now if they REALLY want to test it somewhere REALLY desolate, they can try John McCain's campaign. Sarah Palin's doing a good job sucking the life force out of it.
No big deal. When you need to move the clocks back, pull the main breaker at midnight, wait an hour, and turn the juice back on. When you need to move them forward, pull the breaker at 10:59, wait a minute, and put it back on. All your digital clocks now way 12:00. 12:00 12:00. What could go wrong... go wrong... go wrong...
I get up hours before I have to go to work. That's when I clean and shit, so when I come home I can chillax
See, there's your first mistake. Tend to your bodily functions at work... getting paid to read in the "library" at work is one of life's little pleasures.
At 10 minutes a day, it's 41-2/3 hours a year. Think of it as an extra week's vacation, doled out in tine time slices.
Can tolerate a complete drive failure + hundreds of unrecoverable reads per drive on the two remaining drives. The larger the disk, the less likely that both remaining drives will fail on the same sector, so larger drives are an advantage, not a disadvantage, compared to data split across drives that has to be "rebuilt" from the parity info...
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The headline didn't say it was 12 million taxpayers' data, but 12 million taxpayers, that were lost :-)
That's because what we REALLY want to know is how you fit 12 million taxpayers on a USB stick... This is the modern version of "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" meets "Honey, I shrunk the kids!"
"12M Taxpayers Lost With USB Stick" - or did they lose both a USB stick AND 12 million taxpayers? That must be one heck of a recession.
Or is it "M" as in metric measurement, so that taxpayers who are taller than 12 meters/metres got lost? If so, they should check with the circus or Guiness book of World Records. How DO you "lose" anyone who's almost 40 feet tall, anyway?
btw - to restore the default kde menus, just delete .kde and .kderc in the home directory - on login, it will copy the skeletons in /usr/share.
for gnome, create a new dummy account, and copy the menu structure to your home directory - or even simpler, copy your files to the new home directory (give you a chance to clean up the mess, get rid of old files, etc), and delete the old home.
for extra ease-of-use, open a terminal, type mc, and you should be able to figure out the rest.
Look, I'm pulling your leg about the "notepad" thing, but seriously, being able to run things from the command line is not a sign of computer prowess. Back in the good old DOS days, everyone did it. Everyone.
To this day, real programmers don't need integrated development environments or application frameworks to get things done. Real programmers understand what goes on "behind the scenes". They're not only not initmidated by the command line, they embrace it as one of life's simplifiers.
Case in point - a friend of mine tried to use Microsofts' latest .net framework on a web app project. Sure, the initial code went quickly, but any time there was a problem, he ended up fighting both the problem, the development environment, the framework, and the os. After 3 months, not being willing to delay any more, he passed the whole thing on to me this weekend.
I had warned him earlier that his choice of development tools and platform would prove to be wrong, come with too much overhead, and, because it was from Microsoft, just plain suck in general. So, since he's a longtime friend, I'll write it in my spare time, and he'll maintain it. This is a guy who cut his teeth on Windows 3.1, but after all this time, he's finally admitted that Microsoft in general, and Windows in particular, is a dead end.
As for myself, I dumped Microsoft and Windows before the end of the last millenium. I couldn't see myself paying for Windows98, after all the lies about how great Windows95 was going to be. Windows7 will be an even bigger disaster than Vista.
If this isn't astroturfing, I don't know what is. Notepad? In linux? Have you ever even USED linux?
0.00099999.
Hey, it's five nines ... and with all the "exceptions" and bogus metrics in google's SLA, they're not offering 3 nines.
How can they, if their traffic isn't being routed?
And most "content producers" need to get a f*cking clue. Too many major sites are still designed as if everyone has a monitor that only goes 800 pixels wide. And they use the smallest font they can get away with, because it looked GOOD on that old POS 14" CRT.
You know the sites I'm talking about - on modern laptops or LCDs, they either have a huge void on both sides, or the content is squished on one side, and half the screen is wasted real estate.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt
The <menu> tag has been around since the beginning. Check the date - 1993.
There's no reason not to use menu tags to mark content as being a menu, rather than to use divs or spans. Same as, if your data is really a table of information, there's no reason not to use the table tag - it's "the right thing to do" since it really IS a table, and not just being used for hacking a layout.
Looks like we have two choices - tryanny of the majority or tyranny of the minority.
Much easier to corrupt a few senators ... more return on your investment, etc., so the system is flawed.
We have laws to prevent the tyranny of the majority from interfering with the civil rights of the minority; on questions of taxation, why can't the majority define how they think the money should be raised and spent?
Already, email has made real-time consultative democracy practical. Instant feedback from your constituents.
Proportional representation is another "new old thing" that is now practical, as would be the ability for people who are too lazy to vote to transfer their voting right to someone they trust - bring democracy right down to the friends/family unit ....
Just thoughts. Use your imagination, and I'm sure you can think of a few other things tht can be changed - like dumping the electoral college.
In Bush's case, the mechanism is the Secret Service, and "the will of the people" is to tar and feather him. nd that's just for starters.
Your statement is inaccurate and should be rephrased as "Every democracy currentlyworth living in" ... we now have the means to devise a future democraciy that would have been unimaginable in times past.
The information is already there in electronic form. I seriously doubt any government still uses a typewriter. Can you even buy one any more?
Excel, Word, and Powerpoint, or their open-source equivalents, are not "college" material. They're something that any semi-literate knuckle-dragging, mouth-breather should be able to learn themselves, either on their own, or with the help of a Dummies book.
If they can't even do that, they have already demonstrated a serious lack of any sort of initiative, and shouldn't be in college in the first place.
They can always test it at the White House. There hasn't been signs of human life there for months.
Now if they REALLY want to test it somewhere REALLY desolate, they can try John McCain's campaign. Sarah Palin's doing a good job sucking the life force out of it.
You can buy a laptop for about the same price.
No big deal. When you need to move the clocks back, pull the main breaker at midnight, wait an hour, and turn the juice back on. When you need to move them forward, pull the breaker at 10:59, wait a minute, and put it back on. All your digital clocks now way 12:00. 12:00 12:00. What could go wrong ... go wrong ... go wrong ...
You must be new here ...
See, there's your first mistake. Tend to your bodily functions at work ... getting paid to read in the "library" at work is one of life's little pleasures.
At 10 minutes a day, it's 41-2/3 hours a year. Think of it as an extra week's vacation, doled out in tine time slices.
Already have that - but we call it "flex time."
If they REALLY wanted to save energy, they'd go to the 4 day work week. 20% saving in gasoline used to drive cars to and from work.
... you'll notice they were to scared of the Hell's Angels to target them ...
In Soviet USSA, Hell's Angels infringes YOU!
Can tolerate a complete drive failure + hundreds of unrecoverable reads per drive on the two remaining drives. The larger the disk, the less likely that both remaining drives will fail on the same sector, so larger drives are an advantage, not a disadvantage, compared to data split across drives that has to be "rebuilt" from the parity info ...
Seeing as a coke-headed alkie dope is already the commander-in-chief, your point is?