People are fed up with the angry, hateful, exclusive tone of the Republicans.
Project much?
"I hate Republicans and everything they stand for." -- Howard Dean, Democrat Party chairman
"That said, I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them." -- Markos Zuniga, Daily Kos
"[I]f there is retributive justice [Sen. Jesse Helms] will get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it." -- Nina Totenberg, PBS
"I hope [Clarence Thomas'] wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease." -- Julianne Malveaux, USA Today
"This President is never gonna do the right thing. I think somewhere deep down inside him he takes a lot of joy about losing people, if he thinks they vote Democrat or if he thinks they're poor, or if he thinks they're in a blue state, whatever his reasons are not to rescue those people who are (planning?) for their safety." -- Randi Rhodes, Air America Radio
Those are just what I was able to dig up in a minute or two of googling. The first one, I didn't even have to look up. You could also just check out the Zombietime archives, or pick up Michelle Malkin's Unhinged for more examples.
What I don't get is when do people have time to use WiFi at an airport?
If you're flying Southwest, you want to get there early enough that you're first in line to board the plane. If you do that, you're practically guaranteed an exit-row seat (extra legroom is good). That'll give you maybe an hour to kill, once you're past the security checkpoint and waiting to board.
That said, if I'm just reading mail, it's easier to bring it up on my phone (with its wireless data connection) than to break out the computer and see if Linux's Broadcom WiFi driver will behave itself today.
I have been thinking of finding a decent daemon for DNS caching, but I don't want something I'll have to fiddle with alot to get working or uses a huge amount of resources. (I don't want to use bind)
dnscache (part of djbdns) works well and has a small footprint.
Actually, I've never understood why they're not more popular in my area. Everyone seems to use gas furnaces, even though they cost a fortune to operate and it never really gets cold enough to make heat pumps prohibitive. (Northern Virginia)
Um...it does get cold enough there that heat pumps become useless. My parents lived there (in Springfield, more specifically) a while back. One Christmas (I think it was '92), there was a big-ass snowstorm that came through and generally made things a mess. The air blowing out of the vents in their heat-pump-equipped house was only in the 60s or 70s...80s, at most. It definitely wasn't warm air, by any reasonable definition of "warm."
Fortunately, they also had a fireplace, and a good-sized supply of firewood was stashed away outside.
Either way, Bill Cosby did a better job of covering a trip to the dentist. "Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair...and the first thing they grab is an iron hook."
Do you know of any programs that will convert a YouTube video straight to MP3?
I was originally going to post a Windows-only method that involved GraphEdit and some non-standard DirectShow filters, but then a brainfart revealed this cross-platform solution:
The audio in an.flv file is already MP3 (in every file I've run across, anyway). All you need to do is demux the file and save the audio; MPlayer can do that, and it's available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (maybe others, too).
Notice how every cell phone company in the US is pulling an AOL/compuserv/prodigy, where you have to use their service, their MP3's, their email, or they charge you more?
Sprint doesn't do that. I use my Treo 650 to access my own IMAP server. I put my own MIDI and MP3 files on it for use as ringtones. I have an SSH client on it for remote access to my server. I edit/compress TV shows recorded with MythTV and play them when I have time to kill. For mapping, I can choose between Google Maps (faster, but no GPS and it needs a data connection) or Street Atlas USA (slower, but it works with Bluetooth GPS receivers and it works in areas where there's no data service). For 250 (?) minutes of voice and unlimited data, I'm paying about $45/month.
Sounds like you either need a different service provider or a different phone.
I have heard about that, but it seems legally dodgy at best. Certainly, the notice at Scan mentions it can only be sold with a computer. A computer, not a bit of hardware.
I don't know about how things work over there, but here, places like Fry's and Newegg will sell OEM WinXP with things like power splitters, IDE cables, or even a bag of screws. If Microsoft had a problem with that, I'm sure someone would've ratted them out and they would've been stopped long ago.
Blank Hi-Def media is going to be insanely expensive for the forseeable future
It's not just the media, either. In among all of the CD and DVD burners, Fry's has a Blu-Ray burner on the shelf. At $750 each, I suspect most of them will stay on the shelf. I can make HD movies fit on DVDs (single-layer in many cases, dual-layer for the rest) with either MPEG-4 or H.264 that'll be nearly indistinguishable from the original sources.
Deleting large files (1 GB or larger) also takes an obnoxiously long time with ext3. The same operation with ReiserFS or JFS completes right away. (I've never used XFS, so I can't say anything about its performance one way or the other.) I'd think MythTV users (like me) would be interested in how long ext4 will take to delete a large file.
You prefer totally unencrypted VNC to 128 bit SSL encrypted RDP?
Actually, I prefer VNC-over-SSH over either of those. It's cross-platform (works with Linux and Mac OS X, not just Windows), and the underlying SSH supports up to 256-bit encryption (though 128-bit is usually secure enough without impacting performance too badly).
It only applies to HD cable boxes (if your previous cable boxes were non-HD, that would be why they didn't include FireWire), but it's been in effect for ~2.5 years now. On mine, local HD channels and most non-HD digital-cable channels are available over FireWire as MPEG-2 transport streams with AC3 audio.
(On a related note, the recently-released MythTV 0.20 seems to have improved its FireWire recording, too. I've seen fewer glitches in recordings made since I upgraded from 0.19.)
Speaking of straw men... yes, the official line was "weapons of mass destruction", not just nuclear weapons. The problem is, we didn't find any weapons of mass destruction of any type. Nor did we find any facilities for making same.
So you're saying all of the following are figments of the Iraq Survey Group's imaginations? These are some of what they found:
A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.
A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.
Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home, one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.
New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.
Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).
A line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the permissible limit.
Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles, a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists have said they were told to conceal from the UN.
Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1000 km - well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the UN. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed Iraq to threaten targets through out the Middle East, including Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.
Clandestine attempts between late-1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles --probably the No Dong -- 300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles, and other prohibited military equipment.
It's better to go in and mitigate a possibly overstated risk than to hand some reactors and nuclear fuel over to a little pot-bellied, dog-eating dictator and wake up ~10 years later to a nuclear-armed North Korea. I'll put the Bush record of mitigating world threats up against the Clinton record any time, anywhere. Maybe you won't, but clear-thinking people will compare the two and realize that in times of consequence such as these, it's not safe to vote Democrat.
Yeah, I could say all of those things, but the fact remains that we have dropped 120,000+ soliders and $300+ billion into a foreign country to interdict nuclear weapons that did not and do no exist
Yet another Slashbot demonstrates his ignorance of set theory. The search was not specifically for nuclear weapons, but for weapons of mass destruction. This is a more general category that includes chemical, biological, and radiological weapons as well as nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are a subset of WMD; a lack of nuclear weapons in some location does not imply a lack of WMD. Read this and educate yourself.
One would think that a mathematically-inclined audience such as this would be less likely to make such deductive errors; such flawed reasoning is what you would typically expect from the social "sciences," humanities, or liberal arts crowd.
(There's also the possibility that you intentionally set up the "no nukes found in Iraq" strawman so that you could then knock it down, but it's not always wise to attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance.)
Sounds like you bought the wrong phone, as my Treo 650 does nearly everything that you mention. It still needs an external GPS receiver for use with mapping software, but there are several Palm OS mapping apps available that do better than Google Maps when you're on the road. (Try getting Google Maps to work on the drive from Las Vegas to Phoenix, for instance. Most of the way, you'll have no data service. For a fair bit of the drive, you'll be lucky if you get voice service.) It'd be nice if the built-in GPS were made available to apps other than the phone software, but I'll take what I can get.
DRM probably has driven some key aspects of the design of iPod. For example, the fact that the iPod doesn't present its contents as a file system, like many other MP3 players do, is probably due to DRM.
FUD. The iPod shows up as a mass-storage device. All of the files on it can be read out of it with normal file-manipulation tools. The names of music files are obfuscated, but if they were tagged with the appropriate type of metadata before they were put there, it's not much work to throw together some scripts to give the files more sensible names. (You might find this utility I threw together useful...it's a command-line tagger that handles MP3 and AAC files (FLAC and Ogg Vorbis, too).)
The fact that it's hard to get music off the device is also driven by DRM concerns.
More FUD...see above, or look up any of the dozens of programs that automate the process. gtkpod is one example, and it even works under Linux. I used it just a few days ago to pull everything out of my iPod for a backup.
Likewise, the fact that the iPod does not support syncing to multiple machines well is probably influenced by DRM.
Still more FUD. I have no trouble manipulating the contents of my iPod from multiple machines. If you do, I suspect PEBKAC.
Those of us who were put off by TFA's use of tiny, illegible dark gray text on a black background didn't bother reading it until it was posted here.
OTOH, maybe the use of tiny, illegible dark gray text on a black background should be taken as forewarning that reading TFA is five minutes of your life that you'll never get back.:-P
Try makeing any untoward comments about your almighty presedent, and how to depose him (violently or otherwise) and then see where your constitution gets you....
If that were true, these hives of scum and villainy would've been shut down long ago. Last time I checked, they're still up and running. Thanks for playing, though.
So what happens in ubuntu when a random application tries to write to/usr?
If it's like any other Linux distro, it should fail with "Permission denied." There's no reason for normal-user code to write to/usr. Installing/removing apps (which is what brings about most changes to/usr) is up to root.
Besides, "random application" could well mean malware for all we know, and that's exactly the kind of crap you don't want getting installed.
GE is well known for making weapons???? Excuse me? I can't say I love them, but I'm pretty sure the only real "weapon" they make is airplane engines and some weapons detectors for DHS.
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Project much?
"I hate Republicans and everything they stand for."
-- Howard Dean, Democrat Party chairman
"That said, I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries. They aren't in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them."
-- Markos Zuniga, Daily Kos
"[I]f there is retributive justice [Sen. Jesse Helms] will get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it."
-- Nina Totenberg, PBS
"I hope [Clarence Thomas'] wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease."
-- Julianne Malveaux, USA Today
"This President is never gonna do the right thing. I think somewhere deep down inside him he takes a lot of joy about losing people, if he thinks they vote Democrat or if he thinks they're poor, or if he thinks they're in a blue state, whatever his reasons are not to rescue those people who are (planning?) for their safety."
-- Randi Rhodes, Air America Radio
Those are just what I was able to dig up in a minute or two of googling. The first one, I didn't even have to look up. You could also just check out the Zombietime archives, or pick up Michelle Malkin's Unhinged for more examples.
If you're flying Southwest, you want to get there early enough that you're first in line to board the plane. If you do that, you're practically guaranteed an exit-row seat (extra legroom is good). That'll give you maybe an hour to kill, once you're past the security checkpoint and waiting to board.
That said, if I'm just reading mail, it's easier to bring it up on my phone (with its wireless data connection) than to break out the computer and see if Linux's Broadcom WiFi driver will behave itself today.
Actually, it was the Belgians (in the french-speaking part of the country) who invented them.
dnscache (part of djbdns) works well and has a small footprint.
Coming to a jeweler near you: DeBeers Genuine Advantage. :-P
(Maybe I shouldn't joke about something like that, as it'll probably end up happening.)
Um...it does get cold enough there that heat pumps become useless. My parents lived there (in Springfield, more specifically) a while back. One Christmas (I think it was '92), there was a big-ass snowstorm that came through and generally made things a mess. The air blowing out of the vents in their heat-pump-equipped house was only in the 60s or 70s...80s, at most. It definitely wasn't warm air, by any reasonable definition of "warm."
Fortunately, they also had a fireplace, and a good-sized supply of firewood was stashed away outside.
They'll never buy a heat pump again.
Either way, Bill Cosby did a better job of covering a trip to the dentist. "Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair...and the first thing they grab is an iron hook."
I was originally going to post a Windows-only method that involved GraphEdit and some non-standard DirectShow filters, but then a brainfart revealed this cross-platform solution:
mplayer -vo null -dumpaudio foo.flv && mv stream.dump foo.mp3
The audio in an .flv file is already MP3 (in every file I've run across, anyway). All you need to do is demux the file and save the audio; MPlayer can do that, and it's available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (maybe others, too).
As long as flashsticks aren't banned at your location, you should be able to use Portable Firefox.
Sprint doesn't do that. I use my Treo 650 to access my own IMAP server. I put my own MIDI and MP3 files on it for use as ringtones. I have an SSH client on it for remote access to my server. I edit/compress TV shows recorded with MythTV and play them when I have time to kill. For mapping, I can choose between Google Maps (faster, but no GPS and it needs a data connection) or Street Atlas USA (slower, but it works with Bluetooth GPS receivers and it works in areas where there's no data service). For 250 (?) minutes of voice and unlimited data, I'm paying about $45/month.
Sounds like you either need a different service provider or a different phone.
I don't know about how things work over there, but here, places like Fry's and Newegg will sell OEM WinXP with things like power splitters, IDE cables, or even a bag of screws. If Microsoft had a problem with that, I'm sure someone would've ratted them out and they would've been stopped long ago.
It's not just the media, either. In among all of the CD and DVD burners, Fry's has a Blu-Ray burner on the shelf. At $750 each, I suspect most of them will stay on the shelf. I can make HD movies fit on DVDs (single-layer in many cases, dual-layer for the rest) with either MPEG-4 or H.264 that'll be nearly indistinguishable from the original sources.
Deleting large files (1 GB or larger) also takes an obnoxiously long time with ext3. The same operation with ReiserFS or JFS completes right away. (I've never used XFS, so I can't say anything about its performance one way or the other.) I'd think MythTV users (like me) would be interested in how long ext4 will take to delete a large file.
My hovercraft is full of eels!
Actually, I prefer VNC-over-SSH over either of those. It's cross-platform (works with Linux and Mac OS X, not just Windows), and the underlying SSH supports up to 256-bit encryption (though 128-bit is usually secure enough without impacting performance too badly).
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2004/octqtr/pdf/ 47cfr76.640.pdf
It only applies to HD cable boxes (if your previous cable boxes were non-HD, that would be why they didn't include FireWire), but it's been in effect for ~2.5 years now. On mine, local HD channels and most non-HD digital-cable channels are available over FireWire as MPEG-2 transport streams with AC3 audio.
(On a related note, the recently-released MythTV 0.20 seems to have improved its FireWire recording, too. I've seen fewer glitches in recordings made since I upgraded from 0.19.)
With some of the podcasts I've had the misfortune to hear, I suspect that won't be viewed by many as a shortcoming.
So you're saying all of the following are figments of the Iraq Survey Group's imaginations? These are some of what they found:
It's better to go in and mitigate a possibly overstated risk than to hand some reactors and nuclear fuel over to a little pot-bellied, dog-eating dictator and wake up ~10 years later to a nuclear-armed North Korea. I'll put the Bush record of mitigating world threats up against the Clinton record any time, anywhere. Maybe you won't, but clear-thinking people will compare the two and realize that in times of consequence such as these, it's not safe to vote Democrat.
Yet another Slashbot demonstrates his ignorance of set theory. The search was not specifically for nuclear weapons, but for weapons of mass destruction. This is a more general category that includes chemical, biological, and radiological weapons as well as nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are a subset of WMD; a lack of nuclear weapons in some location does not imply a lack of WMD. Read this and educate yourself.
One would think that a mathematically-inclined audience such as this would be less likely to make such deductive errors; such flawed reasoning is what you would typically expect from the social "sciences," humanities, or liberal arts crowd.
(There's also the possibility that you intentionally set up the "no nukes found in Iraq" strawman so that you could then knock it down, but it's not always wise to attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance.)
Sounds like you bought the wrong phone, as my Treo 650 does nearly everything that you mention. It still needs an external GPS receiver for use with mapping software, but there are several Palm OS mapping apps available that do better than Google Maps when you're on the road. (Try getting Google Maps to work on the drive from Las Vegas to Phoenix, for instance. Most of the way, you'll have no data service. For a fair bit of the drive, you'll be lucky if you get voice service.) It'd be nice if the built-in GPS were made available to apps other than the phone software, but I'll take what I can get.
FUD. The iPod shows up as a mass-storage device. All of the files on it can be read out of it with normal file-manipulation tools. The names of music files are obfuscated, but if they were tagged with the appropriate type of metadata before they were put there, it's not much work to throw together some scripts to give the files more sensible names. (You might find this utility I threw together useful...it's a command-line tagger that handles MP3 and AAC files (FLAC and Ogg Vorbis, too).)
More FUD...see above, or look up any of the dozens of programs that automate the process. gtkpod is one example, and it even works under Linux. I used it just a few days ago to pull everything out of my iPod for a backup.
Still more FUD. I have no trouble manipulating the contents of my iPod from multiple machines. If you do, I suspect PEBKAC.
Those of us who were put off by TFA's use of tiny, illegible dark gray text on a black background didn't bother reading it until it was posted here.
OTOH, maybe the use of tiny, illegible dark gray text on a black background should be taken as forewarning that reading TFA is five minutes of your life that you'll never get back. :-P
If that were true, these hives of scum and villainy would've been shut down long ago. Last time I checked, they're still up and running. Thanks for playing, though.
If it's like any other Linux distro, it should fail with "Permission denied." There's no reason for normal-user code to write to /usr. Installing/removing apps (which is what brings about most changes to /usr) is up to root.
Besides, "random application" could well mean malware for all we know, and that's exactly the kind of crap you don't want getting installed.
Try googling for "minigun." You could also just go to this Wikipedia page.
That said, the GP's assertion that the Antique Media are "banging the war drums" is ludicrous on its face.