You said "Hiroshima was targeted to maximize civilian casualties." To maximize civilian casualties, you would not warn them. It's the difference between walking into a room with a gun and shooting everyone and walking in, saying "Leave if you want to live", waiting a few minutes and then shooting everyone.
Without any other statement about what the US were targeting or if there were assets of military significance in Hiroshima, assuming the US were attempting to "maximize civilian casualties" as you said, they were doing it wrong and making absurd mistakes.
I for one have never had pulse work well on a system. My latest is Ubuntu Studio 10.4. Before I removed pulse, I would run a game like X2. The in-game sound would stutter, crackle and distort until sound was killed for the process and I was left with silence. It was awful if I ran Rhythmbox and a game like Lugaru at the same time. It just didn't work for anything in games. It really didn't too great for just Rhythmbox alone either. If you start jackd for studio work, you lose all of your non-jack based sound.
Since I don't have Bluetooth or any of the requirements that justify pulse, I'm better off without it. I get sound that just works (as it had for me for years prior to pulse) and it takes advantage of my multi-open sound card (something the pulse developers don't intend to support). That last part means I don't get the CPU load that pulse generated with software mixing. To me, not supporting multi-open hardware is like Xorg saying they won't support any hardware accelerated 3D.
I just wish it didn't keep getting harder to prevent pulse from running.
I guess I'm not that impressed. I saw the same thing months ago from an indy developer. The sample footage of the editor looks like the in game editor that wolfire is putting in Overgrowth. Look at 5:17 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taX4h3UajBc They've improved their editor a lot since then.
As humorous as that was, this is exactly the sort of security that actually works: looking people in the eyes, asking questions, being trained to skillfully detect what constitutes an honest response.
Once you do that you are using judgment. You are on the verge of profiling, or even worse racism.
When has UN condemnation ever acomphished anything?
Even if the condemnation doesn't scare off investors (Which China wants and needs), it is the next step in the process. International diplomacy is a game with rules.
Yes, but it plays like pacman or wizard of wor. First you start on the first condemnation. (We'll call it a level.) Then the second and third, You have to keep putting in quarters trying to get to the next level until you give up.
I for one want to default to private and choose what to share and how to share it. (With everyone or just select accounts.) I Zuckerberg would like the rest of use to default to share he can go first. He can offer readonly access to his email and all his other information. (Are his medical records in a computer somewhere?) Until then, he can remain silent. I don't want to hear it.
I know. The latest batch don't seem as funny though. I liked the days when you heard about the guy making a rocket car with a solid fuel booster or a Redneck driving while loading his shot gun. Thing that were just bizarre or comic book like in nature.
Three people, a family, getting zapped putting up an antenna is stupid, but but bizarre. And then reading their forum and the way they fight to justify nominating a 15 year old who was probably doing what Mom and Dad told him. People were upset that there was a daughter still alive. It did sound like the fun was the death.
For me, the best one was the guy who won without dying. He did remove himself from the gene pool in a spectacularly stupid way.
I don't think he had a problem with the "chucking at life" part. I'm guessing it's more of the "Putting the recently dead on display for laughs." that might seem a little distasteful. I couldn't say why. They're dead. It's funny. Laugh!
The Y2K bug almost cost a friend of mine his life-
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time subscription. (Sorry hit a character lime in the subject.) He got a notice that his subscription to his ham radio magazine was expiring. Since it was a lifetime subscription, he called them up and asked if they knew something that he and his doctor needed to be aware of. Lifetime subscriptions were given an expiration year of '99'.
I've been wondering for a while when the first set of law suits will begin for false advertising. So often I've heard the phrase "Own it today..." for all sorts of things that various content publishers are suing people over because those people do not 'own' the work they have. I just saw that phrase on the Harry Potter movie web site. Supposedly, you can "Own it" on blu-ray if the ad on the web site is to be believed. Odd how something as simple as the idea of 'ownership' can get this screwed up. I imagine The Cloud will screw up the idea of 'possession' in the same way.
If you use emacs, I strongly recommend org-mode. It's very flexible and powerful. It has a lot of options that can be tailored to your liking, but stay out of your way if you do want/need/understand them. It can be learned incrementally. It's an incredible organizing tool.
The school officials may be paranoid, but it probably not the student with the bad sense of humor that scares them. It's the army of lawyers who will come after them if it turns out the student is actually sufficiently maladjusted.
Allowing consequences are not limiting freedom. You are free to act. I'm am free to react. You have no right to expect me to react non-negatively. Freedom should never be interpreted to mean freedom from consequences.
I guess that could be cherry-picking. Now how about somebody cherry pick us up some evidence proving that 40% of Russia's data was not in-fact discarded, or that if it was discarded it didn't happen to be the 40% that didn't support AGW?
Now I have never been to WI but I hear from reliable sources it is also experiencing drought conditions [unl.edu]. Tell me, do they teach history [about.com] in WI?
Wow. I live in MN right next door to WI. I was talking to some of the local farmers recently. They are complaining about the fields being too wet. They are losing money running heaters to dry crops (beans, corn etc). It wasn't nearby, but I've even heard of a farmer who lost his barn to a fire caused while drying crops.
This actually surprised me. We had a very cool summer this year. I was expecting that to have caused trouble. None of them said that was really an issue this year. I never realized moist crops were a problem or that farmers had equipment for drying crops.
I think I'll back the 'force feeding' notion from the standpoint of a problem I hit when I just switched to Ubuntu. First off, the force feeding in the Linux world is different from that in the proprietary world. None the less it is real and still quite unpleasant.
To start, I was coming from a distribution that did not require Pulse Audio. Right there means I have more choice than with Microsoft. I came from Gentoo. Not exactly a user friendly experience. Not for Grandma. I discovered something called Pulse Audio that absolutely would not work with my sound card, and if it could it would not take advantage of the hardware sound mixing that some sound card (like mine) can do. It's like force every one with a 3D video card to do software rendering, but for sound.
Pulse Audio has some good design points and can solve a few problems that can't be solved without it or something like it. But most of what people need does not require Pulse Audio. And Pulse Audio is still the source of a lot of problems. It can't support some sound cards & drivers that otherwise work great on Linux. Now the natural thing to do would be to make Pulse Audio support optional. Use it if you want to (or if you can if you want to force opt-out) and don't otherwise.
In my still brief experience with Ubuntu I've discovered that removing Pulse Audio is quite difficult and Ubuntu keeps making it more difficult to remove with each release. There's no shortage of bug report that either get closed saying there's no problem or that Gnome is forcing Pulse Audio so there's nothing Ubuntu can do or some other dismissive thing. ("There is no problem...best release ever!... lalala... Shut up, stop complaining and be collaborative!".)
Likewise, while investigating my problems with Ubuntu it appears that Fedora may be going through the same or similar situation. I haven't look and Mandriva (or what ever it is that Mandrake calls themselves now) but I'm getting the impression the 'user-friendly; side of Linux is ramrodding Pulse Audio out no matter how broken it is. I've been on Linux, and I suspect I'll find a way to kill it when I need to, but it's getting more difficult as distros like Ubuntu is installed packages that default to PA support and provide no alternative. I may have to go back to something like Gentoo again for the long term. Right now I'm holding out for Debian for my next install.
In the end, if you are a hacker and you have the time to swim against the stream, then there is no being "force fed" in Linux. Just re-write and maintain everything you don't like.
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You said "Hiroshima was targeted to maximize civilian casualties." To maximize civilian casualties, you would not warn them. It's the difference between walking into a room with a gun and shooting everyone and walking in, saying "Leave if you want to live", waiting a few minutes and then shooting everyone.
Without any other statement about what the US were targeting or if there were assets of military significance in Hiroshima, assuming the US were attempting to "maximize civilian casualties" as you said, they were doing it wrong and making absurd mistakes.
I for one have never had pulse work well on a system. My latest is Ubuntu Studio 10.4. Before I removed pulse, I would run a game like X2. The in-game sound would stutter, crackle and distort until sound was killed for the process and I was left with silence. It was awful if I ran Rhythmbox and a game like Lugaru at the same time. It just didn't work for anything in games. It really didn't too great for just Rhythmbox alone either. If you start jackd for studio work, you lose all of your non-jack based sound.
Since I don't have Bluetooth or any of the requirements that justify pulse, I'm better off without it. I get sound that just works (as it had for me for years prior to pulse) and it takes advantage of my multi-open sound card (something the pulse developers don't intend to support). That last part means I don't get the CPU load that pulse generated with software mixing. To me, not supporting multi-open hardware is like Xorg saying they won't support any hardware accelerated 3D.
I just wish it didn't keep getting harder to prevent pulse from running.
Neil Peart chose freewill. Geddy was just repeating words Neil gave him.
People don't revolt when there is no freedom (the odd exception of the American Revolution aside), they revolt when there is no feud.
Well, think we can get some Americans involved?
If your ad is overly distracting, it's gone. (I want to read.)
If it obstructs the page, it's gone. (The same.)
If it wastes too much screen space, it's gone. (Screen space is precious.)
If it is larger than article, it's gone. (The same. I'm looking at the Slashdot rss feed in Google reader.
If it displays annoyingly incorrectly, it's gone. (It's an eye sore. Slashdot feed, that was you again.)
If it consumes enough CPU that I notice it, it's gone. (Computing power is precious. An ad does not require any.)
If it appears to implement tracking mechanisms, it's gone. (You don't get to put a tag on my ear.)
If your ads do not violate these rules, I'm willing let them display. Otherwise I will make them disappear using the easiest methods available to me.
And companies would never do that. Paying money for a patent like that would be dumb.
Without saying who I believe is actually right in this case, I can't help but wonder how is different to brute force
http(s)://hostname/secret
and
http(s)://username:pasword@hostname/
since basically secret could equal user:password? In the second case, you know the secret has at least one known character.
I guess I'm not that impressed. I saw the same thing months ago from an indy developer. The sample footage of the editor looks like the in game editor that wolfire is putting in Overgrowth. Look at 5:17 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taX4h3UajBc They've improved their editor a lot since then.
As humorous as that was, this is exactly the sort of security that actually works: looking people in the eyes, asking questions, being trained to skillfully detect what constitutes an honest response.
Once you do that you are using judgment. You are on the verge of profiling, or even worse racism.
This is Slashdot. Every summary must have at least one grammatical error.
And "investigating it's staff" wasn't good enough?
emphasis added
Count DeMonet: your majesty! You look like the piss boy!
King Louis: ... and you look like a bucket of shit!
That is classified information.
When has UN condemnation ever acomphished anything? Even if the condemnation doesn't scare off investors (Which China wants and needs), it is the next step in the process. International diplomacy is a game with rules.
Yes, but it plays like pacman or wizard of wor. First you start on the first condemnation. (We'll call it a level.) Then the second and third, You have to keep putting in quarters trying to get to the next level until you give up.
There isn't an end. There's always a next level.
I for one want to default to private and choose what to share and how to share it. (With everyone or just select accounts.) I Zuckerberg would like the rest of use to default to share he can go first. He can offer readonly access to his email and all his other information. (Are his medical records in a computer somewhere?) Until then, he can remain silent. I don't want to hear it.
I know. The latest batch don't seem as funny though. I liked the days when you heard about the guy making a rocket car with a solid fuel booster or a Redneck driving while loading his shot gun. Thing that were just bizarre or comic book like in nature.
Three people, a family, getting zapped putting up an antenna is stupid, but but bizarre. And then reading their forum and the way they fight to justify nominating a 15 year old who was probably doing what Mom and Dad told him. People were upset that there was a daughter still alive. It did sound like the fun was the death.
For me, the best one was the guy who won without dying. He did remove himself from the gene pool in a spectacularly stupid way.
I don't think he had a problem with the "chucking at life" part. I'm guessing it's more of the "Putting the recently dead on display for laughs." that might seem a little distasteful. I couldn't say why. They're dead. It's funny. Laugh!
time subscription. (Sorry hit a character lime in the subject.) He got a notice that his subscription to his ham radio magazine was expiring. Since it was a lifetime subscription, he called them up and asked if they knew something that he and his doctor needed to be aware of. Lifetime subscriptions were given an expiration year of '99'.
I've been wondering for a while when the first set of law suits will begin for false advertising. So often I've heard the phrase "Own it today..." for all sorts of things that various content publishers are suing people over because those people do not 'own' the work they have. I just saw that phrase on the Harry Potter movie web site. Supposedly, you can "Own it" on blu-ray if the ad on the web site is to be believed. Odd how something as simple as the idea of 'ownership' can get this screwed up. I imagine The Cloud will screw up the idea of 'possession' in the same way.
If you use emacs, I strongly recommend org-mode. It's very flexible and powerful. It has a lot of options that can be tailored to your liking, but stay out of your way if you do want/need/understand them. It can be learned incrementally. It's an incredible organizing tool.
The school officials may be paranoid, but it probably not the student with the bad sense of humor that scares them. It's the army of lawyers who will come after them if it turns out the student is actually sufficiently maladjusted.
Allowing consequences are not limiting freedom. You are free to act. I'm am free to react. You have no right to expect me to react non-negatively. Freedom should never be interpreted to mean freedom from consequences.
I guess that could be cherry-picking. Now how about somebody cherry pick us up some evidence proving that 40% of Russia's data was not in-fact discarded, or that if it was discarded it didn't happen to be the 40% that didn't support AGW?
Carl Sagan's right! Grab your torches and pitchforks! We've got to stop all those ignorant bastards before they destroy us all!
Now I have never been to WI but I hear from reliable sources it is also experiencing drought conditions [unl.edu]. Tell me, do they teach history [about.com] in WI?
Wow. I live in MN right next door to WI. I was talking to some of the local farmers recently. They are complaining about the fields being too wet. They are losing money running heaters to dry crops (beans, corn etc). It wasn't nearby, but I've even heard of a farmer who lost his barn to a fire caused while drying crops.
This actually surprised me. We had a very cool summer this year. I was expecting that to have caused trouble. None of them said that was really an issue this year. I never realized moist crops were a problem or that farmers had equipment for drying crops.
I think I'll back the 'force feeding' notion from the standpoint of a problem I hit when I just switched to Ubuntu. First off, the force feeding in the Linux world is different from that in the proprietary world. None the less it is real and still quite unpleasant.
To start, I was coming from a distribution that did not require Pulse Audio. Right there means I have more choice than with Microsoft. I came from Gentoo. Not exactly a user friendly experience. Not for Grandma. I discovered something called Pulse Audio that absolutely would not work with my sound card, and if it could it would not take advantage of the hardware sound mixing that some sound card (like mine) can do. It's like force every one with a 3D video card to do software rendering, but for sound.
Pulse Audio has some good design points and can solve a few problems that can't be solved without it or something like it. But most of what people need does not require Pulse Audio. And Pulse Audio is still the source of a lot of problems. It can't support some sound cards & drivers that otherwise work great on Linux. Now the natural thing to do would be to make Pulse Audio support optional. Use it if you want to (or if you can if you want to force opt-out) and don't otherwise.
In my still brief experience with Ubuntu I've discovered that removing Pulse Audio is quite difficult and Ubuntu keeps making it more difficult to remove with each release. There's no shortage of bug report that either get closed saying there's no problem or that Gnome is forcing Pulse Audio so there's nothing Ubuntu can do or some other dismissive thing. ("There is no problem...best release ever! ... lalala ... Shut up, stop complaining and be collaborative! ".)
Likewise, while investigating my problems with Ubuntu it appears that Fedora may be going through the same or similar situation. I haven't look and Mandriva (or what ever it is that Mandrake calls themselves now) but I'm getting the impression the 'user-friendly; side of Linux is ramrodding Pulse Audio out no matter how broken it is. I've been on Linux, and I suspect I'll find a way to kill it when I need to, but it's getting more difficult as distros like Ubuntu is installed packages that default to PA support and provide no alternative. I may have to go back to something like Gentoo again for the long term. Right now I'm holding out for Debian for my next install.
In the end, if you are a hacker and you have the time to swim against the stream, then there is no being "force fed" in Linux. Just re-write and maintain everything you don't like.