At some point, there might even develop an anecdote of how someone used such roaming access to save someone's life, lookup poison remedies, report an incipient terrorist incident, etc.
Wouldn't you rather pull out your cell phone and have direct access to a human being manning either 911 or the poison control center? (or your local equivalents) That live person would be able to provide or dispatch immediate help that you would not get through an Internet connection.
Even if you said you only needed to lookup a poison remedy and don't need a live person, wouldn't you rather have called someone who has the ability to dispatch an ambulance immediately in the event that there is no "home remedy" for the particular poison that you may have ingested?
In saving lives, time is of the essence and I wouldn't want to look something up only to find out that my time was wasted and that I should have either gone straight to the hospital or called the paramedics instead.
As to your general point, I do agree with it on some level and for many other things besides saving lives, but I tend to doubt it would make a good replacement for the current emergency management system.
Whenever new hardware is released patience, when wating for Linux support, is a necessary virtue.
No, its not necessary at all. A much more neccessary (and more easy to obtain) virtue would be the motivation, and consideration for the open source movement that bought you linux in the first place, to attempt to actually hack up a quick driver yourself...
Oh, yes, of course - because every Linux user out there knows how to program device drivers. How silly of them to think that the Linux movement actually wants people other than programmers to use the operating system.
$25,000 is A LOT to give any politician from a single company, ESPECIALY at the state level.
I mean govonerships are won with less that 5 million dollors, and most of the time I bet it is less that 2 million.
You're either from a small state or misinformed. Tony Sanchez raised over $18 million just for the primary election to win the Democratic spot on Texas' gubernatorial ballot this Fall. Large portions of it were self-financed or raised from his banker friends.
Marty Akins raised $2.975 million for his bid for the Democratic spot for State Comptroller in the primaries. If you live in a large state, you'll see large-scale campaign spending is the norm, and that $25,000 would be less than 1% in the Comptroller's race and around.001% in the Governor's race.
Aside from the license issue, it seems pretty creepy to me that a local government would need their code to be confidential. What the hell is a local government be doing, that needs to be hid from the public? Are you guys writing programs that analyze how much tax money can be safely diverted to the Mayor's bank accounts or something?
It depends on what function the local government is doing. Some government records pertaining to individuals (such as taxpayers) within a State are not subject to open records requests nor to public disclosure by law. This is to protect those individuals from having their personal tax information, for instance, released to the public.
If your code had things in it that would lead to disclosure of that data, you would not be required to release it and would, in fact, be legally obligated to keep it confidential through Federal and possibly State statutes.
State governments (and perhaps more local ones) often are able to use Federal Income Tax records pertaining to their citizens so that they know whether or not someone lied on their own State tax return, as well as to forecast revenue changes resulting from changes in policy and the like. Those same State governments need software in order to more easily forecast changes and determine whether or not returns were correctly filed. Some States will purchase that software from vendors, while others will pay someone to develop it in-house. Even if your source code would not release any legally-protected data about your citizenry, you still wouldn't want everyone to have free access to the code because you would have just paid for software that another State could now use for free. Thus, you would have wasted your State taxpayers' money, while allowing another State a free ride.
Those are just some of the reasons, whether or not you agree with them, that a local government could have a very valid reason for keeping the source code from being released.
420,000 lines of code, and only one error found in each of the last three versions.
In the last eleven versions, 17 errors altogther were found.
Note how much money it costs to produce software of that quality, and you will see why software usually has bugs - especially when you add in the short development cycles that management wants today. Damn the testing, full release ahead!
Don't bother setting up a computer system and hacking something out. Instead, just use something like The Work Alerter, which is ready-made and allows up to 32 events. It even includes a speaker and you can set the duration of the sound from 1 to 99 seconds. It looks like additional speakers can be attached. It has a low cost of $389 and probably more reliable than hacking out a computer setup. Sometimes the right tool for the job is not Linux on a computer system.
(I'm not affiliated with them, it was just the first place listed in my search results.)
If you read the constitution, there is nothing in there about the federal government having the right to govern communication in any way (the entire point of the FCC). However, there *is* a statement that any function not delineated as an area of federal authority will be the in the jurisdiction of the states. It is unconstitutional for the federal government to mandate such charges.
I have read the Constitution. If you've read it recently, then I don't know where you got the idea that the FCC is not Constitutional.
From Article I, Section 8: The Congress shall have Power...
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
So, yes, the Federal government does have the right to govern communication across State lines, which the Internet and cable certainly are (cable applies, even if the provider resides entirely in one State, because it gets feeds from satellites that cross State boundaries among other reasons).
How useful is this feature? Is it really that helpful to know that your car is being stolen -- after someone has already managed (presumably) to drive away with it?
Yes, because if you contact the police right away, and tell them your vehicle's description and license plate number along with its last location, they can have all the police in the area looking for it.
That assumes that the service calls you and you call the police within about 10-15 minutes or less of the vehicle being stolen. Any longer than that and it will become less useful but would still be a good idea - and much better than waiting until the next time you happen to be back to your car, which could be hours or days later.
It would appear that I forgot to login, and so my post will appear as AC rather than the +2 I used to get some attention, but I just posted a message [slashdot.org] exposing much of the parents poster's web site as plagiarism of my two-year-old work.
I am replying to myself, and using my +2 bonus, to call attention to the fact that sh0rtie and I have now resolved the issue amicably and that there are no hard feelings.
I do not wish to unnecessarily harm his long-term image on this message board, and since this issue was brought up in public I felt I should state in public that it has been resolved and that there is no further reason to think badly of sh0rtie over this matter.
If you feel badly about me for bringing it up in the first place, though, that's just fine, but I wanted to clear sh0rtie's name since I brought it up and he resolved it to my satisfaction.:-)
I dont think quoting a 10 line install procedure can really be classed as plagurism in this case , if so/. would of been out of business a long time ago
"I don't claim to have invented the process"
Thats right you didn't but from your posts tone it would seem that isn't the case
Don't know why I'm responding to an AC, but here goes anyway:
It was not confined to the one ten line installation procedure. You either didn't read the message I posted or didn't look closely enough at the sites in question.
The size of the theft is irrelevant; the theft is wrong no matter what the size. The tone was used because theft is wrong in any case, and that is what is disturbing and prompted the reply at all. I freely acknowledge any and all help I received in making my site, and at the very least as a courtesy I would expect others to reciprocate.
Obviously, large portions of society have degenerated to the point where it's okay to take others work and present it as your own - as indicated by your tacit agreement in your post. If you don't call attention to the fact that it is wrong to present others' work as your own, people will continue down their present path and plagiarize to the point where there is no original work at all anymore. As I said, I didn't invent the method itself, but every word of my site was original content, written by me, about the hosts method of ad blocking. I didn't steal anything, and neither should anyone else.
Slashdot doesn't have a problem with it because it quotes small portions of articles, gives attribution, and links to the original work. The website in question did none of those. An entire page was copied, and half of a second one was as well.
Posting without the +1 since this is OT to the original subject.
Try my host file project [remember.mine.nu], i try to update it daily/weekly and makes just about every other hosts file redundant
Some of this poster's content was fairly apparently stolen from my two-year-old website. See my message about that here and here.
I've never posted a link to this message board about my website any of the times that hosts has been brought up, but I felt I must take a stand against this apparent plagiarism.
Also, for the record, anyone who has asked to link to my site or to copy text from it has been granted that permission. All you have to do is ask and respect other peoples' work. Sheeesh.
It would appear that I forgot to login, and so my post will appear as AC rather than the +2 I used to get some attention, but I just posted a message exposing much of the parents poster's web site as plagiarism of my two-year-old work.
The tough part would be getting the "pick up the new blank" part, since you could only pick up one, and the height of the stack of CDs would differ. I dunno, maybe something like "the Claw" from Toy Story would work.
found my Kroger card in a parking lot somewhere. I think it was the walmart parking lot.>:) So someone, somewhere, has a bout 14 pounds of cheese, 6 pounds of tofu, 6 cans of beans, and 4 industrial sized cans of Tomato sauce per month showing up on his purchasing record. MUAHAHAHAHHA!!
You forgot the twelve dozen rolls of TP you are going to need.
And don't even mention those with tenor at the universities, some of those idiots really abuse the position they're in.
They sure do. Every time I go by the music department I just can't escape that constant singing. Do they really think that people actually like opera? Even if I did, I'd much prefer a bass over a tenor any day.
What exactly are the benefits to me of Mandrake staying afloat?
New features and fixes from Mandrake make it over into Suse, perhaps? More competitors are around to keep Suse on its toes rather than let it sit back and coast? More exposure for Linux? Take your pick, or add one of the myriad other benefits I didn't mention.
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At some point, there might even develop an anecdote of how someone used such roaming access to save someone's life, lookup poison remedies, report an incipient terrorist incident, etc.
Wouldn't you rather pull out your cell phone and have direct access to a human being manning either 911 or the poison control center? (or your local equivalents) That live person would be able to provide or dispatch immediate help that you would not get through an Internet connection.
Even if you said you only needed to lookup a poison remedy and don't need a live person, wouldn't you rather have called someone who has the ability to dispatch an ambulance immediately in the event that there is no "home remedy" for the particular poison that you may have ingested?
In saving lives, time is of the essence and I wouldn't want to look something up only to find out that my time was wasted and that I should have either gone straight to the hospital or called the paramedics instead.
As to your general point, I do agree with it on some level and for many other things besides saving lives, but I tend to doubt it would make a good replacement for the current emergency management system.
Whenever new hardware is released patience, when wating for Linux support, is a necessary virtue.
No, its not necessary at all. A much more neccessary (and more easy to obtain) virtue would be the motivation, and consideration for the open source movement that bought you linux in the first place, to attempt to actually hack up a quick driver yourself...
Oh, yes, of course - because every Linux user out there knows how to program device drivers. How silly of them to think that the Linux movement actually wants people other than programmers to use the operating system.
$25,000 is A LOT to give any politician from a single company, ESPECIALY at the state level.
.001% in the Governor's race.
I mean govonerships are won with less that 5 million dollors, and most of the time I bet it is less that 2 million.
You're either from a small state or misinformed. Tony Sanchez raised over $18 million just for the primary election to win the Democratic spot on Texas' gubernatorial ballot this Fall. Large portions of it were self-financed or raised from his banker friends.
Marty Akins raised $2.975 million for his bid for the Democratic spot for State Comptroller in the primaries. If you live in a large state, you'll see large-scale campaign spending is the norm, and that $25,000 would be less than 1% in the Comptroller's race and around
numero uno posto?
Oh no-o, you're-o not first-o!
Aside from the license issue, it seems pretty creepy to me that a local government would need their code to be confidential. What the hell is a local government be doing, that needs to be hid from the public? Are you guys writing programs that analyze how much tax money can be safely diverted to the Mayor's bank accounts or something?
It depends on what function the local government is doing. Some government records pertaining to individuals (such as taxpayers) within a State are not subject to open records requests nor to public disclosure by law. This is to protect those individuals from having their personal tax information, for instance, released to the public.
If your code had things in it that would lead to disclosure of that data, you would not be required to release it and would, in fact, be legally obligated to keep it confidential through Federal and possibly State statutes.
State governments (and perhaps more local ones) often are able to use Federal Income Tax records pertaining to their citizens so that they know whether or not someone lied on their own State tax return, as well as to forecast revenue changes resulting from changes in policy and the like. Those same State governments need software in order to more easily forecast changes and determine whether or not returns were correctly filed. Some States will purchase that software from vendors, while others will pay someone to develop it in-house. Even if your source code would not release any legally-protected data about your citizenry, you still wouldn't want everyone to have free access to the code because you would have just paid for software that another State could now use for free. Thus, you would have wasted your State taxpayers' money, while allowing another State a free ride.
Those are just some of the reasons, whether or not you agree with them, that a local government could have a very valid reason for keeping the source code from being released.
IANAL.
Some software that works.
420,000 lines of code, and only one error found in each of the last three versions.
In the last eleven versions, 17 errors altogther were found.
Note how much money it costs to produce software of that quality, and you will see why software usually has bugs - especially when you add in the short development cycles that management wants today. Damn the testing, full release ahead!
Anybody have any tips for me?
Go here.
Don't bother setting up a computer system and hacking something out. Instead, just use something like The Work Alerter, which is ready-made and allows up to 32 events. It even includes a speaker and you can set the duration of the sound from 1 to 99 seconds. It looks like additional speakers can be attached. It has a low cost of $389 and probably more reliable than hacking out a computer setup. Sometimes the right tool for the job is not Linux on a computer system.
(I'm not affiliated with them, it was just the first place listed in my search results.)
If you read the constitution, there is nothing in there about the federal government having the right to govern communication in any way (the entire point of the FCC). However, there *is* a statement that any function not delineated as an area of federal authority will be the in the jurisdiction of the states. It is unconstitutional for the federal government to mandate such charges.
I have read the Constitution. If you've read it recently, then I don't know where you got the idea that the FCC is not Constitutional.
From Article I, Section 8:
The Congress shall have Power...
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
So, yes, the Federal government does have the right to govern communication across State lines, which the Internet and cable certainly are (cable applies, even if the provider resides entirely in one State, because it gets feeds from satellites that cross State boundaries among other reasons).
How useful is this feature? Is it really that helpful to know that your car is being stolen -- after someone has already managed (presumably) to drive away with it?
Yes, because if you contact the police right away, and tell them your vehicle's description and license plate number along with its last location, they can have all the police in the area looking for it.
That assumes that the service calls you and you call the police within about 10-15 minutes or less of the vehicle being stolen. Any longer than that and it will become less useful but would still be a good idea - and much better than waiting until the next time you happen to be back to your car, which could be hours or days later.
The draw may be lower at times, but I bet a G4 at peak can use as much power as a PIII.
Peak draw: 360 watts.
No reference to what their power supply is actually rated to.
It would appear that I forgot to login, and so my post will appear as AC rather than the +2 I used to get some attention, but I just posted a message [slashdot.org] exposing much of the parents poster's web site as plagiarism of my two-year-old work.
:-)
I am replying to myself, and using my +2 bonus, to call attention to the fact that sh0rtie and I have now resolved the issue amicably and that there are no hard feelings.
I do not wish to unnecessarily harm his long-term image on this message board, and since this issue was brought up in public I felt I should state in public that it has been resolved and that there is no further reason to think badly of sh0rtie over this matter.
If you feel badly about me for bringing it up in the first place, though, that's just fine, but I wanted to clear sh0rtie's name since I brought it up and he resolved it to my satisfaction.
I dont think quoting a 10 line install procedure can really be classed as plagurism in this case , if so /. would of been out of business a long time ago
"I don't claim to have invented the process"
Thats right you didn't but from your posts tone it would seem that isn't the case
Don't know why I'm responding to an AC, but here goes anyway:
It was not confined to the one ten line installation procedure. You either didn't read the message I posted or didn't look closely enough at the sites in question.
The size of the theft is irrelevant; the theft is wrong no matter what the size. The tone was used because theft is wrong in any case, and that is what is disturbing and prompted the reply at all. I freely acknowledge any and all help I received in making my site, and at the very least as a courtesy I would expect others to reciprocate.
Obviously, large portions of society have degenerated to the point where it's okay to take others work and present it as your own - as indicated by your tacit agreement in your post. If you don't call attention to the fact that it is wrong to present others' work as your own, people will continue down their present path and plagiarize to the point where there is no original work at all anymore. As I said, I didn't invent the method itself, but every word of my site was original content, written by me, about the hosts method of ad blocking. I didn't steal anything, and neither should anyone else.
Slashdot doesn't have a problem with it because it quotes small portions of articles, gives attribution, and links to the original work. The website in question did none of those. An entire page was copied, and half of a second one was as well.
Posting without the +1 since this is OT to the original subject.
Try my host file project [remember.mine.nu], i try to update it daily/weekly and makes just about every other hosts file redundant
Some of this poster's content was fairly apparently stolen from my two-year-old website. See my message about that here and here.
I've never posted a link to this message board about my website any of the times that hosts has been brought up, but I felt I must take a stand against this apparent plagiarism.
Also, for the record, anyone who has asked to link to my site or to copy text from it has been granted that permission. All you have to do is ask and respect other peoples' work. Sheeesh.
internet explorer didn't contuinally tell you "this page may not display as intended - click ok to continue" ...
eDexter from my website will take care of that problem for you.
It would appear that I forgot to login, and so my post will appear as AC rather than the +2 I used to get some attention, but I just posted a message exposing much of the parents poster's web site as plagiarism of my two-year-old work.
The problem would be to get a vacuum or use a suction cup with the hole in the middle of the cd.
Who says you have to pick it up from the middle? Just use two suction cups on either side of the hole, or four for a pattern around the hole.
x
xox
x
or
xox
where o = the hole and x = suction cups
The tough part would be getting the "pick up the new blank" part, since you could only pick up one, and the height of the stack of CDs would differ. I dunno, maybe something like "the Claw" from Toy Story would work.
Two words: suction cups.
all my CDs available to me all the time !
You want the Plextor MegaPlex 200.
That's assuming that you have the $5500 you need to buy one, of course.
found my Kroger card in a parking lot somewhere. I think it was the walmart parking lot.>:) So someone, somewhere, has a bout 14 pounds of cheese, 6 pounds of tofu, 6 cans of beans, and 4 industrial sized cans of Tomato sauce per month showing up on his purchasing record. MUAHAHAHAHHA!!
You forgot the twelve dozen rolls of TP you are going to need.
why not? HBO and other premium cable channels seem to have done fine with it.
Yes, but they also offer additional content in the form of their own series/movies as well as showing studio movies unedited for time or content.
What have you got against them anyway?
Nothing much aside from some of their history - it was just a joke and no offense was intended.
My Packard Bell sits in a cuboid shape case under the monitor.
Did you just admit to owning a Packard Bell? Please.... say it ain't so!!!
And don't even mention those with tenor at the universities, some of those idiots really abuse the position they're in.
They sure do. Every time I go by the music department I just can't escape that constant singing. Do they really think that people actually like opera? Even if I did, I'd much prefer a bass over a tenor any day.
What exactly are the benefits to me of Mandrake staying afloat?
New features and fixes from Mandrake make it over into Suse, perhaps? More competitors are around to keep Suse on its toes rather than let it sit back and coast? More exposure for Linux? Take your pick, or add one of the myriad other benefits I didn't mention.