Oh, she didn't get a machine to hack. That's the weirdest part. Diebold had a web site with an "FTP" link to the source code and she stumbled over it. She didn't even know what FTP meant. At least that's the story.
a woman who is against electronic voting machines (who isn't a computer expert) was googling a manufacturer of electronic voting machines, and she stumbled apon all the firmware and source code to all their voting machines, she downloaded it, and filled 7 CD's and brought it to a computer security expert, and they were shocked about the poor coding of the voting machines operating system.
Sounds like Bev Harris, author of Black Box Voting.
When I first used mergemaster I thought it was the greatest thing since before that I had to tediously hand-pick through/usr/src/etc on OpenBSD and NetBSD in order to keep/etc up-to-date.
But now the luster has worn off and I'm seeing things a bit differently especially after using Gentoo's etc-update.
So what about mergemaster?
1) split screen mode - mergemaster splits your screen into a left and right half with no scrolling. You get a whopping 40 columns of truncated file to look at on an 80 column display in single-user mode with no network or GUI. The first thing you will notice on the screen is the CVS tags which will almost help you tell which is the new and which is the old file except that they are cut off at 40 columns
2) "l for left" and "r for right" - you type the "l" for "left" with your right hand and the "r" for "right" with your left hand. Screws me up since I have typing skills.
Lack of reliability is precisely why I got rid of my Verizon land line. It went down on a beautiful sunny Wednesday afternoon. They told me the soonest it could be fixed would be Sunday. I told them to take a hike. I was running a Vonage line in parallel. I used it to place the disconnect order.
Maybe you live someplace were the land line service is better. Lucky you.
This is a gray area I think. If you are distributing, then people are getting your software. At what point does a distribution system cross the line from interal to beyond? Seems that it is a slipery placeto be since leaks could happen very easily, especially with larger companies and corporations. Could you defend you position that you did not want to distribute a program by branding the souce code and binaries with warning like "FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY -- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE"?
If production in the desert kingdom has in fact peaked, as some experts say, the alternatives aren't easy, if they exist at all.
By Jon D. Markman
Around the clock, every day of the week, the world's biggest machines strip-mine a 1,100-square-mile section of the northern Canadian plains for oil.
They aren't drilling, for this oil is way too thick to flow gently from the ground like Arabian Light in Kuwait or West Texas Intermediate. Instead, it is gouged from Alberta's tarry sands with tractors, transported by 300-ton trucks, steam-heated at high temperatures in giant vats until it melts into a liquid thin enough to be refined, then sent by pipeline for the trip south to Calgary and beyond.
Expensive to acquire, hard to refine and tricky to transport, the transformation of this sticky gunk into diesel fuel, kerosene, petroleum coke and fertilizer feedstock sounds like a science-fair project. Yet the oil sands around Fort McMurray in Alberta are actually a rich source of energy, and the principal source of income for Suncor Energy (SU, news, msgs), a $13-billion Alberta company whose shares hit a historic high last week on record earnings.
But are they the great black hope of Western Hemisphere oil independence, as many advocates seem to think?
Autos powered by 'wishful thinking'?
In response to my column last week, "Is Saudi Arabia running out of oil?," which raised the possibility that Saudi Arabian oil production has peaked, I received dozens of e-mails from readers who said the oil sands in Canada and Venezuela were key to the West's independence from the Middle East supply. They were joined by scores of letters from petroleum engineers and others who said alternately that the Saudi peak-oil thesis was right on or way off; that oil would never be depleted because it was constantly replenished in a geological process deep beneath the Earth's crust; that postwar drilling in Iraq would uncover reserves that rivaled Saudi Arabia; that more U.S. drilling was the answer to our independence from the Saudis; or that conservation was the answer.
After considering all the suggestions, however, it seems there are no feasible near-term alternatives to Saudi oil yet unless your car happens to run on wishful thinking. Let's take a look at the possibilities.
A grainy picture of oil sands
Suncor is the third-largest energy company in Canada, but after all the mess and expense of extraction and refinement, the oil sand pits along the Athabasca River produce just 260,000 barrels of oil a day at present -- about a third of the daily production of Qatar, the smallest OPEC country. If Suncor meets goals it has communicated to investors, it would double that production level in the next decade and sustain it for 50 years. Yet it would still be just a fraction of the 6 million barrels of light oil that the Saudis produce today.
Suncor began production in 1967 and has produced the equivalent of 1 billion barrels since, in tandem with its Fort McMurray neighbor, Syncrude Canada. Last week, Suncor announced that its second-quarter profit had jumped 75% on the strength of both higher output and higher prices, as well as some unexpected gains from its smaller natural-gas business. The biggest problem for Suncor is that a tremendous amount of natural gas and water is required to make oil sand extraction technology work, and both are increasingly expensive and in short supply even though natural gas, at least, is a byproduct of the sands-mining process.
However, this is not the end of the world. In fact, it might help save it because it makes alternative energy a lot more attractive.
If the end of cheap oil was the only problem happening at once it would be an enviromentalist's dream come true. Unfortunately, it's part of a clusterf--k that an that is why it is so dangerous.
The human population is bulging at the seams and requires cheap energy to transport food from factory farms to supermarkets. It requires fertilizers and pesticides made from petroleum to grow it. It requires plastics from petroleum to package it. If petroleum costs go up it will have an impact on the price of food and food is not an optional product. Right now there's a decline in per-capita food production.
There's still the environmental impact you hope that expensive oil will fix to deal with. Environmental degradation is an issue which is causing harm to the earth and making it more expensive for corporations to operate right now.
Specific to the US is the ever-growing national debt. The US is maintaining levels of debt and trade imbalance that no other country is. Oil is purchased around the world in US dollars and the World Bank and IMF loan and get paid for loans in US dollars. That is causing an artifical demand for US dollars and that demand is what's holding the country together despite the national debt.
Then there's the Iraq war which is turning into a money-and-human-life blackhole. It has created an anarchy where Bush had his sites set on a stable source of oil.
ok so by keeping the jobs in US will stop the oil demand. Somehow I doubt it.
Did I say that it could be reversed? It's far too late to put that genie back into it's bottle. My point was that this is a side-effect that must have been totally off of corporate RADAR when the decision was made.
The true cost of outsourcing industry is that U.S. corporations have turned India and China into massive energy consumers. China especially is competing for oil which is driving the price to over $45/barrel. The crows have come home to roost as the stock market buckles under the pressure of the tighest oil market ever.
I've decided to just run a cash register and be poor. It was good enough for my grandfather.
Oh, but your grandfather lived in a world with a much smaller human population. Why? Because it used to be a manditory requirement of the survive of the human race to have vast numbers of children since so many of them would die before having their own children. People are genetically programed to overpopulate just to keep in place. What went wrong is that the so-called green revolution meant that most children would live not die. Then the most natural impulses create a population that is dependent on fossil fuels to keep going but fossil fuels won't keep going. Even if they just get so hard to come by that the production levels off the babies keep coming so somethings got to break down.
By now you've all been told how MicroSoft makes all of it's profits on Windows and things like the X-Box are just money losers running as place-holders at the company's expense.
Well oil is to the world economy what Windows is to MicroSoft. Oil is turned into fertilizer so all high-carbohydrate crops and the livestock that feed on them are just an "X-Box" from an economic viewpoint.
All transportation, manufacturing, etc. are also 100% dependent on enegy from fossile fuels. All plastics, nylon, etc are made directly from oil.
When oil prices go up it's like Windows ceasing to be the "money printing press" for MicroSoft. The net effect is that the whole world is made poorer.
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The price of crude oil has been above $40 for a long time now. Instead of taking oil out of the strategic reserve to reduce the price they are putting huge amounts of oil into it despite the high price. Clearly that oil will go to the military not industry or the consumer. Those two could use it now. The military needs it when war cuts the US off from foreign oil.
Sorry but the government doesn't have time to mess with SPAM control.
I was poking around the the FTP site that has nstx and I noticed migr. It's a hack to migrate processes between systems. The migration is not completely transparent to the migrated process since it will lose filepoint locations at least. It appears to reload the migrated process by installing it as a SEGV handler with signal stack and then unmapping most of the loader causing a segfault which starts the migrated process.
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GNOME to drop Slackware, film at 11.
Confident?
Secure?
Empowered?
I think I'm browsing different web sites that the test subjects.
But what if you use real names of existing nurses?
how could you forget:
Inferior But Marketable
Just three or four fake IDs, register for a shift at "competive prices", fail to show up and *poof* hospital in crisis mode.
Where did you see mention of an SD/MMC card slot?
SDRAM != SD/MMC
When we say "media" we don't me "just audio."
write a morse code driver for the start button
Oh, she didn't get a machine to hack. That's the weirdest part. Diebold had a web site with an "FTP" link to the source code and she stumbled over it. She didn't even know what FTP meant. At least that's the story.
When I first used mergemaster I thought it was the greatest thing since before that I had to tediously hand-pick through /usr/src/etc on OpenBSD and NetBSD in order to keep /etc up-to-date.
But now the luster has worn off and I'm seeing things a bit differently especially after using Gentoo's etc-update.
So what about mergemaster?
1) split screen mode - mergemaster splits your screen into a left and right half with no scrolling. You get a whopping 40 columns of truncated file to look at on an 80 column display in single-user mode with no network or GUI. The first thing you will notice on the screen is the CVS tags which will almost help you tell which is the new and which is the old file except that they are cut off at 40 columns
2) "l for left" and "r for right" - you type the "l" for "left" with your right hand and the "r" for "right" with your left hand. Screws me up since I have typing skills.
Lack of reliability is precisely why I got rid of my Verizon land line. It went down on a beautiful sunny Wednesday afternoon. They told me the soonest it could be fixed would be Sunday. I told them to take a hike. I was running a Vonage line in parallel. I used it to place the disconnect order.
Maybe you live someplace were the land line service is better. Lucky you.
This is a gray area I think. If you are distributing, then people are getting your software. At what point does a distribution system cross the line from interal to beyond? Seems that it is a slipery placeto be since leaks could happen very easily, especially with larger companies and corporations. Could you defend you position that you did not want to distribute a program by branding the souce code and binaries with warning like "FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY -- DO NOT DISTRIBUTE"?
I'm not so sure that Candian tar sands are a good deal.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P89219.asp
SuperModels
No easy fix for our Saudi oil habit
If production in the desert kingdom has in fact peaked, as some experts say, the alternatives aren't easy, if they exist at all.
By Jon D. Markman
Around the clock, every day of the week, the world's biggest machines strip-mine a 1,100-square-mile section of the northern Canadian plains for oil.
They aren't drilling, for this oil is way too thick to flow gently from the ground like Arabian Light in Kuwait or West Texas Intermediate. Instead, it is gouged from Alberta's tarry sands with tractors, transported by 300-ton trucks, steam-heated at high temperatures in giant vats until it melts into a liquid thin enough to be refined, then sent by pipeline for the trip south to Calgary and beyond.
Expensive to acquire, hard to refine and tricky to transport, the transformation of this sticky gunk into diesel fuel, kerosene, petroleum coke and fertilizer feedstock sounds like a science-fair project. Yet the oil sands around Fort McMurray in Alberta are actually a rich source of energy, and the principal source of income for Suncor Energy (SU, news, msgs), a $13-billion Alberta company whose shares hit a historic high last week on record earnings.
But are they the great black hope of Western Hemisphere oil independence, as many advocates seem to think?
Autos powered by 'wishful thinking'?
In response to my column last week, "Is Saudi Arabia running out of oil?," which raised the possibility that Saudi Arabian oil production has peaked, I received dozens of e-mails from readers who said the oil sands in Canada and Venezuela were key to the West's independence from the Middle East supply. They were joined by scores of letters from petroleum engineers and others who said alternately that the Saudi peak-oil thesis was right on or way off; that oil would never be depleted because it was constantly replenished in a geological process deep beneath the Earth's crust; that postwar drilling in Iraq would uncover reserves that rivaled Saudi Arabia; that more U.S. drilling was the answer to our independence from the Saudis; or that conservation was the answer.
After considering all the suggestions, however, it seems there are no feasible near-term alternatives to Saudi oil yet unless your car happens to run on wishful thinking. Let's take a look at the possibilities.
A grainy picture of oil sands
Suncor is the third-largest energy company in Canada, but after all the mess and expense of extraction and refinement, the oil sand pits along the Athabasca River produce just 260,000 barrels of oil a day at present -- about a third of the daily production of Qatar, the smallest OPEC country. If Suncor meets goals it has communicated to investors, it would double that production level in the next decade and sustain it for 50 years. Yet it would still be just a fraction of the 6 million barrels of light oil that the Saudis produce today.
Suncor began production in 1967 and has produced the equivalent of 1 billion barrels since, in tandem with its Fort McMurray neighbor, Syncrude Canada. Last week, Suncor announced that its second-quarter profit had jumped 75% on the strength of both higher output and higher prices, as well as some unexpected gains from its smaller natural-gas business. The biggest problem for Suncor is that a tremendous amount of natural gas and water is required to make oil sand extraction technology work, and both are increasingly expensive and in short supply even though natural gas, at least, is a byproduct of the sands-mining process.
However, this is not the end of the world. In fact, it might help save it because it makes alternative energy a lot more attractive.
If the end of cheap oil was the only problem happening at once it would be an enviromentalist's dream come true. Unfortunately, it's part of a clusterf--k that an that is why it is so dangerous.
The human population is bulging at the seams and requires cheap energy to transport food from factory farms to supermarkets. It requires fertilizers and pesticides made from petroleum to grow it. It requires plastics from petroleum to package it. If petroleum costs go up it will have an impact on the price of food and food is not an optional product. Right now there's a decline in per-capita food production.
There's still the environmental impact you hope that expensive oil will fix to deal with. Environmental degradation is an issue which is causing harm to the earth and making it more expensive for corporations to operate right now.
Specific to the US is the ever-growing national debt. The US is maintaining levels of debt and trade imbalance that no other country is. Oil is purchased around the world in US dollars and the World Bank and IMF loan and get paid for loans in US dollars. That is causing an artifical demand for US dollars and that demand is what's holding the country together despite the national debt.
Then there's the Iraq war which is turning into a money-and-human-life blackhole. It has created an anarchy where Bush had his sites set on a stable source of oil.
ok so by keeping the jobs in US will stop the oil demand. Somehow I doubt it.
Did I say that it could be reversed? It's far too late to put that genie back into it's bottle. My point was that this is a side-effect that must have been totally off of corporate RADAR when the decision was made.
If you do websphere, thats all you do.
Websphere is a catch-all for a dozen products. MQSeries is now "Websphere MQ", etc.
The true cost of outsourcing industry is that U.S. corporations have turned India and China into massive energy consumers. China especially is competing for oil which is driving the price to over $45/barrel. The crows have come home to roost as the stock market buckles under the pressure of the tighest oil market ever.
In genetic laboratory worker monkey fries you!
I've decided to just run a cash register and be poor. It was good enough for my grandfather.
Oh, but your grandfather lived in a world with a much smaller human population. Why? Because it used to be a manditory requirement of the survive of the human race to have vast numbers of children since so many of them would die before having their own children. People are genetically programed to overpopulate just to keep in place. What went wrong is that the so-called green revolution meant that most children would live not die. Then the most natural impulses create a population that is dependent on fossil fuels to keep going but fossil fuels won't keep going. Even if they just get so hard to come by that the production levels off the babies keep coming so somethings got to break down.
By now you've all been told how MicroSoft makes all of it's profits on Windows and things like the X-Box are just money losers running as place-holders at the company's expense.
Well oil is to the world economy what Windows is to MicroSoft. Oil is turned into fertilizer so all high-carbohydrate crops and the livestock that feed on them are just an "X-Box" from an economic viewpoint.
All transportation, manufacturing, etc. are also 100% dependent on enegy from fossile fuels. All plastics, nylon, etc are made directly from oil.
When oil prices go up it's like Windows ceasing to be the "money printing press" for MicroSoft. The net effect is that the whole world is made poorer.
The price of crude oil has been above $40 for a long time now. Instead of taking oil out of the strategic reserve to reduce the price they are putting huge amounts of oil into it despite the high price. Clearly that oil will go to the military not industry or the consumer. Those two could use it now. The military needs it when war cuts the US off from foreign oil.
Sorry but the government doesn't have time to mess with SPAM control.
http://livejournal.com/community/peak_oil
1986 Sun Microsystems
n e_index.html
1987 NeXT
They did the SPARCstation 1
They did the NeXT cube
but after that what? Packard Bell and Acer? They are clearly has-beens.
http://www.frogdesign.com/company/timeline/timeli
I was poking around the the FTP site that has nstx and I noticed migr. It's a hack to migrate processes between systems. The migration is not completely transparent to the migrated process since it will lose filepoint locations at least. It appears to reload the migrated process by installing it as a SEGV handler with signal stack and then unmapping most of the loader causing a segfault which starts the migrated process.
MS newsbot "self-censoring"?
You haven't seen anything yet.
Go check out this movie:
http://www.buzzflash.com/orwell/default.htm
It's better than Fahrenheit 9/11. It explains how de-regulation of the media creates hundreds of stations that represent the views of a handful.