Just a definition, from the American Heritage Dictionary:
Fascism is a system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.
For all you Bush-haters, this is not a rant about Bush, because he has zero power to pass laws. This is about members of both major parties in Congress, who regularly put aside their differences to expand the state-granted power of privileged businesses at the direct expense of our rights. This is fascism, by definition, yet we keep saying, "Thank you sir; may I have another?"
The problem is that politicians need pander to voters only on two or three issues, and then are free to do whatever is most profitable to them on all other issues. You might even be able to make the argument that the "major" issues we hear Congress critters rant about (the war, social security, the war, taxes, the war) are simply a smokescreen for the corruption, because it keeps our rights off most peoples' radars.
And yet, for some reason, whenever the people speak, they keep electing those who want to take more of our rights away in the name of protecting the children, or protecting the environment, or protecting old people, or protecting stupid people, etc. Will the balance ever shift in the other direction?
Of course, naturally I now can't get it to happen. (There must be some corollary to Murphy's Law for this.) But if there's a problem with my CSS that could cause non-deterministic rendering, please let me know. I've run it through validators, but who knows...
I've still seen rendering errors on display: inline divs wrapping when there's more than enough horizontal space remaining. If I reload the page, they then display fine. This didn't happen with the 1.0.x series, but has plagued 1.5 RC's.
Looks like this happened to both of us. I fail to see how my message was trolling; probably just modded down by a bunch of kiss-ass Nintendo fanboys. Typical slashdot tyranny: nothing to see here.:P
Having started playing FPS's at 1920x1200 and 1600x1200 on my 6800, I don't think it would be possible for me to go back to NTSC resolution for modern games. This is a big black mark against this console.
Nothing new to see here: just the same ridiculous posturing we've been hearing about for months now that will have absolutely no effect on the reality of who controls the root servers.
Yeah, that works until you have actual capacity issues like we do in Boston: there simply isn't enough road space for all the cars that want to travel on a given route at a given time. Boston traffic is a Blotto bag: 5 lbs of shit in a 4 lb bag.
...is that people are paying attention to it. It is a complete non-issue that has legs only because we let it.
Seriously, if everyone in the US simply ignores it, the bitching and moaning will go away either (a) because the EU realizes that they can't force anything on the US in this matter if the US doesn't listen, or (b) because the EU sets up their own DNS servers and the two become partitioned and slowly move out of sync. Either way is fine with me.
Maybe it's time to try a cheaper area. If I were in your position, that's probably what I'd be looking at, because $1100/mo just doesn't seem tenable.
Then again, I bristle a little bit at the concept of child care for the early years, so I'd probably be willing to sacrifice a lot just so one of me or my hypothetical wife could look after the kids during the day.
A family of four making $60K/year is bringing home at least $30K/year after income taxes, health insurance, and 401K. This is about $2500/mo. Considering that during the first several years of a mortgage you deduct almost the entire amount from your taxable income, a $1700/mo mortgage isn't at all unreasonable (since it equates to only about $1400/mo of post-tax income), and still leaves $1100/mo left over for food, transportation, and entertainment, which is more than reasonable if you don't eat out every night, don't buy lots of home theater equipment, etc.
I'm not claiming it's the easy life, but it's also hardly poverty-line.
And if you happen to be unlucky enough to be tied to an area where the cheapest single-family houses are $500K, then you suck it up and live in a condo.:)
I bought in mid-2002. My house was $275 when I bought it, is worth about $400 now. I live 12 miles from Boston as the crow flies, about 18 miles by road.
I know people who bought $600 houses that are now worth $7-800, but they *chose* to buy in expensive areas like Belmont Hills, Lexington, etc. They could have bought in an undervalued area like I did, but chose the better location for intangible reasons, which is their right; but to complain that houses are then unaffordable for middle class people is specious. It might mean *their* houses are unaffordable for the middle class, but there are still plenty of areas that are still perfectly reasonable.
As for NYC, yeah, you're pretty much fucked there if you want any space. You're looking at a condo anywhere south of Putnam County if you want to pay less than $500, but them's the breaks for living in that area. But for every NYC, there are 10 places like the NC research triangle, where a 2000 ft^2 single-family home on a half-acre less than 30 minutes from Durham can be had for less than $150K.
(I guess the advantage Boston has over NYC is fewer people, so while the houses *in* the city may be more expensive than those in the NYC proper, there are still houses available for less than a first-born son with reasonable commutes.)
My friend bought a 3BR, 2BA, 2000 ft^2 single-family house in Hyattsville, MD, wood floors, Corian counters, new appliances, flawless condition, for under $400K. He works in central DC, commute is about 30 minutes by Metro.
So, I'm sorry: I call BS. Either you have an agenda and are lying, or you are not looking in the right places. Which is it? You can access the CLS for free if you just don't know what you should be paying for a house.
I'd love to know where you are living, because I'm upper-middle class, live in the most expensive metro area in the country (Boston), yet I own a 2000 ft^2 single-family house with a driveway, garage, and a reasonably-large corner lot, with a 35-minute commute to Boston. And I only pay $1700/mo for mortgage/escrow.
I know you said you're not in California, but if your 100 minute commute is a reverse commute like several friends I know who live in San Fran but work in San Jose, then you are making a life choice to pay more and get less just so you can live in a particular place. Let's just say my heart wouldn't be breaking, and you would hardly be representative of upper-middle (or upper) class. Something just doesn't compute properly in your post, IMO.
In Boston, the fare currently covers only 1/4 of the cost of a subway ride. The other 3/4 comes from taxes that you pay whether you use the thing or not.
The UN is nothing but a soapbox for petty dictators and thugs. I do not want an organization whose general assembly is dominated by autocrats to be able to censor domains based on their concept of what is acceptable. Everything basically works fine with the US running it with very little actual central control.
But the more important point is this: what would happen if China or North Korea were able to remove all domain names referring to sites advocating freedom, or Iran were able to pull all porn domains, etc.? Every client would simply switch to a different set of root servers controlled in the same lasseiz-faire manner as the current roots, and in 5 years we'd be back in the same situation.
I say we just send the UN some Dell brochures and tell them to set up their own damn servers if they want to control DNS so badly. Then we can laugh as they beg to get people in the free world to actually use them.
...when there truly has been an intrusion, but the underlying system may be complex enough that the intrusion detection software can't be entirely sure something unauthorized is happening, and the consequences of preventing access might outweigh the risk of automatic action.
The real problem with the IDS/IPS space is false positives, because they are a non-starter for many businesses, including mine.
Stop calling it "artificial intelligence." Call it what it is: heuristics research. Oh, I guess that sounds a lot less impressive, huh? Might not be able to get those open-ended grants anymore?
FWIW, I spent two years at LCS, so I have a reasonable idea of what went on in the AI Lab when I was there. There was very little in the way of research into computer-emulating-human intelligence, which is probably a good thing (read: less of a waste of money) considering how little progress the Minsky crowd has made in the past thirty years.
There are between 10 and 50 people who have had some hand in most of the systems. So, let's face reality: there are going to be bugs. And while I've done my best to develop engineering paradigms that avoid the sorts of bugs that lead to segfaults, it's virtually impossible to guarantee correctness in these types of systems.
To add an additional layer of protection between the main program and the various crappy libraries I have to interface with, I use fork(). A library has some fatal bug that causes my program to crash? No problem, because it's a child process! The main program is still running, serving other requests.
You can't select on them. You need to use Windows' "WaitForMultipleEvents" or whatever garbage it is... That makes it useless for any software that isn't event-driven, which was basically every Linux application until the event API appeared in the Linux kernel.
As a mostly-Linux developer who has done his share of Linux->Windows porting, the lack of fork() and pipe() are easily the most irritating aspects of programming for Windows.
Oftentimes in security code, you want to know which process is speaking to you on the other end of a pipe. Under Linux, this is very easy. Under Windows, it is a huge bear, not the least reason for which is that Windows lacks the concept of a named pipe, so you have to make something up based on shared memory or some other such garbage.
And fork()... well, as anyone who has written a fork()-based program (i.e., one that doesn't just exec() right after forking) knows, this entirely changes the structure of the application. Yukk.
Last I head, pipe() and fork() are both POSIX, so I hope these system calls appear when Microsoft takes the plunge and replaces their crappy kernel and API with something closer to UNIX. Given how long UNIX has been around and how much important software exists for it and is being developed daily (mostly on Linux and MacOS these days), I can't wait until we can finally declare system API "victory" and move the fight to something that causes much less irritation for developers.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
I apologize if they misrepresented the dictionary.
Just a definition, from the American Heritage Dictionary:
Fascism is a system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.
For all you Bush-haters, this is not a rant about Bush, because he has zero power to pass laws. This is about members of both major parties in Congress, who regularly put aside their differences to expand the state-granted power of privileged businesses at the direct expense of our rights. This is fascism, by definition, yet we keep saying, "Thank you sir; may I have another?"
The problem is that politicians need pander to voters only on two or three issues, and then are free to do whatever is most profitable to them on all other issues. You might even be able to make the argument that the "major" issues we hear Congress critters rant about (the war, social security, the war, taxes, the war) are simply a smokescreen for the corruption, because it keeps our rights off most peoples' radars.
Anyone else think the guy at pictured at the link looks like Melvin Frohike of the Lone Gunmen? :)
> The primary greenhouse gas is CO2
False: the primary greenhouse gas of note is water vapor. Look it up.
And yet, for some reason, whenever the people speak, they keep electing those who want to take more of our rights away in the name of protecting the children, or protecting the environment, or protecting old people, or protecting stupid people, etc. Will the balance ever shift in the other direction?
Of course, naturally I now can't get it to happen. (There must be some corollary to Murphy's Law for this.) But if there's a problem with my CSS that could cause non-deterministic rendering, please let me know. I've run it through validators, but who knows...
http://www.krose.org/yark/renderr.html
Thanks,
Kyle
I've still seen rendering errors on display: inline divs wrapping when there's more than enough horizontal space remaining. If I reload the page, they then display fine. This didn't happen with the 1.0.x series, but has plagued 1.5 RC's.
SPOILERS.
Most of the book was fine, but the end was ridiculous. I mean, an interstellar war starting due to a "misunderstanding"? Please.
Looks like this happened to both of us. I fail to see how my message was trolling; probably just modded down by a bunch of kiss-ass Nintendo fanboys. Typical slashdot tyranny: nothing to see here. :P
Having started playing FPS's at 1920x1200 and 1600x1200 on my 6800, I don't think it would be possible for me to go back to NTSC resolution for modern games. This is a big black mark against this console.
Nothing new to see here: just the same ridiculous posturing we've been hearing about for months now that will have absolutely no effect on the reality of who controls the root servers.
Yeah, that works until you have actual capacity issues like we do in Boston: there simply isn't enough road space for all the cars that want to travel on a given route at a given time. Boston traffic is a Blotto bag: 5 lbs of shit in a 4 lb bag.
...is that people are paying attention to it. It is a complete non-issue that has legs only because we let it.
Seriously, if everyone in the US simply ignores it, the bitching and moaning will go away either (a) because the EU realizes that they can't force anything on the US in this matter if the US doesn't listen, or (b) because the EU sets up their own DNS servers and the two become partitioned and slowly move out of sync. Either way is fine with me.
Yeesh. Guess you're right. I'm glad I'm single. :)
Maybe it's time to try a cheaper area. If I were in your position, that's probably what I'd be looking at, because $1100/mo just doesn't seem tenable.
Then again, I bristle a little bit at the concept of child care for the early years, so I'd probably be willing to sacrifice a lot just so one of me or my hypothetical wife could look after the kids during the day.
Anyway, point taken.
A family of four making $60K/year is bringing home at least $30K/year after income taxes, health insurance, and 401K. This is about $2500/mo. Considering that during the first several years of a mortgage you deduct almost the entire amount from your taxable income, a $1700/mo mortgage isn't at all unreasonable (since it equates to only about $1400/mo of post-tax income), and still leaves $1100/mo left over for food, transportation, and entertainment, which is more than reasonable if you don't eat out every night, don't buy lots of home theater equipment, etc.
:)
I'm not claiming it's the easy life, but it's also hardly poverty-line.
And if you happen to be unlucky enough to be tied to an area where the cheapest single-family houses are $500K, then you suck it up and live in a condo.
All numbers in thousands.
I bought in mid-2002. My house was $275 when I bought it, is worth about $400 now. I live 12 miles from Boston as the crow flies, about 18 miles by road.
I know people who bought $600 houses that are now worth $7-800, but they *chose* to buy in expensive areas like Belmont Hills, Lexington, etc. They could have bought in an undervalued area like I did, but chose the better location for intangible reasons, which is their right; but to complain that houses are then unaffordable for middle class people is specious. It might mean *their* houses are unaffordable for the middle class, but there are still plenty of areas that are still perfectly reasonable.
As for NYC, yeah, you're pretty much fucked there if you want any space. You're looking at a condo anywhere south of Putnam County if you want to pay less than $500, but them's the breaks for living in that area. But for every NYC, there are 10 places like the NC research triangle, where a 2000 ft^2 single-family home on a half-acre less than 30 minutes from Durham can be had for less than $150K.
(I guess the advantage Boston has over NYC is fewer people, so while the houses *in* the city may be more expensive than those in the NYC proper, there are still houses available for less than a first-born son with reasonable commutes.)
My friend bought a 3BR, 2BA, 2000 ft^2 single-family house in Hyattsville, MD, wood floors, Corian counters, new appliances, flawless condition, for under $400K. He works in central DC, commute is about 30 minutes by Metro.
So, I'm sorry: I call BS. Either you have an agenda and are lying, or you are not looking in the right places. Which is it? You can access the CLS for free if you just don't know what you should be paying for a house.
I'd love to know where you are living, because I'm upper-middle class, live in the most expensive metro area in the country (Boston), yet I own a 2000 ft^2 single-family house with a driveway, garage, and a reasonably-large corner lot, with a 35-minute commute to Boston. And I only pay $1700/mo for mortgage/escrow.
I know you said you're not in California, but if your 100 minute commute is a reverse commute like several friends I know who live in San Fran but work in San Jose, then you are making a life choice to pay more and get less just so you can live in a particular place. Let's just say my heart wouldn't be breaking, and you would hardly be representative of upper-middle (or upper) class. Something just doesn't compute properly in your post, IMO.
See subject.
In Boston, the fare currently covers only 1/4 of the cost of a subway ride. The other 3/4 comes from taxes that you pay whether you use the thing or not.
The UN is nothing but a soapbox for petty dictators and thugs. I do not want an organization whose general assembly is dominated by autocrats to be able to censor domains based on their concept of what is acceptable. Everything basically works fine with the US running it with very little actual central control.
But the more important point is this: what would happen if China or North Korea were able to remove all domain names referring to sites advocating freedom, or Iran were able to pull all porn domains, etc.? Every client would simply switch to a different set of root servers controlled in the same lasseiz-faire manner as the current roots, and in 5 years we'd be back in the same situation.
I say we just send the UN some Dell brochures and tell them to set up their own damn servers if they want to control DNS so badly. Then we can laugh as they beg to get people in the free world to actually use them.
...when there truly has been an intrusion, but the underlying system may be complex enough that the intrusion detection software can't be entirely sure something unauthorized is happening, and the consequences of preventing access might outweigh the risk of automatic action.
The real problem with the IDS/IPS space is false positives, because they are a non-starter for many businesses, including mine.
Stop calling it "artificial intelligence." Call it what it is: heuristics research. Oh, I guess that sounds a lot less impressive, huh? Might not be able to get those open-ended grants anymore?
FWIW, I spent two years at LCS, so I have a reasonable idea of what went on in the AI Lab when I was there. There was very little in the way of research into computer-emulating-human intelligence, which is probably a good thing (read: less of a waste of money) considering how little progress the Minsky crowd has made in the past thirty years.
One big advantage fork() has over threads:
Fault isolation.
There are between 10 and 50 people who have had some hand in most of the systems. So, let's face reality: there are going to be bugs. And while I've done my best to develop engineering paradigms that avoid the sorts of bugs that lead to segfaults, it's virtually impossible to guarantee correctness in these types of systems.
To add an additional layer of protection between the main program and the various crappy libraries I have to interface with, I use fork(). A library has some fatal bug that causes my program to crash? No problem, because it's a child process! The main program is still running, serving other requests.
You can't select on them. You need to use Windows' "WaitForMultipleEvents" or whatever garbage it is... That makes it useless for any software that isn't event-driven, which was basically every Linux application until the event API appeared in the Linux kernel.
As a mostly-Linux developer who has done his share of Linux->Windows porting, the lack of fork() and pipe() are easily the most irritating aspects of programming for Windows.
Oftentimes in security code, you want to know which process is speaking to you on the other end of a pipe. Under Linux, this is very easy. Under Windows, it is a huge bear, not the least reason for which is that Windows lacks the concept of a named pipe, so you have to make something up based on shared memory or some other such garbage.
And fork()... well, as anyone who has written a fork()-based program (i.e., one that doesn't just exec() right after forking) knows, this entirely changes the structure of the application. Yukk.
Last I head, pipe() and fork() are both POSIX, so I hope these system calls appear when Microsoft takes the plunge and replaces their crappy kernel and API with something closer to UNIX. Given how long UNIX has been around and how much important software exists for it and is being developed daily (mostly on Linux and MacOS these days), I can't wait until we can finally declare system API "victory" and move the fight to something that causes much less irritation for developers.