I read somewhere that their radio was permanently tuned to the govt channel. and you couldn't turn it off. very 1984. i don't know if the author of that article was hyperbolizing the reality in north korea or if 'dear leader' had taken 1984 for a "totalitarian regime for dummies".
And when the drug cartels, finding the pot business no longer lucrative, move on over to cocaine etc.. what then?
As long as there is something that's outlawed, there will be outlaws performing it. If you legalize it, those (and others) will move on over to the next outlawed thing. Legalizing something to take away the raison d'etra for these cartels won't work. Legalizing booze didn't make the mob vanish. They moved on over to coke and gambling. It took concerted effort from the FBI to stamp them out.
I support legalizing pot - I think it's less harmful than the two current legal drugs - tobacco and alcohol. But I don't for a second believe that we'll solve the mexico drug war by legalizing it. it'll only get worse because they'll be pushing cocaine. The drug cartels have to be taken on just like the FBI took on the mob.
Answer from a non-blogger - so take it with a grain of salt. Don't know if wordpress or the likes actually does this but i would think it does...
Here's how it would play out:
- write the first blog with word (or what have you). all good. - write the second blog entry. then worry about a link back to the old entry. and update the old entry with a link to the the new entry. - write the third entry. now it's a kind of a mess to try and update all three so.. hmm.. quick scripting to look at the file structure to list and index all the entries.. - wouldn't it be nice then, to be able to just write an entry and have everything link to everything else (index or a TOC)... script some more........ - wordpress.
With physical stores, if you went browsing, you'd see a lot of shit that you wouldn't otherwise. Maybe that'd even give you an idea or two. With online stuff, while it seems counter-intuitive, you only get what you search for - in other words, you don't get exposed to things you didn't think to look up.
If you've got a private plane to carry out nefarious deeds, once loaded up with fuel, you don't NEED firearms to carry on-board to cause harm. I fail to see the logic of searching the contents of carry-ons (or otherwise) of private plane owners - except of course for contraband.
If you are queasy about "..In public airspace? Over public property?" the only recourse is to ban all planes from flying over public property. Never mind what the plane owner carried on board.
I have tried implementing a 'design document' process for the better part of 10 years that I've been with this group. It's never gotten done. We came close about a year ago. Here's why it's I still try (while knowing that it'll never get done):
> The idea that they had a change of heart in the.com boom, seems strange.
They didn't have a change of heart. AFAIK, you can thank this man for making NSA powerless against the now lowered barrier to entry for crypto systems:
PGP History, In particular, the part about the book form of the source code which was used to circumvent export restrictions. Remember downloading Netscape? You had to pick if you were in the US - you then got the strong ciphers. If you picked elsewhere, you got weak ciphers - thanks to the export restrictions. Due to the widespread availability of PGP, that distinction became moot. Also, read the part about the Clipper chip in here. That was the strategy of NSA at the time. It failed.
I think that the NSA might have thrown in the towel and moved on from encryption-decryption onto a more "meta" analysis. for example, like you said, connect the IP dots and you get the general gist of the activity even if you can't really get at the content. All you'd have to do is record the src and dst fields of the IP packet at all the major network carriers and you know who is talking to whom at what times and frequencies (i know that's overly simplistic but given the budget, i'm sure they can get far more sophisticated). Play "6 degrees of kevin becon" and you get a lot more info than you would if you listened in on a voice conversation alone.
It *IS* another VM. They just used Java the *language*, it's associated tools (Eclipse) in order to capitalize on the the developer marketshare. The resulting compiled code is targeted to this other VM (the dalvic VM). To steer clear of Java, they would have to stop using Java - the language.
(I would be all for it. I *Hate* Java. The tools make it bearable.)
However, using another language will present all kinds of issues - which language do they use?
Python might be a close candidate as they already have an interpreter that runs under the Dalvik VM - although I don't think it's installed by default and the API coverage might not be a 100%. Also, running an instance of the interpretor for every app might suck some major ass - which is why they used Dalvik as opposed to the VMs that come as part of the Java platform. If, as the alternative, they ran one VM, the seperation between the apps aren't there which can cause all sorts of other issues.
That's perfect! Don't need to support all vehicle sizes... even more incentive to not buy big SUVs. Then, setup the train station like a railway crossing... so...
0) cars drive south onto a platform all parallel facing south.. 1) eastbound train arrives at the station 2) opens right wall and lowers it forming a ramp onto the south platform to let vehicles off 3) vehicles start driving off onto the platform.. 4) the left wall opens and lowers onto the north platform forming a ramp 5) the cars from #0 ALL start driving onto the train - all facing south, perpendicular to the direction of travel 6) after all the cars are loaded and the left wall is raised.. train continues eastbound.
I don't know if it was just convention or there is some physics to the width of trains - why can't they be wider? I'm sure someone though four lane highways impossible at some point in time..
There are some issues with scheduling and logistics of if I happen to pull up at a spot where the car on the train on that spot doesn't get off.. do I not get to go on? But if people buy tickets in advance indicating their desired destination, maybe at the destination that "lane" opens up for loading? I'm sure with all the advances in toll booth, RFID, transponder tech, we can rig up something for the logistics of it...
But that would be freggin' cool, pull up to a train, drive onto it, drive off of it at your destination..
Seems like the amateur radio folks need to get together with the amateur rocketry folks and cook some shit up and put a sucker in a geo-stationary orbit.
I wonder if the app gets the position from the internet or if it's using the connection to download the telemetry data and doing the calculations itself. If it's the latter, a sync before going on the trip would be fine. AFAIK, the decay is not too bad for the calculated position for at least a couple of days. I don't even remember how frequently NORAD provides updates for the telemetry data.
if it's the former (just uses the internet connection to talk to a NASA/NORAD web server to get the position) then you're hosed. Unless you implement the algorithms in the Spacetrack report and create the app yourself.
It's not all that difficult. I did it for a class about 6-8 years ago and used it to track a weather satellite. Actually downloaded the TIFF weather map. Was a fun class.
if a briquette is a small brick. what is an asset?
I guess it works better when spoken, not spelled. I have that though going through my mind when in meetings where people talk business-speak with "assets and resources".
So, when can I come over and install a camera in your bedroom?
I hope that you see that you do have something to hide. And that having something to hide doesn't necessarily have to be the sole domain of criminals.
For any politician spouting the same line, I ask that you first install a camera in your office. After all, the office is paid for by the citizenry. It's public property.
> Not if they don't want or need a community around their product.
The thing about that is that while you may not NEED a community around a product for making the next quarterly estimates, long term, I highly doubt that Solaris would have any edge over other OSs that do have a community around them.
> I suspect Oracle are of the opinion that there's no money to be made selling Solaris as a general purpose OS
Which is another reason why no money will be spent on Solaris to maintain any edge over other OSs.
So, Solaris will die a death brought on by both edges of the sword. No money AND no community.
Playlists that are more in line with whatever i seed it with. Better than radio. Got sick of FM after hearing the same exact song 2-3 days in a row at exactly the same intersection. Must have had a playlist of maybe 10 songs - probably of whatever RIAA was trying to push at the time. Commuting to work is bad enough. Having deja-vu of commuting while commuting is orders of magnitude worse.
Now listen to pandora and rhapsody and some AM for news.
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I read somewhere that their radio was permanently tuned to the govt channel. and you couldn't turn it off. very 1984. i don't know if the author of that article was hyperbolizing the reality in north korea or if 'dear leader' had taken 1984 for a "totalitarian regime for dummies".
And when the drug cartels, finding the pot business no longer lucrative, move on over to cocaine etc.. what then?
As long as there is something that's outlawed, there will be outlaws performing it. If you legalize it, those (and others) will move on over to the next outlawed thing. Legalizing something to take away the raison d'etra for these cartels won't work. Legalizing booze didn't make the mob vanish. They moved on over to coke and gambling. It took concerted effort from the FBI to stamp them out.
I support legalizing pot - I think it's less harmful than the two current legal drugs - tobacco and alcohol. But I don't for a second believe that we'll solve the mexico drug war by legalizing it. it'll only get worse because they'll be pushing cocaine. The drug cartels have to be taken on just like the FBI took on the mob.
Answer from a non-blogger - so take it with a grain of salt. Don't know if wordpress or the likes actually does this but i would think it does...
Here's how it would play out:
- write the first blog with word (or what have you). all good. ... ...
- write the second blog entry. then worry about a link back to the old entry. and update the old entry with a link to the the new entry.
- write the third entry. now it's a kind of a mess to try and update all three so.. hmm.. quick scripting to look at the file structure to list and index all the entries..
- wouldn't it be nice then, to be able to just write an entry and have everything link to everything else (index or a TOC)... script some more..
- wordpress.
Another drawback is just plain browsing..
With physical stores, if you went browsing, you'd see a lot of shit that you wouldn't otherwise. Maybe that'd even give you an idea or two. With online stuff, while it seems counter-intuitive, you only get what you search for - in other words, you don't get exposed to things you didn't think to look up.
Eh?
If you've got a private plane to carry out nefarious deeds, once loaded up with fuel, you don't NEED firearms to carry on-board to cause harm. I fail to see the logic of searching the contents of carry-ons (or otherwise) of private plane owners - except of course for contraband.
If you are queasy about "..In public airspace? Over public property?" the only recourse is to ban all planes from flying over public property. Never mind what the plane owner carried on board.
that's so retarded. It's called a D.U.I, as in DRIVING Under the Influence. That seriously needs to be challenged in court.
but two wrights can find a wong
Nice Gestapost!
I have tried implementing a 'design document' process for the better part of 10 years that I've been with this group. It's never gotten done. We came close about a year ago. Here's why it's I still try (while knowing that it'll never get done):
There's a reason architects use blueprints.
I think you meant:
> The idea that they had a change of heart in the .com boom, seems strange.
They didn't have a change of heart. AFAIK, you can thank this man for making NSA powerless against the now lowered barrier to entry for crypto systems:
PGP History, In particular, the part about the book form of the source code which was used to circumvent export restrictions. Remember downloading Netscape? You had to pick if you were in the US - you then got the strong ciphers. If you picked elsewhere, you got weak ciphers - thanks to the export restrictions. Due to the widespread availability of PGP, that distinction became moot. Also, read the part about the Clipper chip in here. That was the strategy of NSA at the time. It failed.
I think that the NSA might have thrown in the towel and moved on from encryption-decryption onto a more "meta" analysis. for example, like you said, connect the IP dots and you get the general gist of the activity even if you can't really get at the content. All you'd have to do is record the src and dst fields of the IP packet at all the major network carriers and you know who is talking to whom at what times and frequencies (i know that's overly simplistic but given the budget, i'm sure they can get far more sophisticated). Play "6 degrees of kevin becon" and you get a lot more info than you would if you listened in on a voice conversation alone.
> another VM
It *IS* another VM. They just used Java the *language*, it's associated tools (Eclipse) in order to capitalize on the the developer marketshare. The resulting compiled code is targeted to this other VM (the dalvic VM). To steer clear of Java, they would have to stop using Java - the language.
(I would be all for it. I *Hate* Java. The tools make it bearable.)
However, using another language will present all kinds of issues - which language do they use?
Python might be a close candidate as they already have an interpreter that runs under the Dalvik VM - although I don't think it's installed by default and the API coverage might not be a 100%. Also, running an instance of the interpretor for every app might suck some major ass - which is why they used Dalvik as opposed to the VMs that come as part of the Java platform. If, as the alternative, they ran one VM, the seperation between the apps aren't there which can cause all sorts of other issues.
> this would affect everything. The cable doesn't know whether it's transmitting a WAV, an MP3, a JPG, or an EXE
Yeah, I checked it out.. it made my WAV files WAVier, my MP3s became MP4s and my EXE files were sEXEy all of a sudden.
Oh, and the JPG picture of me? Brad Pitt.
That's perfect! Don't need to support all vehicle sizes... even more incentive to not buy big SUVs. Then, setup the train station like a railway crossing... so...
0) cars drive south onto a platform all parallel facing south..
1) eastbound train arrives at the station
2) opens right wall and lowers it forming a ramp onto the south platform to let vehicles off
3) vehicles start driving off onto the platform..
4) the left wall opens and lowers onto the north platform forming a ramp
5) the cars from #0 ALL start driving onto the train - all facing south, perpendicular to the direction of travel
6) after all the cars are loaded and the left wall is raised.. train continues eastbound.
I don't know if it was just convention or there is some physics to the width of trains - why can't they be wider? I'm sure someone though four lane highways impossible at some point in time..
There are some issues with scheduling and logistics of if I happen to pull up at a spot where the car on the train on that spot doesn't get off.. do I not get to go on? But if people buy tickets in advance indicating their desired destination, maybe at the destination that "lane" opens up for loading? I'm sure with all the advances in toll booth, RFID, transponder tech, we can rig up something for the logistics of it...
But that would be freggin' cool, pull up to a train, drive onto it, drive off of it at your destination..
no wonder! i've been typing 'cd ~userid' and it puts me in .Trash
Pizza Ordered Regularly, Nearly Obviously, Gives Rise to A Phallus Handling Youth??
is that a Pi in your face?
Seems like the amateur radio folks need to get together with the amateur rocketry folks and cook some shit up and put a sucker in a geo-stationary orbit.
now that would be brain science ;)
I wonder if the app gets the position from the internet or if it's using the connection to download the telemetry data and doing the calculations itself. If it's the latter, a sync before going on the trip would be fine. AFAIK, the decay is not too bad for the calculated position for at least a couple of days. I don't even remember how frequently NORAD provides updates for the telemetry data.
if it's the former (just uses the internet connection to talk to a NASA/NORAD web server to get the position) then you're hosed. Unless you implement the algorithms in the Spacetrack report and create the app yourself.
It's not all that difficult. I did it for a class about 6-8 years ago and used it to track a weather satellite. Actually downloaded the TIFF weather map. Was a fun class.
why is one wing shaped differently than the other, i wonder..
> NASA has lots of assets in low earth orbit.
if a briquette is a small brick. what is an asset?
I guess it works better when spoken, not spelled. I have that though going through my mind when in meetings where people talk business-speak with "assets and resources".
So, when can I come over and install a camera in your bedroom?
I hope that you see that you do have something to hide. And that having something to hide doesn't necessarily have to be the sole domain of criminals.
For any politician spouting the same line, I ask that you first install a camera in your office. After all, the office is paid for by the citizenry. It's public property.
> Not if they don't want or need a community around their product.
The thing about that is that while you may not NEED a community around a product for making the next quarterly estimates, long term, I highly doubt that Solaris would have any edge over other OSs that do have a community around them.
> I suspect Oracle are of the opinion that there's no money to be made selling Solaris as a general purpose OS
Which is another reason why no money will be spent on Solaris to maintain any edge over other OSs.
So, Solaris will die a death brought on by both edges of the sword. No money AND no community.
> hold breasts with their left hand.
scratch that. hold it with the right hand and put duct tape over the gap between the two breasts.
Home:
pandora.
Car:
android + pandora
Playlists that are more in line with whatever i seed it with. Better than radio. Got sick of FM after hearing the same exact song 2-3 days in a row at exactly the same intersection. Must have had a playlist of maybe 10 songs - probably of whatever RIAA was trying to push at the time. Commuting to work is bad enough. Having deja-vu of commuting while commuting is orders of magnitude worse.
Now listen to pandora and rhapsody and some AM for news.