I might be totally wrong, but I'm thinking of a Knoppix Linux bootdisk (or something like that). You boot off the whole operating system from disk, never touch any harddisks present, startup the GUI and have a wonderful frontend for online voting.
More than that, it's absolutely safe. There is no chance for anybody or anything tampering with your valuable vote, given that the CD-ROM or DVD is original.
That's what I'd call safe, not that Windows environment (in most cases - probably installed by some nitwit years ago) under which there are more viruses and spy programs than there are real user applications.
NSA is the Baltimore Gas Electric (BGE) company's 2nd largest customer, and the 2nd largest user of electrical power in Maryland. NSA's yearly electrical bill is more than $21 million. Under a partnering agreement, in exchange for an annual credit to the NSA electric bill, BGE can request NSA to operate on-site emergency generators to produce electrical power during severe peak demand periods. This significant partnership with NSA allows BGE to serve additional customers and decreases the need for "rolling blackouts" in the area during peak demand periods.
They surely have a little more capacity than, say Google with "73.5 million unique users per month".
Whatever they do with so much electricity. And they have their own HQs in all those countries in which they observe. In Frankfurt, Germany, it's one whole street, straight under the telecommunications tower.
My question is, why does Debian consider ReiserFS to be a "less mature, less stable" filesystem than EXT3? ReiserFS was stable in the kernel long before EXT3 had the "experimental" tag removed.
There seem to be different philosophies in the use of the "experimental" tag. In fact, ReiserFS kept to be fragile under certain circumstance until about 2.4.16, much later then when it was officially incorporated into the Linux kernel.
As I understand, Ms. McCarthy tries to promote her modified draft of EU directive as the least damage variant, saying that if they do nothing, it only gets worse. (This I believe is true, you can see the patent offices in the EU's national states approve less and less technical "inventions".)
It appears, EU wants to link a certain technical device with its software, which could be patented for the use in this case, and only in this case, together with the device, but which is not covered by the patent.
The main problem with the US patent laws is likely that the officials are ignorant laymen; not patents per se are evil, but their (lack of) interpretation is.
avfs
and lufs are much more common solutions to the "mount userland filesystems" problem. Yet, avfs makes it easy to construct your own whatever-you-want filesystem.
IPv6 will not run out of addresses - it will use 128-bit address space.
Ahh, that's like "640KB RAM is much more than you will ever need"...?
Please don't forget: If every type of miniaturized gadget has its own IP, and we'll use huge IP pools for anonymization and localization, there might not be left much.
Especially, if China (with a still growing population) sometime becomes a "developed country" (i.e. first world).
I can see it now a big box with lots of flashing lights. A big lever. The operator ( in a white coat of course). Walks up to box pulls lever.
A display lights up 'Secure cyberspace ON'.
From the operations manual: "The secure cyberspace switch will turn off power supply of the United States. That includes your office. The lamp behind the display on the box is battery-powered."
This is nothing new - you can do the same thing in C++. It's easy to access private variables or functions by manipulating a pointer.
<yawn>
In C and C++, there are no security measures, and these languages are quite near to the hardware.
BUT... Java and C# came up with the intention to create a safe, controlled and interpreted environment, in which it is technically impossible to use pointer and stack techniques to gain control over structures you don't own.
Where is the Fair Use and Consumer Rights Caucus?
Oh yeah, there is none.
Possibly it's a problem of the American democratic system? The parties need to get their money from somebody, and that "somebody" is definitely not: The People.
But what Linux needs is a fresh look and a fresh batch of research into creating a truly intuitive desktop computing experience.
Have you ever tried Workbench of OS/2? It was so perfectly intuitive that nobody wanted to use it - you could forget all your prior experiences. E.g.: Drop a color on the desktop -> desktop gets this color. Double click on development object -> object kicks the other dependent objects to make themselves.
What is people really want is a Windows that behaves exactly like Windows, but is less boring.
The main problem might be, that if that plant is injurious to your health (which may come out in many years), at a later time, all plants of that species might be, because they have interbred, and it's a giant advantage to be resistent against some kinds of poison.
Probably they have patentet me, and I'm their property?
Random mutation could have made my genes change in a way that Monsanto's later efforts are anticipated. So I am possibly Monsanto's property, some time in the future. Or, I would have to prove that my genes are older, so it would be prior art.
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I might be totally wrong, but I'm thinking of a Knoppix Linux bootdisk (or something like that).
You boot off the whole operating system from disk, never touch any harddisks present, startup the GUI and have a wonderful frontend for online voting.
More than that, it's absolutely safe. There is no chance for anybody or anything tampering with your valuable vote, given that the CD-ROM or DVD is original.
That's what I'd call safe, not that Windows environment (in most cases - probably installed by some nitwit years ago) under which there are more viruses and spy programs than there are real user applications.
They surely have a little more capacity than, say Google with "73.5 million unique users per month".
Whatever they do with so much electricity.
And they have their own HQs in all those countries in which they observe. In Frankfurt, Germany, it's one whole street, straight under the telecommunications tower.
Aren't the U.S. still at war with Germany and the rest of fascist Europe?
(It's good to know Americans are in no way paranoid...)
I would rather say:
Maybe someone with knowledge in US and German law can comment on those alternatives from "Kompetenznetzwerk Universitätsverbund MultiMedia NRW"?
What the U.S. Army needs is, invisible hypersonic GIs. It appears, winning a war is not a matter of throwing bombs alone, see Iraq, see Vietnam...
There seem to be different philosophies in the use of the "experimental" tag. In fact, ReiserFS kept to be fragile under certain circumstance until about 2.4.16, much later then when it was officially incorporated into the Linux kernel.
Of course. Simply put it in a second stream of some other file. Not even MS experts would look there...
(This I believe is true, you can see the patent offices in the EU's national states approve less and less technical "inventions".)
It appears, EU wants to link a certain technical device with its software, which could be patented for the use in this case, and only in this case, together with the device, but which is not covered by the patent.
The main problem with the US patent laws is likely that the officials are ignorant laymen; not patents per se are evil, but their (lack of) interpretation is.
Sorry, but this whole matter is simply boring, with or without your funny pics.
SCO is near of bankrupcy and tries to recover with that silly lawsuit. MS is helping them. Nevertheless, it's hopeless.
Even if they will succeed, it's only a matter of days till the compromised parts of the code have been thrown out.
The most effect they have is the press echo - bad enough. We shouldn't support that.
The more it costs, the more it is of value, most of German managers seem to think. (And others, I have heard...)
Hmmm, but... I read something of about 129 Euros, where's the rest going now?
I have read that Reiser4 will allow plug-ins. Will more functionality wander into user-space and will that influence kernel stability?
It's Drew backwards. And that's probably a really, really bad sign.
As if he would have used Reklaw. Bad sign.
Like a chinese cookie saying "Your near future will be influenced by khaki-clothed terrorists."
No good. Don't try to make important decisions now.
konqueror doesn't show this - whatever you call it.
avfs and lufs are much more common solutions to the "mount userland filesystems" problem. Yet, avfs makes it easy to construct your own whatever-you-want filesystem.
Ahh, that's like "640KB RAM is much more than you will ever need"...?
Please don't forget: If every type of miniaturized gadget has its own IP, and we'll use huge IP pools for anonymization and localization, there might not be left much.
Especially, if China (with a still growing population) sometime becomes a "developed country" (i.e. first world).
From the operations manual: "The secure cyberspace switch will turn off power supply of the United States. That includes your office. The lamp behind the display on the box is battery-powered."
<yawn>
In C and C++, there are no security measures, and these languages are quite near to the hardware.
BUT... Java and C# came up with the intention to create a safe, controlled and interpreted environment, in which it is technically impossible to use pointer and stack techniques to gain control over structures you don't own.
Possibly it's a problem of the American democratic system? The parties need to get their money from somebody, and that "somebody" is definitely not: The People.
Because they are from the same department like the headlines:
NEW SPECIES OF TROLLS FOUND IN HIMALAYA
or
LOUSY NEWS SOURCE DISCOVERED - SIX COCKROACHES DIED
Have you ever tried Workbench of OS/2? It was so perfectly intuitive that nobody wanted to use it - you could forget all your prior experiences. E.g.: Drop a color on the desktop -> desktop gets this color. Double click on development object -> object kicks the other dependent objects to make themselves.
What is people really want is a Windows that behaves exactly like Windows, but is less boring.
I mean, in a country where 17% of all people are named Kim, you would have to add date and place of birth to make it a unique ID.
And, after all, a number like 526590 is much easier to remember...
The main problem might be, that if that plant is injurious to your health (which may come out in many years), at a later time, all plants of that species might be, because they have interbred, and it's a giant advantage to be resistent against some kinds of poison.
Random mutation could have made my genes change in a way that Monsanto's later efforts are anticipated. So I am possibly Monsanto's property, some time in the future. Or, I would have to prove that my genes are older, so it would be prior art.
Bravo! That's true American spirit!