Gee I bet you don't approve of autopilot systems then? What if terrorists "hack" them? This system takes control of the plane ONLY if the pilot fails to respond to the alarm. The questions have been answered. You just couldn't be bothered to read the article.
I realise thats not what this is about.... but I live in New York and my parents in Bombay, India. So IM and text mnessaging on the phone is really the only practical way for me to keep in regular touch. I can't really afford to make phone calls more than once every week or two.
Its 40 per person per day. Thats saving everyones time at least a little regardless of how many there are. Also, I doubt there are an order of magnitue more spams sent than those. I've been using the same e-mail address for a while, even had it exposed on my website for some time initially and I don't receive more than 50 or 60 spams a day.
How do you infer that? They block half a trillion messages. How many of those are legitimate e-mail? I have a great idea.... just send all your mail to/dev/null. You'll block 100% of spam. Might have the ocassional false-positive, though.
Thank you, captain obvious. Thanks for making that clear. I was obviously very serious in that last post given reference to aliens on mars jamming spectrometers and everything.
What other fallacies of mine are you going to fix? Do they really grow Apple computers in orchards? Microsoft says "Where do you want to go today?" because they offer transportation services, right? My Laptop came with Windows on it. Why do I still get no fresh breeze? Also can you tell me how to get by CD burner working properly? I have CDs with stuff I want to get rid of. I was going to cut them in half but it might be better to burn them. Finally, one of the computers in the lab has "Easy CD Creator" installed... yet it asks me to insert a blank CD. False advertising! It should be creating them.
I'm so confused with this world. Please help.
PS: wtf are they doing sending a Beagle to mars? How can a dog possibly be useful there?
or crash 'n burn like the beagle. Beagle burned? This is BIG. There're Oxygen in mars's atmosphere! Thoe bloody aliens have obviously been jamming our spectrometers all this time.
I'm guessing that puts in the minority. I think most people were just irritated that the new RH couldn't play their MP3s anymore, did a Google search, downloaded the RPM and got on with their life.
So whats your point? Because a 6 year old Microsoft OS was worse its ok for them to be? Besides imagine the bad press Linux will get when someone blows a Lindows box wide upen. Do you expect average users and CEOs to understand that its insecure because its poorly designed?
There are three code pieces that appear to be copied verbatim. The first is forty-two lines of packet handling code. Following the ip_vs_state_table variable is where most of the infringement takes place. Only the state transition handling seems to be original. The second is sixteen lines of VM allocation code. Five lines after CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM, and eleven lines after VMALLOC_VMADDR. And the last is seven lines after SELFPOWER, USB specific power management code.
I suspect your post is nothing more than a high-class troll that somehow got modded up to +5 Interesting, but your claims are just about as fuzzy as Darl's. The symbols you mention appear in dozens for files. If you really have any such "evidence" state the file names.
Even if what you're saying is true, are you sure the code doesn't come from BSD or some other common source?
Regardless of their reasons, I think its a very bad policy to offhandedly reject resumes based on former employers. People have bills to pay and families to support and can't promptly quit their jobs the moment the employer does something bad.
Maybe reject employees who stick with the company till the very bitter end, but I think its very unfair to reeject SCO employees right now.
Oh but didn't he read his post? He KNOWS what he's talking about. He spent thousands of horurs doing COMPUTER-SCIENCE-BASED research.
He delivers some fantastic insights like: The weather IS getting warmer...... December to February is much warmer, and overnight temperatures are much hotter as well, Golly. And I was thinking warmer weather meant lower temperatures
Oh yes. We must all listen to this guy for the brilliant insights he delivers. Now don't you dare go and contradict him again.
How about this... start out with a b access point which, as others have mentioned you can pick up for $20 or so. Have a little jar soliciting donations for an upgrade. If enough people are interested you'll soon have the cash for a new accesspoint.
As I recently discovered when I counted the change that had accumulated in the coin compartment in my car, bouncing back loose change can add up pretty quick.
> each bomb killed more than 300,000 people instantly and many more in the long run
Thats funny given that the population of hiroshima was only 250,000 at the time. Don't pull figures out of your ass. At least do a google search.
As for your naive argument about civilians vs soldiers.... these were the days when carpet bombing or shelling cities was a routine procedure. Even otherwise, I think learning a bit more about the battle of okinawa would be educational for you. Instead of trying to defend the beachheads against the allied onslaught the Japanese chose to dig in inland and fight there. Okinawa had little food supply, and with the harbor lost no more could come in either. Guess how much of the available food went to Okinawa's 500,000 strong civillian population, and how many to the 100,000 soldiers.
Anyhow given a battle amongst the residents, by the end of the battle over a THIRD of Okinawa's residents has perished.... thats right 130,000... nearly twice as many civillians as those who died at Nagasaki, aftereffects and all.
The bottom line is you're living in a dreamworld if you believe a long, drawn out battle doesn't cost civillian lives. Heck, even in today's era of precision bombing and a supposed commitment to avoiding civillian casualties at all costs nearly 1500 civillians have been killed in the war on Iraq,. not counting the additional 1500 or so that died as a consequence of the lawlessness that followed the colapse of the Iraqi regime.
The bottomline is, while I admire and agree with much of the "moderation" you promote on your website, I think you might just be a little naive when it comes to reality.
The 70,000 instant casualties from each of the bombs seems huge, but pales when you consider:
* 120,000 lives lost in the battle for Okinawa, which was just preparing foothold for the invasion of Japan
* Think a conventional war can't get much bloodier? Over 800,000 lives were lost in the battle of Stalingrad.
* The total toll from both bombs including aftereffects was about 250,000. This is about half a percent of the 50 million casualties of WW2.
In the long run the atom bombs probably saved lives. They certainly saved allied lives compared to what the invasion of Japan would have cost. The whole madness of the cold war that followed, however, is a completely different story.
1. I'm from India, so odds are I know quite a bit more about developing countries than you. 2. Fax machines support error correcting, so if you got illegible output it was probably a bad scanner on the sending side or a bad printer on the receiving side. Nothing to do with the communication. 3. I was refering to INTERNET QoS, as you would have known if you'd read my post in context. In fact even a marginally astute reader could figure out that just from reading my post alone!
Lets think about this for a second. HDTV at 1920x1080, 24-bit color @ 60fps = 1920x1080x3x60 = 355 MB/sec. So your 100gb disk buys you about four and a half minutes of video.
You'll never hear "I don't know, I didn't get a fax from you" Guess you've never sent faxes to offices where they have one common fax machine shared by lots and lots of people.
IMHO QoS is a non-issue when it comes to fax-like things. Unlike voice, a fax doesn't have to be real-time. A few seconds delay is perfectly acceptible. I think the real problem is that e-mail offers no usable confirmation of delivery. I'm sure there are softwares out there that can do this but no standard.
With always-on connection being almost a given in offices these days there is no reason a successor to e-mail with fax-like semantics can't be designed. The key points to address would be: 1. Confirmation of delivery 2. Standard format... say postscript or a basic PDF or maybe even a png or jpeg
Thw Wright brother's flyer did not transport any cargo. The first artificial satellite did nothing other than send a radio beep. The first digital computer filled a large room and was about as powerful as the processor in your wristwatch.
>> You know what this means right? We've backed Microsoft into a corner, so now it's going to pull every dirty trick in the book to get it's profits back...
>And this differs from their previous behavior, how?
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Gee I bet you don't approve of autopilot systems then? What if terrorists "hack" them? This system takes control of the plane ONLY if the pilot fails to respond to the alarm. The questions have been answered. You just couldn't be bothered to read the article.
I realise thats not what this is about.... but I live in New York and my parents in Bombay, India. So IM and text mnessaging on the phone is really the only practical way for me to keep in regular touch. I can't really afford to make phone calls more than once every week or two.
Its 40 per person per day. Thats saving everyones time at least a little regardless of how many there are. Also, I doubt there are an order of magnitue more spams sent than those. I've been using the same e-mail address for a while, even had it exposed on my website for some time initially and I don't receive more than 50 or 60 spams a day.
How do you infer that? They block half a trillion messages. How many of those are legitimate e-mail? I have a great idea.... just send all your mail to /dev/null. You'll block 100% of spam. Might have the ocassional false-positive, though.
Thank you, captain obvious. Thanks for making that clear. I was obviously very serious in that last post given reference to aliens on mars jamming spectrometers and everything.
What other fallacies of mine are you going to fix? Do they really grow Apple computers in orchards? Microsoft says "Where do you want to go today?" because they offer transportation services, right? My Laptop came with Windows on it. Why do I still get no fresh breeze? Also can you tell me how to get by CD burner working properly? I have CDs with stuff I want to get rid of. I was going to cut them in half but it might be better to burn them. Finally, one of the computers in the lab has "Easy CD Creator" installed... yet it asks me to insert a blank CD. False advertising! It should be creating them.
I'm so confused with this world. Please help.
PS: wtf are they doing sending a Beagle to mars? How can a dog possibly be useful there?
or crash 'n burn like the beagle.
Beagle burned? This is BIG. There're Oxygen in mars's atmosphere! Thoe bloody aliens have obviously been jamming our spectrometers all this time.
Too complicated. We just need to immerse it in liquid helium and overclock the hell out of it.
UNIbomber is done after one bombing. The unabomber, on the other hand might be able to help
I'm guessing that puts in the minority. I think most people were just irritated that the new RH couldn't play their MP3s anymore, did a Google search, downloaded the RPM and got on with their life.
To be honest, it is one of the stupidest names I have ever heard. I'd feel embarassed about telling someone about my "Ogg Vorbis" collection.
I realise that was an attempt at a joke, but Slashdotting DOES involve web browsers, right?
So whats your point? Because a 6 year old Microsoft OS was worse its ok for them to be? Besides imagine the bad press Linux will get when someone blows a Lindows box wide upen. Do you expect average users and CEOs to understand that its insecure because its poorly designed?
There are three code pieces that appear to be copied verbatim. The first is forty-two lines of packet handling code. Following the ip_vs_state_table variable is where most of the infringement takes place. Only the state transition handling seems to be original. The second is sixteen lines of VM allocation code. Five lines after CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM, and eleven lines after VMALLOC_VMADDR. And the last is seven lines after SELFPOWER, USB specific power management code.
I suspect your post is nothing more than a high-class troll that somehow got modded up to +5 Interesting, but your claims are just about as fuzzy as Darl's. The symbols you mention appear in dozens for files. If you really have any such "evidence" state the file names.
Even if what you're saying is true, are you sure the code doesn't come from BSD or some other common source?
Regardless of their reasons, I think its a very bad policy to offhandedly reject resumes based on former employers. People have bills to pay and families to support and can't promptly quit their jobs the moment the employer does something bad.
Maybe reject employees who stick with the company till the very bitter end, but I think its very unfair to reeject SCO employees right now.
Oh but didn't he read his post? He KNOWS what he's talking about. He spent thousands of horurs doing COMPUTER-SCIENCE-BASED research.
He delivers some fantastic insights like:
The weather IS getting warmer...... December to February is much warmer, and overnight temperatures are much hotter as well,
Golly. And I was thinking warmer weather meant lower temperatures
Oh yes. We must all listen to this guy for the brilliant insights he delivers. Now don't you dare go and contradict him again.
Oh thats a mature response. Go run along now, kiddy.
How about this... start out with a b access point which, as others have mentioned you can pick up for $20 or so. Have a little jar soliciting donations for an upgrade. If enough people are interested you'll soon have the cash for a new accesspoint.
As I recently discovered when I counted the change that had accumulated in the coin compartment in my car, bouncing back loose change can add up pretty quick.
> each bomb killed more than 300,000 people instantly and many more in the long run
Thats funny given that the population of hiroshima was only 250,000 at the time. Don't pull figures out of your ass. At least do a google search.
As for your naive argument about civilians vs soldiers.... these were the days when carpet bombing or shelling cities was a routine procedure. Even otherwise, I think learning a bit more about the battle of okinawa would be educational for you. Instead of trying to defend the beachheads against the allied onslaught the Japanese chose to dig in inland and fight there. Okinawa had little food supply, and with the harbor lost no more could come in either. Guess how much of the available food went to Okinawa's 500,000 strong civillian population, and how many to the 100,000 soldiers.
Anyhow given a battle amongst the residents, by the end of the battle over a THIRD of Okinawa's residents has perished.... thats right 130,000... nearly twice as many civillians as those who died at Nagasaki, aftereffects and all.
The bottom line is you're living in a dreamworld if you believe a long, drawn out battle doesn't cost civillian lives. Heck, even in today's era of precision bombing and a supposed commitment to avoiding civillian casualties at all costs nearly 1500 civillians have been killed in the war on Iraq,. not counting the additional 1500 or so that died as a consequence of the lawlessness that followed the colapse of the Iraqi regime.
The bottomline is, while I admire and agree with much of the "moderation" you promote on your website, I think you might just be a little naive when it comes to reality.
The 70,000 instant casualties from each of the bombs seems huge, but pales when you consider:
* 120,000 lives lost in the battle for Okinawa, which was just preparing foothold for the invasion of Japan
* Think a conventional war can't get much bloodier? Over 800,000 lives were lost in the battle of Stalingrad.
* The total toll from both bombs including aftereffects was about 250,000. This is about half a percent of the 50 million casualties of WW2.
In the long run the atom bombs probably saved lives. They certainly saved allied lives compared to what the invasion of Japan would have cost. The whole madness of the cold war that followed, however, is a completely different story.
In Soviet Russia spies spy on YOU.... oh wait.
You are wrong in every possible way.
1. I'm from India, so odds are I know quite a bit more about developing countries than you.
2. Fax machines support error correcting, so if you got illegible output it was probably a bad scanner on the sending side or a bad printer on the receiving side. Nothing to do with the communication.
3. I was refering to INTERNET QoS, as you would have known if you'd read my post in context. In fact even a marginally astute reader could figure out that just from reading my post alone!
Lets think about this for a second. HDTV at 1920x1080, 24-bit color @ 60fps = 1920x1080x3x60 = 355 MB/sec. So your 100gb disk buys you about four and a half minutes of video.
You'll never hear "I don't know, I didn't get a fax from you"
Guess you've never sent faxes to offices where they have one common fax machine shared by lots and lots of people.
IMHO QoS is a non-issue when it comes to fax-like things. Unlike voice, a fax doesn't have to be real-time. A few seconds delay is perfectly acceptible. I think the real problem is that e-mail offers no usable confirmation of delivery. I'm sure there are softwares out there that can do this but no standard.
With always-on connection being almost a given in offices these days there is no reason a successor to e-mail with fax-like semantics can't be designed. The key points to address would be:
1. Confirmation of delivery
2. Standard format... say postscript or a basic PDF or maybe even a png or jpeg
Thw Wright brother's flyer did not transport any cargo. The first artificial satellite did nothing other than send a radio beep. The first digital computer filled a large room and was about as powerful as the processor in your wristwatch.
Things start small. Get a clue.
>> You know what this means right? We've backed Microsoft into a corner, so now it's going to pull every dirty trick in the book to get it's profits back...
>And this differs from their previous behavior, how?
The "back" part.