It's not really ironic. The majority of citizens in the US are running Windows. It's probably 90% or more.
What is ironic is requiring something that has an acceptance of less then 10% (just guessing, but would it be any better if it was 20 or 30 percent?), which is what the majority of slashdot users are proposing.
I think documents should all be in the HTML format and viewable thru the HTTPS protocol. That gets you about 99.9% of all users in the US and, probably, the world. Nothing ironical about that.
Also, it should use CSS and all inputs should be validated.
Do you have a single country that you can use as an example that gets a majority of its power from Solar, Wind, Thermal? How about even a measurable amount above 10%?
France gets more than 70% of its power from nukes. Canada and Japan are not far off.
Storage of waste is only a problem if you have never driven from the East coast to the West coast, or vice-versa. After you cross westerly over the Mississippi, you'll notice there aint much there except elbow room.
That's just basic psychology. The average Linux user may be above such things as installing questionable material today, but that will certainly change as Linux gets more popular and the average user becomes more average.
Linux may be more secure out of the box, but there's nothing in Linux that will stop an idiot user from installing malware. Unless they are prevented from installing any software, which is choosing depravation.
and no, it doesnt exist to support sales, sales exists to overcharge for it. and of course take their cut. same as any industry Only if your company sells IT, which doesn't apply to most people who call themselves IT.
I wasn't aware of Xandros Pro or Crossover Office. Crossover office sounds interesting. Is it Xandros only?
I keep waiting for someone to create a downloads.com type web page for linux apps. Not so much for acquisition of the software, more for just the user and editor reviews. There's a big disconnect in the linux world between the number of apps that can do X and the amount of useful information comparing apps that can do X.
If anyone knows of a site like downloads.com for linux, feel free to let the rest of us know.
The French experience clearly does show that reprocessing need not be the dangerous mess that other countries, including the United States, have made of it.
France, in contrast, now reprocesses well over 1000 metric tons of spent fuel every year without incident at the La Hague chemical complex, at the head of Normandy's wind-blasted Cotentin peninsula.
You should have read the article. Far from having a nuclear wasteland, the French seem to be doing things right, for once.
As far as solar and wind power, if they are all that (and I'd like to see a citation), why do they account for so little actual energy production. I've seen fields of them in California and other places, but they don't really make much of a blip in the statistics. I'm pretty sure they are still behind dams as far as watts produced per year.
Because they are salesmen. They go out and hunt rabbits, bears and elephants. They bring in the sales that make the company grow. They need powerpoint and other salesmany cruft to make their sales. IT exists because of them, not the oher way around.
Linux as a complete desktop OS is still relatively new and even now not entirely complete. Advocacy aside, why would anyone willingly choose a solution that means deprivation? Why would anyone suggest it?
I'm not IT, but I have worked on the traveling salesman problem and it's not easy. Cisco, Symantec and Microsoft were all working on solutions at some point. Cisco and Symantec were going with some kind of security authentication server and Microsoft was trying to tie it into DNS. That was about 4 years ago, so they may actually have something usefull by now.
Nuclear power has been the answer for Canada, France, Japan and others for quite a while. The looney left is the only reason the US doesn't have more plants. They are also the reason why the cost is so high to build one. Environmental reports, red tape, 4 levels of government oversight and endless lawsuits are the reason why companies stopped even trying to build a nuclear plant. God forbid they find a grub that no one ever bothered to catalog, cause someone might decide it's an endangered grub.
The thing is, there are too many 'environmentalists' that believe people are not part of the environment and any changes made by people harm the environment. These are the same people opposed to making fire breaks in Southern California and their judgement can not be trusted.
How many of the new iPhone owners have an old cell phone that is gathering dust?
I'm not an advocate for JavaME, but I like it infinitely more then alternatives that aren't as easy to develop for or that I have to pay to get their (I)DE.
I'm clearly not the target audience for an iPhone. I've probably never been the target for any of Apples many wonderful products and I can honestly say they have never gotten a dime of my money.
Of the millions of items sent to Iraq, less then 200 cases of CS grenades were sent. Somehow that leads someone to believe that they are being used in combat, even in the absence of any proof or allegation. More likely they are being used for training.
Ya see, chemical training is required yearly. That means ya gotta have CS. Generally, you get a small cinder block house, put your people in it, pop the grenade and then let em scramble for their masks. I have personally been exposed to CS many times, having gone thru Nuclear-Biological-Chemical (NBC) training before the first Gulf war.
The 'people' we are fighting in Iraq can and will use any weapon or tactic. You can't fault us for training our 'people to prepare for them.
The legal system shouldn't be allowed to be used as a blunt instrument. These people launching this lawsuit are egotistical. It almost sounds like a publicity stunt for thier movie.
It would be nice if some of the states have loser pays laws so that when these schmucks lose they'll have to pay for the priveledge.
JavaME is very easy to write and very easy to learn. Eclipse plus the ME extensions plus the phone emulators really makes developing a quick and dirty app for a cell phone very easy.
This app lets me hand my phone (or an old phone) to my 3 year old and I don't have to worry about her calling anyone or erasing stuff. It's got basic password protection and I wanted to do more, but the end product has 15 songs, a bunch of shapes and colors, her own voice. It was more interesting when she was 2, but still, it was a fun project.
Does anyone know yet what the cost will be to develop for the iPhone? It cost me nothing but time to write Baby Cell.
The telcos have to provide this service. If the local law enforcement or the FBI need to slap a warrant on a persons cell phone or pda or laptop, they have to be able to analyze the packets going to multiple places from multiple places. The same, plus some, must be true for the NSA.
You can't put terrorism in the same light as the flying spaghetti monster.
It is the duty of the NSA to look at traffic going to Countries of Interest. It is also their duty to monitor traffic from people for whom they have warrants.
The NSA has to see all the traffic and then filter because the only other option is to give the names of the people of interest to the telcos and have them filter the traffic. Since the warrants are sealed and also state secrets, there really isn't any other choice.
The NSA does not care about monitoring geeks in their Moms basement. They have a hard enough time just looking at the stuff going to Countries of Interest and coming from people for whom they have obtained a warrant. Those of you whose job it is to do computer work should know this.
There are two choices. Either the NSA tells the phone companies who they are monitoring and the phone companies do the filtering -or- the NSA does their own filtering. The former is insane, as it basically reveals a state secret, ie who we are interested in.
"More specifically, as EA explains, this is the Wii/DS effect in action: "A platform for which we are developing products may not succeed or may have a shorter life cycle than anticipated. If consumer demand for the systems for which we are developing products are lower than our expectations, our revenue will suffer, we may be unable to fully recover the investments we have made in developing our products, and our financial performance will be harmed. Alternatively, a system for which we have not devoted significant resources could be more successful than we had initially anticipated, causing us to miss out on meaningful revenue opportunities.""
Clearly the Wii/DS effect refers to the last part that was left out of the summary. If they were talking about products that may not succeed, that would be the Dreamcast effect.
"As I will outline in this blog post, I don't believe that the grocery stores gave up any customer data - the credit card companies did. But first, a disclaimer: I have no sources at all for my argument today. I have nothing to back it up other than a gut feeling. Thus, this blog post should be read as an editorial, and in no way as a solid piece of investigative journalism."
There you have it folks, the latest craze hitting the Internet. Call it the Digg phenomenon where any mole hill can be made into a mountain by endless blogs quoting each other and adding their own little fantasies, until it reaches critical mass of 'OMG teh US suxors!'
Sad really, especially when a site like slashdot succumbs.
"The brainchild of top FBI counterterrorism officials Phil Mudd and Willie T. Hulon, according to well-informed sources, the project didn't last long. It was torpedoed by the head of the FBI's criminal investigations division, Michael A. Mason, who argued that putting somebody on a terrorist list for what they ate was ridiculous -- and possibly illegal.
A check of federal court records in California did not reveal any prosecutions developed from falafel trails."
I'll be glad when the 08 elections are over and all you chicken littles will be scratching the dirt looking stupid.
The jurisdictional issue is a real problem. Unchecked, it amounts to whoever has the deepest pockets. Launch lawsuits in as many jurisdictions as possible and then sit back and watch your target get buried in paper and ink. The Scientologists used jurisdiction to bring the DoJ to its knees, which is telling giving the vast resources of the US government.
This is what happens when 2 out of the 3 branches of your government are composed entirely of lawyers and the remaining branch is about 50/50.
I have no experience with either, but allowing access to both cities is a great move. Forgiving debts, giving away points, etc not so much. Smart players will exploit this and just run up debts. Dumb players won't, either because of misplaced ethics or because they don't know how to read.
Maybe it's not the same, but in the games I play online, I hate to see this kind of virtual pandering.
You could have just as easily written "is not" and left it at that.
The OP made a clear and convincing argument. Showed examples of people doing very non-scientific things like throwing out data that doesn't agree with them. That is just plain wrong.
Science should be held to a higher standard. It should not kowtow to consensus or preconceived notions. What good is peer review when the reviewers are biased? What good is peer review when articles that challenge the consensus get rejected? It's about as usefull as talkback when someone posts a critical argument and the response is 'is not'.
JavaScript should look at its long lost cousin Java to figure out why renaming a new thing is probably a good idea. Anybody want a Java in a Nutshell book for Java 1.0? How about 1.1?
I quit using Java cause they kept changing everything right after I bought a new book. I picked it up again when J2ME came out and actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Wrote a nice little cell phone app in my spare time (you can download it at CNet by searching for BabyCell).
Cutting off someones head is 100% fatal, every time. Same for putting someone in a human-sized paper shredder. You may be able to survive a stoning, but it's rarely done. People die from choking on food, does that mean food is fatal?
I've been under American 'interrogation'. Is it fun? No, it's not. Is it pain-free? No, it's not. Is it effective? Yes, it is. Fingernails grow back. Bones, even the tiny ones in your hand, heal. Even the memory of it fades and becomes something to laugh about, with the right people.
The 2 hours of agony you spent watching Picard stare at lights is a poor substitute for the, I'm guessing, 12 hours I spent one fine day with a black bag over my head, bound, dehydrated and bleeding in the jungle. You see, we practice these non-fatal techniques on our own service men. We do this for two purposes. One is to give our people the hope that they may actually be interrogated and not just decapated. The other is to teach them that it is okay to break. Everyone does. The information you have is not worth being tortured over. The plans and codes you know will be changed within 12-24 hours, so any resistance beyond that point is futile.
The one guy I did feel sorry for forgot all of the 'secret' information. He was interogated the longest in our group and never did 'break'. I guess you can't break if your an idiot that doesn't know anything.
I'm guessing that your numerous recent examples of deaths under American interrogation is probably all deaths while under American incarceration. Not really the same thing.
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It's not really ironic. The majority of citizens in the US are running Windows. It's probably 90% or more.
What is ironic is requiring something that has an acceptance of less then 10% (just guessing, but would it be any better if it was 20 or 30 percent?), which is what the majority of slashdot users are proposing.
I think documents should all be in the HTML format and viewable thru the HTTPS protocol. That gets you about 99.9% of all users in the US and, probably, the world. Nothing ironical about that.
Also, it should use CSS and all inputs should be validated.
Only in some fantasy land or politicians promise.
Do you have a single country that you can use as an example that gets a majority of its power from Solar, Wind, Thermal? How about even a measurable amount above 10%?
France gets more than 70% of its power from nukes. Canada and Japan are not far off.
Storage of waste is only a problem if you have never driven from the East coast to the West coast, or vice-versa. After you cross westerly over the Mississippi, you'll notice there aint much there except elbow room.
and no, it doesnt exist to support sales, sales exists to overcharge for it. and of course take their cut. same as any industry Only if your company sells IT, which doesn't apply to most people who call themselves IT.Linux may be more secure out of the box, but there's nothing in Linux that will stop an idiot user from installing malware. Unless they are prevented from installing any software, which is choosing depravation.
I wasn't aware of Xandros Pro or Crossover Office. Crossover office sounds interesting. Is it Xandros only?
I keep waiting for someone to create a downloads.com type web page for linux apps. Not so much for acquisition of the software, more for just the user and editor reviews. There's a big disconnect in the linux world between the number of apps that can do X and the amount of useful information comparing apps that can do X.
If anyone knows of a site like downloads.com for linux, feel free to let the rest of us know.
You should have read the article. Far from having a nuclear wasteland, the French seem to be doing things right, for once.
As far as solar and wind power, if they are all that (and I'd like to see a citation), why do they account for so little actual energy production. I've seen fields of them in California and other places, but they don't really make much of a blip in the statistics. I'm pretty sure they are still behind dams as far as watts produced per year.
Because they are salesmen. They go out and hunt rabbits, bears and elephants. They bring in the sales that make the company grow. They need powerpoint and other salesmany cruft to make their sales. IT exists because of them, not the oher way around.
Linux as a complete desktop OS is still relatively new and even now not entirely complete. Advocacy aside, why would anyone willingly choose a solution that means deprivation? Why would anyone suggest it?
I'm not IT, but I have worked on the traveling salesman problem and it's not easy. Cisco, Symantec and Microsoft were all working on solutions at some point. Cisco and Symantec were going with some kind of security authentication server and Microsoft was trying to tie it into DNS. That was about 4 years ago, so they may actually have something usefull by now.
Nuclear power has been the answer for Canada, France, Japan and others for quite a while. The looney left is the only reason the US doesn't have more plants. They are also the reason why the cost is so high to build one. Environmental reports, red tape, 4 levels of government oversight and endless lawsuits are the reason why companies stopped even trying to build a nuclear plant. God forbid they find a grub that no one ever bothered to catalog, cause someone might decide it's an endangered grub.
The thing is, there are too many 'environmentalists' that believe people are not part of the environment and any changes made by people harm the environment. These are the same people opposed to making fire breaks in Southern California and their judgement can not be trusted.
How many of the new iPhone owners have an old cell phone that is gathering dust?
I'm not an advocate for JavaME, but I like it infinitely more then alternatives that aren't as easy to develop for or that I have to pay to get their (I)DE.
I'm clearly not the target audience for an iPhone. I've probably never been the target for any of Apples many wonderful products and I can honestly say they have never gotten a dime of my money.
Of the millions of items sent to Iraq, less then 200 cases of CS grenades were sent. Somehow that leads someone to believe that they are being used in combat, even in the absence of any proof or allegation. More likely they are being used for training.
Ya see, chemical training is required yearly. That means ya gotta have CS. Generally, you get a small cinder block house, put your people in it, pop the grenade and then let em scramble for their masks. I have personally been exposed to CS many times, having gone thru Nuclear-Biological-Chemical (NBC) training before the first Gulf war.
The 'people' we are fighting in Iraq can and will use any weapon or tactic. You can't fault us for training our 'people to prepare for them.
The legal system shouldn't be allowed to be used as a blunt instrument. These people launching this lawsuit are egotistical. It almost sounds like a publicity stunt for thier movie.
It would be nice if some of the states have loser pays laws so that when these schmucks lose they'll have to pay for the priveledge.
I wrote this at night over about a month:
Baby Cell
This app lets me hand my phone (or an old phone) to my 3 year old and I don't have to worry about her calling anyone or erasing stuff. It's got basic password protection and I wanted to do more, but the end product has 15 songs, a bunch of shapes and colors, her own voice. It was more interesting when she was 2, but still, it was a fun project.
Does anyone know yet what the cost will be to develop for the iPhone? It cost me nothing but time to write Baby Cell.
The neo-geo? I don't know, but highlighting the Wii and DS as an example of failed platforms is stretching it.
The telcos have to provide this service. If the local law enforcement or the FBI need to slap a warrant on a persons cell phone or pda or laptop, they have to be able to analyze the packets going to multiple places from multiple places. The same, plus some, must be true for the NSA.
You can't put terrorism in the same light as the flying spaghetti monster.
It is the duty of the NSA to look at traffic going to Countries of Interest. It is also their duty to monitor traffic from people for whom they have warrants.
The NSA has to see all the traffic and then filter because the only other option is to give the names of the people of interest to the telcos and have them filter the traffic. Since the warrants are sealed and also state secrets, there really isn't any other choice.
The NSA does not care about monitoring geeks in their Moms basement. They have a hard enough time just looking at the stuff going to Countries of Interest and coming from people for whom they have obtained a warrant. Those of you whose job it is to do computer work should know this.
There are two choices. Either the NSA tells the phone companies who they are monitoring and the phone companies do the filtering -or- the NSA does their own filtering. The former is insane, as it basically reveals a state secret, ie who we are interested in.
Mod me troll, I'm used to it.
Clearly the Wii/DS effect refers to the last part that was left out of the summary. If they were talking about products that may not succeed, that would be the Dreamcast effect.
"As I will outline in this blog post, I don't believe that the grocery stores gave up any customer data - the credit card companies did. But first, a disclaimer: I have no sources at all for my argument today. I have nothing to back it up other than a gut feeling. Thus, this blog post should be read as an editorial, and in no way as a solid piece of investigative journalism."
There you have it folks, the latest craze hitting the Internet. Call it the Digg phenomenon where any mole hill can be made into a mountain by endless blogs quoting each other and adding their own little fantasies, until it reaches critical mass of 'OMG teh US suxors!'
Sad really, especially when a site like slashdot succumbs.
"The brainchild of top FBI counterterrorism officials Phil Mudd and Willie T. Hulon, according to well-informed sources, the project didn't last long. It was torpedoed by the head of the FBI's criminal investigations division, Michael A. Mason, who argued that putting somebody on a terrorist list for what they ate was ridiculous -- and possibly illegal.
A check of federal court records in California did not reveal any prosecutions developed from falafel trails."
I'll be glad when the 08 elections are over and all you chicken littles will be scratching the dirt looking stupid.
I would never have thought that is what they were talking about. Thanks everyone.
Still, not sure how that would really help anyone. Bad players will likely still be bad players.
I'm guessing that the laser packs the 1s and 0s better then the radio waves. Or maybe they leave out the 0s.
Arguably, school officials are public figures.
The jurisdictional issue is a real problem. Unchecked, it amounts to whoever has the deepest pockets. Launch lawsuits in as many jurisdictions as possible and then sit back and watch your target get buried in paper and ink. The Scientologists used jurisdiction to bring the DoJ to its knees, which is telling giving the vast resources of the US government.
This is what happens when 2 out of the 3 branches of your government are composed entirely of lawyers and the remaining branch is about 50/50.
I have no experience with either, but allowing access to both cities is a great move. Forgiving debts, giving away points, etc not so much. Smart players will exploit this and just run up debts. Dumb players won't, either because of misplaced ethics or because they don't know how to read.
Maybe it's not the same, but in the games I play online, I hate to see this kind of virtual pandering.
You could have just as easily written "is not" and left it at that.
The OP made a clear and convincing argument. Showed examples of people doing very non-scientific things like throwing out data that doesn't agree with them. That is just plain wrong.
Science should be held to a higher standard. It should not kowtow to consensus or preconceived notions. What good is peer review when the reviewers are biased? What good is peer review when articles that challenge the consensus get rejected? It's about as usefull as talkback when someone posts a critical argument and the response is 'is not'.
Still, the Earth is older then 6k years.
JavaScript should look at its long lost cousin Java to figure out why renaming a new thing is probably a good idea. Anybody want a Java in a Nutshell book for Java 1.0? How about 1.1?
I quit using Java cause they kept changing everything right after I bought a new book. I picked it up again when J2ME came out and actually enjoyed it quite a bit. Wrote a nice little cell phone app in my spare time (you can download it at CNet by searching for BabyCell).
Cutting off someones head is 100% fatal, every time. Same for putting someone in a human-sized paper shredder. You may be able to survive a stoning, but it's rarely done. People die from choking on food, does that mean food is fatal?
I've been under American 'interrogation'. Is it fun? No, it's not. Is it pain-free? No, it's not. Is it effective? Yes, it is. Fingernails grow back. Bones, even the tiny ones in your hand, heal. Even the memory of it fades and becomes something to laugh about, with the right people.
The 2 hours of agony you spent watching Picard stare at lights is a poor substitute for the, I'm guessing, 12 hours I spent one fine day with a black bag over my head, bound, dehydrated and bleeding in the jungle. You see, we practice these non-fatal techniques on our own service men. We do this for two purposes. One is to give our people the hope that they may actually be interrogated and not just decapated. The other is to teach them that it is okay to break. Everyone does. The information you have is not worth being tortured over. The plans and codes you know will be changed within 12-24 hours, so any resistance beyond that point is futile.
The one guy I did feel sorry for forgot all of the 'secret' information. He was interogated the longest in our group and never did 'break'. I guess you can't break if your an idiot that doesn't know anything.
I'm guessing that your numerous recent examples of deaths under American interrogation is probably all deaths while under American incarceration. Not really the same thing.