Not really. I have a friend in the Air Force who has access to Intellinet; she told me about it a few months ago, but based on my own experience with the military making things happen, I doubt much has changed.
Intellinet eliminates the need for this three-step security process in an extremely elegant way. First, even if you've been given clearance and access, your login and password usually don't work. People with an actual need to know have to use somebody else's login information. Second, once you get in, all you find is outdated copies of Wikipedia articles.
What we NEED is a stable platform for developers (starting with a unified sound API) and for media to work out of the box without installing a bunch of unsupported packages. Forget about all the stupid eye candy until you get those things straightened out. We still haven't forgiven you for the naked people wallpaper.
I have never had any success dist-upgrading a Debian distro. Granted, I've only tried it twice -- once with stock Debian and once with an earlier Ubuntu release. I hosed my system both times. Now when it's time to upgrade I always do a fresh install.
How about some music that doesn't suck ass? High-quality MP3s ready to load on my player would be a nice touch, too. Or how about you just sell me the MP3s online for $0.10 each and save us both the trouble?
The police here in the U.S. technically can't, but they lie about it to intimidate you. I've been threatened with arrest simply for not having an ID on my person. The truth is that if you're suspected of a crime, they can detain you until you're positively identified. And of course, all they have to do is lie about suspecting you of a crime. As everyone knows, pigs here don't think twice about filing false reports and lying in court.
The article does readers a disservice by implying that "gray market" automatically means counterfeit. Gray market products are genuine branded products that were simply not intended for the market in which they are being sold. They are just as good as regular products, with the exception that their warranty is generally invalid in the region where they're sold. Reputable merchants who deal in gray-market products include B&H Photo and Dynamism.com. (And no, I don't work for either of them.)
Do these high obesity rates affect the average IQ of the population?
Forget, for a moment, the old mantra that 'correlation does not prove causation'. Assuming for the sake of argument that there is a causal relationship, wouldn't it make far more sense that it would go the other way; i.e., being stupid leads people to not look after their health and become obese?
What I meant was, law enforcement should not have convenient access to the data. One set of paper forms should be filed by the owner's SSN, and another set of forms (at a different location, for redundancy) should be filed by weapon serial number. At no time should any of the data ever be stored in a database.
That's because drives were a lot more reliable when data densities were lower. I still have the old 40MB drive from my second computer, and it still works perfectly. Every other IDE drive I've had since then, with the exception of the two in my desktop right now, either developed bad sectors or failed catastrophically.
I agree that our society differs from Orwell's imagined dystopia in degree, but not in nature. There may not be cameras in our homes yet, but they're in more public places every day. They may not be analyzing our facial expressions yet, but did you not read that article here on Slashdot just a few days ago, about how they're teaching computers to analyze the semantics of written communication? All online communications are already monitored for keywords, and have been for several years. I know because I used some keywords in an email back in 2000 and was visited by the FBI three days later -- after they'd embarrassed me by interviewing several of my co-workers and supervisors at both my jobs. Whoever's running this show, whatever their agenda, they're using 1984 as a how-to guide. Its full manifestation is probably closer than you think.
I know I'm responding to a troll, but this brings up a serious point. Millions of people are walking around (and reproducing) who by all rights of nature should be dead. Are we weakening ourselves as a species? I think so...
1. It's a really, really shitty site populated mostly by teenage morons 2. It's probably a liability because OMG STALKERS SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN
I showed these to my friend who's into building autonomous vehicles about, oh, a year ago, or maybe a year and a half. This is nothing revolutionary, just some new models.
That's not to say that Gumstix aren't cool. But this is not news.
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Intellinet eliminates the need for this three-step security process in an extremely elegant way. First, even if you've been given clearance and access, your login and password usually don't work. People with an actual need to know have to use somebody else's login information. Second, once you get in, all you find is outdated copies of Wikipedia articles.
This is an Apple product feasibility study, isn't it? Is the next Mac going to have a zero-button mouse?
What we NEED is a stable platform for developers (starting with a unified sound API) and for media to work out of the box without installing a bunch of unsupported packages. Forget about all the stupid eye candy until you get those things straightened out. We still haven't forgiven you for the naked people wallpaper.
I have never had any success dist-upgrading a Debian distro. Granted, I've only tried it twice -- once with stock Debian and once with an earlier Ubuntu release. I hosed my system both times. Now when it's time to upgrade I always do a fresh install.
How about some music that doesn't suck ass? High-quality MP3s ready to load on my player would be a nice touch, too. Or how about you just sell me the MP3s online for $0.10 each and save us both the trouble?
The police here in the U.S. technically can't, but they lie about it to intimidate you. I've been threatened with arrest simply for not having an ID on my person. The truth is that if you're suspected of a crime, they can detain you until you're positively identified. And of course, all they have to do is lie about suspecting you of a crime. As everyone knows, pigs here don't think twice about filing false reports and lying in court.
1. Canada, Iceland, Cascadia, or my own secessionist cult compound.
2. Family ties and the fact that it's not quite a police state yet.
The article does readers a disservice by implying that "gray market" automatically means counterfeit. Gray market products are genuine branded products that were simply not intended for the market in which they are being sold. They are just as good as regular products, with the exception that their warranty is generally invalid in the region where they're sold. Reputable merchants who deal in gray-market products include B&H Photo and Dynamism.com. (And no, I don't work for either of them.)
And 95% of the answers are going to be right.
God, what a moron.
Forget, for a moment, the old mantra that 'correlation does not prove causation'. Assuming for the sake of argument that there is a causal relationship, wouldn't it make far more sense that it would go the other way; i.e., being stupid leads people to not look after their health and become obese?
What I meant was, law enforcement should not have convenient access to the data. One set of paper forms should be filed by the owner's SSN, and another set of forms (at a different location, for redundancy) should be filed by weapon serial number. At no time should any of the data ever be stored in a database.
But I'll still let your mom be on it.
"The government is not saying, 'Hey, this data needs to be secret,' they are saying, 'This data needs to be inconvenient to get to.'"
Now they just need to apply the same logic to their lists of gun owners.
That's because drives were a lot more reliable when data densities were lower. I still have the old 40MB drive from my second computer, and it still works perfectly. Every other IDE drive I've had since then, with the exception of the two in my desktop right now, either developed bad sectors or failed catastrophically.
I haven't subscribed to any computer magazines in about a decade.
I agree that our society differs from Orwell's imagined dystopia in degree, but not in nature. There may not be cameras in our homes yet, but they're in more public places every day. They may not be analyzing our facial expressions yet, but did you not read that article here on Slashdot just a few days ago, about how they're teaching computers to analyze the semantics of written communication? All online communications are already monitored for keywords, and have been for several years. I know because I used some keywords in an email back in 2000 and was visited by the FBI three days later -- after they'd embarrassed me by interviewing several of my co-workers and supervisors at both my jobs. Whoever's running this show, whatever their agenda, they're using 1984 as a how-to guide. Its full manifestation is probably closer than you think.
Aren't the Mars rovers "super close up"?
Except 1984, of course.
I know I'm responding to a troll, but this brings up a serious point. Millions of people are walking around (and reproducing) who by all rights of nature should be dead. Are we weakening ourselves as a species? I think so...
1. It's a really, really shitty site populated mostly by teenage morons
2. It's probably a liability because OMG STALKERS SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN
Why did you highlight the word you misused?
The F-5 always had twin engines. But whatever.
That's not to say that Gumstix aren't cool. But this is not news.
The distinction is narrow-minded and elitist.