You can certainly argue that colonialism has had some positive side effects. But I'd like to hear how European colonialism helped most of the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia. Most of them have been marginalized for centuries. Many of them were wiped out altogether.
Ignoring this is like arguing for Soviet communism while pretending the purges and the famines in the thirties didn't happen.
Stalking. "To follow or observe (a person) persistently, especially out of obsession or derangement," according to dictionary.com.
It is entirely possible to be a stalker and not commit a crime. No one has suggested that Luskin has violated any of the stalking laws.
However, Luskin does appear to meet the common, non-legal usage of the term: he does appear to be obsessive about Krugman and he does appear to follow everything he does.
Who was that hawking videos claiming that Clinton had his father assassinated? Who was that claiming that the Clintons were somehow involved in the deaths of Vince Foster, Ron Brown and just about anybody else from DC who died in the 90's?
Although normally I just have to wait in long, pointless lines when coming back from Canada, I have received the same treatment (albeit to a lesser extent) from US border guards coming back into the States.
That's why a recent delegation of representatives didn't stay overnight in Iraq; they were flown
back to Kuwait each night, according to James Pinkerton (who was in the first Bush administration).
That's why the war in Iraq has been great for Al Qaeda recruiting. And we're giving them plenty of great practice, like the Soviets did in Afghanistan.
The real issue here is trust in elections, and the possible effect another election fiasco might have in this country.
Let's suppose that the next presidential election is as tightly contested as the previous one, and it comes down to recounts in certain key states. However, there is no paper trail, and there is no way actually recount the votes. In some districts, large numbers of people could not vote because voting machines were malfunctioning.
This is a recipe for chaos. At best, the winner isn't regarded as legitimate by a large section of the population, and his (unlikely to be a her in 2004) administratin is crippled. At worst, we have chaos.
Frankly, if I wanted to screw with the USA, I'd screw with the voting machines. You think that hasn't occurred to the terrorists?
But you're comparing, uh, apples and oranges. They're in different industries, and oddly enough stocks in different industries often perform poorly. You should have compared them to another tech stock.
Granted, I'm sure you could find tech stocks (even besides Microsoft) which have done better since then, but that doesn't make the comparison any better.
I agree that not packaging their compiler with Solaris was a mistake.
However, since Solaris 2.8, ur, Solaris 8, Solaris comes with gcc. It admittedly isn't on one of the main installation CD's--it's on one of the 'companion' CD's.
You've got a worm that installs a trojan which runs a DDOS program. How do you find out which machines the worm has installed the trojan on? One way is to scan for them, but this is time consuming.
Alternately, you can have the trojan connect to you for instructions. As this is an outbound connection, NAT will permit this. (This is noticeable, too, but
You can forbid this with an access list on your firewall, of course, but that has nothing to do with NAT.
I should also point out that those same access lists will also tend to prevent the trojan from receiving instructions.
By their inaction, the individual members of the RIAA have allowed file swapping to become popular. Had they had a reasonably offering around the time Napster was popular, they might have been able to preempt the file swappers. Then they might have some control
You know, reading over the the information available for Perl 6, I get the idea that a lot of the improvements intended for Perl 6 were actually stolen from Ruby.
As much as I love Perl, the OO implementation is a bolted-on, pain-in-the-ass kludge. Ruby's is an integral part of the language, and Ruby is a very nice language.
I guess I'm something of an exception. I'm 37, and while I do owe some allegiance to the music of my youth (or what I remember of it), I'm still finding new music.
For instance, in the last year or so I really have discovered country (yeah, go ahead and laugh--I would have ten years ago). I tend to enjoy artists on the fringes (i.e., some of the alt country stuff like Neko Case or the Old 97's) or older artists (Johnny Cash). I still don't like most of the stuff coming out of Nashville.
On the other hand, it's harder for me to jump genres than it used to be. In part this is because it's so damn hard to hear anything interesting on the radio, but I'm sure my age and well-established listening habits play a big role.
Ur, I thought he meant a *separate* external door. You know, so the pilots can't open the door?
It's not perfect either (you'd need a separate bathroom, and you're screwed if the pilots manage to knock themselves out during the flight (since a passenger who could fly the plane wouldn't be able to).
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Well, I personally had two sets of problems: figuring out what was done before and getting all the software I needed to behave during compilation.
After the first time I needed to do this, I kept a pretty detailed log out what I did, so it was less of an issue. But I had all kinds of problems with versioning, dependencies and occasionally odd bugs that only appeared in Solaris.
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I think part of the problem is that compiling PHP with all the appropriate options can get pretty complex. For instance, a certain smallish ISP I know well whose name I will not mention used front page extensions and a bunch of other packages which were used by their clients. It apparently was hellishly difficult to upgrade apache and PHP and and front page extensions and get all this other software to work at the same time.
I ran into this myself, sort of. I have a user interface written in PHP on Solaris, which has been a real pain in the neck to recompile when I've needed to upgrade PHP. Using modules instead of a statically compiled apache would probably have been helpful, but then I couldn't get this commercial package to work with apache...
I have since become disenchanted with PHP for anything but the smallest projects so I'm not going to worry about it too much. I will probably take another look at PHP 5, though.
Eh, I'd say the odds are good it's spyware or a trojan. Nonetheless, it's still illegal and malicious.
It's also possible to hack Charter's DHCP server(s) and change the DNS servers given out, or add your own rogue DHCP server (i.e., with someone else's hacked box on their network). Probably not what happened, though.
I vote for kludge. This is one of the reasons I stopped using PHP and went back to perl. (Yes, Perl's OO implementation is also something of a kludge, but it's a better and more useful kludge. I've really been liking Ruby lately, but it doesn't have the libraries yet.).
Apparently PHP 5 will have a "new object model." While this is good, I have to admit it doesn't necessarily inspire confidence.
The basic design of the language seems sloppy as hell to me, too. It seems like at every minor release they've realize that, oh, $this wasn't such a good idea, let's implement $that to get around it/fix it. The namespace is so polluted with every little function, it's difficult to add components, etc., etc.
To be fair, PHP 5 might be a big improvement there, too.
On the other hand, it is a great language for relatively simple web scripts, and it is easy to learn.
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You can certainly argue that colonialism has had some positive side effects. But I'd like to hear how European colonialism helped most of the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia. Most of them have been marginalized for centuries. Many of them were wiped out altogether. Ignoring this is like arguing for Soviet communism while pretending the purges and the famines in the thirties didn't happen.
It is entirely possible to be a stalker and not commit a crime. No one has suggested that Luskin has violated any of the stalking laws.
However, Luskin does appear to meet the common, non-legal usage of the term: he does appear to be obsessive about Krugman and he does appear to follow everything he does.
Who was that hawking videos claiming that Clinton had his father assassinated? Who was that claiming that the Clintons were somehow involved in the deaths of Vince Foster, Ron Brown and just about anybody else from DC who died in the 90's?
How much do you travel outside the US?
Although normally I just have to wait in long, pointless lines when coming back from Canada, I have received the same treatment (albeit to a lesser extent) from US border guards coming back into the States.
Hell, take a picture of the screen with your digital camera...
That's why a recent delegation of representatives didn't stay overnight in Iraq; they were flown back to Kuwait each night, according to James Pinkerton (who was in the first Bush administration).
That's why the airport is still closed because of the threat of missile attack. (You might have to skim a little to find that.)
That's why the war in Iraq has been great for Al Qaeda recruiting. And we're giving them plenty of great practice, like the Soviets did in Afghanistan.
So how is this good again?
The real issue here is trust in elections, and the possible effect another election fiasco might have in this country.
Let's suppose that the next presidential election is as tightly contested as the previous one, and it comes down to recounts in certain key states. However, there is no paper trail, and there is no way actually recount the votes. In some districts, large numbers of people could not vote because voting machines were malfunctioning.
This is a recipe for chaos. At best, the winner isn't regarded as legitimate by a large section of the population, and his (unlikely to be a her in 2004) administratin is crippled. At worst, we have chaos.
Frankly, if I wanted to screw with the USA, I'd screw with the voting machines. You think that hasn't occurred to the terrorists?
Now where did I say the other ILEC's aren't evil? :)
I believe you meant to say "only slighly less evil." Let's be accurate here.
But you're comparing, uh, apples and oranges. They're in different industries, and oddly enough stocks in different industries often perform poorly. You should have compared them to another tech stock.
Granted, I'm sure you could find tech stocks (even besides Microsoft) which have done better since then, but that doesn't make the comparison any better.
I agree that not packaging their compiler with Solaris was a mistake. However, since Solaris 2.8, ur, Solaris 8, Solaris comes with gcc. It admittedly isn't on one of the main installation CD's--it's on one of the 'companion' CD's.
You've got a worm that installs a trojan which runs a DDOS program. How do you find out which machines the worm has installed the trojan on? One way is to scan for them, but this is time consuming.
Alternately, you can have the trojan connect to you for instructions. As this is an outbound connection, NAT will permit this. (This is noticeable, too, but
You can forbid this with an access list on your firewall, of course, but that has nothing to do with NAT.
I should also point out that those same access lists will also tend to prevent the trojan from receiving instructions.
Ur, no one is arguing that the extra IP addresses aren't useful with IPv4. :)
Absolutely. This isn't monitoring--this is load testing.
By their inaction, the individual members of the RIAA have allowed file swapping to become popular. Had they had a reasonably offering around the time Napster was popular, they might have been able to preempt the file swappers. Then they might have some control
You know, reading over the the information available for Perl 6, I get the idea that a lot of the improvements intended for Perl 6 were actually stolen from Ruby. As much as I love Perl, the OO implementation is a bolted-on, pain-in-the-ass kludge. Ruby's is an integral part of the language, and Ruby is a very nice language.
I was thinking about shorting their stock myself. The thing is, it's just too damn risky--the price could go up again with next week's news.
For instance, in the last year or so I really have discovered country (yeah, go ahead and laugh--I would have ten years ago). I tend to enjoy artists on the fringes (i.e., some of the alt country stuff like Neko Case or the Old 97's) or older artists (Johnny Cash). I still don't like most of the stuff coming out of Nashville.
On the other hand, it's harder for me to jump genres than it used to be. In part this is because it's so damn hard to hear anything interesting on the radio, but I'm sure my age and well-established listening habits play a big role.
I mean, I've had to administer systems in my car and at the beach. It ain't Burma, but it beats having to drive into the office, doesn't it?
It's not perfect either (you'd need a separate bathroom, and you're screwed if the pilots manage to knock themselves out during the flight (since a passenger who could fly the plane wouldn't be able to).
After the first time I needed to do this, I kept a pretty detailed log out what I did, so it was less of an issue. But I had all kinds of problems with versioning, dependencies and occasionally odd bugs that only appeared in Solaris.
I ran into this myself, sort of. I have a user interface written in PHP on Solaris, which has been a real pain in the neck to recompile when I've needed to upgrade PHP. Using modules instead of a statically compiled apache would probably have been helpful, but then I couldn't get this commercial package to work with apache...
I have since become disenchanted with PHP for anything but the smallest projects so I'm not going to worry about it too much. I will probably take another look at PHP 5, though.
It's also possible to hack Charter's DHCP server(s) and change the DNS servers given out, or add your own rogue DHCP server (i.e., with someone else's hacked box on their network). Probably not what happened, though.
Apparently PHP 5 will have a "new object model." While this is good, I have to admit it doesn't necessarily inspire confidence. The basic design of the language seems sloppy as hell to me, too. It seems like at every minor release they've realize that, oh, $this wasn't such a good idea, let's implement $that to get around it/fix it. The namespace is so polluted with every little function, it's difficult to add components, etc., etc.
To be fair, PHP 5 might be a big improvement there, too.
On the other hand, it is a great language for relatively simple web scripts, and it is easy to learn.