Notice that all of these examples are of some sensitive information being recorded on the databases/ID cards. In many countries (including my own) we have ID cards, but also have constitucional laws that forbid some kinds of information (including race, religion, ethnicity) to be recorded in those databases...
Yeah, but for how long? Assuming the telcos can really blackmail content providers into paying them for delivery, your local company will be facing even a bigger struggle than it does today: its competitors will be earning a lot more for the same task...
No, he really means killed for real. Pym Fortuyn, I suppose. Still, I don't really agree with the GP about his qualities or the rightness of his views (though he shouldn't have died for them).
I could use one of these for a short overnight stay... I wouldn't want it for longer stays... As this is intended to airport hotels, I would say it is a good fit.
The hidden and false implication: the NSA/FBI/etc can not write or fund Open Source software.
Of course they can... BUT with source code you can INSPECT and CHANGE the software, so that any foul play is harder than with "off the counter" software.
Of course... He must, since he himself lives in a two-dimensional world:-)
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Nothing going on at Guantanimo, other than the information being extracted is classified. The Red Cross, NY Times and others make frequent visits to ensure the detainees are being treated appropriately.
Right... And they can go wherever they want there, and talk to whoever they want without US forces being present? Can they describe to all what they saw/talked about?
We all know that the US could have half as many of those than either Russia or China and still beat them, because it has better ones, and better logistics.
On the other hand, if you count in money spent, I believe the US forces costs more than the double of all the other forces combined... Not a particullary level field.
Strangely enough, I thought that was how all couples should behave.
If my wife would decide to take a year off to work on a personal project (or go to graduate school) I would foot the bill gladly. In fact, I'm almost doing so now (just almost, because she has a scholarship...).
Well, not really the anonymous part (though I can be anonymous, since I'm not required an valid ID to check my personal data).
Here, you can either get a public library card by placing some money (it was 5 last time I checked) in the library fund OR by getting a signed recomendation by any business store (which will "vouch" by the patron good behaviour).
Notice that using the library (in place) is free for all, but to take books (and CD/DVDs) home, you have to pay a (very low) anuall fee (about 2,5).
Yes, I could use RELEASE (and the security patches). However, I prefer to track STABLE on most servers, since it makes updating them easier (less changes on each update versus more regular updates).
Also nitpicking, the -devel versions of the ports are what I would call the unstable version of the ports:-).
And yes, to have both the kernel/base system and the ports on the same update schedule is probably not the best idea (I do prefer the FBSD way - which is why I have almost all the servers on FBSD). However, if you care, you CAN also do something like it in Gentoo (you just need to define which ports belong to base system and somehow "freeze them" when updating - its harder to do it, though).
And there are a few ports that do clobber the base system in FBSD also (I would prefer those to be on a different tree on ports, so I don't have undesirable surprises when I make world:-( ).
I run gentoo in one machine I have. I however don't run it with ~arch make flags on (you call it unstable).
But I also run a handful of servers. They don't run gentoo, but run FreeBSD (close enough). Again, on the servers I need to have running smoothly I use FreeBSD STABLE, not CURRENT. In fact, I only run CURRENT on my personal notebook, which I can afford to tinker with when I like it (and that on dual boot, so I can always access my data when I need it)
If you want stability, and ease of configuration, don't use an unstable version of any system thats being changed every day. Even if tools can be found to help management in this situation, you are trying to build a castle in the sand... It will come down, rest assured.
It sure is if you didn't consent, yes. Mary was the victim here.
If you're going to follow scripture regarding the impregnation, you would also need to accept the fact that Mary CONSENTED.
In fact, that consentment is the main basis of the worship Mary gets in the Catholic religion. She had a choice, and took the hardest road. "I am the Lord's slave, thy will be done".
I'd be interested to know long it will be before the ports tree has reasonably complete support for 5.3.
That's easy: now.
The ports tree supports both branches, and most updates are tried on 5.x before 4.x, so the ports support for 5.3 is quite good.
Anedoctal evidence: all but one of the ports I tried to use work on 5.3 (the exception was a direct connect client). That include ALL that comprises a full workstation (Linux feature complete, so to speak).
even "absolute property" is not absolute
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The existence of "property" depends on the others agreeing that such a thing exists. In a true anarchist viewpoint, it may be proposed that property even of physical objects doesn't exist (or is shared between all -- see LeGuin's "The Dispossessed" for an example).
I believe that property is an (extremely useful, effective and irreplaceable) intellectual concept, but still just a social convention. So, I don't agree with your viewpoint that there is an "absolute property".
I do agree with your other points though.
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True, but even if the costs are 30 years down the line, and not completely known, they should be accounted for. I assume they will still be significant.
If you think otherwise, I will sign with your self/business/country a contract which will make you rich... I will give you 1 thousand dollars per year during the next 30 years, and after that... oh... just the nuclear waste of the reactor. Should be no problem, right?
I understand he said Win9X, Win2K and the rest supported the sound card - under emulation (probably VMWare), while Linux wasn't supported "on the bare machine".
If anyone used VMWare, he/she should know that the sound system of VMWare is emulated as (usually) a Sound Blaster 32. And of course you can run linux (with sound) in that configuration (I do).
If the comparison was to be fair, he should have made all installs on "the bare hardware", or under the "emulated environment", not compare apples and oranges.
Yes, you can do it today, more easily if you control the NAT box, a little harder if you dont. In the latter case, you only have to deliver protocol 41 packets (IPv6 in IPv4 standard encapsulation) to a machine that will be the end-point of the tunnel (which can run Linux, BSD or even Windows and provide IPv6 addresses to the rest of the NATed boxes). You have to notify the tunnel end-point about your IPv4 address (needed if you're on a dinamically allocated IPv4 address) but there are several working implementations (check the one on http://www.sixxs.net, using "heartbeat").
It would be better (one less box to worry about) if the router itself would do the translation though (its not rocket science, very easily done if the router/NAT box runs Linux/BSD or Windows, it SHOULD be done also on "home gateway devices", but AFAIK no device does it yet).
However, considering the usual (lack of) security of machines behind a NAT box, I don't know if it would be wise to provide them automagically with a world routable IPv6 address. Perhaps it should be available, but disabled by default.
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Notice that most addresses (for PC-like devices, at least) will be autoconfigured.
You will have some sort of central daemon handing-out the prefixes to your net, and the device will concatenate that prefix with its own MAC address, and voila, you have a working IPv6 address. Its very easy for the end user (in fact, it is almost like a sub-set of DHCP "pre-configured").
Of course, there can be also a DHCP-like protocol to give the client other information (adresses for routers, proxys, etc.).
I believe some sort of tech like this is available now already (I recall seing ads for "virtual monitors" that were really just small HUDs). However, the prices were VERY expensive.
Another problem that may exist, at least for commuters, is that I don't suppose the HUD thing, unless its very obtrusive, would be able to compensate adequately for the bounces of most transportation devices (perhaps thats really not that hard, but I still get seasick trying to read on cars or trains sometimes).
If you want stability, use STABLE releases, (4.8, 4.9 in a few days/weeks).
If you want the bleeding edge, you can try CURRENT (HEAD, 5.1). But they call it bleeding edge, because you might cut yourself, you know.
That said, I am using a 5-CURRENT machine to write this. I haven't had major troubles with this. But, if you aren't the kind of person who would use a odd-numbered kernel in linux, you should stick with STABLE releases. I have all my production machines in STABLE, I only use CURRENT in my "expendable" machines (like my own workstation).
There is information on which branch is STABLE - Production (at this moment its last release was 4.8, soon will be 4.9) and which branch is CURRENT - Technology Preview (at this moment, the last release was 5.1, will be 5.2 in a while) on the freebsd home page (www.freebsd.org).
Just one thing. O(N) is less than O(N log N) so I assume that you meant the worst case of quicksort is O(N^2). I never studied its complexity, so I really don't know.
This could work, I believe, but only if Quicksort exhibits the same sort of lets say "poly time affinity" (for lack of a better description) that the Simplex method does. Not all algorithms have this characteristic.
It is worth looking into, though. If this is (statistically) true, one could try to solve in paralell 3 or 4 "pertubed" quicksorts, and still come out ahead of just a quicksort that exhibits O(N^2) because it is "a worst case". Of course this would only be useful for large values of N.
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Notice that all of these examples are of some sensitive information being recorded on the databases/ID cards. In many countries (including my own) we have ID cards, but also have constitucional laws that forbid some kinds of information (including race, religion, ethnicity) to be recorded in those databases...
Yeah, but for how long? Assuming the telcos can really blackmail content providers into paying them for delivery, your local company will be facing even a bigger struggle than it does today: its competitors will be earning a lot more for the same task...
No, he really means killed for real. Pym Fortuyn, I suppose. Still, I don't really agree with the GP about his qualities or the rightness of his views (though he shouldn't have died for them).
I could use one of these for a short overnight stay... I wouldn't want it for longer stays... As this is intended to airport hotels, I would say it is a good fit.
The hidden and false implication: the NSA/FBI/etc can not write or fund Open Source software.
Of course they can... BUT with source code you can INSPECT and CHANGE the software, so that any foul play is harder than with "off the counter" software.
Of course... He must, since he himself lives in a two-dimensional world :-)
Nothing going on at Guantanimo, other than the information being extracted is classified. The Red Cross, NY Times and others make frequent visits to ensure the detainees are being treated appropriately.
Right... And they can go wherever they want there, and talk to whoever they want without US forces being present? Can they describe to all what they saw/talked about?
Not all subs, aircraft and tanks are equal.
We all know that the US could have half as many of those than either Russia or China and still beat them, because it has better ones, and better logistics.
On the other hand, if you count in money spent, I believe the US forces costs more than the double of all the other forces combined... Not a particullary level field.
Strangely enough, I thought that was how all couples should behave.
If my wife would decide to take a year off to work on a personal project (or go to graduate school) I would foot the bill gladly. In fact, I'm almost doing so now (just almost, because she has a scholarship...).
Well, not really the anonymous part (though I can be anonymous, since I'm not required an valid ID to
check my personal data).
Here, you can either get a public library card by placing some money (it was 5 last time I checked) in the library fund OR by getting a signed recomendation by any business store (which will "vouch" by the patron good behaviour).
Notice that using the library (in place) is free for all, but to take books (and CD/DVDs) home, you have to pay a (very low) anuall fee (about 2,5).
It should therefore be easy the millions of people harmed to provide a subsistence to the few thousands?
Yes, I could use RELEASE (and the security patches). However, I prefer to track STABLE on most servers, since it makes updating them easier (less changes on each update versus more regular updates).
:-) .
:-( ).
Also nitpicking, the -devel versions of the ports are what I would call the unstable version of the ports
And yes, to have both the kernel/base system and the ports on the same update schedule is probably not the best idea (I do prefer the FBSD way - which is why I have almost all the servers on FBSD). However, if you care, you CAN also do something like it in Gentoo (you just need to define which ports belong to base system and somehow "freeze them" when updating - its harder to do it, though).
And there are a few ports that do clobber the base system in FBSD also (I would prefer those to be on a different tree on ports, so I don't have undesirable surprises when I make world
So, you want your cake and eat it too?
Sorry, can't be done.
I run gentoo in one machine I have. I however don't run it with ~arch make flags on (you call it unstable).
But I also run a handful of servers. They don't run gentoo, but run FreeBSD (close enough). Again, on the servers I need to have running smoothly I use FreeBSD STABLE, not CURRENT.
In fact, I only run CURRENT on my personal notebook, which I can afford to tinker with when I like it (and that on dual boot, so I can always access my data when I need it)
If you want stability, and ease of configuration, don't use an unstable version of any system thats being changed every day. Even if tools can be found to help management in this situation, you are trying to build a castle in the sand... It will come down, rest assured.
It sure is if you didn't consent, yes. Mary was the victim here.
If you're going to follow scripture regarding the impregnation, you would also need to accept the fact that Mary CONSENTED.
In fact, that consentment is the main basis of the worship Mary gets in the Catholic religion. She had a choice, and took the hardest road. "I am the Lord's slave, thy will be done".
That's easy: now.
The ports tree supports both branches, and most updates are tried on 5.x before 4.x, so the ports support for 5.3 is quite good.
Anedoctal evidence: all but one of the ports I tried to use work on 5.3 (the exception was a direct connect client). That include ALL that comprises a full workstation (Linux feature complete, so to speak).
Actually, there are lots of works (e.g., the ones by Kanneman and Tversky) showing that people DO follow preferences inconsistent with simple ranking.
Simple ranking assumes:
* transitivity (A > B and B > C implies A > C -- in preferences frequently that is not the case).
* complete ordering (no incomparability, that is I must distinguish between all options).
Condorcet will allow both restrictions to be lifted, but of course we know it is not perfect,
because there cannot be a perfect voting method...
The existence of "property" depends on the others agreeing that such a thing exists. In a true anarchist viewpoint, it may be proposed that property even of physical objects doesn't exist (or is shared between all -- see LeGuin's "The Dispossessed" for an example).
I believe that property is an (extremely useful, effective and irreplaceable) intellectual concept, but still just a social convention. So, I don't agree with your viewpoint that there is an "absolute property".
I do agree with your other points though.
True, but even if the costs are 30 years down the line, and not completely known, they should be accounted for. I assume they will still be significant.
If you think otherwise, I will sign with your self/business/country a contract which will make you rich... I will give you 1 thousand dollars per year during the next 30 years, and after that... oh... just the nuclear waste of the reactor. Should be no problem, right?
Please read the article:
I understand he said Win9X, Win2K and the rest supported the sound card - under emulation (probably VMWare), while Linux wasn't supported "on the bare machine".
If anyone used VMWare, he/she should know that the sound system of VMWare is emulated as (usually) a Sound Blaster 32. And of course you can run linux (with sound) in that configuration (I do).
If the comparison was to be fair, he should have made all installs on "the bare hardware", or under the "emulated environment", not compare apples and oranges.
Oh yes, we forgot to add a small thing... Besides that US$ 3000 one-time sum, there will be a added 0.5 per installation charge...
Such a small charge will surely not hinder your open-source plans, would it?
Goodbye, freedom.
Yes, you can do it today, more easily if you control the NAT box, a little harder if you dont. In the latter case, you only have to deliver protocol 41 packets (IPv6 in IPv4 standard encapsulation) to a machine that will be the end-point of the tunnel (which can run Linux, BSD or even Windows and provide IPv6 addresses to the rest of the NATed boxes). You have to notify the tunnel end-point about your IPv4 address (needed if you're on a dinamically allocated IPv4 address) but there are several working implementations (check the one on http://www.sixxs.net, using "heartbeat").
It would be better (one less box to worry about) if the router itself would do the translation though (its not rocket science, very easily done if the router/NAT box runs Linux/BSD or Windows, it SHOULD be done also on "home gateway devices", but AFAIK no device does it yet).
However, considering the usual (lack of) security of machines behind a NAT box, I don't know if it would be wise to provide them automagically with a world routable IPv6 address. Perhaps it should be available, but disabled by default.
Notice that most addresses (for PC-like devices, at least) will be autoconfigured.
You will have some sort of central daemon handing-out the prefixes to your net, and the device will concatenate that prefix with its own MAC address, and voila, you have a working IPv6 address. Its very easy for the end user (in fact, it is almost like a sub-set of DHCP "pre-configured").
Of course, there can be also a DHCP-like protocol to give the client other information (adresses for routers, proxys, etc.).
I believe some sort of tech like this is available now already (I recall seing ads for "virtual monitors" that were really just small HUDs). However, the prices were VERY expensive.
Another problem that may exist, at least for commuters, is that I don't suppose the HUD thing, unless its very obtrusive, would be able to compensate adequately for the bounces of most transportation devices (perhaps thats really not that hard, but I still get seasick trying to read on cars or trains sometimes).
If you want stability, use STABLE releases, (4.8, 4.9 in a few days/weeks).
If you want the bleeding edge, you can try CURRENT (HEAD, 5.1). But they call it bleeding edge, because you might cut yourself, you know.
That said, I am using a 5-CURRENT machine to write this. I haven't had major troubles with this. But, if you aren't the kind of person who would use a odd-numbered kernel in linux, you should stick with STABLE releases. I have all my production machines in STABLE, I only use CURRENT in my "expendable" machines (like my own workstation).
There is information on which branch is STABLE - Production (at this moment its last release was 4.8, soon will be 4.9) and which branch is CURRENT - Technology Preview (at this moment, the last release was 5.1, will be 5.2 in a while) on the freebsd home page (www.freebsd.org).
Just one thing. O(N) is less than O(N log N) so I assume that you meant the worst case of quicksort is O(N^2). I never studied its complexity, so I really don't know.
This could work, I believe, but only if Quicksort exhibits the same sort of lets say "poly time affinity" (for lack of a better description) that the Simplex method does. Not all algorithms have this characteristic.
It is worth looking into, though. If this is (statistically) true, one could try to solve in paralell 3 or 4 "pertubed" quicksorts, and still come out ahead of just a quicksort that exhibits O(N^2) because it is "a worst case". Of course this would only be useful for large values of N.