I recently got a job working at a research place that provides science and technology to the DoD. You have to have a Secret clearance to work here, so the jobs can't be shipped to India. And with today's security and military efforts, these jobs will only increase in number, especially if we all smarten up and vote for Bush--he's the best choice from both a policy and a pocketbook point of view.
If countries in Africa were being turned, one by one, into democracies then we'd want to hear about every one so we could celebrate their newfound freedom. It's the same here with Linux distributions suffering under the tyrannical BSD license. Let the GPL ring, baby!
The EU system looks like it's going to be a lot more accurate, but that's only to be expected. It is newer technology but the US system is purposely crippled because it was intended for military use. That increased accuracy would be any geeks dream.
The problem is that EU countries have a tendency towards Big Brotherism. Look at the UK and their security cameras. How long before every citizen is required to have an implanted GPS tracking chip to prevent terrorism?
Cellphone headsets seems like such a great idea, but are they really?
1) You are still minding your conversation instead of driving.
2) The cellphone is still right there in the car with you, usually next to your genitalural area and still emitting dangerous electromagnetic radiation.
In short, you shouldn't be talking on the phone at all while you drive. If you are that lonely, just carpool.
I actually wrote a redirector utility that could take an incoming SMTP request on $PORT and move it to 25. It works great and got around Verizsuck's limitations very well at small volumes. The problem was that the way I had to write the network handling code more than doubled my ping times. That was unacceptable to me, so I ditched the effort--but maybe you'll have less mail than I did.
The mirror list can be found here and the features include the following great new items:
-Kernel 2.4.22 (a Linux 2.6.0pre kernel is also provided in contribs)
-Net code 6.1 which halves ping times
-XFree86 4.3 (including long-delayed support for scroll mice!)
-Glibc 2.3.2
-GCC 3.3.1 (no more pointer errors, the Turing-complete code self-checker works great)
I've always like CNet because they seem friendly to Linux and other Free Source Software. It's very important that media outlets be converted to our way of thinking, because that helps win hearts and minds in the general population. That's why I'm not so sure I like this news. Do we really want a pirate/hacker website, which deals in known copyright-violating file formats, to be associated with Linux?
is safety, pure and simple. How do you transmit the results and have them be verifiable but also keep anonymity? Research has shown that a simple substitution cipher would likely be inadequate. What else is there? Some might suggest the innovated "One Time Pad", but we need to hold elections at least every four years--we need a solution that will work more than one time.
I think we'll be seeing paper voting for a long time to come.
Here. These are facts, people. Get your heads out of the sand and start fighting for our way of life. If you don't, you are no better than a terrorist yourself.
You must be in college (or high school). No person out in the real world could be this naive. bin Laden trained somewhere between 70 and 100 thousand terrorists. It would be stupid in the extreme to believe that none of those guys (and girls?) are right here in the US. We are probably riddled with them, with dozens in each of our major cities. They could be infiltrating power plants, steal gas trucks and planning to ram them into office buildings, stealing the gold from Fort Knox--the possibilities are endless and the terrorists' identities are completely unknown. There's only one way to find them and that's to suspect everybody. Deal.
Projects like OpenOffice, Gimp and Mozilla keep making Linux more and more competitive with Windows on the desktop. And export to Flash--wow, I never even realized that was something people needed, but now that I've read about it I wonder how I'm living without it. I wouldn't be surprised a bit if Bill Gates was browsing the OO site right now, noshing his teeth in anger and frustration and we just keep coming, like some non-giving-up-programmer guys.
OTOH, maybe he's just laughing at us. MS Office came out in, what, 1994? Here is it almost 10 years later and we're just barely getting that same functionality. Instead of trying to play catchup from so long ago, I can't help but wonder if Linux should be doing something new. I, for one, could do with having my ping times halved.
But do you? I.e., do you think that the laws as they exist are a) fair to consumers and b) in the spirit of the intent of Copyright Law as it was originally conceived? If not, what would you change?
Never heard of Overture. But I think I remember Yahoo. Aren't they that online store that used to be a directory of website? Man, I haven't been there in ages.
Seriously. Yahoo already uses Google on the backend. So what's this about competition? It's like that Browser Wars article a few minutes ago. Microsoft uses the Gecko engine, so why all this talk about competition between the two?
The Mozilla Project is in serious trouble. It has been ready for prime time for over a year now, but except for an increasingly meaningless string of new releases nothing seems to happen.
Nothing seems to happen? Hello, what of all these features:
Tabbed browsing
Popup blocking
XML
XUL, the interface skinning defintion language
Halved ping times
Vastly reduced download size and memory footprint
Incredible stability
Except for proprietary formats like QT and MSHTTP, total protocol compatibility.
It's really funny that they'd over look this stuff, since they bitch and moan about how bad IE is (and will be for another 6 years). They clearly don't understand the power of Open Source.
There are 6 billion people in the world. Let's be generous and say that maybe 1 billion of them even have a computer. Of those 1 billion, maybe 250 million have been on the Internet, ever. Of those 250 million, 200 million have real lives and 25 million are busy on Usenet, looking at porn, trading warez, etc. That leaves maybe 25 million people who might blog. Of those 25 million, 1/10th, or 250 thousand might live in a large metro area where they could participate in a "mob". There are probably 1000 such large metro areas in the world, leaving just 250 such people in each city. Of those 250, only 3 have heard of "moblogs". Huge effect, dude.
This is so tiny that it's like considering a single butterfly's wings when forecasting the weather. It's negligible.
Some have theorized that some power behind SCO is manipulating them to try to destroy Linux, much the same way that Emporer Palpatine manipulated Vader to destroy Luke and the rebels. Everyone thought it was obvious that this unseen power was Microsoft. What if it's Sun? In some ways, Sun has more to lose--they sell a Unix and Linux, while a good Windows replacement, is an even better Unix replacement. 1 copy of Linux running on 5 x86 machines will cost less and perform better than one copy of Solaris on a Sun workstation.
With this in mind, it would be wise to look on other Sun news with suspicion. For example, they are a safe harbor. Could Sun be playing Senator Palpatine to SCO's Darth Maul and Microsoft's Trading Federation?
The article doesn't say anyone was electrocuted. It was a "small electric shock". I think everyone is overreacting on this one. I get shocks bigger than this just walking across the carpet in the winter.
This is just like that whiny guy that was apparently expecting his McDonald's coffee to be ice cold.
If a cop came to your door and demanded to search it (sans warrant), would you say "what the heck"? Linux is about freedom.
Press release with penguin-friendly quotes available too.
Kidnappers lure children with candy. "Penguin-friendly quotes" do nothing to ensure my freedom to modify the source. This is just candy-coated oppression.
This is really surprising to me, because I've been a big PC guy for a long time, based on my perception that Macs were slow and expensive. These benchmarks provide some hard numbers that will really open some eyes, I'll wager, even from a biased source like this one.
One question it raises in my mind, though, is why Apple started their OSX project in the first place? UNIX technology was created for the x86 architecture, how is OSX going to be able to compete on what is essentially a foreign platform?
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I recently got a job working at a research place that provides science and technology to the DoD. You have to have a Secret clearance to work here, so the jobs can't be shipped to India. And with today's security and military efforts, these jobs will only increase in number, especially if we all smarten up and vote for Bush--he's the best choice from both a policy and a pocketbook point of view.
If countries in Africa were being turned, one by one, into democracies then we'd want to hear about every one so we could celebrate their newfound freedom. It's the same here with Linux distributions suffering under the tyrannical BSD license. Let the GPL ring, baby!
If a day delay could send you under, you have big problems.
If "variable talent among humans" is the criterion, then *everything* is an "art". Including science.
The problem is that EU countries have a tendency towards Big Brotherism. Look at the UK and their security cameras. How long before every citizen is required to have an implanted GPS tracking chip to prevent terrorism?
The RIAA acts like a big bully and then wonders why people feel OK about stealing from them.
finding a vehicle with no moving parts.
Every computer in the world comes with a copy of this tool, it should be pretty easy to find on your computer, too. Link.
1) You are still minding your conversation instead of driving.
2) The cellphone is still right there in the car with you, usually next to your genitalural area and still emitting dangerous electromagnetic radiation.
In short, you shouldn't be talking on the phone at all while you drive. If you are that lonely, just carpool.
I actually wrote a redirector utility that could take an incoming SMTP request on $PORT and move it to 25. It works great and got around Verizsuck's limitations very well at small volumes. The problem was that the way I had to write the network handling code more than doubled my ping times. That was unacceptable to me, so I ditched the effort--but maybe you'll have less mail than I did.
-Kernel 2.4.22 (a Linux 2.6.0pre kernel is also provided in contribs)
-Net code 6.1 which halves ping times
-XFree86 4.3 (including long-delayed support for scroll mice!)
-Glibc 2.3.2 -GCC 3.3.1 (no more pointer errors, the Turing-complete code self-checker works great)
I've always like CNet because they seem friendly to Linux and other Free Source Software. It's very important that media outlets be converted to our way of thinking, because that helps win hearts and minds in the general population. That's why I'm not so sure I like this news. Do we really want a pirate/hacker website, which deals in known copyright-violating file formats, to be associated with Linux?
I think we'll be seeing paper voting for a long time to come.
Here. These are facts, people. Get your heads out of the sand and start fighting for our way of life. If you don't, you are no better than a terrorist yourself.
You must be in college (or high school). No person out in the real world could be this naive. bin Laden trained somewhere between 70 and 100 thousand terrorists. It would be stupid in the extreme to believe that none of those guys (and girls?) are right here in the US. We are probably riddled with them, with dozens in each of our major cities. They could be infiltrating power plants, steal gas trucks and planning to ram them into office buildings, stealing the gold from Fort Knox--the possibilities are endless and the terrorists' identities are completely unknown. There's only one way to find them and that's to suspect everybody. Deal.
OTOH, maybe he's just laughing at us. MS Office came out in, what, 1994? Here is it almost 10 years later and we're just barely getting that same functionality. Instead of trying to play catchup from so long ago, I can't help but wonder if Linux should be doing something new. I, for one, could do with having my ping times halved.
But do you? I.e., do you think that the laws as they exist are a) fair to consumers and b) in the spirit of the intent of Copyright Law as it was originally conceived? If not, what would you change?
Seriously. Yahoo already uses Google on the backend. So what's this about competition? It's like that Browser Wars article a few minutes ago. Microsoft uses the Gecko engine, so why all this talk about competition between the two?
The Mozilla Project is in serious trouble. It has been ready for prime time for over a year now, but except for an increasingly meaningless string of new releases nothing seems to happen.
Nothing seems to happen? Hello, what of all these features:
It's really funny that they'd over look this stuff, since they bitch and moan about how bad IE is (and will be for another 6 years). They clearly don't understand the power of Open Source.
This is so tiny that it's like considering a single butterfly's wings when forecasting the weather. It's negligible.
With this in mind, it would be wise to look on other Sun news with suspicion. For example, they are a safe harbor. Could Sun be playing Senator Palpatine to SCO's Darth Maul and Microsoft's Trading Federation?
This is just like that whiny guy that was apparently expecting his McDonald's coffee to be ice cold.
Indeed. ...but what the heck.
If a cop came to your door and demanded to search it (sans warrant), would you say "what the heck"? Linux is about freedom.
Press release with penguin-friendly quotes available too.
Kidnappers lure children with candy. "Penguin-friendly quotes" do nothing to ensure my freedom to modify the source. This is just candy-coated oppression.
One question it raises in my mind, though, is why Apple started their OSX project in the first place? UNIX technology was created for the x86 architecture, how is OSX going to be able to compete on what is essentially a foreign platform?
This links right to the video and the pics are here