I keep hearing slashdotters complain about this, and it totally baffles me. I have an x64 system, and binary plugins (flash, java,...) work fine for me. X64 is compatible with x86. Is there some issue I'm not aware of?
No, there isn't an issue you aren't aware of. But I'm curious why you prefer not to admit that the flash plugin hangs and crashes firefox frequently.
You make a good point. However, in this particular case, the process is a solution to the following problem: How do we stop getting all those spam/virus emails? I think in this case the solution is obvious: identify them, and filter them out. In fact, the problem itself states this obvious solution; i.e., the solution itself is a restatement of the problem. Moreover, the problem was invented and well-known long before this patent was filed. If a patent covers this general concept, then it should be invalidated. However, if a patent covers a specific process for identifying and filtering spam, which itself is not obvious, then it is probably a valid U.S. patent. A cursory look at the patent shows that it only covers the general concept (I admit I only skimmed the text of the patent) so it shouldn't be hard to invalidate, if you can afford the lawyers.
A friend of mine was born and raised in Africa, by white parents who were also born and raised in Afica. He has now moved to the US. Does that qualify him as African-American?
A friend of mine had gas because he ate some poison. So they took him to the hospital and pumped his stomach. Does that make him a gas pump?
If Israel really wanted to nuke the Muslim countries, it would have done so already.
No. Israel awaits the perfect reason (i.e., excuse) to do so. If Israel uses a nuclear bomb, they risk losing the support of the U.S., which would be very dangerous for them. On the other hand, if Iran uses a nuclear bomb against Israel, Iran will suffer the same fate as Afghanistan. My opinion: Iran wants the bomb to discourage the U.S. from making a "preemptive" attack. That is, like most countries the U.S. fucks with, they want to be left alone. I think most people know by now that Israel isn't some innocent victim caught up in this mess. They seem to be as aggressive and callous as the U.S. in foreign relations.
So what in Fairfield is "decaying"? Anyway, that ploy he did with renting an apt in Bham is not new. He'll probably get away with it if it goes to court. The idea of getting an NFL team or an airline hub to raise a city's value is silly, though. Enjoy you 10% sales tax:) I live in Los Angeles now, but I was home for the holidays and people in my family were talking about that stuff.
The Shakespeare Festival doesn't just run Shakespeare plays. That's just the name of the theater. I remember seeing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof there when I was in high school. When I moved away from the South, I was disappointed by all the silly ignorant comments made by people who I would have otherwise respected. The wonderful thing is that if I moved back I would have an easy time finding jobs in my field because most of the ignorant non-Southerners wouldn't consider living there. So now when I hear stupid comments, I ignore them. I just think about how clean and pure things will be when I move back.
You should bite the bullet and upgrade your hardware to an Athlon X2 or Core 2 Duo that does the virtualization juju. Run KVM on a recent kernel and you can run almost any free operating system flawlessly. If you want to run Windows in VMWare, then, that's your problem. It might work in KVM, but who cares?
But, you have to admit, suspend to RAM is a useful feature which is just a bitch to get working on Linux nowadays. Admittedly, I had suspend to RAM working flawlessly on Mandrake back in 2000 with APM, which doesn't exist anymore, sadly.
Because Intel and Microsoft may be selling their version at a loss, to eliminate the "competition". If successful, once the XO laptop disappears, so does the cheap Intel/MS laptop.
Go ahead. Don't use base 10 for measuring RAM sizes, use base 2, I really don't care. Just don't go calling it a Gigabyte, because it isn't.
No. You can't just wipe away decades of common usage because you don't like it. And no, NIST doesn't get to do it either, even if they think they have the authority. This "gibibyte" nonsense hasn't caught on because it isn't needed, and even worse, the name sounds pretty lame.
Man, you guys have a serious mistrust of South American governments. And even worse, blind faith in the good will of multinational corporations. Remember, you're supposed to drink the RED Kool-aid, NOT the BLUE Kool-aid.
Actually, greylisting seems to be a magic bullet for I, an individual, since all the other methods don't work nearly as well (possibly because I'm using older stabler versions of e.g. spamassassin on Debian). As an added bonus, the only record of the transactions are in the logs-- not in my spam maildir, so grepping for blocked emails is A LOT faster.
Is Brazil trying to frighten away foreign investment?
What the hell is the point of investments where the gov't is cheated out of hundreds of millions of dollars? Wouldn't it be kinda stupid for a gov't to encourage this? Or maybe you mean the Halliburton kind of "investment". You must be drunk with the corporate master koolaid to even assume that this bust isn't at all legit.
It's unclear that HOV accomplishes anything at all, except making the commute faster for an exceptionally small minority of commuters at great expense to everyone.
You speak as if there is a class of people incapable of riding in a car pool. It's not like granting privileges to the rich or some other minority group, where it's (almost) impossible to change your status. With little effort, almost anyone here in L.A. could carpool-- there are a zillion programs providing more incentives than just a carpool lane. The carpool lane is a benefit to those who put forth the trivial effort to drive with someone else. Is this all that hard, really? Man, you guys are such whiners.
Even worse, he actually things his "going out of business sale" price of $7 is a good deal for his crappy inventory. I wonder if he'll be shocked when nobody buys.
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I keep hearing slashdotters complain about this, and it totally baffles me. I have an x64 system, and binary plugins (flash, java,
No, there isn't an issue you aren't aware of. But I'm curious why you prefer not to admit that the flash plugin hangs and crashes firefox frequently.
In The Rest Of The World, "In Soviet Russia" jokes are getting Extremely Olde.
But in Soviet Russia, joke olds you!
After all, it's not like scientific research for anything other than bona fide military purposes is the proper role of government anyway.
Unless, of course, all the citizens of the government think otherwise.
You make a good point. However, in this particular case, the process is a solution to the following problem: How do we stop getting all those spam/virus emails? I think in this case the solution is obvious: identify them, and filter them out. In fact, the problem itself states this obvious solution; i.e., the solution itself is a restatement of the problem. Moreover, the problem was invented and well-known long before this patent was filed. If a patent covers this general concept, then it should be invalidated. However, if a patent covers a specific process for identifying and filtering spam, which itself is not obvious, then it is probably a valid U.S. patent. A cursory look at the patent shows that it only covers the general concept (I admit I only skimmed the text of the patent) so it shouldn't be hard to invalidate, if you can afford the lawyers.
A friend of mine was born and raised in Africa, by white parents who were also born and raised in Afica. He has now moved to the US. Does that qualify him as African-American?
A friend of mine had gas because he ate some poison. So they took him to the hospital and pumped his stomach. Does that make him a gas pump?
I'd out myself, and be $10,000 richer.
What about noise and power comsumption? For me, these are the most important things for a computer that will be on 24/7.
Software issues aside, when are you going to spring for at least a 700MHz machine? 266MHz were old 5 years ago.
Dude, it's a PowerBook.
If Israel really wanted to nuke the Muslim countries, it would have done so already.
No. Israel awaits the perfect reason (i.e., excuse) to do so. If Israel uses a nuclear bomb, they risk losing the support of the U.S., which would be very dangerous for them. On the other hand, if Iran uses a nuclear bomb against Israel, Iran will suffer the same fate as Afghanistan. My opinion: Iran wants the bomb to discourage the U.S. from making a "preemptive" attack. That is, like most countries the U.S. fucks with, they want to be left alone. I think most people know by now that Israel isn't some innocent victim caught up in this mess. They seem to be as aggressive and callous as the U.S. in foreign relations.
So what in Fairfield is "decaying"? Anyway, that ploy he did with renting an apt in Bham is not new. He'll probably get away with it if it goes to court. The idea of getting an NFL team or an airline hub to raise a city's value is silly, though. Enjoy you 10% sales tax :) I live in Los Angeles now, but I was home for the holidays and people in my family were talking about that stuff.
The Shakespeare Festival doesn't just run Shakespeare plays. That's just the name of the theater. I remember seeing Cat on a Hot Tin Roof there when I was in high school. When I moved away from the South, I was disappointed by all the silly ignorant comments made by people who I would have otherwise respected. The wonderful thing is that if I moved back I would have an easy time finding jobs in my field because most of the ignorant non-Southerners wouldn't consider living there. So now when I hear stupid comments, I ignore them. I just think about how clean and pure things will be when I move back.
You should bite the bullet and upgrade your hardware to an Athlon X2 or Core 2 Duo that does the virtualization juju. Run KVM on a recent kernel and you can run almost any free operating system flawlessly. If you want to run Windows in VMWare, then, that's your problem. It might work in KVM, but who cares?
But, you have to admit, suspend to RAM is a useful feature which is just a bitch to get working on Linux nowadays. Admittedly, I had suspend to RAM working flawlessly on Mandrake back in 2000 with APM, which doesn't exist anymore, sadly.
Because Intel and Microsoft may be selling their version at a loss, to eliminate the "competition". If successful, once the XO laptop disappears, so does the cheap Intel/MS laptop.
Go ahead. Don't use base 10 for measuring RAM sizes, use base 2, I really don't care. Just don't go calling it a Gigabyte, because it isn't.
No. You can't just wipe away decades of common usage because you don't like it. And no, NIST doesn't get to do it either, even if they think they have the authority. This "gibibyte" nonsense hasn't caught on because it isn't needed, and even worse, the name sounds pretty lame.
The Matrix. This botnet might not be man-made. It might turn out that all these own3d computers have created a collective intelligence.
He probably suffers from lead poisoning, that's all. No need to trample on the disabled.
So it's o.k. to be heavy-handed with peons but not executives?
Man, you guys have a serious mistrust of South American governments. And even worse, blind faith in the good will of multinational corporations. Remember, you're supposed to drink the RED Kool-aid, NOT the BLUE Kool-aid.
Actually, greylisting seems to be a magic bullet for I, an individual, since all the other methods don't work nearly as well (possibly because I'm using older stabler versions of e.g. spamassassin on Debian). As an added bonus, the only record of the transactions are in the logs-- not in my spam maildir, so grepping for blocked emails is A LOT faster.
Is Brazil trying to frighten away foreign investment?
What the hell is the point of investments where the gov't is cheated out of hundreds of millions of dollars? Wouldn't it be kinda stupid for a gov't to encourage this? Or maybe you mean the Halliburton kind of "investment". You must be drunk with the corporate master koolaid to even assume that this bust isn't at all legit.
Is it possible to configure ssh to do only public key auth on port 22, and password auth on another port (on the same server)?
It's unclear that HOV accomplishes anything at all, except making the commute faster for an exceptionally small minority of commuters at great expense to everyone.
You speak as if there is a class of people incapable of riding in a car pool. It's not like granting privileges to the rich or some other minority group, where it's (almost) impossible to change your status. With little effort, almost anyone here in L.A. could carpool-- there are a zillion programs providing more incentives than just a carpool lane. The carpool lane is a benefit to those who put forth the trivial effort to drive with someone else. Is this all that hard, really? Man, you guys are such whiners.
Last time I tried it, it was just fine. But I was in the library. Where were you? Outside the range>
Even worse, he actually things his "going out of business sale" price of $7 is a good deal for his crappy inventory. I wonder if he'll be shocked when nobody buys.