Grandparent post is talking about incentive for the State of Oregon to encourage fuel efficiency.
It's like cigarette taxes - they discourage smoking, but they also raise revenue, and state governments get 'hooked' on the money, to the extent that truly discouraging smoking gets problematic, in a budgetary sense.
That's one way to guarantee a dubious activity will remain permitted for a long time. For example, in Washington State, both timber sales and the state Lotto send money directly to the education budget. That way, if you're against aggressive logging or state-sponsored gambling, you can be painted as against children.
If I had one thing to change, it would be the fact that the power book has both a "return" and "enter" key. As a developer, I could really use another control key to make my emacs life easier.
He took digital photographs of the new motherboard and case (and his workshop surrounding it) and sent them to a rumors site. He also posted a PDF with specs.
A little work with the background of the photos, the IP address of the forum poster, and the list of people with access to the models probably led Apple straight to him.
Astonishingly, the Wall Street Journal, in a recent editorial titled "The Non-Taxpaying Class", argued in favor of shifting more tax burden to the poor.
Choice quotes:
Consider what happens to those in the lowest bracket. Say a person earns $12,000. After subtracting the personal exemption, the standard deduction and assuming no tax credits, then applying the 10% rate of the lowest bracket, the person ends up paying a little less than 4% of income in taxes. It ain't peanuts, but not enough to get his or her blood boiling with tax rage.
and later...
Who are these lucky duckies?... Workers who pay little or no taxes can hardly be expected to care about tax relief for everybody else.
In other words, we should tax the poor more, because otherwise they won't hate the government enough to help rich people lower their own tax rates.
When it comes to medical issues, or even sociological ones, I'd trust well-done studies and statistics more than a couple of geeks' anecdotal advice. (how alliterative!)
I constantly find that intuitive expectations are subverted by experience, and that personal experience is contradicted by broad evidence.
Actually, I should amend that last statement to say, not that I personally, in my research experience, but instead, that broadly speaking, upon evaluating evidence from a wide range of issues and studies...:) mithras
As far as I know, the standard explanation is that Verne was referring to how far the submarine travelled, whilst "under the Sea", rather than being at a depth of 20,000 leagues.
The majority of automobile accidents were "caused" by cars that were legally bought as well. Should we get rid of automobiles too?
Well, maybe we shouldn't get rid of cars, or guns.
But we do regulate cars. You need to have a title to own one. You need a license to operate one. That license is granted only after you take an exam verifying your knowledge of the applicable laws, and your skill in operating it safely. That license can be taken away from you if you fail a periodic check of your ability to operate it safely and responsibly.
I agree with you - we should treat guns like we do cars. Unfortunately, the NRA opposes such reasonable measures when applied to guns.
Well... Everything in nature is from a pattern.... Hurricanes are on what? 90 year pattern? ice storms is what an 11 year pattern along with solar activity?
Oh my god, you're right.
Thousands of people with PhDs, who have spent the past decade or more studying climate change, have just slapped their collective forehead. They forgot about the natural pattern!
Billions of dollars, millions of hours of research, consultation, theory, and measurements - are now down the drain.
Thank you, lwolenczak. I personally know several atmospheric scientists who plan to immediately implement a research program based on your insights.
There are so many ways to evade the law in this area, and, ultimately, while we're fighting the "War on Terror" nobody is going to commit any real enforcement resoruces to chasing spammers.
I'm having a fantasy of George W. Bush leading an international "coalition of the willing" against the Axis of Evil: thundering that "you're with us, or you're with the spammers"; encouraging UN Spam Inspectors to enter Kryziafkigasistan; demanding that spammers give up their servers, "or we will de-server you!"; intoning that we will "smoke 'em out of their caves"; and, of course, declaring infamous spammers "wanted, dead or alive."
Sigh.
Too bad he comes from an oil family, instead of an internet service provider family, eh?
(admittedly, for non-commercial NPR, and he does a great show that skewers the media -- including NPR -- for their biases and kowtowing to sponsors, but still...)
We then worked with the Linux vendors via the vendorsec
mailing list to ensure they were all aware of the problem
and could issue updates at the same time we announced. Once
we'd tested the release, we pushed the button and released...
What about Apple? Do you work directly with them? I would wager that the millions of Mac OS X-equipped Macs sold each year are rapidly making Apple the #1 distributor of Samba...
I tried something similar, but had problems exiting cleanly. For some reason, even SSHing in and killing the WindowServer wouldn't drop back from the 'blue screen' to the console. Killing the tty eventually worked, kicking back to the loginwindow.
Also, I could only get this to work as root, but not as a normal user...
Slashdot Mirror
It's getting old, Didion.
Thanks. I've been hoping to find an online copy of that essay for quite awhile. It's really fantastic.
But I doubt they're actually keeping your driver's license on file, or making a photocopy, or anything like that.
Probably you just flash your ID, and a bored guard looks at it, and waves you on in. Meantime, your jacket full of jellybean-explosives...
Did anyone get a mirror of this guy's photos?
Grandparent post is talking about incentive for the State of Oregon to encourage fuel efficiency.
It's like cigarette taxes - they discourage smoking, but they also raise revenue, and state governments get 'hooked' on the money, to the extent that truly discouraging smoking gets problematic, in a budgetary sense.
That's one way to guarantee a dubious activity will remain permitted for a long time. For example, in Washington State, both timber sales and the state Lotto send money directly to the education budget. That way, if you're against aggressive logging or state-sponsored gambling, you can be painted as against children.
If I had one thing to change, it would be the fact that the power book has both a "return" and "enter" key. As a developer, I could really use another control key to make my emacs life easier.
You should try uControl. Does just what you want.
That's not a hack, that's sheer idiocy. Drop stuff and it breaks. Whupty-fucking-doo, man.
The article notes that such a plan would require Congressional and regulatory approval.
So with this on our radar, privacy advocates and reasonable-minded citizens can practice good ol' democracy, and stop this thing in its tracks.
It's worked before (c.f. Clipper Chip), and can work again.
It's pretty open-and-shut.
He took digital photographs of the new motherboard and case (and his workshop surrounding it) and sent them to a rumors site. He also posted a PDF with specs.
A little work with the background of the photos, the IP address of the forum poster, and the list of people with access to the models probably led Apple straight to him.
Yeah, but Utah is like 99.9998% white people.
After living in New York City and southern California, being around all white people makes me feel uncomfortable.
And yes, I'm white.
is for someone to hurry up and port some spyware to the Mac, so this product will have something useful to do.
Choice quotes:
and later...
In other words, we should tax the poor more, because otherwise they won't hate the government enough to help rich people lower their own tax rates.
I hope you find that as astonishing as I did.
According to this page, it would cost $1000 for Windows 2000 Server, plus $800 for 20 client licenses ($40 per client).
The CrossOver page lists a price of $1,195 for the server software, plus $1,185 for a 25-client license.
Is it just me, or does that not seem like enormous savings with CrossOver? What did I miss?
My advice? Go back to the books.
:) mithras
When it comes to medical issues, or even sociological ones, I'd trust well-done studies and statistics more than a couple of geeks' anecdotal advice. (how alliterative!)
I constantly find that intuitive expectations are subverted by experience, and that personal experience is contradicted by broad evidence.
Actually, I should amend that last statement to say, not that I personally, in my research experience, but instead, that broadly speaking, upon evaluating evidence from a wide range of issues and studies...
As far as I know, the standard explanation is that Verne was referring to how far the submarine travelled, whilst "under the Sea", rather than being at a depth of 20,000 leagues.
But we do regulate cars. You need to have a title to own one. You need a license to operate one. That license is granted only after you take an exam verifying your knowledge of the applicable laws, and your skill in operating it safely. That license can be taken away from you if you fail a periodic check of your ability to operate it safely and responsibly.
I agree with you - we should treat guns like we do cars. Unfortunately, the NRA opposes such reasonable measures when applied to guns.
Oh my god, you're right.
Thousands of people with PhDs, who have spent the past decade or more studying climate change, have just slapped their collective forehead. They forgot about the natural pattern!
Billions of dollars, millions of hours of research, consultation, theory, and measurements - are now down the drain.
Thank you, lwolenczak. I personally know several atmospheric scientists who plan to immediately implement a research program based on your insights.
What gives is my wallet, to the tune of $400.
Man, I've heard of the five-year plan, and even the six-year plan, but the 70-year plan is pretty ridiculous.
Maybe you should just take some classes at your local community college for a while!
I'm having a fantasy of George W. Bush leading an international "coalition of the willing" against the Axis of Evil: thundering that "you're with us, or you're with the spammers"; encouraging UN Spam Inspectors to enter Kryziafkigasistan; demanding that spammers give up their servers, "or we will de-server you!"; intoning that we will "smoke 'em out of their caves"; and, of course, declaring infamous spammers "wanted, dead or alive."
Sigh.
Too bad he comes from an oil family, instead of an internet service provider family, eh?
Well, maybe Bob doesn't mind, since Bob is also a radio personality himself.
(admittedly, for non-commercial NPR, and he does a great show that skewers the media -- including NPR -- for their biases and kowtowing to sponsors, but still...)
one *must* admit that Windows 3.1 is a very, very bad operating system.
can type in the article from the 'paper paper', since that will probably be faster than waiting for this server to recover?
What about Apple? Do you work directly with them? I would wager that the millions of Mac OS X-equipped Macs sold each year are rapidly making Apple the #1 distributor of Samba...
Can you post this script?
I tried something similar, but had problems exiting cleanly. For some reason, even SSHing in and killing the WindowServer wouldn't drop back from the 'blue screen' to the console. Killing the tty eventually worked, kicking back to the loginwindow.
Also, I could only get this to work as root, but not as a normal user...
Anyhow I'd love to see what your script is!