Why is Bush being blamed for backing out of Kyoto... Clinton was the president when he signed the treaty. He knew full well it would never pass muster in the Senate - so never asked for it to be voted on...
All Bush did was react to the reality of the situation... if the treaty can not pass Senate muster - it will never be ratified, so he removed the US from the Kyoto protocol because it was a treaty that would never be ratified.
Not puzzle me this - is it the president who faces the reality that is to blame, or the president who went for photo-op foreign policy and never did the hard work to get the treaty ratified that is to blame ?
Oh, and buy the way... It was Senators Kerry and Edwards that could have gotten the treaty ratified with their position as 2% of the US senate. Maybe they could have spent some political capital if they are such good environmentalists... Did they ? Who knows, either way it wasn't effective - they wouldn't even get a vote scheduled so that their records can be determined.
Actually to be honest, I am much more scared of the rights that Gore/Kerry/Dean want to take away.
With the right to bear arms, I can defend my other freedoms, with the right to my money - I can pay for the freedoms that are most important to me. I would actually back Bush to protect my freedoms long before I would back Kerry/Dean
Head's up. You helped cause that lack of an appealing choice by not being a member of a party that most closely aligns with your ideals.
I am a member of a party that most closely aligns with my ideals. And frankly, they aren't putting tweedle-dee, or tweedle-dum on the ballot. Why would I want to perpetuate the evils that go on in government by continuing to vote for a skull and bones man. I'd rather vote for someone that isn't going to take my rights away
So when you are faced with a choice between Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum, you expect me to choose the lesser of two evils ?
Frankly, I'd rather that both parties wise up and take notice of an ever increasing minority vote that is willing to vote for an good candidate that truely reflects the will of the people of the USA.
I still honestly don't see a difference in policies between voting for Gore or Bush in 2000, I see very little difference in voting records of Bush and Kerry. About the only difference is how they spin their very similar records.
So given a lack of choices between the two primary parties, my choice is to either not vote (giving the power to who ever happens to win) or voting my concious (and hope that enough other people are willing to buy into this rather than the old "wasted vote" mentality).
Why must everyone vote for the winner ?
PS. Pop quiz, who had a larger percentage of the popular vote, Bill Clinton in either 92, or 96 or Bush in 2000 ?
I love it... Creates jobs, no decrease in the quality of life, proven technologies... That I would like to see. If it creates jobs, that implies that the costs are higher (to pay for all of those new workers right - they aren't free) therefor lowering my quality of life (energy costs go up, free cash flow goes down - I know, money doesn't buy happiness, but it sure can rent it)
That said, as the population increases, you will have to increase efficiency at least as quickly as the population grows, just to keep in balance. So yes, new sources of energy will have to be created, pick your poison, nuclear, coal, solar, wind, geothermal, hydro... each has costs and benefits. Depends on what you want to optimise for.
For that matter, one of the easiest ways of reducing the need for electricity would be to simply build plants close to where the electricity is being used (exact oposite of NIMBY) so that the electrical losses over distance were a lot lower. I think it is crazy that electricity in California comes from, Northern Oregon, Canada, Mexico, and Texas. Why not just build a more efficient plant in San Fransisco (and San Diego for that matter) that will meet the needs of the cities, reducing transmission losses. Heck - reduce transmission losses in the US, and we could probably meet our Kyoto commitments right there (but who would want those coal plants in the city rather than out in the middle of no where, in another state)
Is it enforceable - is your right to free speech as American citizens not inalienable?
For the government - yes... But any private party in the united states can tell any other private party in the US to shut up. In otherwords - you have no rights to go running around my house yelling poetry at the top of your lungs in my house, I can tell you to shutup and leave. This is one of the biggest misunderstandings of the freedom of speech - it is protecting you from the government for saying what you believe, not from other individuals.
(7.) The secretly negotiated debate contract bars Kerry and Bush from any and all other debates for the entire campaign.
"Under what I call the Debate Suppression and Monopolization Clause of the contract, it is illegal for the candidates to debate each other anywhere else during the campaign," Rice says. "We need a new criminal law for reckless endangerment of democracy."
Ok, there is a contract that says you will not do something. This doesn't make doing it Illegal (as in congress passes a law, and an executive signs it) subject to criminal penalties - it is a negotiated term in a contract, that if/when you violate it you are subject to civil penalties specified in the contract.
I'll agree with the spirit of what is being said in this article - but the author really needs to tone down and report on facts as they are, not as they want them to be
Wow - where have you been. OpenBSD has been shipping a "release song" for as long as I can remember... Many of them are funny, most of them cover rather serious topics - none of them are works of art that should ever be played in public.
Look no farther than TopSpin for high bandwidth, low latency interconnect.
Of course if cost is an object - I guess you are stuck on simple GbE, rather than a faster interconnect. You should look at 270 for high density interconnect... Throw in some 360's for outside connectivity and you are set.
Lets see 3 computers, no problems. 2 of them are on wireless networks, one roams all over the place - no problems.
Well lets see - It does want to pop up and say I don't have a firewall, because my firewall hasn't integrated w/ SP2's monitoring solution yet - no biggie. I am not a fan of their pop-up solution, my daughter ran into some problems because a website she plays games on pops the games up in a popup window (older popup blocker you would just click twice and that was a "yes I really meant to open that please") so I had to configure the blocker to allow popups from the game site.
oh and the OS is likely an internal OS derivitive of Linux
Now tell me... why would a dual core CPU need any more OS support than a dual processor motherboard. There is no more CPU state that has to be saved off. About the only thing I could see is a tweak to the scheduler to expand CPU affinity to both cores in the package if there were a shared cache (which my understanding of the Intel offering is there isn't)
Loud and clear I would assume - Lets see AMD has a 50% share of the retail (Desktop) market and a 16% share of the overall market. Guess where Intel is selling ?
I would like to put a huge 2.4Ghz blaster outside your residence so you can not use any of your 2.4Ghz equipment...
It is as simple as that - Ever been to a LARGE conference (1000+) that offers wireless ? Every time I have gone - it takes about 2 days for the networking people to shutdown all of the stupid idiots that have open wireless on their laptops so the network can stabalize.
So what you are asking for is for the University to not be allowed to run a stable wireless network.
This is one of the worst problems with the use of an unregulated band - anyone can push a signal there, making interference the norm. Of course if it was regulated, none of us could use the spectrum, and it would be useless.
I think a happy medium is for the University to provide a wireless network, and then ask its users to not build a second network inside of it - to reduce interference. After all, how would you like it if I started broadcasting an encrypted wireless network in such a way that you couldn't use your wireless connection - or it always interfered and you could never get a clean signal ?
So now instead of isolating the effect of voter fraud to a small number of electorial votes - you propogate it across the whole nation. Lets assume I live in a mythical windy city, where a certain party controls the electorial process so tightly that votes can be created, destroyed, and even the dead get to vote for a party.
Now instead of only affecting the electorial votes of a mythical state called Lincoln, it can effect the whole country. So rather than only create enough votes for the party in favor to win the state, I just create enough votes to throw the election for the whole country.
That said - there are allegations that this has happened in the past in two states so that a certain young senator could be elected president. The only difference is that the big bad nominee for the other party decided to wait his turn to come, rather than going to the supreme court to try to get the election overturned
I am completely befuddled as to how this article could be posted by MIT, wild inaccuracies (several weeks for a 40 bit key ??? how about a few hours for a 56 bit key) and their description of P vs NP is horrible
Note I made absolutely no comment on how this made it into Slashdot - it is poorly written, inflamitory, and accurate enough that a novice in the field will take it as accurate. Perfect for Slashdot
I still have a Tee-shirt that says the internet will end in 10^h^h 9 Days - Repent
People have been predicting the end of the internet as we know it for 20 years now (remember the cutover date 20 1/2 years ago ?) and somehow it still hasn't happened.
I haven't run across something that couldn't be done with what is publicly available from Microsoft. For that matter - as you look at the longhorn networking stack, it is engineered to allow network offload traffic.
Theoretically - you could plug a software implementation into this, and completely replace the Microsoft networking stack (it is actually engineered for TOE engines)
What I am betting is that HP research tried a few prototypes, but couldn't figure out how to make money with it, so convieniently shelved it. Lots of work gets cancelled that way - not Microsofts fault.
Their networking stack is fully documented (much better than Linux thank you very much) - All that is needed is a simple filter driver to catch packets going in/out - apply a policy to them, and poof - off you go.
Anyone can go out and get a hold of the Windows DDK DDK Order Page
It contains all the docs that you should need to do pretty much anything you need in the windows kernel. Now lets see you do the same thing with Linux - heck there isn't even a decent kernel debugger, unless you go with a third party and pray it gets maintained
Well an interesting problem is how the tax code (US) promotes outsourcing.
Lets say I make a dollar selling a product outside the United States, I'll pay the local tax on it and make a profit. If I move the dollar into the US, I will pay a 30+% corprate tax rate on it, allowing me to pay my local working $0.70 cents.
If I take that same dollar, and pay an Indian in India - I get to use the whole dollar to pay that employee (the indian government doesn't tax foriegn profits). Now if the Indian is willing to work for 1/2 the money as the US programer (1/4 if they are in California) I get a HUGE savings.
What does this mean - well for one, watch how international companies move parts of productivity overseas, so they can get goods taxed at the lowest tax rate. Watch how they will keep those profits overseas by moving R&D into overseas operations. Watch the great sucking sound that is our tax base leaving the US to foriegn soil - making individual taxes rise to make up for lost profits from corperations.
Ok, I made a lifestyle adjustment a LONG time ago to not use an alarm clock (yes I have one, I use it when I absolutely HAVE to be somewhere at a given time - but not daily). I find I fall into two catagories
1) Not able to sleep - too much stress
2) Not able to wake up - nothing interesting to do
My solution is when I get into one of these two states for longer than a few days is to go find another job. If my job isn't interesting enough to get me out of bed in the morning, lets go find something interesting to do - and if my job is so stressful that I can't sleep at night, time to find something less stressful
They are also fairly accurate. My M-4 can hit 40 out of 40 at about 20 meters. While not as impressive as paintball accuracy, it gives the game a more in-your-face feel. My psg-1 can hit from 100 meters fairly well...depending on wind.
With an M-16 I can hit 2/3 targets at 300M, and 4/5 targets at 250M, and frankly I didn't miss under 250. I wouldn't be bragging at hitting things at 20 meters, that isn't even a challenge (the 1/2 height "close" targets on the range are at 50M)
But you did say you wanted "in your face", yeah - but I prefer a kill from afar
All computer repair these days is at the component level anyway. Would be nice if the UPS guy that used to pickup your laptop for service, could just bring you the part - bring out a screwdriver and replace it.
I imagine they actually bring them into a regional repair depot so they don't have to train their whole fleet of drivers
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All Bush did was react to the reality of the situation... if the treaty can not pass Senate muster - it will never be ratified, so he removed the US from the Kyoto protocol because it was a treaty that would never be ratified.
Not puzzle me this - is it the president who faces the reality that is to blame, or the president who went for photo-op foreign policy and never did the hard work to get the treaty ratified that is to blame ?
Oh, and buy the way... It was Senators Kerry and Edwards that could have gotten the treaty ratified with their position as 2% of the US senate. Maybe they could have spent some political capital if they are such good environmentalists... Did they ? Who knows, either way it wasn't effective - they wouldn't even get a vote scheduled so that their records can be determined.
With the right to bear arms, I can defend my other freedoms, with the right to my money - I can pay for the freedoms that are most important to me. I would actually back Bush to protect my freedoms long before I would back Kerry/Dean
I am a member of a party that most closely aligns with my ideals. And frankly, they aren't putting tweedle-dee, or tweedle-dum on the ballot. Why would I want to perpetuate the evils that go on in government by continuing to vote for a skull and bones man. I'd rather vote for someone that isn't going to take my rights away
Frankly, I'd rather that both parties wise up and take notice of an ever increasing minority vote that is willing to vote for an good candidate that truely reflects the will of the people of the USA.
I still honestly don't see a difference in policies between voting for Gore or Bush in 2000, I see very little difference in voting records of Bush and Kerry. About the only difference is how they spin their very similar records.
So given a lack of choices between the two primary parties, my choice is to either not vote (giving the power to who ever happens to win) or voting my concious (and hope that enough other people are willing to buy into this rather than the old "wasted vote" mentality).
Why must everyone vote for the winner ?
PS. Pop quiz, who had a larger percentage of the popular vote, Bill Clinton in either 92, or 96 or Bush in 2000 ?
That said, as the population increases, you will have to increase efficiency at least as quickly as the population grows, just to keep in balance. So yes, new sources of energy will have to be created, pick your poison, nuclear, coal, solar, wind, geothermal, hydro... each has costs and benefits. Depends on what you want to optimise for.
For that matter, one of the easiest ways of reducing the need for electricity would be to simply build plants close to where the electricity is being used (exact oposite of NIMBY) so that the electrical losses over distance were a lot lower. I think it is crazy that electricity in California comes from, Northern Oregon, Canada, Mexico, and Texas. Why not just build a more efficient plant in San Fransisco (and San Diego for that matter) that will meet the needs of the cities, reducing transmission losses. Heck - reduce transmission losses in the US, and we could probably meet our Kyoto commitments right there (but who would want those coal plants in the city rather than out in the middle of no where, in another state)
For the government - yes... But any private party in the united states can tell any other private party in the US to shut up. In otherwords - you have no rights to go running around my house yelling poetry at the top of your lungs in my house, I can tell you to shutup and leave. This is one of the biggest misunderstandings of the freedom of speech - it is protecting you from the government for saying what you believe, not from other individuals.
Ok, there is a contract that says you will not do something. This doesn't make doing it Illegal (as in congress passes a law, and an executive signs it) subject to criminal penalties - it is a negotiated term in a contract, that if/when you violate it you are subject to civil penalties specified in the contract.
I'll agree with the spirit of what is being said in this article - but the author really needs to tone down and report on facts as they are, not as they want them to be
Wow - where have you been. OpenBSD has been shipping a "release song" for as long as I can remember... Many of them are funny, most of them cover rather serious topics - none of them are works of art that should ever be played in public.
What are you a Office luser ?
Of course if cost is an object - I guess you are stuck on simple GbE, rather than a faster interconnect. You should look at 270 for high density interconnect... Throw in some 360's for outside connectivity and you are set.
Well lets see - It does want to pop up and say I don't have a firewall, because my firewall hasn't integrated w/ SP2's monitoring solution yet - no biggie. I am not a fan of their pop-up solution, my daughter ran into some problems because a website she plays games on pops the games up in a popup window (older popup blocker you would just click twice and that was a "yes I really meant to open that please") so I had to configure the blocker to allow popups from the game site.
Haven't run across any other problems yet
Now tell me... why would a dual core CPU need any more OS support than a dual processor motherboard. There is no more CPU state that has to be saved off. About the only thing I could see is a tweak to the scheduler to expand CPU affinity to both cores in the package if there were a shared cache (which my understanding of the Intel offering is there isn't)
Loud and clear I would assume - Lets see AMD has a 50% share of the retail (Desktop) market and a 16% share of the overall market. Guess where Intel is selling ?
It is as simple as that - Ever been to a LARGE conference (1000+) that offers wireless ? Every time I have gone - it takes about 2 days for the networking people to shutdown all of the stupid idiots that have open wireless on their laptops so the network can stabalize.
So what you are asking for is for the University to not be allowed to run a stable wireless network.
This is one of the worst problems with the use of an unregulated band - anyone can push a signal there, making interference the norm. Of course if it was regulated, none of us could use the spectrum, and it would be useless.
I think a happy medium is for the University to provide a wireless network, and then ask its users to not build a second network inside of it - to reduce interference. After all, how would you like it if I started broadcasting an encrypted wireless network in such a way that you couldn't use your wireless connection - or it always interfered and you could never get a clean signal ?
Now instead of only affecting the electorial votes of a mythical state called Lincoln, it can effect the whole country. So rather than only create enough votes for the party in favor to win the state, I just create enough votes to throw the election for the whole country.
That said - there are allegations that this has happened in the past in two states so that a certain young senator could be elected president. The only difference is that the big bad nominee for the other party decided to wait his turn to come, rather than going to the supreme court to try to get the election overturned
Note I made absolutely no comment on how this made it into Slashdot - it is poorly written, inflamitory, and accurate enough that a novice in the field will take it as accurate. Perfect for Slashdot
People have been predicting the end of the internet as we know it for 20 years now (remember the cutover date 20 1/2 years ago ?) and somehow it still hasn't happened.
Somehow I don't think it ever will
Theoretically - you could plug a software implementation into this, and completely replace the Microsoft networking stack (it is actually engineered for TOE engines)
What I am betting is that HP research tried a few prototypes, but couldn't figure out how to make money with it, so convieniently shelved it. Lots of work gets cancelled that way - not Microsofts fault.
Their networking stack is fully documented (much better than Linux thank you very much) - All that is needed is a simple filter driver to catch packets going in/out - apply a policy to them, and poof - off you go.
Anyone can go out and get a hold of the Windows DDK DDK Order Page
It contains all the docs that you should need to do pretty much anything you need in the windows kernel. Now lets see you do the same thing with Linux - heck there isn't even a decent kernel debugger, unless you go with a third party and pray it gets maintained
Lets say I make a dollar selling a product outside the United States, I'll pay the local tax on it and make a profit. If I move the dollar into the US, I will pay a 30+% corprate tax rate on it, allowing me to pay my local working $0.70 cents.
If I take that same dollar, and pay an Indian in India - I get to use the whole dollar to pay that employee (the indian government doesn't tax foriegn profits). Now if the Indian is willing to work for 1/2 the money as the US programer (1/4 if they are in California) I get a HUGE savings.
What does this mean - well for one, watch how international companies move parts of productivity overseas, so they can get goods taxed at the lowest tax rate. Watch how they will keep those profits overseas by moving R&D into overseas operations. Watch the great sucking sound that is our tax base leaving the US to foriegn soil - making individual taxes rise to make up for lost profits from corperations.
1) Not able to sleep - too much stress
2) Not able to wake up - nothing interesting to do
My solution is when I get into one of these two states for longer than a few days is to go find another job. If my job isn't interesting enough to get me out of bed in the morning, lets go find something interesting to do - and if my job is so stressful that I can't sleep at night, time to find something less stressful
Step 7. ???
Step 8. Profit
With an M-16 I can hit 2/3 targets at 300M, and 4/5 targets at 250M, and frankly I didn't miss under 250. I wouldn't be bragging at hitting things at 20 meters, that isn't even a challenge (the 1/2 height "close" targets on the range are at 50M)
But you did say you wanted "in your face", yeah - but I prefer a kill from afar
I've had this on my SunRay at work for years - take my card out, move somewhere else, stick card in... I'm back to where I left off.
That said, I still keep some big honking boxen around that I use as compute servers so I can get real work done - but there is nothing new here
Nothing new to see here - move on
I imagine they actually bring them into a regional repair depot so they don't have to train their whole fleet of drivers