I worked in IT for criminal justice a few years back. We ran a system that intigrated data from various agencies to provide this type of data to officers on the street, lawyers, etc. It was not what it appeared to be. Result sets often were very different depending on when you ran them, as various legacy systems would time out, etc. To be short, it would most often provide incomplete data. And we had a major DB vendor (not Oracle or MS, but MAJOR) taking credit for our awesome system.
The simple fact is that criminal justice IT is not up to date AT ALL becuase you have so many different agencies running REALLY OLD technology, and none of them really want to work together. Who funds the project when you are not only working with various agencies, but different branches of government?!
I am sure it will just get struck down by the courts anyway as an invasion of privacy. When it does, there will be precedent to strike down any similar laws in States that follow the idiotic lead of NM.
That sounds right. After reading "The Elegant Universe" 3 times, and watching the PBS show, I am still not smart enough to get the whole super string theory. However, I believe the gravity thing is correct. This would also be a means for us to communicate with anyone in a parallel universe (attached to another super string, correct?).
I think a better way to DDOS (and more legal) would be to make sure to include the SCO web site in every news story, and all Slashdoters should know to follow it everytime.
If MS really want to have a study like this and show no bias on the part of the researchers, they should have done it anonymously. I imagine they could have set up a corporation in any number of states that do not require you to disclose who owns the corporation.
They fund the corp, and the corp funds the study group. No funds are known to be coming from MS. Hire a couple of industry luminaries or professor types that are perceived to have independent feelings towards the whole MS vs. Linux stuff. Have them run the short-lived corporation only to get the study done. They would be the only ones to know the money is coming from MS.
Now that I think about it, this also sounds like a sneaky way to provide a study that you could still try to bias, even though in appearance it would look unbiased.
If IDSL is not available (my previous suggestion), you might check on getting a simple T1 to your house. Another friend of mine in rural Iowa ordered a T1, then bought some Cisco Aironet equipment w/ the big antennae. He provides high-speed "no tech support" Internet service to a few of his closest neighbors to help reduce the cost of the T1. At $20/neighbor, he managed to pay off his equipment and is now making enough money to upgrade equipment.
If I recall, he bought a regular desktop PC and put Linux on it. I think he put a proxy server on it to help cut down on the traffic. I know he got a domain and put up SMTP/POP to provide email for his neighbors. I don't think he is doing any port 80 traffic.
A good friend of mine runs an ISP in east Texas (the boonies). As you might expect, there is no DSL service out there. However, a couple of years ago during the net boom telcos were heavily encouraged by the feds to "certify" their lines as being "high speed", which then was 128k. Most telcos "certified" entire service areas as meeting this criteria, whether or not it was technically possible at the time.
This has created a great legal loophole to force your telco to provide conditioned line to your house, IDSL style. My friend encourages his customers to threaten the telco in question with the the PUC (Public Utilities Commission) if they don't provide 128k quality lines to their home. He even has a paper he hands out instructing how to do it. He has installed at least 100 customers doing this.
Hey, 128k (actually 144k with DSL or ISDN) IDSL isn't big-bad broadband. But is is a hellavalot faster than 53.3k.
I have a friend who works in the field. Space travel hoses electronics bad. Triple redundancy and over-engineering is the name of the game. This is nice to hear. I would imagine that something went wrong intransit or on-landing, but they can keep going,
I don't understand what these "Man" pages are? Is this some sort or web pages of porn for women, is it gay? Is this trendy? Should I "like" or "groove" on "Man" pages?
Exploring space does more than just provide direct benefits now. It provides a purpose and a goal for mankind. It provides limitless benefits for our future.
So many social programs fail. Look at the legacy of Kennedy. Failed program after failed program. Welfare became a crutch to generation after generation. We spend money trying to repair humanity, when government does not, and never will have, the ability to do so. Is this where you would send the money?
How would you spend these "trillions"? How can we change dictatorships and Islamic states that enslave their citizens because of evil or religious beliefs?! How do we feed countries that over and over again cause their own starvation through horrible governments and dictatorships!
Would you make the same mistakes we have made over and over and over again?
I BELIEVE that NASA can benefit all of mankind. Now the question to you is, how would YOU use this money to benefit mankind?
So you would have us stop all research that does not immediately benefit all of mankind, now? This seems a *bit* short-sighted. We cannot fix all of our world's problems at once. Perhaps we should continue to explore in the hopes that someday we will.
Whatever you may say Bush's motivation is or what you think of Bush, this is a great announcement! I don't care if we are in a deficit. I don't care how much this costs. We MUST boldly go where no one has gone before, for the rest of the time our species exists.
How many technologies we are using toady are based (somewhere in their roots) on the Apollo missions or shuttle missions? What a great advancement for mankind!
Seriously, LEDs are the future of lighting. Their lifespan is already much better than conventional incandescent. They are also approaching the efficiency of florescent lights. I think we will see wide-scale adoption in the next few years. I bet a popular solution will be LED "bulbs" that screw into regular light bulb sockets. That way the general public won't have to do a complete fork-lift upgrade of all their lamps, etc.
As far as tech companies go, Google has a lot of respect coming from me. It is my hope that the smart guys at the helm tell SCO to stick it where the sun doesn't shine (in their closed code and lies).
I wonder about the timing of this, with big IPO talk surrounding Google.
Scenario:
SCO believes Google will settle on some sort of licensing to avoid a hassle before the upcoming IPO. If Google to sign a contract, SCO has a VERY BIG customer which they could point to in the court of public (or corporate) opinion.
Lets face it, SCO really doesn't have a legal leg to stand on. There strategy may very well be to scare companies into licensing (obvious). Upper level management is not very IT savvy. If Google signs a deal with SCO, you might see many more corporate sheep following Google's lead.
I don't believe Google will do this. They know it is BS like the rest of us.
That is cool, but it looks like there is a bug in the software from the screenshots (1, 2, 3). It would appear the bug turns the text in the application windows into some foreign language.
Ask the families of some B1 bombers pilots who died in Montana how smart it is when a computer takes over control above the wishes of the pilot. In their case, the f@#king computer decided it was smart to go down into the ground when the pilots wanted to go up. Real nice. I know the stoty personally, and it proves a point.
Sorry, we are not anywhere close to the programming needed to do this. No way. Sounds a warning alarm, but DO NOT yank the control away from a pilot!
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I worked in IT for criminal justice a few years back. We ran a system that intigrated data from various agencies to provide this type of data to officers on the street, lawyers, etc. It was not what it appeared to be. Result sets often were very different depending on when you ran them, as various legacy systems would time out, etc. To be short, it would most often provide incomplete data. And we had a major DB vendor (not Oracle or MS, but MAJOR) taking credit for our awesome system.
The simple fact is that criminal justice IT is not up to date AT ALL becuase you have so many different agencies running REALLY OLD technology, and none of them really want to work together. Who funds the project when you are not only working with various agencies, but different branches of government?!
I don't buy the propoganda.
I am sure it will just get struck down by the courts anyway as an invasion of privacy. When it does, there will be precedent to strike down any similar laws in States that follow the idiotic lead of NM.
Yes, but you would have to buy plaid, striped, and other multi-color socks so that the system could sort them out by each sock's "specie".
Is this a new Sun distro of Linux?
So, its not official then, right?
That sounds right. After reading "The Elegant Universe" 3 times, and watching the PBS show, I am still not smart enough to get the whole super string theory. However, I believe the gravity thing is correct. This would also be a means for us to communicate with anyone in a parallel universe (attached to another super string, correct?).
I think a better way to DDOS (and more legal) would be to make sure to include the SCO web site in every news story, and all Slashdoters should know to follow it everytime.
If MS really want to have a study like this and show no bias on the part of the researchers, they should have done it anonymously. I imagine they could have set up a corporation in any number of states that do not require you to disclose who owns the corporation.
They fund the corp, and the corp funds the study group. No funds are known to be coming from MS. Hire a couple of industry luminaries or professor types that are perceived to have independent feelings towards the whole MS vs. Linux stuff. Have them run the short-lived corporation only to get the study done. They would be the only ones to know the money is coming from MS.
Now that I think about it, this also sounds like a sneaky way to provide a study that you could still try to bias, even though in appearance it would look unbiased.
That is about $22,000. I would want my money back, too.
If I recall, he bought a regular desktop PC and put Linux on it. I think he put a proxy server on it to help cut down on the traffic. I know he got a domain and put up SMTP/POP to provide email for his neighbors. I don't think he is doing any port 80 traffic.
$100/month sounds like a rip off. it usually runs about $50, plus ISP. You should be paying around $100 total.
Sorry, meant "DSL over ISDN"
Hey, 128k (actually 144k with DSL or ISDN) IDSL isn't big-bad broadband. But is is a hellavalot faster than 53.3k.
I have a friend who works in the field. Space travel hoses electronics bad. Triple redundancy and over-engineering is the name of the game. This is nice to hear. I would imagine that something went wrong intransit or on-landing, but they can keep going,
I don't understand what these "Man" pages are? Is this some sort or web pages of porn for women, is it gay? Is this trendy? Should I "like" or "groove" on "Man" pages?
Exploring space does more than just provide direct benefits now. It provides a purpose and a goal for mankind. It provides limitless benefits for our future.
So many social programs fail. Look at the legacy of Kennedy. Failed program after failed program. Welfare became a crutch to generation after generation. We spend money trying to repair humanity, when government does not, and never will have, the ability to do so. Is this where you would send the money?
How would you spend these "trillions"? How can we change dictatorships and Islamic states that enslave their citizens because of evil or religious beliefs?! How do we feed countries that over and over again cause their own starvation through horrible governments and dictatorships!
Would you make the same mistakes we have made over and over and over again?
I BELIEVE that NASA can benefit all of mankind. Now the question to you is, how would YOU use this money to benefit mankind?
So you would have us stop all research that does not immediately benefit all of mankind, now? This seems a *bit* short-sighted. We cannot fix all of our world's problems at once. Perhaps we should continue to explore in the hopes that someday we will.
I guess you did not get it when I tried to abstract my comments from politics.
Whatever you may say Bush's motivation is or what you think of Bush, this is a great announcement! I don't care if we are in a deficit. I don't care how much this costs. We MUST boldly go where no one has gone before, for the rest of the time our species exists.
How many technologies we are using toady are based (somewhere in their roots) on the Apollo missions or shuttle missions? What a great advancement for mankind!
... they develop more colors for LED.
Seriously, LEDs are the future of lighting. Their lifespan is already much better than conventional incandescent. They are also approaching the efficiency of florescent lights. I think we will see wide-scale adoption in the next few years. I bet a popular solution will be LED "bulbs" that screw into regular light bulb sockets. That way the general public won't have to do a complete fork-lift upgrade of all their lamps, etc.
As far as tech companies go, Google has a lot of respect coming from me. It is my hope that the smart guys at the helm tell SCO to stick it where the sun doesn't shine (in their closed code and lies).
I wonder about the timing of this, with big IPO talk surrounding Google. Scenario: SCO believes Google will settle on some sort of licensing to avoid a hassle before the upcoming IPO. If Google to sign a contract, SCO has a VERY BIG customer which they could point to in the court of public (or corporate) opinion. Lets face it, SCO really doesn't have a legal leg to stand on. There strategy may very well be to scare companies into licensing (obvious). Upper level management is not very IT savvy. If Google signs a deal with SCO, you might see many more corporate sheep following Google's lead. I don't believe Google will do this. They know it is BS like the rest of us.
That is cool, but it looks like there is a bug in the software from the screenshots (1, 2, 3). It would appear the bug turns the text in the application windows into some foreign language.
Ask the families of some B1 bombers pilots who died in Montana how smart it is when a computer takes over control above the wishes of the pilot. In their case, the f@#king computer decided it was smart to go down into the ground when the pilots wanted to go up. Real nice. I know the stoty personally, and it proves a point.
Sorry, we are not anywhere close to the programming needed to do this. No way. Sounds a warning alarm, but DO NOT yank the control away from a pilot!
Big Brother keeps those technologies under wraps. Jeeze, do I have to explain everything to you guys!