you also won't have proper training and experience to deal with accidents that can become disasters
A friend of mine worked in a university chemistry lab supporting a bunch of PhD candidates and post docs. One day the head of the department walked in just as someone in the back of the room dropped a container with an..."oh shit....oh SHIT!". The department head turned on his heel and left. When my friend later asked the head if he needed anything and asked why he left he said simply..."There was double Oh Shit". As it turns out the grad student had dropped a jar of highly carcinogenic material with a boiling point of 72 degrees F. He was carrying it from a refrigerator to the hood.
The moral of the story is there is nasty stuff out there and it needs to be well managed. I would not want my neighbor dumping nasty byproducts of his hobby into his septic system that would leech into my groundwater.
From the article: "such as a call from overseas followed by a flurry of domestic calls"
How to become a suspected terrorist:
1) Niece in Pakistan...has first son
2)Niece calls aunt in Dearborn for 5 minutes using neighbor's cell phone
3)Proud aunt calls all of her friends and extended family in US/Canada
4)FBI agent from Detroit digs out auntie's file....adds entry
5) Auntie's Son at U of M attends Arab Heritage meeting in student union...add that to his file
6)Cross reference Auntie and Son's files and calling patterns
7)Find both called cousin in Italy
8) Cousin in Italy was previously arrested at anti-WTO meeting (what greater enemy to the USA than that!?)
9)Scoop up cousin and fly him of to Egypt as a "person of interest"
10) Question cousin about his ties to Al Quaeda...specifically his second cousin's neighbor
11) Despite 48 sleepless hours of interrogation, a sound beating, exposure to cold, being stripped and humiliated this "terrorist" claims to have never been to Pakistan and has never met his second cousin's neighbor
12) Fly cousin to Afganistan and leave him to rot for 6 months
13) Drop him off in the countryside of Bulgaria
How much of this is inconceivable? Does it make you feel safer that our government does this sort of thing? If safer, proud? Do we catch more bad guys than we create?
It's about time incompetence, nepotism and graft were protected.
Speaking truth to power can't be tolerated. It would be chaos! Corporations would need to buy new congressmen every election instead of an upfront fee followed by the far less expensive incumbant maintence contracts. With an undue amount of integrity exhibited by our elected officials some bright ambitious kid might say "I want to be President some day." Imagine the outrage if a President were dedicated to public service rather than the candidate groomed by the corporate directors of America. For the future of our children stop the madness...stop responsive democracy now!
Leave decision making to "The Deciders". If you want to vote...watch American Idol...if you want to think...stick to Sudoku.
This is a classic example of an abuse of a law with unintended consequences. The loophole was for the excavator that towed a backhoe with a medium duty truck, or the electrical contractor with a small cherry picker for putting a drop on a pole. It was not intended to cover the lawyer that never hauled anything bigger than his fat ass and a briefcase...
It IS obscene that someone feels they need a Hummer. The funny thing I heard with GM dropping the H1 was due to increased popularity of impotence remedies. Why compensate when you can have the real thing.
When it comes to corporate welfare the government has historically been very generous. Subsidies for niche agriculture producers, NASA research projects with aerospace companies, DOE researce....
Bring the prosecutions and watch them fall one by one.
This reminds me of the following exchange of Sir Thomas More from "A Man For All Seasons" set in the time of King Henry VIII.
Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you - where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast - man's laws, not God's - and if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
The inward looking secretive nature of this administration pre-dates 9/11. I recall a complaint from a Republican congressman from the summer of 2001 that this administration was the slowest at responding to information since he took office in the 1960's. Most enquiries went unanswered.
If you are going to town with the Niagara chip I hope your application is appropriate for it. If you need to chew up threads...great. If you have a single threaded application you will have 2X the response time of a Sunfire v440 which is hardly a FAST machine (think medium duty truck). If you are doing any floating point processing the FPU is shared across the 32 processors (8 cores / 4 threads) the application sees.
Fact is, your local police department can do the same as what is being claimed here.
With a WARRANT as part of a criminal investigation.
I personnally feel "safe" in my annonimity, but am still concerned that our country is letting our liberty erode so quickly. Our country is already responsible for whisking away a German citizen, beating the crap out of him in some thrid world hole and dropping him off in the middle of nowhere Albania. Is blowing the whistle on this kind of mistake treason? If you think so it will be a shame if your lost cell phone is found by a group of young college students with family in Pakistan, Iraq and Indonesia...The black helicopter boys would have you flown off to "Kaz-beat-you-ek-like-pinata-stan" before their wife has dinner on the table.
If vigorous defense of my freedom is the act of a liberal count me as one! When Bush and Rove talk of a complete victory in the war on terror ask these questions:
Where is the war? Iraq? Iran? Anywhere with sand? Anywhere with Muslim extremists? Anywhere there has been a politically or ideologically motivated act of violence? Everywhere?
Who is the enemy? Al Queda? What if we kill all of them and another group pops up? What if they all unite under the Al Queda banner, but stop their violent ways and have a big picnic in Libya?
Most importantly: when is the war over? Complete victory is a a BIG sounding thing. We beat the Germans to the last bunker, victory was obvious. We have a DMZ in Korea for 50 years...a cold standoff with no violence...is that a victory? If we have the top 95% of the named bad guys in some cell to rot is that complete victory? If we have all the bad guys plus another 10,000 odds and ends that happened to be farming, driving by, next door, went to the same school...is that complete victory?
(meanwhile, ln -sf/dev/hd(letter of your cdrom)/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 would fix the problem)
I am a Unix literate Linux user and this is just the sort of thing that makes me reluctant to recommend Linux to my mother-in-law. When the 5 different GUI UI's into sharing storage or a printer don't work and I am cracking open a Samba book and doing command line hacking to get things working I have more of a sense of frustration (that I wasted my time) than accompishment when it works.
So, yes, you're right: The hotplugging is somewhat annoyingly screwy. Me, I do something about it - mostly patch and submit changes (not that they often get used), and write filler scripts to handle integrating the basics.
Great that you are pitching in! But until Linux is legitimate multi-media experience for a non-compute literate user it will be for the enthusiast. Frankly, when I use a computer outside of work I don't want to have to act like an admin debugging and trouble shooting. On the hardware side there are those that go to Dell/Apple/... and get a complete system and those who buy case, power supply, components... and build a box. Linux just plain tends toward the later mindset.
For my wife this has been complete confusion. I bought her a Mac recently (our first two computers were Macs - Mac+ and PPC). She downloaded Firefox and the business with the dmg files is hardly intuitive. As a nieve user she sees a Firfox icon and wants to click on it. Sometimes it is the DMG and she gets confused why shee needs to click on two different things.
When she shops on Amazon the music sampling features don't play...it directs to downloads of various players...nothing seems to work. Yet she goes to other web sites and audio plays fine.
I have intentionally let her flail since she wanted to learn how to be self sufficient.
I have had similar frustrations with Linux. If you follow all of the helpful recommendations from people you end up with a complete soup of overlapping applications that it is hard to know what is going on. A wealth of options is great, but good lord it would be intimidating for a novice.
I think there is a degree of fatalism here. There are databases all over the place stuffed with personal data. It has become an amorphous blob of big-brotherness that the average individual accepts as a cost of modern living.
Where this hits for me though is when the same fascist above the law crew whisks someone off to Afganistan, beats the crap out of him for 6 months, realizes they made a clerical error and then dumps them off in the middle of nowhere half a continent from home (searching for this article, most references are in foreign press).
Suppose DieBOLD's ATM machines had a backdoor key sequence that would enable me to get the whole stack of 20's. How long would it take them to slam that door shut?
IF (this is a BIG if) we give the administration a pass on ignoring the law while in a state of war. And IF (another BIG assumption) the "war on terror" is a war....
When is it over? If Bin Laden dies of complications of kidney failure? If in one day we capture the top 100 bad guys and stuff them in Git-Mo? 1000? 10,000?
We go a month without a casuality anywhere in the world by a terrorist action? Two months? A year? The end of GW's term? Jeb Bush's 8 year stint?
I am sure this won't slow many people down. I may be old fashioned but I still do double takes when I see people apperently taling to themselves with a blue tooth in their ear. Now they will be sending e-mails and keying e-mails with a virtual keyboard, watching Fox news and playing solitair...all while they are supposed to be paying attention to the people right in front of them.
The next time you see a group of kids notice that no group is ever without a cell phone in action. I have seen people text message while sitting next to each, elbow them, get frustrated, and then show them the screen of their own phone.
We have become too connected. The line has been crossed.
If I was to conduct a relativity experiment by running in circles versus standing still with two stopwatches it would hardly be evidence for or against the theory whatever my conclusion. One is on very dubious grounds accepting a theory based on the existance of a flawed experiment that disputes the theory.
It would work great, you would just need a nuclear reactor or other suitable energy source to heat the surface of the carefully machined track that the hover craft would run on.
The headline of this article is a bit misleading. Within the article there is no claim of getting anything for nothing...For example I have a device in my basement that makes water run uphill. I have heard some people call it a sump pump. Using a portion of the waste heat from a CPU to drive its own cooling cycle is appealling...but to not have it start to run until local temperatures are already boiling water seems a bit limited.
This is truly one technology that would require first hand experience to have much comment. If I am receiving some input that registers in the vision centers of my brain how does that interact with my regular vision. Over 38 years of moving about I have managed to coordinate my senses and motor skills. If I had a rear view of some kind in addition to my regular binocular vision how what would that experience be like? Would it make me dizzy?
Back in college we conducted group interviews for resident assisstants with some scenario (e.g. choose from these 12 candidates the 6 that will start a colony on Mars) the interviewees worked through to problem for 15 minutes or so while being observed (no two-way glass...just sitting to the side quietly.
Some things you can identify in a group behavior interview:
someone that is a complete tool
someone that is a know it all
someone that will quietly site in in their corner while the complete tool from above shoves them aside
someone who is a complete kiss ass
While it takes a variety of skills, experience and personality to build a strong team, it is surprising how easy someone that could survive a 1:1 interview will give themselves away in this setting.
I big part of our problem in dealing with the Chinese effectively is illustrated by the Chinese President's current visit. Just read the quotes from the two presidents and tell me the US isn't at a decided disadvantage in our leader's intellectual capacity.
Take a wild guess at which president said:
"He's used the word 'win-win,' and that's a very important concept when it comes to economics that are mutually beneficial."
It is truly amazing when you consider which one has been speaking his native language. God Bless America...cause if He doesn't we're even more screwed than I thought!
Slashdot Mirror
A friend of mine worked in a university chemistry lab supporting a bunch of PhD candidates and post docs. One day the head of the department walked in just as someone in the back of the room dropped a container with an..."oh shit....oh SHIT!". The department head turned on his heel and left. When my friend later asked the head if he needed anything and asked why he left he said simply..."There was double Oh Shit". As it turns out the grad student had dropped a jar of highly carcinogenic material with a boiling point of 72 degrees F. He was carrying it from a refrigerator to the hood.
The moral of the story is there is nasty stuff out there and it needs to be well managed. I would not want my neighbor dumping nasty byproducts of his hobby into his septic system that would leech into my groundwater.
How to become a suspected terrorist:
1) Niece in Pakistan...has first son
2)Niece calls aunt in Dearborn for 5 minutes using neighbor's cell phone
3)Proud aunt calls all of her friends and extended family in US/Canada
4)FBI agent from Detroit digs out auntie's file....adds entry
5) Auntie's Son at U of M attends Arab Heritage meeting in student union...add that to his file
6)Cross reference Auntie and Son's files and calling patterns
7)Find both called cousin in Italy
8) Cousin in Italy was previously arrested at anti-WTO meeting (what greater enemy to the USA than that!?)
9)Scoop up cousin and fly him of to Egypt as a "person of interest"
10) Question cousin about his ties to Al Quaeda...specifically his second cousin's neighbor
11) Despite 48 sleepless hours of interrogation, a sound beating, exposure to cold, being stripped and humiliated this "terrorist" claims to have never been to Pakistan and has never met his second cousin's neighbor
12) Fly cousin to Afganistan and leave him to rot for 6 months
13) Drop him off in the countryside of Bulgaria
How much of this is inconceivable? Does it make you feel safer that our government does this sort of thing? If safer, proud? Do we catch more bad guys than we create?
Speaking truth to power can't be tolerated. It would be chaos! Corporations would need to buy new congressmen every election instead of an upfront fee followed by the far less expensive incumbant maintence contracts. With an undue amount of integrity exhibited by our elected officials some bright ambitious kid might say "I want to be President some day." Imagine the outrage if a President were dedicated to public service rather than the candidate groomed by the corporate directors of America. For the future of our children stop the madness...stop responsive democracy now!
Leave decision making to "The Deciders". If you want to vote...watch American Idol...if you want to think...stick to Sudoku.
I have seen bad Fortran code written in a wide variety of languages. Strive to move beyond the syntax.
I am quite certain that the solar system is in FACT banana shaped.
It IS obscene that someone feels they need a Hummer. The funny thing I heard with GM dropping the H1 was due to increased popularity of impotence remedies. Why compensate when you can have the real thing.
When it comes to corporate welfare the government has historically been very generous. Subsidies for niche agriculture producers, NASA research projects with aerospace companies, DOE researce....
Surprised,
Sound
Concerned,
Admit
Nothing
This reminds me of the following exchange of Sir Thomas More from "A Man For All Seasons" set in the time of King Henry VIII.
Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!
More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you - where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast - man's laws, not God's - and if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
The inward looking secretive nature of this administration pre-dates 9/11. I recall a complaint from a Republican congressman from the summer of 2001 that this administration was the slowest at responding to information since he took office in the 1960's. Most enquiries went unanswered.
If you are going to town with the Niagara chip I hope your application is appropriate for it. If you need to chew up threads...great. If you have a single threaded application you will have 2X the response time of a Sunfire v440 which is hardly a FAST machine (think medium duty truck). If you are doing any floating point processing the FPU is shared across the 32 processors (8 cores / 4 threads) the application sees.
With a WARRANT as part of a criminal investigation.
I personnally feel "safe" in my annonimity, but am still concerned that our country is letting our liberty erode so quickly. Our country is already responsible for whisking away a German citizen, beating the crap out of him in some thrid world hole and dropping him off in the middle of nowhere Albania. Is blowing the whistle on this kind of mistake treason? If you think so it will be a shame if your lost cell phone is found by a group of young college students with family in Pakistan, Iraq and Indonesia...The black helicopter boys would have you flown off to "Kaz-beat-you-ek-like-pinata-stan" before their wife has dinner on the table.
Please take a look at the constitution sometime! Particularly Amendments 1,4,5,6 and 8.
If vigorous defense of my freedom is the act of a liberal count me as one! When Bush and Rove talk of a complete victory in the war on terror ask these questions:
I am a Unix literate Linux user and this is just the sort of thing that makes me reluctant to recommend Linux to my mother-in-law. When the 5 different GUI UI's into sharing storage or a printer don't work and I am cracking open a Samba book and doing command line hacking to get things working I have more of a sense of frustration (that I wasted my time) than accompishment when it works. So, yes, you're right: The hotplugging is somewhat annoyingly screwy. Me, I do something about it - mostly patch and submit changes (not that they often get used), and write filler scripts to handle integrating the basics.
Great that you are pitching in! But until Linux is legitimate multi-media experience for a non-compute literate user it will be for the enthusiast. Frankly, when I use a computer outside of work I don't want to have to act like an admin debugging and trouble shooting. On the hardware side there are those that go to Dell/Apple/... and get a complete system and those who buy case, power supply, components... and build a box. Linux just plain tends toward the later mindset.
When she shops on Amazon the music sampling features don't play...it directs to downloads of various players...nothing seems to work. Yet she goes to other web sites and audio plays fine.
I have intentionally let her flail since she wanted to learn how to be self sufficient.
I have had similar frustrations with Linux. If you follow all of the helpful recommendations from people you end up with a complete soup of overlapping applications that it is hard to know what is going on. A wealth of options is great, but good lord it would be intimidating for a novice.
Where this hits for me though is when the same fascist above the law crew whisks someone off to Afganistan, beats the crap out of him for 6 months, realizes they made a clerical error and then dumps them off in the middle of nowhere half a continent from home (searching for this article, most references are in foreign press).
Suppose DieBOLD's ATM machines had a backdoor key sequence that would enable me to get the whole stack of 20's. How long would it take them to slam that door shut?
This has the be the shittyest idea I have ever heard!
IF (this is a BIG if) we give the administration a pass on ignoring the law while in a state of war. And IF (another BIG assumption) the "war on terror" is a war....
When is it over? If Bin Laden dies of complications of kidney failure? If in one day we capture the top 100 bad guys and stuff them in Git-Mo? 1000? 10,000?
We go a month without a casuality anywhere in the world by a terrorist action? Two months? A year? The end of GW's term? Jeb Bush's 8 year stint?
I am sure this won't slow many people down. I may be old fashioned but I still do double takes when I see people apperently taling to themselves with a blue tooth in their ear. Now they will be sending e-mails and keying e-mails with a virtual keyboard, watching Fox news and playing solitair...all while they are supposed to be paying attention to the people right in front of them.
The next time you see a group of kids notice that no group is ever without a cell phone in action. I have seen people text message while sitting next to each, elbow them, get frustrated, and then show them the screen of their own phone.
We have become too connected. The line has been crossed.
Brown Note Urban Legend
If I was to conduct a relativity experiment by running in circles versus standing still with two stopwatches it would hardly be evidence for or against the theory whatever my conclusion. One is on very dubious grounds accepting a theory based on the existance of a flawed experiment that disputes the theory.
Although discredited the military has done some experimentation with the brown note.
The headline of this article is a bit misleading. Within the article there is no claim of getting anything for nothing...For example I have a device in my basement that makes water run uphill. I have heard some people call it a sump pump. Using a portion of the waste heat from a CPU to drive its own cooling cycle is appealling...but to not have it start to run until local temperatures are already boiling water seems a bit limited.
This is truly one technology that would require first hand experience to have much comment. If I am receiving some input that registers in the vision centers of my brain how does that interact with my regular vision. Over 38 years of moving about I have managed to coordinate my senses and motor skills. If I had a rear view of some kind in addition to my regular binocular vision how what would that experience be like? Would it make me dizzy?
While it takes a variety of skills, experience and personality to build a strong team, it is surprising how easy someone that could survive a 1:1 interview will give themselves away in this setting.
Take a wild guess at which president said:
"He's used the word 'win-win,' and that's a very important concept when it comes to economics that are mutually beneficial."
It is truly amazing when you consider which one has been speaking his native language. God Bless America...cause if He doesn't we're even more screwed than I thought!