So, you are saying the same rules that apply to information dissemination in the rest of society apply in this part of society as well?
shocking, just shocking. I thought everything having to do with computers was new and different and could only be explained by highly trained futurists.
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wow, i really need some coffee this morning, that was totally uncalled for!
It seems like this is happening with health insurance now too. About every fourth bill gets rejected because i'm not in the company's database anymore, although i was the day before and was the day after (and when I called to complain). The procedures are all covered (routine visits and/or pre-approved tests) and are paid for after i call. But i must call. This happens often to my parents, sister and girlfriend as well. And all of us are with different insurance companies so it's not just one company's scam.
no one can ever explain why i was dropped from the database, my employer always pays the insurance company on time (i've checked). I've never died or cancelled the coverage, i'm just randomly dropped, for a day, when they get a bill. sometimes.
So you are saying that as long as people remain ignorant of the problem, thereby preventing anyone from coming up with a repair solution, they don't need to try to learn more about the problem?
Gates said that 5 percent of Windows machines crash, on average, twice daily. Put another way, this means that 10 percent of Windows machines crash every day, or any given machine will crash about three times a month.
Dvorak's quote makes no sense at all. And he is not talking about total number of reboots a day. He is talking about frequency of crashes.
What percent of machines crash once a day? Gates did not say. It could be the case that 20% crash once a day and 5% crash twice a day. It could be the case that 90% crash once a day and 5% crash twice a day. The number of machines that crash twice a day gives no information on how many machines crash once a day.
It was Arthur C Clarke that said in a forward to one of his books (Cradle, or some other book with Gentry Lee, i think) that there are only three original ideas in SciFi, and one was his.
Good question. It makes a pretty picture but i would hate to have to use it to find a bug or make a design decision.
which brings up a good question: Are there GOOD software packages out there that provide a nice usable display of source code dependencies (call graphs, include dependencies, etc)? I've been using Source Navigator recently and it seems to work ok for well structured java code but less well for c and c++ (of course poorly structured code is a whole different problem and I dont expect it to display well)
You don't understand. The term secret court refers to a court that operates unofficially and whose existence is unknown to anyone not directly involved. Different use of the word "secret".
Point taken, but we then need to come up with an adjective for a court that does not publish any findings and is generally obscured from public view.
Why is this a secret court? because, according to the washingtonpost article, this is the first time in ~20 years that the court has release public documents.
"The documents released yesterday also provide a rare glimpse into the workings of the almost entirely secret FISA court, composed of a rotating panel of federal judges from around the United States and, until yesterday, had never jointly approved the release of one of its opinions. Ironically, the Justice Department itself had opposed the release."
that sounds rather secret to me.
And its true that this court could not operate without secrecy during the hearing, but could, as in this instance, reveal its rulings after the fact. That way the public could know, a bit late, what the FBI etc is up to. This way citizens can see for themselves if this is just a rubber stamp or if it is truly fair or if it is too conservative with issuing warrants.
How many of us have written letters to the newspaper to inform people of these issues? How many have called/emailed news stations to suggest a story? How many of us have written to CNN/[your favorite newspaper] to point out the factual errors in their stories?
How many of use just like to sit back and whine and bask in our own sense of superiority as we, meek little us, defend all of freedom by ourselves?
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Look! I'm linking to a blog in a discussion about blogs!
Isn't that ironic?
No, in fact it is not.
So, you are saying the same rules that apply to information dissemination in the rest of society apply in this part of society as well?
shocking, just shocking. I thought everything having to do with computers was new and different and could only be explained by highly trained futurists.
</sarcasm>
wow, i really need some coffee this morning, that was totally uncalled for!
My camera, a Kodak DX-3500, works fine with gphoto and FreeBSD. I did have to update libusb because of this bug which may affect other USB cameras.
no one can ever explain why i was dropped from the database, my employer always pays the insurance company on time (i've checked). I've never died or cancelled the coverage, i'm just randomly dropped, for a day, when they get a bill. sometimes.
Isn't it obvious?
This monument is their warning to the future to never dig here.
Did i get that correct?
What percent of machines crash once a day? Gates did not say. It could be the case that 20% crash once a day and 5% crash twice a day. It could be the case that 90% crash once a day and 5% crash twice a day. The number of machines that crash twice a day gives no information on how many machines crash once a day.
insanity!
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The WashPost had an article about the database Safire speaks of.
It was Arthur C Clarke that said in a forward to one of his books (Cradle, or some other book with Gentry Lee, i think) that there are only three original ideas in SciFi, and one was his.
which brings up a good question: Are there GOOD software packages out there that provide a nice usable display of source code dependencies (call graphs, include dependencies, etc)? I've been using Source Navigator recently and it seems to work ok for well structured java code but less well for c and c++ (of course poorly structured code is a whole different problem and I dont expect it to display well)
Point taken, but we then need to come up with an adjective for a court that does not publish any findings and is generally obscured from public view.
that sounds rather secret to me.
And its true that this court could not operate without secrecy during the hearing, but could, as in this instance, reveal its rulings after the fact. That way the public could know, a bit late, what the FBI etc is up to. This way citizens can see for themselves if this is just a rubber stamp or if it is truly fair or if it is too conservative with issuing warrants.
How many of us have written letters to the newspaper to inform people of these issues? How many have called/emailed news stations to suggest a story? How many of us have written to CNN/[your favorite newspaper] to point out the factual errors in their stories? How many of use just like to sit back and whine and bask in our own sense of superiority as we, meek little us, defend all of freedom by ourselves?