That kind of resistance only works against a relatively civilized opponent, who will not go to any lengths in their fight. The Soviet Union or Nazi Germany would just have slaughtered Gandhi and his followers until none were left, and be done with the issue.
How does the analogy map to Linux vs M$? I don't honestly know. Maybe it just doesn't. But I don't see M$ shying away from doing anything that might help them win the fight.
It sounds good in theory, but once you use you realize that pages have far more links than you thought. A typical page can have 20 or 50 links, only 2-4 of which you would be interested in prefetching. Just look around on this page for a good example. It ends up furiously downloading pages, movies etc for as much as your connection can bear, and it's not good for anyone.
The Mozilla approach could actually work. If any designers ever decide to use it.
It's not 10-15% of over all performance, but 10-15% performance when data is written to disk. For other operations, the journaling file system doesn't do anything, and doesn't influence performance.
Or at least that's what logic would seem to dictate. I don't actually know anything about journaling file systems:)
the UK and the US only went to war with Germany when their allies were attacked,
The UK went to war when it's allies were attacked, but the US did not until two years later when it was attacked by Japan in Pearl Harbor. Germany immediately declared war on the US.
So technically the US made no decision to go to war. Japan and Germany made that decision for them.
Not that I get how is credit card hacking the same as the holocaust, but one vaguely related point is that most of the killed jews were not German. so had they stayed within their borders, it would have been a much smaller holocaust.
I think we have 10 comments already on how you don't need this much to keep up with your tv watching. Which is of course true.
But what makes this compelling to me is as a permanent storage medium. You can store entire seasons of many of your favorite shows. Every Seinfeld, Buffy, +20 other shows episode available within a few seconds, in perfect broadcast quality for ever.
By law, you are only responsible for those in front of you.
Mostly out of curiosity, what's the rule for people sking side by side? From the rule you quote, it seem like nobody is responsible.
I'm curious since I tore a knee ligament when being hit by a snowboarder from the side. Or possibly I hit him from the side, it's a little hard to tell.
What is Habeas Corpus??
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I'm not american and have no idea more than that it's some legal term.
In the civil war the US government was at war with half it's population, so it's not surprising that it would curtail the right of said population. Today is a very different situation.
Current shopping human interaction is dehumanizing
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The creepiest human encounters I have in a typical day is with the checkout person in my big chain food store.
Maybe everyone don't know this, but they have scripted phrases that they are obliged to say to the customers. It's being checked that they follow the scripts, and if you stray too far you're fired. That feels much more dehumanizing to me than any machine. These people have been reduced to robots. And I'm forced to play along to an extent, which makes me a bit robotized as well.
Anarchy in the sense of "violent chaos/civil war" that is the meaning used in your articles is not seen as a good thing by any one except the occasional mercenary.
Anarchy in the sense of lack of a government is a different matter altogether. The brutal governemnt repression in Zimbabwe etc are examples of the exact opposite of that. Though actually present day Somalia is seen by many anarchists as a promising experiment
Many thoughtful articles about Somalia, Iceland and other interesing societies here: Anarchy without chaos.
This is mostly the anarcho-capitalist angle. Not sure where the Kropotkin people are on this.
Even if you avoid what's harmful, you can die of cancer.
But it makes the firewall illegal, no?
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It seems to me that the EULA means that you're not allowed to block out their requests. You'll have the FBI breaking down your door to uninstall your firewall if they really want to "upgrade" you.
Some people seem to forget that the real villain here is the US Government, who made DMCA into law.
HP is just using any legal means it has available to defend it's (percieved) interests. If they didn't do it, someone else would, over time. Or even if no one did, the mere threat that it is a possible legal recourse for a grumpy corporation is enough to put a chill on these things.
The existance of the DMCA is the real problem. So focus on that.
One reason US elections are a mess is that the government here, at least in theory, does not keep track of where people live. That's why they have to register to vote before each election. You have to tell the authorities for each election that you claim to live in the district and intend to vote, and they don't have many ways to check if that is true. Thus the dead can vote, and people can register to vote in several districs etc.
Another issue is that while in Sweden there are exactly three elections every voter can vote in every four years, there are dozens of election every year, at least here in California. With perhaps 100 times as many elections, it gets hard/expensive to apply the same rigourous standards as in Sweden, and (I assume) Germany.
The security reason was that the ballots had been left unattended, and there was no guarantee that they were not infected by anthrax. No really! That was the excuse given by the election department head, personally appointed by the mayor, of course.
Whatever San Francisco may have been in the past, it is now a highly corrupt conservative little city of hate. Though I kinda like it here...
Having worked in a few Swedish elections I feel pretty confident saying that there are very few, if any, errors.
Every vote is hand counted three times by independent teams. All the ballots are also available for inspection by any member of the public. I can't recall a single case of miscounting, though there probably are some.
In Sweden, the government keeps track of where you live. That may have its problems, but it also makes things like this work much safer and simpler. There is no voter registration phase, since they already know exactly who lives where and has a right to vote in which election. When you go to vote they have a printout of every voter in that district, and just check you off a list.
You probably have to ID, don't remember. The only form of fraud you hear of is how party representatives go through institutions for senile elderly and cajole them into signing absentee ballot paper work.
I could go on, but it gets boring. My point is that if you actually try, you can devise a near perfect system. That you haven't seen or heard of one probably tells us more about the US, than about the inherent problems of counting votes.
This only does part of what a real PVR does. Half the attraction of a Tivo is how you can pause and rewind live TV, which it is always recording 24/7. Also it searches the programming constantly to bring you your favorite shows where- and whenever it shows.
Not that there is anything wrong with a product that only does one thing, but people should understand what it is and is not.
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That kind of resistance only works against a relatively civilized opponent, who will not go to any lengths in their fight. The Soviet Union or Nazi Germany would just have slaughtered Gandhi and his followers until none were left, and be done with the issue.
How does the analogy map to Linux vs M$? I don't honestly know. Maybe it just doesn't. But I don't see M$ shying away from doing anything that might help them win the fight.
It sounds good in theory, but once you use you realize that pages have far more links than you thought. A typical page can have 20 or 50 links, only 2-4 of which you would be interested in prefetching. Just look around on this page for a good example. It ends up furiously downloading pages, movies etc for as much as your connection can bear, and it's not good for anyone.
The Mozilla approach could actually work. If any designers ever decide to use it.
It's not 10-15% of over all performance, but 10-15% performance when data is written to disk. For other operations, the journaling file system doesn't do anything, and doesn't influence performance.
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Or at least that's what logic would seem to dictate. I don't actually know anything about journaling file systems
How do I know which outsorced telemarketing company is making each call?
the UK and the US only went to war with Germany when their allies were attacked,
The UK went to war when it's allies were attacked, but the US did not until two years later when it was attacked by Japan in Pearl Harbor. Germany immediately declared war on the US.
So technically the US made no decision to go to war. Japan and Germany made that decision for them.
Not that I get how is credit card hacking the same as the holocaust, but one vaguely related point is that most of the killed jews were not German. so had they stayed within their borders, it would have been a much smaller holocaust.
What? I *said* it's a nitpick!
Darn, happened to moderate this "troll" by mistake. So I post to erase it.
I think we have 10 comments already on how you don't need this much to keep up with your tv watching. Which is of course true.
But what makes this compelling to me is as a permanent storage medium. You can store entire seasons of many of your favorite shows. Every Seinfeld, Buffy, +20 other shows episode available within a few seconds, in perfect broadcast quality for ever.
I'd pay for that!
By law, you are only responsible for those in front of you.
Mostly out of curiosity, what's the rule for people sking side by side? From the rule you quote, it seem like nobody is responsible.
I'm curious since I tore a knee ligament when being hit by a snowboarder from the side. Or possibly I hit him from the side, it's a little hard to tell.
I'm not american and have no idea more than that it's some legal term.
In the civil war the US government was at war with half it's population, so it's not surprising that it would curtail the right of said population. Today is a very different situation.
The creepiest human encounters I have in a typical day is with the checkout person in my big chain food store.
Maybe everyone don't know this, but they have scripted phrases that they are obliged to say to the customers. It's being checked that they follow the scripts, and if you stray too far you're fired. That feels much more dehumanizing to me than any machine. These people have been reduced to robots. And I'm forced to play along to an extent, which makes me a bit robotized as well.
Don't pawn it, sell it.
Is there a MacOS X port ?
Since it's supposed to be so easy to port from Linux to MacOS X, I assume that applies here too?
I'm a fairly happy iMovie and iDVD user, but I wouldn't mind some extra options and capabilities for free!
Anarchy in the sense of "violent chaos/civil war" that is the meaning used in your articles is not seen as a good thing by any one except the occasional mercenary.
Anarchy in the sense of lack of a government is a different matter altogether. The brutal governemnt repression in Zimbabwe etc are examples of the exact opposite of that. Though actually present day Somalia is seen by many anarchists as a promising experiment
Many thoughtful articles about Somalia, Iceland and other interesing societies here: Anarchy without chaos.
This is mostly the anarcho-capitalist angle. Not sure where the Kropotkin people are on this.
Even if you avoid what's harmful, you can die of cancer.
It seems to me that the EULA means that you're not allowed to block out their requests. You'll have the FBI breaking down your door to uninstall your firewall if they really want to "upgrade" you.
If only "Security Professional" can legally investigate security flaws, how does one become such a "Security Professional"?
It seems you have to start your first day at the job with absolutely no experience in the field.
I know, it's gonna be a licensed profession like doctors or lawyers, with its own lobby organization, barriers of entry and all the rest. Oh well...
A helicopter stands still by furiously blowing air downwards. This could easily blow the football off its direction.
I didn't say the law should be used to quash legitimate research, only that it will have that effect, as long as it's on the books.
Carly may or may not fire the VP. Either way it will have no effect whatsoever on the real problem, the DMCA.
Some people seem to forget that the real villain here is the US Government, who made DMCA into law.
HP is just using any legal means it has available to defend it's (percieved) interests. If they didn't do it, someone else would, over time. Or even if no one did, the mere threat that it is a possible legal recourse for a grumpy corporation is enough to put a chill on these things.
The existance of the DMCA is the real problem. So focus on that.
This reminds of reposession, where the repo man can legaly break into peoples home to take back a car or TV they're not keeping up payments for.
I don't really have point other than to point out the similarities. Discuss.
MEN are the NME.
One reason US elections are a mess is that the government here, at least in theory, does not keep track of where people live. That's why they have to register to vote before each election. You have to tell the authorities for each election that you claim to live in the district and intend to vote, and they don't have many ways to check if that is true. Thus the dead can vote, and people can register to vote in several districs etc.
Another issue is that while in Sweden there are exactly three elections every voter can vote in every four years, there are dozens of election every year, at least here in California. With perhaps 100 times as many elections, it gets hard/expensive to apply the same rigourous standards as in Sweden, and (I assume) Germany.
The security reason was that the ballots had been left unattended, and there was no guarantee that they were not infected by anthrax. No really! That was the excuse given by the election department head, personally appointed by the mayor, of course.
Whatever San Francisco may have been in the past, it is now a highly corrupt conservative little city of hate. Though I kinda like it here...
Having worked in a few Swedish elections I feel pretty confident saying that there are very few, if any, errors.
Every vote is hand counted three times by independent teams. All the ballots are also available for inspection by any member of the public. I can't recall a single case of miscounting, though there probably are some.
In Sweden, the government keeps track of where you live. That may have its problems, but it also makes things like this work much safer and simpler. There is no voter registration phase, since they already know exactly who lives where and has a right to vote in which election. When you go to vote they have a printout of every voter in that district, and just check you off a list.
You probably have to ID, don't remember.
The only form of fraud you hear of is how party representatives go through institutions for senile elderly and cajole them into signing absentee ballot paper work.
I could go on, but it gets boring. My point is that if you actually try, you can devise a near perfect system. That you haven't seen or heard of one probably tells us more about the US, than about the inherent problems of counting votes.
This only does part of what a real PVR does. Half the attraction of a Tivo is how you can pause and rewind live TV, which it is always recording 24/7. Also it searches the programming constantly to bring you your favorite shows where- and whenever it shows.
Not that there is anything wrong with a product that only does one thing, but people should understand what it is and is not.