Why does it have to emulate arm? I thought most Droid apps were developed for Google's JVM. I have not looked at the SDK at all but certainly for most apps I would think you could just build the byte code interpreter to an x86 target (I was written to portable right?).
Slap on a virtual frame buffer and some mouse pointer tracking to simulate the touch screen and you are done.
I guess some of the upper layers of the phone software stack would need to be altered to return sample data and status codes for the hardware that is not there as well. Other than that though just use the android stack as is?
Sure it would not be a true emulation but it should be adequate to develop most "apps" on I should think.
Its really fun to blame Regan for the deficits but, the explosive growth in the deficit trend started under Carter, the rate at which the deficit was increased actually decreased thought most of the Regan administration.
Its also true that Regan had a largely unwilling congress and he had to make major compromises with them, in terms of allowing social spending to get them to pass his own agenda items. Many of those program Regan was methodologically against add up to a large portion of that $4T.
At the end of the Regan in terms of public speaking was an ideologue, and he certain did have some core values which he would not compromise on, however in broader terms Regan's leadership style was compromising. He probably reached across the isle in real policy terms more than anyone who has come after him besides perhaps Clinton. The Bushes and Obama have been far more polar.
That might be how it looks abroad but here at home the reality is that the war in Afghanistan is the one thing congress probably can be counted on support appropriates for. Obama is giving up the effort because he has to get re-elected if he does not give his base something they won't turn out for him. The public is against the war at this point. The reality congress (which has a historically low approval rating) can duck most of the responsibility because they are numerous enough its hard for the laze to recall who voted for what but the president cannot.
Obama had to stop nation building because A) It does not work, and never has B) the elections are coming and as the Liberal Peace Prizing winning Democrat he has to be the anti war; not to win votes but rather no to lose them.
Afghanistan regrettably is not a big part of the debt crisis debate here, even though it ought to be given defense is between 1/4 and 1/3 of the budget.
That is just wrong something around 60% of the national debt is the property of domestic owners. China and Japan hold lots but its not correct to say most. In practical economic terms I am not sure the distinction matters but for the sake of our language China and Japan don't have most of the debt, they have a large amount of of the debt.
There is nothing stopping a public company from keeping multiple sets of books as well. Yes they have to follow GAAP rules when it comes to any information they make public but they can do revenue recognition however they like to produce their own financial statements for internal decision making.
Really with computer accounting packages its probably not even much work for anybody. I don't see what the big deal is unless the parent is correct and somebody knows they have real financial problems but the current accounting model conceals them.
The signature is record level though, so from Telestra's perspective filtering via MTIMing DNS can still work. They redirect your port 53 traffic to their DNS. Their DNS does the recursive look ups and returns correct results including the signatures from "real" DNS unless the domain you are querying is on the naughty list. If its on the naughty they give you an NXDOMIAN response, which they can't sign because the registrar would have to.
OK well in that case most DNS queries work just fine. I guess they can nolonger redirect you to a page with a wagging finger. Very little client software checks DNSSEC. Legacy software gets handled at the NSS layer on platforms which from what I have seen returns NXDOMAIN when the signatures are invalid. So your typical luser will just think they entered a name that does not exist. Essentially the filter will work fine.
What is really needed is something like DNSSEC to verify the integrity of the records and DNS over TLS, to a trusted name server. That way ISPs could not filter queries because they would nologer have be able to see what the query is or pretend to be the name server you specified. Probably can't even tell the traffic is DNS if a standard port like 443, is used.
What makes you think they don't just redirect any tcp/udp 53 traffic to the DNS server they want you to use? Are you verifying your DNS is really talking to the roots or your desired upstream server?
Ok, fair point about it not being TSA's agents that screened those guys. I forgot they were international flights. I did not say we should eliminate the TSA, I said we should go back to our former security procedure. Somebody still has to ask those questions, and still needs to stand there by the metal detector. That can be TSA, or private airport security. I suppose if I get to pick I will take private security but I don't care.
We only let flights into our air space from countries that have similar security procedures in place. Its mostly true that you get the treatment boarding a flight from Europe to the States as you do boarding a domestic flight, possibly a little less of pat down. If the enhanced security does not work there its unlikely it works better here.
TSA is proving to be a major political liability for the administration. So the fact that we have not heard anything means one of three things.
1. Like most people assume there is nothing. 2. As you point out there have been some major busts; and reporting of them is being held until nearer election time when it will do them more good. 3. The abuses we have heard about are going unanswered beyond, procedure was followed, because TSA is doing things far more abusive than we know but its yielded rusts, in terms of nabbing criminals/terrorists/whoever is on the presidents enemies list.
If the American people want airport security, the only way to do it right is through a government agency that takes a little bit from everybody to provide some expensive security to a small subgroup of people.
Except that it obviously is not working. There have been several breaches of security. The shoe bomber and the Christmas day bomb plots were NOT defeated by security. They failed because the explosives did not work. Proving if anything the higher hurdle crafting an effective portable explosive device; not defeating airport security.
I am not suggesting we should have no airport security but going back to someone asking if you have your bags in sight the whole time, checking ID, and going through a metal detector would be reasonable. We are not getting much in terms of safety for the steps we take beyond that; and that little if any added safety comes with a very high price tag socially and economically.
The only way everyone is going to truly safe from terrorists on planes/trains/buses is if all passengers spend the entire ride naked and handcuffed to their seats.
I don't buy it. You can still buy a Proliant server in a tower case for example. With that you can get an array of SAS disks, which will perform as well as anything you might strap to the thunderbolt cable, redundant power and no problems adding any other peripherals you might need, including a thunderbolt card down the road. Most of all its tidy in one box, that you can get for under $2k.
Or,
You could do with a Mini server and external storage. Sure it might perform as well for a little while but you have multiple boxes and separate failure prone power supplies. If you need any real storage capacity more than a couple TB or any real performance more than 3 drives or SSDs you are certain to pay more. Sounds like a mess to me. Find for the home market but I don't see an SMB using that. At least not the kind where people use more than just Google Docs, and the rest of the web. I am imagining SMB to mean a small company of maybe 8 to 20 people.
I have not read the "Song of Solomon" recently and I don't have it handy but If my recollection is at all correct its mostly euphemism. Quite titillating, yes if you have any experience with acts alluded to, but not exactly graphic if you don't. The depictions of violence on the other hand tend to be quite specific, and might even be characterized as technical.
My suspicions if it were translated as,
Oh the joy I felt shoving my throbbing penis into your swollen vagina repeatedly.
society would take a dimer view of letting children read Bibles.
Which is a fine argument and a legitimate response to the decisions. Saying we should not do something just because of tradition is different than saying I don't understand why we do then when the court has just told you its by tradition.
The Supreme Court has long taken the view that not only should it keep consistent in the technical sense, as to its interpretations but also in the character sense, at least until that character no longer reflects the general character of the public.
This is why geeks always see clever loop holes in the law being used by various service X, and then are always shocked when the judgement goes against them. The court expects when an individual is determining how to follow the law they will take into account its spirit, at least when its one where that can clearly be known.
Consider this, if someone will now creates a sexually explicit video game an try and sell it to minors, do not expect the court look favorably upon it. Its free speech when its killing hookers, its porn when you show their services being utilized. They court likely won't consider that a hypocritical position to take, even if you do.
Why does the Supreme Court treat violent video games differently? Its a double standard...blah blah They acknowledged that and said why in their ruling. They pointed out that not just in American history but in western society leading up to American, we have always done so. Our oldest fairy tails and even our Bible stories depict rather graphic violence even though they are intended for presentation to children. Meanwhile we have always restricted the presentation of sexual images, when not presented in away that society broadly recognizes as high art.
They said all this in their ruling, maybe these people should try reading it and then respond.
Lots more people died in those wars too. A soldier who has gotten a good nights rest in comfort, and is healthy is going to be more combat effective than one who is sick from living in a festering pit of disease amongst his comrades and spent his nights suffering awake from heat or cold rather than resting.
I don't think we really need to do a study to know that. How do perform on the job after you have been kept up all night? Had it been at all practice to air condition troops in WWI and WWII from a technical and logistical stand point I am sure they would have been. We could hardly air-condition residential building back home at the time though. Fuel constraints would have made it impossible.
I suspect if our supply lines got cut and fuel runs short in the middle eastern theater the A/C would be the first thing they turn off, today.
I think this law is wrong on many levels but they are not legislating your right to own a dog, what they are legislating is your right to sell dogs.
The idea here is things like puppy mills exist because pet stores provide a market for the product. There is really no need for these things because plenty of puppies and kittens, dogs, cats, etc are waiting in animal shelters to be adopted. If you want a pet they want you to adopt one from a shelter. They feel that we should no be breeding companion animals while we are euthanizing others in shelters because they can't find homes for all of them.
I don't like the government making this choice for people. I suppose there are those who really really want a certain bread of dog or cat and this is the sort of thing that gets in the way of that. Personally I would never want my money going to one of these breeders, and have never had a problem finding a cat I like either at shelter or from someone who needs to give it one up; but I don't think the government should trample peoples rights here.
I don't like what many of these breeders do so I boycott them and would encorage others to do the same, but I don't think government should FORCE others to do the same.
They should have just kept doing point release like normal and skipped some versions to get up to the industry numbers. IE do what Slackware did and just jump a few major versions next time they are ready to jump a major version.
When it comes to certain software packages like browsers, Linux Distributions. The major version is more a Technology Generation indicator
You are right its not impossible to clean but it is impossible to clean certainly and leaving anything worth having behind.
Your best bet with a root kit like this is to backup document files scan them (with everything you have to scan them with) and store them elsewhere and then simply reformat the drive. They could create a recovery mode on the install dvd and compare all the Windows files on your system with the originals there, perhaps downloading hashes of files replaced by later updates, from Windows Update. Then overwrite any file that has not a know Microsoft copy with a good one. Ok now you have to strip out any third party executable or script as well because any of those might also be infected, and could reinfect. In the end you have something that is basically the Windows Outofbox experience with your old wallpaper set.
It would be faster and safer just to wipe the drive and dump the WIM image again.
I guess when they say 16bit they mean the video color depth or something. Last I checked Linux won't run on a platform that is not at least 31-bit (yes I do mean 31)
You are fibbing. Your insurance company does not cover floods ever! On the Government can sell flood insurance by law. Which most people no matter how many times its talked about on the evening news still think for some odd reasons, their regular homeowners policy covers flooding. If say there is a terrible thunderstorm and you get some water in your basement, that might be covered; provided you don't live in an area designated as flood plane; but unless you have government flood insurance you are NOT covered otherwise.
I don't understand the tax implications. 1. Lee decides to exercise the options to buy Z shares of the stock at price W dollars per share.
2. He sells the shares on the market for $X his capital gain is now Z * ($X - $W)//he would only do this if X > W
3. He leaves the company and in doing so becomes obliged to sell Z shares back to the company at $W.
4. To do so he buys Z shares at $Y where Y > W
OR
Y W; they could acquire more treasury stock on the market for the same money. So we can safely assume Y > W, his loss will be Z * ($Y - $W). His final gain or loss is then Z * (($X - $W) - ($Y - $W)).
We know that X > W, so the way I see it depending on if X > Y or not he either has a smaller gain than before or now has a loss, in both cases the taxes owed would be reduced.
In general I am inclined to agree but its not so simple in this case. They have always claimed that they were partners and had invested in Zuckerburg money for the start up. If that's true they are entitled to a share. That is the whole concept of venture cap.
You missed out on hta applications then... Ok Microsoft absolutely has tried to get people to develop application in HTML/vbscript/javascipt in the past/
I don't think there is any way you can definitively classify each MP3 file you have. If you bought any files on line like from Amazon unbox or wherever you can probably get a transaction history from those services, include those in text file.
Now go through all your physical CDs and look up the track listings online paste each of those into that same text file.
Finally with a little luck you were at least somewhat consistent in your naming or taging of the files you ripped, that make things easier. Use find to get all the MP3 files you have, write some regex patterns, that allow for different capitalization, spaces vs underscores, and any other issues you can quickly spot in the data for egrep and then some bash for loops and see what you can match. Manually inspect anything you can't match and removed as appropriate.
That is about the best you are going to be able to do it. It will take you many hours if you have lots of music. Whatever is left though you can probably make a pretty solid case you are entitled to a license for however, if you are ever forced to do so.
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Why does it have to emulate arm? I thought most Droid apps were developed for Google's JVM. I have not looked at the SDK at all but certainly for most apps I would think you could just build the byte code interpreter to an x86 target (I was written to portable right?).
Slap on a virtual frame buffer and some mouse pointer tracking to simulate the touch screen and you are done.
I guess some of the upper layers of the phone software stack would need to be altered to return sample data and status codes for the hardware that is not there as well. Other than that though just use the android stack as is?
Sure it would not be a true emulation but it should be adequate to develop most "apps" on I should think.
Its really fun to blame Regan for the deficits but, the explosive growth in the deficit trend started under Carter, the rate at which the deficit was increased actually decreased thought most of the Regan administration.
Its also true that Regan had a largely unwilling congress and he had to make major compromises with them, in terms of allowing social spending to get them to pass his own agenda items. Many of those program Regan was methodologically against add up to a large portion of that $4T.
At the end of the Regan in terms of public speaking was an ideologue, and he certain did have some core values which he would not compromise on, however in broader terms Regan's leadership style was compromising. He probably reached across the isle in real policy terms more than anyone who has come after him besides perhaps Clinton. The Bushes and Obama have been far more polar.
That might be how it looks abroad but here at home the reality is that the war in Afghanistan is the one thing congress probably can be counted on support appropriates for. Obama is giving up the effort because he has to get re-elected if he does not give his base something they won't turn out for him. The public is against the war at this point. The reality congress (which has a historically low approval rating) can duck most of the responsibility because they are numerous enough its hard for the laze to recall who voted for what but the president cannot.
Obama had to stop nation building because A) It does not work, and never has B) the elections are coming and as the Liberal Peace Prizing winning Democrat he has to be the anti war; not to win votes but rather no to lose them.
Afghanistan regrettably is not a big part of the debt crisis debate here, even though it ought to be given defense is between 1/4 and 1/3 of the budget.
That is just wrong something around 60% of the national debt is the property of domestic owners. China and Japan hold lots but its not correct to say most. In practical economic terms I am not sure the distinction matters but for the sake of our language China and Japan don't have most of the debt, they have a large amount of of the debt.
There is nothing stopping a public company from keeping multiple sets of books as well. Yes they have to follow GAAP rules when it comes to any information they make public but they can do revenue recognition however they like to produce their own financial statements for internal decision making.
Really with computer accounting packages its probably not even much work for anybody. I don't see what the big deal is unless the parent is correct and somebody knows they have real financial problems but the current accounting model conceals them.
The signature is record level though, so from Telestra's perspective filtering via MTIMing DNS can still work. They redirect your port 53 traffic to their DNS. Their DNS does the recursive look ups and returns correct results including the signatures from "real" DNS unless the domain you are querying is on the naughty list. If its on the naughty they give you an NXDOMIAN response, which they can't sign because the registrar would have to.
OK well in that case most DNS queries work just fine. I guess they can nolonger redirect you to a page with a wagging finger. Very little client software checks DNSSEC. Legacy software gets handled at the NSS layer on platforms which from what I have seen returns NXDOMAIN when the signatures are invalid. So your typical luser will just think they entered a name that does not exist. Essentially the filter will work fine.
What is really needed is something like DNSSEC to verify the integrity of the records and DNS over TLS, to a trusted name server. That way ISPs could not filter queries because they would nologer have be able to see what the query is or pretend to be the name server you specified. Probably can't even tell the traffic is DNS if a standard port like 443, is used.
What makes you think they don't just redirect any tcp/udp 53 traffic to the DNS server they want you to use? Are you verifying your DNS is really talking to the roots or your desired upstream server?
Ok, fair point about it not being TSA's agents that screened those guys. I forgot they were international flights. I did not say we should eliminate the TSA, I said we should go back to our former security procedure. Somebody still has to ask those questions, and still needs to stand there by the metal detector. That can be TSA, or private airport security. I suppose if I get to pick I will take private security but I don't care.
We only let flights into our air space from countries that have similar security procedures in place. Its mostly true that you get the treatment boarding a flight from Europe to the States as you do boarding a domestic flight, possibly a little less of pat down. If the enhanced security does not work there its unlikely it works better here.
TSA is proving to be a major political liability for the administration. So the fact that we have not heard anything means one of three things.
1. Like most people assume there is nothing.
2. As you point out there have been some major busts; and reporting of them is being held until nearer election time when it will do them more good.
3. The abuses we have heard about are going unanswered beyond, procedure was followed, because TSA is doing things far more abusive than we know but its yielded rusts, in terms of nabbing criminals/terrorists/whoever is on the presidents enemies list.
If the American people want airport security, the only way to do it right is through a government agency that takes a little bit from everybody to provide some expensive security to a small subgroup of people.
Except that it obviously is not working. There have been several breaches of security. The shoe bomber and the Christmas day bomb plots were NOT defeated by security. They failed because the explosives did not work. Proving if anything the higher hurdle crafting an effective portable explosive device; not defeating airport security.
I am not suggesting we should have no airport security but going back to someone asking if you have your bags in sight the whole time, checking ID, and going through a metal detector would be reasonable. We are not getting much in terms of safety for the steps we take beyond that; and that little if any added safety comes with a very high price tag socially and economically.
The only way everyone is going to truly safe from terrorists on planes/trains/buses is if all passengers spend the entire ride naked and handcuffed to their seats.
I don't buy it. You can still buy a Proliant server in a tower case for example. With that you can get an array of SAS disks, which will perform as well as anything you might strap to the thunderbolt cable, redundant power and no problems adding any other peripherals you might need, including a thunderbolt card down the road. Most of all its tidy in one box, that you can get for under $2k.
Or,
You could do with a Mini server and external storage. Sure it might perform as well for a little while but you have multiple boxes and separate failure prone power supplies. If you need any real storage capacity more than a couple TB or any real performance more than 3 drives or SSDs you are certain to pay more. Sounds like a mess to me. Find for the home market but I don't see an SMB using that. At least not the kind where people use more than just Google Docs, and the rest of the web. I am imagining SMB to mean a small company of maybe 8 to 20 people.
Nothing seems so simple as Time and Attendance software until you to write/consult on/implement Time and Attendance software.
I have not read the "Song of Solomon" recently and I don't have it handy but If my recollection is at all correct its mostly euphemism. Quite titillating, yes if you have any experience with acts alluded to, but not exactly graphic if you don't. The depictions of violence on the other hand tend to be quite specific, and might even be characterized as technical.
My suspicions if it were translated as,
Oh the joy I felt shoving my throbbing penis into your swollen vagina repeatedly.
society would take a dimer view of letting children read Bibles.
Which is a fine argument and a legitimate response to the decisions. Saying we should not do something just because of tradition is different than saying I don't understand why we do then when the court has just told you its by tradition.
The Supreme Court has long taken the view that not only should it keep consistent in the technical sense, as to its interpretations but also in the character sense, at least until that character no longer reflects the general character of the public.
This is why geeks always see clever loop holes in the law being used by various service X, and then are always shocked when the judgement goes against them. The court expects when an individual is determining how to follow the law they will take into account its spirit, at least when its one where that can clearly be known.
Consider this, if someone will now creates a sexually explicit video game an try and sell it to minors, do not expect the court look favorably upon it. Its free speech when its killing hookers, its porn when you show their services being utilized. They court likely won't consider that a hypocritical position to take, even if you do.
Why does the Supreme Court treat violent video games differently? Its a double standard...blah blah They acknowledged that and said why in their ruling. They pointed out that not just in American history but in western society leading up to American, we have always done so. Our oldest fairy tails and even our Bible stories depict rather graphic violence even though they are intended for presentation to children. Meanwhile we have always restricted the presentation of sexual images, when not presented in away that society broadly recognizes as high art.
They said all this in their ruling, maybe these people should try reading it and then respond.
Lots more people died in those wars too. A soldier who has gotten a good nights rest in comfort, and is healthy is going to be more combat effective than one who is sick from living in a festering pit of disease amongst his comrades and spent his nights suffering awake from heat or cold rather than resting.
I don't think we really need to do a study to know that. How do perform on the job after you have been kept up all night? Had it been at all practice to air condition troops in WWI and WWII from a technical and logistical stand point I am sure they would have been.
We could hardly air-condition residential building back home at the time though. Fuel constraints would have made it impossible.
I suspect if our supply lines got cut and fuel runs short in the middle eastern theater the A/C would be the first thing they turn off, today.
I think this law is wrong on many levels but they are not legislating your right to own a dog, what they are legislating is your right to sell dogs.
The idea here is things like puppy mills exist because pet stores provide a market for the product. There is really no need for these things because plenty of puppies and kittens, dogs, cats, etc are waiting in animal shelters to be adopted. If you want a pet they want you to adopt one from a shelter. They feel that we should no be breeding companion animals while we are euthanizing others in shelters because they can't find homes for all of them.
I don't like the government making this choice for people. I suppose there are those who really really want a certain bread of dog or cat and this is the sort of thing that gets in the way of that. Personally I would never want my money going to one of these breeders, and have never had a problem finding a cat I like either at shelter or from someone who needs to give it one up; but I don't think the government should trample peoples rights here.
I don't like what many of these breeders do so I boycott them and would encorage others to do the same, but I don't think government should FORCE others to do the same.
They should have just kept doing point release like normal and skipped some versions to get up to the industry numbers. IE do what Slackware did and just jump a few major versions next time they are ready to jump a major version.
When it comes to certain software packages like browsers, Linux Distributions. The major version is more a Technology Generation indicator
You are right its not impossible to clean but it is impossible to clean certainly and leaving anything worth having behind.
Your best bet with a root kit like this is to backup document files scan them (with everything you have to scan them with) and store them elsewhere and then simply reformat the drive. They could create a recovery mode on the install dvd and compare all the Windows files on your system with the originals there, perhaps downloading hashes of files replaced by later updates, from Windows Update. Then overwrite any file that has not a know Microsoft copy with a good one. Ok now you have to strip out any third party executable or script as well because any of those might also be infected, and could reinfect. In the end you have something that is basically the Windows Outofbox experience with your old wallpaper set.
It would be faster and safer just to wipe the drive and dump the WIM image again.
I guess when they say 16bit they mean the video color depth or something. Last I checked Linux won't run on a platform that is not at least 31-bit (yes I do mean 31)
You are fibbing. Your insurance company does not cover floods ever! On the Government can sell flood insurance by law. Which most people no matter how many times its talked about on the evening news still think for some odd reasons, their regular homeowners policy covers flooding. If say there is a terrible thunderstorm and you get some water in your basement, that might be covered; provided you don't live in an area designated as flood plane; but unless you have government flood insurance you are NOT covered otherwise.
I don't understand the tax implications.
1. Lee decides to exercise the options to buy Z shares of the stock at price W dollars per share.
2. He sells the shares on the market for $X his capital gain is now Z * ($X - $W) //he would only do this if X > W
3. He leaves the company and in doing so becomes obliged to sell Z shares back to the company at $W.
4. To do so he buys Z shares at $Y where Y > W
Y W; they could acquire more treasury stock on the market for the same money. So we can safely assume Y > W, his loss will be Z * ($Y - $W). His final gain or loss is then Z * (($X - $W) - ($Y - $W)).
We know that X > W, so the way I see it depending on if X > Y or not he either has a smaller gain than before or now has a loss, in both cases the taxes owed would be reduced.
In general I am inclined to agree but its not so simple in this case. They have always claimed that they were partners and had invested in Zuckerburg money for the start up. If that's true they are entitled to a share. That is the whole concept of venture cap.
You missed out on hta applications then... Ok Microsoft absolutely has tried to get people to develop application in HTML/vbscript/javascipt in the past/
I don't think there is any way you can definitively classify each MP3 file you have. If you bought any files on line like from Amazon unbox or wherever you can probably get a transaction history from those services, include those in text file.
Now go through all your physical CDs and look up the track listings online paste each of those into that same text file.
Finally with a little luck you were at least somewhat consistent in your naming or taging of the files you ripped, that make things easier. Use find to get all the MP3 files you have, write some regex patterns, that allow for different capitalization, spaces vs underscores, and any other issues you can quickly spot in the data for egrep and then some bash for loops and see what you can match. Manually inspect anything you can't match and removed as appropriate.
That is about the best you are going to be able to do it. It will take you many hours if you have lots of music. Whatever is left though you can probably make a pretty solid case you are entitled to a license for however, if you are ever forced to do so.