In the USA, the house is held by one party, the senate by the other. Isn't that essentially a minority government? It certainly functions like one - a single party cannot force a bill to pass, all legislation needs approval by at least some members of two or more different parties.
Wow.... so, if I pull up to a NH sobriety checkpoint with lines of coke on the dash, and my Afghan buddy in traditional garb with his AK-47 in the passenger seat - but I'm sober - they have to let me go?
Now that Oracle owns Sparc processors from Sun, there is no reason for them to help out their competitor.
Oracle develops and sells both Solaris and their database software for x86 platforms, which they do not own.
I think it is more the fact that (a) they *never* had a version of Solaris for Itaniium; and (b) with both RHEL and HP-UX dropping support for Itanium, they would have no platform to run their databases on.
So Microsoft's fallback for all this newfangled all-connected-all-the-time Internet era is... a physical store? Really?
Which store do they mean, anyway? The Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile store, staffed by people who are, to be polite, not rocket scientists, especially with a just-released operating system? Or a Microsoft store, which are outside easy reach of 99.9% of customers?
One big thing that will be missing: cultural diversity. SV attracts a lot of people because it is one of the (few) places in America that is richly culturally diverse. NSA jobs are, by law, all US citizens - and in practice, 99% are filled by white males.
Nokia should not "choose" an operating system. Make a phone, and make it available with any and all operating systems (Windows, Android, maybe even Symbian). Sell them all on the open market, and give the *consumer* the choice.
I'm in the market for a dumb phone or two right now. Ever try to buy one? The market has fragmented into two: smartphones (which earn the carrier huge fees every month), and dirt-cheap phones they can give away for free. There are no more nice, well-made 'dumb' phones like the Nokia 8800.
Of course, even those free dumb phones aren't really 'dumb' any more - they can all text, have still cameras and often video ones, play music, and many can do simple web stuff and access Facebook. They aren't really dumb, they are just lacking the ability to download apps.
They are not profiling you, they are profiling your neighborhood.
I want to see the profile for zip code 12345 (yes, a valid zip code, somewhere in upstate NY). I'm sure that they think there are *all* kinds of weirdos living there.
Well, having worked on both VMS and NT (why yes, I am that old, thanks for asking) I don't see the similarity. Pretty much *all* modern operating systems show similarities, after years of everyone "borrowing" ideas from others.
The biggest legacy, to me, of DEC is Linux. Without a certain PDP-7 computer and some extremely brilliant engineers, Unix would never have existed, and Linus and his buddies would have nothing to "borrow" from.
Unlike a cell phone, drugs have a flexible shape, don't broadcast electromagnetic radiation, and don't have an attached account with somebody's name on it.
Another difference: cell phones can be defeated with a simple faraday cage.
Wouldn't putting more metal into the prison walls make them more secure, as well as blocking cell phone signals?
You are prohibited from engaging in commercial enterprise - i.e. you can't make money from amateur radio activities. That would ban running a commercial web server (or running an ISP), but packet radio data rates are low enough that it wouldn't be feasible in any case. Buying and selling on eBay would be questionable; but communicating with other Egyptians, exchanging news, and setting up events would be perfectly acceptable.
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What was really interesting about the first Ossy was ...
So, seriously - they named the computer the Ossy Osborne??
No, McAfee is for people on a budget. Someone with as much money as NASA uses *serious* security protection from HBGary.
In the USA, the house is held by one party, the senate by the other. Isn't that essentially a minority government? It certainly functions like one - a single party cannot force a bill to pass, all legislation needs approval by at least some members of two or more different parties.
Wow.... so, if I pull up to a NH sobriety checkpoint with lines of coke on the dash, and my Afghan buddy in traditional garb with his AK-47 in the passenger seat - but I'm sober - they have to let me go?
Field trip!!
Now that Oracle owns Sparc processors from Sun, there is no reason for them to help out their competitor.
Oracle develops and sells both Solaris and their database software for x86 platforms, which they do not own.
I think it is more the fact that (a) they *never* had a version of Solaris for Itaniium; and (b) with both RHEL and HP-UX dropping support for Itanium, they would have no platform to run their databases on.
Maybe you're angry because you're reading this on an iPad. Or most other tablets. Or an iPhone. Or an Android phone. Or an older Mac.
...sent from my SparcStation
So Microsoft's fallback for all this newfangled all-connected-all-the-time Internet era is... a physical store? Really?
Which store do they mean, anyway? The Verizon/AT&T/T-Mobile store, staffed by people who are, to be polite, not rocket scientists, especially with a just-released operating system? Or a Microsoft store, which are outside easy reach of 99.9% of customers?
Just what the world needs - yet another "standard" used by Apple and nobody else.
One big thing that will be missing: cultural diversity. SV attracts a lot of people because it is one of the (few) places in America that is richly culturally diverse. NSA jobs are, by law, all US citizens - and in practice, 99% are filled by white males.
Nokia should not "choose" an operating system. Make a phone, and make it available with any and all operating systems (Windows, Android, maybe even Symbian). Sell them all on the open market, and give the *consumer* the choice.
She was driving when she could not see, but it is not her fault??
I'm not sure about Chicago, but in most jurisdictions blind people can't get driver's licenses.
Current cell phone networks allow it too - but then frickin' idiot users go and buy push-to-talk cell phones.
Well, for one, it would allow you to design a smartphone that had an internal hard drive.
I'm in the market for a dumb phone or two right now. Ever try to buy one? The market has fragmented into two: smartphones (which earn the carrier huge fees every month), and dirt-cheap phones they can give away for free. There are no more nice, well-made 'dumb' phones like the Nokia 8800.
Of course, even those free dumb phones aren't really 'dumb' any more - they can all text, have still cameras and often video ones, play music, and many can do simple web stuff and access Facebook. They aren't really dumb, they are just lacking the ability to download apps.
They are not profiling you, they are profiling your neighborhood.
I want to see the profile for zip code 12345 (yes, a valid zip code, somewhere in upstate NY). I'm sure that they think there are *all* kinds of weirdos living there.
If someone steals your wallet, they have your credit card, and they have your zip code. Not very secure.
Well, having worked on both VMS and NT (why yes, I am that old, thanks for asking) I don't see the similarity. Pretty much *all* modern operating systems show similarities, after years of everyone "borrowing" ideas from others.
The biggest legacy, to me, of DEC is Linux. Without a certain PDP-7 computer and some extremely brilliant engineers, Unix would never have existed, and Linus and his buddies would have nothing to "borrow" from.
I'm sure that all the other women in the world that had the incredible bad luck to be named "sarah palin" have already changed their names.
Unlike a cell phone, drugs have a flexible shape, don't broadcast electromagnetic radiation, and don't have an attached account with somebody's name on it.
Another difference: cell phones can be defeated with a simple faraday cage.
Wouldn't putting more metal into the prison walls make them more secure, as well as blocking cell phone signals?
Reading both accounts of the story (one from the CEO, the other from the security expert), it seems to be a case of "who do you believe".
One is a fellow geek.
One is a suit, i.e. someone who gets rich on the backs of geek labor.
This is slashdot. Who do you think we'll side with?
Untrue.
You are prohibited from engaging in commercial enterprise - i.e. you can't make money from amateur radio activities. That would ban running a commercial web server (or running an ISP), but packet radio data rates are low enough that it wouldn't be feasible in any case. Buying and selling on eBay would be questionable; but communicating with other Egyptians, exchanging news, and setting up events would be perfectly acceptable.
is not to 'friend' young boys.
This already exists in a better form: the "clear all cookies" option in Firefox (and similar options in other decent browsers).
If you dump *all* cookies every day, you aren't subject to whether or not the web programmer chooses to honor the html do-not-track tag or not.
The pilots must be able to see the ground for landing
So, planes can't land in fog, then?