In short, DST is nice if you like to do things on summer afternoons.
My big complaint with DST is that we are redefining time--something that is pretty much a constant. Yeah, I know--nearing the speed of light and all, but here on Earth, time marches on for everyone at relatively the same rate.
Now why are we suddenly redefining when 8AM is? That's stupid. I don't bake cookies which need a cup of flower, but then bake bread which also uses a cup of flower, just a different amount because we redefined what a cup is.
Why not set March 9th to be the day when businesses everywhere (at their discretion) decide to change to 'summer' hours?
That way you don't fuck with time, annoy the shit out of your IT staff (last fall I had to manually patch 30 Sprint Treo's because they didn't understand the DST change), and you don't confuse 24/7 outfits/applications (While on an ambulance for 24 hours, it would regularly show you as having worked 24 hours when you really worked 25 or 23 due to a DST change. More shitty proprietary software that needs a lot of man-hours to write code to make it work with congress being arbitrary. Lame.)
Lucky for me, too, since I got called to the carpet for calling the reliability of the system into question. I probably would have been fired, but the above-mentioned incident was in the paper the morning of my "meeting".
Unfortunately nobody seems to realize just how much money goes into one radio tower.
In my county we had decent coverage even though we were the second largest county in the state, but had the fewest number of people.
We had three towers serving the entire area. Each one cost around $100,000 to put up. That covered the price of the equipment, the man-hours to install it, the equipment hours to fly it by chopper to the mountain top, the price of refueling the propane tank so the sunlight-poor winter months wouldn't shutdown the repeater.
Sure, it's easy to say we need 99.99999999999% reliability, but who wants to pay double or more for the redundancy?
Hell, just reprogramming all the radios in the county to support another repeater would cost $10,000. Not to mention if you wanted 99.99% uptime, you'd probably have to purchase a second set of radios for the responders because the place that handles reprogramming takes about a week.
The more reliability, the greater the cost.
At least until someone replaces the proprietary windows-only dispatch computers, applications, and processes with linux. Then you just pay for the hardware...
Definitely, drop Evolution.
Replace with XFCE and Claws. Or simply make Kubuntu the default, it's impressively snappy and sparing on memory in comparison.
What on earth were they thinking making Evolution core to the Gnome desktop?
I know. Evolution is a total hog.
But what on earth are you thinking wanting to make Claws core?
Replace Claws with mutt. It's impressively snappy and sparing on memory in comparison.
You must be thinking of some other United States; in mine we don't even need a warrant to snoop on our own citizens, why would we even pretend to need one for non-citizens?
What United States were you in again? In this one, you do need a warrant to listen in on citizens.
Although you apparently don't need one if the person on the other end of the line is a terrorist.
Maybe is it only being released to Volume Licensed Users? To download I had to specify that I wanted to download recomended updates, but once it did that it was avalible to me.
Hmm...it looks like you're at 99%. I double-dog-dare you to hit the cancel button.
What the real problem is is the view in our society that monetary value is the ultimate achievement, that piece of paper with the number on it or the number in your bank account has no more real value than the ASCII code of the song you download
Apparently you don't understand money. Yes, some people may value the piece of green paper, but it's not the paper or what's printed on it that is important.
The important part is what the money represents.
Yeah, I could trade you 10 cows for a new car, but what if I don't want your car. What if I simply want to give you the 10 cows for the promise that you will give the car to whomever I denote. It's really a standardized form of bartering.
The argument doesn't hold up because bread is physical. It's a collection of atoms. You can't wave a magic wand and have an exact duplication of that bread. Data is more ethereal. It's easy to duplicate.
The real argument goes like this:
If you come over to my house and take my candybar, you are in possession of a candybar and I am without.
That's theft.
In the digital age, if you come over to my house and take a copy of my CD, you are in possession of a CD, and I am *STILL IN POSSESSION OF MY FUCKING PROPERTY*, you just have an exact duplicate.
It's not theft.
The music companies want you to believe you have harmed them out of their fair share.
But what if tomorrow I invented a replicator just like you'd see on Star Trek....and I replicated myself a nice new car, just like yours. Then I go and find Linus and replicate the uber-badass laptop I imagine he must have, and finally I go next door and replicate my neighbor's candybar. Is that illegal? Hell no.
I'm not against the *AA because I want free music, I'm against the *AA because they are trying to legislate against one of the basic things about computers and data. It's easy to duplicate and they don't want it to be without paying them money or fines or whatever.
Yes, I know why they're doing it, I asked how doing QoS will adversely affect the economy.
Yeah. Personally I don't care of they slow down someone's P2P session (including mine) to give priority to my (or someone elses) VoIP, VoD, or WoW traffic. Some services really depend on fast real-time connections...others, like my download of backdoor sluts 9 don't really need to be downloaded in 0.68 seconds.
The last jury I sat on backlashed against the ambulance chaser.
A guy I worked with was selected for jury duty. When he was 'activated' he went from earning $30/hr to $40/day. That $40 was supposed to cover mileage, meals, hotel, everything.
He said he would say whatever the hell got him home quickest so he could make sure his family was taken care of--trial be damned.
And I think that's truly the bad part of the system. The people selected for jury duty have just taken a huge cut in pay (usually) to have to sit there and listen to two people bitch. I don't know about you, but I'm guessing some of them might be a bit vengeful for losing a chunk of income.
Maybe the jury system can be modified so it's at least minimum wage while you sit there...so you can at least feed your family.
Did you even read the summary? This has nothing to do with vulnerabilities.
Waaait. Are you trying to tell me that Microsoft build some sort of security into their software, and that when someone successfully bypassed it that it's not a vulnerability?
The Gentoo guys already have a patch and its clean and simple.
You cant really hide a backdoor in something as simple as a permissions check.
Well, maybe not for the majority of Slashdot readers, but for someone like my mom...hell--if you send her an email that says "open this really cool greeting card", she will. Even if Hotmail tells you it is a virus.
I know the exact train of thought. It's "My friend jane would never send me a virus".
So while it may not be difficult to spot some wayward code if you are a geek, it might not be if you are a 65 year old hippie who knows almost nothing about computers.
If you're really a power user, you already know the names of the control panel executables (for example, appwiz.cpl ran the old "Add/Remove Programs" control panel in pre-Vista, and still runs the same panel even though it was renamed to "Programs and Features").
That's a dumb argument.
If you already know a bunch of obscure commands that your average windows admin or windows power user doesn't know--and you use the run box...why not just go all the way and switch to Linux?
Obscure commands, no pointy-clickey, no f*cking activation for every last goddamn app, doesn't constantly crash your computer...oh, and it's free.
But anyways--idiotic Vista design changes are not suddenly non-idiotic simply because you can hit Win+R to bring up the run box.
Note: It is my understanding that the browser is what looks up the DTD. So/. having the declaration is irrelevant.
Yeah. Whose retarded idea was it to give something a valid URI and then say "wait--don't query this URI", it's just for show. Well if it's just for show, don't make it a URI that various automated systems might want to query because a programmer failed to include some 'query everything except this' code.
(In case it isn't ovbious, I'm talking out my butt. I really have no clue when it comes to DTD's except that most WYSIWYG web design programs past that garbage in automagically.)
Nice idea for stimulus except that he gave mostly to the richest who...
That is always a retarded argument.
If I paid $100 in taxes last year and I get 10% back, that's $10 for me.
If you are a super rich guy and paid $1,000 in taxes last year, 10% is $100. It's not that Bush and some secret cabal got together and conspired to give you $100 back instead of $10 because you're rich. It's based on percentages and amount paid in.
So there you go. You can have the same phone number for ever. It just gets added to as your area gets more phones and area codes.
You're missing the scary part of this. The number at my parents house was installed sometime around 1975. Based on the average phone bill over the last 33 years, my mom has spent close to $10,000 for her phone. And that doesn't include the 10 years I had a second phone line so I could connect to the 'net, and the additional few years we had a third phone line for my dad's business and a fourth for my ancient BBS. (Wildcat forever! And by that I mean "Mustang Software's Wildcat--not the shitty version that came about after Santronics got ahold of it).
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In short, DST is nice if you like to do things on summer afternoons.
My big complaint with DST is that we are redefining time--something that is pretty much a constant. Yeah, I know--nearing the speed of light and all, but here on Earth, time marches on for everyone at relatively the same rate.
Now why are we suddenly redefining when 8AM is? That's stupid. I don't bake cookies which need a cup of flower, but then bake bread which also uses a cup of flower, just a different amount because we redefined what a cup is.
Why not set March 9th to be the day when businesses everywhere (at their discretion) decide to change to 'summer' hours?
That way you don't fuck with time, annoy the shit out of your IT staff (last fall I had to manually patch 30 Sprint Treo's because they didn't understand the DST change), and you don't confuse 24/7 outfits/applications (While on an ambulance for 24 hours, it would regularly show you as having worked 24 hours when you really worked 25 or 23 due to a DST change. More shitty proprietary software that needs a lot of man-hours to write code to make it work with congress being arbitrary. Lame.)
The sun coming up at 4am is not a cool thing.
WTF? Are you confusing Daylight Savings Time with Time Zones maybe?
30 minutes to ping.
That sounds like the title of a bad straight to DVD movie.
Lucky for me, too, since I got called to the carpet for calling the reliability of the system into question. I probably would have been fired, but the above-mentioned incident was in the paper the morning of my "meeting".
Unfortunately nobody seems to realize just how much money goes into one radio tower.
In my county we had decent coverage even though we were the second largest county in the state, but had the fewest number of people.
We had three towers serving the entire area. Each one cost around $100,000 to put up. That covered the price of the equipment, the man-hours to install it, the equipment hours to fly it by chopper to the mountain top, the price of refueling the propane tank so the sunlight-poor winter months wouldn't shutdown the repeater.
Sure, it's easy to say we need 99.99999999999% reliability, but who wants to pay double or more for the redundancy?
Hell, just reprogramming all the radios in the county to support another repeater would cost $10,000. Not to mention if you wanted 99.99% uptime, you'd probably have to purchase a second set of radios for the responders because the place that handles reprogramming takes about a week.
The more reliability, the greater the cost.
At least until someone replaces the proprietary windows-only dispatch computers, applications, and processes with linux. Then you just pay for the hardware...
Definitely, drop Evolution.
Replace with XFCE and Claws. Or simply make Kubuntu the default, it's impressively snappy and sparing on memory in comparison.
What on earth were they thinking making Evolution core to the Gnome desktop?
I know. Evolution is a total hog.
But what on earth are you thinking wanting to make Claws core?
Replace Claws with mutt. It's impressively snappy and sparing on memory in comparison.
I in no way support terrorists. In fact I denounce them. Or is that reject them? Denounce or reject... so complicated.
I so wanted to shoot myself in the head just so I wouldn't have to hear them debate a play on words endlessly...
Opening your doors to such nations doesn't encourage them, it makes them able to easily get into your country.
There, fix that for you.
So you're the one who let the terrorists in. Jerk.
You must be thinking of some other United States; in mine we don't even need a warrant to snoop on our own citizens, why would we even pretend to need one for non-citizens?
What United States were you in again? In this one, you do need a warrant to listen in on citizens.
Although you apparently don't need one if the person on the other end of the line is a terrorist.
Maybe is it only being released to Volume Licensed Users? To download I had to specify that I wanted to download recomended updates, but once it did that it was avalible to me.
Hmm...it looks like you're at 99%. I double-dog-dare you to hit the cancel button.
What the real problem is is the view in our society that monetary value is the ultimate achievement, that piece of paper with the number on it or the number in your bank account has no more real value than the ASCII code of the song you download
Apparently you don't understand money. Yes, some people may value the piece of green paper, but it's not the paper or what's printed on it that is important.
The important part is what the money represents.
Yeah, I could trade you 10 cows for a new car, but what if I don't want your car. What if I simply want to give you the 10 cows for the promise that you will give the car to whomever I denote. It's really a standardized form of bartering.
That's retarded.
...and I replicated myself a nice new car, just like yours. Then I go and find Linus and replicate the uber-badass laptop I imagine he must have, and finally I go next door and replicate my neighbor's candybar. Is that illegal? Hell no.
The argument doesn't hold up because bread is physical. It's a collection of atoms. You can't wave a magic wand and have an exact duplication of that bread. Data is more ethereal. It's easy to duplicate.
The real argument goes like this:
If you come over to my house and take my candybar, you are in possession of a candybar and I am without.
That's theft.
In the digital age, if you come over to my house and take a copy of my CD, you are in possession of a CD, and I am *STILL IN POSSESSION OF MY FUCKING PROPERTY*, you just have an exact duplicate.
It's not theft.
The music companies want you to believe you have harmed them out of their fair share.
But what if tomorrow I invented a replicator just like you'd see on Star Trek.
I'm not against the *AA because I want free music, I'm against the *AA because they are trying to legislate against one of the basic things about computers and data. It's easy to duplicate and they don't want it to be without paying them money or fines or whatever.
They can get fucked.
Yes, I know why they're doing it, I asked how doing QoS will adversely affect the economy.
Yeah. Personally I don't care of they slow down someone's P2P session (including mine) to give priority to my (or someone elses) VoIP, VoD, or WoW traffic. Some services really depend on fast real-time connections...others, like my download of backdoor sluts 9 don't really need to be downloaded in 0.68 seconds.
I suspect a Google data center needs a tad bit more than that.
A tad bit more than what? Fiber? What the f*ck is faster than light?
African Swallow?
But there has to be one hell of a fiber optic connection running up that way these days...
You'd be surprised.
I used to work for *the* ISP in the Gorge. They had an OC connection sometime around 2000 that went out to Portland, Ore. IIRC.
I believe it's something to do with NOAANET or the Corps of Engineers and they let you lease it.
The last jury I sat on backlashed against the ambulance chaser.
A guy I worked with was selected for jury duty. When he was 'activated' he went from earning $30/hr to $40/day. That $40 was supposed to cover mileage, meals, hotel, everything.
He said he would say whatever the hell got him home quickest so he could make sure his family was taken care of--trial be damned.
And I think that's truly the bad part of the system. The people selected for jury duty have just taken a huge cut in pay (usually) to have to sit there and listen to two people bitch. I don't know about you, but I'm guessing some of them might be a bit vengeful for losing a chunk of income.
Maybe the jury system can be modified so it's at least minimum wage while you sit there...so you can at least feed your family.
Did you even read the summary? This has nothing to do with vulnerabilities.
Waaait. Are you trying to tell me that Microsoft build some sort of security into their software, and that when someone successfully bypassed it that it's not a vulnerability?
Are you my Microsoft sales rep?
The Gentoo guys already have a patch and its clean and simple. You cant really hide a backdoor in something as simple as a permissions check.
Well, maybe not for the majority of Slashdot readers, but for someone like my mom...hell--if you send her an email that says "open this really cool greeting card", she will. Even if Hotmail tells you it is a virus.
I know the exact train of thought. It's "My friend jane would never send me a virus".
So while it may not be difficult to spot some wayward code if you are a geek, it might not be if you are a 65 year old hippie who knows almost nothing about computers.
If you're really a power user, you already know the names of the control panel executables (for example, appwiz.cpl ran the old "Add/Remove Programs" control panel in pre-Vista, and still runs the same panel even though it was renamed to "Programs and Features").
That's a dumb argument.
If you already know a bunch of obscure commands that your average windows admin or windows power user doesn't know--and you use the run box...why not just go all the way and switch to Linux?
Obscure commands, no pointy-clickey, no f*cking activation for every last goddamn app, doesn't constantly crash your computer...oh, and it's free.
But anyways--idiotic Vista design changes are not suddenly non-idiotic simply because you can hit Win+R to bring up the run box.
Note: It is my understanding that the browser is what looks up the DTD. So /. having the declaration is irrelevant.
Yeah. Whose retarded idea was it to give something a valid URI and then say "wait--don't query this URI", it's just for show. Well if it's just for show, don't make it a URI that various automated systems might want to query because a programmer failed to include some 'query everything except this' code.
(In case it isn't ovbious, I'm talking out my butt. I really have no clue when it comes to DTD's except that most WYSIWYG web design programs past that garbage in automagically.)
Everybody already knows you can hack Vista no problem
Ok. How?
Plug it in to the internet.
oh and BTW: I used to work for an investment house managing slow growth portfolios
;)
I never would have guessed...
...straight into the hands of... Bush's golfing buddies.
*sigh*
That's a liberal twist folks--Trying to make it sound like Bush decided to give billions to his buddies.
Untwist it. If Bush were giving me billions of dollars, I'd sure as hell play a round of golf with him every now and then.
It's a joke. No really. Damnit. I just lost all my republican friends.
Nice idea for stimulus except that he gave mostly to the richest who...
That is always a retarded argument.
If I paid $100 in taxes last year and I get 10% back, that's $10 for me.
If you are a super rich guy and paid $1,000 in taxes last year, 10% is $100. It's not that Bush and some secret cabal got together and conspired to give you $100 back instead of $10 because you're rich. It's based on percentages and amount paid in.
So there you go. You can have the same phone number for ever. It just gets added to as your area gets more phones and area codes.
You're missing the scary part of this. The number at my parents house was installed sometime around 1975. Based on the average phone bill over the last 33 years, my mom has spent close to $10,000 for her phone. And that doesn't include the 10 years I had a second phone line so I could connect to the 'net, and the additional few years we had a third phone line for my dad's business and a fourth for my ancient BBS. (Wildcat forever! And by that I mean "Mustang Software's Wildcat--not the shitty version that came about after Santronics got ahold of it).
Now I just need millions of dollars and a quarter of a million people to vote for me.
I'm not sure about the millions of dollars, but if you are geek enough...wait, how many slashdot accounts are there?