Would a system like this stand up or is there a problem that I'm missing?
Yes, you are missing something - something that many Slashdotters are missing: Cash donations are not what politics and power are all about.
People in power are in power because they know how to manipulate the system. They do favors for each other. You manipulate the system so that my risky investment pays off and I'll do the same for you. They trade favors, not cash.
Sure, they like to talk about campaign reform and limiting cash contributions, but this is mostly a ruse to show that they're on the side Goodness and Fairness and Honesty in Politics. They know that their ~real~ trading stock, favors, will not be touched.
Doubt it? Look at your local town council. How many Council members are involved in real estate or construction or own a local business? Why do you think that is? Because those are the people who would have something to gain by manipultating local taxes, zoning ordinances and building codes. The guy who just bought several hundred acres of farmland just outside of town will abstain from the vote to annex the property as part of the city because that would be a conflict of interest. But his buddy-to-his-left will support the annexation because our Honest Councilman voted last month for a tax abatement for buddy's business (which buddy-to-the-left abstained from for obvious reasons.) Once the property is annexed, the city will run water and sewer lines out to it and it can be rezoned "residential" or "commercial" (in trade for some other favors) and our Honest Councilman can sell it to a developer for a handsome profit. No cash has traded hands and strictly speaking, no conflict of interest ethics have been violated.
No, the ideas of "follow the money" and "track the cash flow" are naive suggestions to catch any but the most stupid of politicians.
That is the point of a military, remember, to protect the people.
And the sky is blue, and the fifer and the drummer are playing a little ditty, and the flag is waving we go marching happily off to war.
We (Americans) were all taught in school that the Nazis were protecting Hitler, not the German people. And the Republican Guard was protecting Saddam, not the Iraqi people, etc.
Now clearly the U.S.M.C. is not protecting GWB, so they must be protecting the people, right?
Don't laugh, it's true! I watch my 401(k) go up and down daily based on how well they're protecting my interests.
Pulling in a 30-in rat by the tail
Running away from a rat - against the wind
Stuck in box with a ferrocious rat
Stuck in an enormous rat trap
Nibbling cheese - preening whiskers
Following an imaginary maze
You know, mimes have WAY too much time on their hands.
Most "rural" areas in the US can only pick up two or three over-the-air TV stations. If you can only get channels 3, 7 and 10, who cares if someone is using frequencies between 8 and 9 or between 12 and 13 for WiFi?
As the article says, the WiFi gear would have to be responsible for scanning the spectrum for existing broadcasts (and other WiFi gear) and finding a quiet spot to use.
what would have happened if the enemy had somehow managed to kidnap a speaker of that language
The Army had that problem taken care of. Each code-talker was assigned a personal bodyguard. One of the bodyguard's sworn duties was to kill the code-talker if they were about to be captured.
(Unless by "new" you mean "the System/360 we just got from the factory"...
By "new" I meant the z990 series, which is currently shipping new from the factory. These have the capability of configuring Linux-only LPARs, but this is mostly for the instruction set, not the data interchange code. (Linux does not use or need many of the more complex instructions that were designed to move common z/OS functions into microcode.)
We don't run any Linux LPARs here, but in z/OS the DIC is handled via a translate instruction based on the defintion of the I/O device (i.e. z/OS talks ASCII with ASCII devices and talks EBCDIC with EBCDIC devices). I would think that in their Linux port, IBM would have maintained the same flexibility. After all, the translate instruction is practically free, as far as CPU cycles are concerned.
My first reaction to this was, "Look at past 'standards' that have not swayed the entrenched users."
Metric vs. SAE
240V 50Hx vs. 120V 60Hz
Drive on left vs. drive on right side of the road
EBCDIC vs. ASCII (IBM vs. everyone else)
... and a lot of other things
But then this weekend something happened that changed my mind on the future of Linux. I downloaded Knoppix 3.4 and stuck the CD in a friend's WinXP box with a failing HD. WinXP wouldn't boot. Knoppix "just worked". It auto-configured all the hardware (a Dell 4550 series P4) and allowed me to back up most of this person's data to a CDR.
This is the kind of thing that will make people take notice of Linux. They want a car that they can turn the key and drive away. People don't want a car that needs to have the engine tuned before they can drive it off the lot. Or one that they actually have to read the owner's manual.
They want an computer that auto-configures and is intuitively obvious to use. Knoppix 3.4 is a step in that direction.
Try this if you want to build a free-standing FM transmitter from a kit, or this if you want to drop a PCI card into your PC and be on the air instantly.
That's what everyone said when I bought my pet rock, Eroc, but who's laughing now?
I take Eroc running with me and I'm getting two pairs of these cool new computerized shoes! One pair for me, one shoe for Eroc, and the fouth can be a hot backup shoe in case one of the other three crashes.
Ha! Envy me, you barefoot-running, low-tech, posers! While you're soaking your feet in low-tech Epsom salts after a run, Eroc and I will be recharging our batteries and trying to get our shoes to run Linux!
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Probably. Send her 'round to the lab and we'll see what we can do.
Oh, and TeeJay says, "Ask her to wear a nurse's uniform."That's why I've clipped a baseball card to my CPU fan with a clothespin.
Yes, you are missing something - something that many Slashdotters are missing: Cash donations are not what politics and power are all about.
People in power are in power because they know how to manipulate the system. They do favors for each other. You manipulate the system so that my risky investment pays off and I'll do the same for you. They trade favors, not cash.Sure, they like to talk about campaign reform and limiting cash contributions, but this is mostly a ruse to show that they're on the side Goodness and Fairness and Honesty in Politics. They know that their ~real~ trading stock, favors, will not be touched.
Doubt it? Look at your local town council. How many Council members are involved in real estate or construction or own a local business? Why do you think that is? Because those are the people who would have something to gain by manipultating local taxes, zoning ordinances and building codes. The guy who just bought several hundred acres of farmland just outside of town will abstain from the vote to annex the property as part of the city because that would be a conflict of interest. But his buddy-to-his-left will support the annexation because our Honest Councilman voted last month for a tax abatement for buddy's business (which buddy-to-the-left abstained from for obvious reasons.) Once the property is annexed, the city will run water and sewer lines out to it and it can be rezoned "residential" or "commercial" (in trade for some other favors) and our Honest Councilman can sell it to a developer for a handsome profit. No cash has traded hands and strictly speaking, no conflict of interest ethics have been violated.No, the ideas of "follow the money" and "track the cash flow" are naive suggestions to catch any but the most stupid of politicians.
And the sky is blue, and the fifer and the drummer are playing a little ditty, and the flag is waving we go marching happily off to war.
We (Americans) were all taught in school that the Nazis were protecting Hitler, not the German people. And the Republican Guard was protecting Saddam, not the Iraqi people, etc.Now clearly the U.S.M.C. is not protecting GWB, so they must be protecting the people, right?
Don't laugh, it's true! I watch my 401(k) go up and down daily based on how well they're protecting my interests.That's not funny. That's sad.
They still burn witches ?!?!
The default screensaver will be an all-red screen with the following text:
"If this screen looks blue to you,it's NOT because you're going too fast."
I'd connect the output to the input and invent the "Information Cyclotron"!!
Um, they wouldn't have caught the diseases in the first place if we hadn't sent an infected V---GER probe their way.
And if you are right and I am right, then we won't have to go looking for them - they'll come looking for us.And they won't be very happy.
Perhaps he's a paranoid dillusional and doesn't want everyone to know his name.
Or maybe he's just shy.--
alt.sig: Just because you've been diagnosed with paranoia doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Pulling in a 30-in rat by the tail
Running away from a rat - against the wind
Stuck in box with a ferrocious rat
Stuck in an enormous rat trap
Nibbling cheese - preening whiskers
Following an imaginary maze
You know, mimes have WAY too much time on their hands.
As the article says, the WiFi gear would have to be responsible for scanning the spectrum for existing broadcasts (and other WiFi gear) and finding a quiet spot to use.
The Army had that problem taken care of. Each code-talker was assigned a personal bodyguard. One of the bodyguard's sworn duties was to kill the code-talker if they were about to be captured.
You haven't read the EULA for Windows Media Player 9, have you?
By "new" I meant the z990 series, which is currently shipping new from the factory. These have the capability of configuring Linux-only LPARs, but this is mostly for the instruction set, not the data interchange code. (Linux does not use or need many of the more complex instructions that were designed to move common z/OS functions into microcode.)
We don't run any Linux LPARs here, but in z/OS the DIC is handled via a translate instruction based on the defintion of the I/O device (i.e. z/OS talks ASCII with ASCII devices and talks EBCDIC with EBCDIC devices). I would think that in their Linux port, IBM would have maintained the same flexibility. After all, the translate instruction is practically free, as far as CPU cycles are concerned.Pssst... wanna hear a secret? So do the new ones.
Metric vs. SAE
... and a lot of other things
But then this weekend something happened that changed my mind on the future of Linux. I downloaded Knoppix 3.4 and stuck the CD in a friend's WinXP box with a failing HD. WinXP wouldn't boot. Knoppix "just worked". It auto-configured all the hardware (a Dell 4550 series P4) and allowed me to back up most of this person's data to a CDR.240V 50Hx vs. 120V 60Hz
Drive on left vs. drive on right side of the road
EBCDIC vs. ASCII (IBM vs. everyone else)
This is the kind of thing that will make people take notice of Linux. They want a car that they can turn the key and drive away. People don't want a car that needs to have the engine tuned before they can drive it off the lot. Or one that they actually have to read the owner's manual.
They want an computer that auto-configures and is intuitively obvious to use. Knoppix 3.4 is a step in that direction.Try this if you want to build a free-standing FM transmitter from a kit, or this if you want to drop a PCI card into your PC and be on the air instantly.
There will be laptop and desktop versions. The big deal is that they're putting two or four lower power CPUs in one package with shared L2 cache.
Wear an oven mitt... they tend to run HOT!
[Snicker] [Chortle] [Coffee-out-the-nose Snort]
You would have to post this right after the "This is going to be the best prom, ever!" comment.That's what everyone said when I bought my pet rock, Eroc, but who's laughing now?
I take Eroc running with me and I'm getting two pairs of these cool new computerized shoes! One pair for me, one shoe for Eroc, and the fouth can be a hot backup shoe in case one of the other three crashes.Ha! Envy me, you barefoot-running, low-tech, posers! While you're soaking your feet in low-tech Epsom salts after a run, Eroc and I will be recharging our batteries and trying to get our shoes to run Linux!
I mean, Balmer wouldn't lie to us about the GPL virus, would he?
Yes, but you must have a very large room with lots of women.
Much of the effect is lost if you don't pedal it around a lot and talk with the weemens.
Isn't the whole idea to be a chick magnet?I would hope that MS04-011 would check for the presence of the SRP, but who knows?
Microsoft is like the Sta-Puff Marshmallow monster from Ghostbusters -- it's huge and it's hard to know where the right frickin' part is located.
So we always aim for the eyes.