You should take a look at the Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI). We are just getting into the first steps of implementing this where I work (a regional produce distributor). Much of the traceability is already there, BUT every company has their own system. Recalls are a major pain - this will completely solve the problems. PTI provides a universal barcode on every box that traces the produce in the box to the farm level and which specific day it was picked.
I may be wrong here, but I though the software that came with my Belkin UPS had an option of sending a network broadcast that (if other computers on the network are running the software) would know to shutdown as well. Just something you may want to look into for your desktop.
Indoctrination does begin at home, at least in most cases. It's called Religion.
Not that Religion is bad, it serves the purpose of keeping those that can't seem to think for themselves from killing all of us just because it would be fun. But for many people, it is just a death grip keeping them from learning everything they can because it closes their minds.
They could gain control of it, if as the grandparent said, they create proprietary libs that is only on thier linux... if those libs aren't bundled against any of the other libs on the system (very ineffecient, but possible I believe) or only against LGPL libs (whichs allows linking against without sharing the source of the binary that's linking against it) and has Office depend on these libs, then as companies move to Linux and want to keep Office, they will be forced to use MS Linux, or deal with Crossover Office (or similiar solutions) - which MS might go after because it would interfere with thier market.
GAIM seems to be effected as well.. I haven't been able to connect to Yahoo for roughly 24 hours using GAIM 0.78. It keeps giving me incorrect password messages right as I sign on. I haven't changed my password to Yahoo in ages.
Jim West (mayor of Spokane) is a fucking asshat. I worked directly underneath him before he was in politics (summer job at a boy scout camp that he was a directory of). Though he does support the wireless hotspot, which my apartment is in (though no service yet), so maybe I need to change my opinion.
I solved this by checking the Light box in the/. preferences. This also gets rid of several other annoying things (namely the god-awful color schemes).
it's good for hack together quick scripts. but if you are processing a lot of data with PERL you will want to avoid calling out to the shell like that. talk about increasing your execution time tenfold. (ok, maybe not that drastic, but maybe)
He was supposedly a time travelor from 2036 that made his way around a few message boards between Nov 2000 - Mar 2001.
Most people seem to take him as a crock of shit, but many things he predicted are starting to happen. One thing he said:
Why are you so interested in the Constitution?
After the war, the United States had split into five separate regions based on the various factors and military objectives they each had. There was a great deal of anger directed toward the Federal government and a revival of states rights was becoming paramount. However, in their attempt to create an economic form of government, the political and military leaders at the time decided to hold one last Constitutional Congress in order to present a psychological cohesion from the old system.
During this Congress, the leaders discovered and decided that coming up with a new and better form of government was nearly impossible. The original Constitution itself was not the problem it was the ignorance of the people that lived under it.
I don't know whether to believe what he said or not, but I must admit that some of the things he said are definetely plausible. I thought this might interest you because of your comments on wanting to split up the Federal government.
The free places cut you off because they don't really have any way to bill you.
The for-pay places will suck you dry because they already have your payment information and it's in the ToS that you will have to pay so much per MB over the defined limit.
Get this... today at work I got mail from California. The postmark consists of Shrek and donkey and the text "Hello from Far Far Away" (or something like that).
Not even the US Postal Service is immune from advertisement... wait, don't a portion of my tax dollars help pay for the Postal Service?
What we need is a not-for-profit organization with a team of researchers finding secuirty holes in common software, with a pay-to-subscribe list where the security holes can be released to those that need the information before the script kiddies. Script kiddies probably wouldn't pay to get on this list and thus get the proof of concepts. There are other issues as well though... like what happens when some script kiddy does pay to get on and then leaks all the informaiton to other script kiddies. Or when some company sues the not-for-profit for pointing out a hole in thier software.
I don't think there can be any solution and we just have to conitinue on how we have been - patch ASAP when new patches come out (with proper testing of course) and hope you don't get exploited in the time that takes, and if you do get hacked take the box offline and rebuild (or replace with a backup if you have one available).
It would have worked as a nice punishment for being a monopolist. But that ship has sailed and not likely to sail again IMHO.
My stance on it is this: If people are happy using Windows, let them. If they aren't happy using it, show them how to make thier computer work for them instead of them working for them computer, by teaching them how to use Linux.
To me, I don't care if six-pack Joe is using Linux, as he isn't really all that intelligent anyways, and so would just be mooching off of those of us that are in fact helping the cause and improving FOSS. The the ones that are intelligent enough to make good contributions already realize or will realize soon enough that Linux is a better alternative, and will be able to make it do what they want for them.
Linux is about choice, and about learning. IMHO most of the population really doesn't care about either. So why should they care about Linux? Trying to get those people using Linux is just wasted effort.
Having used both I prefer the Logitech one. I originally bought the Microsfot one because of the extra buttons, but took it back after a few days because it was difficult to move small distances - the ball was slightly sticky. From what I could find on google, this is a design flaw. No problems whatsoever on the logitech model.
Except this specific model has a MAJOR design flaw that makes it near impossible to move small distances. I tried it for about 3 days, then took it back and got a Logitech Trackman Wheel instead.
If google's spam blocking is very superb, then they use that as a selling point for upgrading to a pay account.
I'm sure they'll have other features for a non-free account as well. Maybe even do e-mail hosting, where you point the MX for your domain at google and it handles all your e-mail.
Slashdot Mirror
In the State of Washington, they compare the signatures on the petition to the voter rolls to see if the signature matches.
Here is an interesting link to the details of the petition on the referendum that actually triggered this Supreme Court case:
http://wei.secstate.wa.gov/osos/en/initiativesReferenda/Pages/R-71SignatureStats.aspx
You should take a look at the Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI). We are just getting into the first steps of implementing this where I work (a regional produce distributor). Much of the traceability is already there, BUT every company has their own system. Recalls are a major pain - this will completely solve the problems. PTI provides a universal barcode on every box that traces the produce in the box to the farm level and which specific day it was picked.
http://www.producetraceability.org/
And for those pesky files with spaces in the name that your wife likes to create:
find . -print0 | xargs -0 grep [string]
I may be wrong here, but I though the software that came with my Belkin UPS had an option of sending a network broadcast that (if other computers on the network are running the software) would know to shutdown as well. Just something you may want to look into for your desktop.
I disagree.
Indoctrination does begin at home, at least in most cases. It's called Religion.
Not that Religion is bad, it serves the purpose of keeping those that can't seem to think for themselves from killing all of us just because it would be fun. But for many people, it is just a death grip keeping them from learning everything they can because it closes their minds.
They could gain control of it, if as the grandparent said, they create proprietary libs that is only on thier linux... if those libs aren't bundled against any of the other libs on the system (very ineffecient, but possible I believe) or only against LGPL libs (whichs allows linking against without sharing the source of the binary that's linking against it) and has Office depend on these libs, then as companies move to Linux and want to keep Office, they will be forced to use MS Linux, or deal with Crossover Office (or similiar solutions) - which MS might go after because it would interfere with thier market.
It comes in those 12 or 24 packs of cans. You buy the entire pack and one of the cans in the box is the bomb, er winner...
GAIM seems to be effected as well.. I haven't been able to connect to Yahoo for roughly 24 hours using GAIM 0.78. It keeps giving me incorrect password messages right as I sign on. I haven't changed my password to Yahoo in ages.
Jim West (mayor of Spokane) is a fucking asshat. I worked directly underneath him before he was in politics (summer job at a boy scout camp that he was a directory of). Though he does support the wireless hotspot, which my apartment is in (though no service yet), so maybe I need to change my opinion.
I solved this by checking the Light box in the /. preferences. This also gets rid of several other annoying things (namely the god-awful color schemes).
it's good for hack together quick scripts. but if you are processing a lot of data with PERL you will want to avoid calling out to the shell like that. talk about increasing your execution time tenfold. (ok, maybe not that drastic, but maybe)
Ever heard of John Titor?
He was supposedly a time travelor from 2036 that made his way around a few message boards between Nov 2000 - Mar 2001.
Most people seem to take him as a crock of shit, but many things he predicted are starting to happen. One thing he said:
I don't know whether to believe what he said or not, but I must admit that some of the things he said are definetely plausible. I thought this might interest you because of your comments on wanting to split up the Federal government.
'free' is the keyword.
The free places cut you off because they don't really have any way to bill you.
The for-pay places will suck you dry because they already have your payment information and it's in the ToS that you will have to pay so much per MB over the defined limit.
uptime that high == insecure
I know there have been several vulnerabilites in the linux kernel in that time. (search google for mremap).
Get this... today at work I got mail from California. The postmark consists of Shrek and donkey and the text "Hello from Far Far Away" (or something like that).
Not even the US Postal Service is immune from advertisement... wait, don't a portion of my tax dollars help pay for the Postal Service?
I wonder how effective a lawsuit against slashdot for the bandwidth costs + lost revenue would be.
Who knows, maybe if they got sued and lost they might changes thier policies about linking.
What we need is a not-for-profit organization with a team of researchers finding secuirty holes in common software, with a pay-to-subscribe list where the security holes can be released to those that need the information before the script kiddies. Script kiddies probably wouldn't pay to get on this list and thus get the proof of concepts. There are other issues as well though... like what happens when some script kiddy does pay to get on and then leaks all the informaiton to other script kiddies. Or when some company sues the not-for-profit for pointing out a hole in thier software.
I don't think there can be any solution and we just have to conitinue on how we have been - patch ASAP when new patches come out (with proper testing of course) and hope you don't get exploited in the time that takes, and if you do get hacked take the box offline and rebuild (or replace with a backup if you have one available).
It would have worked as a nice punishment for being a monopolist. But that ship has sailed and not likely to sail again IMHO.
My stance on it is this: If people are happy using Windows, let them. If they aren't happy using it, show them how to make thier computer work for them instead of them working for them computer, by teaching them how to use Linux.
To me, I don't care if six-pack Joe is using Linux, as he isn't really all that intelligent anyways, and so would just be mooching off of those of us that are in fact helping the cause and improving FOSS. The the ones that are intelligent enough to make good contributions already realize or will realize soon enough that Linux is a better alternative, and will be able to make it do what they want for them.
Linux is about choice, and about learning. IMHO most of the population really doesn't care about either. So why should they care about Linux? Trying to get those people using Linux is just wasted effort.
Having used both I prefer the Logitech one. I originally bought the Microsfot one because of the extra buttons, but took it back after a few days because it was difficult to move small distances - the ball was slightly sticky. From what I could find on google, this is a design flaw. No problems whatsoever on the logitech model.
Except this specific model has a MAJOR design flaw that makes it near impossible to move small distances. I tried it for about 3 days, then took it back and got a Logitech Trackman Wheel instead.
You answer your own question, in a way.
If google's spam blocking is very superb, then they use that as a selling point for upgrading to a pay account.
I'm sure they'll have other features for a non-free account as well. Maybe even do e-mail hosting, where you point the MX for your domain at google and it handles all your e-mail.
Here's a fun search...
o ft&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/microsoft?q=linux&hq=micros
Easy solution to location: make it internet based.
Find a way to easily verify ID and it's feasible. The easily verify ID part is the problem.
Dead On!
I too have come to that same conclusions myself. The two foundation beliefs in my own personal belief system are:
1) Keep an open Mind
2) Anything is possible if you believe in yourself enough
The trick is believing in oneself enough. It's hard to have complete faith in oneself - to believe that you are your own god, per se.
learn to turbo
In other words, go right to the top - contact the Verizon CEO.