While it may be true that your fingerprints are unique, even the fingerprint checking systems used by the police produce a lot of false matches. But this is only a minor problem. You can replace this with DNA testing or an iris scan.
AFIS (Automated Fingerprint ID Systems) are pretty good at matching. Instead of saying "this is the person you're looking for", it gives a weight and gives the top possible matches. It's still up to a human (or humans) to make the final determination that the fingerprint in the database and the one provided by the police is the same.
In the case of the Oregon lawyer who was thought to be connected to the Madrid bombings, the source image provided to the FBI was of inferior quality. In addition, there are questions that the humans were biased looking at that person's record. In that case, it wasn't the AFIS that failed, it was the human element that failed.
IIRC, identical twins have the same DNA. So far, no two people have been proven to have the same fingerprints.
Depends on the number of people and what else you're doing with it. We have anti-spam, webmail/pop/imap, and actually running the MTA. Oh right, and a separate machine for doing the mailing lists. That's 4.
We're winning because MS isn't banging on about the same arguments year after year?
Sure. They're wasting resources trying to follow Linux. And refute what the project is about. And give massive discounts to companies that consider going to Linux. Any cut in revenue for MSFT I consider a good thing.
We're winning because MS is creating in the minds of the public a wide variety of flaws in the idea of open source?
Trying to. The simplistic reasoning that MSFT gives for not going to Linux can be easily refuted. I was given the "there's fewer viruses for Linux and MSFT because of usage". If that were the case, then Apache would have more vulnerabilities than IIS, right? Right??
We're winning because MS still has the same market share?
For desktops? Sure they do. Linux has a long way to go before it can pass the Non-tech-spouse test. For servers, that's harder to figure out. I can build one Linux box that handles e-mail while Windows needs 3 to do the same task. Does this mean that Windows has 3X the servers as Linux? Well yea, but what else does it say?
We're winning because we've driven out the smaller OS's without making a dent on MS?
No, but we've made other companies (Sun, IBM, SGI, HP) realize that they can either work with Linux to compete with MSFT, or go it alone. The UNIX wars showed that companies can't go it alone.
We're winning because we still have ESR as our spokesperson?
So what do the people start doing? Logging in as root. That's right, they will ignore the fact that we have users (like they do w/Windows, no one wants to be anything but the administrator) and they will run everything as root.
Uhm. OS X already does this. As a normal user, you don't have write access to larger parts of the filesystem. To install applications or update the system, you have to give a password, which is then sent to sudo.
Under Windows, there's no easy way to go from "joe user" to "super user", so everyone stays as "super user". Linux and OS X make it pretty easy for the user to upgrade their priveleges temporarily.
Aside from the fact that noone has actually posted a legal definition of "censor", it's irrlelevant.
Using the M-W dictionary, the ISP is acting as a censor. It may not be the legal definition, but that's irrelevant. Saying it's something else is confusing the issue.
But then again, it may actually be the legal definition of censor. See, the ISPs were following the law when taking the material down - or else they'd be charged under the DMCA. Thus, it *is* the government doing this, albeit indirectly.
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So you're saying that M-W does not define words of the English language? Strange.
Until you post a definition that conflicts with the one I've already given, you're wrong. Pal.
And quit using capitals and bold. Sheesh.
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Only a government can censor a person, a private company does not have this ability.
cooking rice, pasta or potatoes in an uncovered recipient while the water is boiling feverishly and huge quantities of steam are generated
Don't cover pasta - it'll boil over. The rest you want to leave covered.
adding enormous amounts of water to a preparation, only to boil it off later on
That's ok, so long as you're not losing anything else
baking meat in overheated and burnt oil that splatters all around
Cover in aluminum foil.
continuously shifting pans on and off the heat source instead of it adjusting to a proper power level
There are cases where you want to take something on and off the heat for a little while.
not turning down a slowly reacting heat source (like an electric plate) when the wanted temperature is nearly reached
Uhm...Not sure about this one. Leave the temperature to what tou want and let the hotplate regulate it.
dumping french^H^H^H^edom fries from the freezer straight into the oil, generating explosions of steam and oil
Not a problem either, so long as you don't throw them in and you don't put too many in at one time. Hint: Put in only a few at a time or else the fries will suck too much heat out of the oil and take longer to cook and get really greasy.
If you want to just follow the recipe, it's not that complicated. Step 1, beat eggs, step 2, add flour, etc.
But, if you want to see what you can do with it, to put your own spin on it, to hack it, then you need to be a bit more complicated. And to do that, you need to understand what's happening and more importantly, why it's happening.
Visual Basic is to Emeril as Perl is to Alton Brown
It IS wrong; just look at the way Microsoft ripped off Apple.
It's only 'ripping off' if the license or copyright law or the author says you can't do it. F/OSS code is full of ripped off code, but that's okay. The original authors WANT you to rip them off. Take my code, make it better. That's one of the reasons the code is there.
I can take one of my previous books, copy major sections of it, and release it as a new work. It's not plagarism - I wrote the original and the copyright holder (me and my publisher) says I can do that.
Minix was practically Public Domain by Tanenbaum's own admission. Thus, Linus couldn't be ripping off Minix, as Minix was there for the taking.
Now let us look at MSFT and Apple. Apple is closed source. Their code is their code - they own the copyrights/'look and feel' of their UI. If MSFT takes the code or appearance and uses it for their own purposes, then Apple is fully able to take MSFT to court to enforce their rights.
With today's RF technology, you probably could pack the channels closer together. But you still have the problem with getting a channel at (for example) 101.7, but get it with static at 101.5 and 101.9. Not as bad now as it was 10 years ago, but it's still a problem.
One of the cartoons implied that the military and police frequency get unused most of the time and the public should get access to those frequencies. It's shortsighted and stupid. The 1% of the time where the police or military need the frequency is important enough to demand they have full access to it. See the communication problems on 9/11 for more information on that.
Sure, but if I get 50MPG for diesel, but 25MPG for my gas-powered, then the cost of diesel would have to double for diesel to not be worth it..10/gal is a 5% premium (assuming gasoline is $2.00/gal).
The best analogy I could come up with is simple, imagine pulling a boat with a civic, the strain wouldnt be in towing it at a constant speed, it would be getting to that speed.
If you were driving in a vacuum, yes that would be right. But boats on trailers aren't exactly known for being aerodynamic.
Remember all the forces that act on a car externally including road friction (larger/underinflated tires) and how big the car is. A Suburban will *always* consume more gas than a tiny honda. It's a heavier car, bigger tires, and phyically larger and thus has to push harder to get to speed and push hard while at speed.
Now, if you were to compare the relative MPG of 1 Suburban packed with passengers (carpool) vs those same passengers, each in a Civic, I belive the Suburban would come out ahead.
Want a solution ? move to a cleaner diesel fuel like europe has, its not uncommon to see a car that runs on that type of diesel get 50MPG. And all of their cars aren't POS low powered eco boxes that sound like humming birds on crack, despite popular thought.
Great idea. I was pondering a Diesel Jetta for my last car (gets 50+ MPG). I may do it next time.
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*whack*
That's what you get.
Documentation takes up little space in comparison to the actual application. Debian goes a step farther and runs their docs through gzip to take up even less space.
Looking at the documentation provided with the package does a number of things:
1) makes sure you have documentation for *that release* of the package. If the web site updates their package and docs, you still have the correct documentation for the release that's installed 2) online docs help a whole lot when your network connection is down for some reason 3) Debian is ususally pretty good at including a changelog that shows what changes they might have made to the software while making it a package (what options they included while building, etc.). This may or may not be available online.
I had an addition added to my house last year, just as the US was starting its Iraq rebuilding effort. As a result, the cost of plywood pretty much doubled, and the result was an immediate 10% increase in the cost of the project.
How about hopping between windows a lot while entering passwords? The mics will only pick up what you're typing, but moving the mouse then becomes a lot harder to trace which window you're typing into. Enter the first few characters of one password in one window, move to another, start there, move back, etc.
Then there's always the copy-and-paste method - copy characters off the screen and paste into the password window.
There are a number of towns in the Boston area that have both Comcast and RCN providing cable and internet service. Strangely enough, if I lived in one of those towns (one maybe 200 yards away), the cost of service from RCN and Comcast would be about 2/3 what I pay now.
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You still need something to play the music on. That's more expensive than the music itself, takes up far less shelf space, and has a higher margin.
While it may be true that your fingerprints are unique, even the fingerprint checking systems used by the police produce a lot of false matches. But this is only a minor problem. You can replace this with DNA testing or an iris scan.
AFIS (Automated Fingerprint ID Systems) are pretty good at matching. Instead of saying "this is the person you're looking for", it gives a weight and gives the top possible matches. It's still up to a human (or humans) to make the final determination that the fingerprint in the database and the one provided by the police is the same.
In the case of the Oregon lawyer who was thought to be connected to the Madrid bombings, the source image provided to the FBI was of inferior quality. In addition, there are questions that the humans were biased looking at that person's record. In that case, it wasn't the AFIS that failed, it was the human element that failed.
IIRC, identical twins have the same DNA. So far, no two people have been proven to have the same fingerprints.
Depends on the number of people and what else you're doing with it. We have anti-spam, webmail/pop/imap, and actually running the MTA. Oh right, and a separate machine for doing the mailing lists. That's 4.
We're winning?
I think we are.
We're winning because MS isn't banging on about the same arguments year after year?
Sure. They're wasting resources trying to follow Linux. And refute what the project is about. And give massive discounts to companies that consider going to Linux. Any cut in revenue for MSFT I consider a good thing.
We're winning because MS is creating in the minds of the public a wide variety of flaws in the idea of open source?
Trying to. The simplistic reasoning that MSFT gives for not going to Linux can be easily refuted. I was given the "there's fewer viruses for Linux and MSFT because of usage". If that were the case, then Apache would have more vulnerabilities than IIS, right? Right??
We're winning because MS still has the same market share?
For desktops? Sure they do. Linux has a long way to go before it can pass the Non-tech-spouse test. For servers, that's harder to figure out. I can build one Linux box that handles e-mail while Windows needs 3 to do the same task. Does this mean that Windows has 3X the servers as Linux? Well yea, but what else does it say?
We're winning because we've driven out the smaller OS's without making a dent on MS?
No, but we've made other companies (Sun, IBM, SGI, HP) realize that they can either work with Linux to compete with MSFT, or go it alone. The UNIX wars showed that companies can't go it alone.
We're winning because we still have ESR as our spokesperson?
Ha. Uhm. Well. You got me there.
So what do the people start doing? Logging in as root. That's right, they will ignore the fact that we have users (like they do w/Windows, no one wants to be anything but the administrator) and they will run everything as root.
Uhm. OS X already does this. As a normal user, you don't have write access to larger parts of the filesystem. To install applications or update the system, you have to give a password, which is then sent to sudo.
Under Windows, there's no easy way to go from "joe user" to "super user", so everyone stays as "super user". Linux and OS X make it pretty easy for the user to upgrade their priveleges temporarily.
If Teresa Heinz Kerry were actually an officer of HJ Heinz, she might hold some influence. She isn't, so she doesn't.
Aside from the fact that noone has actually posted a legal definition of "censor", it's irrlelevant.
Using the M-W dictionary, the ISP is acting as a censor. It may not be the legal definition, but that's irrelevant. Saying it's something else is confusing the issue.
But then again, it may actually be the legal definition of censor. See, the ISPs were following the law when taking the material down - or else they'd be charged under the DMCA. Thus, it *is* the government doing this, albeit indirectly.
So you're saying that M-W does not define words of the English language? Strange.
Until you post a definition that conflicts with the one I've already given, you're wrong. Pal.
And quit using capitals and bold. Sheesh.
Only a government can censor a person, a private company does not have this ability.
Merriam-Webster says you are incorrect.
Does that make Jamie Oliver java?
Hmm..if by that you mean "overhyped nonsense", then I guess so. But it's not really fair to Java.
cooking rice, pasta or potatoes in an uncovered recipient while the water is boiling feverishly and huge quantities of steam are generated
Don't cover pasta - it'll boil over. The rest you want to leave covered.
adding enormous amounts of water to a preparation, only to boil it off later on
That's ok, so long as you're not losing anything else
baking meat in overheated and burnt oil that splatters all around
Cover in aluminum foil.
continuously shifting pans on and off the heat source instead of it adjusting to a proper power level
There are cases where you want to take something on and off the heat for a little while.
not turning down a slowly reacting heat source (like an electric plate) when the wanted temperature is nearly reached
Uhm...Not sure about this one. Leave the temperature to what tou want and let the hotplate regulate it.
dumping french^H^H^H^edom fries from the freezer straight into the oil, generating explosions of steam and oil
Not a problem either, so long as you don't throw them in and you don't put too many in at one time. Hint: Put in only a few at a time or else the fries will suck too much heat out of the oil and take longer to cook and get really greasy.
It can be as complicated as you want it to be.
If you want to just follow the recipe, it's not that complicated. Step 1, beat eggs, step 2, add flour, etc.
But, if you want to see what you can do with it, to put your own spin on it, to hack it, then you need to be a bit more complicated. And to do that, you need to understand what's happening and more importantly, why it's happening.
Visual Basic is to Emeril as Perl is to Alton Brown
It IS wrong; just look at the way Microsoft ripped off Apple.
It's only 'ripping off' if the license or copyright law or the author says you can't do it. F/OSS code is full of ripped off code, but that's okay. The original authors WANT you to rip them off. Take my code, make it better. That's one of the reasons the code is there.
I can take one of my previous books, copy major sections of it, and release it as a new work. It's not plagarism - I wrote the original and the copyright holder (me and my publisher) says I can do that.
Minix was practically Public Domain by Tanenbaum's own admission. Thus, Linus couldn't be ripping off Minix, as Minix was there for the taking.
Now let us look at MSFT and Apple. Apple is closed source. Their code is their code - they own the copyrights/'look and feel' of their UI. If MSFT takes the code or appearance and uses it for their own purposes, then Apple is fully able to take MSFT to court to enforce their rights.
With today's RF technology, you probably could pack the channels closer together. But you still have the problem with getting a channel at (for example) 101.7, but get it with static at 101.5 and 101.9. Not as bad now as it was 10 years ago, but it's still a problem.
One of the cartoons implied that the military and police frequency get unused most of the time and the public should get access to those frequencies. It's shortsighted and stupid. The 1% of the time where the police or military need the frequency is important enough to demand they have full access to it. See the communication problems on 9/11 for more information on that.
Sure, but if I get 50MPG for diesel, but 25MPG for my gas-powered, then the cost of diesel would have to double for diesel to not be worth it. .10/gal is a 5% premium (assuming gasoline is $2.00/gal).
The best analogy I could come up with is simple, imagine pulling a boat with a civic, the strain wouldnt be in towing it at a constant speed, it would be getting to that speed.
If you were driving in a vacuum, yes that would be right. But boats on trailers aren't exactly known for being aerodynamic.
Remember all the forces that act on a car externally including road friction (larger/underinflated tires) and how big the car is. A Suburban will *always* consume more gas than a tiny honda. It's a heavier car, bigger tires, and phyically larger and thus has to push harder to get to speed and push hard while at speed.
Now, if you were to compare the relative MPG of 1 Suburban packed with passengers (carpool) vs those same passengers, each in a Civic, I belive the Suburban would come out ahead.
Want a solution ? move to a cleaner diesel fuel like europe has, its not uncommon to see a car that runs on that type of diesel get 50MPG. And all of their cars aren't POS low powered eco boxes that sound like humming birds on crack, despite popular thought.
Great idea. I was pondering a Diesel Jetta for my last car (gets 50+ MPG). I may do it next time.
*whack*
That's what you get.
Documentation takes up little space in comparison to the actual application. Debian goes a step farther and runs their docs through gzip to take up even less space.
Looking at the documentation provided with the package does a number of things:
1) makes sure you have documentation for *that release* of the package. If the web site updates their package and docs, you still have the correct documentation for the release that's installed
2) online docs help a whole lot when your network connection is down for some reason
3) Debian is ususally pretty good at including a changelog that shows what changes they might have made to the software while making it a package (what options they included while building, etc.). This may or may not be available online.
I had an addition added to my house last year, just as the US was starting its Iraq rebuilding effort. As a result, the cost of plywood pretty much doubled, and the result was an immediate 10% increase in the cost of the project.
Yea, and the Forces Of Evil(tm) are anxiously awaiting for me to type in my password so they can forge e-mail to by siblings.
How about hopping between windows a lot while entering passwords? The mics will only pick up what you're typing, but moving the mouse then becomes a lot harder to trace which window you're typing into. Enter the first few characters of one password in one window, move to another, start there, move back, etc.
Then there's always the copy-and-paste method - copy characters off the screen and paste into the password window.
'scuse me, I'm low on aluminum foil.
There are a number of towns in the Boston area that have both Comcast and RCN providing cable and internet service. Strangely enough, if I lived in one of those towns (one maybe 200 yards away), the cost of service from RCN and Comcast would be about 2/3 what I pay now.
Because Verizon doesn't offer DSL service in my area and my town doesn't have cable competition yet?
http://magnatune.com/
There's some good stuff in the Electronica section I've started listening to (for free). I'll probably buy a few CDs worth soon.
BTW, thanks Russ!
My phone doesn't know where I am. The towers do.
Thus, I can't find my location with my phone unless I call 911 and ask them where I am.
It's trangulation. The cell phone doesn't know where it is, but the towers do.
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