Let me guess: If you're American, you either were a soldier (in regards to your reference "state terrorism"), or you were an animal rights activist? Or you're not American.
What they hate is George Bush and his policies. And unless Kerry's policies are withdrawing from the world and letting them having their civil wars unmolested by the US, then they will hate Kerry too. Voting for Kerry won't make attacks on the US less likely. Saying that sounds like saying that the terrorists want Kerry to win. That's an unviable campaign strategy. The terrorists would like to change the election result to show their influence, but they don't really care much in which direction. Their main goal would be to either get your troops to withdraw, or to provoke disproportionate retaliation from the U.S. against innocents. In those two paragraphs it sounded like I equated all Arabs with terrorists. That's wrong. But the anger and resentment among parts of the population helps recruit terrorists and give them support from their surroundings.
The shit is all yours, by the way. Ha!
Don't despair. You can make this world a better place. If you think it's going in the wrong direction, you can help change it for the better. Neither the two-party system nor popular apathy are unchangable. But start with the man in the mirror and get a clue. Seriously.
I'm sure there would be plenty of protest in the U.S. if someone released a picture editor called "Gay Paint"
But those who complained would be struck down with fury as bigots.
It would depend on who released it and how widely released it was, since rape simulators, sex games and extremely violent games get released regurlarly. If the game was racy, few would dare complain. If it was a regular paint program, it would be a funny news story.
"Gay" was a good example some years ago, when people in old England still used it to mean "happy"/"fun" while it meant "homosexual" in the USA.
Microsoft should be less sensitively challenged, and use the Spanish equivalent of "womyn"m thus avoiding the problem.
Seriously though, when people change the meaning of normal words in the language to something racy, it's the dialect's problem, not the people who don't know about it.
The worst movies I've had the misfortune to see are
Cry-Baby (1990) Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992) Serial Mom (1994) Ultimate Ninja, The (1986) Beyond the Stars (1989) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
The Ultimate Ninja is a low-budget cross-cut of two different movies. I saw this one because a friend of mine collects bad movies. Is this intended to be funny?
The Voyage Home and Beyond the Stars are about saving our whale overlords, and the latter has the bonus feature of running out of money before they could finish it.
Cry-Baby, Serial Mom and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid... have no excuse.
There was this movie being made in the Netherlands that I anticipated to make the worst movies list, but they ran out of money and were hit by a strike. Production was halted. Just as well, since the movie was about Paul Watson's merry band blowing stuff up, and after 9/11 direct action activism isn't quite as popular as it was before.
Where'd you get 18 months from? From the law. The law sets the service length up to military service period + 180 days at maximum, and allows calling you in for repetition service.
The implementing rules sets it to military service period + 1 month. And I've never heard about anybody being called in to do civilian service repetition. (In contrast to the Civil Defence people, who get called out from time to time.)
That is not the only way to put a stop to these "settle or bankrupt-by-lawyers" cases, but it would be a very good start. I'm not making a statement as to the merit of the case in question.
The lawyer demographic in the U.S. may be against the loser paying, but might be sold on the idea if you tell them that they might start lawsuits about fees, and then lawsuits about paying the winner in the fees lawsuits, recurse to infinity.
The system is similar to Norway, so there isn't that much to complain about. In Norway the military first-time service is 9-12 months (6 for the Home Guard "minutemen"), and civilian service (working for a kindergarten, a peace organisation, etc.) is 18 months. The longer civilian service is not punishment. The extra 6-12 months are served instead of the regular military repetition exercises that you get called in for. And last, but not least, after civil service you won't be forced to defend your country if there's ever a war.
If you don't want to learn to kill people you can do civil service, do un-armed service in the military, or you can take your chances on
faking a mental problem, which will most likely have you called in again later, like in Finland
that they have too many people, and won't need you
that you can serve a short service and never be called in to repetition
Finland recently shortened the military first-time service. If the total service was reduced by the same percent, then the civilian service should be shortened accordingly. Except of course, that part of the shortening of Finnish military service is caused by less leave for the soldiers and "more intensive training".
We didn't dicuss a lot of politics where I was. We'd talk about football, computers, music, our superiors, that sort of thing.
The only elements that I got pissed off at was those who would rather complain about orders than actually follow them, and then harass other soldiers and break the regulations for fun and negative profit.
Another Norwegian chiming in. Before Finland joined the Germans against Russia, people in my area were collecting money and equipment to send to Finland. Some people even volunteered to help fight the USSR. That help stopped when Finland joined with Germany though. At least Finland refused to send their Jewish population to the camps.
A GRID is a non-centralized distributed system, sharing storage, processing and connectivity with quality of service guarantees, over open protocolls. Is that about right?
Last summer, I was in Barcelona for a class trip. We visited the European Center for Parallellism of Barcelona (Like there are redundant arrays of Barcelonas. Well, there's the smaller town/city of Badelona right outside Barcelona.)
Anyway...
The CEPBA is a partnership with IBM. I talked to one of the IBM researchers there. They very much believed in the GRID as a distributed system that would hold all your personal data for you, and where you would buy your processsing power and storage from big vendors. Thus users wouldn't have to keep up with the hardware advances themselves. I suggested that some of the less time-critical processing and storage resources could be provided by the nodes themselves. He did not buy into this idea. This philosophy reminds me of the old time-sharing systems of yore. If GRIDs are really deployed to a vast number of users, I would predict that users with smaller processing power would team up and sell their (lower quality?) processing to other users, much as the F***** Article says. The only thing that could preclude this would be an enforced requirement that only reputable vendors provide services with QoS guarantees, and digital restrictions stop users from selling their cycles. Why not have several layers/levels of quality and security? That's much of the point of QuS, isn't it -- telling what's your worst offer and the client deciding beforehand wether to accept your service level?
Oh, look: Now their saying that institutions really WILL be able to pool their resources What is GRID compiting Looks like I was "getting with the program" better than that IBM guy was. Either he misunderstood or given wrong information (something I've done a few times and been ashamed of), or is a firm believer in that Those darn kids will never provide the computing power! Only me and my VAX!
I'm presently connecting with my old Palm IIIx, using the IR interface to my Nokia 5210 phone. For quick reading, I use slashdot.org/palm. That link, I can even read with just my phone's wap function, but if I want to read more comments, and reply, I fire up EudoraWeb on my Palm. I also have a portable keyboard for my Palm IIIx, without which it would be a pain to write this long comment. Unfortunately, I can't use the keyboard and stay online at the same time (i'd have to use Grafitti for that), so now it's time to go online and preview this comment. Hey! Now using Gratitti. I have broadband in my room, but the big honkinq PCs aren't here, so IP over IR and radio waves it is.
Slashdot got Timed (in other words, slashdotted by the Times).
So theodp and michael conspired to slashdot the Times in retaliation.
Do I see a dangerous feedback loop?
On a serious note, as the FA says, when it comes to politics people tend to read the blogs that they allready agree with. I DO read some journals and blogs that I don't agree with occasionally, but I also use the blogs as time-savers. The argument goes: "If it's worth my attention, the regular blogs would have note about it."
At this point, the remaining stockholders who think SCO has a case against IBM might well ask why SCO wants additional delay. SCO can't afford much more delay.
So that the lawyers can get that money instead of IBM getting a dime. They'll have to sue Canopy and Microsoft, or the top-level empoyees of SCO personally. There's the possibility of the SEC, the DEA, the ATF or other law enforcement getting involved. (Mind-altering drugs, weapons, and idiots don't mix well, so the government may need to take them down.) But as far as the SEC is concerned, Darl and Co. has to keep up the appearance that they thought they really had case. Thus: Delay.
And the delay could also give opportunity to sell more of this lottery stock to people who either are stupid, or who want to hedge bet on the judges Wells and Kimball sleeping through the case. Ain't gonna happen.
The Caldera-Mickey-Mouse logo is now officially the "It's Tragic, but Funny" topic.
Quick! Remove that spyware! Give me manual controll! Aargh! Smell ice, can you? Reboot! Reboot! Emergency stop! Today! We're doing 30 knots here people!
In other words, the computer is helping to design computers that are faster than itself? But then you go out to design an even better computer? That can then design an even better computer? How ironic it would have been if the only application of computer technology was creating new computers.
"I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me, A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate. And yet I will design it for you."
I contribute my spare computing cycles to distributed computing efforts. The distributed.net client, at least, does not require the computer to be switched on 24/7 either. Even playing DVDs only take up about 25% of the CPU time, and I've had no problems with overheating. I sometimes think about all that A/C power and computer cycles being wasted at the university computer rooms.
Maybe O.S. vendors could include a voluntary option doing install to contribute your computing power. They could then re-sell that computing to users who need to do heavy calculations that are not time-critical or secret.
P.S. IBM is hot on grid computing, but they don't all seem to believe the processing power also can be contributed by individuals.
Combining something you have (the scratch-0ff bit, an ATM card, or an RSA token) with something you know (a password) (a password) will soon become the standard for most everything
Yes, and a lot simpler than something you are (fingerprint, iris, retina, other biometrics). But add the three, something you are, something you know and somthing you have, and authentication is as secure as it can be.
[sarcasm] Yes, thanking people in posts is wrong, because it invites posts of the "Me too!" kind. To show appreciation, you should rather write a journal entry about it, or submit a poll: LA to Oregon video
Thanks!
Wast of space
Where's Oregon to LA?
CowboyNeal owns Oregon
[/sarcasm]..or maybe mirror or torrent his video for him.
P.S. Remindes me of a British TV show (maybe KYTV) The setting was a TV anniversary: "Here's one of the segments made in those days: London to Brighton in three minutes." [Fast film shot from a train looking forwards, showing the rail and rushing in and disappearing behind us.] "And here's how that same train ride would look, today." [Fast film taken from regular news footage, showing passangers being assisted over rails by British Rail workers from a train with technical difficulties, carrying luggage and getting wet from the rain.] [Audience laughing.]
Slashdot Mirror
I know - I was one.
A terrorist, you mean?
Let me guess:
If you're American, you either were a soldier (in regards to your reference "state terrorism"), or you were an animal rights activist?
Or you're not American.
What made you give up the trade, by the way?
David Koresh, is that you?
What they hate is George Bush and his policies.
And unless Kerry's policies are withdrawing from the world and letting them having their civil wars unmolested by the US, then they will hate Kerry too.
Voting for Kerry won't make attacks on the US less likely. Saying that sounds like saying that the terrorists want Kerry to win. That's an unviable campaign strategy.
The terrorists would like to change the election result to show their influence, but they don't really care much in which direction. Their main goal would be to either get your troops to withdraw, or to provoke disproportionate retaliation from the U.S. against innocents.
In those two paragraphs it sounded like I equated all Arabs with terrorists. That's wrong. But the anger and resentment among parts of the population helps recruit terrorists and give them support from their surroundings.
The shit is all yours, by the way. Ha!
Don't despair. You can make this world a better place. If you think it's going in the wrong direction, you can help change it for the better. Neither the two-party system nor popular apathy are unchangable. But start with the man in the mirror and get a clue. Seriously.
I'm sure there would be plenty of protest in the U.S. if someone released a picture editor called "Gay Paint"
But those who complained would be struck down with fury as bigots.
It would depend on who released it and how widely released it was, since rape simulators, sex games and extremely violent games get released regurlarly. If the game was racy, few would dare complain. If it was a regular paint program, it would be a funny news story.
"Gay" was a good example some years ago, when people in old England still used it to mean "happy"/"fun" while it meant "homosexual" in the USA.
Microsoft should be less sensitively challenged, and use the Spanish equivalent of "womyn"m thus avoiding the problem.
Seriously though, when people change the meaning of normal words in the language to something racy, it's the dialect's problem, not the people who don't know about it.
At last, my sig. is getting results. :-)
The worst movies I've had the misfortune to see are
Cry-Baby (1990)
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
Serial Mom (1994)
Ultimate Ninja, The (1986)
Beyond the Stars (1989)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
The Ultimate Ninja is a low-budget cross-cut of two different movies. I saw this one because a friend of mine collects bad movies. Is this intended to be funny?
The Voyage Home and Beyond the Stars are about saving our whale overlords, and the latter has the bonus feature of running out of money before they could finish it.
Cry-Baby, Serial Mom and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid... have no excuse.
There was this movie being made in the Netherlands that I anticipated to make the worst movies list, but they ran out of money and were hit by a strike. Production was halted. Just as well, since the movie was about Paul Watson's merry band blowing stuff up, and after 9/11 direct action activism isn't quite as popular as it was before.
You're right, it's 13 months now.
Where'd you get 18 months from?
From the law.
The law sets the service length up to military service period + 180 days at maximum, and allows calling you in for repetition service.
The implementing rules sets it to military service period + 1 month. And I've never heard about anybody being called in to do civilian service repetition. (In contrast to the Civil Defence people, who get called out from time to time.)
Enact a "loser pays" rule, and enforce it.
That is not the only way to put a stop to these "settle or bankrupt-by-lawyers" cases, but it would be a very good start.
I'm not making a statement as to the merit of the case in question.
The lawyer demographic in the U.S. may be against the loser paying, but might be sold on the idea if you tell them that they might start lawsuits about fees, and then lawsuits about paying the winner in the fees lawsuits, recurse to infinity.
[nitpick]"might've", not "might of".[/nitpick]
In Norway the military first-time service is 9-12 months (6 for the Home Guard "minutemen"), and civilian service (working for a kindergarten, a peace organisation, etc.) is 18 months.
The longer civilian service is not punishment. The extra 6-12 months are served instead of the regular military repetition exercises that you get called in for. And last, but not least, after civil service you won't be forced to defend your country if there's ever a war.
If you don't want to learn to kill people you can do civil service, do un-armed service in the military, or you can take your chances on
Finland recently shortened the military first-time service. If the total service was reduced by the same percent, then the civilian service should be shortened accordingly. Except of course, that part of the shortening of Finnish military service is caused by less leave for the soldiers and "more intensive training".
Fascist by what definition?
We didn't dicuss a lot of politics where I was. We'd talk about football, computers, music, our superiors, that sort of thing.
The only elements that I got pissed off at was those who would rather complain about orders than actually follow them, and then harass other soldiers and break the regulations for fun and negative profit.
Another Norwegian chiming in.
Before Finland joined the Germans against Russia, people in my area were collecting money and equipment to send to Finland. Some people even volunteered to help fight the USSR.
That help stopped when Finland joined with Germany though. At least Finland refused to send their Jewish population to the camps.
Informative.
A GRID is a non-centralized distributed system, sharing storage, processing and connectivity with quality of service guarantees, over open protocolls. Is that about right?
Last summer, I was in Barcelona for a class trip. We visited the European Center for Parallellism of Barcelona (Like there are redundant arrays of Barcelonas. Well, there's the smaller town/city of Badelona right outside Barcelona.)
Anyway...
The CEPBA is a partnership with IBM. I talked to one of the IBM researchers there. They very much believed in the GRID as a distributed system that would hold all your personal data for you, and where you would buy your processsing power and storage from big vendors. Thus users wouldn't have to keep up with the hardware advances themselves.
I suggested that some of the less time-critical processing and storage resources could be provided by the nodes themselves. He did not buy into this idea.
This philosophy reminds me of the old time-sharing systems of yore. If GRIDs are really deployed to a vast number of users, I would predict that users with smaller processing power would team up and sell their (lower quality?) processing to other users, much as the F***** Article says. The only thing that could preclude this would be an enforced requirement that only reputable vendors provide services with QoS guarantees, and digital restrictions stop users from selling their cycles.
Why not have several layers/levels of quality and security? That's much of the point of QuS, isn't it -- telling what's your worst offer and the client deciding beforehand wether to accept your service level?
Oh, look: Now their saying that institutions really WILL be able to pool their resources What is GRID compiting
Looks like I was "getting with the program" better than that IBM guy was. Either he misunderstood or given wrong information (something I've done a few times and been ashamed of), or is a firm believer in that Those darn kids will never provide the computing power! Only me and my VAX!
I'm presently connecting with my old Palm IIIx, using the IR interface to my Nokia 5210 phone.
For quick reading, I use slashdot.org/palm. That link, I can even read with just my phone's wap function, but if I want to read more comments, and reply, I fire up EudoraWeb on my Palm.
I also have a portable keyboard for my Palm IIIx, without which it would be a pain to write this long comment. Unfortunately, I can't use the keyboard and stay online at the same time (i'd have to use Grafitti for that), so now it's time to go online and preview this comment.
Hey! Now using Gratitti. I have broadband in my room, but the big honkinq PCs aren't here, so IP over IR and radio waves it is.
I don't think that refers to privacy from their own parents.
Slashdot got Timed (in other words, slashdotted by the Times).
So theodp and michael conspired to slashdot the Times in retaliation.
Do I see a dangerous feedback loop?
On a serious note, as the FA says, when it comes to politics people tend to read the blogs that they allready agree with.
I DO read some journals and blogs that I don't agree with occasionally, but I also use the blogs as time-savers. The argument goes: "If it's worth my attention, the regular blogs would have note about it."
The stock is back up around $5.
At this point, the remaining stockholders who think SCO has a case against IBM might well ask why SCO wants additional delay. SCO can't afford much more delay.
So that the lawyers can get that money instead of IBM getting a dime. They'll have to sue Canopy and Microsoft, or the top-level empoyees of SCO personally.
There's the possibility of the SEC, the DEA, the ATF or other law enforcement getting involved. (Mind-altering drugs, weapons, and idiots don't mix well, so the government may need to take them down.) But as far as the SEC is concerned, Darl and Co. has to keep up the appearance that they thought they really had case. Thus: Delay.
And the delay could also give opportunity to sell more of this lottery stock to people who either are stupid, or who want to hedge bet on the judges Wells and Kimball sleeping through the case. Ain't gonna happen.
The Caldera-Mickey-Mouse logo is now officially the "It's Tragic, but Funny" topic.
Quick! Remove that spyware! Give me manual controll! Aargh! Smell ice, can you? Reboot! Reboot! Emergency stop! Today! We're doing 30 knots here people!
Let's not forget the Skjold class Motor Torpedo Boat (Fast Patrol Boats).
Radar absorbing materials and sharp edges.
The prototype has participated in NATO naval drills.
In other words, the computer is helping to design computers that are faster than itself?
But then you go out to design an even better computer? That can then design an even better computer?
How ironic it would have been if the only application of computer technology was creating new computers.
"I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me, A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate. And yet I will design it for you."
Good question.
I contribute my spare computing cycles to distributed computing efforts.
The distributed.net client, at least, does not require the computer to be switched on 24/7 either.
Even playing DVDs only take up about 25% of the CPU time, and I've had no problems with overheating. I sometimes think about all that A/C power and computer cycles being wasted at the university computer rooms.
Maybe O.S. vendors could include a voluntary option doing install to contribute your computing power. They could then re-sell that computing to users who need to do heavy calculations that are not time-critical or secret.
P.S. IBM is hot on grid computing, but they don't all seem to believe the processing power also can be contributed by individuals.
Combining something you have (the scratch-0ff bit, an ATM card, or an RSA token) with something you know (a password) (a password) will soon become the standard for most everything
Yes, and a lot simpler than something you are (fingerprint, iris, retina, other biometrics).
But add the three, something you are, something you know and somthing you have, and authentication is as secure as it can be.
Yes, thanking people in posts is wrong, because it invites posts of the "Me too!" kind.
To show appreciation, you should rather write a journal entry about it, or submit a poll:
LA to Oregon video
[/sarcasm]
P.S. Remindes me of a British TV show (maybe KYTV)
The setting was a TV anniversary:
"Here's one of the segments made in those days: London to Brighton in three minutes." [Fast film shot from a train looking forwards, showing the rail and rushing in and disappearing behind us.]
"And here's how that same train ride would look, today."
[Fast film taken from regular news footage, showing passangers being assisted over rails by British Rail workers from a train with technical difficulties, carrying luggage and getting wet from the rain.]
[Audience laughing.]
This was moderated Informative and I M2d that moderation as Fair, but only because the post included a link and some information about the jury.
What I'm saying here is that I didn't think the accusation against FOX news was the informative part.
P.S: I went ahead and made new discussion wihtout a journal or article parent: Journal slashboxes?