The witness signatures are for if you can't sign your name, so you mark the signature with your "x" and the witnesses sign that it was really you. There is no literacy requirement for voting.
People act like because our founding forefathers said X, it was handed down by God himself.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I wonder where they got that idea? Maybe from the founding fathers themselves?
We can speculate about why, but I do so like that first graph link. I wonder if desktops are going to swing like that, or if laptops are beginning to take that curve.
This seems logical. We'll probably pass through this phase on our way to 256 cores per desktop.
The IT world gets ever more bizarre. Companies buy quad core desktops because that's what is cheap in the market and we've always gone up with hardware. Then they load it down with software that slows it to the same level of performance we've always had, because people don't type any faster than we used to. We wind up with a hundred million super computers of last decade sucking watts like they're free, to produce 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheets of wood fiber printed with glyphs just like we did when the pinnacle of office technology was the IBM Selectric - which, btw, at least had a decently engineered keyboard.
But don't tell me that you are not already in 10 different databases from the moment you are born.
The database is a relatively recent innovation. Its use in government for the purpose of tracking citizens even more recent. A lot of citizens feel that a government that tracks the location of each person from birth to death is inviting abuses of government. That notwithstanding, that's what we have today, and the tracking is getting ever more thorough. In some places they install tracking devices in every auto, presumably to "more fairly" assess road taxes. The emergency services telephone operators have access to a cellular phone's GPS equipment to precisely locate a caller, and phones without this equipment are generally not available. More and more public cameras observe the comings and goings of citizens about their daily chores.
A tyrant with this much information would not find it challenging to silence dissent, discreetly.
Generally if you can boot it and it has am environment that can read NTFS partitions and run an antivirus program, it's an operating system. Antivirus vendors don't include operating systems with their products for the obvious reason.
I love the idea behind Linux, but it won't be accepted by a large majority of people until it can do some of the most common tasks (Photoshop, more than a few PCs games, run legacy or odd software) without having to run an emulator that won't work perfectly.
For this kind of work 512 bytes is huge. You have the resources of the BIOS, and you have to find one block: the block where the rest of your code begins. You have to load it and execute it. You're allowed to write the CHS address of this block in your boot block because the OS is never going to see it.
I doubt it takes even 50 bytes to do that. On the original PC I could do it in 30.
The closer we are to immortal memory. That would be both good and bad. We would forever despair of our failures. We would always remember where we left our keys.
Since all the other parts of a Man are capable of being restored through regressing any cell into a T-cell and then culturing it into the desired part, if this gets us to where we can keep the mind functional as well, then we've found Ponce deLeon's fountain of youth.
That would be great, because there are only 6 billion of us, and that number was not growing nearly fast enough.
I had forgotten that. Yeah, when you pay to see the movie in a theater it's ok to have some fluff up front in case you're late and to not sell that space is dumb for the theater owner. At home on media you paid full price for, it's galling. If I wanted ads, I'd watch TV.
Dual boot is for people with commitment issues. It's not worth the hassle, nor the Doubt of knowing if the second install is going to hash the first. If you need both, buy another PC or install one in a VM. It's not like a good Linux box costs more than $220 and virtualbox is free.
But pen boot is cool. The version of Ubuntu that does it is only a couple days old. I haven't tried it yet. Maybe tomorrow. I'm pretty hot about it. I pen boot Clonezilla at work a couple hundred times a day. It's slick.
It might take a little getting used to, but not as much as Vista. In the end I think you'll like it. Updates are twice a year rather than monthly but that seems to be frequent enough because the system has vulnerabilities less often, and you can't infect a CDROM anyway.
The good news is that if you like the LiveCD version you can remove your hard drive and its risks altogether. You can even save your settings, preferences and files to a pen drive, SDHC chip or network share if you like. The bad news is that it's a PITA to install software that's not included unless you use a HDD or pen. Up from there, an office package is included, and all you have to do to install it to a HDD is click the install icon and answer a few simple questions. You can even use the thing while it installs to the HDD in the background.
If you consider installing it to HDD you should be aware that historically it has supported 32 of the 1.7 million pieces of malware available on the Internet. Of those 32, only one ever escaped the laboratory, and that one is no longer supported in any possible configuration of the current version.
Yes, you're being an ignoramus. That's ok. It was your turn. Last week was my turn.
The depth of my ignorance can be measured by the length of time I've been aghast at the carelessness and clue deficit of software engineers, system designers, corporate and government IT staff. We're over a quarter century now, so I must be really, really dumb.
Fortunately for me, in that I'm at least not unique.
If this doesn't seal your confidence, remember that this is only one of millions of Windows malware systems feeding into a fully evolved malware ecosystem. It's a wonder anybody has money in their account at all. It's a wonder every person's credit isn't compromised. Certainly enough personal data has been lost to compromise everybody but the Amish.
Don't worry. One of the most wonderful things about the government is that it's ineffective at managing things on a fine scale. This battle will be long over before they even realize it's started. And then they'll be for the result, of course, in recognition of the popular will that this is the way things are. In the mean time the special interests will be occupied buying senators and whatnot without realizing that the battle is being lost in the living rooms, not in the conference rooms.
I do respect the good professor, and admire his work. Don't take this as a dissent from anything else he's written.
My nick here is symbolset. I'm mindful of what symbols are and what they do. The word is a tool to convey meaning - a link from the idea to the thing referred. From your reply I can sense that this word did a yeoman's work for you.
Often we seek to gain control of discourse by manipulating the symbols until thy perform work for which they're not intended -- certainly IBM tried this in our field by trying to rename hardware like hard disks to fixed disks and motherboards to planar boards. It didn't work for IBM and it's not going to work for Professor Lessig if he pushes his idea into the narrow course of calling things what they are.
In this context "content" is all of music, cinema, software, and many other things once recorded and contained within distribution media - but not live performances nor ideas themselves. The subject of our discussion is BD media and its contents, the encryption methods applied thereto. That's content. The artists themselves, whether writing performing or editing, have litte to do with this. I seriously doubt any of them retains an ownership interest in the "content". And if they don't, is it even still art? Have you seen most of this stuff? It's mostly bad.
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If you don't vote:
So get off your lazy butts and vote! You are not too busy.
I know there was a place for someone to sign.
The witness signatures are for if you can't sign your name, so you mark the signature with your "x" and the witnesses sign that it was really you. There is no literacy requirement for voting.
So... at which step do you download all the porn to your server?
People act like because our founding forefathers said X, it was handed down by God himself.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I wonder where they got that idea? Maybe from the founding fathers themselves?
HPC is also not trending toward Windows even though Steve Ballmer thought it would.
We can speculate about why, but I do so like that first graph link. I wonder if desktops are going to swing like that, or if laptops are beginning to take that curve.
A real Immmortal Poet would know that the meme has more power than the history. It has been repeated often enough to become true.
Linux also doesn't have to spend 18 months and millions of dollars finding just the right "startup sound". It's just not fair.
This seems logical. We'll probably pass through this phase on our way to 256 cores per desktop.
The IT world gets ever more bizarre. Companies buy quad core desktops because that's what is cheap in the market and we've always gone up with hardware. Then they load it down with software that slows it to the same level of performance we've always had, because people don't type any faster than we used to. We wind up with a hundred million super computers of last decade sucking watts like they're free, to produce 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheets of wood fiber printed with glyphs just like we did when the pinnacle of office technology was the IBM Selectric - which, btw, at least had a decently engineered keyboard.
Blech.
No. By far, the most tragic happening of a human is that we die.
If people ceased to die on their own, it would become necessary to kill them. That's a tragedy of another kind.
But don't tell me that you are not already in 10 different databases from the moment you are born.
The database is a relatively recent innovation. Its use in government for the purpose of tracking citizens even more recent. A lot of citizens feel that a government that tracks the location of each person from birth to death is inviting abuses of government. That notwithstanding, that's what we have today, and the tracking is getting ever more thorough. In some places they install tracking devices in every auto, presumably to "more fairly" assess road taxes. The emergency services telephone operators have access to a cellular phone's GPS equipment to precisely locate a caller, and phones without this equipment are generally not available. More and more public cameras observe the comings and goings of citizens about their daily chores.
A tyrant with this much information would not find it challenging to silence dissent, discreetly.
From The Register:
"The incentive structure under which media providers operate should be reconsidered and restructured,"
Although specific to music, it applies to other content.
Generally if you can boot it and it has am environment that can read NTFS partitions and run an antivirus program, it's an operating system. Antivirus vendors don't include operating systems with their products for the obvious reason.
I love the idea behind Linux, but it won't be accepted by a large majority of people until it can do some of the most common tasks (Photoshop, more than a few PCs games, run legacy or odd software) without having to run an emulator that won't work perfectly.
And a pony. It has to come with a pony.
It's not just a river in Egypt
For this kind of work 512 bytes is huge. You have the resources of the BIOS, and you have to find one block: the block where the rest of your code begins. You have to load it and execute it. You're allowed to write the CHS address of this block in your boot block because the OS is never going to see it.
I doubt it takes even 50 bytes to do that. On the original PC I could do it in 30.
The closer we are to immortal memory. That would be both good and bad. We would forever despair of our failures. We would always remember where we left our keys.
Since all the other parts of a Man are capable of being restored through regressing any cell into a T-cell and then culturing it into the desired part, if this gets us to where we can keep the mind functional as well, then we've found Ponce deLeon's fountain of youth.
That would be great, because there are only 6 billion of us, and that number was not growing nearly fast enough.
I had forgotten that. Yeah, when you pay to see the movie in a theater it's ok to have some fluff up front in case you're late and to not sell that space is dumb for the theater owner. At home on media you paid full price for, it's galling. If I wanted ads, I'd watch TV.
Dual boot is for people with commitment issues. It's not worth the hassle, nor the Doubt of knowing if the second install is going to hash the first. If you need both, buy another PC or install one in a VM. It's not like a good Linux box costs more than $220 and virtualbox is free.
But pen boot is cool. The version of Ubuntu that does it is only a couple days old. I haven't tried it yet. Maybe tomorrow. I'm pretty hot about it. I pen boot Clonezilla at work a couple hundred times a day. It's slick.
The cure is here.
It might take a little getting used to, but not as much as Vista. In the end I think you'll like it. Updates are twice a year rather than monthly but that seems to be frequent enough because the system has vulnerabilities less often, and you can't infect a CDROM anyway.
The good news is that if you like the LiveCD version you can remove your hard drive and its risks altogether. You can even save your settings, preferences and files to a pen drive, SDHC chip or network share if you like. The bad news is that it's a PITA to install software that's not included unless you use a HDD or pen. Up from there, an office package is included, and all you have to do to install it to a HDD is click the install icon and answer a few simple questions. You can even use the thing while it installs to the HDD in the background.
If you consider installing it to HDD you should be aware that historically it has supported 32 of the 1.7 million pieces of malware available on the Internet. Of those 32, only one ever escaped the laboratory, and that one is no longer supported in any possible configuration of the current version.
Let me know what you think.
Yes, you're being an ignoramus. That's ok. It was your turn. Last week was my turn.
The depth of my ignorance can be measured by the length of time I've been aghast at the carelessness and clue deficit of software engineers, system designers, corporate and government IT staff. We're over a quarter century now, so I must be really, really dumb.
Fortunately for me, in that I'm at least not unique.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but it does appear that Sinowal is free as in beer as well.
If this doesn't seal your confidence, remember that this is only one of millions of Windows malware systems feeding into a fully evolved malware ecosystem. It's a wonder anybody has money in their account at all. It's a wonder every person's credit isn't compromised. Certainly enough personal data has been lost to compromise everybody but the Amish.
Don't worry. One of the most wonderful things about the government is that it's ineffective at managing things on a fine scale. This battle will be long over before they even realize it's started. And then they'll be for the result, of course, in recognition of the popular will that this is the way things are. In the mean time the special interests will be occupied buying senators and whatnot without realizing that the battle is being lost in the living rooms, not in the conference rooms.
I do respect the good professor, and admire his work. Don't take this as a dissent from anything else he's written.
My nick here is symbolset. I'm mindful of what symbols are and what they do. The word is a tool to convey meaning - a link from the idea to the thing referred. From your reply I can sense that this word did a yeoman's work for you.
Often we seek to gain control of discourse by manipulating the symbols until thy perform work for which they're not intended -- certainly IBM tried this in our field by trying to rename hardware like hard disks to fixed disks and motherboards to planar boards. It didn't work for IBM and it's not going to work for Professor Lessig if he pushes his idea into the narrow course of calling things what they are.
In this context "content" is all of music, cinema, software, and many other things once recorded and contained within distribution media - but not live performances nor ideas themselves. The subject of our discussion is BD media and its contents, the encryption methods applied thereto. That's content. The artists themselves, whether writing performing or editing, have litte to do with this. I seriously doubt any of them retains an ownership interest in the "content". And if they don't, is it even still art? Have you seen most of this stuff? It's mostly bad.
They believe what they want to believe. Sell them what they want or find a better market for truth.