M$oft? And here I thought this was going to be a serious question.
I thought Micro$oft, M$oft or M$ were the accepted spellings. I read about M$ all the time here on Slashdot and that is how it is spelled. Is there some other way that I'm not aware of?
I think it's great that Linux can run that stable. But really, outside of bragging rights, does it really matter that your computer is up that long? I'm not trying to bash either side, but there are very, very few cases (IMHO) where a computer needs to be up for 99 days without a reboot.
It is essential that our servers stay up all the time, that goes without saying, but I also leave my laptop on all the time. I hate having to reboot as I lose the state of my work environment: what files I had open and where, what logs I was tailing, the specific command history for terminals, what web pages I had open, etc. I reboot typically on average about avery 3-4 weeks, usually because of an OS patch. I could use some other technologies (like using VNC connection to a server that is stable) but I don't have to and I really like it.
HTPCs (Home theater PCs) also require almost indefinite uptime - you don't want to have to boot a PC to watch TV or a movie, and a crash while watching a movie is not acceptable. I've heard many stories on HTPC forums of people spending days and weeks attempting to track down causes of intermittent crashes. As HTPCs get more prevalent I can only see long uptimes getting more important.
I really liked that short story, it has been years since I read it but I always think about it every time I see something about slowing light down, thanks for reminding who wrote it. Not a bad mystery angle to it too IIRC.
It would be great, the Free Fall flights traveling, make the trips way more enjoyable. It would kick any in-flight movie's ass and I bet no one would complain about the lack of meals.
I will accept that the documents are genuine if someone can produce a document on a circa-1972 typewriter that matches nearly as well as the out of the printer Word doc.
How about a 1960's IBM Composer typewriter? An IBM Selectric Composer is the most likely candidate. It has the Times New Roman font with proportional spacing and superscript th's. Read this for more info.
... for showing his true colors. Things are improving(praise W). Find a human boss, and leave.
Mod me down as flaimbait but W being responsible for more human bosses? Is this a joke? The same W that wanted to cut overtime? The same one that wants to classify fast food jobs as 'manufacturing' jobs? The same one that decides to no longer report on factory closings and mass-layoffs? The same one that wanted to cut 75% of the taxes corporations pay towards unemployment benefits and shift the costs to the states? The same one that wanted to cut job retraining funds for the recently unemployed? The same one that illegally did not appoint any representatives of labor or consumers to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations?
That is the average workers savior?
The electoral college also had the nice effect (and could be its reasoning) of giving white landowners from southern slave holding sates more power in elections than in other states as blacks were counted (as 3/5ths of a person) but were not allowed to vote. The net effect was Virginia got the most power in choosing a president. In the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson would not have won if slaves were not counted. See http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/election/electionfink.h tm for more views and info on the history and reasoning of the electoral college.
Have you tried it? And not to be an ass, but 20 - 12 is 8, not 6. I would also have to say that having 67% more keys probably makes a large difference.
I have a sneaky suspicion the 1.6ghz G5 will beat the socks off of the 1Ghz iBook G4 in performance: faster bus, faster memory, faster CPU clock speed, faster CPU architecture and faster hd.
Oh yeah, don't forget the larger screen, 14" vs. 17".
As for the price difference, the 14" iBook is the same price as the 17" iMac; the 12" iBook is $200 cheaper but you lose out on even more screen. Don't get me wrong, I do like laptops, even have one, but the iMac G5 is quite the bargain -- the only real advantage the iBook has is portability, which is (obviously) not for everyone.
Nothing like moving parts to send battery life down the toilet, not to mention reliability. I'm not an expert, but with 2GB of flash ram (0.5GB more than the HD) being about $150 street you would think an $800 dollar phone would use it.
The only thing that does suck, are cable companies not utilizing the full 19.4Mbps bandwidth. Most of the ones I have are closer to 9 or 10Mbps, and in high action sequences the mpeg just falls apart on the most compressed channels
I have to agree that the compression sucks, fast action just breaks down, but last I checked at least Comcast was not doing rateshaping yet (this was early this year). Has that changed? I know they bought some equipment for it in some markets. I think I might need to go to over-the-air HDTV.
720p doesn't use 59.94 full images per second, it uses 29.97 images per second that are then shown twice on your 720p capable TV set (shown twice to eliminate flickering).
Are you sure about this? I have never head this about 720p material unless it was originally shot on film. I thought all native 720p (such as what FOX, ABC and ESPN will use for sports) will be 720p at a unique 60 frames per second.
On the contrary, it shows why the electoral college was established in the first place. It insures that smaller states like North Dakota and Alaska have a stake in deciding our national destiny, and keeps it from being steered entirely from California, Texas, and New York.
That would be 'tyranny of the minority' right? So you are saying that my vote from California is worth less than someone else's vote and that is a good thing? Am I less of a person? What did I do to deserve this disenfranchisement? Can you back this up with historical evidence?
There is some good evidence that the 'real' reason for the electoral college was to give the whites in the slave holding south (and especially Virginia) more power in choosing our president. Maybe this should be another censored news story.
If you want to find the truth I'd suggest you do some research. [link to http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=231 ] And try not to accept what Salon, the Washington Post, the LA Times or the NY Times says as the end of it.
OK, I just read that and it (not just the summaries) and it really seems to say that most of what the SBVT say is false misleading or not backed by the official and other's accounts:
Elliott also says in that second affidavit, "Had I known the facts, I would not have recommended Kerry for the Silver Star for simply pursuing and dispatching a single, wounded, fleeing Viet Cong." That statement is misleading, however. It mischaracterizes the actual basis on which Kerry received his decoration.
Theofficial citations show Kerry was notawarded the Silver Star "for simply pursuing and dispatching" the Viet Cong. In fact, the killing is not even mentioned in two of the three versions of the official citation (see "supporting documents" at right.) The citations - based on what Elliott wrote up at the time -dwell mostly onKerry's decision to attack rather than flee from two ambushes, including one in which he led a landing party.
and
The most serious allegation in the ad is that Kerry received boththe Bronze Star, his second-highest decoration, andhis third purple heart, whichallowed him to be sent home early, under false pretenses. But that account is flatly contradicted by Jim Rassmann, the former Army Lieutenant whom Kerry rescued that day.
and more, about his thrid purple heart:
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth further says Kerry didn't deserve his third purple heart, which was received for shrapnel wounds in left buttocks and contusions on right forearm. The Swift Boat group's affidavits state that the wound in Kerry's backside happened earlier that day in an accident.
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And according to a Navy casualty report released by the Kerry campaign, the third purple heartwas received for "shrapnel wounds in left buttocksand contusions on his right forearm when a mine detonated close aboard PCF-94," Kerry's boat.As a matter of strict grammar, the report doesn't state that both injuries were received as a result of the mine explosion, only the arm injury.
The officialcitation for Kerry's Bronze Star refers only to his arm injury, not to the shrapnel wound to his rear. It says heperformed therescue"from an exposed position on the bow, his arm bleeding and in pain." The description of Kerry's arm "bleeding" isn't consistent with the description of a "contusion," or bruise.
Wow, a discrepency in wether his arm was bleeding or not, but none on wether it was injured. Note that the ad fails to mention the real injury that was actually considered for the purple heart. As a personal note, my worst and most painful injuries I have had never had any bleeding (dislocations and broken bones), IMHO I would not require 'bleeding' for a purple heart.
But wait, there is more:
Two who appear in the ad say Kerry didn't deserve his first purple heart. Louis Letson, a medical officer and Lieutenant Commander, says in the ad that he knows Kerry is lying about his first purple heart because "I treated him for that." However, medical records provided by the Kerry campaign to FactCheck.org do not list Letson as the "person administering treatment" for Kerry's injury on December 3, 1968 . The person who signed this sick call report is J.C. Carreon, who is listed astreatingKerry for shrapnel to the left arm.
In his affidavit, Letson saysKerry's wound wasself-inflicted and does not merit a purple heart.But that's based on hearsay, and disputed hearsay at that. Letson says"the crewman with Kerry told me there was no hostile fire, and that Kerry had inadvertently wounded himself with an M-79 grenade." But the Kerry campaign says the two crewmen with Kerry that day deny ever talking to Letson.
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I have to agree with *some* of what you say, but you have quite a bit of ignorance. We broke up Germany because of the threat we saw after WWII, England and France arbitrarily broke up the middle east because they wanted to control it for profit and power, not 'for their own good'.
Much of the animosity we see towards the US is because we are meddling in other affairs under the premise that it is for their good while it is actually for our (the USA's) own good or profit, and when we no longer see an profitable or nice political reason to be there we leave the area to fester (see Afghanistan, actually looks like we are ramping up to do nothing again and let rise more problems).
The USA has done many great things, but we are not infallible:we are very arrogant and can be quite greedy.
This is one place where I want to beat the snot out of all the left-wingers who won't be happy with anything that doesn't run on fairy dust and pot.
Too bad the current conservatives in power are hooked fossil fuel. Maybe if the nuclear power industry had better lobbyists and got members appointed to cabinet positions then they could compete with big oil and coal on an even footing
I doubt it (but I have been wrong before) - it took a long time to get the phone over to Verizon, and when talking to an acquaintance working for Palm[somthing] last year he thought they would never have the Treo for Verizon.
Why doesn't LA or New York have this kind of tech? What's the excuse? Eight million people isn't a big enough market?
I think one of the problems is that the larger metropolises subsidize the cost of bring broadband to the rural areas. That takes away money that could/would be used to upgrade the population dense areas.
As a side note, RSA relies on hashing for it to work in signing messages, if you can break hashing algorithms, you can break most public key crypto. (It has been a while since I kept up on crypto, but IIRC all public key signing required using hashing to sign the message and then use the private/public key crypto to encrypt the key, they article actually alludes to this problem.)
The particular attack mentioned in the article and your parent post does not apply in your forensics example - you are thinking of a preimage attack (where you can find a collision to an existing key) and not a collision attack (where you can find two messages that match a new arbitrary key).
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I thought Micro$oft, M$oft or M$ were the accepted spellings. I read about M$ all the time here on Slashdot and that is how it is spelled. Is there some other way that I'm not aware of?
It is essential that our servers stay up all the time, that goes without saying, but I also leave my laptop on all the time. I hate having to reboot as I lose the state of my work environment: what files I had open and where, what logs I was tailing, the specific command history for terminals, what web pages I had open, etc. I reboot typically on average about avery 3-4 weeks, usually because of an OS patch. I could use some other technologies (like using VNC connection to a server that is stable) but I don't have to and I really like it.
HTPCs (Home theater PCs) also require almost indefinite uptime - you don't want to have to boot a PC to watch TV or a movie, and a crash while watching a movie is not acceptable. I've heard many stories on HTPC forums of people spending days and weeks attempting to track down causes of intermittent crashes. As HTPCs get more prevalent I can only see long uptimes getting more important.
I really liked that short story, it has been years since I read it but I always think about it every time I see something about slowing light down, thanks for reminding who wrote it. Not a bad mystery angle to it too IIRC.
Yes, you are very correct; it was my faulty memory: no parity check. Both NAND and NOR are universal.
For the interested: NAND and NOR gate logic.
It would be great, the Free Fall flights traveling, make the trips way more enjoyable. It would kick any in-flight movie's ass and I bet no one would complain about the lack of meals.
Yeah, there is a difference, I find the first query much more natural. I think I need to get out more.
How about a 1960's IBM Composer typewriter? An IBM Selectric Composer is the most likely candidate. It has the Times New Roman font with proportional spacing and superscript th's. Read this for more info.
Mod me down as flaimbait but W being responsible for more human bosses? Is this a joke? The same W that wanted to cut overtime? The same one that wants to classify fast food jobs as 'manufacturing' jobs? The same one that decides to no longer report on factory closings and mass-layoffs? The same one that wanted to cut 75% of the taxes corporations pay towards unemployment benefits and shift the costs to the states? The same one that wanted to cut job retraining funds for the recently unemployed? The same one that illegally did not appoint any representatives of labor or consumers to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations?
That is the average workers savior?
The electoral college also had the nice effect (and could be its reasoning) of giving white landowners from southern slave holding sates more power in elections than in other states as blacks were counted (as 3/5ths of a person) but were not allowed to vote. The net effect was Virginia got the most power in choosing a president. In the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson would not have won if slaves were not counted. See http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/election/electionfink.h tm for more views and info on the history and reasoning of the electoral college.
Have you tried it? And not to be an ass, but 20 - 12 is 8, not 6. I would also have to say that having 67% more keys probably makes a large difference.
RTFA, it doesn't use T9, it has 20 keys. Not what you are expecting. I have used a beta Sidekick II, it is pretty nice, a little cartoony though.
Oh yeah, don't forget the larger screen, 14" vs. 17".
As for the price difference, the 14" iBook is the same price as the 17" iMac; the 12" iBook is $200 cheaper but you lose out on even more screen. Don't get me wrong, I do like laptops, even have one, but the iMac G5 is quite the bargain -- the only real advantage the iBook has is portability, which is (obviously) not for everyone.
Not quite true, check out the prices for SD memory, about $100 a GB.
Nothing like moving parts to send battery life down the toilet, not to mention reliability. I'm not an expert, but with 2GB of flash ram (0.5GB more than the HD) being about $150 street you would think an $800 dollar phone would use it.
I have to agree that the compression sucks, fast action just breaks down, but last I checked at least Comcast was not doing rateshaping yet (this was early this year). Has that changed? I know they bought some equipment for it in some markets. I think I might need to go to over-the-air HDTV.
720p doesn't use 59.94 full images per second, it uses 29.97 images per second that are then shown twice on your 720p capable TV set (shown twice to eliminate flickering).
Are you sure about this? I have never head this about 720p material unless it was originally shot on film. I thought all native 720p (such as what FOX, ABC and ESPN will use for sports) will be 720p at a unique 60 frames per second.
That would be 'tyranny of the minority' right? So you are saying that my vote from California is worth less than someone else's vote and that is a good thing? Am I less of a person? What did I do to deserve this disenfranchisement? Can you back this up with historical evidence?
There is some good evidence that the 'real' reason for the electoral college was to give the whites in the slave holding south (and especially Virginia) more power in choosing our president. Maybe this should be another censored news story.
OK, I just read that and it (not just the summaries) and it really seems to say that most of what the SBVT say is false misleading or not backed by the official and other's accounts:
and
and more, about his thrid purple heart:
Wow, a discrepency in wether his arm was bleeding or not, but none on wether it was injured. Note that the ad fails to mention the real injury that was actually considered for the purple heart. As a personal note, my worst and most painful injuries I have had never had any bleeding (dislocations and broken bones), IMHO I would not require 'bleeding' for a purple heart.
But wait, there is more:
Much of the animosity we see towards the US is because we are meddling in other affairs under the premise that it is for their good while it is actually for our (the USA's) own good or profit, and when we no longer see an profitable or nice political reason to be there we leave the area to fester (see Afghanistan, actually looks like we are ramping up to do nothing again and let rise more problems).
The USA has done many great things, but we are not infallible:we are very arrogant and can be quite greedy.
Too bad the current conservatives in power are hooked fossil fuel. Maybe if the nuclear power industry had better lobbyists and got members appointed to cabinet positions then they could compete with big oil and coal on an even footing
I doubt it (but I have been wrong before) - it took a long time to get the phone over to Verizon, and when talking to an acquaintance working for Palm[somthing] last year he thought they would never have the Treo for Verizon.
I don't think that was Verizon's fault - all Treo600s from all providers lack bluetooth.
I think one of the problems is that the larger metropolises subsidize the cost of bring broadband to the rural areas. That takes away money that could/would be used to upgrade the population dense areas.
As a side note, RSA relies on hashing for it to work in signing messages, if you can break hashing algorithms, you can break most public key crypto. (It has been a while since I kept up on crypto, but IIRC all public key signing required using hashing to sign the message and then use the private/public key crypto to encrypt the key, they article actually alludes to this problem.)
The particular attack mentioned in the article and your parent post does not apply in your forensics example - you are thinking of a preimage attack (where you can find a collision to an existing key) and not a collision attack (where you can find two messages that match a new arbitrary key).