In all the manned tests, the bears could not be persuaded to attack - the suit looks too alien to be worth it.
If so, it seems to me that the suit worked -- although on this level a working suit could probably be constructed out of cardboard and duct tape for a lot less money and effort!
These units store the data in RAM and on disk (a RAID array). At some point the data has to be written out to disk and this will not be as fast.
Alternatively, it's possible that when powering off, the entire contents fo the cache could be written to disk -- the time to power off would be quite large though. I see at least one unit has it's own UPS to manage this.
Their standards are so low it sounds kust like spammers:
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These two requirements constitute "opt-out" style lists, since there is no checking of the "affirmative" request and by default the email address is included in the list.
I shan't be using their lists to whitelist any email arriving at my mail servers any time soon.
and I'm up to date as one would be if they installed this weekend
Actually, that's not strictly true. Look for the symlink called/etc/make.profile and you will see that it is pointing to a 1.4 profile (probably/usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4) unless you changed it. The default-x86-1.4 and default-x86-2004.0 profiles are almost identical, but not quite.
Of course these profiles may diverge more in the future.
Anybody who has followed the brain numbing briefs files over and over again in this case realizes by now that the american legal system is a joke.
I think the judges have let this happen. What we need is for judges to slap down hard on people who don't comply with discovery and other orders (and come back with dog-ate-my-homework excuses) and have the appeals courts not reverse decisions because the judges actually enforced their own orders.
Look at the case in Florida that Boies was involved with: there were multiple instances where judicial orders had been ignored.
Sounds like the Habeas Sender Warranted Email Solution would help here.
Unfortunately, probably not.
Some months ago a spammer was abusing Habeas' copyrights, so I set the SpamAssassin score that my mail server assigned to Habeas to zero. I never removed that zero setting and I expect lots of other SA users also have a zero Habeas score in their SA settings.
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Why did Windows win? It provided the best GUI desktop for these PCs that were everywhere, so naturally it ended up being on all of them
So, please explain the dominance of MS-DOS before Windows 3.0 came out?
No, I'm not trying to flame you, but my point is that your account is not historically correct: MS had already largely won the OS war by 1990. There were some later firefights they had to attend to (OS/2), but MS was already dominant before Win 3.0 (let alone 3.1).
Installing Win 3.0/3.1 was a natural step for people that were already accustomed to MS as the OS provider.
"Java Desktop System is not a Linux distribution, it is an Operating Environment."
Actually, I was discussing the JDS with a SUN employee recently. JDS totally separates the desktop from the local platform on which it is displayed.
To explain: Sun employees can step up to any teminal worldwide, swipe their card and be connected to their desktop. The desktop is not a physical machine, but a process (or set of processes) running on a server somewhere. In other words, it is a constantly running virtual desktop that can be accessed from any terminal.
The goal is that if you swipe your card in a machine running in a remote office, over time, your desktop will migrate to a closer server for better response time. All this happens in a manner hidden from the user.
What Sun is doing with JDS is a world away from what one sees by running a single box.
-Xfree86 is evil because they have a license that forces distributors to acknowledge their work.
-Java Desktop is evil because they don't acknowledge the work they use.
Let me re-write that and you will see that the positions are not so confusing:
-XFree86 is distributed under a license that makes it impossible to re-distribute under the GPL.
-Java desktop may be violating the spirit if not the wording of the GPL.
There, it's quite consistent -- the issue is that the GPL is the favorite license of/.-ers and/.-ers don't like people who violate the GPL.
why the hell isn't the GNOME Foundation meeting the KDE Foundation?
What is it about the concept of competition that you don't understand? One of the reasons the Soviet Union failed was a lack of internal economic competition.
Or do you just think that the best way forwards for society is by supporting monopolies such as Microsoft?
Meanwhile, OpenOffice has that godawful light bulb that pops up every 30 seconds when any little event happens. How the fsck do you turn that off?! Grr.
Do you really need an answer to that? Are you really so clueless that you can't find out how to turn off the help agent?
OK, so I'll give you a tip: there is a website called Google and a
quick search reveals a number of hits. The first hit shows you how to enable the help agent and by implication, how to disable it.
How hard can it be? Just pop up your router, or whatever your firewall is, and set the ports you need open.
If only it were so simple. H323 needs a full protocol-aware firewall, because it uses multiple data-streams with multiple ports. So the firewall needs to analyse the traffic and decide where to send the data that it receives from outside. Remember, with many firewalls, there is more than one machine behind it.
Knowledge today is nothing more then a simple object of value. Patents, IP, and the whole are used as sleeper agents lately.
What makes you think this is new? Texas Instruments' most profitable department at one time (early '90s) was the legal department. They were suing world+dog over some obvious patents that they had obtained in the early days of IC manufacture (before patent rules required patents to be non-obvious).
And I have noticed vast numbers of "environmentalists" who want to keep burning fossil fuels instead of the obvious and practical alternative: nuclear energy. Now I know that nuclear energy does bring its own problems, but how much radioactivity is put into the atmosphere by burning coal?
Not only did I post about this yesterday, but I've also submitted stories about the issues with Diebold and the actions of Alameda County officials (Oakland is in Alameda County)
Have you ever known a PHB that didn't get the extended Circuit City warranty?
I have found that making people understand why they don't need to buy extended warranties is fairly easy: you just have to pitch it right.
The key is to get them to agree that the warranty is merely insurance and then point out that they can self-insure. In other words, that they could put the warranty money in an account that is only used to buy replacements for broken products.
Not really. All the article says is that Baystar is unhappy with how SCO has been acting in public. And we all *know* how they've been acting in public
The thing is: SCO was acting that way in public before Baystar invested, so either Baystar expected Darl and minions to change their behavior, or Baystar is now spewing bullshit.
Given their statements that they expected to make money regardless of the merits of SCO's case, Baystar has shown themselves to be without morals, so I don't believe anything they say.
Well, if I were trying to build a fraudulent machine, I would do both:
Make it only fix the results on the correct day and
Make it only fix the results if the voting pattern matches that of a real election.
I don't know how many votes a single machine records, but if time (over which the votes are cast) were also taken into account, I think it could be made almost impossible for a fix to be detected.
They should also randomly pull machines out on election day, during voting hours and test them without Diebold's knowledge or assistance
While I wholeheartedly agree with your suggestions, I would like to add another thought:
If I were trying to build the software to fix an election, I would make it so that the fix only happened after a large number of votes were cast. In this way, it would be difficult to truly reproduce the election conditions and hence truly audit the machine.
I believe that the people who have specified these machines are working on the belief that deliberate fraud will not happen. Otherwise, they would be much more careful and thorough than they have been.
Innocent of any criminal conduct, yes. But upstanding people generally don't get caught in sting operations. At some point, he must have realized that what was being discussed were illegal actions and an upstanding person would have backed off then.
but maybe google never intends to become public now. They have more than enough money to beat out even the best Public companies.
Maybe so, but as the poster above pointed out, they may have to
behave like a public company, and so, may go IPO if they lose the benefits of being private.
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If so, it seems to me that the suit worked -- although on this level a working suit could probably be constructed out of cardboard and duct tape for a lot less money and effort!
These units store the data in RAM and on disk (a RAID array). At some point the data has to be written out to disk and this will not be as fast. Alternatively, it's possible that when powering off, the entire contents fo the cache could be written to disk -- the time to power off would be quite large though. I see at least one unit has it's own UPS to manage this.
Your memory loses you!
Actually, that's not strictly true. Look for the symlink called /etc/make.profile and you will see that it is pointing to a 1.4 profile (probably /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-1.4) unless you changed it. The default-x86-1.4 and default-x86-2004.0 profiles are almost identical, but not quite.
Of course these profiles may diverge more in the future.
I think the judges have let this happen. What we need is for judges to slap down hard on people who don't comply with discovery and other orders (and come back with dog-ate-my-homework excuses) and have the appeals courts not reverse decisions because the judges actually enforced their own orders.
Look at the case in Florida that Boies was involved with: there were multiple instances where judicial orders had been ignored.
Unfortunately, I don't think it likely to change.
Unfortunately, probably not.
Some months ago a spammer was abusing Habeas' copyrights, so I set the SpamAssassin score that my mail server assigned to Habeas to zero. I never removed that zero setting and I expect lots of other SA users also have a zero Habeas score in their SA settings.
So, please explain the dominance of MS-DOS before Windows 3.0 came out?
No, I'm not trying to flame you, but my point is that your account is not historically correct: MS had already largely won the OS war by 1990. There were some later firefights they had to attend to (OS/2), but MS was already dominant before Win 3.0 (let alone 3.1).
Installing Win 3.0/3.1 was a natural step for people that were already accustomed to MS as the OS provider.
Actually, I was discussing the JDS with a SUN employee recently. JDS totally separates the desktop from the local platform on which it is displayed.
To explain: Sun employees can step up to any teminal worldwide, swipe their card and be connected to their desktop. The desktop is not a physical machine, but a process (or set of processes) running on a server somewhere. In other words, it is a constantly running virtual desktop that can be accessed from any terminal.
The goal is that if you swipe your card in a machine running in a remote office, over time, your desktop will migrate to a closer server for better response time. All this happens in a manner hidden from the user.
What Sun is doing with JDS is a world away from what one sees by running a single box.
-XFree86 is distributed under a license that makes it impossible to re-distribute under the GPL.
-Java desktop may be violating the spirit if not the wording of the GPL.
There, it's quite consistent -- the issue is that the GPL is the favorite license of /.-ers and /.-ers don't like people who violate the GPL.
Which is exactly Jonathon Schwartz' point. Sun supports open standards not open source.
What is it about the concept of competition that you don't understand? One of the reasons the Soviet Union failed was a lack of internal economic competition.
Or do you just think that the best way forwards for society is by supporting monopolies such as Microsoft?
Do you really need an answer to that? Are you really so clueless that you can't find out how to turn off the help agent?
OK, so I'll give you a tip: there is a website called Google and a quick search reveals a number of hits. The first hit shows you how to enable the help agent and by implication, how to disable it.
There, was that easy enough?
If only it were so simple. H323 needs a full protocol-aware firewall, because it uses multiple data-streams with multiple ports. So the firewall needs to analyse the traffic and decide where to send the data that it receives from outside. Remember, with many firewalls, there is more than one machine behind it.
And I have noticed vast numbers of "environmentalists" who want to keep burning fossil fuels instead of the obvious and practical alternative: nuclear energy. Now I know that nuclear energy does bring its own problems, but how much radioactivity is put into the atmosphere by burning coal?
Not only did I post about this yesterday, but I've also submitted stories about the issues with Diebold and the actions of Alameda County officials (Oakland is in Alameda County)
Grokshill is aimed at false claims made by reporters and analysts
I have found that making people understand why they don't need to buy extended warranties is fairly easy: you just have to pitch it right.
The key is to get them to agree that the warranty is merely insurance and then point out that they can self-insure. In other words, that they could put the warranty money in an account that is only used to buy replacements for broken products.
Put in those terms, even PHB's usually get it.
Given their statements that they expected to make money regardless of the merits of SCO's case, Baystar has shown themselves to be without morals, so I don't believe anything they say.
Make it only fix the results on the correct day and
Make it only fix the results if the voting pattern matches that of a real election.
I don't know how many votes a single machine records, but if time (over which the votes are cast) were also taken into account, I think it could be made almost impossible for a fix to be detected.
While I wholeheartedly agree with your suggestions, I would like to add another thought:
If I were trying to build the software to fix an election, I would make it so that the fix only happened after a large number of votes were cast. In this way, it would be difficult to truly reproduce the election conditions and hence truly audit the machine.
I believe that the people who have specified these machines are working on the belief that deliberate fraud will not happen. Otherwise, they would be much more careful and thorough than they have been.
Alameda County is basically the "East Bay", ie. across the Bay from San Francisco, including Berkeley, Oakland, Fremont, etc.
Innocent of any criminal conduct, yes. But upstanding people generally don't get caught in sting operations. At some point, he must have realized that what was being discussed were illegal actions and an upstanding person would have backed off then.
Maybe so, but as the poster above pointed out, they may have to behave like a public company, and so, may go IPO if they lose the benefits of being private.