How about Myspace as well? It is easily argued that Myspace controls the banner space and content added to the 'global' site (ie every page). This is akin to aiding and abetting.
The sad thing is that a million PCs were infected, and probably 500,000 of them will -stay- infected. And will this even remotely hurt Myspace's market share/traffic? I seriously doubt it.
Ok, seriously, how can you lose ~99% of the data from something that is such a HUGE part of history?
Because most likely they were stolen by NASA employees/managers, government contractors, or "given" (improperly) to elected officials. There a case within the last few years where someone found a storage room at NASA chock full of stuff including two space suits. The stuff was supposed to have gone to the Smithsonian, but oops, gee, donchaknow, it just mysteriously ended up in a storage room nobody knew anything about.
Rumsfield had a piece of the airplane that hit the Pentagon, as a showpiece- almost like a trophy. There were plenty of other examples of thefts. I doubt any of the victim's families saw so much as a pebble. In the executive branch of the federal government the World Trade Center site was like a free-for-all memento/souvineer stop. I'd be astounded if visiting officials at NASA didn't have the same 'sticky fingers'.
I'm very happy with the two BackSlash stories that I've read this week. I don't hold MySpace in high regard, and so trolling through hundreds of Slashdot comments about the story yesterday was not something I was willing to do.
That's mostly due to moderators not using "redundant" enough to discourage inane groupthink. 40 people say the same thing, and 6-7 of them get modded to 5, Insightful.
That said, dictionary.com says that a journalist is:
1. One whose occupation is journalism.
2. One who keeps a journal.
Wonderfully insightful there.
That's because you're using an "online" dictionary. Merriam Webster says:
1. a person engaged in journalism; especially : a writer or editor for a news medium b : a writer who aims at a mass audience 2.One who keeps a journal.
The second term doesn't apply in the current context- it covers usage such as "Mary's journalistic habits brought her no end of trouble when her mother found her diary."
If you hit the link to "journalism", you get:
1 a : the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media b : the public press c : an academic study concerned with the collection and editing of news or the management of a news medium
2 a : writing designed for publication in a newspaper or magazine b : writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation c : writing designed to appeal to current popular taste or public interest
Much of the issue the "real" press have with "webloggers" is that "webloggers" gleefully throw out definition 2B, ie "writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation".
"Webloggers" spend most of their time doing commentary, which is completely different from journalism. One is an expression of a viewpoint, the other is reporting a situation, circumstance, etc.
Apparently, "sites that use Hitwise to track traffic" = "The World Wide Web".
Want a good example of how that "top site" statistic is a bunch of bullshit? I don't know a single person that uses Myspace. I know LOTS of people that have yahoo/gmail/etc webmail accounts.
Oh, and it doesn't hurt to have every other page return a server error or a blank page. I'm told Myspace's servers are about as reliable a crack addict.
Some of them realize that they shouldn't post that they live alone in an apartment in south-central LA, but others would very quickly post this sort of thing. Unfortunately, this again puts people at risk.
God, you've been watching too many Lifetime movies. Muggers and rapists don't go cruising online looking for people to solicit into meeting, to rob/rape/murder/whatever them. They just hang out near a dark street corner. It's a lot easier, cheaper, and doesn't leave an electronic 'paper trail', both on whatever service, and the crook's computer.
Most violent crimes are committed by people that know their victims; coworkers, friends, family, etc. That's precisely why you see reports of myspace-related crimes; they are by comparison EXTREMELY RARE. That's also why you see reports of old guys solicting minors and such online; it's also EXTREMELY RARE. Ever notice that you only really hear about these guys getting caught by cops posing as children? That's because even most kids aren't actually stupid enough to go and meet a stranger online. It's borderline entrapment, since a crime wouldn't happen if they weren't talking to a police officer.
I always laugh when I hear people discuss "how safe" it is to meet a potential date 'from the internet'. How is it any more dangerous than meeting someone for a date after they ask for your number at a bar?
Does anyone know if there are binaries published? Gnucash site is down and google was of no help.
Yes, I know it can be built with fink, but even on my macbook that'll probably mean at least 6 hours of compiling, since gnucash has so many dependencies, it's not even funny...a friend says the old 1.x versions had almost 200 dependencies...and it'll be a fairly sizeable waste of disk space to have the entire/sw tree for fink sitting on my drive just for one program. this says almost 1.2GB of wasted space. That's a lot of disk space for just one program.
If we can have a 100-150MB self-contained package for gimp with double-click goodness for OSX, why not gnucash?
MS has been active in the Automotive sector for quite some time now, and is one of the biggest players in the market. They have a full fledged Automotive Division, and some of their systems based on CE go into Fiat, Volvo and others I dont know. So if you think they just jumped into it, well no.
Far as I can see, Microsoft's only products are "entertainment units" and software for managing the manufacturing end. This wasn't a jump; it was a leap into an empty swimming pool, naked, in the dark, off the high board. This is what I used to refer to as a "Greens Deal"- ie, two honchos on the golf course shake hands on a deal that doesn't make the slightest sense (sample: conglomerate I worked for was not allowed to purchase any LCD panels except HP LCD panels- and we didn't get a very good discount, either.) Someone at F1 shook hands with someone at MS on the golf course, a suitcase of money went to F1 (Bernie Ecclestone NEVER met a dollar he didn't like, despite having billions of them) and as a result, F1 engine technology just took a massive step backwards.
They're not even remotely qualified to make real-time software, much less real-time hardware. When you have an engine with 8-12 cylinders that revs to over 15,000 RPMs and pushes the absolute limit of performance, timing is beyond critical. Race cars are torture on electronics; vibration, temperature, and TONS of electrical interference. MS has never worked on something like this. Ever.
Prediction: MS will try to use all sorts of DSPs and such to do signal processing instead of discreet circuits. The cars will run very poorly- and it will be nearly impossible for the team race engineers to figure out why. That's if the electronics themselves even survive the environment.
Hilarity will ensue, like MS engineers telling teams, "well, why don't you just shield all the wiring and run more grounds?" "Because that would add 50 pounds of weight." "So?" Or..."what do you mean, there's no chassis ground?" "Which part of CARBON FIBER IS NOT CONDUCTIVE DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?!" I would pay good money to hear tape recordings from Northampton, Maranello, etc...I'd learn all sorts of new swear words.
Two companies that are infinitely more qualified come to mind immediately- Bosch and MOTEC (Magneti Marelli is a little too tied to Ferrari, I think.) 3/4 of the world's auto racing engineers cut their teeth and/or use MOTEC ECUs. Companies like Bosch and MOTEC have engineers that have the necessary signal processing down pat, and they've been doing this stuff for decades. I don't see fresh grads having the skills, nor do I see seasoned engineers as being willing to take a big risk with MS...and F1 isn't the kind of place where you can grab a bunch of programmers and EEs, hand them books about racing electronics, and expect results. Where is MS going to get the talent for this?
Yes you can submit it as 'anonymous' but oops, cant do anything about server logs.
With AT&T (and most likely many other telcos) giving the NSA access to backbones for an all-you-can-eat snoopfest, server logs are irrelevant- and ultimately less useful; they can't be used by "law enforcement" as fast as a keyword hit on a sniffer on a major backbone.
I laughed when Freenet came around- I played with it, found it uselessly slow and difficult to navigate. I hope it has improved, because it may be the only anonymous publishing solution left. At least we can communicate somewhat securely via IM and emails.
Please- encourage your friends to use IM clients that support encryption, and use technology like GPG/PGP for personal or business email- if only to 'sign' messages. We need to make sure that legitimate use of encryption vastly outweighs any illegitimate uses, so that using encryption in and of itself doesn't become a crime.
Yet we manage to accomplish more or less exactly the same thing with road infrastructure, without having five companies running their own roads to every house, then charging the house owners for access.
Federal highways, state highways, local highways, private access roads. That's four.
Sales tax (on the car). Federal, state and sometimes local gas taxes. Excise tax (ownership/property tax on the car) in some places. Driver license renewal fees, parking meters/permits/tickets, speeding tickets. Those are only the taxes and fees DIRECTLY related to vehicles; I didn't count federal income tax (which goes to highway subsidies for the midwest), property taxes, etc...but what were you saying about "not charging for access"?
...I think that with firearms, this is the ONE aread I don't think I want any technological saftey restraints on. I want to keep it mechanical. I want it to shoot immediately at what I aim at. I virus, bug or whatever that causes firing errors at the wrong time can be a life or death thing.
I'm sure some slaphappy mod will label me a troll, but if your side is valid, so is mine: all too often it is a "death thing", and it is people's inability to control themselves that results in inventions like "cryptograhic bullets". Too many gun owners simply can't control themselves OR their guns.
I'm still holding on to a sliver of hope that a well armed citizenry is a slight barrier to a completely totalitarian govt. in the future...
Did you sleep through history class? In our own country: Women's suffrage movement, civil rights movement, and protests against Vietnam. In Europe, several brutal dictatorships were overthrown by masses of people who simply showed up at their leader's buildings and said "we're not going anywhere until you leave." None of these movements involved guns in the hands of protestors, shooting at the powers-that-be.
Being unarmed is the most effective way to protest- violence against you is viewed as fairly heinous by most of the population, if not a large chunk of the "free" world; the issue becomes less -your- issue and more the fact that the existing government was willing to shoot you. Two famous examples would include the Boston Massacre* and Kent State. Being unarmed, you take a chance that the policeman or soldier on the other side of that barrier is too "human" to shoot a massive crowd of peaceful, unarmed people. If it's not worth that risk- I guess what you're protesting isn't important enough to you, or you are a coward.
*(which is somewhat disputed by historians- some think there were a few guns among colonialists, but the end result was that British soldiers were seen as having mowed down unarmed civilians)
That's a stand-up man, right there. It's a sign he believes everyone should earn their own fortune, no free rides - even for his own children.
It's also a sign that he doesn't believe in the "great american dream"- that you can come to the US, struggle for a living most of your life- all for the sake of your children, who with any luck will be able to afford to attend school and then college, and rise above the peasant (er, I mean, "lower") class and do something better than clean toilets for the rest of their lives. Your life savings goes into a college fund for their kids, your house goes to them so they don't have to pay twice the rent on a 2BR house, for a 1BR postage stamp apartment.
Rich people can afford clever accountants to find the means to tuck away hundreds of thousands or millions for trust funds so that their kids never have to worry about whether their card will be declined at the grocery store. Meanwhile, Joe Q Public Sr the janitor dies and leaves his house and retirement savings to Joe Q Public Jr, and the government comes whistling with a wheel barrow looking for a heap of cash Junior doesn't have before the gravestone is in place. Oh, and Sr's life savings? They'll help themselves to that too.
I'm all for limiting how much money is passed on directly from one generation to the next to avoid the Paris Hiltons of the world, but for the Joes and Bobs, there should be a floor $ amount below which the government (oops, I mean "society") doesn't see a dime.
I spend 3 hours a day commuting on trains, and my most hated saying has become "NO! I'M ON THE TRAIN! I'VE GOT PLENTY OF TIME!". I always know it's going to be a long ride after I hear that.
Sit in the Quiet Car. Amtrak has them. If your public transit doesn't- start a campaign to. Wear a button or something that says "ask me about getting quiet cars on our commuter trains", and tell anyone who asks to call/write, etc.
Or your partner is cheating on you, did receive those calls, and is lying to you about it.
Did you read the article? He's got two lines, and from the sounds of it, mystery calls are showing up on both lines.
I have been receiving incoming calls from a 'NBR unavailable', since February, with talk time ranging from 1 minute to an hour. The strangest thing is, I have never received these calls (my phone doesn't ring and I haven't talked to the caller). I only started noticing them when my phone bill was charged over $40 more than my regular bill. Of course, I have a family plan (2 people only, 2 lines)
No. For starters, it can't directly access the graphics hardware, which makes it useless for almost any 3D gaming. It also uses an enormous amount of CPU time sitting around doing absolutely nothing. Seriously- XP, sitting doing nothing, nothing open- uses 20% of my Macbook's CPU. In Qemu (or rather, the Q Project build of QEMU), it's under 5%...and QEMU is emulating, whereas Parallels supposedly is using virtualization technology. What the hell?
If only Boot Camp and XP supported external drives (you have to hack XP considerably, unless you're using eSATA, I think)...
Modules... Only the modules (read: 'drivers') that are needed are loaded.
Many a linux distribution I've used (most noticeably Debian) applies the "shotgun" approach to module-loading because the hardware detection and hotplug methods are so convoluted and undependable. Kind of defeats the purpose of loadable modules if the distribution simply loads everything under the sun to see what sticks.
Worse, many modules aren't smart enough to determine "hey, I'm a driver for [some non-removable component]. If I can't find my hardware, maybe I should print an error to ksyslogd and unload myself."
With a normal torch the light gets dimmer as the batteries loose power, with the LED light it stays the same level until the batteries are dead, so you get a better quality light as the batteries loose power.
That's utter bullshit. Go look at a lumens vs current graph for any LED- light output is highly proportional to current. Current is a function of voltage and resistance.
While it's true that a battery-only car is still fossil fuel powered in the end, a gas burning electric plant is FAR more efficient than a 3 liter V6, thanks to economies of scale, and all that jazz.
60%+ of the US's electricity comes from Coal, which is -highly- polluting. Your average car may be less efficient, but your average car also doesn't spew radioactive waste into the air. Coal plants do (yes, coal is radioactive.)
I was curious about the "hundred flowers" bit you cited, as I'd never heard of it. Wikipedia to the rescue (of my hideously bad middle-school/high-school education, which consisted mostly of "HOLOCOST BAD, REALLY REALLY REALLY BAD" and the US Civil war. (Vietnam war? Haha. Not even -mentioned-. And this was in the mid 90's!)
After the campaign was officially declared over, Mao's resentment for the intellectual population had accumulated. Continuing with an Anti-Rightist Movement he had began a few years previous, he reasoned that the intellectuals were the basis of all existing problems. Mao ordered arrests of counter-revolutionaries on the basis of their letters and punished many harshly, using torture and capital punishment without any form of trial.
Why could I not help but think of the (Bush) White House choke-hold on scientists (literally- someone in the White House censors anything put out by gov't scientists on Global Warming), its favoring of religion over science, and its (or rather the GOP's) constant screaming about how the "liberals" (ie, educated, intelligent, fairly secular people) are out to destroy "the country".
Oh, and the bit about "torture and capital punishment without any form of trial" kinda hit the point home. Granted Bush hasn't gone any massive "cultural" "purges", but it kind of makes you wonder...
I got almost 2 years out of a set of 3 AAA batteries, the light itself provided excellent light at night and stayed bright up until the batteries were noticably dying.
That is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've read on slashdot in years. OF COURSE the light "stayed" bright until you "noticed" otherwise.
Creative has asked the ITC to issue an order stopping Apple from marketing, selling or importing iPods into the US
Yeah, good luck with that one, Creative.
For those that don't know- in civil court matters, that sort of action requires you present proof that you will suffer irreperable harm unless the court acts immediately. In other words- if your only claim is a patent violation, you're not suffering irreperable harm, because you can recover patent royalties. Proving irreperable harm has a very high standard, because it is a rather severe action. I would imagine similar standards apply at the ITC.
It isn't, and the robot in question had less automated safety features than your average modern metal press.
That's because a metal press requires manual labor/interaction to make it work, often. Did it occur to you that the fence probably had a gate, and the gate probably had an interlock connected to it to stop the robot if the gate was opened, and was probably padlocked to keep people from just wandering in?
Most industrial equipment injuries happen when workers bypass safety interlocks. Often, because they're lazy. The guy most likely climbed over the fence because he didn't want to get the key for the padlock.
There is a reason there are lockout procedures (including padlocks on power switches/circuit breakers- even padlock adapters where EVERY technician working on the equipment has to remove his/her padlock before the adapter can be released.) There's a reason you don't climb fences. Yes, there could have been some sort of sensor to detect if someone was inside the cage, but where do safety controls end?
Foot switch interlocks went from being just pedals, to pedals with covers to stop workers from putting shit on top of them, to self-resetting pedals that needed to be pressed and released each time, again because workers were defeating them. Same goes for the dead-man pedals in trains...they kept having to revise them because drivers kept defeating them.
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If your OS puts out a security fix, it's probably for a reason. This could have been avoided for everyone just by keeping up-to-date.
"Sorry all your stuff was stolen, but it's your fault for not installing a better lock."
Maybe security updates wouldn't be so critical if the people that took advantage of them (and those that aided them, like Myspace) got bitch-slapped.
How about Myspace as well? It is easily argued that Myspace controls the banner space and content added to the 'global' site (ie every page). This is akin to aiding and abetting.
The sad thing is that a million PCs were infected, and probably 500,000 of them will -stay- infected. And will this even remotely hurt Myspace's market share/traffic? I seriously doubt it.
"Extra time" is usually needed when the patient is in critical condition. Critical patients, by definition, don't survive 'rough handling'.
Because most likely they were stolen by NASA employees/managers, government contractors, or "given" (improperly) to elected officials. There a case within the last few years where someone found a storage room at NASA chock full of stuff including two space suits. The stuff was supposed to have gone to the Smithsonian, but oops, gee, donchaknow, it just mysteriously ended up in a storage room nobody knew anything about.
Rumsfield had a piece of the airplane that hit the Pentagon, as a showpiece- almost like a trophy. There were plenty of other examples of thefts. I doubt any of the victim's families saw so much as a pebble. In the executive branch of the federal government the World Trade Center site was like a free-for-all memento/souvineer stop. I'd be astounded if visiting officials at NASA didn't have the same 'sticky fingers'.
I'm very happy with the two BackSlash stories that I've read this week. I don't hold MySpace in high regard, and so trolling through hundreds of Slashdot comments about the story yesterday was not something I was willing to do.
That's mostly due to moderators not using "redundant" enough to discourage inane groupthink. 40 people say the same thing, and 6-7 of them get modded to 5, Insightful.
1. One whose occupation is journalism.
2. One who keeps a journal.
Wonderfully insightful there.
That's because you're using an "online" dictionary. Merriam Webster says:
1. a person engaged in journalism; especially : a writer or editor for a news medium b : a writer who aims at a mass audience 2.One who keeps a journal.
The second term doesn't apply in the current context- it covers usage such as "Mary's journalistic habits brought her no end of trouble when her mother found her diary."
If you hit the link to "journalism", you get:
1 a : the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media b : the public press c : an academic study concerned with the collection and editing of news or the management of a news medium 2 a : writing designed for publication in a newspaper or magazine b : writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation c : writing designed to appeal to current popular taste or public interest
Much of the issue the "real" press have with "webloggers" is that "webloggers" gleefully throw out definition 2B, ie "writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation".
"Webloggers" spend most of their time doing commentary, which is completely different from journalism. One is an expression of a viewpoint, the other is reporting a situation, circumstance, etc.
Want a good example of how that "top site" statistic is a bunch of bullshit? I don't know a single person that uses Myspace. I know LOTS of people that have yahoo/gmail/etc webmail accounts.
Oh, and it doesn't hurt to have every other page return a server error or a blank page. I'm told Myspace's servers are about as reliable a crack addict.
Some of them realize that they shouldn't post that they live alone in an apartment in south-central LA, but others would very quickly post this sort of thing. Unfortunately, this again puts people at risk.
God, you've been watching too many Lifetime movies. Muggers and rapists don't go cruising online looking for people to solicit into meeting, to rob/rape/murder/whatever them. They just hang out near a dark street corner. It's a lot easier, cheaper, and doesn't leave an electronic 'paper trail', both on whatever service, and the crook's computer.
Most violent crimes are committed by people that know their victims; coworkers, friends, family, etc. That's precisely why you see reports of myspace-related crimes; they are by comparison EXTREMELY RARE. That's also why you see reports of old guys solicting minors and such online; it's also EXTREMELY RARE. Ever notice that you only really hear about these guys getting caught by cops posing as children? That's because even most kids aren't actually stupid enough to go and meet a stranger online. It's borderline entrapment, since a crime wouldn't happen if they weren't talking to a police officer.
I always laugh when I hear people discuss "how safe" it is to meet a potential date 'from the internet'. How is it any more dangerous than meeting someone for a date after they ask for your number at a bar?
Does anyone know if there are binaries published? Gnucash site is down and google was of no help.
Yes, I know it can be built with fink, but even on my macbook that'll probably mean at least 6 hours of compiling, since gnucash has so many dependencies, it's not even funny...a friend says the old 1.x versions had almost 200 dependencies...and it'll be a fairly sizeable waste of disk space to have the entire /sw tree for fink sitting on my drive just for one program. this says almost 1.2GB of wasted space. That's a lot of disk space for just one program.
If we can have a 100-150MB self-contained package for gimp with double-click goodness for OSX, why not gnucash?
MS has been active in the Automotive sector for quite some time now, and is one of the biggest players in the market. They have a full fledged Automotive Division, and some of their systems based on CE go into Fiat, Volvo and others I dont know. So if you think they just jumped into it, well no.
Far as I can see, Microsoft's only products are "entertainment units" and software for managing the manufacturing end. This wasn't a jump; it was a leap into an empty swimming pool, naked, in the dark, off the high board. This is what I used to refer to as a "Greens Deal"- ie, two honchos on the golf course shake hands on a deal that doesn't make the slightest sense (sample: conglomerate I worked for was not allowed to purchase any LCD panels except HP LCD panels- and we didn't get a very good discount, either.) Someone at F1 shook hands with someone at MS on the golf course, a suitcase of money went to F1 (Bernie Ecclestone NEVER met a dollar he didn't like, despite having billions of them) and as a result, F1 engine technology just took a massive step backwards.
They're not even remotely qualified to make real-time software, much less real-time hardware. When you have an engine with 8-12 cylinders that revs to over 15,000 RPMs and pushes the absolute limit of performance, timing is beyond critical. Race cars are torture on electronics; vibration, temperature, and TONS of electrical interference. MS has never worked on something like this. Ever.
Prediction: MS will try to use all sorts of DSPs and such to do signal processing instead of discreet circuits. The cars will run very poorly- and it will be nearly impossible for the team race engineers to figure out why. That's if the electronics themselves even survive the environment.
Hilarity will ensue, like MS engineers telling teams, "well, why don't you just shield all the wiring and run more grounds?" "Because that would add 50 pounds of weight." "So?" Or..."what do you mean, there's no chassis ground?" "Which part of CARBON FIBER IS NOT CONDUCTIVE DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?!" I would pay good money to hear tape recordings from Northampton, Maranello, etc...I'd learn all sorts of new swear words.
Two companies that are infinitely more qualified come to mind immediately- Bosch and MOTEC (Magneti Marelli is a little too tied to Ferrari, I think.) 3/4 of the world's auto racing engineers cut their teeth and/or use MOTEC ECUs. Companies like Bosch and MOTEC have engineers that have the necessary signal processing down pat, and they've been doing this stuff for decades. I don't see fresh grads having the skills, nor do I see seasoned engineers as being willing to take a big risk with MS...and F1 isn't the kind of place where you can grab a bunch of programmers and EEs, hand them books about racing electronics, and expect results. Where is MS going to get the talent for this?
With AT&T (and most likely many other telcos) giving the NSA access to backbones for an all-you-can-eat snoopfest, server logs are irrelevant- and ultimately less useful; they can't be used by "law enforcement" as fast as a keyword hit on a sniffer on a major backbone.
I laughed when Freenet came around- I played with it, found it uselessly slow and difficult to navigate. I hope it has improved, because it may be the only anonymous publishing solution left. At least we can communicate somewhat securely via IM and emails.
Please- encourage your friends to use IM clients that support encryption, and use technology like GPG/PGP for personal or business email- if only to 'sign' messages. We need to make sure that legitimate use of encryption vastly outweighs any illegitimate uses, so that using encryption in and of itself doesn't become a crime.
Yet we manage to accomplish more or less exactly the same thing with road infrastructure, without having five companies running their own roads to every house, then charging the house owners for access.
Federal highways, state highways, local highways, private access roads. That's four.
Sales tax (on the car). Federal, state and sometimes local gas taxes. Excise tax (ownership/property tax on the car) in some places. Driver license renewal fees, parking meters/permits/tickets, speeding tickets. Those are only the taxes and fees DIRECTLY related to vehicles; I didn't count federal income tax (which goes to highway subsidies for the midwest), property taxes, etc...but what were you saying about "not charging for access"?
I'm sure some slaphappy mod will label me a troll, but if your side is valid, so is mine: all too often it is a "death thing", and it is people's inability to control themselves that results in inventions like "cryptograhic bullets". Too many gun owners simply can't control themselves OR their guns.
I'm still holding on to a sliver of hope that a well armed citizenry is a slight barrier to a completely totalitarian govt. in the future...
Did you sleep through history class? In our own country: Women's suffrage movement, civil rights movement, and protests against Vietnam. In Europe, several brutal dictatorships were overthrown by masses of people who simply showed up at their leader's buildings and said "we're not going anywhere until you leave." None of these movements involved guns in the hands of protestors, shooting at the powers-that-be.
Being unarmed is the most effective way to protest- violence against you is viewed as fairly heinous by most of the population, if not a large chunk of the "free" world; the issue becomes less -your- issue and more the fact that the existing government was willing to shoot you. Two famous examples would include the Boston Massacre* and Kent State. Being unarmed, you take a chance that the policeman or soldier on the other side of that barrier is too "human" to shoot a massive crowd of peaceful, unarmed people. If it's not worth that risk- I guess what you're protesting isn't important enough to you, or you are a coward.
*(which is somewhat disputed by historians- some think there were a few guns among colonialists, but the end result was that British soldiers were seen as having mowed down unarmed civilians)
That's a stand-up man, right there. It's a sign he believes everyone should earn their own fortune, no free rides - even for his own children.
It's also a sign that he doesn't believe in the "great american dream"- that you can come to the US, struggle for a living most of your life- all for the sake of your children, who with any luck will be able to afford to attend school and then college, and rise above the peasant (er, I mean, "lower") class and do something better than clean toilets for the rest of their lives. Your life savings goes into a college fund for their kids, your house goes to them so they don't have to pay twice the rent on a 2BR house, for a 1BR postage stamp apartment.
Rich people can afford clever accountants to find the means to tuck away hundreds of thousands or millions for trust funds so that their kids never have to worry about whether their card will be declined at the grocery store. Meanwhile, Joe Q Public Sr the janitor dies and leaves his house and retirement savings to Joe Q Public Jr, and the government comes whistling with a wheel barrow looking for a heap of cash Junior doesn't have before the gravestone is in place. Oh, and Sr's life savings? They'll help themselves to that too.
I'm all for limiting how much money is passed on directly from one generation to the next to avoid the Paris Hiltons of the world, but for the Joes and Bobs, there should be a floor $ amount below which the government (oops, I mean "society") doesn't see a dime.
I spend 3 hours a day commuting on trains, and my most hated saying has become "NO! I'M ON THE TRAIN! I'VE GOT PLENTY OF TIME!". I always know it's going to be a long ride after I hear that.
Sit in the Quiet Car. Amtrak has them. If your public transit doesn't- start a campaign to. Wear a button or something that says "ask me about getting quiet cars on our commuter trains", and tell anyone who asks to call/write, etc.
Or your partner is cheating on you, did receive those calls, and is lying to you about it.
Did you read the article? He's got two lines, and from the sounds of it, mystery calls are showing up on both lines.
I have been receiving incoming calls from a 'NBR unavailable', since February, with talk time ranging from 1 minute to an hour. The strangest thing is, I have never received these calls (my phone doesn't ring and I haven't talked to the caller). I only started noticing them when my phone bill was charged over $40 more than my regular bill. Of course, I have a family plan (2 people only, 2 lines)
No. For starters, it can't directly access the graphics hardware, which makes it useless for almost any 3D gaming. It also uses an enormous amount of CPU time sitting around doing absolutely nothing. Seriously- XP, sitting doing nothing, nothing open- uses 20% of my Macbook's CPU. In Qemu (or rather, the Q Project build of QEMU), it's under 5%...and QEMU is emulating, whereas Parallels supposedly is using virtualization technology. What the hell?
If only Boot Camp and XP supported external drives (you have to hack XP considerably, unless you're using eSATA, I think)...
Many a linux distribution I've used (most noticeably Debian) applies the "shotgun" approach to module-loading because the hardware detection and hotplug methods are so convoluted and undependable. Kind of defeats the purpose of loadable modules if the distribution simply loads everything under the sun to see what sticks.
Worse, many modules aren't smart enough to determine "hey, I'm a driver for [some non-removable component]. If I can't find my hardware, maybe I should print an error to ksyslogd and unload myself."
That's utter bullshit. Go look at a lumens vs current graph for any LED- light output is highly proportional to current. Current is a function of voltage and resistance.
60%+ of the US's electricity comes from Coal, which is -highly- polluting. Your average car may be less efficient, but your average car also doesn't spew radioactive waste into the air. Coal plants do (yes, coal is radioactive.)
I was curious about the "hundred flowers" bit you cited, as I'd never heard of it. Wikipedia to the rescue (of my hideously bad middle-school/high-school education, which consisted mostly of "HOLOCOST BAD, REALLY REALLY REALLY BAD" and the US Civil war. (Vietnam war? Haha. Not even -mentioned-. And this was in the mid 90's!)
After the campaign was officially declared over, Mao's resentment for the intellectual population had accumulated. Continuing with an Anti-Rightist Movement he had began a few years previous, he reasoned that the intellectuals were the basis of all existing problems. Mao ordered arrests of counter-revolutionaries on the basis of their letters and punished many harshly, using torture and capital punishment without any form of trial.
Why could I not help but think of the (Bush) White House choke-hold on scientists (literally- someone in the White House censors anything put out by gov't scientists on Global Warming), its favoring of religion over science, and its (or rather the GOP's) constant screaming about how the "liberals" (ie, educated, intelligent, fairly secular people) are out to destroy "the country".
Oh, and the bit about "torture and capital punishment without any form of trial" kinda hit the point home. Granted Bush hasn't gone any massive "cultural" "purges", but it kind of makes you wonder...
That is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've read on slashdot in years. OF COURSE the light "stayed" bright until you "noticed" otherwise.
Yeah, good luck with that one, Creative.
For those that don't know- in civil court matters, that sort of action requires you present proof that you will suffer irreperable harm unless the court acts immediately. In other words- if your only claim is a patent violation, you're not suffering irreperable harm, because you can recover patent royalties. Proving irreperable harm has a very high standard, because it is a rather severe action. I would imagine similar standards apply at the ITC.
It isn't, and the robot in question had less automated safety features than your average modern metal press.
That's because a metal press requires manual labor/interaction to make it work, often. Did it occur to you that the fence probably had a gate, and the gate probably had an interlock connected to it to stop the robot if the gate was opened, and was probably padlocked to keep people from just wandering in?
Most industrial equipment injuries happen when workers bypass safety interlocks. Often, because they're lazy. The guy most likely climbed over the fence because he didn't want to get the key for the padlock.
There is a reason there are lockout procedures (including padlocks on power switches/circuit breakers- even padlock adapters where EVERY technician working on the equipment has to remove his/her padlock before the adapter can be released.) There's a reason you don't climb fences. Yes, there could have been some sort of sensor to detect if someone was inside the cage, but where do safety controls end?
Foot switch interlocks went from being just pedals, to pedals with covers to stop workers from putting shit on top of them, to self-resetting pedals that needed to be pressed and released each time, again because workers were defeating them. Same goes for the dead-man pedals in trains...they kept having to revise them because drivers kept defeating them.
Who?
There's a lesson here for those starry-eyed adolescents who think the power of the blog is going to triumph over the power of the boardroom.
Like, ohmygod, the real world. I'd better post an entry in my livejournal about how shocked I am! Mood: faint-of-heart *picture of sad kitten*