If she was anyone else she'd be nailed to the wall already.
Agreed. However, if the information in those messages wasn't classified when it was sent or when she read them, she wasn't breaking any laws by leaving them on her server. And, to be fair, she wouldn't have had any reason to clear them off the server unless she learned later that somebody had decided that the information should be classified. I'm no fan of hers, and can't imagine any circumstances that would make me want to vote for her but I'm not going to blame her for this. If you want a scapegoat, look at whoever sent those emails and didn't bother to let her know about the change in status.
Thank you. I'd been wondering if that would work, but it's been well over a decade since I last worked with Windows, so if I'd ever known, I'd forgotten.
Software patents have nothing to do with this. The companies won't even provide the technical specifications of the video cards or GPUs they use so that OSS developers can write proper drivers.
Exactly. Either you add the two rpmfusion repos and do it the easy way (one line, as you said) or you download the binary blob directly from nVidia, install it, and then re-install it every time there's a new kernel. Just because there's an easy way doesn't mean that everybody uses it; I've even seen people write that the only way they can get the driver to work on their box is doing it the hard way.
Strictly speaking, of course, you're right. However, I got the impression from TFA that the writer was blaming Linux developers for not doing a perfect job instead of making the slightest effort to find out why Linux has these issues.
I see that Mageia is rpm based, just like Fedora. Does it also use the rpmfusion repos? If so, they're using the same method that Fedora uses. Not that that's a bad thing, it's just that I wish that more distros would use the same basic idea.
Finally, a config file can do something that a registry entry cannot: properly carry its own documentation within the file itself.
Including a comment stating when you made a change, and the original line transformed into a comment so that it's easy to undo. If there's a way to do that kind of thing with the Windows Registry, I've never heard of it.
Thank you. I only wrote about Fedora and Ubuntu because they're the only two I've worked with on computers with nVidia graphics. If Gentoo has a better way of packaging the drivers, that's good. However, if you go to the nVidia website, you'll see that I described the official way to install the drivers, as recommended by the OEM.
The article makes a big deal about the fact that getting nVidia and AMD cards to work under Linux isn't easy, and he's right. However, he's blaming the wrong person. Neither company is willing to provide either proper OSS drivers or the technical specifications needed for somebody else to write them. All they give us are binary blobs. And, in the case of nVidia, the install process is insane. First you have to boot into a CLI only environment to install them and second you have to do it again every single time there's a kernel update. Fedora, at least, has developed a way around this by using an akmod that checks at boot if there's a proper driver (kmod-nvidia) for the running kernel, and if there isn't, it builds one. Ubuntu still uses the insane version, but at least it automates it so that when there's a kernel update, it prompts you at boot to install the new drivers, doing all of the messy stuff on it's own after getting permission.
Well, if they're going to be using it for things like Airport Security, I can see where they'd want to take extra precautions. (That is, they're not only checking to see if Jack Dodger has a record, they want to make sure that I'm really Jack Dodger.) Yes, it's going to cost more, but you already have to pay to get a driver's license, and that cost can just be added in. If you make it a Federally issued ID, you not only have the cost of paperwork, you have the cost of making them, whereas that cost is already taken care of with a driver's license. And, when push comes to shove, do you want everybody to be in one big database, or in one of fifty different databases?
Every state already has the machinery in place to issue driver's licenses, or non-driver's ID cards. Modifying those ID cards to make them acceptable will cost far less than starting up and maintaining a new federal bureaucracy to issue yet another ID card that just takes up more space in people's wallets and isn't even needed on a day to day basis by most people. And, if we do create a National ID card, you can bet that more and more agencies and private companies will insist on you having one and using it, just because it's there. Remember, by law, your Social Security Number isn't supposed to be used for anything else, but all sorts of companies are now using it to identify you. How many sets of papers do you really want to be carrying with you every day?
Ha, ha. It is to laugh. I earned my benefits back when he was in elementary school, and most of my career was in the private sector. Yes, I did use my GI Bill benefits after I got out, and have used the VA for years, but I only received the 30% rating a few months ago. (My hearing loss has been covered for about eight years, but at 0%; hearing aids, but no compensation.) I know it's pointless to ask an AC a question like this, but what have you ever done except ask what your country do for you? I served, did you?
I'm told that I'm eligible to receive a check for something like a grand and a half a month - that is *not* subjected to my other income (capital gains and existing assets) but I've not looked into it.
Yes. That check would be considered compensation for your injuries, not income and it is not taxable. And, your rating would be 70% because they round to the nearest 10%. People make a big deal about VA scandals, and they're right to do so, but on the whole, they do a very good job because almost all of them understand that if it weren't for people like you and me, they wouldn't have jobs.
No. I'm a retired 'Nam vet. Up until recently, the VA wasn't charging me because of my low income. Now, however, I've received a 30% rating on my Service Connected disabilities, and get free care (among other things) for life.
Really? I don't pay one penny a year for health insurance and haven't for years and there's not one damned thing Barry O'Bama's minions can do about it, even though I live in the USA.
You also can't prove that He does. Yes, there are proofs that he exists but they all depend on the reader already believing that He does. That's because the question isn't one that can be proven by either logic or scientific examination; either you believe or you don't. String theory, however, is intended to be provable by experiment and/or observation. That doesn't, of course, mean that we can currently test it, it just means that its proponents hope to come up with a testable prediction.
OK, how about this: first, he deletes all of the (now) objectionable files; second, he makes a new, full backup that doesn't contain the deleted images/videos and third, he destroys his old backups. Frankly, I think that the court in question is suffering from a severe case of cranial-rectal insertion, but it's hard to see how they could possibly find this unacceptable.
Not only would that be the easiest way to grow them, it would make harvesting considerably easier because you wouldn't even need a shovel to get at your crop.
There are a large number of people, even in the USA, who can honestly say that they have more than one real name. One of them is the name that they use in everyday life, the other is used for religious and/or cultural purposes. I'm one of them, and only one of my real names has a web presence. In the unlikely event that I were to get a Facebook account, guess which one I'd use.
We don't have any hint of terra forming tech today, we won't have a functional one within a lifetime.
In 1940, the same could be said about sending a man to the Moon, but we did it in just under 30 years. Just because we don't know how to do it now doesn't mean that it's impossible, or that it will take generations to learn it.
Consider: if we can send people to Mars safely, we know how to keep them alive in hard vacuum, and Mars already has an atmosphere, and the radiation levels there aren't going to be any worse than those in space. It's quite possible that the colony will either domed or underground, with no need for terraforming.
Look at any virtual fly-by, there's not any safe plot of land large enough to hold a bed, let alone a house.
If you're talking about craters, they're currently believed to be millions of years old at least, and there's no evidence that meteors have been a significant hazard since before mankind evolved.
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If she was anyone else she'd be nailed to the wall already.
Agreed. However, if the information in those messages wasn't classified when it was sent or when she read them, she wasn't breaking any laws by leaving them on her server. And, to be fair, she wouldn't have had any reason to clear them off the server unless she learned later that somebody had decided that the information should be classified. I'm no fan of hers, and can't imagine any circumstances that would make me want to vote for her but I'm not going to blame her for this. If you want a scapegoat, look at whoever sent those emails and didn't bother to let her know about the change in status.
Either that, or he's campaigning for Ronald Rust.
Thank you. I'd been wondering if that would work, but it's been well over a decade since I last worked with Windows, so if I'd ever known, I'd forgotten.
Software patents have nothing to do with this. The companies won't even provide the technical specifications of the video cards or GPUs they use so that OSS developers can write proper drivers.
Exactly. Either you add the two rpmfusion repos and do it the easy way (one line, as you said) or you download the binary blob directly from nVidia, install it, and then re-install it every time there's a new kernel. Just because there's an easy way doesn't mean that everybody uses it; I've even seen people write that the only way they can get the driver to work on their box is doing it the hard way.
Strictly speaking, of course, you're right. However, I got the impression from TFA that the writer was blaming Linux developers for not doing a perfect job instead of making the slightest effort to find out why Linux has these issues.
I see that Mageia is rpm based, just like Fedora. Does it also use the rpmfusion repos? If so, they're using the same method that Fedora uses. Not that that's a bad thing, it's just that I wish that more distros would use the same basic idea.
Finally, a config file can do something that a registry entry cannot: properly carry its own documentation within the file itself.
Including a comment stating when you made a change, and the original line transformed into a comment so that it's easy to undo. If there's a way to do that kind of thing with the Windows Registry, I've never heard of it.
Thank you. I only wrote about Fedora and Ubuntu because they're the only two I've worked with on computers with nVidia graphics. If Gentoo has a better way of packaging the drivers, that's good. However, if you go to the nVidia website, you'll see that I described the official way to install the drivers, as recommended by the OEM.
The article makes a big deal about the fact that getting nVidia and AMD cards to work under Linux isn't easy, and he's right. However, he's blaming the wrong person. Neither company is willing to provide either proper OSS drivers or the technical specifications needed for somebody else to write them. All they give us are binary blobs. And, in the case of nVidia, the install process is insane. First you have to boot into a CLI only environment to install them and second you have to do it again every single time there's a kernel update. Fedora, at least, has developed a way around this by using an akmod that checks at boot if there's a proper driver (kmod-nvidia) for the running kernel, and if there isn't, it builds one. Ubuntu still uses the insane version, but at least it automates it so that when there's a kernel update, it prompts you at boot to install the new drivers, doing all of the messy stuff on it's own after getting permission.
Well, if they're going to be using it for things like Airport Security, I can see where they'd want to take extra precautions. (That is, they're not only checking to see if Jack Dodger has a record, they want to make sure that I'm really Jack Dodger.) Yes, it's going to cost more, but you already have to pay to get a driver's license, and that cost can just be added in. If you make it a Federally issued ID, you not only have the cost of paperwork, you have the cost of making them, whereas that cost is already taken care of with a driver's license. And, when push comes to shove, do you want everybody to be in one big database, or in one of fifty different databases?
Every state already has the machinery in place to issue driver's licenses, or non-driver's ID cards. Modifying those ID cards to make them acceptable will cost far less than starting up and maintaining a new federal bureaucracy to issue yet another ID card that just takes up more space in people's wallets and isn't even needed on a day to day basis by most people. And, if we do create a National ID card, you can bet that more and more agencies and private companies will insist on you having one and using it, just because it's there. Remember, by law, your Social Security Number isn't supposed to be used for anything else, but all sorts of companies are now using it to identify you. How many sets of papers do you really want to be carrying with you every day?
Ha, ha. It is to laugh. I earned my benefits back when he was in elementary school, and most of my career was in the private sector. Yes, I did use my GI Bill benefits after I got out, and have used the VA for years, but I only received the 30% rating a few months ago. (My hearing loss has been covered for about eight years, but at 0%; hearing aids, but no compensation.) I know it's pointless to ask an AC a question like this, but what have you ever done except ask what your country do for you? I served, did you?
Ah well... I figured I'd share some info and let you know that we've got a machine gun shoot if you want to partake.
Thanks, but I'm in Southern California. And, the only "machine gun" I ever fired was a 5"/54 naval rifle.
I'm told that I'm eligible to receive a check for something like a grand and a half a month - that is *not* subjected to my other income (capital gains and existing assets) but I've not looked into it.
Yes. That check would be considered compensation for your injuries, not income and it is not taxable. And, your rating would be 70% because they round to the nearest 10%. People make a big deal about VA scandals, and they're right to do so, but on the whole, they do a very good job because almost all of them understand that if it weren't for people like you and me, they wouldn't have jobs.
No. I'm a retired 'Nam vet. Up until recently, the VA wasn't charging me because of my low income. Now, however, I've received a 30% rating on my Service Connected disabilities, and get free care (among other things) for life.
Really? I don't pay one penny a year for health insurance and haven't for years and there's not one damned thing Barry O'Bama's minions can do about it, even though I live in the USA.
"You can't prove god doesn't exist."
You also can't prove that He does. Yes, there are proofs that he exists but they all depend on the reader already believing that He does. That's because the question isn't one that can be proven by either logic or scientific examination; either you believe or you don't. String theory, however, is intended to be provable by experiment and/or observation. That doesn't, of course, mean that we can currently test it, it just means that its proponents hope to come up with a testable prediction.
It's not exactly an optimal solution, but it should be heavy-handed enough to get past this fsck-wit of a judge.
OK, how about this: first, he deletes all of the (now) objectionable files; second, he makes a new, full backup that doesn't contain the deleted images/videos and third, he destroys his old backups. Frankly, I think that the court in question is suffering from a severe case of cranial-rectal insertion, but it's hard to see how they could possibly find this unacceptable.
Not only would that be the easiest way to grow them, it would make harvesting considerably easier because you wouldn't even need a shovel to get at your crop.
Yes. An Electric Earthquake machine was invented and used in 1942, but it was soon destroyed.
I have ocular implants and adjustable, augmented hearing. Is that enough to make me a cyborg? If not, why not, and how much more would it take?
There are a large number of people, even in the USA, who can honestly say that they have more than one real name. One of them is the name that they use in everyday life, the other is used for religious and/or cultural purposes. I'm one of them, and only one of my real names has a web presence. In the unlikely event that I were to get a Facebook account, guess which one I'd use.
We don't have any hint of terra forming tech today, we won't have a functional one within a lifetime.
In 1940, the same could be said about sending a man to the Moon, but we did it in just under 30 years. Just because we don't know how to do it now doesn't mean that it's impossible, or that it will take generations to learn it.
Consider: if we can send people to Mars safely, we know how to keep them alive in hard vacuum, and Mars already has an atmosphere, and the radiation levels there aren't going to be any worse than those in space. It's quite possible that the colony will either domed or underground, with no need for terraforming.
Look at any virtual fly-by, there's not any safe plot of land large enough to hold a bed, let alone a house.
If you're talking about craters, they're currently believed to be millions of years old at least, and there's no evidence that meteors have been a significant hazard since before mankind evolved.