None. First off, the VC was smashed in the Tet Offensive, before I joined up and second, I was in the Navy in Tonkin Gulf bombarding NVA positions in '72. AFAIK, nobody I knew in school was killed or even wounded in 'Nam.
and the draft dodgers were making a decision that in retrospect was a smart one
Oh, I don't know if it was smart or not. I served. I came back and used my GI Bill benefits to learn what I needed to have a better career. Now that I'm retired, I get all of my health care from the VA, and don't have to worry about whether or not Obamacare is good or not because it doesn't apply to me, unlike lots of the draft dodgers who are now worrying, very loudly in a few cases, about how they're going to pay their ever-increasing medical bills.
It will create another cottage industry of consultants trying to explain the thousands of pages of rules and regs to everyone else.
I don't know if Obamacare is good or bad, but I'm very, very concerned about the way it was written and passed: one, big, complex bill that was rammed through Congress before anybody except the authors had had a chance to read it, let alone understand it. Much better would have been a series of bills dealing with different aspects of the reform, with each one short enough to be read, understood and debated. I won't say that there are any nasty surprises lurking in the bill, but I can't say that there aren't, because it's so long, complex and unexplained. About all I can do is be glad that I get my health care from the VA, so I probably won't be affected by it one way or the other.
Nice try, AC, but you're wrong. They've changed the terminology to "witness summons," but it's still there. In fact, England is where the subpoena was created.
Unfortunately, it's a rather one-sided protection, as the police would never show videos in which they'd appear to have abused their powers.
I don't know how things work in GB, but in the USA, the defense can subpoena the footage and, if they feel it would help, can submit it to the court themselves as evidence. And, I'd hope, any police claims that the video has been lost or not properly preserved would go a long way toward refuting their claims.
Pulseaudio always struck me as a solution in search of a problem. The only time I ever had trouble getting sound to work with Linux was when pulseaudio was new; now, It Just Works, for the most part.
Or you are a Linux fanboi. I installed linux on my media server just last year and it did not work with the optical audio, After a couple of hours I gave up.
Both my sister and I have been using Linux as our sole OS for over five years now. Neither of us has had the slightest problem getting sound to work over several different computers, using various releases of Fedora for me and Ubuntu for her. I follow several different support forums for Fedora, and questions about getting sound to work have gotten to be fairly uncommon during the past few years. I don't know why you couldn't get it to work, but I suspect, judging by your attitude, that you went out of your way to make things hard on yourself.
Doesn't change the fact that you, sir, are wrong.
That's easy to say, hard to prove, especially when coming from an AC.
It always makes me wonder if I'm the only one that has zero problems with sound?
No, you're not. My guess is that the OP is a Windows fanboi regurgitating anti-Linux talking points from over fifteen years ago. I'm surprised that he's not also complaining about how hard it is to configure X and getting it running properly or to find a printer that works with it.
I was thinking that too. However, I can see it calling home every few minutes to let the control machine know it's still there and running. (No response needed.) If it misses a scheduled call, the control machine launches a new attack and re-infects it. Don't know how well it would work in practice, but it sounds reasonable.
My understanding is that we're detecting radiation as far away as California not because there's so much of it but because we've gotten to be very, very good at detecting small quantities of it. As an example, the instruments that were in use at the end of WW II would never have picked it up, which is one reason there aren't any reports of radiation from the two A-bombs used reaching the US.
Thank you. It's always nice to see that I'm not the only person who thinks that way or, at least, saw what I was getting at. And, consider how much extra bandwidth Microsoft needs to handle Patch Tuesday and how much it costs them to have it going to waste the rest of the time. Having the updates go out as they're ready, and having people able to pick them up whenever they want must be an enormous saving for the various distros.
I use Fedora Linux. Every morning I have my desktop check for updates. Some days there are a large number of them, some days just a few, some days none. Most people who use Fedora probably don't check more than once a week, but the point is that updates and patches are placed in the repositories as soon as they're ready, instead of being held back until the next Patch Tuesday. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have to wait the best part of a month for a security patch that came out just too late for the monthly update.
Yes, if you call releasing all patches at the same time, once a month, "timely." Personally, I'd like to get patches as soon as they're ready, especially security patches. That's one of the many reasons why I use Linux, not Windows.
Back in November, 2007, I wrote a fantasy novel (unpublished) for NaNoWriMo that contained a fair sized boat that was powered this way. And, at the time, I had a few links that showed the idea in action, but not only have I lost them, I'd bet that they'd be 404 compliant anyway.
What do you need a high resolution monitor for? Are you doing graphics, or some other type of work where you need the highest resolution you can get because anything less makes it hard for you to get things done, or is it simply something you'd like to have but can live without? I'm asking because if your work actually requires that kind of high-end equipment, your company should be supplying it, even if you're bringing in your own computer. And, if you don't really need it, the question becomes how much are you willing to spend to satisfy your ego, because buying a fancy monitor you don't actually need is mostly a matter of status and showing off how much you make.
Heck, I develop, maintain, and extend software that's over 20 years old. I've worked on software written before I was born.
The software JPL uses to navigate all of its space probes was written by Dan Alderson, who died in 1986. Why haven't they replaced it? Better yet, ask why should they replace it when it works so well. So far, the only failure it's had was when somebody screwed up a measurement conversion, and you can't blame the software for that!
No, from a philosophical point of view, there's no difference between walking through the millimeter-wave scanners at an airport and texting naked photographs of yourself to your boyfriend or girlfriend.
Choice, as well of knowing it's happening. If you send photographs of your naked body to your boyfriend or girlfriend, you have to make a conscious decision to do it, you know who gets it (Although you don't know what they're going to do with it.) and you're OK with it. With the airport scanners, the only choice you had was to be scanned or undergo a physical search, and there was no way to know for sure if the operator was keeping a copy. I think that that, more than anything else, was what people objected to.
Flat, although "big" isn't all that big. 100mph difference between the two.
Thank you. And, I agree that "big" is relative. Coming in feet first gives you a maximum velocity roughly 83% higher than coming in flat, which sounds like a lot more than saying there's a difference of 100 mph. It's all in how you describe it.
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And now we know what BO means by "transparency in government:" we can't see that they're watching us.
How many pals did you lose to the VC?
None. First off, the VC was smashed in the Tet Offensive, before I joined up and second, I was in the Navy in Tonkin Gulf bombarding NVA positions in '72. AFAIK, nobody I knew in school was killed or even wounded in 'Nam.
and the draft dodgers were making a decision that in retrospect was a smart one
Oh, I don't know if it was smart or not. I served. I came back and used my GI Bill benefits to learn what I needed to have a better career. Now that I'm retired, I get all of my health care from the VA, and don't have to worry about whether or not Obamacare is good or not because it doesn't apply to me, unlike lots of the draft dodgers who are now worrying, very loudly in a few cases, about how they're going to pay their ever-increasing medical bills.
It will create another cottage industry of consultants trying to explain the thousands of pages of rules and regs to everyone else.
I don't know if Obamacare is good or bad, but I'm very, very concerned about the way it was written and passed: one, big, complex bill that was rammed through Congress before anybody except the authors had had a chance to read it, let alone understand it. Much better would have been a series of bills dealing with different aspects of the reform, with each one short enough to be read, understood and debated. I won't say that there are any nasty surprises lurking in the bill, but I can't say that there aren't, because it's so long, complex and unexplained. About all I can do is be glad that I get my health care from the VA, so I probably won't be affected by it one way or the other.
Nice try, AC, but you're wrong. They've changed the terminology to "witness summons," but it's still there. In fact, England is where the subpoena was created.
We've known for a long time that we're not in Known Space. In our universe, Mercury's day isn't the same length as its year as it is in Known Space.
Unfortunately, it's a rather one-sided protection, as the police would never show videos in which they'd appear to have abused their powers.
I don't know how things work in GB, but in the USA, the defense can subpoena the footage and, if they feel it would help, can submit it to the court themselves as evidence. And, I'd hope, any police claims that the video has been lost or not properly preserved would go a long way toward refuting their claims.
Pulseaudio always struck me as a solution in search of a problem. The only time I ever had trouble getting sound to work with Linux was when pulseaudio was new; now, It Just Works, for the most part.
Or you are a Linux fanboi. I installed linux on my media server just last year and it did not work with the optical audio, After a couple of hours I gave up.
Both my sister and I have been using Linux as our sole OS for over five years now. Neither of us has had the slightest problem getting sound to work over several different computers, using various releases of Fedora for me and Ubuntu for her. I follow several different support forums for Fedora, and questions about getting sound to work have gotten to be fairly uncommon during the past few years. I don't know why you couldn't get it to work, but I suspect, judging by your attitude, that you went out of your way to make things hard on yourself.
Doesn't change the fact that you, sir, are wrong.
That's easy to say, hard to prove, especially when coming from an AC.
It always makes me wonder if I'm the only one that has zero problems with sound?
No, you're not. My guess is that the OP is a Windows fanboi regurgitating anti-Linux talking points from over fifteen years ago. I'm surprised that he's not also complaining about how hard it is to configure X and getting it running properly or to find a printer that works with it.
I was thinking that too. However, I can see it calling home every few minutes to let the control machine know it's still there and running. (No response needed.) If it misses a scheduled call, the control machine launches a new attack and re-infects it. Don't know how well it would work in practice, but it sounds reasonable.
Let me guess: a certain prominent politician who taught Constitutional Law for eight years?
My understanding is that we're detecting radiation as far away as California not because there's so much of it but because we've gotten to be very, very good at detecting small quantities of it. As an example, the instruments that were in use at the end of WW II would never have picked it up, which is one reason there aren't any reports of radiation from the two A-bombs used reaching the US.
Why does Windows need to be rebooted for something like that? I can see having to restart your browser for a Flash update, but not your whole system.
Way to miss the point.
Thank you. It's always nice to see that I'm not the only person who thinks that way or, at least, saw what I was getting at. And, consider how much extra bandwidth Microsoft needs to handle Patch Tuesday and how much it costs them to have it going to waste the rest of the time. Having the updates go out as they're ready, and having people able to pick them up whenever they want must be an enormous saving for the various distros.
Do you have a reason to assume that they don't check for that, or are you just spouting FUD?
I use Fedora Linux. Every morning I have my desktop check for updates. Some days there are a large number of them, some days just a few, some days none. Most people who use Fedora probably don't check more than once a week, but the point is that updates and patches are placed in the repositories as soon as they're ready, instead of being held back until the next Patch Tuesday. I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have to wait the best part of a month for a security patch that came out just too late for the monthly update.
Yes, if you call releasing all patches at the same time, once a month, "timely." Personally, I'd like to get patches as soon as they're ready, especially security patches. That's one of the many reasons why I use Linux, not Windows.
Back in November, 2007, I wrote a fantasy novel (unpublished) for NaNoWriMo that contained a fair sized boat that was powered this way. And, at the time, I had a few links that showed the idea in action, but not only have I lost them, I'd bet that they'd be 404 compliant anyway.
That only works in Gentoo. Here's how I'd do it in Fedora:
$ su -c 'yum group install linux-user'
When prompted, give the root password and Bob's your uncle.
Correction: he was forced to retire because of failing health in 1986, and died in 1989.
What do you need a high resolution monitor for? Are you doing graphics, or some other type of work where you need the highest resolution you can get because anything less makes it hard for you to get things done, or is it simply something you'd like to have but can live without? I'm asking because if your work actually requires that kind of high-end equipment, your company should be supplying it, even if you're bringing in your own computer. And, if you don't really need it, the question becomes how much are you willing to spend to satisfy your ego, because buying a fancy monitor you don't actually need is mostly a matter of status and showing off how much you make.
Heck, I develop, maintain, and extend software that's over 20 years old. I've worked on software written before I was born.
The software JPL uses to navigate all of its space probes was written by Dan Alderson, who died in 1986. Why haven't they replaced it? Better yet, ask why should they replace it when it works so well. So far, the only failure it's had was when somebody screwed up a measurement conversion, and you can't blame the software for that!
No, from a philosophical point of view, there's no difference between walking through the millimeter-wave scanners at an airport and texting naked photographs of yourself to your boyfriend or girlfriend.
Choice, as well of knowing it's happening. If you send photographs of your naked body to your boyfriend or girlfriend, you have to make a conscious decision to do it, you know who gets it (Although you don't know what they're going to do with it.) and you're OK with it. With the airport scanners, the only choice you had was to be scanned or undergo a physical search, and there was no way to know for sure if the operator was keeping a copy. I think that that, more than anything else, was what people objected to.
Flat, although "big" isn't all that big. 100mph difference between the two.
Thank you. And, I agree that "big" is relative. Coming in feet first gives you a maximum velocity roughly 83% higher than coming in flat, which sounds like a lot more than saying there's a difference of 100 mph. It's all in how you describe it.