It is merely a tool. If I were to give you directions to my house, I could just rattle off some street names, or I could walk you through it on the street view. You'd see the buildings and be better prepared to handle the few places where you have to quickly jump from one lane to another to avoid going into the opposite side of town.
It would seem that a warning vehicle could drive in front of the google car to warn people. However, I feel that the end result would be idiots rushing out into the street with dumb signs and the street view tool would become rather useless. Perhaps Google should just invest into technology to automatically erase people from photos.
So, if he wins, can the VA sue him for use of Vista since they've been using VistA for their EMR far longer than he's even thought about his little television channel?
No. They are not. I want a set of CDs with all the RPMs on them (just as I had with FC2, 3, 4, 5, and 6). The LiveCDs have a minimal Fedora install. If you want to put it on your computer (and toss out the CD), you need to do a network install. I have 17 computers here. I don't want to wait hours and hours for a network install on each one.
Fedora 7 is released with a DVD iso. If you need the set of CD isos, sorry. You'll have to wait to see if anyone is nice enough to create them in the future. You can try to use the rescue cd and a network install, but again, you'll have to wait until the bandwidth opens up enough for that. So, either upgrade your computer or stick with FC6.
I keep reading about "verifiability", but what *exactly* do they mean? *Who* is verifying *what*? In my opinion, if it is possible for me to go to some office somewhere and ask them, "Here's my ID. Tell me what you have that computer for my vote." Then, I can verify my vote. I have no right to verify anyone else's vote and nobody should be allowed to verify my vote without my permission. Are the critics claiming that there should be special people who get to look over everyone's shoulders and see who you're voting for? If so, I am very much against it. But, since these critics fail to give a specific definition of "verifiability", I have no idea what it is they are talking about. Of course, I'm probably the only idiot who doesn't get it.
First of all, why isn't it 12? With 12, you can make a calendar. Then, you could get current geek girls to portray the original geek girls and make a mint off the geek market.
Second, Paris is not a geek. A shallow, stupid, waste of oxygen - yes. A geek - no.
How can China reinstate a ban that wasn't ever lifted (according to Slashdot's coverage)? I tried to submit reports that China lifted the ban earlier in the week, but my attempts were rejected by the Slashdot editors. Now that the ban has been reinstated, Slashdot is all over reporting it. I feel that it is very one-sided to be so eager to report when the Chinese government does something wrong and ignore the news when they do something right.
Time to get on the ball now that the elections are up. Vote out the incuments!
Don't you watch the news? Don't you read the blogs? Didn't you see the movie by that fat guy in the ballcap? Come 2008, Bush will be out of office and the U.S. will become a utopia just like it was when Clinton was President.
Enough sarcasm - you are asbolutely correct. Congress writes the laws. Congress passes the laws. The President just gets a photo-op when he signs them. If we want change in the U.S. we must focus on Congress. Want to stop the Patriot Act? Vote out the guys (both Democrat and Republican) who wrote it, voted for it, and then voted to keep it again. Want to stop the war in Iraq? Vote out the guys in Congress (both Democrat and Republican) who just this past summer voted to keep troops there at least through the end of 2007. Want to stop the deficit? Vote out the guys in Congress (both Democrat and Republican) who keep passing bills to spend more and more and more... We are in a sad situation. Congress is doing all of this and pointing their finger at the President. Stupid Americans are complaining about the President and apparently can't figure out who wrote and passed all the laws.
This is the same as having two monitors. My productivity drops drastically when using one monitor. I normally have code on one screen and flip between reference material and viewing the program on the other screen. I don't have to memorize anything because it is always visible. So, I've trained myself out of remembering phrases or numbers for that few seconds it takes to flip screens and type. Instead, I have to copy/paste when using one screen - which takes more time than glancing at one screen and typing in the other.
I wonder if multiple desktops helps also. I have a production desktop for my work, a communication desktop with email/IM, and a fun desktop with my music player and such. I can jump between them without moving a lot of windows around. Will that concept be adopted by more than the Gnome/KDE models?
I agree, but are our movies the best way to show how the non-commies have it? Tomorrow's DVD releases:
* "Stay Alive": Americans are so bored with serial murder that they use video games to spice it up.
* "Grease": Yes, Grease. Americans stay in high school until they are well past 30 and sting songs while doing heavily choreographed dance numbers.
* "Avatar: The Last Airbender": How Americans view China - I bet they'll get a kick out it!
* "Stick It": Home, family, country - nothing is as important as winning a gymnastics competition.
What surprises me is that none of tomorrow's releases are the "blow 'em up big" movies. Was Miami Vice already released on DVD?
You completely side-stepped the FISC. With the exception of the narrow definition of an emergency, a warrant must come from FISC. Getting a warrant from FISC is harder than getting a warrant from any other Federal Court because you have to prove that you need the warrant *and* you have to prove that the warrant must come from FISC and not a regular Federal Court. It is a very simple concept that everyone was happy with from the time the FISC was formed, through Reagan, through Pappa Bush, and through Clinton. Suddenly, the FISC is a hellspawn of evil because baby Bush is President. I have a funny feeling that the FISC will be cool again after 2008.
And, in closing, shame on you for assuming I'm an average bipolar American. If I don't hate Bush, then I must hate Clinton. If I don't hate Clinton, then I must hate Bush. In other words, you are claiming that since I took the time to research FISA, the USA Act, and the USA PATRIOT Act, I am an absolute moron who loves Bush and hates Clinton. If that is the limit of your intelligence, how do you manage to use Slashdot? Isn't the mouse hard to maneuver with no opposable thumb?
Going to Thomas - where the REAL text of the bill is located - it clearly requires FISC and Congressional oversight. It does allow for emergency authorization of a wiretap, but not without later Congressional oversight. So, without meeting the narrow definition of an "emergency", these wiretaps have to be authorized by FISC and then go to Congressional oversight. How is that considered "no oversight"?
I don't see why there's not more outrage about this.
Well, if you are lucky, only about a third of the people eligible to vote actually do vote. Of those, half probably click on the "Democrat" or "Republican" button. Of the remaining few, most don't understand the concept of "electronic" voting. They couldn't figure out the paper ballots in Florida - now you are throwing an electronic screen at them!? So, they definately don't have any way to wrap their brain around hacking an electronic voting machine. Of the handful of people that do understand it all, most either work for the companies that make the gadgets (including the government people who support it) or they are wack-jobs that have been complaining about conspiracy theories for so long that just saying "Electronic voting booths can be hacked" comes out as "Aliens from Roswell are doing Elvis' bidding by hacking the voting booths with E-ray mind control devices to force people to vote for Reagan!!!"
Um... The Patriot Act is terrible, but Congress passed the Patriot Act, not Bush. Nobody in Gitmo will every be charged with anything related to the Patriot Act because it is for surveillance, not prisoners of war. Have you been watching too much Michael Moore? It is idiotic statements about the Patriot Act that keeps the public from understanding the truth of why it is bad. So, it can never be fixed. I often wonder if Congress paid Moore and the ACLU to go after the act with idiotic (and completely unrealistic) statements so the stupid public would never know what was really in it.
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It's almost ubiquitos distribution, and cross-platform support is the tops.
Well, if it is cross-platform and support is the tops, why does Adobe tell me to screw myself when I ask for a port of flash for my Linux64 system?
So if I wrap my RFID laden passport in tinfoil I am safe right? right?
The wallet I've had for, hmmm..., 17 years now is lined on the inside with foil - aluminum I think. It could be tin or lead. I don't know - it is inside the leather and I don't want to cut it open to find out. I worked on radars and all the radar geeks got them becuase they supposedly protected credit cards. Regardless, none of my RFID cards can be read when they are in my wallet. I've tried. I've also run into the situation where I ran cabling through a room with an MRI machine in it. I forgot that I had my wallet in my pocket. My debit card which is rubber-banded to the outside of my wallet was erased. My credit card inside the wallet was not. So, in my opinion, there's a lot to say for a foil-lined wallet.
I wish they would put the money into AI research. If it worked it would help poor people and everyone else more than anything else.
I live in South Carolina. "Poor" and "AI" are basically the same term. I know the following sounds like a joke or a half-truth, but it isn't. Our "Education Lottery" is primarily used to fund vocational school for prisoners, ex-prisoners, and high-school dropouts. I guess it is a waste of time and money to give them a good education before they turn 18. Instead, train them for a low-paying job after they turn 18.
Win98SE is probably the most stable and least problematic version of Windows ever. Seriously.
I never had any stability or security problems on my Windows 3.11 office network. I think that would give Windows 98SE a run for most stable and least problematic.
Which has always struck me as being like saying "Yay Lyme Disease! At Least It's Not AIDS!
There is a slight difference. We cannot improve AIDS or Lyme Disease. We *could* improve the government in the United States, but we refuse to do so. It isn't a difficult process. It just takes a second to think about it... The President does not create and pass laws. That is the job of Congress. But, instead of fixing the laws to make wiretapping and Gitmo illegal or refusing to continue paying to send troops to Iraq, Congress spends all their time pointing at the President and basically saying, "Don't look at me! Look at him!" As it is, most Americans do not know who their Congressional representatives are (you only have 2 Senators and 1 Representative). So, Congress has absolutely no reason to clean up its act. As long as they don't get stuck in a scandal with an underage intern, they can do anything they like. However, if the people stopped crying about the President and voted in a good Congress, that Congress could easily ammend the laws to keep the President working for the people (and not the oil industry). But, I know it will never happen. It is much easier to say "Bush Lied!" that it is to take responsibility and vote good people into Congress.
Windows is an extremely insecure OS, right? IE is an extremely insecure browser, right? Windows users click on any 'download' and 'install' button they see, right? Why not just write a virus/trojan that replaces the search bar with Google? Then, in no time, it will propogate and everyone will be using Google.
If you RTFA, the FCC ruling was expanded to ISP's. Universities are concerned that they may legally fit in the legal definition of an ISP. If so, then they would have to obey the same laws as, say AOL and MSN. If that happens and the FBI is investigating, say, someone on campus who with a child porn website, the University would be required to give the FBI access to the network to monitor traffic if a subpoena is granted for a tap. So, all in all, the Universities want to provide broadband internet service for all students, but not be classified as providers of internet service.
I can't believe they forgot this; I've seen it in dozens of movies and TV series, including "realistic" ones like CSI.
At least CSI hasn't committed the 'rotate that' crime yet. Perhaps the public is too smart now, but they used to grab a photo, enhance a few pixels into a full-screen photo of the back of someone's head. Then, the detective would ask if the computer geek could 'rotate that'. He'd punch a dozen or so keys and the person would rotate around so you could see his face. Of course - everyone knows that when you take a photo it stores the 3D info for everything on the other side of what you are photographing.
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It is merely a tool. If I were to give you directions to my house, I could just rattle off some street names, or I could walk you through it on the street view. You'd see the buildings and be better prepared to handle the few places where you have to quickly jump from one lane to another to avoid going into the opposite side of town.
It would seem that a warning vehicle could drive in front of the google car to warn people. However, I feel that the end result would be idiots rushing out into the street with dumb signs and the street view tool would become rather useless. Perhaps Google should just invest into technology to automatically erase people from photos.
So, if he wins, can the VA sue him for use of Vista since they've been using VistA for their EMR far longer than he's even thought about his little television channel?
The LiveCDs aren't CDs?
No. They are not. I want a set of CDs with all the RPMs on them (just as I had with FC2, 3, 4, 5, and 6). The LiveCDs have a minimal Fedora install. If you want to put it on your computer (and toss out the CD), you need to do a network install. I have 17 computers here. I don't want to wait hours and hours for a network install on each one.
Fedora 7 is released with a DVD iso. If you need the set of CD isos, sorry. You'll have to wait to see if anyone is nice enough to create them in the future. You can try to use the rescue cd and a network install, but again, you'll have to wait until the bandwidth opens up enough for that. So, either upgrade your computer or stick with FC6.
I keep reading about "verifiability", but what *exactly* do they mean? *Who* is verifying *what*? In my opinion, if it is possible for me to go to some office somewhere and ask them, "Here's my ID. Tell me what you have that computer for my vote." Then, I can verify my vote. I have no right to verify anyone else's vote and nobody should be allowed to verify my vote without my permission. Are the critics claiming that there should be special people who get to look over everyone's shoulders and see who you're voting for? If so, I am very much against it. But, since these critics fail to give a specific definition of "verifiability", I have no idea what it is they are talking about. Of course, I'm probably the only idiot who doesn't get it.
Steve Forbes for president? Or Ross Perot? Look how far those two smart, rich, successful businessmen went.
Sure - but they looked like geeks... oh, right. We're talking Bill, aren't we.
First of all, why isn't it 12? With 12, you can make a calendar. Then, you could get current geek girls to portray the original geek girls and make a mint off the geek market.
Second, Paris is not a geek. A shallow, stupid, waste of oxygen - yes. A geek - no.
How can China reinstate a ban that wasn't ever lifted (according to Slashdot's coverage)? I tried to submit reports that China lifted the ban earlier in the week, but my attempts were rejected by the Slashdot editors. Now that the ban has been reinstated, Slashdot is all over reporting it. I feel that it is very one-sided to be so eager to report when the Chinese government does something wrong and ignore the news when they do something right.
Time to get on the ball now that the elections are up. Vote out the incuments!
Don't you watch the news? Don't you read the blogs? Didn't you see the movie by that fat guy in the ballcap? Come 2008, Bush will be out of office and the U.S. will become a utopia just like it was when Clinton was President.
Enough sarcasm - you are asbolutely correct. Congress writes the laws. Congress passes the laws. The President just gets a photo-op when he signs them. If we want change in the U.S. we must focus on Congress. Want to stop the Patriot Act? Vote out the guys (both Democrat and Republican) who wrote it, voted for it, and then voted to keep it again. Want to stop the war in Iraq? Vote out the guys in Congress (both Democrat and Republican) who just this past summer voted to keep troops there at least through the end of 2007. Want to stop the deficit? Vote out the guys in Congress (both Democrat and Republican) who keep passing bills to spend more and more and more... We are in a sad situation. Congress is doing all of this and pointing their finger at the President. Stupid Americans are complaining about the President and apparently can't figure out who wrote and passed all the laws.
This is the same as having two monitors. My productivity drops drastically when using one monitor. I normally have code on one screen and flip between reference material and viewing the program on the other screen. I don't have to memorize anything because it is always visible. So, I've trained myself out of remembering phrases or numbers for that few seconds it takes to flip screens and type. Instead, I have to copy/paste when using one screen - which takes more time than glancing at one screen and typing in the other.
I wonder if multiple desktops helps also. I have a production desktop for my work, a communication desktop with email/IM, and a fun desktop with my music player and such. I can jump between them without moving a lot of windows around. Will that concept be adopted by more than the Gnome/KDE models?
"showing them now the non-commies have it"
I agree, but are our movies the best way to show how the non-commies have it? Tomorrow's DVD releases:
* "Stay Alive": Americans are so bored with serial murder that they use video games to spice it up.
* "Grease": Yes, Grease. Americans stay in high school until they are well past 30 and sting songs while doing heavily choreographed dance numbers.
* "Avatar: The Last Airbender": How Americans view China - I bet they'll get a kick out it!
* "Stick It": Home, family, country - nothing is as important as winning a gymnastics competition.
What surprises me is that none of tomorrow's releases are the "blow 'em up big" movies. Was Miami Vice already released on DVD?
You completely side-stepped the FISC. With the exception of the narrow definition of an emergency, a warrant must come from FISC. Getting a warrant from FISC is harder than getting a warrant from any other Federal Court because you have to prove that you need the warrant *and* you have to prove that the warrant must come from FISC and not a regular Federal Court. It is a very simple concept that everyone was happy with from the time the FISC was formed, through Reagan, through Pappa Bush, and through Clinton. Suddenly, the FISC is a hellspawn of evil because baby Bush is President. I have a funny feeling that the FISC will be cool again after 2008.
And, in closing, shame on you for assuming I'm an average bipolar American. If I don't hate Bush, then I must hate Clinton. If I don't hate Clinton, then I must hate Bush. In other words, you are claiming that since I took the time to research FISA, the USA Act, and the USA PATRIOT Act, I am an absolute moron who loves Bush and hates Clinton. If that is the limit of your intelligence, how do you manage to use Slashdot? Isn't the mouse hard to maneuver with no opposable thumb?
Going to Thomas - where the REAL text of the bill is located - it clearly requires FISC and Congressional oversight. It does allow for emergency authorization of a wiretap, but not without later Congressional oversight. So, without meeting the narrow definition of an "emergency", these wiretaps have to be authorized by FISC and then go to Congressional oversight. How is that considered "no oversight"?
I don't see why there's not more outrage about this.
Well, if you are lucky, only about a third of the people eligible to vote actually do vote. Of those, half probably click on the "Democrat" or "Republican" button. Of the remaining few, most don't understand the concept of "electronic" voting. They couldn't figure out the paper ballots in Florida - now you are throwing an electronic screen at them!? So, they definately don't have any way to wrap their brain around hacking an electronic voting machine. Of the handful of people that do understand it all, most either work for the companies that make the gadgets (including the government people who support it) or they are wack-jobs that have been complaining about conspiracy theories for so long that just saying "Electronic voting booths can be hacked" comes out as "Aliens from Roswell are doing Elvis' bidding by hacking the voting booths with E-ray mind control devices to force people to vote for Reagan!!!"
Um... The Patriot Act is terrible, but Congress passed the Patriot Act, not Bush. Nobody in Gitmo will every be charged with anything related to the Patriot Act because it is for surveillance, not prisoners of war. Have you been watching too much Michael Moore? It is idiotic statements about the Patriot Act that keeps the public from understanding the truth of why it is bad. So, it can never be fixed. I often wonder if Congress paid Moore and the ACLU to go after the act with idiotic (and completely unrealistic) statements so the stupid public would never know what was really in it.
It's almost ubiquitos distribution, and cross-platform support is the tops.
Well, if it is cross-platform and support is the tops, why does Adobe tell me to screw myself when I ask for a port of flash for my Linux64 system?
So if I wrap my RFID laden passport in tinfoil I am safe right? right?
The wallet I've had for, hmmm..., 17 years now is lined on the inside with foil - aluminum I think. It could be tin or lead. I don't know - it is inside the leather and I don't want to cut it open to find out. I worked on radars and all the radar geeks got them becuase they supposedly protected credit cards. Regardless, none of my RFID cards can be read when they are in my wallet. I've tried. I've also run into the situation where I ran cabling through a room with an MRI machine in it. I forgot that I had my wallet in my pocket. My debit card which is rubber-banded to the outside of my wallet was erased. My credit card inside the wallet was not. So, in my opinion, there's a lot to say for a foil-lined wallet.
I wish they would put the money into AI research. If it worked it would help poor people and everyone else more than anything else.
I live in South Carolina. "Poor" and "AI" are basically the same term. I know the following sounds like a joke or a half-truth, but it isn't. Our "Education Lottery" is primarily used to fund vocational school for prisoners, ex-prisoners, and high-school dropouts. I guess it is a waste of time and money to give them a good education before they turn 18. Instead, train them for a low-paying job after they turn 18.
Wow, they managed to port flash to AMD64 before Adobe/Macromedia did. This truly is amazing.
It looks to me like they just give you the 32-bit Firefox with 32-bit Flash. That has always worked on 64-bit machines.
Win98SE is probably the most stable and least problematic version of Windows ever. Seriously.
I never had any stability or security problems on my Windows 3.11 office network. I think that would give Windows 98SE a run for most stable and least problematic.
Which has always struck me as being like saying "Yay Lyme Disease! At Least It's Not AIDS!
There is a slight difference. We cannot improve AIDS or Lyme Disease. We *could* improve the government in the United States, but we refuse to do so. It isn't a difficult process. It just takes a second to think about it... The President does not create and pass laws. That is the job of Congress. But, instead of fixing the laws to make wiretapping and Gitmo illegal or refusing to continue paying to send troops to Iraq, Congress spends all their time pointing at the President and basically saying, "Don't look at me! Look at him!" As it is, most Americans do not know who their Congressional representatives are (you only have 2 Senators and 1 Representative). So, Congress has absolutely no reason to clean up its act. As long as they don't get stuck in a scandal with an underage intern, they can do anything they like. However, if the people stopped crying about the President and voted in a good Congress, that Congress could easily ammend the laws to keep the President working for the people (and not the oil industry). But, I know it will never happen. It is much easier to say "Bush Lied!" that it is to take responsibility and vote good people into Congress.
Windows is an extremely insecure OS, right? IE is an extremely insecure browser, right? Windows users click on any 'download' and 'install' button they see, right? Why not just write a virus/trojan that replaces the search bar with Google? Then, in no time, it will propogate and everyone will be using Google.
If you RTFA, the FCC ruling was expanded to ISP's. Universities are concerned that they may legally fit in the legal definition of an ISP. If so, then they would have to obey the same laws as, say AOL and MSN. If that happens and the FBI is investigating, say, someone on campus who with a child porn website, the University would be required to give the FBI access to the network to monitor traffic if a subpoena is granted for a tap. So, all in all, the Universities want to provide broadband internet service for all students, but not be classified as providers of internet service.
I can't believe they forgot this; I've seen it in dozens of movies and TV series, including "realistic" ones like CSI.
At least CSI hasn't committed the 'rotate that' crime yet. Perhaps the public is too smart now, but they used to grab a photo, enhance a few pixels into a full-screen photo of the back of someone's head. Then, the detective would ask if the computer geek could 'rotate that'. He'd punch a dozen or so keys and the person would rotate around so you could see his face. Of course - everyone knows that when you take a photo it stores the 3D info for everything on the other side of what you are photographing.