By allowing entry into Britian to anyone with a British passport (which is to say anyone from any of current and former the British colonies) the British have lost control of their own land and country. They have lost control of their borders.
These measures are a desperate attempt by native British to retain rule of the British Islands, to keep from becoming Britanistan, or ruled by people of African, Indian, or South East Asian descent.
The average British citizen does not object because, they believe, its not aimed at them, its designed to monitor and control those "others".
> Personally, I'm sick of managing farms of > physical servers, and with the introduction of > VMWare, I'm now managing 3x the number of > machines (albeit virtual machines).
All those Virtual machines to do the same thing with 4 times the resources as one well configured Linux box. Tsk Tsk.
Not at all the same thing. I think your comparison is somewhat flawed.
Microsoft used to distribute HyperTerminal by Hilgraeve. The Microsoft version was obviously a hack, but you could upgrade to the full version by going direct to the developer, and it integrated smoothly with windows.
Similarly, there are non-debian controlled repositories for Debian. (The fact that Debian does not reach out and control (support) those 3rd party repositories is clearly a Good Thing(tm).) They don't prevent you from using third party repositories.
All distros do the same thing. OpenSuse cripples mp3 capabilities (for legal reasons they say), but they provide links on their site pointing to 3rd party repositories that provide un-crippled versions of the same package.
As for this concept of "the only supported way", I have to take issue of that as well. Have you ever heard of anyone getting "support" from Debian? Ubuntu maybe, but Debian?
I don't want to appear to be defending Debian for this bone headed decision, just their right to be bone-headed.;-)
Imagine if Microsoft reserved the right to modify any software for Windows in any way it saw fit! Yet that's exactly what Debian (and Fedora and Mandrake and Ubuntu) said to me - they reserve the right to make any modifications they like to the software they ship, and if upstream don't like it, tough luck.
First, you should realize that Microsoft DOES modify software that they distribute with windows. Even third party packages the bundle with windows under license.
Second, you should read and try to understand the GPL. Distros are perfectly within their right to modify packages. Some do a good job of this, and some don't.
You need only review the history of Debian to realize that users are always at risk of another personality spat hozing their distro of choice. Its happened time and time again. The place is infested with swollen heads, sycophants, and drama queens.
This is why you should CHOOSE a distro based on integrity and quality, as well as history.
Introducing security flaws for the convenience of packagers is unconscionable.
You already Opted In when you bought the damn phone.
You gave out your number. You wanted to be connected. If you change your mind, and want to sneak around on your wife, leave the phone at home or turn it off.
> I know! Lets ask some commonly-trusted community representative to act on behalf
Good Idea.
Lets have the representatives dress all the same so we know who they are, maybe in Blue (nice color), and they can do other things while they wait for us to be missing, like hand out parking tickets and eat excess donuts etc.
Old Steve still holds a boatload of shares. It will be hard to dislodge him with the connections he has. If Gates won't turn on him, he is essentially safe.
This is what I was trying to say all along, but that California centric fool can't see that refusing to build infrastructure because it might have a pollution price tag, while at the same time demanding other states supply power is nothing but pushing pollution out of sight.
Texas plants have scrubbers. California could do the same. Yet for a 15 year period not ONE new power plant was allowed in California.
> California has since realized that it needs more > of its own power generation facilities to protect > itself from its neighbors
But this is exactly what I was saying.
California had long had the practice of dis-allowing new electrical generation plants anywhere in the state by tying them up in such a morass of regulation that it was effectively impossible to build new plants there.
This was done intentionally to push the generation plants (and the associated pollution) out of their back yard into someone elses.
Why should Texas, who built and owned their own plants and transmission lines (and who, for a long time saw no need to tie into the national grid) be forced to deliver electricity to California SIMPLY so that California could avoid pollution. Texas didn't escape the pollution. They had gas and coal fired plants belching 24/7 so California could flip the switch but never see the smoke stack.
California got exactly what it deserved. Washington, Oregon, and even Montana also faced increased rates due to California refusing to improve its infrastructure.
Any technology that requires heating large quantities of water will not be instantly scalable yet can still be used for peaking (high load hours).
Gas fired electrical generation plants can respond faster than Coal fired ones, and Nuclear (contrary to your assertion) can also respond quite quickly to additional demand.
All of these require that their boilers be kept at or near steam temperature at times when peaking is likely to be necessary.
About the fastest responding technology is hydro power. Penstocks can be opened and turbines spun up in less than 5 minutes.
Current electrical generation capacity is "scaled" by replication. As a utility approaches 100% utilization during peak periods it starts planning another generation plant. These things 1 year to design, 2 years to build, and 15 years to get permission to build. By that time the design is obsolete.
The problem is one of NIMBY, pure and simple. It will take several California brownouts before the political hacks get out the the way and let the engineers do their job.
The point of my post was to remind people that Comcast in the USA has been inserting reset commands into Bit Torrent (as well as other P2P protocols) as a way of "managing the network" (what ever the hell that means).
If the seeders were on comcast, some of the problem getting complete downloads could be due to that practice.
Of course Comcast both 1)denies they were doing this and 2)has promised to stop.
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What's wrong?
The British Empire, that's what.
By allowing entry into Britian to anyone with a British passport (which is to say anyone from any of current and former the British colonies) the British have lost control of their own land and country. They have lost control of their borders.
These measures are a desperate attempt by native British to retain rule of the British Islands, to keep from becoming Britanistan, or ruled by people of African, Indian, or South East Asian descent.
The average British citizen does not object because, they believe, its not aimed at them, its designed to monitor and control those "others".
Not so spectacular, and not really a miss, just (like everything DARPA does) a tad ahead of its time.
http://bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog
Watching the video, it actually looks alive.
http://bostondynamics.com/
A wall street Journal BLOG? This is now a source?
As for the Rapid Growth in the Aviation sector, precisely where is that growth? There are fewer flights today than there were 5 years ago.
And as older planes are replaced the newer ones are more efficient.
> Personally, I'm sick of managing farms of
> physical servers, and with the introduction of
> VMWare, I'm now managing 3x the number of
> machines (albeit virtual machines).
All those Virtual machines to do the same thing with 4 times the resources as one well configured Linux box. Tsk Tsk.
Oh, but don't you LOOK busy.....
The US held its own in WW2 and Korea which were the last major conflicts in which the US used the M1 Garand rifle in any significant numbers.
The nifty thing about DVRs is you watch when you want what you want.
So how would they know what people do other than what they say they do?
Self report is a pretty lame statistical tool.
Not at all the same thing. I think your comparison is somewhat flawed.
;-)
Microsoft used to distribute HyperTerminal by Hilgraeve. The Microsoft version was obviously a hack, but you could upgrade to the full version by going direct to the developer, and it integrated smoothly with windows.
Similarly, there are non-debian controlled repositories for Debian. (The fact that Debian does not reach out and control (support) those 3rd party repositories is clearly a Good Thing(tm).) They don't prevent you from using third party repositories.
All distros do the same thing. OpenSuse cripples mp3 capabilities (for legal reasons they say), but they provide links on their site pointing to 3rd party repositories that provide un-crippled versions of the same package.
As for this concept of "the only supported way", I have to take issue of that as well. Have you ever heard of anyone getting "support" from Debian? Ubuntu maybe, but Debian?
I don't want to appear to be defending Debian for this bone headed decision, just their right to be bone-headed.
Imagine if Microsoft reserved the right to modify any software for Windows in any way it saw fit! Yet that's exactly what Debian (and Fedora and Mandrake and Ubuntu) said to me - they reserve the right to make any modifications they like to the software they ship, and if upstream don't like it, tough luck.
First, you should realize that Microsoft DOES modify software that they distribute with windows. Even third party packages the bundle with windows under license.Second, you should read and try to understand the GPL. Distros are perfectly within their right to modify packages. Some do a good job of this, and some don't.
You need only review the history of Debian to realize that users are always at risk of another personality spat hozing their distro of choice. Its happened time and time again. The place is infested with swollen heads, sycophants, and drama queens.
This is why you should CHOOSE a distro based on integrity and quality, as well as history.
Introducing security flaws for the convenience of packagers is unconscionable.
I buy a patented hammer.
I use it as a paperweight, rather than to pound.
How much do I owe?
You already Opted In when you bought the damn phone.
You gave out your number. You wanted to be connected. If you change your mind, and want to sneak around on your wife, leave the phone at home or turn it off.
What is so hard about that? Turn it OFF.
You've been sampling your inventory again?
Save the crack for the customers!
> I know! Lets ask some commonly-trusted community representative to act on behalf
Good Idea.
Lets have the representatives dress all the same so we know who they are, maybe in Blue (nice color), and they can do other things while they wait for us to be missing, like hand out parking tickets and eat excess donuts etc.
With another baby at home...
Won't somebody thing of the children...!
> He and Gates surely control enough stock to do as they please.
Not true: Check the holdings:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT
% Held by Insiders1: 13.42%
% Held by Institutions1:62.70%
If the institutions (banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, etc) want Steve out the door, he's gone.
Old Steve still holds a boatload of shares. It will be hard to dislodge him with the connections he has. If Gates won't turn on him, he is essentially safe.
> He never said one was installed on the other.
Or which fence he bought it from.
> The solaris kernel is a hack
You were correct up to this point.
Some of us need glasses just to see up to the screen. How will this work with an additional semi-reflective layer interspersed?
> and the highest-draw items are connected across the ends anyway.
What you meant to say was that the 220 volt appliances are connected across the two hots (which are 180 out of phase).
Having an interpretable 110 volt leg drops these appliances entirely, or forces them to run on 110
which can lead to burned out motors, etc.
As you said, its a bad idea.
Exactly.
Well said.
NIMBY in the extreme.
This is what I was trying to say all along, but that California centric fool can't see that refusing to build infrastructure because it might have a pollution price tag, while at the same time demanding other states supply power is nothing but pushing pollution out of sight.
Texas plants have scrubbers. California could do the same. Yet for a 15 year period not ONE new power plant was allowed in California.
That and blog pimping on /. just screams "loser".
> California has since realized that it needs more
> of its own power generation facilities to protect
> itself from its neighbors
But this is exactly what I was saying.
California had long had the practice of dis-allowing new electrical generation plants anywhere in the state by tying them up in such a morass of regulation that it was effectively impossible to build new plants there.
This was done intentionally to push the generation plants (and the associated pollution) out of their back yard into someone elses.
Why should Texas, who built and owned their own plants and transmission lines (and who, for a long time saw no need to tie into the national grid) be forced to deliver electricity to California SIMPLY so that California could avoid pollution. Texas didn't escape the pollution. They had gas and coal fired plants belching 24/7 so California could flip the switch but never see the smoke stack.
California got exactly what it deserved. Washington, Oregon, and even Montana also faced increased rates due to California refusing to improve its infrastructure.
Any technology that requires heating large quantities of water will not be instantly scalable yet can still be used for peaking (high load hours).
Gas fired electrical generation plants can respond faster than Coal fired ones, and Nuclear (contrary to your assertion) can also respond quite quickly to additional demand.
All of these require that their boilers be kept at or near steam temperature at times when peaking is likely to be necessary.
About the fastest responding technology is hydro power. Penstocks can be opened and turbines spun up in less than 5 minutes.
Current electrical generation capacity is "scaled" by replication. As a utility approaches 100% utilization during peak periods it starts planning another generation plant. These things 1 year to design, 2 years to build, and 15 years to get permission to build. By that time the design is obsolete.
The problem is one of NIMBY, pure and simple. It will take several California brownouts before the political hacks get out the the way and let the engineers do their job.
Not a solution till the are common on the shelves.
You still cant find them in the stores to any reliable degree.
Bringing this back on topic....
The point of my post was to remind people that Comcast in the USA has been inserting reset commands into Bit Torrent (as well as other P2P protocols) as a way of "managing the network" (what ever the hell that means).
If the seeders were on comcast, some of the problem getting complete downloads could be due to that practice.
Of course Comcast both 1)denies they were doing this and 2)has promised to stop.