As others have pointed out, the G5 is a power sink. If the power bill is of little concern, the box will work well as a media server, cd/dvd ripper, and everything else server. I've found both Debian and Ubuntu to be good matches for previous PPC systems, but at the moment I'm using OSX 10.5 to support a few favored apps for when my wife beats me to the Powerbook.
If you wanted a server that went easy on the electricity, I'd research the delta - if any - between the G5 and a Mac Mini PPC/Intel.
I understand the intent of the First Amendment. It doesn't give a reporter carte blanche in a criminal matter. If her source was merely passing along evidence of a crime ("Joe Blow told me someone is blowing the cover on a CIA agent"), she'd have been on solid ground. Unfortunately, the source was suspected of breaking Federal law by the act of stating what Ms. Plame did for a living ("Joe Blow told me Valerie is a CIA agent"), and neither the trial court, the appeals court, nor (AFAWK) the Supreme Court was buying the First Amendment argument.
Frankly, while I support the general idea that a reporter should be able to protect his/her sources, this dynamic is likely never to be settled. On the one hand, an inability to adequately investigate important issues. On the other, a free pass from ever being called as a witness to any crime, no matter how heinous.
Y'know, there were a boatload of fringe books that were hard to find prior to commercialization of ARPANet. That a book chain didn't think it worth their while to carry - say - Palladin Press' full catalog in a store !== "banned".
Re: "the government" throwing a reporter in jail... that's a pretty broad brush. Care to provide some context? Was it at G.W. Bush's order? Cheney's? The Director of the FBI? The CIA? The Attorney General? No, it was by a judge hearing a criminal case, compelling a witness under supenae to testify on whom she saw breaking the law. A reporters' privilege to protect sources, isn't (yet) an absolute right, but it's getting there.
Claims of parent to support "Fascism is coming"...
- Books like The Federal Mafia have been banned:No. - NYT reporters have been silenced [...] in jail: "reporters" == Judith Miller, who got to do a couple months in the can to ponder the meaning of "contempt of court". She's not the first, and won't be the last.
As someone pointed out, this article is light enough on source material that it may count as more of a slashvertizement. That said, if Bitcoin, or any micropayment and/or e-cash plan scales beyond a certain level, it's gonna attract both criminals and government interest and intervention, much as age-old Islamic halawa got a lot more notice when used by gangs like Al-Qaeda.
Herschel will "observe" the asteroid from 450 million km, or about 3 AU. While I'm sure useful science will come from it, to say that it's participating in an observation with Rosetta's actual closeup flyby seems analogous to saying I'm participating in measurements from my roof.
I'm surprised this answer didn't come up earlier. At the very least, set up an SSL proxy back home. If you do/can run a web server in your house, with an ISP that doesn't make it difficult, this is the obvious solution. I did this as a favor for a nephew living in the Middle Country, and he was able to surf freely.
If you're carrying your own laptop, and can ssh into your server, then with port redirection, truly you are powerful, and will be limited only by the bandwidth between you and home plate.
The original post, and the parent to mine, remind me of a different, economic concept, the wisdom of the markets. In Cold War terms, a free market was usually more efficient than a centrally planned economy because a large economy is too complex to effectively manage. The free market has the advantage of decentralized decision making, broken down into small enough segments that a human can get his arms around it.
However, the market as a whole is stupid. It only knows something like a consensus of what the players - particularly the leading players - know, or more to the point, care about.
Except that it is contrary to the US constitution [...], it doesn't mean that those who serve have actual rights taken away wholesale.
Re: Constitutional rights, point well taken. Ultimately, Constitutional rights are whatever the Supreme Court says they are (within limits of impeachment and Amendments, naturally), but I'll hope no regulation of this sort ever arises to test my contention.
This makes perfect sense, OPSEC-wise, and within the context of Chinese culture, I suspect is no big deal.
From what I've seen, this wouldn't be a completely insane idea to apply to members of the US armed forces. But, given the role of reservists and the existing penetration of the social web into the demographic of those currently serving, this would be a bear to enforce, and result in a storm of protest, on the assumption it's goal was to cut off alternative sources of information on the situation in Afghanistan.
Intel decided to bail on marketing an in-house high performance GPU. But, they'd still like a return on their Larrabee investment. I don't doubt they would have been pushing the HPC mode anyway, but now, that's all they've got. Unfortunately for Intel, they've got to sell Larrabee performance based on in-house testing, while there are now a number of CUDA-based applications, and HPC-related conferences and papers are now replete with performance data.
To Intel's and AMD/ATI's advantage, NVIDIA has signed on with the OpenCL effort, so as the first two start getting drivers out, they can give the later a run for their HPC-GPU money. At the moment, though, it's all talk.
MacTech is Apple-oriented, obviously, and has been around since 1984 as either MacTech or MacTutor magazine. I believe they still sell a compendium DVD that reaches back into the mists of time, handy if you end up with an old Mac you'd like to hack on.
As someone else pointed out, the classic Circuit Cellar is still around.
twistedsymphony hints at a major point: the McMahons or a trusted representative didn't retain control of or an eyeball on the device between the gaming floor and the offices of the Colorado Gaming Division.
So, climate satts have been underfunded for ten years. Who took over the funding and policy apparatus in 2000 that might have led to this? Hmmm, could it be... SATAN?
Having a new model/metric to play with is nice. But, it wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference with the most recently departed "phantom value". The core issue is that when people are making a lot of money off a hot economic streak, rich people in particular, there's a strong incentive to not screw with the gravy train. Hell, The Economist, for one, had spent three or four years publishing charts and stories suggesting that the western European/North American real estate bubble was unsustainable, and due for correction.
The missing bit of information was exactly what the corrective signal was going to be. The US Federal Reserve - in the person of Mr. Greenspan - could have provided it, but the Fed board is full of conservative bankers that didn't want to rock the GOP's boat. The various Wall Street bankers could have provided it, but instead they were busy putting out increasingly meta-physical financial products to squeeze another round of bonuses out of the market. So instead, they were all Cosmo Kramer, joy-riding the Saab down the expressway for as long as the fumes kept it going.
It doesn't matter what predictive tool you've got, even the Word of the Lord wasn't and isn't going to stop people from trying to grab that extra [your monetary goal here], if there's any money left on the table.
"What would I do?" Mr. Dell said to an audience of several thousand information technology managers. "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."
While some folks were connected enough to play with PLATO, I was trying some then-new calculator "games", where the pseudo text answers to your arithmetic questions appeared when the display was turned upside down. My device also did square roots! To prove my semi-geek cred, I've still got it (a Kingspoint), functional in all its VFD glory.
This wasn't *just* a stupid cell phone, it's also the embodiment of several million dollars in R&D, and a trade secret. Granted, the Apple employee who lost it didn't exercise due care. However, that doesn't negate the fact that it was a valuable object, beyond its intrinsic value as a communications device.
What's likely going to send at least a couple of idiots to jail will be testimony and evidence showing that everybody involved knew this wasn't *just* a cell phone. From the property crime aspect, it's not much different from finding a cruise missile prototype, and selling it to Aviation Week.
I think the/. article sub-header "some-serious-micromanagement dept" is incorrect. "Micromanagement" would be to specify a particular technical approach. The law(220kB PDF) doesn't even mention https. So, I think the legislation's level of detail appropriate: "just do it." The author of the FA seems to think this'll sell a lot of SQL Server upgrades, and if SQL Server is what someone is running to persist data, I suppose so.
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Unless someone develops a low energy input, low mass anti-gravity mechanism, flying cars are never going to be commonplace, merely niche vehicles.
The why should be obvious: it takes a lot of energy to get one in the air. Even standard small prop aircraft gets middling mileage, and earns points only by its ability to fly in a straight line. However, it needs a lot of room for take off and landing.
Hence, a practical flying car needs to be VTOL, which is by its nature very energy inefficient.
It shouldn't be a shock to anyone that MA, or any state, would want to limit on-line gaming. The only reason any US state has permitted gaming at all is to generate revenue. Being as the states don't have a good mechanism for that on-line, they don't permit it.
One can moan about libertarian ideals and Puritan ethics all one wants. But, all of the players are fully aware of the situation, and have no inhibition against saying so in public, so pointing it out isn't going to make it go away.
And let us also hope that financial backers and investors don't pass on the idea of investing in said research without the potential payout of a full term patent.
The court has done investors a favor: it has set firm rules for an aspect of bio R&D commercialization. An aspect of nature is not patentable. To leave patented the use of the BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 mutations as a diagnostic marker for certain types of cancer is directly analogous to patenting the finding that a salt dome is a marker for fossil fuel deposits.
Is the discovery useful? Yes. Did the discoverers create the salt dome? No. Perhaps they can patent a new and novel method for finding salt domes, but that would be an invention, rather than a discovery of the natural world.
It's one thing to patent a sequencer, quite another to patent what it sequences.
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As others have pointed out, the G5 is a power sink. If the power bill is of little concern, the box will work well as a media server, cd/dvd ripper, and everything else server. I've found both Debian and Ubuntu to be good matches for previous PPC systems, but at the moment I'm using OSX 10.5 to support a few favored apps for when my wife beats me to the Powerbook.
If you wanted a server that went easy on the electricity, I'd research the delta - if any - between the G5 and a Mac Mini PPC/Intel.
I understand the intent of the First Amendment. It doesn't give a reporter carte blanche in a criminal matter. If her source was merely passing along evidence of a crime ("Joe Blow told me someone is blowing the cover on a CIA agent"), she'd have been on solid ground. Unfortunately, the source was suspected of breaking Federal law by the act of stating what Ms. Plame did for a living ("Joe Blow told me Valerie is a CIA agent"), and neither the trial court, the appeals court, nor (AFAWK) the Supreme Court was buying the First Amendment argument.
Frankly, while I support the general idea that a reporter should be able to protect his/her sources, this dynamic is likely never to be settled. On the one hand, an inability to adequately investigate important issues. On the other, a free pass from ever being called as a witness to any crime, no matter how heinous.
As my headline suggested, my response wasn't intended as a rebuttal of the overall thesis, merely the parent's evidence for it.
Y'know, there were a boatload of fringe books that were hard to find prior to commercialization of ARPANet. That a book chain didn't think it worth their while to carry - say - Palladin Press' full catalog in a store !== "banned".
Re: "the government" throwing a reporter in jail... that's a pretty broad brush. Care to provide some context? Was it at G.W. Bush's order? Cheney's? The Director of the FBI? The CIA? The Attorney General? No, it was by a judge hearing a criminal case, compelling a witness under supenae to testify on whom she saw breaking the law. A reporters' privilege to protect sources, isn't (yet) an absolute right, but it's getting there.
Claims of parent to support "Fascism is coming"...
- Books like The Federal Mafia have been banned: No.
- NYT reporters have been silenced [...] in jail: "reporters" == Judith Miller, who got to do a couple months in the can to ponder the meaning of "contempt of court". She's not the first, and won't be the last.
My pardons for the typo. All else considered, I'd rather have a Halawa.
As someone pointed out, this article is light enough on source material that it may count as more of a slashvertizement. That said, if Bitcoin, or any micropayment and/or e-cash plan scales beyond a certain level, it's gonna attract both criminals and government interest and intervention, much as age-old Islamic halawa got a lot more notice when used by gangs like Al-Qaeda.
Herschel will "observe" the asteroid from 450 million km, or about 3 AU. While I'm sure useful science will come from it, to say that it's participating in an observation with Rosetta's actual closeup flyby seems analogous to saying I'm participating in measurements from my roof.
I'm surprised this answer didn't come up earlier. At the very least, set up an SSL proxy back home. If you do/can run a web server in your house, with an ISP that doesn't make it difficult, this is the obvious solution. I did this as a favor for a nephew living in the Middle Country, and he was able to surf freely.
If you're carrying your own laptop, and can ssh into your server, then with port redirection, truly you are powerful, and will be limited only by the bandwidth between you and home plate.
The original post, and the parent to mine, remind me of a different, economic concept, the wisdom of the markets. In Cold War terms, a free market was usually more efficient than a centrally planned economy because a large economy is too complex to effectively manage. The free market has the advantage of decentralized decision making, broken down into small enough segments that a human can get his arms around it.
However, the market as a whole is stupid. It only knows something like a consensus of what the players - particularly the leading players - know, or more to the point, care about.
Except that it is contrary to the US constitution [...], it doesn't mean that those who serve have actual rights taken away wholesale.
Re: Constitutional rights, point well taken. Ultimately, Constitutional rights are whatever the Supreme Court says they are (within limits of impeachment and Amendments, naturally), but I'll hope no regulation of this sort ever arises to test my contention.
This makes perfect sense, OPSEC-wise, and within the context of Chinese culture, I suspect is no big deal.
From what I've seen, this wouldn't be a completely insane idea to apply to members of the US armed forces. But, given the role of reservists and the existing penetration of the social web into the demographic of those currently serving, this would be a bear to enforce, and result in a storm of protest, on the assumption it's goal was to cut off alternative sources of information on the situation in Afghanistan.
Intel decided to bail on marketing an in-house high performance GPU. But, they'd still like a return on their Larrabee investment. I don't doubt they would have been pushing the HPC mode anyway, but now, that's all they've got. Unfortunately for Intel, they've got to sell Larrabee performance based on in-house testing, while there are now a number of CUDA-based applications, and HPC-related conferences and papers are now replete with performance data.
To Intel's and AMD/ATI's advantage, NVIDIA has signed on with the OpenCL effort, so as the first two start getting drivers out, they can give the later a run for their HPC-GPU money. At the moment, though, it's all talk.
MacTech is Apple-oriented, obviously, and has been around since 1984 as either MacTech or MacTutor magazine. I believe they still sell a compendium DVD that reaches back into the mists of time, handy if you end up with an old Mac you'd like to hack on.
As someone else pointed out, the classic Circuit Cellar is still around.
twistedsymphony hints at a major point: the McMahons or a trusted representative didn't retain control of or an eyeball on the device between the gaming floor and the offices of the Colorado Gaming Division.
So, climate satts have been underfunded for ten years. Who took over the funding and policy apparatus in 2000 that might have led to this? Hmmm, could it be... SATAN?
Having a new model/metric to play with is nice. But, it wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference with the most recently departed "phantom value". The core issue is that when people are making a lot of money off a hot economic streak, rich people in particular, there's a strong incentive to not screw with the gravy train. Hell, The Economist, for one, had spent three or four years publishing charts and stories suggesting that the western European/North American real estate bubble was unsustainable, and due for correction.
The missing bit of information was exactly what the corrective signal was going to be. The US Federal Reserve - in the person of Mr. Greenspan - could have provided it, but the Fed board is full of conservative bankers that didn't want to rock the GOP's boat. The various Wall Street bankers could have provided it, but instead they were busy putting out increasingly meta-physical financial products to squeeze another round of bonuses out of the market. So instead, they were all Cosmo Kramer, joy-riding the Saab down the expressway for as long as the fumes kept it going.
It doesn't matter what predictive tool you've got, even the Word of the Lord wasn't and isn't going to stop people from trying to grab that extra [your monetary goal here], if there's any money left on the table.
It seems only yesterday (1997):
"What would I do?" Mr. Dell said to an audience of several thousand information technology managers. "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/technology/16apple.html
While some folks were connected enough to play with PLATO, I was trying some then-new calculator "games", where the pseudo text answers to your arithmetic questions appeared when the display was turned upside down. My device also did square roots! To prove my semi-geek cred, I've still got it (a Kingspoint), functional in all its VFD glory.
This wasn't *just* a stupid cell phone, it's also the embodiment of several million dollars in R&D, and a trade secret. Granted, the Apple employee who lost it didn't exercise due care. However, that doesn't negate the fact that it was a valuable object, beyond its intrinsic value as a communications device.
What's likely going to send at least a couple of idiots to jail will be testimony and evidence showing that everybody involved knew this wasn't *just* a cell phone. From the property crime aspect, it's not much different from finding a cruise missile prototype, and selling it to Aviation Week.
Even though the score rendered cleanly, the html code said the same thing on my copy of FF3.6.3 (WS 2003).
I think the /. article sub-header "some-serious-micromanagement dept" is incorrect. "Micromanagement" would be to specify a particular technical approach. The law(220kB PDF) doesn't even mention https. So, I think the legislation's level of detail appropriate: "just do it." The author of the FA seems to think this'll sell a lot of SQL Server upgrades, and if SQL Server is what someone is running to persist data, I suppose so.
Unless someone develops a low energy input, low mass anti-gravity mechanism, flying cars are never going to be commonplace, merely niche vehicles.
The why should be obvious: it takes a lot of energy to get one in the air. Even standard small prop aircraft gets middling mileage, and earns points only by its ability to fly in a straight line. However, it needs a lot of room for take off and landing.
Hence, a practical flying car needs to be VTOL, which is by its nature very energy inefficient.
It shouldn't be a shock to anyone that MA, or any state, would want to limit on-line gaming. The only reason any US state has permitted gaming at all is to generate revenue. Being as the states don't have a good mechanism for that on-line, they don't permit it.
One can moan about libertarian ideals and Puritan ethics all one wants. But, all of the players are fully aware of the situation, and have no inhibition against saying so in public, so pointing it out isn't going to make it go away.
The court has done investors a favor: it has set firm rules for an aspect of bio R&D commercialization. An aspect of nature is not patentable. To leave patented the use of the BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 mutations as a diagnostic marker for certain types of cancer is directly analogous to patenting the finding that a salt dome is a marker for fossil fuel deposits.
Is the discovery useful? Yes. Did the discoverers create the salt dome? No. Perhaps they can patent a new and novel method for finding salt domes, but that would be an invention, rather than a discovery of the natural world.
It's one thing to patent a sequencer, quite another to patent what it sequences.