Exactly so. It would appear that there is more commonality between the Islamic fundamentalists (that want to blow us up) and the Christian fundamentalists (that pray for Armaggedon and the Second Coming) than there are differences. No wonder that W can rouse up his neo-con Christian base just after a weekend party with Bandar "Bush".
A possible solution to OpenBoot driver resolution. Many people do not like Forth language as a BIOS boot. Auto- detection at boot time of new hardware, the drivers are compiled during startup, and the modules loaded by the kernel.
The heir will eventually go after the legal owner of the Australian website. The C&D letter is merely the opening salvo. This might limit the owners from ever visiting any USA territory without being subject to arrest. (Of course, if G.W. is re-elected, the FBI might go after the website owner on Australian soil and kidnap him/her for USA prosecution.)
America is not too big. America trashed their national federally subsidized phone company (Ma Bell) in favor of a bunch of regional (and mostly crappy) phone companies. If Ma Bell were still in existence, the Feds could have easily required broadband access to every home. We also trashed our airline industry all in the name of competition -- too bad that those really cheap airline tickets are being subsidized by the American taxpayer in the form of airline bankruptcy bailouts and fuel subsidies.
For those who don't know, the Washington DC Metro area has the third worst traffic in the nation (behind LA & NYC). In my commute to work one day on the I-495 Beltway, I saw a man weaving between two lanes -- as I sped by him, I noticed that he was changing clothes (with another pair of slacks hanging over the passenger seat) while driving. I'm quite happy that he wasn't also watching the morning news while driving. He also had what looked to be an electric razor sitting on the dashboard.
Just build a spacecraft with a very thick lower metal hull, and explode a series of nuclear bombs underneath. Guaranteed that it would be a bumpy ride into orbit, but just think of the payload you could lift.
Think about processing thousands of million cubed matrix calculations needed to simulate the air flow and thermal dynamic calculations of a jet engine (or of weather patterns). The matrix operations are readily split and transferred piecemeal to a computer cluster.
No local storage, only MSN. Applications (MS Office, et.al.) available via web services on a monthly subscription. No problems with OS theft, or IP not protected by strict DRM (Trusted Computing). Lock-in to the Microsoft product family.
This is either a Microsoft wet dream for new revenue streams, or their last hurrah.
Mozilla.org has decided to "cyberswat" on this domain name in the hopes of striking gold. Considering what Google.com is worth these days, I'm sorry I didn't think of it first.
Actually, it would be a quite good move for Google.com to adopt an alternative F/OSS browser to beat the 800 pound gorilla over the head. Yea! Death to MSIE!
You have finally hit upon a theme that will garner greater interest from the Bush/Cheney administration. More funds are on the way! Now is the time to begin the construction of those fabled "Armageddon" armoured SST's. The invasion of Titan awaits...
just because the software might be open to peer review does not make a secure, reliable eVoting system. The machine specifications and attributes should be specified, as well as the secure communications, back-end server, and the database used. The FEC has not even come up with standards yet, and the GOP has pissed away billions of dollars on faulty equipment.
I say, let a standards body define the software, the hardware, and the process, all for peer review, THEN spend the money on contractors that will build to the specifications. What we have in the USA now is yet another cash cow for the big corporations to feed on, at taxpayer expense and with generally poor quality.
Perhaps we should switch back to paper ballots, or paper ballots with OCR, until REAL standards can be defined (as F/OSS) and implimented.
Considering the recent research regarding pharmacutical medications that are excreted and then chemically modified in the "purification" process and turns into potential cancer-producing byproducts, my answer is: Absolutely NOT!
1) The United States military does not
condone "siege mentality", although
it has been a tried-and-true strategy
of warfare for over 3 thousand years.
Gen. Patton's methods of massed armoured
attack has been the preferred method
since WW-II. Neither current training
or doctrine support such "static" methods.
When the USMC tried it in Fallujah in April,
2004, they were overruled by the DoD.
2) While linux might be a good OS for computer
cluster technology, it does not scale to the
level of "supercomputer" as defined by a
CRAY or IBM or NEC or SGI implementation.
I am not trying to be a troll here, but only
to represent the truth (however painful.)
One of the biggest problems that NASA
faces is its control by politically
appointed bean counters, instead of real
engineers.
While I was subcontracting to NASA (in
another lifetime), I saw tens of millions
of dollars spent upon teleconferencing
equipment, while engineering emails that
raised questions (prior to launch) about
insulating tiles on the SST went unanswered.
The rest is, unfortunately, history.
However, the Bush administration (in conjunction with his GOP majority in Congress) doesn't have any problem what- soever spending money like a drunk sailor (on shore leave). Unfortunately, the really big money is being funneled to the GOP's corporate sponsers, instead of where it does the most good.
Stem cell research (particularly embryonic) offers the greatest potential for actually curing diseases. This is in direct competition with the big pharacutical companies that would rather find a "customer for life" for their medications that treat the symptoms. Hence, the Bush prediliction toward opposing stem cell research. (They have been bought and paid for, and they will try their damnest to stay bought.)
Binary-only drivers might be the only current solution to NDA woes. The real problem is, kernel driver support is spotty for less well utilized linux or bsd distributions. And bleeding edge video card manufacturers would rather commit sepiku (sic) than reveal how they have achieved their performance superiority.
High performance OpenGL hardware based video cards might be best supported (based upon open standards), but are extremely pricey.
Short of a F/OSS-based video card development effort (that can create an economy through high volume production, I don't see any real solution.
The "new and improved" BMW 750 series luxury sport salon already uses MS WinCE. It brings entirely new meaning to the phrase "My system crashed."
Symmantec already has anti-virus software in the works for this automobile. It will be available soon at a BMW dealer near you.
Time to dust off NetBIOS?
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If the new Microsoft strategy of web-served office applications metered by usage, in conjunction with web-based storage (ala WebTV), and enforced by DRM and "Trusted Computing", why wouldn't M$ also force NetBIOS back down our craws?
If one looks carefully at the marketing hype and roadmaps that Microsoft has publically announced, one can easily draw the conclusion that "broadband everywhere", tightened DRM & "Trusted Computing", and Web-based services is leading to a Microsoft paradigm that will be renting software over the 'net on a per-use basis, with all data storage at Microsoft. Think "WebTV" everywhere!
There may be a small number of users that will subscribe to such a business model. IMHO, this will be the beginning of the end for the Microsoft monopoly (& "tax"), and the beginning of widespread adoption of the F/OSS model.
While the number of genes in the human
genome may be less than that of the
mustard plant, the real complexity in
the human genome is the number of folded
proteins that determine traits. The real
work on the human genome and inherited
traits has only just begun.
It is not unlike comparing a NA map of
freeways with street-by-street map of
LA County that includes embedded directions
to each house.
Verizon's idea of "fiber" is Post's "NutriGrain" Cereal. Verizon has not seen 20 or 30 year old POTS copper wire they don't like. Their Business Wireless DSL is easily 4X faster than what they can deliver to my home.
In spite of the DRM concerns (and the alliance with the 800 pound gorilla), I say congratulations to SBC!
at least in the Metro Washington (DC) area. It is WFDC (Telefutura), which is a Spanish language station.
Of course, considering our current state of "Political Correctness", it could well be a pirate station operating at full broadcast power without any legal interference from the FCC.
Slashdot Mirror
Cyberstalking only works with realtime
data. The real KeyHole's (KH-9, etc.)
are all owned by NSA. You be dreamin'.
Exactly so.
It would appear that there is more commonality
between the Islamic fundamentalists (that want
to blow us up) and the Christian fundamentalists
(that pray for Armaggedon and the Second Coming)
than there are differences. No wonder that W
can rouse up his neo-con Christian base just
after a weekend party with Bandar "Bush".
A possible solution to OpenBoot driver
resolution. Many people do not like
Forth language as a BIOS boot. Auto-
detection at boot time of new hardware,
the drivers are compiled during startup,
and the modules loaded by the kernel.
something like "Gone With The Broken Wind".
The heir will eventually go after the legal
owner of the Australian website. The C&D
letter is merely the opening salvo. This
might limit the owners from ever visiting
any USA territory without being subject to
arrest. (Of course, if G.W. is re-elected,
the FBI might go after the website owner on
Australian soil and kidnap him/her for USA
prosecution.)
America is not too big. America trashed their
national federally subsidized phone company
(Ma Bell) in favor of a bunch of regional
(and mostly crappy) phone companies. If Ma
Bell were still in existence, the Feds could
have easily required broadband access to every
home. We also trashed our airline industry
all in the name of competition -- too bad that
those really cheap airline tickets are being
subsidized by the American taxpayer in the form
of airline bankruptcy bailouts and fuel subsidies.
For those who don't know, the Washington DC
Metro area has the third worst traffic in
the nation (behind LA & NYC). In my commute
to work one day on the I-495 Beltway, I saw
a man weaving between two lanes -- as I sped
by him, I noticed that he was changing clothes
(with another pair of slacks hanging over the
passenger seat) while driving. I'm quite
happy that he wasn't also watching the morning
news while driving. He also had what looked
to be an electric razor sitting on the dashboard.
Just build a spacecraft with a very thick
lower metal hull, and explode a series of
nuclear bombs underneath. Guaranteed that
it would be a bumpy ride into orbit, but
just think of the payload you could lift.
Or, Finite Element Analysis!
Think about processing thousands of million
cubed matrix calculations needed to simulate
the air flow and thermal dynamic calculations
of a jet engine (or of weather patterns).
The matrix operations are readily split and
transferred piecemeal to a computer cluster.
No local storage, only MSN.
Applications (MS Office, et.al.) available
via web services on a monthly subscription.
No problems with OS theft, or IP not
protected by strict DRM (Trusted Computing).
Lock-in to the Microsoft product family.
This is either a Microsoft wet dream for new
revenue streams, or their last hurrah.
Mozilla.org has decided to "cyberswat" on
this domain name in the hopes of striking
gold. Considering what Google.com is worth
these days, I'm sorry I didn't think of it
first.
Actually, it would be a quite good move for
Google.com to adopt an alternative F/OSS
browser to beat the 800 pound gorilla over
the head. Yea! Death to MSIE!
Congratulations, NASA!
...
You have finally hit upon a theme that will
garner greater interest from the Bush/Cheney
administration. More funds are on the way!
Now is the time to begin the construction of
those fabled "Armageddon" armoured SST's.
The invasion of Titan awaits
just because the software might be open to
peer review does not make a secure, reliable
eVoting system. The machine specifications
and attributes should be specified, as well
as the secure communications, back-end server,
and the database used. The FEC has not even
come up with standards yet, and the GOP has
pissed away billions of dollars on faulty
equipment.
I say, let a standards body define the software,
the hardware, and the process, all for peer
review, THEN spend the money on contractors
that will build to the specifications. What
we have in the USA now is yet another cash cow
for the big corporations to feed on, at taxpayer
expense and with generally poor quality.
Perhaps we should switch back to paper ballots,
or paper ballots with OCR, until REAL standards
can be defined (as F/OSS) and implimented.
Considering the recent research regarding
pharmacutical medications that are excreted
and then chemically modified in the "purification"
process and turns into potential cancer-producing
byproducts, my answer is: Absolutely NOT!
1) The United States military does not condone "siege mentality", although it has been a tried-and-true strategy of warfare for over 3 thousand years. Gen. Patton's methods of massed armoured attack has been the preferred method since WW-II. Neither current training or doctrine support such "static" methods. When the USMC tried it in Fallujah in April, 2004, they were overruled by the DoD. 2) While linux might be a good OS for computer cluster technology, it does not scale to the level of "supercomputer" as defined by a CRAY or IBM or NEC or SGI implementation. I am not trying to be a troll here, but only to represent the truth (however painful.)
One of the biggest problems that NASA faces is its control by politically appointed bean counters, instead of real engineers. While I was subcontracting to NASA (in another lifetime), I saw tens of millions of dollars spent upon teleconferencing equipment, while engineering emails that raised questions (prior to launch) about insulating tiles on the SST went unanswered. The rest is, unfortunately, history.
However, the Bush administration (in
conjunction with his GOP majority in
Congress) doesn't have any problem what-
soever spending money like a drunk sailor
(on shore leave). Unfortunately, the
really big money is being funneled to the
GOP's corporate sponsers, instead of where
it does the most good.
Stem cell research (particularly embryonic)
offers the greatest potential for actually
curing diseases. This is in direct competition
with the big pharacutical companies that would
rather find a "customer for life" for their
medications that treat the symptoms. Hence,
the Bush prediliction toward opposing stem
cell research. (They have been bought and
paid for, and they will try their damnest to
stay bought.)
Binary-only drivers might be the only current
solution to NDA woes. The real problem is,
kernel driver support is spotty for less well
utilized linux or bsd distributions. And
bleeding edge video card manufacturers would
rather commit sepiku (sic) than reveal how they
have achieved their performance superiority.
High performance OpenGL hardware based video
cards might be best supported (based upon open
standards), but are extremely pricey.
Short of a F/OSS-based video card development
effort (that can create an economy through
high volume production, I don't see any real
solution.
The "new and improved" BMW 750 series
luxury sport salon already uses MS
WinCE. It brings entirely new meaning
to the phrase "My system crashed."
Symmantec already has anti-virus software
in the works for this automobile. It will
be available soon at a BMW dealer near you.
If the new Microsoft strategy of web-served
office applications metered by usage, in
conjunction with web-based storage (ala
WebTV), and enforced by DRM and "Trusted
Computing", why wouldn't M$ also force
NetBIOS back down our craws?
If one looks carefully at the marketing
hype and roadmaps that Microsoft has
publically announced, one can easily
draw the conclusion that "broadband
everywhere", tightened DRM & "Trusted
Computing", and Web-based services is
leading to a Microsoft paradigm that
will be renting software over the 'net
on a per-use basis, with all data storage
at Microsoft. Think "WebTV" everywhere!
There may be a small number of users that
will subscribe to such a business model.
IMHO, this will be the beginning of the
end for the Microsoft monopoly (& "tax"),
and the beginning of widespread adoption
of the F/OSS model.
While the number of genes in the human genome may be less than that of the mustard plant, the real complexity in the human genome is the number of folded proteins that determine traits. The real work on the human genome and inherited traits has only just begun. It is not unlike comparing a NA map of freeways with street-by-street map of LA County that includes embedded directions to each house.
Verizon's idea of "fiber" is Post's
"NutriGrain" Cereal. Verizon has not
seen 20 or 30 year old POTS copper
wire they don't like. Their Business
Wireless DSL is easily 4X faster than
what they can deliver to my home.
In spite of the DRM concerns (and the
alliance with the 800 pound gorilla),
I say congratulations to SBC!
Imagine a beowolf cluster of these ... ... )
(on a mesh network, no less
at least in the Metro Washington (DC) area.
It is WFDC (Telefutura), which is a Spanish
language station.
Of course, considering our current state of
"Political Correctness", it could well be a
pirate station operating at full broadcast
power without any legal interference from
the FCC.
the crashing satellite improved his
home's Feng Shui. As a bonus, it
also drove out all the evil spirits.
Give the man a break, already.