On Linux input devices are now moved into the kernel. The only complex thing remaining is modesetting and hardware acceleration. But they are being fixed as well.
"Except that the 'useless lawyering' is the explanation as to why the Pentagon could not have helped WikiLeaks, assuming they were even contacted. Which means your premise that the Pentagon is to blame for deaths from the leak is faulty."
BULLSHIT! Complete and utter bullshit.
Pentagon could have given WikiLeaks a list of words to redact (like 'words 7, 9, 10, 40 in the document 5'). This list won't contain any classified information and would be incredibly easy to compile since all documents are electronic.
In any case, Pentagon is not exactly famous for obeying the laws right now. Could they have bended law a little to _save_ lives for a change? Maybe an executive order from the command-in-chief?
Nah. It wouldn't have achieved anything for them. It was far better to accuse WikiLeaks of leaking informants' info. Basically, it's win-win for Pentagon: 1) If informants are killed then WikiLeaks loses some of the credibility. It's not like Pentagon cares about a couple of collateral casualties - according to the leaked doucments.
2) WikiLeaks could have stopped publishing the documents. Another win.
"Depends who you ask. WikiLeaks says they did, the US Government says they didn't."
Who are you going to believe? I don't think WikiLeaks are lying (what for?).
"Um...Don't really know much about the law, do you? Leaking classified information is a crime. If the Pentagon helped WikiLeaks leak classified information, that would be a crime."
They could help with editing this information, using staff with appropriate security clearance. Pentagon wouldn't be leaking the data.
"Again, it's classified. Thus if the Pentagon releases it, it's going to be redacted."
They wouldn't be releasing it.
Anyway, this is useless lawyering - they COULD have helped to protect civilians. But they hadn't.
So by their own action, Pentagon shows that civilian casualties are non-issue for them. And acutally can _help_ them.
Assange told in an interview that informants' names were tagged with special code. So they just removed all of them, only 3 names have slipped. Undoubtedly, some more names can be deduced from indirect data.
However, there's nowhere close to hundreds of informants's names leaked that Pentagon wants us to believe.
"The reality is, the wikileaks traitor deserves the same fate he so willingly begs to happen to others. The fact he's a traitor just so he can jerk off his ego makes him all the more despicable."
I agree that he should be tried for treason (hm? how can you commit a treason against a foreign country?), but only after all Pentagon people who were responsible for refusing to redact the records are put against the wall and shot.
"Gar'" in Russian means "soot". Considering the current situation with fires in Russia (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10897116), renaming a village named 'soot' near a nuclear reactor somehow does not builds up confidence:)
Zones = OpenVZ / Linux Containers (and they have some features that Solaris lacks) DTrace = SystemTap (fairly mature) ZFS = btrfs (not very mature yet)
USSR science textbooks. Seriously, they are great (with some obvious exceptions:) ) and they are out of copyright.
For example, Fichtenholz's "Differential and Integral Calculus" is THE best textbook on calculus ever created. It's so clear and written in so beautiful language that I had actually re-read it just for fun. I don't know if there are translations into English, alas.
Landau and Lifshitz's "Course of Theoretical Physics" is the one of the best reference books for the modern physics, and it's available in English. It's out of copyright but its translations might be copyrighted.
I'm certain it's possible to create a decent course on math/physics without much problem. Also, other countries should also have a lot of good material.
It'd be different for the modern fast-moving fields of biology, chemistry, etc. But there's no reason for math/physics books to change every year (or even every decade).
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IE9 passes ACID3 test. http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/benchmarks/Acid3/Default.html - here it passes 95 of 100 tests. It now passes 100 of 100, but I'm too lazy to google the announcement.
What else do you need? HTML5? IE9 has it: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
There's a more accurate and detailed IPv4 depletion blog: http://www.ipv4depletion.com/
It predicts that we'll run out of address space a little bit sooner. Either way, the difference between predictions is in the order of a few months.
Yes, it starts as root, but then it immediately drops privileges upon initialization.
Yep.
On Linux input devices are now moved into the kernel. The only complex thing remaining is modesetting and hardware acceleration. But they are being fixed as well.
In fact, you can run 'rootless X' on Fedora ( http://lwn.net/Articles/341033/ ) and soon on Ubuntu ( https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-rootless-x ). Here 'rootless' means that the server doesn't require root privileges to work.
"Well considering how the only people who still use the old crappy IEs are"
I'm not talking about crappy old IEs, but about the snappy new IE9 which will be faster than Mozilla for page rendering.
It's not HTML5, it uses WebGL which is not supported by IE, for example.
Ah! I remember reading about the same idea in Stephen Baxter's "Manifold: Time" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold:_Time
It has not ended well there :)
Subj.
If you have something more complex than a flat file, then use relational databases. Even Access databases are better than a collection of text files.
"Except that the 'useless lawyering' is the explanation as to why the Pentagon could not have helped WikiLeaks, assuming they were even contacted. Which means your premise that the Pentagon is to blame for deaths from the leak is faulty."
BULLSHIT! Complete and utter bullshit.
Pentagon could have given WikiLeaks a list of words to redact (like 'words 7, 9, 10, 40 in the document 5'). This list won't contain any classified information and would be incredibly easy to compile since all documents are electronic.
In any case, Pentagon is not exactly famous for obeying the laws right now. Could they have bended law a little to _save_ lives for a change? Maybe an executive order from the command-in-chief?
Nah. It wouldn't have achieved anything for them. It was far better to accuse WikiLeaks of leaking informants' info. Basically, it's win-win for Pentagon:
1) If informants are killed then WikiLeaks loses some of the credibility. It's not like Pentagon cares about a couple of collateral casualties - according to the leaked doucments.
2) WikiLeaks could have stopped publishing the documents. Another win.
"Depends who you ask. WikiLeaks says they did, the US Government says they didn't."
Who are you going to believe? I don't think WikiLeaks are lying (what for?).
"Um...Don't really know much about the law, do you? Leaking classified information is a crime. If the Pentagon helped WikiLeaks leak classified information, that would be a crime."
They could help with editing this information, using staff with appropriate security clearance. Pentagon wouldn't be leaking the data.
"Again, it's classified. Thus if the Pentagon releases it, it's going to be redacted."
They wouldn't be releasing it.
Anyway, this is useless lawyering - they COULD have helped to protect civilians. But they hadn't.
So by their own action, Pentagon shows that civilian casualties are non-issue for them. And acutally can _help_ them.
Assange told in an interview that informants' names were tagged with special code. So they just removed all of them, only 3 names have slipped. Undoubtedly, some more names can be deduced from indirect data.
However, there's nowhere close to hundreds of informants's names leaked that Pentagon wants us to believe.
"1. They weren't asked to"
Except that they were
"2. It would violate federal law."
Except that it wouldn't.
"3. The redacted versions would be unacceptable to Wikileaks, since all of the content would be redacted."
Except that it wouldn't.
"by redacting all of the names"
Which they actually did.
"The reality is, the wikileaks traitor deserves the same fate he so willingly begs to happen to others. The fact he's a traitor just so he can jerk off his ego makes him all the more despicable."
I agree that he should be tried for treason (hm? how can you commit a treason against a foreign country?), but only after all Pentagon people who were responsible for refusing to redact the records are put against the wall and shot.
In Australia, seriously. Aurora Australis is just as beautiful.
Earth has two poles.
"Gar'" in Russian means "soot". Considering the current situation with fires in Russia (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10897116), renaming a village named 'soot' near a nuclear reactor somehow does not builds up confidence :)
I live in Ukraine. Unlimited Internet connection is about $4 a month here. It's possible to get it even cheaper.
"Taken aback "Really, why?"
-"We have proof, when PI is expended out to (some number), there is a message"..."
Duh.
http://everything2.com/title/Converting+Pi+to+binary%253A+Don%2527t+do+it%2521
Google Books allows you to view and download entire books, if they are in the public domain.
Example:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Q_rLGDGlQz0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Mark+Twain&hl=en&ei=HlNbTOrmKtWN4gb-q9j3AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=thumbnail&q&f=false
As far as I understand, this data will be publicly available on Google Books.
Yup. It will help to get rid of most of small pieces.
We'll need something else to deal with the large pieces of junk.
A firearm is not nearly enough. You need something like linear accelerator to simulate low-orbit speeds.
And then you'd notice your bullets quite often will be _vaporized_ during the collision.
???
LXC now has network/PID/FS virtualization, and is even supported by SELinux. There's also support for live migration of containers.
Its userspace tools are indeed immature, but kernel-level features are OK.
Zones = OpenVZ / Linux Containers (and they have some features that Solaris lacks)
DTrace = SystemTap (fairly mature)
ZFS = btrfs (not very mature yet)
USSR science textbooks. Seriously, they are great (with some obvious exceptions :) ) and they are out of copyright.
For example, Fichtenholz's "Differential and Integral Calculus" is THE best textbook on calculus ever created. It's so clear and written in so beautiful language that I had actually re-read it just for fun. I don't know if there are translations into English, alas.
Landau and Lifshitz's "Course of Theoretical Physics" is the one of the best reference books for the modern physics, and it's available in English. It's out of copyright but its translations might be copyrighted.
I'm certain it's possible to create a decent course on math/physics without much problem. Also, other countries should also have a lot of good material.
It'd be different for the modern fast-moving fields of biology, chemistry, etc. But there's no reason for math/physics books to change every year (or even every decade).