You turn around before the half-way point - as long as thrust before and after the turn are roughly equal (taking into account gravity and other effects) you'll arrive just fine, just less time on boost vs deceleration.
This was amusing, but I seems like Garbus had a purpose here - he is trying to establish whether this clown actually did the things (downloaded and used DeCSS) that he said he did before initiating the suit, or if he's just parroting what his techs have told him to say. The plaintiff have had credibility with the judge because they have appeared (to him) to know what they're talking about. This is a first step in destroying that credibility, and exposing the knee-jerk, know-nothing reasoning that led to this suit being filed in the first place.
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I hadn't really though of this. This is a new MS policy, and is clearly anti-competative in this aspect. Can anyone tell me with absolute certainty (you have a MS approved disk that you have tested and you understand their required specs) that this policy effectively prevents users from operatinng in a dual boot set-up.
If this is clearly the case, I will make sure the necessary information gets to a very useful place. Please feel free to e-mail me with whatever you can provide. This particular issue has always bugged me, I've seen too many unsophisticated users get screwed by the whole "set-up disk" issue on some Toshiba and Compaq systems.
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The sentiment is great, but you also need to get a handle on how the system works. The Joint Economic Committee is a relatively powerless committee that has a PR hit once or twice a year with hearings like this. It primarily exists to allow it's members to suck up to business interests. It does not originate substantial legislation.
If you want to get involved, organize. Visit DC, meet with the staff of your Senator or Representative (I am saying this to the SysAdmins, User's Groups leaders, CIO's, public figure nerds, web-masters, and professional coders/designers with a track record - if you're a 16 year old uber-geek, get involved, write and learn, but you prob. won't be well received on the hill)
There are committees (Commerce, Communications, Science, Tech and Space) that might hold hearings on these issues, but the responsible people need to hear from you - in an eloquent (or at least intelligible) and accurate way (remember, they have a corps of fairly skilled academics to fact check anything you tell them - they may not use them, but if you are found to be providing bad information, no one will listen to you, and you'll hurt the prospects of other techs.)
By all means vote, but remember, we live in a representative democracy, contact your representatives, provide them with good information, and don't give up - the paid lobbyists surely won't. Believe it or not, it does mean something in this town when you have the truth on your side.
Obviously, when you know the attacker, there is nothing wrong, morally or legally, about bouncing traffic back to the source.
But what about DDOS with hijacked servers? The choice is between allowing your own server to be disrupted or disrupting the group of servers who, however unwittingly, participated in the attack. An added bonus, knocking out those servers will stop the attack, as the crackers will lose their launch points.
I am clearly not an expert on the technical side of this issue. I trust the majority of comments I have seen regarding DDOS which state that allowing yourself to become a platform for such attacks is the result of bad server set-up or security. If hosting DDOS attacks doesn't substanially affect a company, they will not invest in improving their systems (unless you want to propose new legislation making them liable - never the best solution). However, if a company is faced with losing their server, they will have the necessary economic incentive to invest in better security and IT personnel. A nice, market based solution that doesn't require gov't intervention. In fact, the gov't should make certain that it doesn't prohibit this course of action by sysadmins.
Now, I'm not endorsing active efforts to disrupt an attacking server (two wrongs don't make a right), but I can't see any problem with bouncing DOS traffic from whence it came - Am I missing something here?
Without addressing your overall question (the internet making a difference in politics) I have to take issue with one of your underlying assumptions: that Ralph Nader is a relatively unknown candidate. If one accepts that assumption, the failure of such a candidate to get more than 4-5% of the vote could be seen as an indication that the Internet cannot make a difference for lesser known candidates.
I would wager that the name Ralph Nader had higher name ID than any of the candidates for President this year, except the Vice-President (for obvious reasons), and GW Bush (because of his fathers name). He certainly had more name ID than McCain prior to the primary campaign season.
Since name ID is the holy grail for which most campaign media money is spent, Nader actually starts out with a fair advantage. One should look for other reasons for his lagging in the polls: 1) representing a third party and therefore taken less seriously by the electorate, 2) General disagreement with his platform, 3) Personal dislike of the candidate.
These are all factors that can affect performance, and the Internet may not be a help (or even a hinderance) in overcoming them.
just rumors. Allegedly the Athlon is well designed for smp, I have been waiting to hear about this as well. Several sites have suggested mid-to-late summer as a release date for smp Athlon boards. If I were planning, I'd count on sept-oct - and expect to need socketed Athlons
Read more carefully. This is a problem with SDRAM being used on a board originally intended for RDRAM, there is no problem at all with using RDRAM on an 820 board. Of course, there's nothing wrong with the SDRAM either, it's the memory translator hub slapped on after the fact.
As for Athlon's being a good upgrade path. Suddenly many of those who bought slotted Athlon MBs (which were fairly expensive for motherboards)are discovering that they must buy new boards again for the upgraded Athlons coming out over the next several months because of trace problems with the Slotted Thunderbirds.
It sounds like both companies are having trouble keeping things user-friendly at higher frequencies. Personally, I'd rather have 4 chips running in parallel at 500mhz than one struggling at 1.2ghz
Brazil is one of my two favorite pieces of social commentary in any media (Harrison Bergeron being the other - in fact, HTuttle was my first choice for a name, but it seemed to be taken.)
It strikes me that some of the early complaints about this review are from the same types of people who complained in high school english class when the discussion would turn toward "levels of meaning" in a particular work. There were always a few who would insist that the group was over-interpreting, creating things that weren't there, or reading their own opinions into the work. Rarely does an artist, particularly one on the level of Stoppard, without bringing many different ideas into the mix. After all, do you think linearly when you're being creative - Or do you bring a wide range of experience to bear on each part of the problem/creation? This review was a new and refreshing take on the movie, with a focus on Tuttle that most others didn't have. I enjoyed seeing how the analytical hacker mind sees this work of art.
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Tom Stoppard is a genius. While also pimping his talents as a Hollywood script doctor (Indiana Jones, Russia House, Billy Bathgate,) He has also written some timeless pieces of theatre -Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead being just one of them. If you take away the fluff Hollywood love story on top, Shakespeare in Love was a very good film. Hell it was a very good film anyway. Viewed as a critique on the entertainment industry's process for producing films, it's hilarious - from the hard nosed money men who are just frustrated artists to the convoluted credits (based on, a XXX play, presented by,) to the egotistical writers whose final stories bear no resemblance to their pitch - "there's this pirate, you see." Brazil, with Gilliam and Stoppard working together, is both deeply written, and brilliantly realized visually - not just a play brought to the screen (Ros and Guil) and not just great visuals without a well thought out story (the Matrix) (oops, flamebait).
As far as/. posting this now, hell, the Criterion release has even been out for quite a while, but, we haven't discussed this before, and if Brazil wasn't a movie for nerds, it wouldn't have had any box office at all. How long does it take to scroll past the headline anyway. I'd like to see/. get up to the level of at least as many headlines as the front section of the paper each day.
"The Iwill DCA-200 motherboard is a pinnacle of stability and performance, but doesn't come cheap. The same applies to the 256 MB of ECC PC800 RDRAM; it is fast, very fast even, we've never seen memory scores this high, but will set you back considerably."
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"RDRAM finally showed some of its muscle here, with the highest memory throughput we've ever seen on any memory architecture. The dual RDRAM channels on the i840 chipset really show off its benefits and low latency."
Say it with the group "low latency"
Oh, and about Tom - when you have cancer, do you go to a systems engineer? Then why do you go to an MD for your tech information? Pabst has had some good info over the past several years, but he's also had some very questionable conclusions, and he has been getting more, shall we say, touchy, since the video benchmark fiasco.
All of the SPIN-2 data, plus several other datatypes, are now hosted on SPIN-2's new Web site www.terraserver.com. TerraServer started as a joint research project between Aerial Images, Inc., Microsoft, the USGS, and Compaq. The TerraServer concept grew out of the convergence of two needs: Aerial Images, Inc. wanted to sell imagery online and Microsoft Research needed a large database to demonstrate the capabilities of its new database software. Under the agreement, Microsoft built the TerraServer application and agreed to host the SPIN-2 data and run the site for eighteen months following the formal site initiation (June 24, 1998).
TerraServer.com is taking the TerraServer concept and growing it into a true vertical portal for overhead imagery. Beginning in November of 1999, TerraServer.com began operating from Aerial Images' Research Triangle Park, North Carolina facility, hosting, displaying, and selling SPIN-2 imagery and adding more imagery from new providers (including ORBIMAGE and UK Perspectives). Concurrently, the Microsoft's TerraServer site continues to host USGS imagery. The Microsoft and Aerial Images sites are cross-linked, so searches on either site return identical results.
Sounds like a bit of a bait and switch to me. And I was giving credit to MS for providing useful free information to the world. Must.... be..... more..... cynical....
Thanks, though my question would be, is there a software dvd player that does not required a sigma designs board. Requiring you to alter your Linux box to play DVD's prob. won't pass the smell test for a reporter. And - was there a player available, or even scheduled to be available when the comments were made - a "planned" introduction is not enough.
As far as interests and sympathies - that's something a presence in DC gives you - part 2 of a good lobby, a small group of people who focus on the hill, who know the people, and who understand what motivates them.
Making material relevant: There is a principal in DC - if it can't be said in one page - it's not worth doing. This doesn't mean you won't have 500 pages of supporting material, but a one page, bullets summary - that hits all the important points - will get you in the door. Many government haters can ridicule this, but there's a pretty good track record of distilling important ideas, like the bill of rights, down to their essence.
Also, be accurate, one obviously biased assertion or misleading statement will banish you to the second tier at best. Don't attack your opponents, state your own case (unless their lying - then you can point it out, but understand gray areas - if they're blatantly lying, prove it with hard, indisputable facts, if they're being misleading, make certain that your own argument is not similarly misleading to your end. Provide notes (links) for additional information. Finally, suggest solutions that follow from the original problem and your argument, 1+2 does not equal 5, no matter how much you might want it to be so.
I think I will write some more on this at a later date, with more time, more organization, and a little more thought, but that's an answer off the top of my head.
[MODS - please don't moderate this up, it is mostly a repost of my comment from the initial thread which is still relevant here.]
[Also - I'd really like some feedback on this - both the RIAA and MPAA have alleged that there is a licensed DVD player for Linux - is this true? (and no "yeah, windows" jokes). If it isn't, AND you are absolutely certain of this fact, the reporters who wrote the stories that included those quotes would be very interested to hear this. There's nothing reporters hate more than being lied to. If the information is presented well, it may even result in a favorable follow-up story)
As long as you are taking the time to come out and do some Rah Rah (the term of art for a group of people 10-10,000 rallying on the Capitol grounds,) Why don't you actually schedule time to come in a see the congressional staff - the people who wrote the DMCA in the first place. [someone had mentioned that they didn't have much luck with this - usually the only people who don't get a meeting are clear crackpots ("the UN is building the staging point for a US invasion at the local community college") - if you could not get a meeting with a staff member, and you were a constituent, I would take a close look at your approach] One poster had mentioned hitting representatives at town halls in their districts and states. While this should not be discouraged, the end result will be the member going back to their staff, asking "have you heard many complaints about the DMCA" and when the answer is no, filing you away as a crackpot. Yes, the MPAA and RIAA are here, so is the Patent Bar lobby, but none of them are grassroots organizations, they represent business interests, and they are treated as such (for better and worse). [What this means is, the staff will take their (voluminous) information on an issue, and may take time to meet with them, but usually only if they a representing a constituent interest or company]
AIPAC (the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee) is often ranked as the most effective lobby in Washington by other lobbyists and legislative staff. Every year they bring 3-4000 members to Washington for a 3 day conference. This includes a "Hill Day" when members "storm the hill", groups going to the office of their own Congressmen and Senators. Offices will never say no to meeting constituents in DC. The AIPACers sit down with staff and push their legislative agenda for the year. Backing up these visits is the other end of AIPAC is a very intelligent, thoughtful group of academics who can supply supporting material for any pro-Israel argument a member or hill staffer would like to make. This small group is located in DC, they understand how to make material relevant to the legislative process, and they know how to target the individual members [interests, sympathies, security].
The point of this is, I know the tech crowd has some roots in the ex-hippies of the 70s and early 80s, and barricading the doors of congress (as suggested by one post) seems like a effective idea. [I find it interesting that the first poster regarded these as "conventional" tactics] Most techs are very intelligent, if not eloquent, individuals. The web is the single most effective tool for political organization we've ever known, and it's your domain. Organize and communicate. [Develop concise, informative materials that a congressional staffer can use to advocate your side of the issue] When you come to DC or NOVA, make time to meet with the staff of your Senator or Congressman. Maintain lists of members, rank their votes on issues - know who your friends are, stay in touch with the staff. Once you have the business card of a congressional LA, you can call or e-mail that person at will (or at least until you make a nuisance of yourself - be professional). Stop whining that Congress won't take a personal interest in you, take a personal interest in Congress.
If you truly believe that the government is out of your reach and it doesn't matter what you say, why bother to even come and protest? You should be hiding from the black helicopters by now. If you want to get something done, get involved, grok the system, and work it.
Good analysis, and a good example, however, the injunction is only a preliminary injunction, and as such does not make anything illegal. The injunction prohibits the authors from further distributing the software, but that cannot apply to other holders of the software unless specifically enjoined by the court.
In order to invalidate the GPL - In this case only - the legal process on the original case must continue until a final ruling declares the original program stolen property - which would invalidate the right of the hackers to have licensed it in the first place.
How much was the loan for? How much will the city pay out in total to retire the loan? (important) How much is that per tax-paying citizen? How much does the geek gang cost? What about the burly men in vans that go around maintaining/repairing the lines? How much is that per year/per tax-payer How long will the hardware purchased with the loan last? How much will replacements/upgrades cost.
These are all fairly simple questions that the city should provide to any citizen upon request (preferably audited numbers) - after all they are carry on an enterprise on your behalf.
Again, I don't mean to be negative, but I'd be willing to bet that the overall cost to the citizens is higher than if a commercial entity had provided the same service only to those willing to pay for it (plus a healthy susidy to lower income citizens and schools)
What is the tax rate (income and sales) in Esbjerg?
How much did the city pay for the installation of this WAN? How much to maintain it? Is it breaking even?
The problem with socialism is that no one ever asks these questions. My guess is that the actual cost per citizen is significantly higher than $10US per month, whether they use it or not. The actual cost per user would be even higher - again this is my guess, but I would love to see the numbers.
Please let me take this opportunity to apologize for the above. I have made my account available for the use of several people around here. I am trying to promote/. reading (not posting) by a group of people who we should really want to read what's being said here(that was a hopeless bit of english). They don't want their own accounts (long story) and I want them to be able to browse at 2 automatically (if they see one grits or natalie portman post the jig is up). A particularly excitable invidividual decided to respond to the post without checking her facts (honestly though, when he was in office, most of us had a hard time telling Exon from a Republican) I dislike factual errors on/., and frankly wish someone had moderated it down as it deserved - far too many inaccurate statements are 2 and above here - though the original post qualifies as well - it gives the impression that the CDA was BC's idea. Regardless - I will endevour to see that this doesn't happen again.
As long as you are taking the time to come out and do some Rah Rah (the term of art for a group of people 10-10,000 rallying on the Capitol grounds,) Why don't you actually schedule time to come in a see the congressional staff - the people who wrote the DMCA in the first place. One poster had mentioned hitting representatives at town halls in their districts and states. While this should not be discouraged, the end result will be the member going back to their staff, asking "have you heard many complaints about the DMCA" and when the answer is no, filing you away as a crackpot. Yes, the MPAA and RIAA are here, so is the Patent Bar lobby, but none of them are grassroots organizations, they represent business interests, and they are treated as such (for better and worse).
AIPAC (the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee) is often ranked as the most effective lobby in Washington by other lobbyists and legislative staff. Every year they bring 3-4000 members to Washington for a 3 day conference. This includes a "Hill Day" when members "storm the hill", groups going to the office of their own Congressmen and Senators. Offices will never say no to meeting constituents in DC. The AIPACers sit down with staff and push their legislative agenda for the year. Backing up these visits is the other end of AIPAC is a very intelligent, thoughtful group of academics who can supply supporting material for any pro-Israel argument a member or hill staffer would like to make. This small group is located in DC, they understand how to make material relevant to the legislative process, and they know the members.
The point of this is, I know the tech crowd has some roots in the ex-hippies of the 70s and early 80s, and barricading the doors of congress (as suggested by one post) seems like a effective idea. Most techs are very intelligent, if not eloquent, individuals. The web is the single most effective tool for political organization we've ever known, and it's your domain. Organize and communicate. When you come to DC or NOVA, make time to meet with the staff of your Senator or Congressman. Maintain lists of members, rank their votes on issues - know who your friends are, stay in touch with the staff. Once you have the business card of a Senate LA, you can call or e-mail that person at will (or at least until you make a nuisance of yourself - be professional). Stop whining that Congress won't take a personal interest in you, take a personal interest in Congress.
If you truly believe that the government is out of your reach and it doesn't matter what you say, why bother to even come and protest? You should be hiding from the black helicopters by now. If you want to get something done, get involved, grok the system, and work it.
I understand your obvious hatred of Clinton may have blinded you, but Exon was a Republican, NOT a Democrat, and the only 16 votes against the CDA were cast by Democrats, not one Republican had the backbone to oppose this. I don't mean to be partisan, those are just the facts.
Also, with an 84-16 vote, if Clinton hadn't signed it, his veto would have been easily over-ridden, so, in his ususal, pliant way, he decided not to take a stand. The most you can accuse him of on this issue is cowardice, for malice aforethought and threats to the constitution you need to look at the conservative Republicans who wrote and pushed this through.
To be fair, Sens Byrd and Heflin, two old, Conservative Dems also supported the CDA, but it was Exon, who wrote and introduced it.
I believe it is incumbant on me to say amen to that. "Welcome to the Monkey House", a short story collection by Vonnegut, has this story and many others of similar quality. She might as well try reading it now, as any good english teacher will assign stories from it in High School.
No, sorry, It really is a grievous insult to any sentient being. Having not read the book, you cannot begin to comprehend how true this is. BTW, it's a short book, you could prob. tear it off in one evening.
Verhoeven is a shameless hack, he lied to the Heinlein estate, and he just made a poor movie. That doesn't mean he can't make entertaining films, just not that one.
An earlier poster made a comparison between ST and Plato's Republic - that is what all good political SF aspires to be - a fictional exploration of alternative political ideas.
This is perhaps the prime example of why you should not "JOIN THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY" - way to much of the (take your pick) black helicopter/militia/hippie retread/anti-capitalist/just plain looney crowd. Before calling this a flame please consider - the above comment was moderated up as interesting. The "facts" have been in the body of an e-mail that has been circuting the net for over 7 years (funny how the stats never change). The fact that these just blatantly inacurrate (well except the 19 for bad checks if you count the House Bank) "factiods" continue to circulate, generally under the banner of Libertarian/Patriot Party/Anarchist posters makes it that much easier to dismiss such movements as a group of cranks.
Food for Thought??? more like Hostess Snowballs(tm)
BTW - If you have proof of the 8 arrested for shoplifting, the 14 on drug charges, and the 29 accused of spousal abuse, please post it, I could really use the information;?
This is ridiculous; you have posted almost a dozen times saying the same thing. the FACT is that RealNetworks conducted an egregious invasion of privacy - Egregious = they gather information off of users computers, about data they did not provide, without the users permission, and did not disclose it in a document specifically designed for that purpose (one might even go beyond egregious to say villainous)
The only made up statement in this thread is the contention that they don't store the data. First, they have to store the data in order to analyze it, unless they are doing it in real-time.
Second, why chance losing valuable customer data to system failure, when they can easily keep a back-up copy.
Third, how almost immeasurably profitable is individualized data on music preferences as a marketing tool? With RN's history of aggressive product spamming users should not have to trust that they will not be constantly mailed by cd salesmen because RN picked up on that Jonathan Richman kick they were on.
Apologizing for this kind of behavior encourages it. That is why/. takes this so seriously.
I know this is late, but the above comments require a response.
US law is not clear here at all. In order for the ABM treaty to remain in force the US Senate must ratify modifications to the treaty that designate Russia as the successor to the USSR. Pres. Clinton has negotiated these modifications but does not want to send them to the Senate yet, as in the current environment they would be defeated. Also, the UN did have to take formal administrative action with the consent of the other Security Council members to transfer the Soviet seat to Russia. the Urkraine retained their seperate seat.
As for Iran, I am amazed this comment could get moderated up with such a blatent error. The Shah of Iran sat on the Peacock Throne, the oldest monarchy in the world up to the 1970s. This was an uninturrupted monarchy, the Shah was not installed by the US in any way, shape or form, however, we did sell him weapons and work closly with his government as it oppressed democratic and theocratic (the current gov't) movements.
As mentioned before, the US did build an ABM facility, but immediately decommissioned it.
Right now the money being spent on ABM research is focusing on a limited ABM umbrella for the entire United States (and most of Canada). The key word here is limited. With current technology we could destroy a volley of 20-30 ICBMs at once, but no more, thereby protecting us against North Korea, Iraq (potentially), a renegade sub or base commander in Russia, or China for the next 10 years. A broader system could be built, but the primary defense we are talking about is against terrorism and mistakes, not a full scale attack.
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You turn around before the half-way point - as long as thrust before and after the turn are roughly equal (taking into account gravity and other effects) you'll arrive just fine, just less time on boost vs deceleration.
You're no rocket scientist are you?
This was amusing, but I seems like Garbus had a purpose here - he is trying to establish whether this clown actually did the things (downloaded and used DeCSS) that he said he did before initiating the suit, or if he's just parroting what his techs have told him to say. The plaintiff have had credibility with the judge because they have appeared (to him) to know what they're talking about. This is a first step in destroying that credibility, and exposing the knee-jerk, know-nothing reasoning that led to this suit being filed in the first place.
I hadn't really though of this. This is a new MS policy, and is clearly anti-competative in this aspect. Can anyone tell me with absolute certainty (you have a MS approved disk that you have tested and you understand their required specs) that this policy effectively prevents users from operatinng in a dual boot set-up.
If this is clearly the case, I will make sure the necessary information gets to a very useful place. Please feel free to e-mail me with whatever you can provide. This particular issue has always bugged me, I've seen too many unsophisticated users get screwed by the whole "set-up disk" issue on some Toshiba and Compaq systems.
The sentiment is great, but you also need to get a handle on how the system works. The Joint Economic Committee is a relatively powerless committee that has a PR hit once or twice a year with hearings like this. It primarily exists to allow it's members to suck up to business interests. It does not originate substantial legislation.
If you want to get involved, organize. Visit DC, meet with the staff of your Senator or Representative (I am saying this to the SysAdmins, User's Groups leaders, CIO's, public figure nerds, web-masters, and professional coders/designers with a track record - if you're a 16 year old uber-geek, get involved, write and learn, but you prob. won't be well received on the hill)
There are committees (Commerce, Communications, Science, Tech and Space) that might hold hearings on these issues, but the responsible people need to hear from you - in an eloquent (or at least intelligible) and accurate way (remember, they have a corps of fairly skilled academics to fact check anything you tell them - they may not use them, but if you are found to be providing bad information, no one will listen to you, and you'll hurt the prospects of other techs.)
By all means vote, but remember, we live in a representative democracy, contact your representatives, provide them with good information, and don't give up - the paid lobbyists surely won't. Believe it or not, it does mean something in this town when you have the truth on your side.
Obviously, when you know the attacker, there is nothing wrong, morally or legally, about bouncing traffic back to the source.
But what about DDOS with hijacked servers? The choice is between allowing your own server to be disrupted or disrupting the group of servers who, however unwittingly, participated in the attack. An added bonus, knocking out those servers will stop the attack, as the crackers will lose their launch points.
I am clearly not an expert on the technical side of this issue. I trust the majority of comments I have seen regarding DDOS which state that allowing yourself to become a platform for such attacks is the result of bad server set-up or security. If hosting DDOS attacks doesn't substanially affect a company, they will not invest in improving their systems (unless you want to propose new legislation making them liable - never the best solution). However, if a company is faced with losing their server, they will have the necessary economic incentive to invest in better security and IT personnel. A nice, market based solution that doesn't require gov't intervention. In fact, the gov't should make certain that it doesn't prohibit this course of action by sysadmins.
Now, I'm not endorsing active efforts to disrupt an attacking server (two wrongs don't make a right), but I can't see any problem with bouncing DOS traffic from whence it came - Am I missing something here?
Take responsibility for your own packets.
Without addressing your overall question (the internet making a difference in politics) I have to take issue with one of your underlying assumptions: that Ralph Nader is a relatively unknown candidate. If one accepts that assumption, the failure of such a candidate to get more than 4-5% of the vote could be seen as an indication that the Internet cannot make a difference for lesser known candidates.
I would wager that the name Ralph Nader had higher name ID than any of the candidates for President this year, except the Vice-President (for obvious reasons), and GW Bush (because of his fathers name). He certainly had more name ID than McCain prior to the primary campaign season.
Since name ID is the holy grail for which most campaign media money is spent, Nader actually starts out with a fair advantage. One should look for other reasons for his lagging in the polls: 1) representing a third party and therefore taken less seriously by the electorate, 2) General disagreement with his platform, 3) Personal dislike of the candidate.
These are all factors that can affect performance, and the Internet may not be a help (or even a hinderance) in overcoming them.
just rumors. Allegedly the Athlon is well designed for smp, I have been waiting to hear about this as well. Several sites have suggested mid-to-late summer as a release date for smp Athlon boards. If I were planning, I'd count on sept-oct - and expect to need socketed Athlons
Read more carefully. This is a problem with SDRAM being used on a board originally intended for RDRAM, there is no problem at all with using RDRAM on an 820 board. Of course, there's nothing wrong with the SDRAM either, it's the memory translator hub slapped on after the fact.
As for Athlon's being a good upgrade path. Suddenly many of those who bought slotted Athlon MBs (which were fairly expensive for motherboards)are discovering that they must buy new boards again for the upgraded Athlons coming out over the next several months because of trace problems with the Slotted Thunderbirds.
It sounds like both companies are having trouble keeping things user-friendly at higher frequencies. Personally, I'd rather have 4 chips running in parallel at 500mhz than one struggling at 1.2ghz
Brazil is one of my two favorite pieces of social commentary in any media (Harrison Bergeron being the other - in fact, HTuttle was my first choice for a name, but it seemed to be taken.)
/. posting this now, hell, the Criterion release has even been out for quite a while, but, we haven't discussed this before, and if Brazil wasn't a movie for nerds, it wouldn't have had any box office at all. How long does it take to scroll past the headline anyway. I'd like to see /. get up to the level of at least as many headlines as the front section of the paper each day.
It strikes me that some of the early complaints about this review are from the same types of people who complained in high school english class when the discussion would turn toward "levels of meaning" in a particular work. There were always a few who would insist that the group was over-interpreting, creating things that weren't there, or reading their own opinions into the work. Rarely does an artist, particularly one on the level of Stoppard, without bringing many different ideas into the mix. After all, do you think linearly when you're being creative - Or do you bring a wide range of experience to bear on each part of the problem/creation? This review was a new and refreshing take on the movie, with a focus on Tuttle that most others didn't have. I enjoyed seeing how the analytical hacker mind sees this work of art.
A couple of other thoughts:
Tom Stoppard is a genius. While also pimping his talents as a Hollywood script doctor (Indiana Jones, Russia House, Billy Bathgate,) He has also written some timeless pieces of theatre -Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead being just one of them. If you take away the fluff Hollywood love story on top, Shakespeare in Love was a very good film. Hell it was a very good film anyway. Viewed as a critique on the entertainment industry's process for producing films, it's hilarious - from the hard nosed money men who are just frustrated artists to the convoluted credits (based on, a XXX play, presented by,) to the egotistical writers whose final stories bear no resemblance to their pitch - "there's this pirate, you see." Brazil, with Gilliam and Stoppard working together, is both deeply written, and brilliantly realized visually - not just a play brought to the screen (Ros and Guil) and not just great visuals without a well thought out story (the Matrix) (oops, flamebait).
As far as
Way to read the article you're commenting on.
"The Iwill DCA-200 motherboard is a pinnacle of stability and performance, but doesn't come cheap. The same applies to the 256 MB of ECC PC800 RDRAM; it is fast, very fast even, we've never seen memory scores this high, but will set you back considerably."
AND
"RDRAM finally showed some of its muscle here, with the highest memory throughput we've ever seen on any memory architecture. The dual RDRAM channels on the i840 chipset really show off its benefits and low latency."
Say it with the group "low latency"
Oh, and about Tom - when you have cancer, do you go to a systems engineer? Then why do you go to an MD for your tech information? Pabst has had some good info over the past several years, but he's also had some very questionable conclusions, and he has been getting more, shall we say, touchy, since the video benchmark fiasco.
Straight from the horses mouth:
All of the SPIN-2 data, plus several other datatypes, are now hosted on SPIN-2's new Web site www.terraserver.com. TerraServer started as a joint research project between Aerial Images, Inc., Microsoft, the USGS, and Compaq. The TerraServer concept grew out of the convergence of two needs: Aerial Images, Inc. wanted to sell imagery online and Microsoft Research needed a large database to demonstrate the capabilities of its new database software. Under the agreement, Microsoft built the TerraServer application and agreed to host the SPIN-2 data and run the site for eighteen months following the formal site initiation (June 24, 1998).
TerraServer.com is taking the TerraServer concept and growing it into a true vertical portal for overhead imagery. Beginning in November of 1999, TerraServer.com began operating from Aerial Images' Research Triangle Park, North Carolina facility, hosting, displaying, and selling SPIN-2 imagery and adding more imagery from new providers (including ORBIMAGE and UK Perspectives). Concurrently, the Microsoft's TerraServer site continues to host USGS imagery. The Microsoft and Aerial Images sites are cross-linked, so searches on either site return identical results.
Sounds like a bit of a bait and switch to me. And I was giving credit to MS for providing useful free information to the world. Must.... be..... more..... cynical....
Cartoonish? Maybe that's because they WERE Cartoons.
However I agree with you, it did suck.
Thanks, though my question would be, is there a software dvd player that does not required a sigma designs board. Requiring you to alter your Linux box to play DVD's prob. won't pass the smell test for a reporter. And - was there a player available, or even scheduled to be available when the comments were made - a "planned" introduction is not enough.
As far as interests and sympathies - that's something a presence in DC gives you - part 2 of a good lobby, a small group of people who focus on the hill, who know the people, and who understand what motivates them.
Making material relevant: There is a principal in DC - if it can't be said in one page - it's not worth doing. This doesn't mean you won't have 500 pages of supporting material, but a one page, bullets summary - that hits all the important points - will get you in the door. Many government haters can ridicule this, but there's a pretty good track record of distilling important ideas, like the bill of rights, down to their essence.
Also, be accurate, one obviously biased assertion or misleading statement will banish you to the second tier at best. Don't attack your opponents, state your own case (unless their lying - then you can point it out, but understand gray areas - if they're blatantly lying, prove it with hard, indisputable facts, if they're being misleading, make certain that your own argument is not similarly misleading to your end. Provide notes (links) for additional information. Finally, suggest solutions that follow from the original problem and your argument, 1+2 does not equal 5, no matter how much you might want it to be so.
I think I will write some more on this at a later date, with more time, more organization, and a little more thought, but that's an answer off the top of my head.
[MODS - please don't moderate this up, it is mostly a repost of my comment from the initial thread which is still relevant here.]
[Also - I'd really like some feedback on this - both the RIAA and MPAA have alleged that there is a licensed DVD player for Linux - is this true? (and no "yeah, windows" jokes). If it isn't, AND you are absolutely certain of this fact, the reporters who wrote the stories that included those quotes would be very interested to hear this. There's nothing reporters hate more than being lied to. If the information is presented well, it may even result in a favorable follow-up story)
As long as you are taking the time to come out and do some Rah Rah (the term of art for a group of people 10-10,000 rallying on the Capitol grounds,) Why don't you actually schedule time to come in a see the congressional staff - the people who wrote the DMCA in the first place. [someone had mentioned that they didn't have much luck with this - usually the only people who don't get a meeting are clear crackpots ("the UN is building the staging point for a US invasion at the local community college") - if you could not get a meeting with a staff member, and you were a constituent, I would take a close look at your approach] One poster had mentioned hitting representatives at town halls in their districts and states. While this should not be discouraged, the end result will be the member going back to their staff, asking "have you heard many complaints about the DMCA" and when the answer is no, filing you away as a crackpot. Yes, the MPAA and RIAA are here, so is the Patent Bar lobby, but none of them are grassroots organizations, they represent business interests, and they are treated as such (for better and worse). [What this means is, the staff will take their (voluminous) information on an issue, and may take time to meet with them, but usually only if they a representing a constituent interest or company]
AIPAC (the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee) is often ranked as the most effective lobby in Washington by other lobbyists and legislative staff. Every year they bring 3-4000 members to Washington for a 3 day conference. This includes a "Hill Day" when members "storm the hill", groups going to the office of their own Congressmen and Senators. Offices will never say no to meeting constituents in DC. The AIPACers sit down with staff and push their legislative agenda for the year. Backing up these visits is the other end of AIPAC is a very intelligent, thoughtful group of academics who can supply supporting material for any pro-Israel argument a member or hill staffer would like to make. This small group is located in DC, they understand how to make material relevant to the legislative process, and they know how to target the individual members [interests, sympathies, security].
The point of this is, I know the tech crowd has some roots in the ex-hippies of the 70s and early 80s, and barricading the doors of congress (as suggested by one post) seems like a effective idea. [I find it interesting that the first poster regarded these as "conventional" tactics] Most techs are very intelligent, if not eloquent, individuals. The web is the single most effective tool for political organization we've ever known, and it's your domain. Organize and communicate. [Develop concise, informative materials that a congressional staffer can use to advocate your side of the issue] When you come to DC or NOVA, make time to meet with the staff of your Senator or Congressman. Maintain lists of members, rank their votes on issues - know who your friends are, stay in touch with the staff. Once you have the business card of a congressional LA, you can call or e-mail that person at will (or at least until you make a nuisance of yourself - be professional). Stop whining that Congress won't take a personal interest in you, take a personal interest in Congress.
If you truly believe that the government is out of your reach and it doesn't matter what you say, why bother to even come and protest? You should be hiding from the black helicopters by now. If you want to get something done, get involved, grok the system, and work it.
Good analysis, and a good example, however, the injunction is only a preliminary injunction, and as such does not make anything illegal. The injunction prohibits the authors from further distributing the software, but that cannot apply to other holders of the software unless specifically enjoined by the court.
In order to invalidate the GPL - In this case only - the legal process on the original case must continue until a final ruling declares the original program stolen property - which would invalidate the right of the hackers to have licensed it in the first place.
Thank You
In that case:
How much was the loan for?
How much will the city pay out in total to retire the loan? (important)
How much is that per tax-paying citizen?
How much does the geek gang cost? What about the burly men in vans that go around maintaining/repairing the lines?
How much is that per year/per tax-payer
How long will the hardware purchased with the loan last?
How much will replacements/upgrades cost.
These are all fairly simple questions that the city should provide to any citizen upon request (preferably audited numbers) - after all they are carry on an enterprise on your behalf.
Again, I don't mean to be negative, but I'd be willing to bet that the overall cost to the citizens is higher than if a commercial entity had provided the same service only to those willing to pay for it (plus a healthy susidy to lower income citizens and schools)
What is the tax rate (income and sales) in Esbjerg?
How much did the city pay for the installation of this WAN? How much to maintain it? Is it breaking even?
The problem with socialism is that no one ever asks these questions. My guess is that the actual cost per citizen is significantly higher than $10US per month, whether they use it or not. The actual cost per user would be even higher - again this is my guess, but I would love to see the numbers.
Please let me take this opportunity to apologize for the above. I have made my account available for the use of several people around here. I am trying to promote /. reading (not posting) by a group of people who we should really want to read what's being said here(that was a hopeless bit of english). They don't want their own accounts (long story) and I want them to be able to browse at 2 automatically (if they see one grits or natalie portman post the jig is up). A particularly excitable invidividual decided to respond to the post without checking her facts (honestly though, when he was in office, most of us had a hard time telling Exon from a Republican) /., and frankly wish someone had moderated it down as it deserved - far too many inaccurate statements are 2 and above here - though the original post qualifies as well - it gives the impression that the CDA was BC's idea. Regardless - I will endevour to see that this doesn't happen again.
I dislike factual errors on
As long as you are taking the time to come out and do some Rah Rah (the term of art for a group of people 10-10,000 rallying on the Capitol grounds,) Why don't you actually schedule time to come in a see the congressional staff - the people who wrote the DMCA in the first place. One poster had mentioned hitting representatives at town halls in their districts and states. While this should not be discouraged, the end result will be the member going back to their staff, asking "have you heard many complaints about the DMCA" and when the answer is no, filing you away as a crackpot. Yes, the MPAA and RIAA are here, so is the Patent Bar lobby, but none of them are grassroots organizations, they represent business interests, and they are treated as such (for better and worse).
AIPAC (the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee) is often ranked as the most effective lobby in Washington by other lobbyists and legislative staff. Every year they bring 3-4000 members to Washington for a 3 day conference. This includes a "Hill Day" when members "storm the hill", groups going to the office of their own Congressmen and Senators. Offices will never say no to meeting constituents in DC. The AIPACers sit down with staff and push their legislative agenda for the year. Backing up these visits is the other end of AIPAC is a very intelligent, thoughtful group of academics who can supply supporting material for any pro-Israel argument a member or hill staffer would like to make. This small group is located in DC, they understand how to make material relevant to the legislative process, and they know the members.
The point of this is, I know the tech crowd has some roots in the ex-hippies of the 70s and early 80s, and barricading the doors of congress (as suggested by one post) seems like a effective idea. Most techs are very intelligent, if not eloquent, individuals. The web is the single most effective tool for political organization we've ever known, and it's your domain. Organize and communicate. When you come to DC or NOVA, make time to meet with the staff of your Senator or Congressman. Maintain lists of members, rank their votes on issues - know who your friends are, stay in touch with the staff. Once you have the business card of a Senate LA, you can call or e-mail that person at will (or at least until you make a nuisance of yourself - be professional). Stop whining that Congress won't take a personal interest in you, take a personal interest in Congress.
If you truly believe that the government is out of your reach and it doesn't matter what you say, why bother to even come and protest? You should be hiding from the black helicopters by now. If you want to get something done, get involved, grok the system, and work it.
I understand your obvious hatred of Clinton may have blinded you, but Exon was a Republican, NOT a Democrat, and the only 16 votes against the CDA were cast by Democrats, not one Republican had the backbone to oppose this. I don't mean to be partisan, those are just the facts.
Also, with an 84-16 vote, if Clinton hadn't signed it, his veto would have been easily over-ridden, so, in his ususal, pliant way, he decided not to take a stand. The most you can accuse him of on this issue is cowardice, for malice aforethought and threats to the constitution you need to look at the conservative Republicans who wrote and pushed this through.
To be fair, Sens Byrd and Heflin, two old, Conservative Dems also supported the CDA, but it was Exon, who wrote and introduced it.
I believe it is incumbant on me to say amen to that. "Welcome to the Monkey House", a short story collection by Vonnegut, has this story and many others of similar quality. She might as well try reading it now, as any good english teacher will assign stories from it in High School.
No, sorry, It really is a grievous insult to any sentient being. Having not read the book, you cannot begin to comprehend how true this is. BTW, it's a short book, you could prob. tear it off in one evening.
Verhoeven is a shameless hack, he lied to the Heinlein estate, and he just made a poor movie. That doesn't mean he can't make entertaining films, just not that one.
An earlier poster made a comparison between ST and Plato's Republic - that is what all good political SF aspires to be - a fictional exploration of alternative political ideas.
This is perhaps the prime example of why you should not "JOIN THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY" - way to much of the (take your pick) black helicopter/militia/hippie retread/anti-capitalist/just plain looney crowd. Before calling this a flame please consider - the above comment was moderated up as interesting. The "facts" have been in the body of an e-mail that has been circuting the net for over 7 years (funny how the stats never change). The fact that these just blatantly inacurrate (well except the 19 for bad checks if you count the House Bank) "factiods" continue to circulate, generally under the banner of Libertarian/Patriot Party/Anarchist posters makes it that much easier to dismiss such movements as a group of cranks.
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Food for Thought??? more like Hostess Snowballs(tm)
BTW - If you have proof of the 8 arrested for shoplifting, the 14 on drug charges, and the 29 accused of spousal abuse, please post it, I could really use the information
This is ridiculous; you have posted almost a dozen times saying the same thing. the FACT is that RealNetworks conducted an egregious invasion of privacy - Egregious = they gather information off of users computers, about data they did not provide, without the users permission, and did not disclose it in a document specifically designed for that purpose (one might even go beyond egregious to say villainous)
/. takes this so seriously.
The only made up statement in this thread is the contention that they don't store the data. First, they have to store the data in order to analyze it, unless they are doing it in real-time.
Second, why chance losing valuable customer data to system failure, when they can easily keep a back-up copy.
Third, how almost immeasurably profitable is individualized data on music preferences as a marketing tool? With RN's history of aggressive product spamming users should not have to trust that they will not be constantly mailed by cd salesmen because RN picked up on that Jonathan Richman kick they were on.
Apologizing for this kind of behavior encourages it. That is why
I know this is late, but the above comments require a response.
US law is not clear here at all. In order for the ABM treaty to remain in force the US Senate must ratify modifications to the treaty that designate Russia as the successor to the USSR. Pres. Clinton has negotiated these modifications but does not want to send them to the Senate yet, as in the current environment they would be defeated. Also, the UN did have to take formal administrative action with the consent of the other Security Council members to transfer the Soviet seat to Russia. the Urkraine retained their seperate seat.
As for Iran, I am amazed this comment could get moderated up with such a blatent error. The Shah of Iran sat on the Peacock Throne, the oldest monarchy in the world up to the 1970s. This was an uninturrupted monarchy, the Shah was not installed by the US in any way, shape or form, however, we did sell him weapons and work closly with his government as it oppressed democratic and theocratic (the current gov't) movements.
As mentioned before, the US did build an ABM facility, but immediately decommissioned it.
Right now the money being spent on ABM research is focusing on a limited ABM umbrella for the entire United States (and most of Canada). The key word here is limited. With current technology we could destroy a volley of 20-30 ICBMs at once, but no more, thereby protecting us against North Korea, Iraq (potentially), a renegade sub or base commander in Russia, or China for the next 10 years. A broader system could be built, but the primary defense we are talking about is against terrorism and mistakes, not a full scale attack.