Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that the only time an accused person is "presumed innocent" is when they are part of law enforcement or a politician?
Any other person and they would be sitting in jail, not behind a desk.
Of course that leaves open the keyboard, monitor, mouse, pens, stapler, glasses, letter opener, and anything else in reach, much easier to throw accurately too.
Verbal contracts don't mean sh&t in modern business since they are open to "selective memory" or "contextual interpretation" of a statement.
They may be fine for getting someone to mow your lawn but for anything else, especially anything involving a MegaCorp, if its not in writing its not binding.
Like MS will really care about what a US Judge will say considering how "harshly" they where punished for using their monopoly to stifle, cripple and/or destroy competition in the USA. Even to the point of putting code in Windows to generate fake error messages, remember DR-DOS/Win 3.1?
As to MS customers, like Joe Idiot Public will even notice, much less care, what MS does to f*ck over Linux. For the most part JIP doesn't even know there is ANYTHING besides Windows. Seriously, I once read a post on another tech board claiming that OX10.x was nothing but an app running on top of Windows. I hope he was a Troll but I doubt it. As long as he can email his mistress, manage his Fantasy Football team and surf porn you will not hear a peep from them no matter what MS does.
At least until the next "critical update" from MS that changes the browser preference to IE and locks it so a registry hack is needed to change it again.
Isn't this the same crowd that is always saying "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"??
Since they are now trying so hard to hide things one has to wonder what they have to fear.
I think my sig is particularly relevant in situation like this. For those not logged in; "Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, for in their hearts the dream themselves your Master." (yes it is a paraphrase from SMAC)
I think one of the things those in power fear the most is an educated population.
# start conspiracy theory This would explain why education budgets are some of the first to get trimmed or looted and why things like "no child left behind" seem to be designed to fail. Keep the population ignorant and distracted and the government can get away almost anything. This would explain why the US educational system has gone from one of the best to almost dead last in the world. # end conspiracy theory
Posting AC is not going to help if your employers look at the firewall logs of where you visited and it hurts your credibility a bit. From your fear of discovery I take it your boss reads/. and knows your handle.
The OP may have some facts wrong but here is another one where "Mistake of Fact" failed, twice.
man is great for telling you what you can do with a command but not HOW to use it.
When I was starting out with *nix the thing that pissed me off, and still does, is the lack of examples for basic functionality of commands. Sure the ubergurus don't need them but a beginner does.
This is, and always has been my number one complaint about man documentation.
Another issue I have is that most of the time when I search for a solution the hits will fall into four categories; the "Have you tried Googling it"/"Just Google it" non-answer response, the "I had that problem, fixed it by adding xxxx to the script/conf" but not telling which script/conf file, where in the script/conf is or where to put the magic line in the script/conf, the "Figured it out, Thanks" with no details as to HOW they fixed it. and the final, and rarest, "Here is what you need to do and how to do it..." that actually provides not just the solution but the steps needed to implement it.
The writers of this last category of replies are going to avoid some major purgatory thanks to all the people who are blessing their name.
And don't get me started on the lack of clear, step by step, documentation how to do simple stuff, like add a NFS share. The first time I set up a share it took me hours because the documentation I did find only had bits of the answer but not the step by step that a beginner needs to not just get it working but also to understand how to build on that basic foundation.
Google "Jury Nullification" (sorry not to link, my html is weak and I still need my first cup of coffee)
In a nut shell, the Jury has the responsibility and right to disregard the law, the judge, the evidence and vote their conscious.
Time was when this was part of the instructions the Jury were given but the judges stopped talking about it during Prohibition because the Jury would acquit rum runners and bartenders who served alcohol.
Of course the DA and Judges hate this and do everything they can to keep the jury from invoking this Constitutional Right.
Kudos to you for standing your ground and not joining the sheeple because you wanted to go home.
read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor yes sodium is dangerous but its easier to keep a sealed, near ambient pressure, containment unit free of oxygen than contain high pressure super heated radioactive steam in conventional reactors.
Also, the IFR will passively shut down, no human or machine intervention, needed if over heats.
The IFR may not be THE answer but its something. No matter what, humanity is going to need to develop any and all non-fossil fuel related energy sources, oil/coal/natural gas supplies are not going to last forever.
The sooner we start making adaptations the better.
Thorium, it even more abundant than Uranium, can be used in reactors (breeder).
And as many others have pointed out 97% (96% U, 1% Pu) of nuclear "waste" is still usable as fuel. It is not hard to reprocess spent fuel rods, the tech is already used in Europe and you don't need many of them.
Hell, even the "waste" material could be used for other tasks that currently use U and Pu for non-fission power generating application. The stuff puts out a lot of heat so how about using it instead of Pu to keep space probes warm, maybe even use it with the Stirling engine NASA has developed to power them.
F-22 raptor - 1.7 million lines of code
F-35 joint strike fighter - 5.7 million
Boeing 787 - 6.5 million
Premium class automobile - ~ 100 million
And only one block of bad code to ROYALLY FUCK IT ALL UP!
Is this a case of the driver stepping on the gas instead of the brake? Maybe.
Is this a case of a 1:1000000 race condition? Maybe.
In a multi-tasking environment, as most car computers are, you can have dozens if not hundreds of different tasks all using the same resources. Unless access to a resource is protected, and every block of code that uses the resource also recognizes the protection (mutex semaphore, hardware flag, whatnot,...) then it is a race condition, or worse, waiting to happen.
As others have pointed out in the past this sort "runaway car" event has been driver error.
My point is that the more code a car has the more chance that one of these days its going to be something in the code, and not driver error, that costs someone there life.
I predict they will discover the Higgs-Boson particle, aka "The God Particle", on December 21, 2012.
Shortly thereafter the flux of strange quarks created at the same time will cause the fabric of the Universe to reformat to its original state, just like last time. Thus bringing the end of our world and the beginning of the next cycle as predicted by the Mayan callendar.
Or maybe it will be more of a "Silent Earth" scenario. (Google it, I'm too tired to link it myself, its bedtime)
Just off the top of my head, how about this: a set of say, four to six, relay satellites placed at the forward and trailing Lagrange points on Venus's solar orbit and the other two placed in Earth's solar Lagrange points.
Line of site is closer to straight line and as others have pointed out it would give us pretty much unrestricted communication to any point in the solar system. There may be some tech issues with this but wouldn't this or a some variant work better than having relay sat.s in powered orbits where they would burn up their fuel quickly?
The court found that It met the definition of being a monopoly, but being a monopoly is not illegal in and of itself. What MS was found guilty of and slapped on the wrist for was using its monopoly to stifle and shut out competition.
I am sorry but I have to totally disagree with you on that.
As a "B" grade "alien bug vs. Human" sci-fi action film it was OK but I think it would have been much better if they had NOT tried to follow the original book at all.
Title + completely different story == GOOD || GREAT # see BladeRunner
Title + faithful adaptation of the book == GREAT
Title + lame adaptation == SUCK_MONKEY_BALLS
The movie Starship Troopers, as an adaptation of the book by the same tittle sucked monkey balls. The book wasn't about the bug/human war, it was an examination of a society and military that just used the war as a back drop. Its interesting to note that people who read the book expecting it to be an action/adventure like the movie are always almost always dissapointed, but if they read it for its view point on society and military tactics they love it. My Father (Major, Retired), who has NO interest in sci-fi, loved the book because it was dead on in its examination of the Military structure, training and tactics. And we both agreed that when something important is handed to you on a platter it is inevitably taken for granted, like the right to vote currently is (if its so important why is it just given to you when you turn 18?, you have to pass a test to get a drivers license don't you?). And how many times have we seen on/. comments about making the parents responsible for their children? Want to know what I'm talking about? read the book.
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Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that the only time an accused person is "presumed innocent" is when they are part of law enforcement or a politician?
Any other person and they would be sitting in jail, not behind a desk.
Of course that leaves open the keyboard, monitor, mouse, pens, stapler, glasses, letter opener, and anything else in reach, much easier to throw accurately too.
Verbal contracts don't mean sh&t in modern business since they are open to "selective memory" or "contextual interpretation" of a statement.
They may be fine for getting someone to mow your lawn but for anything else, especially anything involving a MegaCorp, if its not in writing its not binding.
This is /.
We don't have time to RTFA and you expect us to look up something because you didn't bother to add a link?
Like MS will really care about what a US Judge will say considering how "harshly" they where punished for using their monopoly to stifle, cripple and/or destroy competition in the USA. Even to the point of putting code in Windows to generate fake error messages, remember DR-DOS/Win 3.1?
As to MS customers, like Joe Idiot Public will even notice, much less care, what MS does to f*ck over Linux. For the most part JIP doesn't even know there is ANYTHING besides Windows. Seriously, I once read a post on another tech board claiming that OX10.x was nothing but an app running on top of Windows. I hope he was a Troll but I doubt it. As long as he can email his mistress, manage his Fantasy Football team and surf porn you will not hear a peep from them no matter what MS does.
Nothing
"No more IE being forced down our throats... "
At least until the next "critical update" from MS that changes the browser preference to IE and locks it so a registry hack is needed to change it again.
Isn't this the same crowd that is always saying "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"??
Since they are now trying so hard to hide things one has to wonder what they have to fear.
I think my sig is particularly relevant in situation like this.
For those not logged in;
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge,
for in their hearts the dream themselves your Master."
(yes it is a paraphrase from SMAC)
I think one of the things those in power fear the most is an educated population.
# start conspiracy theory
This would explain why education budgets are some of the first to get trimmed or looted and why things like "no child left behind" seem to be designed to fail. Keep the population ignorant and distracted and the government can get away almost anything. This would explain why the US educational system has gone from one of the best to almost dead last in the world.
# end conspiracy theory
Unfortunately they can, and they seem to make up the majority of people on the planet.
And by ignoring them it will help make it plain that this is unacceptable to large groups of people...
I guess that makes sense, somehow.
Sort of.
OK, run that by me again. I must have missed something.
Posting AC is not going to help if your employers look at the firewall logs of where you visited and it hurts your credibility a bit. From your fear of discovery I take it your boss reads /. and knows your handle.
./
The OP may have some facts wrong but here is another one where "Mistake of Fact" failed, twice.
13 year old lied about age and gets TWO guys convicted of statutory rape
Care to try and call this one BS as well?
I hope your not billing a client while reading
man is great for telling you what you can do with a command but not HOW to use it.
..." that actually provides not just the solution but the steps needed to implement it.
When I was starting out with *nix the thing that pissed me off, and still does, is the lack of examples for basic functionality of commands. Sure the ubergurus don't need them but a beginner does.
This is, and always has been my number one complaint about man documentation.
Another issue I have is that most of the time when I search for a solution the hits will fall into four categories;
the "Have you tried Googling it"/"Just Google it" non-answer response,
the "I had that problem, fixed it by adding xxxx to the script/conf" but not telling which script/conf file, where in the script/conf is or where to put the magic line in the script/conf,
the "Figured it out, Thanks" with no details as to HOW they fixed it.
and the final, and rarest, "Here is what you need to do and how to do it
The writers of this last category of replies are going to avoid some major purgatory thanks to all the people who are blessing their name.
And don't get me started on the lack of clear, step by step, documentation how to do simple stuff, like add a NFS share. The first time I set up a share it took me hours because the documentation I did find only had bits of the answer but not the step by step that a beginner needs to not just get it working but also to understand how to build on that basic foundation.
Google "Jury Nullification" (sorry not to link, my html is weak and I still need my first cup of coffee)
In a nut shell, the Jury has the responsibility and right to disregard the law, the judge, the evidence and vote their conscious.
Time was when this was part of the instructions the Jury were given but the judges stopped talking about it during Prohibition because the Jury would acquit rum runners and bartenders who served alcohol.
Of course the DA and Judges hate this and do everything they can to keep the jury from invoking this Constitutional Right.
Kudos to you for standing your ground and not joining the sheeple because you wanted to go home.
read this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor
yes sodium is dangerous but its easier to keep a sealed, near ambient pressure, containment unit free of oxygen than contain high pressure super heated radioactive steam in conventional reactors.
Also, the IFR will passively shut down, no human or machine intervention, needed if over heats.
The IFR may not be THE answer but its something. No matter what, humanity is going to need to develop any and all non-fossil fuel related energy sources, oil/coal/natural gas supplies are not going to last forever.
The sooner we start making adaptations the better.
Thorium, it even more abundant than Uranium, can be used in reactors (breeder).
And as many others have pointed out 97% (96% U, 1% Pu) of nuclear "waste" is still usable as fuel. It is not hard to reprocess spent fuel rods, the tech is already used in Europe and you don't need many of them.
Hell, even the "waste" material could be used for other tasks that currently use U and Pu for non-fission power generating application. The stuff puts out a lot of heat so how about using it instead of Pu to keep space probes warm, maybe even use it with the Stirling engine NASA has developed to power them.
Brilliant!
"Seeing an iphone/droid user wander into oncoming traffic: Priceless!"
...
Unless you are the oncoming traffic
F-22 raptor - 1.7 million lines of code
F-35 joint strike fighter - 5.7 million
Boeing 787 - 6.5 million
Premium class automobile - ~ 100 million
And only one block of bad code to ROYALLY FUCK IT ALL UP!
Is this a case of the driver stepping on the gas instead of the brake? Maybe.
Is this a case of a 1:1000000 race condition? Maybe.
In a multi-tasking environment, as most car computers are, you can have dozens if not hundreds of different tasks all using the same resources. Unless access to a resource is protected, and every block of code that uses the resource also recognizes the protection (mutex semaphore, hardware flag, whatnot,...) then it is a race condition, or worse, waiting to happen.
As others have pointed out in the past this sort "runaway car" event has been driver error.
My point is that the more code a car has the more chance that one of these days its going to be something in the code, and not driver error, that costs someone there life.
@!#($*&#&$ grammar Nazi!!!!! ^_^
:)
Seriously, Thanks for pointing that out. If my sis-in-law (a writing instructor) had found that first I may have never heard the end of it.
I predict they will discover the Higgs-Boson particle, aka "The God Particle", on December 21, 2012.
Shortly thereafter the flux of strange quarks created at the same time will cause the fabric of the Universe to reformat to its original state, just like last time. Thus bringing the end of our world and the beginning of the next cycle as predicted by the Mayan callendar.
Or maybe it will be more of a "Silent Earth" scenario. (Google it, I'm too tired to link it myself, its bedtime)
Just off the top of my head, how about this:
a set of say, four to six, relay satellites placed at the forward and trailing Lagrange points on Venus's solar orbit and the other two placed in Earth's solar Lagrange points.
Line of site is closer to straight line and as others have pointed out it would give us pretty much unrestricted communication to any point in the solar system. There may be some tech issues with this but wouldn't this or a some variant work better than having relay sat.s in powered orbits where they would burn up their fuel quickly?
Maybe its just me but has anyone else noticed how almost everything seems to be happening during or in 2012?
Microsoft IS a monopoly.
The court found that It met the definition of being a monopoly, but being a monopoly is not illegal in and of itself. What MS was found guilty of and slapped on the wrist for was using its monopoly to stifle and shut out competition.
I am sorry but I have to totally disagree with you on that.
/. comments about making the parents responsible for their children? Want to know what I'm talking about? read the book.
As a "B" grade "alien bug vs. Human" sci-fi action film it was OK but I think it would have been much better if they had NOT tried to follow the original book at all.
Title + completely different story == GOOD || GREAT # see BladeRunner
Title + faithful adaptation of the book == GREAT
Title + lame adaptation == SUCK_MONKEY_BALLS
The movie Starship Troopers, as an adaptation of the book by the same tittle sucked monkey balls. The book wasn't about the bug/human war, it was an examination of a society and military that just used the war as a back drop. Its interesting to note that people who read the book expecting it to be an action/adventure like the movie are always almost always dissapointed, but if they read it for its view point on society and military tactics they love it. My Father (Major, Retired), who has NO interest in sci-fi, loved the book because it was dead on in its examination of the Military structure, training and tactics. And we both agreed that when something important is handed to you on a platter it is inevitably taken for granted, like the right to vote currently is (if its so important why is it just given to you when you turn 18?, you have to pass a test to get a drivers license don't you?). And how many times have we seen on
3. turn free thinking, imaginative and questioning open minds into mindless consumer sheeple.
4. PROFIT!!!
Sounds like the plan is going to work perfectly.