This is interesting, because if you can remember the stock market has even been swayed by posts on the yahoo economic forums in the past...I think this is a step in the right direction, anonimity is great and all, but when your using it to ruin the competition and make yourself look better (or in the case of the stock market to weasel people out of their money) then someone has to crack down on you....in this case I'm even more excited because it seems to be public/private intervention rather then the government, so these people DEFFINATELY are going to get what's just deserts for their actions.
Not to be derogatory in anyway but We had to use this experiment to find the wavelength of a laser in a Science Olympiad competition in High School. Of course they handed me a metal string a piece of paper with a hole in it (to mount the string on and project the laser through) and a nother paper to difuse and measure the wave length of the laser on. Needless to say I had a much less strong notion of physics back then but the thought had crossed my mind that the photons would interact with themselves but I never Chalked it up to Many Worlds theory. When I see the effect of water rippling or sound bouncing I can't come to the same conclusion, and knowingly enough photons, or light, act very similar if not exactly like every other waveform in nature.
Wow, so your saying that Benjamin Franklin who is dead and therefore hasn't experienced anything that's happened since the 1700's should be the ultimate and final word? That's like saying the 2nd ammendment is esential because it was valid 300 years ago. Ignorance and reference to the past is no excuse for not coming up with an answer to ones own question. So if my "false Dichotomy" is harmful to your premise please present us with another way stop terrorism or detain people for questioning...Need I remind you that the latest terrorist captured escaped 3 times from American and Egyptian federal custody because he argued the same things that you argue.....doesn't that worry you that he got out bombed another night club, got caught again had to be let go, and bombed a bus in France before he was caught by the Egyptian police and detained? So the problem here is that terrorists can communicate with their cells, post bail, have the right to representation of their choosing. If we let every terrorist communicate with the outside after they were caught....wait we did that....wait we lost 3000 people because of that....wait they cut off the head of a communications expert in Iraq this week because of that....POSE SOMETHING THAT WORKS. POSE SOMETHING THAT FIXES THE TERRORIST PROBLEMS.
Actually a deconstructionist means nothing of the sort. The deffinition of a Deconstructionist is someone who looks into the meaning of every political action, and doesn't take it at face value. So when I say deconstructivism I mean that I never settle for the explaination that is given to me by those who have something to benefit from the bias of the information, rather I try to develop my own opinion based on my experience and "deconstruction" of the facts. This is a GREAT way to look at politics today because of all the "constructed" and "out-context" information that is diseminated in order to sway the uknowing public.
Well I'm a deconstructionist, and although I don't agree with the entire Patriot Act, I do support any measure that allows us to better hold and question possible terrorists or supporters of terror. "but apparently, the powers granted to the government by the law are themselves state secrets!" The reason that the ACLU was asked to remove the portion and not the entire piece is because they aquired the information without regard to national security, and then proceeded to post it on the internet. Now I know that being a "Bush babie" and "right-wing appologist'" hater, tends to polarize the issue for you but the actual problem here is not "Bush Babies" (or any other derogatory name you can summon to describe half of the nation and their political views) but the fact that they were disclosing information to the world which is used to secure our nations people.
So what would you rather have, all possible terroists trained on how to answer questions asked by the FBI because they got the entire list from the ACLU, or a little bit of government crack down on an obvious disclosure of security information. The best way to prevent infringement on your personal liberties while also protecting the country from terrorists who wish to blend into the population is modification of the Patriot Act through the support of reform senators and representatives, not the support of the ACLU in this matter because the entire act would be thrown out in the middle of the Supreme Court rendering any further ability we might have to protect ourselves from terrorism useless.
I don't mean to sound funny in any way but this is a serious worry. I'm frightened by the over hype of Video Game consoles. I'm afriad when I see computers more powerful inside gamming machines that retail for 100 to 400 dollars. Makes me wonder if spending 2000 to 3000 dollars on my computer or 500 dollars on a graphics card and Half Life 2 is worth it. Makes me wonder which industry is Really screwing over it's loyal customers. I know the bottom line is to make money, but damn this seems like pure product assasination. Instead of Microsoft and Sony developing computer security, or working on fixing they're current products they are in a race to strip the PC of every title its ever had: Master gaming machine, Master processing machine, Master rendering machine, Best priced machine, Most useful and fun machine.
Hey don't get me wrong, if this means computer's and technology is going to get cheaper and look cooler (see, xbox design) I'm all for it. But if this also means microsoft and Sony can beat the crap out of hardware manufacturers like ATi, Asus, Abit, and others then count me out, I'd rather not participate in the destruction of companies that have provided me with high quality long lasting products in favor of a DRM gaming machine like computer.
So what we have here is an alternative form of....watching....TV. Albeit very interesting, and easy to get, not much offered because the production market hasn't stepped up yet. HDTV's users right now are in an unofficial beta phase, even if they disagree with me they should understand a few things:
The technology is changing every month when considering HDTV.
It maybe a big jump but it's too short of what is possible.
It's expensive not matter how much you say (look what I got for $XXX/month)
I think it's funny to see the regular broadcasts come through on an HDtv, utterly useless, they're malformed in most cases. It's expensive, because the broadcast companies had to do nothing that wasn't subsidized by our government or done by other companies (laying the ground for digital and lacing the airwaves), therefore I can't understand why I see people shelling out 12 to 20 dollars a month to watch the sopranos in HD 3-4 times a month. I thought it was funny when the story about kids being hauld off to AA like groups for Everquest addiction when that cost 10 bucks a month.....HA they should have been awarded, because their parents are getting screwed every month by the cable and satelite companies to the tune of anywhere from $25 to $200! While they reap 10 - 20 times more play time.
The've banned it for the next elections, and only in certain counties....they're in the only counties that had the machines up and running, but that doesn't mean another county couldn't push for it that isn't on the list of banned. Personally Diebold should have taken initiative and just attached a printer to the machines and used the printed ballots as proof-of-vote/voting-means. But it seems like they get the money and then they don't think to fix their problems...initially when this whole fiasco came up I was supportive of the whole electronic initiative because it made it SO much less confussing and set a standard for the entire state. But i guess they screwed that up.
Fedora 1 and 2test have worked great for me, personally i've had problems in the past because the linux distro's only support a small ammount of new hardware...but since Fedora is "more" open source it's more akin to fixing problems when the arise formally instead of doing it through releases. But Technically speaking I can't tell if there is a real difference between Red Hat (6, 7, 8....etc) and the Fedora project, besides the obvious upgrades. It's deffinately more stable, and compact, more powerful...but it doesn't have the same support and abilities that it had under official Red Hat support eh?
Hopefully all the distro's from Gentoo to SuSE will get it together and realize it's better to have an offical open source community, much like Red Hat has done. Even if you don't comprimise security you can at least provide a place for support and trouble shooting on a community level, and that is the BEST thing i've noticed about Fedora.
The big problem is, that with the new age of terrorists and their "retarded" mind set often the people who will be attacked (spain, japan, united states, france, england, china, south vietnam, south korea) will be attacked from within. The will be attacked by people who act like citizens right up until they pull the string leading to the bomb wrapped around their chest. The will hold your little girl or your wife to their chest while they do it...so you have to ask yourself, how can we combat something that wants to stay hidden within our society.
To bring up an even better point; remember the SDS, and the Weatherman Underground? They were the United States own people, bombing, plotting, and basically hating americans and the government because they were in a drug crazed stupor that even they admit was short sighted.
So one must ask themselves, maybe the Government should protect us from ourselves.
The ACLU has a one sided agenda, if the nuclear bombs dropped tomorrow on manhattan they would be in the streets screaming for the rights of the people who dropped them.....The government, also has an agenda, but i think since we are a steady source of voting and taxes for them they like the idea of protecting us from danger more so than the ACLU....the ACLU seems to like class-action-law, that nets them money, clout and recognition...instead of the American people's freedoms.
This is not entirely far fetched. The time, money, and actual love that goes into the average computer users (not to mention the avid or pro computer users) computer is astounding. I've upgraded my computer so much, but one or two pieces at a time, since 100mhz was the best intel could offer. The computer has never lost it's feel, because it's me in the driver's seat. The article doesn't even touch on the most intrinsic aspect of a computer! Most people tailor their computers to be exactly what they want, start up with exactly the right programs, and play the "just right" music. If we didn't feel loyalty to our computers in general, one might say we were a cold race..
As far as loyalty for a brand, that could be seen as well, but I see brand loyalty brighten and fade along with the president's approval rating. It's fickle. Just as an example I've moved loyalty from one graphics card manufacturer to the next over the years, neither one can keep making "great" cards, for some reason they are all doomed to be taken over by a start up it seems. It wasn't long ago ATI was the "kiddie" version and 3DFX had a corner on the market.
But for arguments sake, lets just read the brands i have slathered on my monitor in the form of stickers, case badges and markings of my own:
ATARI Abit Antec Zalman Needless to say i've got some "loyalty" to a few brands.
Read the entire 2 volumes, and the financial persons answers (which seemed to be the most "informative). Because I consider myself fairly scientific, but also historic, I don't put much stock in Global Warming Theories. However one of the things that was interesting about Volume two on Foresight's website (God that is a horrid name) is the mention of atmoshperic saturation, coupled (at the same time) with droughts around the world. This has always confussed me; the ability of this "supposed" Global warming to increase the ammount of water vapor in our atmosphere "exponentially" (eg: rain) but for it also to decrease it because of evaporation and heat. As with most theories that have surfaced as to the validity or invalidity of Global Warming I find them to be fairly cyclical, providing worries or answers that are easily countered or canceled out by another factor. This is on par with the claims that increased Green House gasses would actually counter the holes in the O-zone, or even better that the heat that is produced by the supposed "Green house" affect is very nearly canceled out by the fact that it blocks out just as much radiation and/or heat. Can someone verify this or at least give me a better idea then this poorly put together site....
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This thread has gone to the dogs. I've been posting to slashdot and reading every article I can get my hands on for only a few months. But this is by far the worst collection of overmodded, stupid, and waste of moderation points on comments I have seen yet.
Seeing posts like this: It's too bad... That I'm at school, because they filtered that website. *lol*
make me want to puke. it even got modded funny
Slash dot is, News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters and i've gotten the sense since April 1st that something has happened bad to/. Too many non-Nerds, too many kids, too many repetetive stories, and not enough NEWS!
I never signed up for the TruSonic broadcasting program, i just hosted songs there for people to bandwidth off of ( my creations ), somehow my songs were either transfered without this provision or MP3.com signed me up for TruSonic and never sent me a penny. I still have a bone to pick with those people, they screwed over a lot of indie bands and still didn't manage to make money. If you ask me the whole stock offer and quick falling out period (within 2 years) stinks to high heaven of trade fraud.
TruSonic was a great program, and i'm glad to hear they are still around in some form, but this Garage or what-ever is even worse than MP3.com and the people behind it are just as evil and inept...The business model is not only trying to take advantage of the poor people who DID happen to lose their music in the Mp3.com fallout but they are also very quick to charge a higher price for their services. Too me this seems like they are trying to follow the SAME path that mp3.com followed and therefore take the money, grab IPO, sell the stocks and liquidate the company.
SuSE has continually moved towards a more closed clunky system since it's inception. Every distro relies on custom updates, software, and methods to utilise the best performance and ease of use. But it is no other company other than SuSE that doesn't release ISO's for distrobution (the most popular method of disemination). I really can't see the people at SuSE becomming angry with the folks over at RedHAT. RedHAT is has increasingly catered to the open source community by releasing and helping out the Fedora project. While SuSE has pushed more money into commercial development and usability in their commercial releases....not saying either one is better but neither one deserves scorn.
Personally i've been freelance developing 3D art and models for companies for a few years now, and i've learned a couple of things.
Turbo squid is better for artists.
And 3D objects don't get better with age (at least not yet)
This will be GREAT for the production industry (which has moved off shore) as users will be able to forget their skills of automatic recall when it comes to part recognition and sucumb to the all mighty 3D shape database.
These contests were not designed by the encryption companies to have brute force used on them...Thus you have higher level challenges with "realistic" prizes. Sadly there is no reverse engineering when most of these teams think up their strategem, or even basic engineering for that matter. The RSA and eliptical encryption schemes were not thought up for mearly "normal" encryption....OBVIOUSLY if you have the key you have the file, but the underlying code (once encrypted) is meant to resemble nothing noticable, nothing useful to its cracking. Thus you have these contests, battles to see if people have a scheme, not brute force power.
Chances are they would want to find the one dude who thinks up a program that can hack that encryption to bits in 4 minutes instead of trying every password from here to "timbucktoo" on hundreds of computers at once just because you work the janatorial shift at the San Diego Super Computer Center.
"Approximately 100 satellite earth stations, primarily located on the East and West Coasts, are licensed in the 3650 MHz band. The FCC stated that wireless Internet service providers could use cognitive technology to safeguard against harmful interference to fixed satellite links."
this to me seems like internet starting to infringe on satellite radio...I'm all for it but I can't help but be reminded of the similarities in decreased performance that came about when cordless phones went from 900mhz to 2.4 Ghz. Yeah everything is clearer but you had the possibility of confussion as microwaves are turned on, two different wireless networks are running in your house...etc. Why aren't we moving towards a standard communication protocal that is scalable, instead of licensing of bands willy nilly (eg use of the satellite protocal for these wireless internet companies). Open to suggestions here.
I'd say the probable cause in this case was found when they examined pictures of the flattened corpse and the suspects unwillingness to tell the truth. Those blood stains streaking across the car from back to front could have had something to do with it as well. Probable cause is something that is jerked around with in the system, i've never seen anything more blatently abused in order to strike out offending information, but hey it's the law aint it?
focal distance may have a lot to do with it...imagine bringing a piece of your hair close to your eye...you can't see it until you bring it back.
however if you read up on the pictures that are included on NASA's website and others you can find out that the pictures of bodies outside our solar system are HUGE, we can't see the small ones yet...the fac that we can see anything with the hubble given the distance we are from other solarsytems/galaxies is noteworthy in itself
the pictures are taken using filters, not normal light, high intensity x-ray, microwave, IR...the whole deal....they are also taken in sequence, to produce multiple images of the object for sub pixel extrapolation....as a possibility described in an above post. They may have "missed it" in this round of pictures but it is highly unlikely...their guesses may have not accounted for some other gravitational body.
The slow rotation maybe due to the material the planet is made out of...haven't done enough research...but the limited work i've done on planetary rotation and gravity tells me two things.
The slow rotation may account for a moon or child body which was able to escape the rotational cycle, or was flung off into space during its creation. Which is FAR FAR more likely given its distance from the sun
The other reason maybe attributed to the fact that it is beyond the astroid belt, and is the furthest satellite we've discovered yet. Although it is a small target, it maybe the solar system's first line of defense (eg a riot shield) although not a good one. That could account for both slow/erratic rotation or a missing orbital body.
I've tested the new Nokia models, and was privey to the designs that they went through...although the interface is till "confussing" to quote one tester, their new design is a drastic step over the old design.
One problem is the fact that they are treading into an area where actual console producers, such as nintendo, would love to smash them in. They could go for another year or two and finally perfect the technology but Nintendo is known for success late in the game, and doing it cheaply.
Nokia doesn't understand yet that their production and licensing is draining their investments and at the same time Giants who specialize in the field of gaming are looking at similar and alternative investments in the field of Mobile gaming....including microsoft. (keep that on the hush hush)
From here 'As for Richard Stallman's "Free but shackled: The Java trap," it's hard to know where to begin. He has his own rather peculiar definition of "free" that I think violates the First Law of Thermodynamics (energy is conserved)'
As for Richard Stallman's references to "non-free" they may "seem" to violate the First Law of Thermodynamics, but non the less he brings up a good point. With all the trouble and mysteries behind Java at this point, it's not a bad idea to Develop the GNU Classpath. Right now Sun seems to have a hidden agenda which we can't decifer at this point...no one knows if, when the time comes, java will remain "non-free" and move on to "pay-me-now".
Of course I feel safer, ever since they've started to prevent cell phone use in cars, I feel safer. When they started putting limiters on peoples cars, I felt safer. Because of people like you assuming that this is an infringement on your "right to drive" the world is an unsafe place on the road.
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As ardent as some of you seem about preventing privacy infringements, these worries are insanely redundant. The issues have been addressed before, with the advent of recording technology, the internet, and even homeland security...the wackos have come out and gone against every one of our technology advancements, seemingly with little to back them other than "privacy" or what they claim to be their freedoms.
I was watching a documentry on Emma Goldman recently before it's airing on the PBS. To outline one of the amazing parts of her life, she went from arguing against the country (in everything it did), to touting every form of differing government (no matter what it did), to plotting to bomb, kill, and generally destroy people and presidents in this country (no matter what they did). When she was finally deported to the USSR as an anarchist she was forced to live in "Mother Russia" in the time before the second world war, she wrote in letters to friends how much she missed America, claiming that she was wrong, short sighted and young. The only thing I could say in response was "next time don't do it". I couldn't help but say that everytime I saw a killer on TV being arrained, or a hacker being put behind bars (albeit for too long a sentence)....and every time it makes more sense...try it.
Arguing against technological advance using the prop of individual rights is short sighted. The best argument against this implimentation would be the moral choices that humans make should override the oversight of these technological advances. That seems to be at the base of every argument against it;
"but I was only speeding officer because my wife's giving birth."
"but I had to drive erratically to avoid the flaming meteor"
"your kidding right? I was being chased by government agents"
Sorry but, again, these arguments are short sighted and affected by the situations that these people are involved in. These situations show that people are making poor choices, that will place others in danger, placing all their personal problems at the forefront of their worries.
I'm all for extended rights, and my individual freedoms, i'm a conservative for crying out loud, sooner or later I might have the urge to carry a gun around (although not likely i'm scared to death of them). However i'm enclined to say sorry but "next time don't do it" when someone gets hauled off to jail because they commited a crime, fled town, and forgot their car had a tracking device in it.
"Yeah, yeah; I may need a tinfoil hat. Ask yourself, though, do you feel safer?" I do feel safter but you don't need a tinfoil hat, you need an RFID tag in your car so i can pull off the road when your crazy ass comes rolling down it.
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This is interesting, because if you can remember the stock market has even been swayed by posts on the yahoo economic forums in the past...I think this is a step in the right direction, anonimity is great and all, but when your using it to ruin the competition and make yourself look better (or in the case of the stock market to weasel people out of their money) then someone has to crack down on you....in this case I'm even more excited because it seems to be public/private intervention rather then the government, so these people DEFFINATELY are going to get what's just deserts for their actions.
Not to be derogatory in anyway but We had to use this experiment to find the wavelength of a laser in a Science Olympiad competition in High School. Of course they handed me a metal string a piece of paper with a hole in it (to mount the string on and project the laser through) and a nother paper to difuse and measure the wave length of the laser on. Needless to say I had a much less strong notion of physics back then but the thought had crossed my mind that the photons would interact with themselves but I never Chalked it up to Many Worlds theory. When I see the effect of water rippling or sound bouncing I can't come to the same conclusion, and knowingly enough photons, or light, act very similar if not exactly like every other waveform in nature.
Wow, so your saying that Benjamin Franklin who is dead and therefore hasn't experienced anything that's happened since the 1700's should be the ultimate and final word? That's like saying the 2nd ammendment is esential because it was valid 300 years ago. Ignorance and reference to the past is no excuse for not coming up with an answer to ones own question. So if my "false Dichotomy" is harmful to your premise please present us with another way stop terrorism or detain people for questioning...Need I remind you that the latest terrorist captured escaped 3 times from American and Egyptian federal custody because he argued the same things that you argue.....doesn't that worry you that he got out bombed another night club, got caught again had to be let go, and bombed a bus in France before he was caught by the Egyptian police and detained? So the problem here is that terrorists can communicate with their cells, post bail, have the right to representation of their choosing. If we let every terrorist communicate with the outside after they were caught....wait we did that....wait we lost 3000 people because of that....wait they cut off the head of a communications expert in Iraq this week because of that....POSE SOMETHING THAT WORKS. POSE SOMETHING THAT FIXES THE TERRORIST PROBLEMS.
Actually a deconstructionist means nothing of the sort. The deffinition of a Deconstructionist is someone who looks into the meaning of every political action, and doesn't take it at face value. So when I say deconstructivism I mean that I never settle for the explaination that is given to me by those who have something to benefit from the bias of the information, rather I try to develop my own opinion based on my experience and "deconstruction" of the facts. This is a GREAT way to look at politics today because of all the "constructed" and "out-context" information that is diseminated in order to sway the uknowing public.
Well I'm a deconstructionist, and although I don't agree with the entire Patriot Act, I do support any measure that allows us to better hold and question possible terrorists or supporters of terror. "but apparently, the powers granted to the government by the law are themselves state secrets!" The reason that the ACLU was asked to remove the portion and not the entire piece is because they aquired the information without regard to national security, and then proceeded to post it on the internet. Now I know that being a "Bush babie" and "right-wing appologist'" hater, tends to polarize the issue for you but the actual problem here is not "Bush Babies" (or any other derogatory name you can summon to describe half of the nation and their political views) but the fact that they were disclosing information to the world which is used to secure our nations people.
So what would you rather have, all possible terroists trained on how to answer questions asked by the FBI because they got the entire list from the ACLU, or a little bit of government crack down on an obvious disclosure of security information.
The best way to prevent infringement on your personal liberties while also protecting the country from terrorists who wish to blend into the population is modification of the Patriot Act through the support of reform senators and representatives, not the support of the ACLU in this matter because the entire act would be thrown out in the middle of the Supreme Court rendering any further ability we might have to protect ourselves from terrorism useless.
I don't mean to sound funny in any way but this is a serious worry. I'm frightened by the over hype of Video Game consoles. I'm afriad when I see computers more powerful inside gamming machines that retail for 100 to 400 dollars. Makes me wonder if spending 2000 to 3000 dollars on my computer or 500 dollars on a graphics card and Half Life 2 is worth it. Makes me wonder which industry is Really screwing over it's loyal customers. I know the bottom line is to make money, but damn this seems like pure product assasination. Instead of Microsoft and Sony developing computer security, or working on fixing they're current products they are in a race to strip the PC of every title its ever had:
Master gaming machine,
Master processing machine,
Master rendering machine,
Best priced machine,
Most useful and fun machine.
Hey don't get me wrong, if this means computer's and technology is going to get cheaper and look cooler (see, xbox design) I'm all for it. But if this also means microsoft and Sony can beat the crap out of hardware manufacturers like ATi, Asus, Abit, and others then count me out, I'd rather not participate in the destruction of companies that have provided me with high quality long lasting products in favor of a DRM gaming machine like computer.
So what we have here is an alternative form of....watching....TV. Albeit very interesting, and easy to get, not much offered because the production market hasn't stepped up yet. HDTV's users right now are in an unofficial beta phase, even if they disagree with me they should understand a few things:
The technology is changing every month when considering HDTV.
It maybe a big jump but it's too short of what is possible.
It's expensive not matter how much you say (look what I got for $XXX/month)
I think it's funny to see the regular broadcasts come through on an HDtv, utterly useless, they're malformed in most cases. It's expensive, because the broadcast companies had to do nothing that wasn't subsidized by our government or done by other companies (laying the ground for digital and lacing the airwaves), therefore I can't understand why I see people shelling out 12 to 20 dollars a month to watch the sopranos in HD 3-4 times a month.
I thought it was funny when the story about kids being hauld off to AA like groups for Everquest addiction when that cost 10 bucks a month.....HA they should have been awarded, because their parents are getting screwed every month by the cable and satelite companies to the tune of anywhere from $25 to $200! While they reap 10 - 20 times more play time.
The've banned it for the next elections, and only in certain counties....they're in the only counties that had the machines up and running, but that doesn't mean another county couldn't push for it that isn't on the list of banned.
Personally Diebold should have taken initiative and just attached a printer to the machines and used the printed ballots as proof-of-vote/voting-means. But it seems like they get the money and then they don't think to fix their problems...initially when this whole fiasco came up I was supportive of the whole electronic initiative because it made it SO much less confussing and set a standard for the entire state. But i guess they screwed that up.
Fedora 1 and 2test have worked great for me, personally i've had problems in the past because the linux distro's only support a small ammount of new hardware...but since Fedora is "more" open source it's more akin to fixing problems when the arise formally instead of doing it through releases. But Technically speaking I can't tell if there is a real difference between Red Hat (6, 7, 8....etc) and the Fedora project, besides the obvious upgrades. It's deffinately more stable, and compact, more powerful...but it doesn't have the same support and abilities that it had under official Red Hat support eh?
Hopefully all the distro's from Gentoo to SuSE will get it together and realize it's better to have an offical open source community, much like Red Hat has done. Even if you don't comprimise security you can at least provide a place for support and trouble shooting on a community level, and that is the BEST thing i've noticed about Fedora.
The big problem is, that with the new age of terrorists and their "retarded" mind set often the people who will be attacked (spain, japan, united states, france, england, china, south vietnam, south korea) will be attacked from within. The will be attacked by people who act like citizens right up until they pull the string leading to the bomb wrapped around their chest. The will hold your little girl or your wife to their chest while they do it...so you have to ask yourself, how can we combat something that wants to stay hidden within our society.
To bring up an even better point; remember the SDS, and the Weatherman Underground? They were the United States own people, bombing, plotting, and basically hating americans and the government because they were in a drug crazed stupor that even they admit was short sighted.
So one must ask themselves, maybe the Government should protect us from ourselves.
The ACLU has a one sided agenda, if the nuclear bombs dropped tomorrow on manhattan they would be in the streets screaming for the rights of the people who dropped them.....The government, also has an agenda, but i think since we are a steady source of voting and taxes for them they like the idea of protecting us from danger more so than the ACLU....the ACLU seems to like class-action-law, that nets them money, clout and recognition...instead of the American people's freedoms.
This is not entirely far fetched. The time, money, and actual love that goes into the average computer users (not to mention the avid or pro computer users) computer is astounding. I've upgraded my computer so much, but one or two pieces at a time, since 100mhz was the best intel could offer. The computer has never lost it's feel, because it's me in the driver's seat. The article doesn't even touch on the most intrinsic aspect of a computer! Most people tailor their computers to be exactly what they want, start up with exactly the right programs, and play the "just right" music. If we didn't feel loyalty to our computers in general, one might say we were a cold race..
As far as loyalty for a brand, that could be seen as well, but I see brand loyalty brighten and fade along with the president's approval rating. It's fickle. Just as an example I've moved loyalty from one graphics card manufacturer to the next over the years, neither one can keep making "great" cards, for some reason they are all doomed to be taken over by a start up it seems. It wasn't long ago ATI was the "kiddie" version and 3DFX had a corner on the market.
But for arguments sake, lets just read the brands i have slathered on my monitor in the form of stickers, case badges and markings of my own:
ATARI
Abit
Antec
Zalman
Needless to say i've got some "loyalty" to a few brands.
Read the entire 2 volumes, and the financial persons answers (which seemed to be the most "informative). Because I consider myself fairly scientific, but also historic, I don't put much stock in Global Warming Theories. However one of the things that was interesting about Volume two on Foresight's website (God that is a horrid name) is the mention of atmoshperic saturation, coupled (at the same time) with droughts around the world. This has always confussed me; the ability of this "supposed" Global warming to increase the ammount of water vapor in our atmosphere "exponentially" (eg: rain) but for it also to decrease it because of evaporation and heat.
As with most theories that have surfaced as to the validity or invalidity of Global Warming I find them to be fairly cyclical, providing worries or answers that are easily countered or canceled out by another factor. This is on par with the claims that increased Green House gasses would actually counter the holes in the O-zone, or even better that the heat that is produced by the supposed "Green house" affect is very nearly canceled out by the fact that it blocks out just as much radiation and/or heat. Can someone verify this or at least give me a better idea then this poorly put together site....
This thread has gone to the dogs. I've been posting to slashdot and reading every article I can get my hands on for only a few months. But this is by far the worst collection of overmodded, stupid, and waste of moderation points on comments I have seen yet.
/. Too many non-Nerds, too many kids, too many repetetive stories, and not enough NEWS!
Seeing posts like this:
It's too bad... That I'm at school, because they filtered that website. *lol*
make me want to puke.
it even got modded funny
Slash dot is, News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters and i've gotten the sense since April 1st that something has happened bad to
I never signed up for the TruSonic broadcasting program, i just hosted songs there for people to bandwidth off of ( my creations ), somehow my songs were either transfered without this provision or MP3.com signed me up for TruSonic and never sent me a penny. I still have a bone to pick with those people, they screwed over a lot of indie bands and still didn't manage to make money. If you ask me the whole stock offer and quick falling out period (within 2 years) stinks to high heaven of trade fraud.
TruSonic was a great program, and i'm glad to hear they are still around in some form, but this Garage or what-ever is even worse than MP3.com and the people behind it are just as evil and inept...The business model is not only trying to take advantage of the poor people who DID happen to lose their music in the Mp3.com fallout but they are also very quick to charge a higher price for their services. Too me this seems like they are trying to follow the SAME path that mp3.com followed and therefore take the money, grab IPO, sell the stocks and liquidate the company.
SuSE has continually moved towards a more closed clunky system since it's inception. Every distro relies on custom updates, software, and methods to utilise the best performance and ease of use. But it is no other company other than SuSE that doesn't release ISO's for distrobution (the most popular method of disemination). I really can't see the people at SuSE becomming angry with the folks over at RedHAT. RedHAT is has increasingly catered to the open source community by releasing and helping out the Fedora project. While SuSE has pushed more money into commercial development and usability in their commercial releases....not saying either one is better but neither one deserves scorn.
Personally i've been freelance developing 3D art and models for companies for a few years now, and i've learned a couple of things.
Turbo squid is better for artists.
And 3D objects don't get better with age (at least not yet)
This will be GREAT for the production industry (which has moved off shore) as users will be able to forget their skills of automatic recall when it comes to part recognition and sucumb to the all mighty 3D shape database.
These contests were not designed by the encryption companies to have brute force used on them...Thus you have higher level challenges with "realistic" prizes. Sadly there is no reverse engineering when most of these teams think up their strategem, or even basic engineering for that matter. The RSA and eliptical encryption schemes were not thought up for mearly "normal" encryption....OBVIOUSLY if you have the key you have the file, but the underlying code (once encrypted) is meant to resemble nothing noticable, nothing useful to its cracking. Thus you have these contests, battles to see if people have a scheme, not brute force power.
Chances are they would want to find the one dude who thinks up a program that can hack that encryption to bits in 4 minutes instead of trying every password from here to "timbucktoo" on hundreds of computers at once just because you work the janatorial shift at the San Diego Super Computer Center.
"Approximately 100 satellite earth stations, primarily located on the East and West Coasts, are licensed in the 3650 MHz band. The FCC stated that wireless Internet service providers could use cognitive technology to safeguard against harmful interference to fixed satellite links."
this to me seems like internet starting to infringe on satellite radio...I'm all for it but I can't help but be reminded of the similarities in decreased performance that came about when cordless phones went from 900mhz to 2.4 Ghz. Yeah everything is clearer but you had the possibility of confussion as microwaves are turned on, two different wireless networks are running in your house...etc. Why aren't we moving towards a standard communication protocal that is scalable, instead of licensing of bands willy nilly (eg use of the satellite protocal for these wireless internet companies). Open to suggestions here.
I'd say the probable cause in this case was found when they examined pictures of the flattened corpse and the suspects unwillingness to tell the truth. Those blood stains streaking across the car from back to front could have had something to do with it as well. Probable cause is something that is jerked around with in the system, i've never seen anything more blatently abused in order to strike out offending information, but hey it's the law aint it?
focal distance may have a lot to do with it...imagine bringing a piece of your hair close to your eye...you can't see it until you bring it back.
however if you read up on the pictures that are included on NASA's website and others you can find out that the pictures of bodies outside our solar system are HUGE, we can't see the small ones yet...the fac that we can see anything with the hubble given the distance we are from other solarsytems/galaxies is noteworthy in itself
the pictures are taken using filters, not normal light, high intensity x-ray, microwave, IR...the whole deal....they are also taken in sequence, to produce multiple images of the object for sub pixel extrapolation....as a possibility described in an above post. They may have "missed it" in this round of pictures but it is highly unlikely...their guesses may have not accounted for some other gravitational body.
The slow rotation maybe due to the material the planet is made out of...haven't done enough research...but the limited work i've done on planetary rotation and gravity tells me two things.
The slow rotation may account for a moon or child body which was able to escape the rotational cycle, or was flung off into space during its creation. Which is FAR FAR more likely given its distance from the sun
The other reason maybe attributed to the fact that it is beyond the astroid belt, and is the furthest satellite we've discovered yet. Although it is a small target, it maybe the solar system's first line of defense (eg a riot shield) although not a good one. That could account for both slow/erratic rotation or a missing orbital body.
I've tested the new Nokia models, and was privey to the designs that they went through...although the interface is till "confussing" to quote one tester, their new design is a drastic step over the old design.
One problem is the fact that they are treading into an area where actual console producers, such as nintendo, would love to smash them in. They could go for another year or two and finally perfect the technology but Nintendo is known for success late in the game, and doing it cheaply.
Nokia doesn't understand yet that their production and licensing is draining their investments and at the same time Giants who specialize in the field of gaming are looking at similar and alternative investments in the field of Mobile gaming....including microsoft. (keep that on the hush hush)
From here
'As for Richard Stallman's "Free but shackled: The Java trap," it's hard to know where to begin. He has his own rather peculiar definition of "free" that I think violates the First Law of Thermodynamics (energy is conserved)' As for Richard Stallman's references to "non-free" they may "seem" to violate the First Law of Thermodynamics, but non the less he brings up a good point. With all the trouble and mysteries behind Java at this point, it's not a bad idea to Develop the GNU Classpath. Right now Sun seems to have a hidden agenda which we can't decifer at this point...no one knows if, when the time comes, java will remain "non-free" and move on to "pay-me-now".
Of course I feel safer, ever since they've started to prevent cell phone use in cars, I feel safer. When they started putting limiters on peoples cars, I felt safer. Because of people like you assuming that this is an infringement on your "right to drive" the world is an unsafe place on the road.
the rest is my post to the topic
As ardent as some of you seem about preventing privacy infringements, these worries are insanely redundant. The issues have been addressed before, with the advent of recording technology, the internet, and even homeland security...the wackos have come out and gone against every one of our technology advancements, seemingly with little to back them other than "privacy" or what they claim to be their freedoms.
I was watching a documentry on Emma Goldman recently before it's airing on the PBS. To outline one of the amazing parts of her life, she went from arguing against the country (in everything it did), to touting every form of differing government (no matter what it did), to plotting to bomb, kill, and generally destroy people and presidents in this country (no matter what they did). When she was finally deported to the USSR as an anarchist she was forced to live in "Mother Russia" in the time before the second world war, she wrote in letters to friends how much she missed America, claiming that she was wrong, short sighted and young. The only thing I could say in response was "next time don't do it". I couldn't help but say that everytime I saw a killer on TV being arrained, or a hacker being put behind bars (albeit for too long a sentence)....and every time it makes more sense...try it.
Arguing against technological advance using the prop of individual rights is short sighted. The best argument against this implimentation would be the moral choices that humans make should override the oversight of these technological advances. That seems to be at the base of every argument against it;
"but I was only speeding officer because my wife's giving birth."
"but I had to drive erratically to avoid the flaming meteor"
"your kidding right? I was being chased by government agents"
Sorry but, again, these arguments are short sighted and affected by the situations that these people are involved in. These situations show that people are making poor choices, that will place others in danger, placing all their personal problems at the forefront of their worries.
I'm all for extended rights, and my individual freedoms, i'm a conservative for crying out loud, sooner or later I might have the urge to carry a gun around (although not likely i'm scared to death of them). However i'm enclined to say sorry but "next time don't do it" when someone gets hauled off to jail because they commited a crime, fled town, and forgot their car had a tracking device in it.
"Yeah, yeah; I may need a tinfoil hat. Ask yourself, though, do you feel safer?"
I do feel safter but you don't need a tinfoil hat, you need an RFID tag in your car so i can pull off the road when your crazy ass comes rolling down it.