I'm sorry, no. Ease of commerce does not "require" that dollars be tied to persons each and every time. There is (or can be) such a thing as an anonymous debit card, just an electronic wallet, with the bills inside no more identifiable or traceable than the real ones, perhaps even less so (no serial numbers). The personal data tied to that card of yours is just there to make marketers and big brother happy, it's not so that commerce can flow easier.
Lybia is not Eritreea, buddy. It's not even the Congo. It's a highly stable, highly opressive dictatorship under a bona-fide paranoid leader by the name of Mu'ammar Abu Minyar al-Qadhafi . Not a leave moves (not that there are many) in that country without him or his cronies knowing about it. No "local militia" or high-level organised crime is allowed to take root. The country is only poor because of economic sanctions (imposed by the UN following the Lockerbie incident). It's on its way up again, as the sanctions were lifted and there's a lot of oil there. It's also one of the few countries to have attempted a terraforming project.
So, mozilla corp and mozilla devs are sick of supporting debian because -get this- debian devs come up with large numbers of bugfixes? Oh cry me a river. So now, debian devs are sick of getting patches rejected and choose to fork and roll their own from now on. In all this, the name/logo thing is just a technicality (mozilla corp saying 'of course you may fork the code, but you have to call it something else').
Where is the conflict here, again? Why should anyone else than Debian users/devs care? The beauty of distributing GPL software is that anyone can take the code and run with it, no?
This is good news for Firefox (some guys actually care enough about it that they'll support their own version) and (possibly) good news for Debian users too, as they get a browser directly supported by the devs of their distro of choice.
No-one pays less for anything. Costs go down, yet Nikes manufactured in China do not cost less than Nikes made in the US a while ago, no? The concern is with the "loss" of jobs to poorer countries, but:
a. China's aging population will not be able to prop up the US economy with cheap un- and semi-skilled labor for much longer, b. India's educational system is too small and will continue to remain so for the foreseeable future (it takes 20 years and about ten children to make one new engineer - the other 9 get 'lost' to other areas of study, drop out or whatever) and c. Africa is a logistics/training nightmare, unsuited for exporting jobs.
So, expect those jobs to come back in 10 years or so. Of course, it may be that by then the US turns into a third-world nation of nurses and burger-flippers, seeing as in the meantime the incentives of getting a higher (technical) education will be extremely low.
Well, it would appear that support for anything other than JPEG, PDF and plain ascii text is in the form of a piece of software which converts stuff to the SonyProprietaryCrapDRMformat also known as BBeB Book (tm). Wake me up when they make the necessary adjustments.
Because it lives in the nose of the aircraft (it's a really big, heavy thing). 360 degree FC radars can be found in some ground attack, EW and ASW flyers, where they are usually belly-mounted and serve for acquiring targets on the ground/water below.
Now, with a fighter, the whole idea is that you go to the enemy and shoot him out of the sky... hence the nose radar. And what do you have behind the nose? Yup, guessed in one. The rest of the plane, standing in the way of any radio waves:).
Strong AI would solve that "watcher-watching" problem of yours in a most unpleasant way, I believe. It may be that much less (advanced "data mining" and such) is required for merely efficient surveillance (not omniscient, but able to identify dissenters with 90% accuracy, maybe).
There is no easy solution to the energy needs of all nations.
No. There is no solution to the energy demands of all nations. "Need" and "energy" can be defined in many ways, some of them rather far from what we use now. For instance, there is no apreciable need to burn fossil fuels in a world which a)does not need/use cars as personal transport and b)uses nuclear fission and perhaps some alternatives (mainly hydro and wind) to make electricity.
Before you jump me for proposing fission (thousands of power plants would need to be created, yadda-yadda) consider that today's plants are horrendously inefficient and produce horrid amounts of long-lived waste because of the non-proliferation treaties BS which prevents useful things like breeder reactors from being used commercially in the free world but does not prevent "rogue countries" from building them anyway.
Can you imagine such a world? I bet you can. Heavy machinery would use biodiesel. Medium- and long-distance cargo? Rail, nuclear-powered cargo freighters perhaps. Short-haul and door-to-door? People power and hybrid trucks. Electricity-powered mass transit in and between cities. Personal transport? People power, perhaps some pack animals. Air travel? Airships.
This is all tech that exists, is used and has been proven, except for the device needed for extracting soccer moms from their SUVs. That is coming fast, however, in the shape of a $400 barrel of oil.
Well, yes and no. The braking scenario is not that interesting. What IS interesting with the Su-27 is the ability to pull what is a classic high-g maneuver (sharp upward turn), without being squished. This falls outside the intercept capabilities of many current AA and SA missiles (for the simple reason that the designers never thought planes will ever be able to maneuver like that) and has the added advantage of at least partly "hiding" the thrusters from a pursuing IR-guided missile. And no, the fire control radar on the Sukhoi 27 does not see 360 degrees for obvious reasons.
So Hezbollah found out that the Israelis know they had broken some of their comms. So now they can safely assume (or have observed) that the Israelis have changed EVERYTHING, and that whatever is coming in through the compromised channels is plain disinformation. So they're milking the last drop here, using the story as a propaganda tool.
Compile on a faster system, then. Also, endless is hardly the case. No, you cannot have your cake and eat it too - it's tweakable, or it's already tweaked for you. Try DamnSmallLinux, it may come close to what you need. On a sidenote, I do have a full time job. That's how i can stand the long compile times... I'm not there most of the time anyway.
Hear, hear. Just because many Gentoo users are ricers it doesn't mean that Gentoo is a ricers' distro. x86 (the stable version) has been.... well, stable and upgrading smoothly on my box for over a year now.
I'm sorry, what? I have an Athlon 2000+ running at 1.2 GHz... Never did it take more than 20 hours to compile openoffice... But then again I compile it with -Os, not -O2 as most Gentooers are wont to do...
I know I'll be flamed all the way to Hell on this one but... why Ubuntu? It's not designed for rescuing old machines. Go with a source distro, or with something that's made to fit tiny machines... like DSL or (sigh) Gentoo with -Os in the compile flags.
You missed one. It should be "use your spare CPU cycles to (potentially) find cures for various nasty things and enrich the patent portfolios of drug manufacturers AND (possibly) help design the next Black Death".
Let's forget for an instant that there are ways to replace those seals without anyone noticing. The very existence of the seals allows for a cheap and effective DoS attack. Members of one of the parties go to vote in some gerrymandered district controlled by the other side. They go in, vote, break the seal on a machine and go out again, in the process nullifying a sh*tload of votes for the opposition. Neat?
One of the major features of your government is that it was designed to move incredibly slowly, having to overcome significant internal friction (aka checks and balances). Were it not so, your last shreds of freedom would have been taken away for good at the onset of WW2 (that almost happened anyway). Can you imagine the reaction of the American public to a WW2-magnitude clusterfsck happening today? Can you imagine the subsequent political shift? Fascism would pale in comparison.
I have a theory about this... Can you spell "dot-bomb"? In its wake, the perspective of a programming career has simply ceased to attract the brightest and best. In fact, it has ceased to attract anyone at all and is now being pursued by purely random guys&galz.
Insightful? How? This is about signed 3rd party security apps being allowed (or not) to hook into the kernel, not a debate over the continued existence of Windows OneCare.
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I'm sorry, no. Ease of commerce does not "require" that dollars be tied to persons each and every time. There is (or can be) such a thing as an anonymous debit card, just an electronic wallet, with the bills inside no more identifiable or traceable than the real ones, perhaps even less so (no serial numbers). The personal data tied to that card of yours is just there to make marketers and big brother happy, it's not so that commerce can flow easier.
Lybia is not Eritreea, buddy. It's not even the Congo. It's a highly stable, highly opressive dictatorship under a bona-fide paranoid leader by the name of Mu'ammar Abu Minyar al-Qadhafi . Not a leave moves (not that there are many) in that country without him or his cronies knowing about it. No "local militia" or high-level organised crime is allowed to take root. The country is only poor because of economic sanctions (imposed by the UN following the Lockerbie incident). It's on its way up again, as the sanctions were lifted and there's a lot of oil there.
It's also one of the few countries to have attempted a terraforming project.
Hundreds more than what? I can get Benq laptops with linux preinstalled for around $400. Welcome to the future.
So, mozilla corp and mozilla devs are sick of supporting debian because -get this- debian devs come up with large numbers of bugfixes? Oh cry me a river.
So now, debian devs are sick of getting patches rejected and choose to fork and roll their own from now on.
In all this, the name/logo thing is just a technicality (mozilla corp saying 'of course you may fork the code, but you have to call it something else').
Where is the conflict here, again? Why should anyone else than Debian users/devs care? The beauty of distributing GPL software is that anyone can take the code and run with it, no?
This is good news for Firefox (some guys actually care enough about it that they'll support their own version) and (possibly) good news for Debian users too, as they get a browser directly supported by the devs of their distro of choice.
No-one pays less for anything. Costs go down, yet Nikes manufactured in China do not cost less than Nikes made in the US a while ago, no? The concern is with the "loss" of jobs to poorer countries, but:
a. China's aging population will not be able to prop up the US economy with cheap un- and semi-skilled labor for much longer,
b. India's educational system is too small and will continue to remain so for the foreseeable future (it takes 20 years and about ten children to make one new engineer - the other 9 get 'lost' to other areas of study, drop out or whatever) and
c. Africa is a logistics/training nightmare, unsuited for exporting jobs.
So, expect those jobs to come back in 10 years or so. Of course, it may be that by then the US turns into a third-world nation of nurses and burger-flippers, seeing as in the meantime the incentives of getting a higher (technical) education will be extremely low.
Approximately at the time when Reagan came to office.
Nor should there be, in civil cases. Criminal law is another matter altogether, but this system of subpoenas is just asking to be abused, imho.
Well, it would appear that support for anything other than JPEG, PDF and plain ascii text is in the form of a piece of software which converts stuff to the SonyProprietaryCrapDRMformat also known as BBeB Book (tm). Wake me up when they make the necessary adjustments.
Because it lives in the nose of the aircraft (it's a really big, heavy thing). 360 degree FC radars can be found in some ground attack, EW and ASW flyers, where they are usually belly-mounted and serve for acquiring targets on the ground/water below.
:).
Now, with a fighter, the whole idea is that you go to the enemy and shoot him out of the sky... hence the nose radar. And what do you have behind the nose? Yup, guessed in one. The rest of the plane, standing in the way of any radio waves
Hear, hear. For one, Blake's crew is naught but a terrorist cell, in today's lingo.
Strong AI would solve that "watcher-watching" problem of yours in a most unpleasant way, I believe. It may be that much less (advanced "data mining" and such) is required for merely efficient surveillance (not omniscient, but able to identify dissenters with 90% accuracy, maybe).
No. There is no solution to the energy demands of all nations. "Need" and "energy" can be defined in many ways, some of them rather far from what we use now. For instance, there is no apreciable need to burn fossil fuels in a world which a)does not need/use cars as personal transport and b)uses nuclear fission and perhaps some alternatives (mainly hydro and wind) to make electricity.
Before you jump me for proposing fission (thousands of power plants would need to be created, yadda-yadda) consider that today's plants are horrendously inefficient and produce horrid amounts of long-lived waste because of the non-proliferation treaties BS which prevents useful things like breeder reactors from being used commercially in the free world but does not prevent "rogue countries" from building them anyway.
Can you imagine such a world? I bet you can. Heavy machinery would use biodiesel. Medium- and long-distance cargo? Rail, nuclear-powered cargo freighters perhaps. Short-haul and door-to-door? People power and hybrid trucks. Electricity-powered mass transit in and between cities. Personal transport? People power, perhaps some pack animals. Air travel? Airships.
This is all tech that exists, is used and has been proven, except for the device needed for extracting soccer moms from their SUVs. That is coming fast, however, in the shape of a $400 barrel of oil.
Well, yes and no. The braking scenario is not that interesting. What IS interesting with the Su-27 is the ability to pull what is a classic high-g maneuver (sharp upward turn), without being squished. This falls outside the intercept capabilities of many current AA and SA missiles (for the simple reason that the designers never thought planes will ever be able to maneuver like that) and has the added advantage of at least partly "hiding" the thrusters from a pursuing IR-guided missile. And no, the fire control radar on the Sukhoi 27 does not see 360 degrees for obvious reasons.
So Hezbollah found out that the Israelis know they had broken some of their comms. So now they can safely assume (or have observed) that the Israelis have changed EVERYTHING, and that whatever is coming in through the compromised channels is plain disinformation. So they're milking the last drop here, using the story as a propaganda tool.
Compile on a faster system, then. Also, endless is hardly the case. No, you cannot have your cake and eat it too - it's tweakable, or it's already tweaked for you. Try DamnSmallLinux, it may come close to what you need. On a sidenote, I do have a full time job. That's how i can stand the long compile times... I'm not there most of the time anyway.
Your hearing is good. Ati simply does NOT do good (or even decent) drivers.
Hear, hear. Just because many Gentoo users are ricers it doesn't mean that Gentoo is a ricers' distro. x86 (the stable version) has been.... well, stable and upgrading smoothly on my box for over a year now.
I'm sorry, what? I have an Athlon 2000+ running at 1.2 GHz... Never did it take more than 20 hours to compile openoffice... But then again I compile it with -Os, not -O2 as most Gentooers are wont to do...
It would also expose you to the risk of your machine randomly accessing child porn. Ironic, no?
I know I'll be flamed all the way to Hell on this one but... why Ubuntu? It's not designed for rescuing old machines. Go with a source distro, or with something that's made to fit tiny machines... like DSL or (sigh) Gentoo with -Os in the compile flags.
You missed one. It should be "use your spare CPU cycles to (potentially) find cures for various nasty things and enrich the patent portfolios of drug manufacturers AND (possibly) help design the next Black Death".
Let's forget for an instant that there are ways to replace those seals without anyone noticing. The very existence of the seals allows for a cheap and effective DoS attack. Members of one of the parties go to vote in some gerrymandered district controlled by the other side. They go in, vote, break the seal on a machine and go out again, in the process nullifying a sh*tload of votes for the opposition. Neat?
One of the major features of your government is that it was designed to move incredibly slowly, having to overcome significant internal friction (aka checks and balances). Were it not so, your last shreds of freedom would have been taken away for good at the onset of WW2 (that almost happened anyway). Can you imagine the reaction of the American public to a WW2-magnitude clusterfsck happening today? Can you imagine the subsequent political shift? Fascism would pale in comparison.
I have a theory about this...
Can you spell "dot-bomb"? In its wake, the perspective of a programming career has simply ceased to attract the brightest and best. In fact, it has ceased to attract anyone at all and is now being pursued by purely random guys&galz.
Insightful? How?
This is about signed 3rd party security apps being allowed (or not) to hook into the kernel, not a debate over the continued existence of Windows OneCare.