Why don't you grow a pair and fight for your rights? Freedom is expensive my friend.
Freedome is *priceless*. Slavery is expensive.
Anyway, welcome to 1984 (the book). Better brush up on that doublethink. "Yes sir. NSA ALWAYS monitored ALL communications. The President NEVER allowed ORP to conduct any sensitive investigations. Never!" or "The terrorists are everywhere! They even tested their nukes in Nevada! On American soil!!! Nuke them terrorists!" and of course "Saddam Hussein masterminded 911. Everyone knows that!". Now repeat it and *believe* it.
Most of the oil US imports is not from Saudi. It is from Canada. Then you have Mexico (Gulf of Mexico), but Canada is the only country in the top 5 that can double, tripple, etc... its production.
With computers it is very easy. You do NOT need to count anything. Just shake the case a bit and any lose screws will be heard nice and loud. Or they fall out:) Plus you have 2 different types of threads and a handful types of screwes. Not quite the same.
With surgery. Let's see. How will you know you have 2 or 3 sponges in a patient or a clamp somewhere when you also have 30 other things in there? Think about the "mess" of wires in a computer case then try to image crap in one's body - they don't really compare. You do not have anything "color coded" or otherwise. And each one is different from another. Also, it is easier to lose stuff in fat people for example.
Currently there people looking after tools used (not the doctor - the doctor's job is keeping the patient alive!). But when you have 5 seconds to verify everything is back, you sometimes miss stuff. And no, you cannot sit there having your patient open for 10-30 minutes while you count 100 tools, sponges, etc.. you used and verify with the clipboard like a car mechanic or yourself with your computer.
RFID solution would help and this is probably one of the best places for RFID as far as I know.
In larger software companies, software programmer or coder != software designer or architect. The designer is responsible for the the way code behaves. The coder is responsible for following the design. That is why you can outsource lots of programming jobs to India. They just write the code based to some specs. Therefore quality of the software is not directly related to the quality of the coder but the quality of the designer and corresponding QA (unit tests, code reviews, etc..)
It is like in construction. The design is not done by the people that do the actual hammering.
Anyway, this is the way MS works. And no, it is not the way that Linux works where designer == architect for most of the time. The latter is better, but more expensive.
Life expectancy has a lot to do with your life style. The simplest answer is a lot of americans are FAT and do not excercise. The diet also sucks - too much fat, wrong fat (trans fat and Omega-6 vs. Omega-3 ratio 20:1 or worse instead of healthy 3:1), wrong carbs (fructose - thank you cord subsidies), and lots of fried crap.
Poeple that live past their 70'th year will usually live past their 80s. The low life expectancy is due to people that die in their 40s-60s mostly due to the above and its complications.
and you'll notice that NASA's people actually have *stuff* on their screens instead of wallpapers and miscalenous windows backgrounds.
When you send something into space you want to have a return on the investment. This means communication with the satellite! And after a few days, they can only say "At this point in time, the vehicle is happy and healthy" and produce a grainy image. At least to myself, they do sound like a joke.
If you want to make people buy small cars, put that in the insurance. Have car insurance premium be proportional to the size of the engine and number of cylinders. For cars, a 2L 4-cylinder may be base. Bigger engines get a premium. Smaller engines get a discount. For non-cars like trucks and SUVs, they get to pay more for the extra liability they cause for the small cars, cyclists and pedestrians plus the size of the engine premium as well.
I know Europe has something similar, where the cost of insurance has something to do with the size of your car. You don't see that many Hammers in Europe and you don't have 50% of the people driving back and forth to work in their F-150s or GMC Yukons.
apt-get archives are now signed too. In Etch (testing) and Sid (unstable) apt will check the integrity of the packages for you, but the entire archive is signed. Just look at woody or sarge,
I'm sorry to say but this is wrong. You need TWO (2) pieces of data to reconcile transactions. If you have one piece of data, then you can't do it. How does it work?
1. Enter data from receipts, income statements, etc.. (1 piece of data) 2. Reconsile transactions against your bank/CC statement (2nd piece of data). This you probably can download but it is not a big deal to do manually.
Anyway, the point is #2 money flow (bank/CC) should equal #1 money flow. There is no magic behind it. There are no "special" functions.
Entering data manually is REALLY easy if you do it a few times a week. You do not enter each and every thing you bought in grocery store, you enter the total. If you want, you can break down food from paper supplies from clothes (actually, you kind of do this for business accounts) but most of the time this may not be necessary.
If you do not enter data manually from receipts, you cannot reconcile your transactions. Well, unless you reconcile them against the box of receipts you may or may not have. Good luck with that!
Note: it is easy to enter data if you do it regularly. A few times a week entering a few receipts is not a problem. Maybe 10-20 minutes of your time per week. Entering a year's worth of data, well, that may be a problem! (52 weeks * ~20 min/week => ~17 hours!).
Double-entry accounting is the only way to fly in the money world. It is the only way to make sure you balance you transactions. For example, instead of having
Then when your Visa comes in, you reconcile your transactions. This is much, much better than a checkbook register or other back of the napkin accounting methods. The point is that ALL transactions are balanced. Money in = Money out.
Since I'll take your "I RTFA" summary as fact since "I haven't RTFA". There is at least one huge difference between Linux FS like ext2 or ext3 and Windows NTFS or FAT. Windows does not support paths longer than 256 (or 512?) characters. Once you hit that limit, the path is not accessible.
The scenerio is painfully obvious when you use something like GNU Arch (tla) under windows. It doesn't work because Windows cannot handle longer paths. Well, actually it CAN handle, but it doesn't thanks to the great backwards compatability. So, you can end up with paths you cannot delete easily. Yes, even in XP with latest updates.
The only work around in tla is to use the "compatability" or the 8.3 mappings of longer paths. Then your real path is longer than the limit, but your mangled path is shorter and file operations work again.
So to summerize, Windows => long file names, hardcoded limit for paths Linux => long file names, FS dependent paths lengths
Lebanese authorities captured an Al Qaeda member who confessed to the plot
So was this a true confession or was this a "confession" when the person was being tortured? Now we all know Lebanon would never torture anyone! You can torture anyone to say anything, including confessing that your mother is commie and a fat capitalist in the same sentence and that you are your own grandfather. After all, why spend time trying to prove someone would actually go though with the plot when you can just torture them?
Heck, you can just take random people off the streets and torture them into confessing they are Al Qaeda sleepers.
You don't have to worry about NAT full-cone, restricted-cone, port-restricted cone, STUN, or any other crap in a badly designed protocol.
Have you ever stopped and think that maybe NAT, not the protocol that is the problem? The sooner we get rid of the cludge that NAT is and always was, the better it will be for all net users (hint: IPv6 + stateful firewall => better than NAT cludge)
On the other hand, an automobile battery shorted by electrolyte-rich urine could very quickly turn you into a blob on the driveway.
How? You have to close the curcuit for the battery to work AND it will use the path of least resistance. Even if you put your Johnson on one bettery terminal and then pissed on the second one, that may only weld your valve shut. To kill you, you would need to piss on your left arm, grab one of the terminals with your pissed hand and continue pissing on another. Keep in mind you must continue to piss to keep the circuit closed for a significant amount of time to fry your heart. Now, this is something I would pay to see you do.
And how much better spent money would be for projects like this than on more "creative" ways to kill ourselves? Your logic is pure crap. People spend 1 trillion+ on military, about the same on illegal drugs and then you bitch that 10 billion for an applied/pure science research project is money wasted?
With the shortsighetness of people like you, we deserve to nuke ourselves back to the stone age.
Insteading of modding, I should reply since I do have some experience with Tritium.
What is Tritium? It is just heavy hydrogen. You can stick it anywhere where H can be. One place is water and that is the least problematic. You can also get it as part of oils, or even some compounds that end up *in* your DNA. That is the reason why Tritium is so dangerous. Even extremely small amounts can end up in the wrong places and kill you.
In the lab I worked at, we had an instrument contaminated with Tritium. According to regulations, any rate higher than about 1000 decays/minute had to be cleaned up (the tritium was in vacuum pump oil). The person doing the checks told me if some of these were in human consumable organic compounds (aka, not vacuum pump oil or diffused in steel), the entire lab would be shut down.
It is pure ignorance that tells you Tritium is perfectly OK. What the heck happens to the crap when the "battery runs out"? What happens to the stupid "ever on night lights" when the light is low enough that you can't see it anymore? That's right, it end up being thrown out. Then it migrates and eventually will end up in oganic compounts (it IS hydrogen after all) and well, might end up killing hell of a lot of people.
And please don't give me crap about how quickly tritiated water leaves your body (one lifetime in human body is about 14 days since you pee it out! - I say one lifetime, not bullshit like "it all leaves your body within a month"). Let's just agree that tritiated water is a low hazard. My point is about a miliard of other compounds that are stored in your body permanently and where the 18keV (mean is 9keV because it is a beta decay ) electron is very dangerous. Much nore dangerous than a muon or an alpha at the same spot.
Tritium is exactly dangerous for exactly the same reasons as Sr90 is dangerous or radioactive Iodine or high dosage of C13. Hell, it is even more dangerous because of its low energy beta!
I'm all for nuclear power, but not stuff put into disposable consumer stuff that is can and will be easily absorbed by the human body.
Current modding when it comes to Nuclear on shashdot seems "Nuclear good" without any context. It is like blind leading the blind.
Blue screens in airports?? AAAA!!!!
Better than the "Core dumped" errors I've gotten now and then on linux I guess?
BSOD is *not* a core dump. BSOD is equivelent to a kernel OOPS on Linux. This is when the OS craps out thanks most likely to one of its drivers.
Core dumped error messages are equivelent to the
"Windows detected an error in the application and closed it" dialogs. The difference is that you can send core dumps to the developer(s) and they can get information from it. I have no idea what to do with the stupid windows error message unless the OS your app crashed has a debuger on it.
Core dumps can be triggered by application errors. BSOD and kernel OOPS are triggered by errors in the kernel itself.
Bullshit. Remember how Kerry got railroaded for "voting against the troops"? He explained that he wanted a bill that took money from the tax cuts Bush gave instead of more debt. No one listened or cared about that it seems.
Sorry, the American system doesn't care about reason. People don't give a damn. Any democrat that voted against this would have been crucified in the next election.
For people that don't know, the code used to launch nuclear any nuke missle until late 1970s (or early 1980s?) was 000000. The code was put in after the Cuban missle crisis so no one idiot could destroy the world. The millitary didn't want to use a random number because it could prevent missle from being launched "when it really counted" (like it would matter!)
Bullshit squared! I can move in the middle of nowhere, to a town with 1000 people, 300km for anything you can call a city (actually, 3 cities in this province - rest you can call towns as < 20,000). I can get 5.0MBps DSL. Some places are really remote so you can only get 1.5MBps. If you live 300km from nowhere (ie. no phone, no power, etc.), then you can still get Internet over satellite.
Broadband is everywhere in Canada. In urban and a lot of rural areas (ie. small towns). Governments invested here a lot of money to provide broadband to everyone. If you can get phone service, there is a good chance you can get DSL.
BTW: North Dakota has a higher population than the province I'm talking about. Also, ND is quite small in comparison.
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Why don't you grow a pair and fight for your rights? Freedom is expensive my friend.
Freedome is *priceless*. Slavery is expensive.
Anyway, welcome to 1984 (the book). Better brush up on that doublethink. "Yes sir. NSA ALWAYS monitored ALL communications. The President NEVER allowed ORP to conduct any sensitive investigations. Never!" or "The terrorists are everywhere! They even tested their nukes in Nevada! On American soil!!! Nuke them terrorists!" and of course "Saddam Hussein masterminded 911. Everyone knows that!". Now repeat it and *believe* it.
Most of the oil US imports is not from Saudi. It is from Canada. Then you have Mexico (Gulf of Mexico), but Canada is the only country in the top 5 that can double, tripple, etc... its production.
_ publications/company_level_imports/current/import. html
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data
With computers it is very easy. You do NOT need to count anything. Just shake the case a bit and any lose screws will be heard nice and loud. Or they fall out :) Plus you have 2 different types of threads and a handful types of screwes. Not quite the same.
With surgery. Let's see. How will you know you have 2 or 3 sponges in a patient or a clamp somewhere when you also have 30 other things in there? Think about the "mess" of wires in a computer case then try to image crap in one's body - they don't really compare. You do not have anything "color coded" or otherwise. And each one is different from another. Also, it is easier to lose stuff in fat people for example.
Currently there people looking after tools used (not the doctor - the doctor's job is keeping the patient alive!). But when you have 5 seconds to verify everything is back, you sometimes miss stuff. And no, you cannot sit there having your patient open for 10-30 minutes while you count 100 tools, sponges, etc.. you used and verify with the clipboard like a car mechanic or yourself with your computer.
RFID solution would help and this is probably one of the best places for RFID as far as I know.
In larger software companies, software programmer or coder != software designer or architect. The designer is responsible for the the way code behaves. The coder is responsible for following the design. That is why you can outsource lots of programming jobs to India. They just write the code based to some specs. Therefore quality of the software is not directly related to the quality of the coder but the quality of the designer and corresponding QA (unit tests, code reviews, etc..)
It is like in construction. The design is not done by the people that do the actual hammering.
Anyway, this is the way MS works. And no, it is not the way that Linux works where designer == architect for most of the time. The latter is better, but more expensive.
Life expectancy has a lot to do with your life style. The simplest answer is a lot of americans are FAT and do not excercise. The diet also sucks - too much fat, wrong fat (trans fat and Omega-6 vs. Omega-3 ratio 20:1 or worse instead of healthy 3:1), wrong carbs (fructose - thank you cord subsidies), and lots of fried crap.
Poeple that live past their 70'th year will usually live past their 80s. The low life expectancy is due to people that die in their 40s-60s mostly due to the above and its complications.
They spent their money on the wallpaper backgrounds for their mission control hence no backup power source. Compare their Mission Control center,_ control.php
f s_gallery_mcc_image3.html
http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/out_there/mission
to one of NASA's,
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/presskits/f
and you'll notice that NASA's people actually have *stuff* on their screens instead of wallpapers and miscalenous windows backgrounds.
When you send something into space you want to have a return on the investment. This means communication with the satellite! And after a few days, they can only say "At this point in time, the vehicle is happy and healthy" and produce a grainy image. At least to myself, they do sound like a joke.
If you want to make people buy small cars, put that in the insurance. Have car insurance premium be proportional to the size of the engine and number of cylinders. For cars, a 2L 4-cylinder may be base. Bigger engines get a premium. Smaller engines get a discount. For non-cars like trucks and SUVs, they get to pay more for the extra liability they cause for the small cars, cyclists and pedestrians plus the size of the engine premium as well.
I know Europe has something similar, where the cost of insurance has something to do with the size of your car. You don't see that many Hammers in Europe and you don't have 50% of the people driving back and forth to work in their F-150s or GMC Yukons.
apt-get archives are now signed too. In Etch (testing) and Sid (unstable) apt will check the integrity of the packages for you, but the entire archive is signed. Just look at woody or sarge,
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/
Then locate the file Release.gpg. That is the signature for the release file.
I'm sorry to say but this is wrong. You need TWO (2) pieces of data to reconcile transactions. If you have one piece of data, then you can't do it. How does it work?
1. Enter data from receipts, income statements, etc.. (1 piece of data)
2. Reconsile transactions against your bank/CC statement (2nd piece of data). This you probably can download but it is not a big deal to do manually.
Anyway, the point is #2 money flow (bank/CC) should equal #1 money flow. There is no magic behind it. There are no "special" functions.
Entering data manually is REALLY easy if you do it a few times a week. You do not enter each and every thing you bought in grocery store, you enter the total. If you want, you can break down food from paper supplies from clothes (actually, you kind of do this for business accounts) but most of the time this may not be necessary.
If you do not enter data manually from receipts, you cannot reconcile your transactions. Well, unless you reconcile them against the box of receipts you may or may not have. Good luck with that!
Note: it is easy to enter data if you do it regularly. A few times a week entering a few receipts is not a problem. Maybe 10-20 minutes of your time per week. Entering a year's worth of data, well, that may be a problem! (52 weeks * ~20 min/week => ~17 hours!).
Double-entry accounting is the only way to fly in the money world. It is the only way to make sure you balance you transactions. For example, instead of having
Dentist Expenses:Health $200.00
You have,
Dentist Expenses:Health $200.00
Liabilities:Visa $200.00
Or even better,
Dentist Expenses:Health $200.00
Expenses:Taxes $15.00
Liabilities:Visa $180.00
Assets:Cash $35.00
Then when your Visa comes in, you reconcile your transactions. This is much, much better than a checkbook register or other back of the napkin accounting methods. The point is that ALL transactions are balanced. Money in = Money out.
Since I'll take your "I RTFA" summary as fact since "I haven't RTFA". There is at least one huge difference between Linux FS like ext2 or ext3 and Windows NTFS or FAT. Windows does not support paths longer than 256 (or 512?) characters. Once you hit that limit, the path is not accessible.
The scenerio is painfully obvious when you use something like GNU Arch (tla) under windows. It doesn't work because Windows cannot handle longer paths. Well, actually it CAN handle, but it doesn't thanks to the great backwards compatability. So, you can end up with paths you cannot delete easily. Yes, even in XP with latest updates.
The only work around in tla is to use the "compatability" or the 8.3 mappings of longer paths. Then your real path is longer than the limit, but your mangled path is shorter and file operations work again.
So to summerize,
Windows => long file names, hardcoded limit for paths
Linux => long file names, FS dependent paths lengths
So was this a true confession or was this a "confession" when the person was being tortured? Now we all know Lebanon would never torture anyone! You can torture anyone to say anything, including confessing that your mother is commie and a fat capitalist in the same sentence and that you are your own grandfather. After all, why spend time trying to prove someone would actually go though with the plot when you can just torture them?
Heck, you can just take random people off the streets and torture them into confessing they are Al Qaeda sleepers.
You don't have to worry about NAT full-cone, restricted-cone, port-restricted cone, STUN, or any other crap in a badly designed protocol.
Have you ever stopped and think that maybe NAT, not the protocol that is the problem? The sooner we get rid of the cludge that NAT is and always was, the better it will be for all net users (hint: IPv6 + stateful firewall => better than NAT cludge)
On the other hand, an automobile battery shorted by electrolyte-rich urine could very quickly turn you into a blob on the driveway. How? You have to close the curcuit for the battery to work AND it will use the path of least resistance. Even if you put your Johnson on one bettery terminal and then pissed on the second one, that may only weld your valve shut. To kill you, you would need to piss on your left arm, grab one of the terminals with your pissed hand and continue pissing on another. Keep in mind you must continue to piss to keep the circuit closed for a significant amount of time to fry your heart. Now, this is something I would pay to see you do.
And how much better spent money would be for projects like this than on more "creative" ways to kill ourselves? Your logic is pure crap. People spend 1 trillion+ on military, about the same on illegal drugs and then you bitch that 10 billion for an applied/pure science research project is money wasted?
With the shortsighetness of people like you, we deserve to nuke ourselves back to the stone age.
What is Tritium? It is just heavy hydrogen. You can stick it anywhere where H can be. One place is water and that is the least problematic. You can also get it as part of oils, or even some compounds that end up *in* your DNA. That is the reason why Tritium is so dangerous. Even extremely small amounts can end up in the wrong places and kill you.
In the lab I worked at, we had an instrument contaminated with Tritium. According to regulations, any rate higher than about 1000 decays/minute had to be cleaned up (the tritium was in vacuum pump oil). The person doing the checks told me if some of these were in human consumable organic compounds (aka, not vacuum pump oil or diffused in steel), the entire lab would be shut down.
It is pure ignorance that tells you Tritium is perfectly OK. What the heck happens to the crap when the "battery runs out"? What happens to the stupid "ever on night lights" when the light is low enough that you can't see it anymore? That's right, it end up being thrown out. Then it migrates and eventually will end up in oganic compounts (it IS hydrogen after all) and well, might end up killing hell of a lot of people.
And please don't give me crap about how quickly tritiated water leaves your body (one lifetime in human body is about 14 days since you pee it out! - I say one lifetime, not bullshit like "it all leaves your body within a month"). Let's just agree that tritiated water is a low hazard. My point is about a miliard of other compounds that are stored in your body permanently and where the 18keV (mean is 9keV because it is a beta decay ) electron is very dangerous. Much nore dangerous than a muon or an alpha at the same spot.
Tritium is exactly dangerous for exactly the same reasons as Sr90 is dangerous or radioactive Iodine or high dosage of C13. Hell, it is even more dangerous because of its low energy beta!
I'm all for nuclear power, but not stuff put into disposable consumer stuff that is can and will be easily absorbed by the human body.
Current modding when it comes to Nuclear on shashdot seems "Nuclear good" without any context. It is like blind leading the blind.
Of course Kylix is toast! Who whould use Kylix instead of Qt directly?
BSOD is *not* a core dump. BSOD is equivelent to a kernel OOPS on Linux. This is when the OS craps out thanks most likely to one of its drivers.
Core dumped error messages are equivelent to the "Windows detected an error in the application and closed it" dialogs. The difference is that you can send core dumps to the developer(s) and they can get information from it. I have no idea what to do with the stupid windows error message unless the OS your app crashed has a debuger on it.
Core dumps can be triggered by application errors. BSOD and kernel OOPS are triggered by errors in the kernel itself.
Sorry, the American system doesn't care about reason. People don't give a damn. Any democrat that voted against this would have been crucified in the next election.
"Why is often used a money-rewarded challenge to verify a crypto algorithm?"
Yeah, but can the ate it too?
That will sober you up!
For people that don't know, the code used to launch nuclear any nuke missle until late 1970s (or early 1980s?) was 000000. The code was put in after the Cuban missle crisis so no one idiot could destroy the world. The millitary didn't want to use a random number because it could prevent missle from being launched "when it really counted" (like it would matter!)
Moderation hint: Informative +5, Offtopic -10
Broadband is everywhere in Canada. In urban and a lot of rural areas (ie. small towns). Governments invested here a lot of money to provide broadband to everyone. If you can get phone service, there is a good chance you can get DSL.
BTW: North Dakota has a higher population than the province I'm talking about. Also, ND is quite small in comparison.
You are in luck! There is not enough oil production to sustain that much pollution :) We are already at peak oil.
It is at about 5% GDP. Some European countries have more even though they said they wouldn't.. Screws up all of Europe due to single currency.