I read Mein Kampf (in English) when I was 10 or so. Nothing since has been even close to that kind of obscenity; it is on a plane by itself. No doubt there are some warped minds who would enjoy it, but they have probably already embarked on their twisted journey.
The worst thing possible for the Nazis is to expose them to the light of day.
Fire has lived well beyond the era in which it was born (the era of stone) and has survived and thrived in the era of bronze, but now, many people believe that soon we will see the transition from that era into the age of iron. In that case, has the Slashdot community at large ever considered what the future is? Will Fire finally die off, will it adapt as it did before, or will Fire find a way to remain the same trustworthy system it always has been? And if Fire will come to an end, what does the Slashdot community feel will be its succesor?
Initial benefits... include... and accelerating plant growth exposed to the by-product energy of the RF transmissions.
and further, same page and column, lines 48-55:
It has been observed by the inventor and witnesses that accelerated plant growth can occur using the present invention.
For accelerated plant growth, first, you need to create a hot surface that is more than 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. Next, you need a strong magnetic field. Only one device is needed for this function. This allows energy from another dimension to influence plant growth.
I want to know more!
How do you protect the plants from the hot surface? Is this the purpose of the magnetic field?
Does this work on cattle, pigs, and other carnivorous delights?
Is there any bill to pay to the other dimension whose energy is used?
The hell with plant growth! Why not simply use the energy to replace oil wells and coal mines and nuclear reactors?
Slackware stayed with libc5 for a long time and "fell behind". It was a reasonable choice, but gave the perception it was out of date.
Now with verison 7, Slack is once again at the front of the pack. Mandrake has caught up, but RedHat is still in the 6.x series, and many others are still stuck in the dark ages of 2.x.
Let's see.... The rape pillage and plunder laws of a country apply only on that country's soil.
Is that what you are saying? Does this mean it's ok for our govt to rape pillage and plunder as long as they do it in foreign countries? (and of ocurse don't get caught)
I thought rule of law meant laws applied equally. Obviously they don't in the real world, but it's never been advocated quite so openly since Richard Nixon.
Now if you had said that US laws allow spying overseas, you might have a consistent argument. But you are saying it's ok to break our own laws, as long as we do it overseas.
Lots of US Navy (and probably other navies as well) ships have gasoline fuel lines on the outside of the hull on the theory that it is simply too dangerous to have inside. In a battle, you probably don't need that fuel immediately, and it's easier to take care of outside.
So this must have really been a USN ission, and NASA was just along for the cover story:-)
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Good point -- let's patent them QUICK!
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I betcha no one else has YET. Maybe Priceline or Jeff Bozos:-)
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Fire -- look at all the trouble that's caused.
Wheels -- we are swamped by speeders and traffic cops.
Levers -- Damned Greek wants to start moving the earth!
Rocks -- people throw 'em at glass houses, for Pet's sake!
Water -- Titanic runs into one version of it, sinks in another, people down in it.
Oxygen -- contributes to all the problems with Fire, not to mention Water.
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You should always have a backup plan, and a backup to the backup. The more backup plans, the better.
Nothing wrong with going at something both ways.
100 years ago, electric cars and steam cars were more promising than internal combustion. Good thing they didn't decide right off the bat which to pursue.
I've been voting absentee ballot for years. This is no different.
Boss tells all employees to vote by absentee ballot. Boss tells all employees to vote from work. No diff.
The magic ballot number and the address can be tied together when the absentee ballots are mailed out. The PIN number and votes can be tied together. Net voting would be somewhat easier, but both are possible. I dare say the net voting tie would be easier to discover since it all happens in one place. Absentee ballot tieing could be easily limited to just a few, which would be harder to discover.
Even assuming Microsoft can make this self-imposed deadline any more than they made the 3-years-late NT5^H^H^HW2K deadline, won't it be seriously out of date? That's a year and a half -- a long long time in this industry. I wouldn't expect Sony or the others to stand still.
Have you looked at their analysis? It wasn't some quick and dirty glance; you have to read the whole page to be sure the whole page is "clean". If a site is mistakenly listed, you have to look at the entire page to see that.
Doing this to EVERY site would simply take too long. In fact, this is how these idiot filter companies get bogus entries to start with -- they just look at the name, don't even bother to read the page itself.
Secondly, this is the TOP 50 sites, presumably the worst offenders. It's as if you were verifying the FBI top most wanted criminals, and found 76% who were in fact not criminals, just ordinary professors or students. Why bother checking the rest? If the so-called worst offenders are 3/4 wrong, why even bother with the rest? If they can't even get the worst offenders right, what does it matter how right the rest are? If Symantec can't be bothered to verify even the worst offenders, what makes you think they are going to verify the small fries?
Indeed, Washington is in the midst of a close self-examination over how it can protect the country's critical computer networks -- such as power, communications and banking systems -- from electronic assaults, technical failures or natural disasters.
The Y2K monitoring network, which won high praise among participants, appears an obvious element of that plan.
Hmmm... could it be that this was the original intent all along?:-) We all know how much Janet Reno and Louis Freeh want to snoop on all Americans. Zounds! Look at all this monitoring computer equipment! We can't just waste it!
I am only half joking. I have zero trust in this administration's respect for citizen rights.
That's what I detest most about ksh for interactive use. I tolerate ksh, but I sure don't like it. Only thing worse is csh:-)
I have also had shell scripts allegedly written for ksh (#!/bin/ksh) which worked on most machines but not all (we use Solaris, SunOS, AIX 3/4, HP-UX, etc etc etc).
I write my shell scripts for/bin/sh now. I have been bitten too often by incompatibilities.
Friend and I had a contest on an IBM 1620 Mod I, who could get the fanciest program on one card. I overlapped instructions and data. 120 or so digits (decimal machine), self loading of course. It typed "THIMK" over and over again. The M was because that was the halt instuction; N was useless. One sense switch made it go faster, one made it stop.
200 words per band sounds familiar. No parallel reads; all serial. 17 microsecond word time.
I loved optimizing the instructions (one + one: 2 digit op code, 4 digit data address, 4 digit jump address (every instruction jumped)). You optimized it so as each instruction finished, the next instruction was coming up under the heads, and the data was right there too. Not nearly as bad as it sounds, because you had bands to choose from. Sort of like a 25 way cache. For example, instruction at 205 referenced data at 410 and next instruction at 615. Total 10 words, 170 microseconds. If you know "Mel the Real Programmer", that was a drum machine.
At least not in the one I programmed. Nothing but drum. No core, no RAM. One gate per circuit card I think. Worked on it for about 3 years. Maybe they snuck it in by the time you got to it:-)
And I used it in the early 1970s. Univac SS90 (90 column cards, round holes) had a 50,000 digit (5000 words x 10 digits) 17,000 rpm drum for main memory. Now Seagate is getting close, but they aren't up to that yet, and by gum, never mind that Seagate claims all the other manufacturers are 2 quarters behind: they are all 42+ years behind Univac.
Dang thing took an hour to spin down and ten minutes to spin up.
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If the only OS available for the first systems would be Linux?
:-)
It would be almost as good if W2K will be available, but has to run ix x86 compatibility mode.
I bet Redmond is pulling a whole bucketload of all nighters to prevent either of these scenarios. And we all know how much quality that provides
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I read Mein Kampf (in English) when I was 10 or so. Nothing since has been even close to that kind of obscenity; it is on a plane by itself. No doubt there are some warped minds who would enjoy it, but they have probably already embarked on their twisted journey.
The worst thing possible for the Nazis is to expose them to the light of day.
Even the slightest censorship is harmful.
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Fire has lived well beyond the era in which it was born (the era of stone) and has survived and thrived in the era of bronze, but now, many people believe that soon we will see the transition from that era into the age of iron. In that case, has the Slashdot community at large ever considered what the future is? Will Fire finally die off, will it adapt as it did before, or will Fire find a way to remain the same trustworthy system it always has been? And if Fire will come to an end, what does the Slashdot community feel will be its succesor?
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Quoting from page 16, column 1, lines 22-28:
... include ... and accelerating plant growth exposed to the by-product energy of the RF transmissions.
Initial benefits
and further, same page and column, lines 48-55:
It has been observed by the inventor and witnesses that accelerated plant growth can occur using the present invention.
For accelerated plant growth, first, you need to create a hot surface that is more than 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. Next, you need a strong magnetic field. Only one device is needed for this function. This allows energy from another dimension to influence plant growth.
I want to know more!
How do you protect the plants from the hot surface? Is this the purpose of the magnetic field?
Does this work on cattle, pigs, and other carnivorous delights?
Is there any bill to pay to the other dimension whose energy is used?
The hell with plant growth! Why not simply use the energy to replace oil wells and coal mines and nuclear reactors?
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Slackware stayed with libc5 for a long time and "fell behind". It was a reasonable choice, but gave the perception it was out of date.
:-) :-)
Now with verison 7, Slack is once again at the front of the pack. Mandrake has caught up, but RedHat is still in the 6.x series, and many others are still stuck in the dark ages of 2.x.
:-)
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Let's see.... The rape pillage and plunder laws of a country apply only on that country's soil.
Is that what you are saying? Does this mean it's ok for our govt to rape pillage and plunder as long as they do it in foreign countries? (and of ocurse don't get caught)
I thought rule of law meant laws applied equally. Obviously they don't in the real world, but it's never been advocated quite so openly since Richard Nixon.
Now if you had said that US laws allow spying overseas, you might have a consistent argument. But you are saying it's ok to break our own laws, as long as we do it overseas.
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Lots of US Navy (and probably other navies as well) ships have gasoline fuel lines on the outside of the hull on the theory that it is simply too dangerous to have inside. In a battle, you probably don't need that fuel immediately, and it's easier to take care of outside.
:-)
So this must have really been a USN ission, and NASA was just along for the cover story
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I betcha no one else has YET. Maybe Priceline or Jeff Bozos :-)
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Fire -- look at all the trouble that's caused.
Wheels -- we are swamped by speeders and traffic cops.
Levers -- Damned Greek wants to start moving the earth!
Rocks -- people throw 'em at glass houses, for Pet's sake!
Water -- Titanic runs into one version of it, sinks in another, people down in it.
Oxygen -- contributes to all the problems with Fire, not to mention Water.
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You should always have a backup plan, and a backup to the backup. The more backup plans, the better.
Nothing wrong with going at something both ways.
100 years ago, electric cars and steam cars were more promising than internal combustion. Good thing they didn't decide right off the bat which to pursue.
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I've been voting absentee ballot for years. This is no different.
Boss tells all employees to vote by absentee ballot. Boss tells all employees to vote from work. No diff.
The magic ballot number and the address can be tied together when the absentee ballots are mailed out. The PIN number and votes can be tied together. Net voting would be somewhat easier, but both are possible. I dare say the net voting tie would be easier to discover since it all happens in one place. Absentee ballot tieing could be easily limited to just a few, which would be harder to discover.
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Even assuming Microsoft can make this self-imposed deadline any more than they made the 3-years-late NT5^H^H^HW2K deadline, won't it be seriously out of date? That's a year and a half -- a long long time in this industry. I wouldn't expect Sony or the others to stand still.
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Dang, I coulda sworn it was the top 50.
Well, I still stand by the first point, that you can't just scan real quickly, and to do hundreds would simply take too long.
Sorry 'bout that, chief...
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Have you looked at their analysis? It wasn't some quick and dirty glance; you have to read the whole page to be sure the whole page is "clean". If a site is mistakenly listed, you have to look at the entire page to see that.
Doing this to EVERY site would simply take too long. In fact, this is how these idiot filter companies get bogus entries to start with -- they just look at the name, don't even bother to read the page itself.
Secondly, this is the TOP 50 sites, presumably the worst offenders. It's as if you were verifying the FBI top most wanted criminals, and found 76% who were in fact not criminals, just ordinary professors or students. Why bother checking the rest? If the so-called worst offenders are 3/4 wrong, why even bother with the rest? If they can't even get the worst offenders right, what does it matter how right the rest are? If Symantec can't be bothered to verify even the worst offenders, what makes you think they are going to verify the small fries?
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Comment #30 says it counts as income and the employee has to pay taxes on it, so I reckon it belongs to the employee from then on.
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Here's an interesting quote:
:-) We all know how much Janet Reno and Louis Freeh want to snoop on all Americans. Zounds! Look at all this monitoring computer equipment! We can't just waste it!
Indeed, Washington is in the midst of a close self-examination over how it can protect the country's critical computer networks -- such as power, communications and banking systems -- from electronic assaults, technical failures or natural disasters.
The Y2K monitoring network, which won high praise among participants, appears an obvious element of that plan.
Hmmm... could it be that this was the original intent all along?
I am only half joking. I have zero trust in this administration's respect for citizen rights.
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That's what I detest most about ksh for interactive use. I tolerate ksh, but I sure don't like it. Only thing worse is csh :-)
/bin/sh now. I have been bitten too often by incompatibilities.
I have also had shell scripts allegedly written for ksh (#!/bin/ksh) which worked on most machines but not all (we use Solaris, SunOS, AIX 3/4, HP-UX, etc etc etc).
I write my shell scripts for
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Friend and I had a contest on an IBM 1620 Mod I, who could get the fanciest program on one card. I overlapped instructions and data. 120 or so digits (decimal machine), self loading of course. It typed "THIMK" over and over again. The M was because that was the halt instuction; N was useless. One sense switch made it go faster, one made it stop.
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If you always chase the list, no problem. If you ever need to point into the list from outside, forget it.
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200 words per band sounds familiar. No parallel reads; all serial. 17 microsecond word time.
I loved optimizing the instructions (one + one: 2 digit op code, 4 digit data address, 4 digit jump address (every instruction jumped)). You optimized it so as each instruction finished, the next instruction was coming up under the heads, and the data was right there too. Not nearly as bad as it sounds, because you had bands to choose from. Sort of like a 25 way cache. For example, instruction at 205 referenced data at 410 and next instruction at 615. Total 10 words, 170 microseconds. If you know "Mel the Real Programmer", that was a drum machine.
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At least not in the one I programmed. Nothing but drum. No core, no RAM. One gate per circuit card I think. Worked on it for about 3 years. Maybe they snuck it in by the time you got to it :-)
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And I used it in the early 1970s. Univac SS90 (90 column cards, round holes) had a 50,000 digit (5000 words x 10 digits) 17,000 rpm drum for main memory. Now Seagate is getting close, but they aren't up to that yet, and by gum, never mind that Seagate claims all the other manufacturers are 2 quarters behind: they are all 42+ years behind Univac.
Dang thing took an hour to spin down and ten minutes to spin up.
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Geez, read what you moderate next time --- mark it as funny, but this is NOT for real, you are going to mislead people.
Kellner continued, popping open a bottle of Champaign and proceeding to roll around in a pile of thousand dollar bills
Kellner said, as a servant spoon-fed him Caviar from a crystal platter in the backseat of his stretch limousine
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