The U.S. federal government was all for standards a decade or so ago. My employer bid on a contract for a government agency that wanted a POSIX-compliant system. We prepared and demonstrated a solution using Unix that was fully compliant, and the contract went to the incumbent, who had bid Windows NT with some sort of POSIX add-on module. Then came the antitrust litigation against Microsoft. You'd think something would have changed, but when I worked on-site at the Dept. of Justice a couple of years ago, they were upgrading to Windows XP with Microsoft Internet Explorer as the official browser. The only open document standard in use was PDF.
The ones that care are a bunch of piss-ants trying to make points with those that are better than they are.
Which, the gods, the admins, or the atheists?
BTW, you sound jealous...
Nah, it's a nasty job, all the way around. No one appreciates you when things are going right, and when things go wrong, you get all the blame. And that's the case whether one is a god, an admin, an atheist -- or a piss-ant.
If we're talking in terms of servers, we're ****ed unless the admin can grow our capcity or give us a second server.
Shouldn't "admin" be capitalized? I mean, there seem to be plenty of sysadmins out there who think they're God.... But I think you're worrying too much. You omitted the third solution, which is reducing the number of users with a layoff. This often happens in the corporate world as the Haves do battle with the Have-nots over precious resources like window offices, and whom to keep and whom to fire. Or it may be a layoff induced by the demands of the Investors, in the form of something like bubonic plague.
Then, too, of course, there's the economists' reply to Malthusian worries, which is that we'll optimize our code in such a way that we use the server more efficiently. Never mind that this never happens in any application that I've seen.
Wow! I haven't looked into statistics on drunk driving lately, but I guess I wouldn't call it inconsequential until I stop seeing articles about people killed or maimed by drunks. The only things I see that need doing at this point are mandatory jail time for driving under suspension or after revocation, and continuing education to ensure the next generation knows it's dangerous and wrong to get behind the wheel after too much alcohol.
MADD lost my support here when they began calling for a 0.05% threshhold of legal intoxication. When you get that low, there have to be other factors beyond alcohol that cause an accident, like excessive speed, inattentiveness, sleepiness, etc. That's one problem with some advocacy organizations, is that they aren't willing to go away when the problem they were formed to address is gone.
Anyway, to get back on topic, I sure hope the FAA wiLl apply the same alcohol standards to pilots of unmanned aircraft that they apply to the pilots of manned aircraft.
. . . to chase the usual crowd of inbred drunks around town with it.
Maybe it's because the usual crowd of inbred drunks are more of a problem. How many people are killed by drunk drivers each year?
I'm not disagreeing with you, BTW. I grew up in BF, U.S.A., and I can't begin to count the number of federally-funded projects (long before anyone had heard of Al Qaeda or Bin Laden except maybe the Bush family) that went in and were then allowed to waste away from neglect because the town/county wasn't even willing to pay for its upkeep.
Anyway, I'm against these drones because they might collide with the black helicopters.
Even the Mafia refer to their goons as "representatives" now, don't they? IMHO, the poster didn't need to use any inflammatory language. If I lived in Utah, I'd be reaching for the tar and feathers already, solely on the basis of the FA.
I find that although I often read in-depth news about other countries, the sites I get that news from are usually hosted in USA, and I only bother to read in English.
You could try Le Monde or La Vanguardia for starters. English may be the lingua franca of the Internet, but there are plenty of sites out there that use other languages. IHMO, easy access to other languages and cultures is one of the best things about the Internet, and I would be loath to give it up.
Towards what you said though, I've always been a bit confused as to how religious Christians pick which parts of the old testament are still valid.
Don't worry, they're confused about it, too. What's funny, of course, is that we see the same thing in Judaism, where there isn't some guy coming along and giving us a new law.
Or, do I want to just pay the whole thing off to see if I get screwed like this, too?
Pay it off, so you don't get screwed by credit card interest. If you deliver a valid payment to the credit card company to the address they tell you to use, they're obligated to credit your account. Better still, take cash. After all, isn't there that bit about "all debts, public and private" on our money?
The government would have already taken all of our personal freedom, and her government would be well-poised to take what freedoms are left and put us under the control of foreign governments.
I'm not sure I can agree with you about Hillary. Granted, I think she's a liability to the Democratic party due to her association with her husband, but I don't think she'd be any worse than what we have now. I've seen more assaults on personal liberty since 2001 than I saw in the entire period Bill was in office. And I'm convinced that the current regime is endeavoring to put us under the control of corporations, be they foreign, domestic, or any combination thereof.
That's what I was thinking, too. Of course, there's also been a push in recent years to curtail or eliminate government-funded weather forecasting in favor of letting the private sector do it. After all, there's no short-term profit in knowing whether the polar ice caps are melting.
Harley-Davidson has a release fortelling the impending doom of automobiles in favor of motorcycles.
I was gonna say Schwinn,
but your analogy is excellent.
Anyway, I'd be horrified if I had to give up Graffiti and go to a keyboard that is too small to touch-type, or a PDA that is too big to fit in my pocket. And I actually like having a small phone with a tiny screen that is separate from my Palm. I don't have to worry about my PDA being hacked, which becomes a concern as soon as you put a transceiver in the unit. So if the guy is right, then I guess I'll be going back to a paper planner.
The FA mentions that the subscriber was able to block emails using a blacklist on the vtext.com web site. Unfortunately for those of us who use Verizon, they don't have a companion whitelist capability. I would like to be able to specify who CAN send me text messages, so I don't get/.-ed to the poorhouse.
BTW, those of you who think it would be fun to send this guy texts, please don't. Verizon charges something like a dime a pop for texts. I wouldn't wish that on my enemies or even my freaks.
I loathe Bush and his cronies, but even so, you're not being fair. 9-11 would have happened regardless of who was in office. The damage and loss of life in New Orleans occurred after decades of poorly considered development and pork barrel spending that can really only be laid at the feet of the Louisiana officials who requested it. At least one of the levies that failed did so because it was not adequately constructed; it antedated the Bush administration. The Democratic congresswoman from that district insisted on some very expensive project unrelated to flood control instead of flood gates for the canal recommended by the experts.
The things related to your post and 9-11 that I fault Bush on are getting us into Iraq when it wasn't clar we needed to be there, and in continuing to fuel righteous indignation among Muslims (and non-Muslims) around the world through stupid crap like torture and paying for "news" stories. Apropos Hurricane Katrina, the biggest failure was appointing Brown (is that the name?) to head FEMA when he had no experience in emergency management.
In summary, there is plenty to fault him for without stooping to wild and unfair accusations.
I'll second this one. After not actually having real jobs, location is my pet peeve with job sites. I don't want to have to get into a car to go to work, but rarely is the actual job location listed.
Hmmm. He was elected in 2002. He ticked a lot of people off over the last 3+ years. I can't remember whether Maryland's term of office for governor is 4 or 6 years, but I think it's the former. The last few Maryland governor's races have been pretty close, with recounts not quite equalling the 2000 presidential race, but certainly contentious nonetheless.
Do you reckon his change of heart has anything to do with him being up for reelection?
Actually, I generally blame all evil on the GOP; however, I am also pretty good at finding a way to blame anything I don't like on Bill Clinton, even though I voted for him twice. Neither party has a lock on evil-doing.
I'm unable to find anything online that jibes with my memory. I recall a passing reference to a proposal called the "clipper chip", also widely called key escrow at the time, in an article on encryption, and then sometime afterward being profoundly disappointed to hear that the Clinton administration was taking up the banner for it. Perhaps I shouldn't have been so rudely surprised. I turned up an EFF article that discussed some of the issues at the time, and the author reported that he had spoken with two members of the Carter administration who held that the government had a legitimate interest in decrypting information. <sigh>
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The U.S. federal government was all for standards a decade or so ago. My employer bid on a contract for a government agency that wanted a POSIX-compliant system. We prepared and demonstrated a solution using Unix that was fully compliant, and the contract went to the incumbent, who had bid Windows NT with some sort of POSIX add-on module. Then came the antitrust litigation against Microsoft. You'd think something would have changed, but when I worked on-site at the Dept. of Justice a couple of years ago, they were upgrading to Windows XP with Microsoft Internet Explorer as the official browser. The only open document standard in use was PDF.
Which, the gods, the admins, or the atheists?
BTW, you sound jealous...
Nah, it's a nasty job, all the way around. No one appreciates you when things are going right, and when things go wrong, you get all the blame. And that's the case whether one is a god, an admin, an atheist -- or a piss-ant.
Shouldn't "admin" be capitalized? I mean, there seem to be plenty of sysadmins out there who think they're God.... But I think you're worrying too much. You omitted the third solution, which is reducing the number of users with a layoff. This often happens in the corporate world as the Haves do battle with the Have-nots over precious resources like window offices, and whom to keep and whom to fire. Or it may be a layoff induced by the demands of the Investors, in the form of something like bubonic plague.
Then, too, of course, there's the economists' reply to Malthusian worries, which is that we'll optimize our code in such a way that we use the server more efficiently. Never mind that this never happens in any application that I've seen.
A flint, steel, and a knife.
Now why would an American create an anti-U.S. web site?
MADD lost my support here when they began calling for a 0.05% threshhold of legal intoxication. When you get that low, there have to be other factors beyond alcohol that cause an accident, like excessive speed, inattentiveness, sleepiness, etc. That's one problem with some advocacy organizations, is that they aren't willing to go away when the problem they were formed to address is gone.
Anyway, to get back on topic, I sure hope the FAA wiLl apply the same alcohol standards to pilots of unmanned aircraft that they apply to the pilots of manned aircraft.
Maybe it's because the usual crowd of inbred drunks are more of a problem. How many people are killed by drunk drivers each year?
I'm not disagreeing with you, BTW. I grew up in BF, U.S.A., and I can't begin to count the number of federally-funded projects (long before anyone had heard of Al Qaeda or Bin Laden except maybe the Bush family) that went in and were then allowed to waste away from neglect because the town/county wasn't even willing to pay for its upkeep.
Anyway, I'm against these drones because they might collide with the black helicopters.
Diebold goon says machines are now jinxed...
Even the Mafia refer to their goons as "representatives" now, don't they? IMHO, the poster didn't need to use any inflammatory language. If I lived in Utah, I'd be reaching for the tar and feathers already, solely on the basis of the FA.
You could try Le Monde or La Vanguardia for starters. English may be the lingua franca of the Internet, but there are plenty of sites out there that use other languages. IHMO, easy access to other languages and cultures is one of the best things about the Internet, and I would be loath to give it up.
Laptops?!!! In my day, we used a pen and paper, and we liked it!
Don't worry, they're confused about it, too. What's funny, of course, is that we see the same thing in Judaism, where there isn't some guy coming along and giving us a new law.
Pay it off, so you don't get screwed by credit card interest. If you deliver a valid payment to the credit card company to the address they tell you to use, they're obligated to credit your account. Better still, take cash. After all, isn't there that bit about "all debts, public and private" on our money?
The government would have already taken all of our personal freedom, and her government would be well-poised to take what freedoms are left and put us under the control of foreign governments.
I'm not sure I can agree with you about Hillary. Granted, I think she's a liability to the Democratic party due to her association with her husband, but I don't think she'd be any worse than what we have now. I've seen more assaults on personal liberty since 2001 than I saw in the entire period Bill was in office. And I'm convinced that the current regime is endeavoring to put us under the control of corporations, be they foreign, domestic, or any combination thereof.
I know, mod me "flamebait". <sigh>
That's what I was thinking, too. Of course, there's also been a push in recent years to curtail or eliminate government-funded weather forecasting in favor of letting the private sector do it. After all, there's no short-term profit in knowing whether the polar ice caps are melting.
I was gonna say Schwinn, but your analogy is excellent.
Anyway, I'd be horrified if I had to give up Graffiti and go to a keyboard that is too small to touch-type, or a PDA that is too big to fit in my pocket. And I actually like having a small phone with a tiny screen that is separate from my Palm. I don't have to worry about my PDA being hacked, which becomes a concern as soon as you put a transceiver in the unit. So if the guy is right, then I guess I'll be going back to a paper planner.
Thanks for pointing out the NEO orbit diagram. That's cool! I can't wait to go home and show it to my 10-year-old.
The FA mentions that the subscriber was able to block emails using a blacklist on the vtext.com web site. Unfortunately for those of us who use Verizon, they don't have a companion whitelist capability. I would like to be able to specify who CAN send me text messages, so I don't get /.-ed to the poorhouse.
BTW, those of you who think it would be fun to send this guy texts, please don't. Verizon charges something like a dime a pop for texts. I wouldn't wish that on my enemies or even my freaks.
I seem to remember that from Sociology 101 about 25 years ago. It's nice to see some things don't change.
You mean, like Brian?
The things related to your post and 9-11 that I fault Bush on are getting us into Iraq when it wasn't clar we needed to be there, and in continuing to fuel righteous indignation among Muslims (and non-Muslims) around the world through stupid crap like torture and paying for "news" stories. Apropos Hurricane Katrina, the biggest failure was appointing Brown (is that the name?) to head FEMA when he had no experience in emergency management.
In summary, there is plenty to fault him for without stooping to wild and unfair accusations.
The only real restrictions have been my good character, ethics, and morals...
The former won't work without the latter.
I'll second this one. After not actually having real jobs, location is my pet peeve with job sites. I don't want to have to get into a car to go to work, but rarely is the actual job location listed.
Do you reckon his change of heart has anything to do with him being up for reelection?
Actually, I generally blame all evil on the GOP; however, I am also pretty good at finding a way to blame anything I don't like on Bill Clinton, even though I voted for him twice. Neither party has a lock on evil-doing.
I'm unable to find anything online that jibes with my memory. I recall a passing reference to a proposal called the "clipper chip", also widely called key escrow at the time, in an article on encryption, and then sometime afterward being profoundly disappointed to hear that the Clinton administration was taking up the banner for it. Perhaps I shouldn't have been so rudely surprised. I turned up an EFF article that discussed some of the issues at the time, and the author reported that he had spoken with two members of the Carter administration who held that the government had a legitimate interest in decrypting information.
<sigh>