There is no doubt that this is
the sort of thing that all of the
so called "tin-foil hat"
crowd has been warning us about
for years.
I, for one, welcome the
"I-told-you-so"s from our
new paranoid overlords.
On a more serious point, and
on the paranoid side, I'm sure
Cisco is only releasing this
information because an employee
either threatened to leak this
information, or was mis-using
this information to his/her own
gain...
However, if that's the case,
wouldn't Cisco's fix simply
change the password?
I highly doubt that they will be
embarassed enough to have learned
a powerful life-lesson.
At least I don't "hide" behind a marketing slogan user ID. What government agency do you work for?
Oh, and don't send money to that other post - my irradiation method has nothing to do with ruining your microwave. I only use natural irradiation processes with my patented tin irradiation method.
</JOKE>
While this specific device is most certainly new, heart monitors have been capable of doing this for years. Those are smaller than beepers and allow you (using 50baud modem technology) to transmit your history to a hospital.
randmairs said: The memory effect problems of nickel-cadmium batteries have been worked out.
If that's true, that's really cool, but I thought that the memory effect proplems of Nickel-Cadmium were worked out by dropping the cadmium and adding Metal-Hydroxide.
The race itself is being run on fear from some perspective, "Kerry will raise taxes by $900 mil in his first 90 days", but that's all I'm seeing out of official outlets.
The media always does it's best to scare everybody, on a daily basis about everything, not just terrorism and Iraq.
Very few people seem to care anymore. The remaining issues are Halliburton is evil and Why are our troops still there?
Halliburton bashing has become a broken record that (it seems to me) very few people pay attention to anymore (NPR broadcasts aside). And the troops issue will very likely be taken care of in 12 weeks when we cut Iraq loose (doing what the world has been asking us to do).
What are the candidates themselves saying (look at thier ads). Most of them are about taxes. Yes, Bush had some blurb about leadership through the Sept 11 tragety, but even that was shifted into a debate about whether or not images of the WTC should be used in political ads. (thus, "I approved this message").
I was actually trying to formulate a good answer to this, and yes - I know it's a simplistic view. I still think that lost jobs has something to do with the lack of acceptance of the Ottowa Landmine Treaty.
In Clinton's original push for Anti-landmine legislation, he ordered that the pentagon look into alternatives to landmines in the DMZ. While alternatives may not be easily obtained - there are some really intelligent people in the Pentagon (and there are nimrods, just like any organization). I find it impossible to believe that alternatives, even expensive ones would require more than our current alternative (37,000 full-time personel).
Ultimately, North Korea is one of the reasons - but the Korean DMZ is an anomoly, not a policy statement. Heck from a certain point of view, these landmines can be a gift from the US to the Korean people (both sides), and we just leave them with a promise that we'll take them out when both sides agree that they are no longer necessary. Again, simplistic, but it's an idea.
While I agree with your point in some ways, I would have to mention this story - from 8 October 2001.
You have to dump the bombs in storage before you order new ones. And the amount of weapons being built and ordered is generating revenue - and jobs - more in some sectors than others.
Why does the senate refuse to Ratify the Land Mine Treaty? Jobs in the Land Mine manufacturing facilities.
Why does the senate refuse to Retify the Kyoto accord? Because companies threaten that they would close or have to lay off workers if they had to pay for the environmental protections being requested.
Yes, I know that this is a simplistic view - but I believe it makes a valid point. Apathy is bred through contentment.
Apathetic Canadians are no worse than apathetic US Citizens. US politicians have no problem with terrorists, as it only creates more jobs (defense spending == jobs). More jobs means less to complain about, and (finally) less to complain about leads to apathetic citizens. The US voting system allows far more control and granularity on whom we put in office, and frankly I think US citizens (in general) are far less likely to pay attention to important issues and vote along issue lines.
Already the US presidential race is about taxes. What makes taxes more important than international policy? And if someone starts talking about international policy, someone else will start bringing up the abortion debate again. (( Note Ralph Nader, while not officially running, is trying to talk about international policy, but is doing it in such a confrontational way, that he is easily marginalized as a zealot. )).
How are Canadian polititicans different? Less population to try to lull into a sense of contentment / less active military force in countries where people feel they need to retaliate? Basically the same issues on a slightly smaller scale, with a higher per-person tax base. Oh, yeah, and they have to know two languages.
I feel for you, but your problems are not unique - after all, you are in North America, too.
Actually, that's why the order can be reversed if the IBM case does not proceed smoothly from this point on - As all indications are that the SCO/IBM judge is tired of SCO induced delays.
Remeber, too, that this is in reponse for a request for delay from SCO in _this_ case.
The problem is that if there is still suspicion - and it's found that Novell still owns the UNIX patent - then what would keep Novell from doing the same (flush SuSE as SCO flushed Caldera), starting this whole nightmare over again.
Discussions on the difference between the phrases with and without "NOT" can be found
here
and
here.
There are other sites that simply claim that, "could care less" is a silly mistake, but these do not (in general) discuss the use of both phrases in literary works as the two links I offer do.
Paper manual might be a bit much, but certainly - 'cheat-sheet' style print-outs would be VERY useful. Esp. when learning a new game - "What's the keystroke to walk sideways again?" The full manual can be a PDF, but a cheat sheet or two are extremely usefull (and usually isn't found in printable form, instead it's across 5 to 8 pages across two or more PDFs).
Basically, if something comes with a cheat sheet, I could care less about a printed manual, but without a cheat sheet, the manual is a must.
Yes, the IPod Linux project can play music - MP3 files to be precise. And it's running a uCLinux kernel, meaning that more modules can be added. That means the flexability is still to come, but easier to come by now than ever before.
Unless you have a different understanding of "real time" than I - yes, yes it does play music when you tell podzilla to play music.
Article seems to speak nothing of the size of these things (I'm thinking BIG). Otherwise, since the marketing is looking at 'emergency' power, air batteries come to mind. Perhaps these things don't recharge very many times before dying a permanant death (less usefull than Nickel-Cadnium).
IPods are fully functional computing devices in a very small package, and have decent storage. Why wouldn't I want to try to extend it's capabilities while also keeping it's original purpose in tact (listening to music).
Mind you, an iPOD can do a whole lot out of the box, but why not let it do a whole lot more?
Slashdot Mirror
What do you bet the id set is joshua/pencil?
The ARTICLE that you DIDN'T read, clearly states how to get a service fix - see my first post about what I think about the completeness of said fix.
There is no doubt that this is the sort of thing that all of the so called "tin-foil hat" crowd has been warning us about for years.
I, for one, welcome the "I-told-you-so"s from our new paranoid overlords.
On a more serious point, and on the paranoid side, I'm sure Cisco is only releasing this information because an employee either threatened to leak this information, or was mis-using this information to his/her own gain...
However, if that's the case, wouldn't Cisco's fix simply change the password? I highly doubt that they will be embarassed enough to have learned a powerful life-lesson.
At least I don't "hide" behind a marketing slogan user ID. What government agency do you work for?
Oh, and don't send money to that other post - my irradiation method has nothing to do with ruining your microwave. I only use natural irradiation processes with my patented tin irradiation method.
</JOKE>
While this specific device is most certainly new, heart monitors have been capable of doing this for years. Those are smaller than beepers and allow you (using 50baud modem technology) to transmit your history to a hospital.
Oh, and Tin Foil Hats are useless - you must use my special patented Irradiated Tin Foil to keep the new mind control machines out.
If that's true, that's really cool, but I thought that the memory effect proplems of Nickel-Cadmium were worked out by dropping the cadmium and adding Metal-Hydroxide.
The media always does it's best to scare everybody, on a daily basis about everything, not just terrorism and Iraq.
Very few people seem to care anymore. The remaining issues are Halliburton is evil and Why are our troops still there?
Halliburton bashing has become a broken record that (it seems to me) very few people pay attention to anymore (NPR broadcasts aside). And the troops issue will very likely be taken care of in 12 weeks when we cut Iraq loose (doing what the world has been asking us to do).
What are the candidates themselves saying (look at thier ads). Most of them are about taxes.
Yes, Bush had some blurb about leadership through the Sept 11 tragety, but even that was shifted into a debate about whether or not images of the WTC should be used in political ads. (thus, "I approved this message").
In Clinton's original push for Anti-landmine legislation, he ordered that the pentagon look into alternatives to landmines in the DMZ. While alternatives may not be easily obtained - there are some really intelligent people in the Pentagon (and there are nimrods, just like any organization). I find it impossible to believe that alternatives, even expensive ones would require more than our current alternative (37,000 full-time personel).
Ultimately, North Korea is one of the reasons - but the Korean DMZ is an anomoly, not a policy statement. Heck from a certain point of view, these landmines can be a gift from the US to the Korean people (both sides), and we just leave them with a promise that we'll take them out when both sides agree that they are no longer necessary. Again, simplistic, but it's an idea.
Sorry, but I don't see the difference, I think they are both equally absurd, thus are equally plausible.
I don't believe that the 'average schlub' is quite as bad off as you (or George Orwell) say, but your point may not be very far off the mark either.
You have to dump the bombs in storage before you order new ones. And the amount of weapons being built and ordered is generating revenue - and jobs - more in some sectors than others.
Why does the senate refuse to Ratify the Land Mine Treaty? Jobs in the Land Mine manufacturing facilities.
Why does the senate refuse to Retify the Kyoto accord? Because companies threaten that they would close or have to lay off workers if they had to pay for the environmental protections being requested.
Yes, I know that this is a simplistic view - but I believe it makes a valid point. Apathy is bred through contentment.
Apathetic Canadians are no worse than apathetic US Citizens. US politicians have no problem with terrorists, as it only creates more jobs (defense spending == jobs). More jobs means less to complain about, and (finally) less to complain about leads to apathetic citizens. The US voting system allows far more control and granularity on whom we put in office, and frankly I think US citizens (in general) are far less likely to pay attention to important issues and vote along issue lines.
Already the US presidential race is about taxes. What makes taxes more important than international policy? And if someone starts talking about international policy, someone else will start bringing up the abortion debate again. (( Note Ralph Nader, while not officially running, is trying to talk about international policy, but is doing it in such a confrontational way, that he is easily marginalized as a zealot. )).How are Canadian polititicans different? Less population to try to lull into a sense of contentment / less active military force in countries where people feel they need to retaliate? Basically the same issues on a slightly smaller scale, with a higher per-person tax base. Oh, yeah, and they have to know two languages.
I feel for you, but your problems are not unique - after all, you are in North America, too.
I'm Allen Zadr, and I approved this messageRemeber, too, that this is in reponse for a request for delay from SCO in _this_ case.
Sorry - before telling my I'm stupid - yes, it's not a patent, it's Intellectual Property and Copyright. My fingers were faster than my brain.
The problem is that if there is still suspicion - and it's found that Novell still owns the UNIX patent - then what would keep Novell from doing the same (flush SuSE as SCO flushed Caldera), starting this whole nightmare over again.
There are other sites that simply claim that, "could care less" is a silly mistake, but these do not (in general) discuss the use of both phrases in literary works as the two links I offer do.
Do not assume ignorance when sarcasm will do!
Basically, if something comes with a cheat sheet, I could care less about a printed manual, but without a cheat sheet, the manual is a must.
I will try this, thank you ... as soon as I figure out how to configure YUM on RedHat Desktop 9 (I still have RH9 on my work computer).
I know what I mean. Anyway, I pointed to the right thread, so that the full discussion can be had.
Unless you have a different understanding of "real time" than I - yes, yes it does play music when you tell podzilla to play music.
Article seems to speak nothing of the size of these things (I'm thinking BIG). Otherwise, since the marketing is looking at 'emergency' power, air batteries come to mind. Perhaps these things don't recharge very many times before dying a permanant death (less usefull than Nickel-Cadnium).
I'm behind the curve. Must download 2.6.5 immediately. Must not fall behind!
Mind you, an iPOD can do a whole lot out of the box, but why not let it do a whole lot more?
That would be especially true if we end up with one of those Volvo's with no hood.