Jane Does testify all the time, whenever there is any argument that there is a compelling interest in concealing the witness' identity. All the court needs is an affadavit sworn to by a disinterested party that the individual does exist and is not affiliated with IBM.
"The senator either knows this and does it to boost his popularity among game haters, or has no idea what he's doing."
All he needs to know is, if the Democrats go through with the plan to nominate Clinton and/or Obama, he can rely on the bigotry of Americans to elect, by default, any moron the Republicans care to run.
>How can they "have set their clocks for longer than they had existed"?
The joke about the clock dates back to the early 1980s, when you had to use a tweaking tool and/or thumbwheels to set VCR clocks and timers. At that time, the oldest consumer VCRs were a few years old. Since at *least* the early 1990s it has been *easy*, if not automatic, to set VCR clocks.
If you live someplace that does not receive a PBS station, you probably don't need a clock anyway, and what do you need to record on a timer???
>If I was Apple I would just switch to selling nice PC boxes with Vista (or Linux) and can OSX.
While I'm quite happy with my Linux desktop systems (at home, in the lab, an in my office), when the time came to buy a portable, the only serious choice for me was a MacBook Pro. There's no way I was going to switch to Windows from Linux, and I really didn't want to go through process of installing Linux on a notebook if I could not know in advance that every component would work. Been there, done that, many times. I *did* look, and I found nothing that combines utility, portability, and function to the degree of a MacBook, so it was a no-brainer.
But then, a Windows user; especially a Windows *developer* might not be as happy about such a switch.
I realize TFA is in regards to specific applications. Trying to care. Nope.
>Nobody here has ever been to Casablanca? > >There, the rule is... pedestrians run out into traffic and hope that cars stop (or at least >slow) for them.
In a few years, all the obvious low-hanging-fruit patents we've seen in recent times, will be expiring and things will level off. Let them patent *everything they can think of* obvious or not, NOW, and look forward to all these patents expiring together, which will be equally hilarious.
The last vinyl record I produced, in 1988, cost a little over $4500 for a run of 250 records. about $1800 of that went to the photographer and the printing of the 4-color sleeve. We paid for the records to be delivered in the inner sleeve, but we inserted them into the outer sleeve ourselves, and didn't bother with shrink wrap (saved quite a bit that way.) Distribution was never a problem (Deep Ellum Garage Punk had an insatiable "market" at the time).
I forgot all about that material, until I saw it for sale (which sort of freaked me out a little.)
"that may well be what finally pushes me over the edge. I have an entertainment center that is ungodly heavy, and takes up a large portion of my living room. A flat panel and an equipment rack would be sooooooo much nicer."
Indeed, it is. I'm a musician, and the lion's share of my living room is occupied by a grand piano. If it were up to me alone, I probably would not have a tv at all, or maybe a very small one on the bedroom or whatever, a TV tuner on a desktop computer I guess.
I also have synthesizers and some audio gear in a 19" rack, but I have a separate room for that stuff. I sometimes wonder how I got to the point of buying a TV and a "home theater" system (the sound system is a joke compared to the monitors in my music studio) but it seems to keep the female happy.
Day one at my new job, the very first couple of things I did with a new Gateway P4 WinXP machine: Downloaded an ISO, some DVD/CD burner program (believe it or not, WindowsXP does *not* do this out of the box!), and then ran the Ubuntu installer, letting it resize my NTFS partition, installed, updated from universe/multiverse and have not had a single problem. Never even had to boot the WinXP partition after the initial test. (This is a job as a systems programmer so installing linux was something I was expected to do, not something I did clandestinely.)
I have to admit that I was somewhat surprised and relieved at how well the installer worked. The reason I did it *first thing* was because if I needed to deal with a *Windows* install, I knew I would need a whole day, maybe two, to do it.
>Just round all amounts at retail to the next 5 cent increment.
Make the law so that it stipulates it must round *down* and people will go for it -- not realizing that the sellers will simply raise the prices by a nickle!
Even I bought one, but I don't give a crap about broadcast TV or cable TV or sports.
I got sick and tired of the space my TV was taking up, gave the TV and the entertainment center to a friend, and bought the best flatscreen TV I could find based on how it worked as a sVGA monitor. It happens to also have a HDTV tuner, HDMI inputs, etc., and I'm really happy with the way it works with my NTSC dvr box and cable tuner. (I have cable mainly as a side-effect of my internet connection.)
What I found amusing was that the TV's that can work as PC monitors, are converging in price with the larger PC monitors.
Taking the F5 as a representative sample is flawed. There are many, many corporations. There are only 500 in that sample, and represent only the ones with really big volume. It is not necessary or even realistic to be superlative in order to be successful.
Even if it turns your stomach to think about it, what he was *supposed* to do, under the ethical system that he presumably embraced, was to have sex with his lawful wife or not at all...
>There are two things important to a stocks price.
At a public corp where I worked for a while, the only thing I ever observed affecting the stock price was press. Good news or bad news didn't seem to matter, just that if we were mentioned in the press, the stock went up.
>One is the amount of dividends that the stock pays out at the end of the fiscal year.
Many corporations do not pay dividends at all.
>The other is simple supply and demand.
Curiously, changes in supply don't always affect demand in any way that can be reliably measured.
SHA-1 is a secure hash, not a cipher. It is an assurance that it will be computationally intensive to find a message that corresponds to a given digest. The claim in the article is rather vague. But nobody ever claimed that SHA was unbreakable. Merely doing "better than brute force" doesn't mean anything remotely like your basic TLS stream can be compromised. I expect when we hear the details, it will be something like, a 2**80 problem can be reduced to 2**64 for a given input (the attacks on SHA-0 are of such a nature).
>(if you aren't a pro and you dropped five grand on a camera body that does practically nothing more than my D70 for 99.98% > of the populace INCLUDING pros...can I have some money?
OTOH, I *would* like a full-frame DSLR. I find it annoying that wide-angle photography is expensive now.
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Jane Does testify all the time, whenever there is any argument that there is a compelling
interest in concealing the witness' identity. All the court needs is an affadavit sworn to
by a disinterested party that the individual does exist and is not affiliated with IBM.
"The senator either knows this and does it to boost his popularity among game haters, or has no idea what he's doing."
All he needs to know is, if the Democrats go through with the plan to nominate Clinton and/or Obama, he can rely on the bigotry of Americans to elect, by default, any moron the Republicans care to run.
>The medical benefits of EMTs being able to instantly know a person's blood type, allergies, and medical history are obvious.
Can a person with an RFID implant get an MRI?
The mystery of PJ is a substantial part of Groklaw's value. If SCO damages that value by forcing her to disclose her identity, can she sue?
>How can they "have set their clocks for longer than they had existed"?
The joke about the clock dates back to the early 1980s, when you had to use a
tweaking tool and/or thumbwheels to set VCR clocks and timers. At that time,
the oldest consumer VCRs were a few years old. Since at *least* the early 1990s
it has been *easy*, if not automatic, to set VCR clocks.
If you live someplace that does not receive a PBS station, you probably don't need a clock anyway, and what do you need to record on a timer???
>Penultimate just happpens to be my favourite word in the English language.
You don't like "antepenultimate" just a little more?
>If I was Apple I would just switch to selling nice PC boxes with Vista (or Linux) and can OSX.
While I'm quite happy with my Linux desktop systems (at home, in the lab, an in my office), when the time came to buy a
portable, the only serious choice for me was a MacBook Pro. There's no way I was going to switch to Windows from Linux,
and I really didn't want to go through process of installing Linux on a notebook if I could not know in advance that every
component would work. Been there, done that, many times. I *did* look, and I found nothing that combines utility, portability,
and function to the degree of a MacBook, so it was a no-brainer.
But then, a Windows user; especially a Windows *developer* might not be as happy about such a switch.
I realize TFA is in regards to specific applications. Trying to care. Nope.
>Just like a large percentage of the population has been locked in to blinking 12:00 on their VCRs for years.
VCR's have automatically set their clocks from broadcast signal for longer than they had existed when that joke started.
>thats arround half your working life (assuming you start work at 20 and retire at
>sixty-something)
I've been following the software patent issue since 1977.
>Nobody here has ever been to Casablanca?
>
>There, the rule is... pedestrians run out into traffic and hope that cars stop (or at least
>slow) for them.
You misspelled "California."
In a few years, all the obvious low-hanging-fruit patents we've seen in recent times, will be expiring and things will level off. Let them patent *everything they can think of* obvious or not, NOW, and look forward to all these patents expiring together, which will be equally hilarious.
>And that's with my shoddy economies of scale.
The last vinyl record I produced, in 1988, cost a little over $4500 for a run of 250 records.
about $1800 of that went to the photographer and the printing of the 4-color sleeve. We paid for the records to be delivered in the inner sleeve, but we inserted them into the outer sleeve ourselves, and didn't bother with shrink wrap (saved quite a bit that way.) Distribution was never a problem (Deep Ellum Garage Punk had an insatiable "market" at the time).
I forgot all about that material, until I saw it for sale (which sort of freaked me out a little.)
>If its unsolicted advertising its spam.
If it is solicited and still marked as spam, it's a failure of the filter.
"that may well be what finally pushes me over the edge. I have an entertainment center that is ungodly heavy, and takes up a large portion of my living room. A flat panel and an equipment rack would be sooooooo much nicer."
Indeed, it is. I'm a musician, and the lion's share of my living room is occupied by a grand piano. If it were up to me alone, I probably would not have a tv at all, or maybe a very small one on the bedroom or whatever, a TV tuner on a desktop computer I guess.
I also have synthesizers and some audio gear in a 19" rack, but I have a separate room for that stuff. I sometimes wonder how I got to the point of buying a TV and a "home theater" system (the sound system is a joke compared to the monitors in my music studio) but it seems to keep the female happy.
Day one at my new job, the very first couple of things I did with a new Gateway P4 WinXP machine: Downloaded an ISO, some DVD/CD burner program (believe it or not, WindowsXP does *not* do this out of the box!), and then ran the Ubuntu installer, letting it resize my NTFS partition, installed, updated from universe/multiverse and have not had a single problem. Never even had to boot the WinXP partition after the initial test. (This is a job as a systems programmer so installing linux was something I was expected to do, not something I did clandestinely.)
I have to admit that I was somewhat surprised and relieved at how well the installer worked. The reason I did it *first thing* was because if I needed to deal with a *Windows* install, I knew I would need a whole day, maybe two, to do it.
>Just round all amounts at retail to the next 5 cent increment.
Make the law so that it stipulates it must round *down* and people will go for it -- not realizing that
the sellers will simply raise the prices by a nickle!
Even I bought one, but I don't give a crap about broadcast TV or cable TV or sports.
I got sick and tired of the space my TV was taking up, gave the TV and the entertainment center to a friend,
and bought the best flatscreen TV I could find based on how it worked as a sVGA monitor. It happens to also have a HDTV tuner, HDMI inputs, etc., and I'm really happy with the way it works with my NTSC dvr box and cable tuner. (I have cable mainly as a side-effect of my internet connection.)
What I found amusing was that the TV's that can work as PC monitors, are converging in price with the larger PC monitors.
>What do you mean, decent HDMI cables?
Solid enough insulation that they cannot be chewed through by cats or (other) rodents.
>"I'm committing to delivering Ohio's electoral votes to George W. Bush."
He said "The President" without specifying which President, otherwise O'Dell
might be in prison today.
>If you look at the CEOs of the Fortune 500
Taking the F5 as a representative sample is flawed. There are many, many corporations. There are only 500 in that sample, and represent only the ones with really big volume. It is not necessary or even realistic to be superlative in order to be successful.
>It appears just fine as as USB mass storage device, with no special software, on my computer.
If you copy media files to the device, will it play them?
My understanding has long been that in order to use an iPod as a player, the media must be copied to it via iTunes.
>what's he supposed to do
Even if it turns your stomach to think about it, what he was *supposed* to do, under the ethical system that he presumably embraced, was to have sex with his lawful wife or not at all...
>There are two things important to a stocks price.
At a public corp where I worked for a while, the only thing I ever observed affecting the stock price was press.
Good news or bad news didn't seem to matter, just that if we were mentioned in the press, the stock went up.
>One is the amount of dividends that the stock pays out at the end of the fiscal year.
Many corporations do not pay dividends at all.
>The other is simple supply and demand.
Curiously, changes in supply don't always affect demand in any way that can be reliably measured.
SHA-1 is a secure hash, not a cipher. It is an assurance that it will be computationally intensive to find a message that corresponds to a given digest. The claim in the article is rather vague. But nobody ever claimed that SHA was unbreakable. Merely doing "better than brute force" doesn't mean anything remotely like your basic TLS stream can be compromised. I expect when we hear the details, it will be something like, a 2**80 problem can be reduced to 2**64 for a given input (the attacks on SHA-0 are of such a nature).
>(if you aren't a pro and you dropped five grand on a camera body that does practically nothing more than my D70 for 99.98%
> of the populace INCLUDING pros...can I have some money?
OTOH, I *would* like a full-frame DSLR. I find it annoying that wide-angle photography is expensive now.