Why don't we try to make solar cells that can operate outside the spectrum of visible light? Is science working on a cell that can convert a wide variety of wavelengths into electricity? I'm not a pysicist, but it seems to me that if we had something like that then little things like nightime and bad weather wouldn't stop the cells from converting invisible wavelengths such as microwaves into electricity.
Just a thought. Like I said, I don't really understand all the facts of solar energy production and this may be impossible.
Not too long ago I ran the discovery and benchmarking on a big project to move the large internet credit card processor I work for to either Xen or VMWare ESX server. From the first benchmark to the last stress test, Xen outperformed and outgunned ESX at every turn. Here's the kicker! We had paid VMWare engineers helping us to configure and tweak the ESX boxes. As for help from Xen? Well, I had the user's manual and a subscription to their mailing list.
Management
Sure, the VMWare servers had nice pretty management tools that were probably a couple hundred yards ahead of Xen's CLI tools, but this company doesn't exactly tolerate idiots. The unix guys here are more than capbable of migrating to Xen, compiled from source with a customized kernel, with no problem. The command line configuration and live migration utilities are more than adequate considering we already have SSH access to the boxes in the back. There was no need to change the firewall configs to allow us VMWare console access or anything.
Performance
I ran series of benchmarks for the following applications: MySQL, Apache, Lighttpd, perl and php. All of the bechmarks were ran on the same hardware, I just re-imaged the two machines multiple times. Xen won in every race. As a matter of fact, on the dual core Opeteron SunFire the Xen vm was a whopping 600 seconds ahead of the VMWare vm at running MySQL's sql-bench suite.
Stability
Xen 3.0 is more stable, IMHO than VMWare. Though neither platform crashed or hosed, the ESX box had a lot of trouble keeping time via ntp and had some problems with disk I/O.
Distrust
I reported the time problem several times to the VMWare techs assigned to our case, and they assured me that it was a host os issue. Funny that this article mentions that ESX < 3 has a problem keeping time with a 2.6 kernel isn't it?
Future
Later this week I'll be recieving the first Intel VT enabled server we purchased. I'll soon see if any OS or any kernel (including GRSec patched) kernels can be booted under Xen. If that is case, my company is likely is to purchase XenSource's commercial products.
First off. This ATV/Golf cart thing isn't going to be killing anyone unless it runs them over....probably several times considering it's size. There isn't a single piece of weaponry, automated or otherwise aboard this thing. Though Marines will probably figure out a way to attach a manned M240 to one, but if the shooting starts, it's probably going to be taken off autopilot. At least I would hope.
In any event the "practical" uses of this thing aren't practical at all! I mean, it's cool and all, but there is no way in hell the military is going to let these things roam around Iraq unmanned. They will never leave eyesight.
Consider my deployment in Iraq. My Marine Reserve unit built a 100 mile temporary fuel supply line from Kuwait up into southern central Iraq. Every few miles along this pipeline at "booster" stations a fire team of Marines were stationed to man the pumps. Every day a manned convoy would leave the central logistical support area and resupply the troops along the line with food, water, mail, ammo, etc.
Here's what would happen if the Military let this thing re-supply the troops autonomously.
1.) By the 3rd out of 17 booster stations all the good MRE's would be rat-fucked out of the boxes.
2.) By the 4th booster, all MRE's would be gone and somone would have pissed in the remaining water.
3.) The next day, when the thing hadn't come home and booster stations 6 through 17 called in wondering where their water was, a convoy would find it between booster station 5 & 6 with no engine, no wheels, and no usable sheetmetal left.
4.) The bedouins across the way would have an oxcart with brand new wheels a new engine on their generator and a new green metal patch on the roof of their tent.
So, it's really not unmanned. It's only a toy that Marines are going to be responsible to look after, take care of, and never let out of their sight.
I suppose it could be useful to carry things while you are on a patrol, but that's what your pack is for anyway.
Ok, let's not forget that the U.S. IS THE WORLD ECONOMIC LEADER. Also, let's keep in mind that the U.S. has been leading WORLD ECONOMICSNo, there hasn't been a single national entity to match the economic power of the post 1865 U.S. since the Romans ruled the known world. Ok, now let's examine your NZ approach which has little or nothing to do with America side buying. NZ didn't have a Rockefeller or a Bill Gates. NZ didn't have a pan-america railraod. In short NZ knows only what happens in the small borders of NZ. NZ is immune to the marketdroids and commercials that plague the U.S. and draw otherwise intelligent individuals into offering up their paychecks. The warfare between the have-nots and the haves-and-want-more in the U.S. has gone pyschological and there's very little those of us who see the trend can do. Your best bet, in NZ is to keep quiet about how lucky and trusting you are. Your best bet is to make believe that you think you can do better with less. Don't let the big guys see your weak points or you might end up in the same buying state as we Americans are. Paying above top dollar for lower quality goods that were purchased at a factory rebate discount.
I agree that is the right track of thought. Unfortunately, the alternatives might put us back in the same boat.
When applying for a credit card, what would we use as personal identification if the SSN was omitted. Wouldn't that then mean that anyone who know my address, name and phone number, i.e. anyone who has access to the white pages would be able to take out a credit card in my name? Short of biometrics I don't see an alternative. Maybe I'm not creative enough.
I disagree due to personal experience with two former roomates of mine. After I married, they stayed on at the bachelor pad downloading Pr0n fileswapping and visiting shady websites in order to get free Pr0n. After rebuilding their Windows XP boxes once every three months, (easier on me and less frustrating that using spyware removal crap), I finally had enough and revoked admin rights to them at their own computers. All that did was expand the 3 month lifespan to 4 months before a trash, re-install was applied.
Finally I had enough. I installed Slackware, set it to boot to X, setup Fluxbox to display a menu with like 5 items on it. Browser, Email, Chat, FTP, PDF Viewer, OpenOffice. I did not give them root on the box. Then I installed Windows XP and set it to dual boot. After a week of hitting them with a figurative stick every time they booted into XP to do anything but play thier games, they got the point. They use Linux for everything they do but play games, they use Windows (all patches, w/ firewall/AV) for playing their games and only playing their games. I haven't heard a complaint from them, nor have either their linux or windows boxes needed my attention to this date...six months later.
I would say that is a marked improvement. I don't know wether it's considered 'safe' or not, but my linux workstations at home running firefox don't have any problems what so ever, and I haven't rebuilt them in so long, I can't remember.
I don't buy into the whole Linux has less marketshare, therefore it has less viruses, malware, spyware argument. While that might be true in the case of a shady ad company hiring a virus writer to hawk their product, I don't think market share weighs heavily on the mind of the case of the virus writer. Not to mention, look at the tools virus writers have under MS Windows, with VB for applications and WHS, MS might as well release Visual Virus Writer Pro, and sell it.
Talent plays a huge part in the viruses, malware and adware that are released into the wild. I'm pretty sure that the distribution of talent capable of writing these nuisances is heavily weighted to the MS side. It's just not as difficult to exploit an MS box as it is to exploit a Unix/Linux/BSD/MacOSX box. That's why Windows is under heavier attack than Unix. Except for the Ad angle, there is nothing else that points to "market share".
The U.S. can't even control ground based advertisements and internet pop-ups within it's own borders. Why the hell is any government agency so wrapped up in make laws and regulations that don't even apply yet!
Well, if the FAA/FCC/[A-Z] agency won't help me crusade against idiotic advertising I'll do it on my own. I think I could make a living at it even.
That's right. I'm changing my profession to assasin for hire. I'll find out who is responsible to stupid, korny, and plain annoying commercials and kill them.
I'm currently taking up collections for the head of the mastermind behind the recockulous Burger King 'Waking up with King' campain, and throwing in a side of the stupid Social Security 'You wouldn't tear down the house to fix the sink' campaing.
I'll start the bidding at $20.
I also plan on paying the composer of 'Metropolitain Matress' a visit. That will be an open auction though.
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I use eclipse on Linux and Windows. I don't have the lost focus for a while problem on Linux, but it happens all the time on windows. I think it's because some or all of the JVM has been swapped to disk, but I haven't really looked into it.
It's true that GPS and "turn here", "turn there" technologies won't work, if that was all it took the U.S. Military could have done it themselves.
I do recall reading in Leatherneck magazine about a project the USN was undertaking involving unmanned subs that were to be used as long range sonar platforms and possibly very long range torpedos.
While operating underwater GPS is useless, but dead reckoning (Speed * Time = distance, distance @ bearing = position relative to start position) is still useful. The subs they were working on used a combination of surfacing for GPS, dead reckoning, and sonar navigation to avoid obstacles to reach their goal. I haven't read Leatherneck since I retired from the USMC, so I don't know what became of this project.
I think the point of this exercise is to use a mix of technolgies to accomplish the task. The most efficient mix, in theory, will win.
I too believe you are correct.
Now if only the could work around that 256kb directory struct size limit CODA imposes on all directories in a volume, I'd be a very happy guy.
If they had plan, and a means to carry out said plan, then they should have gone to the media first.
Seriously. If these kids had cornered a reporter, made an argument for his/her involvement and brought along said reporter with the promises of an exclusive, their ass would be automatically covered. The presence of the media would have proved they were whistle blowers and not some renegade "vigilantes" that got caught in the act. Nothing could prove different once the film and commentaries went to air.
The moral is....Once you decide to show some self centered egotistical bastard which way the wind blows....bring a weathervane.
Hyperthreading is teh suck because I found a flaw.
I'm not going to tell you how it works until I get a chance to stand up in front of a buch of people and sound smart. In the meantime you can disable HT.
I can write.
The flaw affects BSD's and OpenServer for sure.
I'm unemployed, so give me money to find more flaws.
Intel rocks!
Yup...that's pretty much it. Or did I miss something?
To some extent I agree with the opening line of the article.
The company that employs me was founded almost entirely, way back in the day, on OSS. It has used BSD and Linux as it's bread and butter every since. Sure, we may have the Win2k exchange server for the bean counter's calendars, but if it makes us money it's platformed on an OSS OS.
Recently, we've come to realize the functionality that we desire in our applications and platforms aren't currently available in Linux, MySQL, Apache, etc. If we were MS based, we would be SOL, and we would have to work inside the box MS build for us. If we were locked into specific vendors, say Win 2003/IIS/Oracle, we would be at the mercy of those companies to provide us, just one of their millions of customers, with the features we need to stay competetive and up to code in the business we do. Since our main business deals with online credit card, check and phone transactions we are under very, very strict security guidelines imposed by various banks, Visa, MasterCard, etc. Without a very significant invenstment in third party software and rude in-house hacks, we would never make the grade on those platforms. Instead we have hired a few C programmers and made some serious contributions to OSS projects like GRSEC. Yes projects such as these are quicker to implent features for companies that sponser them and they are also very quick in support, and if they decide to stop coding one day we still have the source and a few programmers to get the job done. On top of that we are looking at proprietary solutions that stack on top of our OSS platforms such as Emic and PeerFS.
The point is: OSS isn't free, and the TOC of OSS Vs. Proprietary is depndant upon situation. However, when we made platform decisions 10 years ago or so, we didn't know the requirements we would be facing today. Had we chosen the vendor/proprietary platform we would not have had the capabability of not only competing, but remaining ahead of the pack given today's requirements. The flexibility OSS gives to business could be it's biggest selling point. Anyone who is familiar with the HIPAA regulations imposed on health information tech will know that vendors are just too damned slow to keep up with the pace of policy makers. The hospital I was working with the at the time had to spend, quite literally, millions of dollars to migrate it's insurance billing system away from Digital (VMS)* and Microsoft/Citrix just to conform. In the end it's now stuck with HP/UX and AS/400. Another vendor lock-in.
* This always struck me as odd since HP had just bought out Compaq who had bought out Digital at the time.....try getting support for that!
Companies that have found themselved in competition with OSS have finally started to see value. Not in the OSS, certaintly not, but in the (free, as in beer) developer base. You see, developers that work for free are a finite resource, there simply aren't that many to go around.
Sun caught on to this not too long ago, and psudo open sourced Solaris in the hopes that developers would flock to it, fix it, maintain it, and innovate on it. Sun realized that by open sourcing solaris it could, in theory, triple maybe quadruple its development and enginnering efforts for free! Oh, yeah, and it still owns and can sell Solaris!
Now MS sees that it can kill Linux, OpenOffice and other competetors by drawing it's developer base into the MS flock. I'm not talking about Linus and Stallman here, but I'm talking about the applications developers. People don't run any OS to stare at it, they use it to run programs.
I don't see MS open sourcing hardly anything, but what I do them doing is building an MS type source forge, some sort of MS exclusive [psudo] open source license, and maybe open sourcing it's development tools under that [psudo] open source license. They think they can give away free tools, and sponser a collaboration site and perhaps a few hundred or thousand OSS developers will start coding software that adds value to Windows for free.
This is not a big deal. Not a big deal at all. It seems the school simply replaced paper attendance sheets and hall passes with an autmated electronic service. Who cares? There are much bigger problems these parents should be handing the school board for "consideration". It seems to me that the longer the school board can keep the parents milling over this litte-to-nonexistant violation of rights the longer the school board can dodge the serious questions.
I cannot be polite about this and still make my point, so I feel I need to apologize for my lack of chivilary before I completely loose my temper.
First of all, for parents the only thing that does exist is the child. To say that the child doesn't exist for parents is equivical to saying the ocean doesn't exist to fishermen. The world of a parent revolves around the child. When choice is an option the house a family lives in, the car they commute in, and the day to day decisions a parent is forced to make hinges entirely on the child. Do not make the mistake of beleiving all parents are more wrapped up in themselves than their child, reguardless of your past.
Second society caring for anything that isn't under the respective nose of the individual members that compose society is a joke. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The equal reaction is the events leading up to the action. All events from a child's birth to adulthood should be placed firmly on the shoulders of the parents, without exception. Yes this method means that parents will actually have to take personal responsibility for the actions of their non-adult offspring. I'm willing to do it, because I can trust my children out of my sight. They will make informed decisions based on assertiveness, consequeses, and best practices. No school taught them that.
Where in the hell did you get the concept of an "advanced" child? I'm telling you straight out with no exceptions, the public school system is incapable of producing the level of education that is expected of individuals of society.
Society will not provide what is required no matter who is at the helm, and no matter what government actions are taken. Placing the responsibility of the transistion from self-awareness to productive member of society upon society itself is hopefull at best, futile in reality. Will "society" have a heart to heart over pasta about your daughters battle against drinking Vs. peer pressure? Will "society" step in and help you teach your son how to do the right thing even when there is no one around to observe him?
Public schools are incapable of teaching basic human skills such as honour, courage, integrity, honesty and humility. Without these base concepts, how in the hell do you express to them the importance of government, civil service, self disicpline, perserverence, and contribution.
Society is not responsibile for anything! I would like to see anybody on this planet hold, in a court of law, "society" accountable for any collective action. Yeah, not going to happen. If one cannot hold the "responsible" party accountable, how can they claim that party "responsibile" in the first place? Anything society contributes to the common good should be viewed as a gift, not a right. "Society" has no place in family. Family preserves family, it's the family that makes life work, that is the end-all-be-all. When it comes down to it, and you are the child in purgatory, no one gives a shit from Sunday about you except that family that is there for you when you need them.
Federal and FCC regulations are "one-party" regulations. Only one party, that's you, needs to know the conversation is being recorded. However, this applies to private, non-commercial, conversations only. Business have different rules.
You are correct that several states do have additional laws in place, however, not all of them mentioned need all parties involved to be aware. Some are "two-party" regulations where two of people in the conversation need know, even if it's a three way call. At least according to this
How is it a lie that it's the parents job to teach kids? I'm sorry, the resposibility for the development of the child rests soley on the shoulders on the child's parents. Public schools are just a tool at the parent's disposal.
Comments such as yours are typical of people who find it hard to accept personal responsibility for anything. I don't deny the fact that public schools can work wonders, but makes them an means to an end and the end itself. They just become a high quality tool.
From my understanding it is perfectly legal to record any conversation that you are personally involved in with or without advising those involved that they are being recorded. You could walk around all day with a mini-cassette recorder in your pocket and record every word that anyone said to you, or could you tap your own phone and record conversations that come into or out of your home.
However, you CANNOT record someone else's private conversation nor tap someone elses phone, nor place a recorder in any place where one might have a resonable expectation of privacy (like a public restroom).
In short if it is your own phone in your own home you can record every word whispered on it and you don't have to tell anybody that you are doing it. It may not be admissible as evidence or anything like that in some circumstances, but there is no law forbidding you from recording your private conversations.
I'm not really in the know when it comes to leagal offices, but in the medical profession there are a small army of nurses, technicians, and residents for every doctor on staff. It's probably the same thing on the law side.
The novel anit-spam system mentioned in the article seems on the surface to be a great idea. However, I do see one small problem with the seperate username;subaddress@domain.com per correspondent idea. Image an environment where there are 1,000 employees and each employee recieves mail from 100 different users. Doesn't that place 100,000 seperate mailboxes, forwarded to 1000 "internal" mailboxes? That will have an overhead to be sure. Also, if the spammer is able to obtain a traffic sample coming to/from this ficticious corporate mail server, could the spammer then obtain the subaddresses directly? If the spammer then sent a spam email to every subaddress for a user, the user would then end up with 100 copies of the spam letter in their inbox.
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Why don't we try to make solar cells that can operate outside the spectrum of visible light? Is science working on a cell that can convert a wide variety of wavelengths into electricity? I'm not a pysicist, but it seems to me that if we had something like that then little things like nightime and bad weather wouldn't stop the cells from converting invisible wavelengths such as microwaves into electricity. Just a thought. Like I said, I don't really understand all the facts of solar energy production and this may be impossible.
Not too long ago I ran the discovery and benchmarking on a big project to move the large internet credit card processor I work for to either Xen or VMWare ESX server. From the first benchmark to the last stress test, Xen outperformed and outgunned ESX at every turn. Here's the kicker! We had paid VMWare engineers helping us to configure and tweak the ESX boxes. As for help from Xen? Well, I had the user's manual and a subscription to their mailing list.
Management
Sure, the VMWare servers had nice pretty management tools that were probably a couple hundred yards ahead of Xen's CLI tools, but this company doesn't exactly tolerate idiots. The unix guys here are more than capbable of migrating to Xen, compiled from source with a customized kernel, with no problem. The command line configuration and live migration utilities are more than adequate considering we already have SSH access to the boxes in the back. There was no need to change the firewall configs to allow us VMWare console access or anything.
Performance
I ran series of benchmarks for the following applications: MySQL, Apache, Lighttpd, perl and php. All of the bechmarks were ran on the same hardware, I just re-imaged the two machines multiple times. Xen won in every race. As a matter of fact, on the dual core Opeteron SunFire the Xen vm was a whopping 600 seconds ahead of the VMWare vm at running MySQL's sql-bench suite.
Stability
Xen 3.0 is more stable, IMHO than VMWare. Though neither platform crashed or hosed, the ESX box had a lot of trouble keeping time via ntp and had some problems with disk I/O.
Distrust
I reported the time problem several times to the VMWare techs assigned to our case, and they assured me that it was a host os issue. Funny that this article mentions that ESX < 3 has a problem keeping time with a 2.6 kernel isn't it?
Future
Later this week I'll be recieving the first Intel VT enabled server we purchased. I'll soon see if any OS or any kernel (including GRSec patched) kernels can be booted under Xen. If that is case, my company is likely is to purchase XenSource's commercial products.
First off. This ATV/Golf cart thing isn't going to be killing anyone unless it runs them over....probably several times considering it's size. There isn't a single piece of weaponry, automated or otherwise aboard this thing. Though Marines will probably figure out a way to attach a manned M240 to one, but if the shooting starts, it's probably going to be taken off autopilot. At least I would hope.
In any event the "practical" uses of this thing aren't practical at all! I mean, it's cool and all, but there is no way in hell the military is going to let these things roam around Iraq unmanned. They will never leave eyesight.
Consider my deployment in Iraq. My Marine Reserve unit built a 100 mile temporary fuel supply line from Kuwait up into southern central Iraq. Every few miles along this pipeline at "booster" stations a fire team of Marines were stationed to man the pumps. Every day a manned convoy would leave the central logistical support area and resupply the troops along the line with food, water, mail, ammo, etc.
Here's what would happen if the Military let this thing re-supply the troops autonomously.
1.) By the 3rd out of 17 booster stations all the good MRE's would be rat-fucked out of the boxes.
2.) By the 4th booster, all MRE's would be gone and somone would have pissed in the remaining water.
3.) The next day, when the thing hadn't come home and booster stations 6 through 17 called in wondering where their water was, a convoy would find it between booster station 5 & 6 with no engine, no wheels, and no usable sheetmetal left.
4.) The bedouins across the way would have an oxcart with brand new wheels a new engine on their generator and a new green metal patch on the roof of their tent.
So, it's really not unmanned. It's only a toy that Marines are going to be responsible to look after, take care of, and never let out of their sight. I suppose it could be useful to carry things while you are on a patrol, but that's what your pack is for anyway.
Ok, let's not forget that the U.S. IS THE WORLD ECONOMIC LEADER. Also, let's keep in mind that the U.S. has been leading WORLD ECONOMICSNo, there hasn't been a single national entity to match the economic power of the post 1865 U.S. since the Romans ruled the known world. Ok, now let's examine your NZ approach which has little or nothing to do with America side buying. NZ didn't have a Rockefeller or a Bill Gates. NZ didn't have a pan-america railraod. In short NZ knows only what happens in the small borders of NZ. NZ is immune to the marketdroids and commercials that plague the U.S. and draw otherwise intelligent individuals into offering up their paychecks. The warfare between the have-nots and the haves-and-want-more in the U.S. has gone pyschological and there's very little those of us who see the trend can do. Your best bet, in NZ is to keep quiet about how lucky and trusting you are. Your best bet is to make believe that you think you can do better with less. Don't let the big guys see your weak points or you might end up in the same buying state as we Americans are. Paying above top dollar for lower quality goods that were purchased at a factory rebate discount.
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It's no different. That's exactly the point.
I agree that is the right track of thought. Unfortunately, the alternatives might put us back in the same boat.
When applying for a credit card, what would we use as personal identification if the SSN was omitted. Wouldn't that then mean that anyone who know my address, name and phone number, i.e. anyone who has access to the white pages would be able to take out a credit card in my name? Short of biometrics I don't see an alternative. Maybe I'm not creative enough.
I disagree due to personal experience with two former roomates of mine. After I married, they stayed on at the bachelor pad downloading Pr0n fileswapping and visiting shady websites in order to get free Pr0n. After rebuilding their Windows XP boxes once every three months, (easier on me and less frustrating that using spyware removal crap), I finally had enough and revoked admin rights to them at their own computers. All that did was expand the 3 month lifespan to 4 months before a trash, re-install was applied.
Finally I had enough. I installed Slackware, set it to boot to X, setup Fluxbox to display a menu with like 5 items on it. Browser, Email, Chat, FTP, PDF Viewer, OpenOffice. I did not give them root on the box. Then I installed Windows XP and set it to dual boot. After a week of hitting them with a figurative stick every time they booted into XP to do anything but play thier games, they got the point. They use Linux for everything they do but play games, they use Windows (all patches, w/ firewall/AV) for playing their games and only playing their games. I haven't heard a complaint from them, nor have either their linux or windows boxes needed my attention to this date...six months later.
I would say that is a marked improvement. I don't know wether it's considered 'safe' or not, but my linux workstations at home running firefox don't have any problems what so ever, and I haven't rebuilt them in so long, I can't remember.
I don't buy into the whole Linux has less marketshare, therefore it has less viruses, malware, spyware argument. While that might be true in the case of a shady ad company hiring a virus writer to hawk their product, I don't think market share weighs heavily on the mind of the case of the virus writer. Not to mention, look at the tools virus writers have under MS Windows, with VB for applications and WHS, MS might as well release Visual Virus Writer Pro, and sell it.
Talent plays a huge part in the viruses, malware and adware that are released into the wild. I'm pretty sure that the distribution of talent capable of writing these nuisances is heavily weighted to the MS side. It's just not as difficult to exploit an MS box as it is to exploit a Unix/Linux/BSD/MacOSX box. That's why Windows is under heavier attack than Unix. Except for the Ad angle, there is nothing else that points to "market share".
That's right. Silly.
The U.S. can't even control ground based advertisements and internet pop-ups within it's own borders. Why the hell is any government agency so wrapped up in make laws and regulations that don't even apply yet!
Well, if the FAA/FCC/[A-Z] agency won't help me crusade against idiotic advertising I'll do it on my own. I think I could make a living at it even.
That's right. I'm changing my profession to assasin for hire. I'll find out who is responsible to stupid, korny, and plain annoying commercials and kill them.
I'm currently taking up collections for the head of the mastermind behind the recockulous Burger King 'Waking up with King' campain, and throwing in a side of the stupid Social Security 'You wouldn't tear down the house to fix the sink' campaing.
I'll start the bidding at $20.
I also plan on paying the composer of 'Metropolitain Matress' a visit. That will be an open auction though.
I use eclipse on Linux and Windows. I don't have the lost focus for a while problem on Linux, but it happens all the time on windows. I think it's because some or all of the JVM has been swapped to disk, but I haven't really looked into it.
It's true that GPS and "turn here", "turn there" technologies won't work, if that was all it took the U.S. Military could have done it themselves.
I do recall reading in Leatherneck magazine about a project the USN was undertaking involving unmanned subs that were to be used as long range sonar platforms and possibly very long range torpedos.
While operating underwater GPS is useless, but dead reckoning (Speed * Time = distance, distance @ bearing = position relative to start position) is still useful. The subs they were working on used a combination of surfacing for GPS, dead reckoning, and sonar navigation to avoid obstacles to reach their goal. I haven't read Leatherneck since I retired from the USMC, so I don't know what became of this project.
I think the point of this exercise is to use a mix of technolgies to accomplish the task. The most efficient mix, in theory, will win.
I too believe you are correct.
Now if only the could work around that 256kb directory struct size limit CODA imposes on all directories in a volume, I'd be a very happy guy.
If they had plan, and a means to carry out said plan, then they should have gone to the media first.
Seriously. If these kids had cornered a reporter, made an argument for his/her involvement and brought along said reporter with the promises of an exclusive, their ass would be automatically covered. The presence of the media would have proved they were whistle blowers and not some renegade "vigilantes" that got caught in the act. Nothing could prove different once the film and commentaries went to air.
The moral is....Once you decide to show some self centered egotistical bastard which way the wind blows....bring a weathervane.
Hyperthreading is teh suck because I found a flaw.
I'm not going to tell you how it works until I get a chance to stand up in front of a buch of people and sound smart. In the meantime you can disable HT.
I can write.
The flaw affects BSD's and OpenServer for sure.
I'm unemployed, so give me money to find more flaws.
Intel rocks!
Yup...that's pretty much it. Or did I miss something?
To some extent I agree with the opening line of the article.
The company that employs me was founded almost entirely, way back in the day, on OSS. It has used BSD and Linux as it's bread and butter every since. Sure, we may have the Win2k exchange server for the bean counter's calendars, but if it makes us money it's platformed on an OSS OS.
Recently, we've come to realize the functionality that we desire in our applications and platforms aren't currently available in Linux, MySQL, Apache, etc. If we were MS based, we would be SOL, and we would have to work inside the box MS build for us. If we were locked into specific vendors, say Win 2003/IIS/Oracle, we would be at the mercy of those companies to provide us, just one of their millions of customers, with the features we need to stay competetive and up to code in the business we do. Since our main business deals with online credit card, check and phone transactions we are under very, very strict security guidelines imposed by various banks, Visa, MasterCard, etc. Without a very significant invenstment in third party software and rude in-house hacks, we would never make the grade on those platforms. Instead we have hired a few C programmers and made some serious contributions to OSS projects like GRSEC. Yes projects such as these are quicker to implent features for companies that sponser them and they are also very quick in support, and if they decide to stop coding one day we still have the source and a few programmers to get the job done. On top of that we are looking at proprietary solutions that stack on top of our OSS platforms such as Emic and PeerFS.
The point is: OSS isn't free, and the TOC of OSS Vs. Proprietary is depndant upon situation. However, when we made platform decisions 10 years ago or so, we didn't know the requirements we would be facing today. Had we chosen the vendor/proprietary platform we would not have had the capabability of not only competing, but remaining ahead of the pack given today's requirements. The flexibility OSS gives to business could be it's biggest selling point. Anyone who is familiar with the HIPAA regulations imposed on health information tech will know that vendors are just too damned slow to keep up with the pace of policy makers. The hospital I was working with the at the time had to spend, quite literally, millions of dollars to migrate it's insurance billing system away from Digital (VMS)* and Microsoft/Citrix just to conform. In the end it's now stuck with HP/UX and AS/400. Another vendor lock-in.
* This always struck me as odd since HP had just bought out Compaq who had bought out Digital at the time.....try getting support for that!
Companies that have found themselved in competition with OSS have finally started to see value. Not in the OSS, certaintly not, but in the (free, as in beer) developer base. You see, developers that work for free are a finite resource, there simply aren't that many to go around.
Sun caught on to this not too long ago, and psudo open sourced Solaris in the hopes that developers would flock to it, fix it, maintain it, and innovate on it. Sun realized that by open sourcing solaris it could, in theory, triple maybe quadruple its development and enginnering efforts for free! Oh, yeah, and it still owns and can sell Solaris!
Now MS sees that it can kill Linux, OpenOffice and other competetors by drawing it's developer base into the MS flock. I'm not talking about Linus and Stallman here, but I'm talking about the applications developers. People don't run any OS to stare at it, they use it to run programs.
I don't see MS open sourcing hardly anything, but what I do them doing is building an MS type source forge, some sort of MS exclusive [psudo] open source license, and maybe open sourcing it's development tools under that [psudo] open source license. They think they can give away free tools, and sponser a collaboration site and perhaps a few hundred or thousand OSS developers will start coding software that adds value to Windows for free.
I hope they are wrong.
This is not a big deal. Not a big deal at all. It seems the school simply replaced paper attendance sheets and hall passes with an autmated electronic service. Who cares? There are much bigger problems these parents should be handing the school board for "consideration". It seems to me that the longer the school board can keep the parents milling over this litte-to-nonexistant violation of rights the longer the school board can dodge the serious questions.
I cannot be polite about this and still make my point, so I feel I need to apologize for my lack of chivilary before I completely loose my temper.
First of all, for parents the only thing that does exist is the child. To say that the child doesn't exist for parents is equivical to saying the ocean doesn't exist to fishermen. The world of a parent revolves around the child. When choice is an option the house a family lives in, the car they commute in, and the day to day decisions a parent is forced to make hinges entirely on the child. Do not make the mistake of beleiving all parents are more wrapped up in themselves than their child, reguardless of your past.
Second society caring for anything that isn't under the respective nose of the individual members that compose society is a joke. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The equal reaction is the events leading up to the action. All events from a child's birth to adulthood should be placed firmly on the shoulders of the parents, without exception. Yes this method means that parents will actually have to take personal responsibility for the actions of their non-adult offspring. I'm willing to do it, because I can trust my children out of my sight. They will make informed decisions based on assertiveness, consequeses, and best practices. No school taught them that.
Where in the hell did you get the concept of an "advanced" child? I'm telling you straight out with no exceptions, the public school system is incapable of producing the level of education that is expected of individuals of society.
Society will not provide what is required no matter who is at the helm, and no matter what government actions are taken. Placing the responsibility of the transistion from self-awareness to productive member of society upon society itself is hopefull at best, futile in reality. Will "society" have a heart to heart over pasta about your daughters battle against drinking Vs. peer pressure? Will "society" step in and help you teach your son how to do the right thing even when there is no one around to observe him?
Public schools are incapable of teaching basic human skills such as honour, courage, integrity, honesty and humility. Without these base concepts, how in the hell do you express to them the importance of government, civil service, self disicpline, perserverence, and contribution.
Society is not responsibile for anything! I would like to see anybody on this planet hold, in a court of law, "society" accountable for any collective action. Yeah, not going to happen. If one cannot hold the "responsible" party accountable, how can they claim that party "responsibile" in the first place? Anything society contributes to the common good should be viewed as a gift, not a right. "Society" has no place in family. Family preserves family, it's the family that makes life work, that is the end-all-be-all. When it comes down to it, and you are the child in purgatory, no one gives a shit from Sunday about you except that family that is there for you when you need them.
I thought SWG was a lot of fun untill it gave way to marketing demand and became Jedi Wars Galaxies.
Federal and FCC regulations are "one-party" regulations. Only one party, that's you, needs to know the conversation is being recorded. However, this applies to private, non-commercial, conversations only. Business have different rules.
You are correct that several states do have additional laws in place, however, not all of them mentioned need all parties involved to be aware. Some are "two-party" regulations where two of people in the conversation need know, even if it's a three way call.
At least according to this
How is it a lie that it's the parents job to teach kids? I'm sorry, the resposibility for the development of the child rests soley on the shoulders on the child's parents. Public schools are just a tool at the parent's disposal.
Comments such as yours are typical of people who find it hard to accept personal responsibility for anything. I don't deny the fact that public schools can work wonders, but makes them an means to an end and the end itself. They just become a high quality tool.
I agree with you 100%. However, until the balance of money in the U.S. is restored, if it ever is, we parents have to do what we can.
From my understanding it is perfectly legal to record any conversation that you are personally involved in with or without advising those involved that they are being recorded. You could walk around all day with a mini-cassette recorder in your pocket and record every word that anyone said to you, or could you tap your own phone and record conversations that come into or out of your home.
However, you CANNOT record someone else's private conversation nor tap someone elses phone, nor place a recorder in any place where one might have a resonable expectation of privacy (like a public restroom).
In short if it is your own phone in your own home you can record every word whispered on it and you don't have to tell anybody that you are doing it. It may not be admissible as evidence or anything like that in some circumstances, but there is no law forbidding you from recording your private conversations.
I'm not really in the know when it comes to leagal offices, but in the medical profession there are a small army of nurses, technicians, and residents for every doctor on staff. It's probably the same thing on the law side.
The novel anit-spam system mentioned in the article seems on the surface to be a great idea. However, I do see one small problem with the seperate username;subaddress@domain.com per correspondent idea. Image an environment where there are 1,000 employees and each employee recieves mail from 100 different users. Doesn't that place 100,000 seperate mailboxes, forwarded to 1000 "internal" mailboxes? That will have an overhead to be sure. Also, if the spammer is able to obtain a traffic sample coming to/from this ficticious corporate mail server, could the spammer then obtain the subaddresses directly? If the spammer then sent a spam email to every subaddress for a user, the user would then end up with 100 copies of the spam letter in their inbox.
Just some hypotheticals.