That would be great, except that the investigations of Republicans (or if the current administration were democrat, then democrats) wouldn't turn up any evidence of wrong-doing, but even saints in the other party would have cocaine residue and used condoms found in the couches in their offices...
Regardless of what party you support, think about the tools you're willing to give one party in the hands of the most dispicable characters in the other party before you grant that power.
I would bet that most computer (well, 'PC', as opposed to fuel injection computers) users have received email, or browsed a website which was served by linux, or some software compiled by GCC or edited by emacs. 'For want of a nail...'
I just finished reading Black Hawk Down, (I'd seen the movie and documentary years ago) and it amazed me that it seems that such low-tech items as maps and FRS radios (or similar) could have saved many lives.
Mesh networks and video feeds seem cool, but just being able to figure out that you're 50' from friendlies based on a map and radio contact might be a good first step.
Well, having mindshare is important in software, since it means that developers are more likely to test with it and it's more likely to work. Also, last I remember Opera wasn't free, which is important to a lot of people. If it's free now that's a different story of course, though it may be too late to gain much mind/market share and get web developers to develop for/test on it.
You recommend abolishing IE, but what other commercial web browser is there for Windows? I guess there is Opera, though I don't think it has much mind-share...
I think it's a bit of a stretch to say all foreign components can have backdoors. After all, I doubt you could put a backdoor in the 25+ SMT resistors that terminate my IDE bus, even though together they probably see all the important data going to and from my computer.
I think that depends on how rich they are and how they got that money. If they worked hard and scrimped and saved to get 'rich' (50mil) the don't sweat the 'small stuff'.
My friend once calculated that it wasn't worth bill gates' time to bend over to pick up a $100, since the time he'd waste doing that wouldn't exceed what he'd make in that time just 'doing his job'
I think Linus hit the spot by pointing out that the future of home computing is going to to focus on parallel processing - it's 2006 and all my computers, including my LAPTOP, are dual-processor systems.
<pedantic> Almost none of your computers are dual-processor. The ones in your microwave, your watch, your car aren't dual processor.
Well, at least in the short term, supersonic will be more than first class. Since first class would have made those 14 hours much more comfortable at only 2-4 times the price, and still cheaper than supersonic, you definitely paid for that right?
If the notification of reception is automatic and mandatory then SPAM can easily authenticate addresses. If notification relies on the user to authorize, then it cannot be reliable. Even if you ignore the SPAM problem, you can't determine if a user _READ_ the email, only that their client displayed it. If I am clicking delete, delete, delete to get rid of email, I may not notice that _your_ email flashed up onto the screen in the middle.
Even registered US mail only tells you that I signed for the envelope, it doesn't tell you I read it. It could have got sat on the entry table with the rest of the junk mail and tossed out by my wife.
I couldn't find anything in Article 2 about special war powers granted to the president. I remember that only the congress can declare war (which hasn't happened against Iraq), and that this bullshit 'war on terror' is really a 'control the population thru terror'.
he lives about 12 miles from me, but he's pretty old now, and I think he's out of the loop...
Today's equivalent is why we know about the NSA wiretapping at all. They're probably dead, or will be soon, or at least at Guantanamo. From what I remember about the Nixon thing, Liddy wanted to have Deepthroat killed...
My approach, given that even a SCSI drive can fail unexpectedly is to add redundancy at the RAID level. Now, given that any drive (or two, depending on the RAID level) can fail without losing data, what matters to me is warranty. Since SATA drives are available with a warranty which is longer than the useful life of the drive (5 years from now, I'll be tossing the whole array for something 10x the size), it really doesn't matter whether SCSI drives hold up better.
That got bought by Sun awhile ago, I'd hope that he remembers something about innovating. I'd also like to think that he remembers the tech that Sun bought when they bought 'his' company and burried. Probably not too relevant now, but the NeXTStep apps were best of breed at the time, and ran well on 25MHz machines. Perhaps Java could take some direction?
I used to have to drive 15-20 minutes from Goleta to Santa Barbara. Now I climb 21 steps from my living room (where I catch up on the Daily Show and drink my coffee) up to my home-office.
Well, I know my wife is somewhat irrational about the car. Her argument is that she needs/wants to sit up higher than in a 'normal' car. I blame the minivans. They started the whole thing off with the taller car thing. Then when people get uncomfortable driving a 'normal' car because they can't see past the taller car, they go looking for their own taller car. Of course if people would follow the recommended distance of 2 seconds, the height of the car in front of them matters much less.
The interesting thing is that the cost/mile for the VW prototype that gets about 250MPG @ $20/gallon is still better than the SUV that gets 12MPG @ $3/gallon. In fact, about 3 times better. Of course given that teh VW weighs about 1/8 (or less) of the SUV, you're chances of surviving a collision with one are reduced. Which is why I can't get my wife into a Prius. At least she's rational enough to realize that she's much more likely to be [directly] affected by a car accident than terrorism...
RAID-6 is silly on 4 drives. Just do Raid 10 (2 mirrors of 2 drives, then stripe across the mirrors). The computations are much easier (cheaper raid card/chip), and the read speeds are much faster. On the other hand, if you lose both drives of a mirror you're screwed.
RAID-6 is great if you've got 5 or more drives, but if performance & cost means anything to you, you're better off with raid 10 for 4 drives.
Myself, I keep toying with the idea of building an 8x400GB RAID6 server for 2.4TB (raw, marketer's numbers:-)
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That would be great, except that the investigations of Republicans (or if the current administration were democrat, then democrats) wouldn't turn up any evidence of wrong-doing, but even saints in the other party would have cocaine residue and used condoms found in the couches in their offices...
Regardless of what party you support, think about the tools you're willing to give one party in the hands of the most dispicable characters in the other party before you grant that power.
I would bet that most computer (well, 'PC', as opposed to fuel injection computers) users have received email, or browsed a website which was served by linux, or some software compiled by GCC or edited by emacs. 'For want of a nail...'
Sure, RMS is irrelevant until you go to run anything in user-land on Linux, or compile anything or edit something with the OS that is Emacs :-)
I just finished reading Black Hawk Down, (I'd seen the movie and documentary years ago) and it amazed me that it seems that such low-tech items as maps and FRS radios (or similar) could have saved many lives.
Mesh networks and video feeds seem cool, but just being able to figure out that you're 50' from friendlies based on a map and radio contact might be a good first step.
Well, having mindshare is important in software, since it means that developers are more likely to test with it and it's more likely to work. Also, last I remember Opera wasn't free, which is important to a lot of people. If it's free now that's a different story of course, though it may be too late to gain much mind/market share and get web developers to develop for/test on it.
Huh? Did you miss the 'on windows' part, or do you have a secret port of Safari running on windows? :-)
You recommend abolishing IE, but what other commercial web browser is there for Windows? I guess there is Opera, though I don't think it has much mind-share...
I think it's a bit of a stretch to say all foreign components can have backdoors. After all, I doubt you could put a backdoor in the 25+ SMT resistors that terminate my IDE bus, even though together they probably see all the important data going to and from my computer.
Did they use double or quadruple ROT13?
I think that depends on how rich they are and how they got that money. If they worked hard and scrimped and saved to get 'rich' (50mil) the don't sweat the 'small stuff'.
My friend once calculated that it wasn't worth bill gates' time to bend over to pick up a $100, since the time he'd waste doing that wouldn't exceed what he'd make in that time just 'doing his job'
If they paid attention to what I found offensive, everyone would have a much harder time finding information about Microsoft products...
I think Linus hit the spot by pointing out that the future of home computing is going to to focus on parallel processing - it's 2006 and all my computers, including my LAPTOP, are dual-processor systems.
<pedantic> Almost none of your computers are dual-processor. The ones in your microwave, your watch, your car aren't dual processor.
Well, at least in the short term, supersonic will be more than first class. Since first class would have made those 14 hours much more comfortable at only 2-4 times the price, and still cheaper than supersonic, you definitely paid for that right?
The best part of slashdot when when comments like this are +5 Insightful!
If the notification of reception is automatic and mandatory then SPAM can easily authenticate addresses. If notification relies on the user to authorize, then it cannot be reliable. Even if you ignore the SPAM problem, you can't determine if a user _READ_ the email, only that their client displayed it. If I am clicking delete, delete, delete to get rid of email, I may not notice that _your_ email flashed up onto the screen in the middle.
Even registered US mail only tells you that I signed for the envelope, it doesn't tell you I read it. It could have got sat on the entry table with the rest of the junk mail and tossed out by my wife.
I couldn't find anything in Article 2 about special war powers granted to the president. I remember that only the congress can declare war (which hasn't happened against Iraq), and that this bullshit 'war on terror' is really a 'control the population thru terror'.
where is our deepthroat today...
he lives about 12 miles from me, but he's pretty old now, and I think he's out of the loop...
Today's equivalent is why we know about the NSA wiretapping at all. They're probably dead, or will be soon, or at least at Guantanamo. From what I remember about the Nixon thing, Liddy wanted to have Deepthroat killed...
My approach, given that even a SCSI drive can fail unexpectedly is to add redundancy at the RAID level. Now, given that any drive (or two, depending on the RAID level) can fail without losing data, what matters to me is warranty. Since SATA drives are available with a warranty which is longer than the useful life of the drive (5 years from now, I'll be tossing the whole array for something 10x the size), it really doesn't matter whether SCSI drives hold up better.
Another "by the way"- the iSight cameras in the Macbook and iMac absolutely SUCK. [...deleted...] the colors are funky...
They Sure Are!
Actually, I think the iSight in my iMac G5 (final) isn't bad. I don't use it much, but it's serviceable. The main problem is it isn't aimable.
That got bought by Sun awhile ago, I'd hope that he remembers something about innovating. I'd also like to think that he remembers the tech that Sun bought when they bought 'his' company and burried. Probably not too relevant now, but the NeXTStep apps were best of breed at the time, and ran well on 25MHz machines. Perhaps Java could take some direction?
I used to have to drive 15-20 minutes from Goleta to Santa Barbara. Now I climb 21 steps from my living room (where I catch up on the Daily Show and drink my coffee) up to my home-office.
Ah, the joys of telecommuting.
Well, I know my wife is somewhat irrational about the car. Her argument is that she needs/wants to sit up higher than in a 'normal' car. I blame the minivans. They started the whole thing off with the taller car thing. Then when people get uncomfortable driving a 'normal' car because they can't see past the taller car, they go looking for their own taller car. Of course if people would follow the recommended distance of 2 seconds, the height of the car in front of them matters much less.
Jobs is dumping Apple stock. What does he know that you don't? ;)
That he needs to pay taxes on his grant?
The interesting thing is that the cost/mile for the VW prototype that gets about 250MPG @ $20/gallon is still better than the SUV that gets 12MPG @ $3/gallon. In fact, about 3 times better. Of course given that teh VW weighs about 1/8 (or less) of the SUV, you're chances of surviving a collision with one are reduced. Which is why I can't get my wife into a Prius. At least she's rational enough to realize that she's much more likely to be [directly] affected by a car accident than terrorism...
RAID-6 is silly on 4 drives. Just do Raid 10 (2 mirrors of 2 drives, then stripe across the mirrors). The computations are much easier (cheaper raid card/chip), and the read speeds are much faster. On the other hand, if you lose both drives of a mirror you're screwed.
:-)
RAID-6 is great if you've got 5 or more drives, but if performance & cost means anything to you, you're better off with raid 10 for 4 drives.
Myself, I keep toying with the idea of building an 8x400GB RAID6 server for 2.4TB (raw, marketer's numbers