Not sure that asking a randomly selected group of 'average americans' what the 'right way' to do anything is... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/31 /193025 9&tid=146
And we could catch even more criminals if every freeway on-ramp and offramp required iris scans before they'd let you on. And even more if every doorway...
Hitchiking is illegal in every state where i've bothered to research the law.
Not in california. Well, sort of. If you're standing 'on the roadway' (within the white lines), it's illegal, but if you're on the shoulder it's legal. On the freeways you can only walk on them if there isn't an 'alternate' route. The ones you can't walk on are marked as not allowing peds or bicycles or 'motor drive cycles'.
I hate to be pedantic (ok, that's a lie:-), but I think you have to refuse to identify yourself in order to be arrested, not just to refuse to produce ID (which you are not legally required to possess).
But please, even in light of that, remember: he WAS allowed to fly with no ID at SFO, and chose not to.
No. They let him thru the security check point, but then stopped him from boarding the plane. From way down the article:
They reached a strange agreement for an argument about personal privacy: In lieu of showing ID, Gilmore would consent to an extra-close search, putting up with a pat-down in order to keep his personal identity to himself. He was wanded, patted down and sent along.
As Gilmore headed up the boarding ramp a security guard yanked him from line. According to court papers, a security agent named Reggie Wauls informed Gilmore he would not be flying that day.
"He said, 'I didn't let you fly because you said you had an ID and wouldn't show it,'" Gilmore said. "I asked, 'Does that mean if I'd left it at home I'd be on the plane?' He said, 'I didn't say that.'"
Also, note that regulations which are needed to enforce laws have the full force of law and need to be just as transparent as the laws themselves if we are to live in a free society. From further down:
"By removing any reference to persons or passengers, Congress has significantly broadened the scope of SSI authority," wrote Todd B. Tatelman, an attorney for the Congressional Research Office. Tatelman was asked by Congress last year to look at the implications of Gilmore's case.
Tatelman's report found that the broadened language essentially put a cocoon of secrecy around 16 categories of information, such as security programs, security directives, security measures, security screening information "and a general category consisting of 'other information.'"
It's this complete lack of transparency that makes it difficult for a US Senator to get on a plane to get to a vote! How can the typical citizen expect to get justice out of a system so opaque and byzantine that even a US Senator has a hard time flying?
No, this is about the small first steps toward the stripping of freedoms. The 9/11 hijackers all had ID. Fake IDs are easy to come by, and authentic IDs aren't too much harder to come by. How doesn't showing ID make you safe again? The key to airplane security is to ensure that the passengers can't take over the plane or otherwise injure the other passengers or people on the ground. It really doesn't matter who they are or if they have motive or desire to do so, or that you have reason to believe so based on who you think they are because of a little plastic card. After all, some random person with no history of violence could go crazy and try to take down a plane. Knowing who they were ahead of time wouldn't help.
Sure, your cable/dsl-modem doesn't implement QoS, and it's got asymetric interfaces (DSL/Cable on one side, 100MBit on the other) and so the queues get full, latency goes up and VOIP starts dropping packets because once a VOIP packet is more than a certain amount late you might as well ignore it. The solution to this is to do QoS on your router and limit the connection speed between the router and the DSL/Cable modem to less than or equal to the bandwidth your modem has available. Even on the downstream side, though you can't directly control the packets sent by all the sources you're receiving from, you can indirectly control them by sending source-quench ICMP messages and by delaying sending ACKs on the packets. So, the router implementing QoS has to understand the traffic available on the far side of the modem, but that doesn't mean it's not implementing QoS successfully.
How can you be certain it was thermal? I wouldn't be surprised if it were memory corruption or leaks (especially if they were running the stock firmware). Did you try the tests with a fan blowing cold air over the top of the unit? (I'm actually interested in the results, since I've got a WRT54G I've been meaning to put OpenWRT on for QoS and to use as a firewall/DMZ/public wireless box.
I think most people can tell the difference between ads and search results on google. My wife drives me crazy with how non-computer literate she can be, but she can tell the difference between ads and content, even on google where they are subtle. I think the real reason that google is so successful with users is that they do a really good job, both with their search results and their sponsored content.
Further, your router which is doing QoS can send 'source quench' ICMP packets to slow the incoming traffic. There isn't really a standard for what the receiving host will do with the source quench packet, but I believe in general it's equivalent to dropping the packet (that is, same bandwidth & window size changes) without the extra bandwidth of resending the dropped packets. The company Packeteer was founded to sell boxes which managed bandwidth on a network just by monitoring the traffic and send source-quench packets.
Actually, depending on which version of NeXTStep Tim was using, NXImage didn't exist, and the object for images was the 'Bitmap'. NXImage wasn't introduced until later, and while the original object supported TIFF, it didn't support JPEG format data within the TIFF files, nor JFIF (.jpg) files.
Well, a shop compressor won't reach the high pressures you'd want to make this stupid idea practical.Take a SCUBA tank, you can get 120cubic feet into probably about 1cf if you use a high-pressure steel tank (3500).
Not sure about the implementation, but the kernel could mark the page as write-protected (with the MMU) and implement copy on write or block the process until the copy to the NIC has completed.
When you are driving down the road, do you consider the possibility that you live in a simulated universe, created to study you personally, because you are the last human alive - and all the other drivers, and all the other people in the world are simulations, just to perpetuate your belief that you live around other humans?
Yes, but only when I'm stoned...and for a few days to two weeks after. I find that getting stoned seems to induce schizophrenic episodes in me.:-(
Not to mention, if burning a flag is illegal, does drawing a picture of a flag and burning that violate the law? What about computer generated images of people burning flags? Would you have to have a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen: "no actual flags were hurt in the production of this protest message."
The scary thing to me is that my democratic senator from California supports (at least to me, in a letter in response to my request that she oppose a flag-burning amendment) a constitutional amendment making burning the american flag illegal. The worst thing is the justification that the flag, as a symbol, was too important to not protect it. Jeeze, when Senators belive a symbol of freedom is more important than the freedoms themselves...It's almost enough to make me want to run for office.
I saw Douglas Adams about a week or two before his death at the University of California, Santa Barbara (where he lived). He wasn't there to talk about "The Hitchhiker's Guide" series, or Dirk Gentley. He was there to talk about his last book, "Last Chance to See", about the adventures of a BBC film crew filming the most endangered animals on earth. I think, based on that talk and talking with a friend of a friend of his, that if you want to honor Douglas Adams, you should work to help save those animals.
1)There's two parts to the "is evolution true" discussion: That species change over time, which is immutable fact. It's in the fossil record. Species change into other species. This is not a theory.
Well, the fact is that there have been discovered rocks which have particular patterns of minerals. There are theories which postulate that these patterns of minerals indicate that a previously live creature died in that location long ago and the minerals replaced the creature's body over time. That those mineral patterns are the evidence of previously existing creatures is a _theory_, not a fact.
Not that I'm a creationist or that I disbelieve evolution, but you seemed to be pedantic only until you got to your conclusion.
Also, I'm not sure that I feel the court should rule true statements as being unconstitutional (though I haven't read the article, much less the court briefs...)
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Not sure that asking a randomly selected group of 'average americans' what the 'right way' to do anything is...1 /193025 9&tid=146
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/3
And we could catch even more criminals if every freeway on-ramp and offramp required iris scans before they'd let you on. And even more if every doorway...
epileptics can't be identified? WTF? There are many more forms of ID than just drivers licenses...
Hitchiking is illegal in every state where i've bothered to research the law.
Not in california. Well, sort of. If you're standing 'on the roadway' (within the white lines), it's illegal, but if you're on the shoulder it's legal. On the freeways you can only walk on them if there isn't an 'alternate' route. The ones you can't walk on are marked as not allowing peds or bicycles or 'motor drive cycles'.
I hate to be pedantic (ok, that's a lie :-), but I think you have to refuse to identify yourself in order to be arrested, not just to refuse to produce ID (which you are not legally required to possess).
No. They let him thru the security check point, but then stopped him from boarding the plane. From way down the article:
Also, note that regulations which are needed to enforce laws have the full force of law and need to be just as transparent as the laws themselves if we are to live in a free society. From further down:
It's this complete lack of transparency that makes it difficult for a US Senator to get on a plane to get to a vote! How can the typical citizen expect to get justice out of a system so opaque and byzantine that even a US Senator has a hard time flying?
No, this is about the small first steps toward the stripping of freedoms. The 9/11 hijackers all had ID. Fake IDs are easy to come by, and authentic IDs aren't too much harder to come by. How doesn't showing ID make you safe again?
The key to airplane security is to ensure that the passengers can't take over the plane or otherwise injure the other passengers or people on the ground. It really doesn't matter who they are or if they have motive or desire to do so, or that you have reason to believe so based on who you think they are because of a little plastic card. After all, some random person with no history of violence could go crazy and try to take down a plane. Knowing who they were ahead of time wouldn't help.
It's only a problem when more than 50% of the population is apathetic to the problem.
Oh, wait, I think that was shown to be true during the last election.
Sure, your cable/dsl-modem doesn't implement QoS, and it's got asymetric interfaces (DSL/Cable on one side, 100MBit on the other) and so the queues get full, latency goes up and VOIP starts dropping packets because once a VOIP packet is more than a certain amount late you might as well ignore it. The solution to this is to do QoS on your router and limit the connection speed between the router and the DSL/Cable modem to less than or equal to the bandwidth your modem has available. Even on the downstream side, though you can't directly control the packets sent by all the sources you're receiving from, you can indirectly control them by sending source-quench ICMP messages and by delaying sending ACKs on the packets. So, the router implementing QoS has to understand the traffic available on the far side of the modem, but that doesn't mean it's not implementing QoS successfully.
How can you be certain it was thermal? I wouldn't be surprised if it were memory corruption or leaks (especially if they were running the stock firmware). Did you try the tests with a fan blowing cold air over the top of the unit?
(I'm actually interested in the results, since I've got a WRT54G I've been meaning to put OpenWRT on for QoS and to use as a firewall/DMZ/public wireless box.
How does pf differentiate between ssh_bulk and ssh_interactive?
I think most people can tell the difference between ads and search results on google. My wife drives me crazy with how non-computer literate she can be, but she can tell the difference between ads and content, even on google where they are subtle. I think the real reason that google is so successful with users is that they do a really good job, both with their search results and their sponsored content.
Certainly possible. I was going by memory and while I'm sure about the 'Bitmap' and NXImage classes, I have a lousy memory for timelines...
Further, your router which is doing QoS can send 'source quench' ICMP packets to slow the incoming traffic. There isn't really a standard for what the receiving host will do with the source quench packet, but I believe in general it's equivalent to dropping the packet (that is, same bandwidth & window size changes) without the extra bandwidth of resending the dropped packets. The company Packeteer was founded to sell boxes which managed bandwidth on a network just by monitoring the traffic and send source-quench packets.
No, you don't understand. Killing people^H^H^H^H^H^H consumers reduces corporate sales and profits. That's the reason murder is illegal.
Actually, depending on which version of NeXTStep Tim was using, NXImage didn't exist, and the object for images was the 'Bitmap'. NXImage wasn't introduced until later, and while the original object supported TIFF, it didn't support JPEG format data within the TIFF files, nor JFIF (.jpg) files.
Well, a shop compressor won't reach the high pressures you'd want to make this stupid idea practical.Take a SCUBA tank, you can get 120cubic feet into probably about 1cf if you use a high-pressure steel tank (3500).
Not sure about the implementation, but the kernel could mark the page as write-protected (with the MMU) and implement copy on write or block the process until the copy to the NIC has completed.
When you are driving down the road, do you consider the possibility that you live in a simulated universe, created to study you personally, because you are the last human alive - and all the other drivers, and all the other people in the world are simulations, just to perpetuate your belief that you live around other humans?
:-(
Yes, but only when I'm stoned...and for a few days to two weeks after. I find that getting stoned seems to induce schizophrenic episodes in me.
Not to mention, if burning a flag is illegal, does drawing a picture of a flag and burning that violate the law? What about computer generated images of people burning flags? Would you have to have a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen: "no actual flags were hurt in the production of this protest message."
The scary thing to me is that my democratic senator from California supports (at least to me, in a letter in response to my request that she oppose a flag-burning amendment) a constitutional amendment making burning the american flag illegal. The worst thing is the justification that the flag, as a symbol, was too important to not protect it. Jeeze, when Senators belive a symbol of freedom is more important than the freedoms themselves...It's almost enough to make me want to run for office.
Yeah, your list is pretty good...
:-)
"But Wait! There's MORE!"
That's what I get for believing the Amazon.com blub about the book. I never got around to reading it :-(
I saw Douglas Adams about a week or two before his death at the University of California, Santa Barbara (where he lived). He wasn't there to talk about "The Hitchhiker's Guide" series, or Dirk Gentley. He was there to talk about his last book, "Last Chance to See", about the adventures of a BBC film crew filming the most endangered animals on earth.
I think, based on that talk and talking with a friend of a friend of his, that if you want to honor Douglas Adams, you should work to help save those animals.
1)There's two parts to the "is evolution true" discussion: That species change over time, which is immutable fact. It's in the fossil record. Species change into other species. This is not a theory.
Well, the fact is that there have been discovered rocks which have particular patterns of minerals. There are theories which postulate that these patterns of minerals indicate that a previously live creature died in that location long ago and the minerals replaced the creature's body over time. That those mineral patterns are the evidence of previously existing creatures is a _theory_, not a fact.
Not that I'm a creationist or that I disbelieve evolution, but you seemed to be pedantic only until you got to your conclusion.
Also, I'm not sure that I feel the court should rule true statements as being unconstitutional (though I haven't read the article, much less the court briefs...)