Local officials, not federal judges, know best in deciding whether a development project will benefit the community, justices said.
In this instance, the judges say that local officials know best. (Never mind what the owners of the land think.)
The part that makes this really bad is that the Court isn't looking at the law and the Constitution, but at the circumstances. They're supposed to be judging the law, not making new laws as they did here.
A similar thing happened in the medical marijuana case. The judges said that they thought the "medical" thing was a sham, that this was all about people wanting a way around Federal drug laws. They had no legal basis for that finding, it was just what they thought about the issue. So they allowed the extension of the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution to include the doctor-patient relationship.
These decisions are symptomatic of an out of control Court.
The CAD software we rely on is only supported under specific configurations, and RH is the only Linux distro they support. We've used Mandrake and Fedora successfully, and I'm sure other RH-like systems would work, too. (We just have to make sure that if we call them, the problem shows up on a RH box).
2x3GHz, 2GB RAM, 3x250GB SATA RAID 5, (six RAID bays) Redhat ES 3 year, 3 year next-day warranty (for "free"), rather than their 4-hour on-site service (not free).
$2600.
HP and IBM were just too expensive.
Dell had some interesting 1U and blade-type stuff, but I was buying a file/mail server.
the data can be passed and accessed directly with no overhead.
No, the objects will have to be rebuilt for each and every use. But suppose they hang around.
Even just giving a cmdlet the location of a bunch of objects in memory and having it call their methods one by one will take time, much more time than running regular expressions over text streams.
You honestly think performance will be an issue on a 3 ghz machine?
Yes, I do. Performance is always an issue, and our perception of it tends to outpace its improvement. We once thought 10 Mhz was fast, and 16Mhz was "screaming".
And all of that will require processing power. All of those objects have to be converted each and every time they get passed. Even the conversion to text will take cycles.
It will be interesting to see when fully operational.
That was the sound of the point, flying past Microsoft's Collective brain.
The Unix shell is the implementation of the Unix philosophy of small parts working together. It's the antithsesis of Windows' philosophy of providing everything possible through DLLs distributed with the OS.
For a shell to be useful, you need lots of little tools. Otherwise you're just trying to provide an isomorphism to the GUI, with command line switches and arguments taking the place of check boxes.
On the other hand, I suppose it's better than nothing.
Actually, all products undergo a mandatory security review before they are shipped.
That's too little, too late. It's treating security as a feature that if broken causes the product to be delayed or scrapped.
Yes, I'm aware of code reviews, and the open-within-Microsoft source code for the OS. That's all good, but it's not enough.
If you think pushing back a broken product for security flaws is long-term thinking, then you're part of the problem. That's just anticipating what the market will do with a product that doesn't work.
Microsoft is doomed to write insecure software because they're trying to keep their source code a secret. Yeah, they might make more money that way. But the only way to make sure your software is secure is to let people with no interest in its success see its code.
I was born to reproduce, to cover the universe with offspring.
I want my children, and your children, to survive to reproduce, ad infinitum. Whatever gives them the best chance to do that is Good, and what doesn't is Bad.
That's just weak. Don't worry, oh hater of Man. The planet will have its day.
If the parking lots and interstate highways no longer serve a purpose, and the evil Man leaves Earth for good, the descendants of a single dandelion could re-prairitize the land they occupy in the blink of a geological eye.
But to me, planets are expendable. Other species are expendable. Though each individual human is more valuable than the entirety of another species or a galaxy of planets, individuals are expendable.
A time traveler cannot alter the past. The past has already happened. Any participation in the past has already occurred.
A time traveler could go to the future and find out what will happen, but on return to the past he will be unable to alter the future - he has already seen it, so it has already happened.
Now, what is this paradox that has everyone so confused:-)?
In spoken Chinese (or rather, the group of languages collectively called Chinese), each syllable is given one of four "tones". The meaning of the word changes if even one syllable is mis-toned. The whole language group is one big pun waiting to happen!
Professional photographers have successfully sued processors (like Wal-Mart) for reproducing their digital works without permission.
That's a bad precedent. Service vendors should not be put in the position of monitoring content or judging it, any more than an ISP should monitor its customers' activity (except in a general way). Whether a customer has copyright or permission on a file or photo is not their call, unless they see something obviously illegal happening.
This isn't Big Brother, really, it's worse: enforced imitation bureaucracy.
While I don't hold much hope Microsoft truly cares about security other than how it affects their public image and bottom line
To Microsoft, security is about features. A builtin "firewall", VPN, encryption of this or that, trusted something or other. Applets and wizards.
They're basically stuck in that position, too. The cash cow is actually layer upon layer of such features, fundamentally designed for a different, and far less ambitious, job than it's now asked to perform.
I'd better stop, or I'll go into full-on rant mode. Oops, too late.
Windows needs a complete rewrite, but that's not enough. If they did that now, they'd wind up with the same sorts of problems they currently have.
Even a total refocus on security is not enough. They have to change who they are as a company. They have to change the mindset that says that software's value is determined solely by how much revenue it produces.
To a software business the value of a product can be measured by how much money it makes, but it's an unholy error of the stupidest freshman sort to value individual parts of the design by how much they'll bring in. Some parts are so essential, and some phases of design so vital, that without them the overall product falls on its face.
The marketplace doesn't know enough about the inner workings of your product to tell you what value to place on any particular phase of design. The market (eventually) tells you how well it likes the finished product versus your competitor's, but hidden design processes aren't part of the comparison.
Security has got to be considered at every step of the design process. It follows along with robustness, portability, scalability, and overall algorithmic soundness.
I have a suggestion for you Microsoft design managers out there, for the next time your boss says, "Hey, let's make [X] really easy - that would really sell!". Don't just nod. Look at them and say, "Maybe, but it would also be simple to exploit."
The response will tell you how far the focus has really shifted.
SEO's are worse than snake oil salesmen. Snake oil salesmen have a product.
They're worse than lawyers. With a lawyer you at least *know* you're going to get ripped off.
They're more like chiropractors. The only reason you need one is that you don't want to do the work (building a good site/product or living a healthy lifestyle).
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Actually, I love lawyers. They taste like chicken.
In this instance, the judges say that local officials know best. (Never mind what the owners of the land think.)
The part that makes this really bad is that the Court isn't looking at the law and the Constitution, but at the circumstances. They're supposed to be judging the law, not making new laws as they did here.
A similar thing happened in the medical marijuana case. The judges said that they thought the "medical" thing was a sham, that this was all about people wanting a way around Federal drug laws. They had no legal basis for that finding, it was just what they thought about the issue. So they allowed the extension of the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution to include the doctor-patient relationship.
These decisions are symptomatic of an out of control Court.
That's "case in point". Like "under scrutiny" or "off topic". Which is what I should be modded.
Sorry.
Longhorn's still got a chance.
>Why RH?
The CAD software we rely on is only supported under specific configurations, and RH is the only Linux distro they support. We've used Mandrake and Fedora successfully, and I'm sure other RH-like systems would work, too. (We just have to make sure that if we call them, the problem shows up on a RH box).
I just bought a Dell.
2x3GHz,
2GB RAM,
3x250GB SATA RAID 5, (six RAID bays)
Redhat ES 3 year,
3 year next-day warranty (for "free"), rather than their 4-hour on-site service (not free).
$2600.
HP and IBM were just too expensive.
Dell had some interesting 1U and blade-type stuff, but I was buying a file/mail server.
Precisely. After traveling to the future, returning is going to the fixed past. Or did you mean something else?
Either way, once you grasp the concept, time travel stories require extra suspension of disbelief.
That's why I keep my Commodore 64 with 1541 and 1571 disk drives.
That way I can read someone's pirated Donkey Kong or Questron diskette.
You never know when an opportunity like that to be of service to all of mankind will appear.
No, the objects will have to be rebuilt for each and every use. But suppose they hang around.
Even just giving a cmdlet the location of a bunch of objects in memory and having it call their methods one by one will take time, much more time than running regular expressions over text streams.
But I wish them well.
Yes, I do. Performance is always an issue, and our perception of it tends to outpace its improvement. We once thought 10 Mhz was fast, and 16Mhz was "screaming".
And all of that will require processing power. All of those objects have to be converted each and every time they get passed. Even the conversion to text will take cycles.
It will be interesting to see when fully operational.
That was the sound of the point, flying past Microsoft's Collective brain.
The Unix shell is the implementation of the Unix philosophy of small parts working together. It's the antithsesis of Windows' philosophy of providing everything possible through DLLs distributed with the OS.
For a shell to be useful, you need lots of little tools. Otherwise you're just trying to provide an isomorphism to the GUI, with command line switches and arguments taking the place of check boxes.
On the other hand, I suppose it's better than nothing.
Just about everybody trusts Google.
I trust PayPal/Ebay, but less than I trust Google.
As long as Google Wallet can keep away from either a financial scandal or a security breech, they should eat Ebay's lunch -- except on Ebay.
But I asked about doing it from the Moon. Not much air friction there :-).
I posted a question about using a giant rail-gun to ASSIST the use of SOLAR SAILS, the subject of the story.
How is that off-topic?
Yeesh.
What about using a giant rail-gun to launch a space vehicle from the moon?
Once spaceborn, the vehicle could deploy its deep-space propulsion, such as solar sails or ion drive.
> I know that I don't. Humans are stupid and destructive.
Fine, you abstain. The herd needs some culling.
That's too little, too late. It's treating security as a feature that if broken causes the product to be delayed or scrapped.
Yes, I'm aware of code reviews, and the open-within-Microsoft source code for the OS. That's all good, but it's not enough.If you think pushing back a broken product for security flaws is long-term thinking, then you're part of the problem. That's just anticipating what the market will do with a product that doesn't work.
Microsoft is doomed to write insecure software because they're trying to keep their source code a secret. Yeah, they might make more money that way. But the only way to make sure your software is secure is to let people with no interest in its success see its code.
>Why not?
Why are you here? Why were you born?
I was born to reproduce, to cover the universe with offspring.
I want my children, and your children, to survive to reproduce, ad infinitum. Whatever gives them the best chance to do that is Good, and what doesn't is Bad.
I don't really care about anything else.
That's just weak. Don't worry, oh hater of Man. The planet will have its day.
If the parking lots and interstate highways no longer serve a purpose, and the evil Man leaves Earth for good, the descendants of a single dandelion could re-prairitize the land they occupy in the blink of a geological eye.
But to me, planets are expendable. Other species are expendable. Though each individual human is more valuable than the entirety of another species or a galaxy of planets, individuals are expendable.
Only the human race is not expendable.
A time traveler cannot alter the past. The past has already happened. Any participation in the past has already occurred.
:-)?
A time traveler could go to the future and find out what will happen, but on return to the past he will be unable to alter the future - he has already seen it, so it has already happened.
Now, what is this paradox that has everyone so confused
I've got one (pardon the translation):
m
The real horse is your mother.
Get it?
In spoken Chinese (or rather, the group of languages collectively called Chinese), each syllable is given one of four "tones". The meaning of the word changes if even one syllable is mis-toned. The whole language group is one big pun waiting to happen!
See http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese_spoken.ht
for more details.
That's a bad precedent. Service vendors should not be put in the position of monitoring content or judging it, any more than an ISP should monitor its customers' activity (except in a general way). Whether a customer has copyright or permission on a file or photo is not their call, unless they see something obviously illegal happening.
This isn't Big Brother, really, it's worse: enforced imitation bureaucracy.
To Microsoft, security is about features. A builtin "firewall", VPN, encryption of this or that, trusted something or other. Applets and wizards.
They're basically stuck in that position, too. The cash cow is actually layer upon layer of such features, fundamentally designed for a different, and far less ambitious, job than it's now asked to perform.
I'd better stop, or I'll go into full-on rant mode. Oops, too late.
Windows needs a complete rewrite, but that's not enough. If they did that now, they'd wind up with the same sorts of problems they currently have.
Even a total refocus on security is not enough. They have to change who they are as a company. They have to change the mindset that says that software's value is determined solely by how much revenue it produces.
To a software business the value of a product can be measured by how much money it makes, but it's an unholy error of the stupidest freshman sort to value individual parts of the design by how much they'll bring in. Some parts are so essential, and some phases of design so vital, that without them the overall product falls on its face.
The marketplace doesn't know enough about the inner workings of your product to tell you what value to place on any particular phase of design. The market (eventually) tells you how well it likes the finished product versus your competitor's, but hidden design processes aren't part of the comparison.
Security has got to be considered at every step of the design process. It follows along with robustness, portability, scalability, and overall algorithmic soundness.
I have a suggestion for you Microsoft design managers out there, for the next time your boss says, "Hey, let's make [X] really easy - that would really sell!". Don't just nod. Look at them and say, "Maybe, but it would also be simple to exploit."
The response will tell you how far the focus has really shifted.
SEO's are worse than snake oil salesmen. Snake oil salesmen have a product.
They're worse than lawyers. With a lawyer you at least *know* you're going to get ripped off.
They're more like chiropractors. The only reason you need one is that you don't want to do the work (building a good site/product or living a healthy lifestyle).