This fits perfectly with the old security adage of the 3 types. There are only 3 kinds of identification checks you can make on a user - something they have, something they know, and something they are. Using any one by itself is easily twarted, but combining any two is foolproof enough 99% of the time.
Your system uses the "something you have" (iButton) and the "something you know" (password), which is also the same scheme you use at an ATM machine (card + PIN).
The "something you are" is where biometrics come in.. something like a fingerprint scanner combined with a password, for instance.
Actually no. China used to be the huge source for population growth in Asia, until the GOvernment started offering finacial incentives to familties who stop at one child.
Since replacement population rate is around 2.2 per couple, it only takes a copule of generations of low birth rates to bring the population down dramatically.
Reflection based displays, like eInk, are great for displaying text. But when it comes to representing graphical concepts they fall far short, since they're limited to greyscale.
It's fairly simple to adjust the amount of light reflected to make greyscale images. What is very hard to do is adjust the wavelengths reflected to make different colors. Until there is an easy way to do that discovered, light emitting displays is pretty much the only option for computing chores that rely on color.
Sure, kids in their mid teens could do complex arithmetic in their heads in the 1800s. But how many of them could factor a quadratic equation? How many of them could explain the basic makeup of DNA? How many of them would know the makeup of an atom? I knew all this stuff in jr. high.
There is only so much time in the day to teach kids stuff. As time progresses, certain things become deemed more and more elementary and are delegated to automation, hence calculators taking over most of math. But this doesn't mean education is necessarily suffering - it's progressing. People who graduate from HS today have as much (even more in some fields) raw knowledge as someone who had a doctorate in the 18th century. Would you rather them spend more time on basic math and less on science and advanced algebra? Of course not.
If in 20 years, my son knows the fundamentals of string theory in junior high, at the expense of having to use a calculator to be able to do simultanious equations, I'll consider that a *good* thing. Leave the mundane tasks to the machines, leave the ones that require actual thinking to the humans.
If this is anything like 95% of the windows laptops I know of, it was littered with bonsai buddy and RealPlayer and Windows Update and tons of other calling home crap. And more than likely, this bozo didn't format the PC or anything else. All the FBI would have to do is find out whats on the PC, and contact these companies for that software's unique IDs.
Write it in a letter, and send copies to SOCAN, your MP, and the editorial page of your local newspaper / TV station.
Saying stuff like this on/. is pointless, you're preaching to the converted. You need to make issues such as this known to the general populace, Speak to them as a songwriter yourself and show them how this does not help songwriters, it only helps huge money grubbing corperations to suck more money out of young artists than they already do,
"Hey guys, I have a swell idea! Let's take an already huge and clumsy game console, and make it even LARGER! In fact, let's make it 3 TIMES LARGER!
While we are at it, we can increase its already HORRENDOUS power consumption by ADDING MORE LIGHTS!
This will get us on slashdot for sure!"
Seriously though, most case mods are cool, but this is retarded. Not only does it look like ass but the form factor is now so huge you could'nt even keep it in your entertainment centre. Plus I bet it is significantly noiser now that it isn't in its native housing.
The XBox is already a huge ugly console before doing this.
Contrary to popular belief, there is no person named "Magneto" and it would pretty much be impossible to magnetically rip the iron out of you rblood.
Aside from nonsense such as this I don't know why you'd be afraid of a magnatic field. Researchers with supercolliders are routinely within very short distances of fields orders of magnitude greater than anything this would produce.
Not to defend Diebold, but they wouldn't even be allowed to patch the systems. The software on those voting machines (at least in theory) all needs to be checked and double checked by this independant authority before its installed, and ONLY THAT approved softwate can be installed on the machines.
Thus, in order to patch them they first need to get the patch approved. Which is probably a very unneedingly so) lengthy process, knowing the government.
But why the hell these machines were on any kind of a network with any type of connection to the Internet is another question altogether.
The thing about that ad is it wasn't reallly tongue in cheek at all. Whether they admit it or not, nearly all Canadians feel that way about our neighbours to the south:P
Which made it a really, really great ad, thay sold tons of merchadise as well, everything from mugs to shirts with the "Great Canadian Speel" on the back.
It was truely the most effective commercial I have seen in the past 10 years. And it probably cost them no more than 10 - 15 grand to make. Compare that to the millions they blow on superbowl commercials in the US:P
And explain how matricide can NOT be matriarchal? Or are you just throwing around big words you don't know the meanings of to sound important?
Since thins is/. I would guess the latter.
While this is technically correct, you have to believe something to have a (religious or otherwise) belief.
You can't define an action without also defining its opposite. So if there is such thing as belief, or "the act of believing", there is also the absence of it, or not believing. As such, there is a distinct difference between the absence of any belief and the belief that there is no God, who is "one who denies the existance of a God", they're totally different, with the former describing me and the latter describing an atheist. And so you just won my argument for me; if religion requires belief, then an absence of any belief whatsoever, which is what i originally said I had, means that this state of mind of is not a religious one.
And don't get snotty with me because you can't tell the difference between "murder" and "murderer" and define the wrong word in rebuttal.
Yeah, too bad you totally warped what I was obviously trying to say because you can't come up with a sound argument supporting your incorrect statement.
OpenOffice *already* has excellent DBMS tools, of the same caliber as MS Visual Studio / MS Access, built RIGHT INTO it. It also has connectors for LDAP, ODBC, JDBC, and other native connectors. Actually its interface for designing queries, which also closely mirrors the MS and ERWIN idea, is far FAR superior to what I see in ReKall.
ReKall and Access are not DBMSs by any stretch of the imagination.The only thing that ReKall provides related to Access is a quick and dirty way to make forms to query your database. It is not anywhere near as powerfull as the database construction and query designer utilities in OpenOffice and Access.
In summary, ReKall has its nieche, providing the small part of Access that OpenOffice didn't provide, but OpenOffice can still do many things ReKall can't.
Who said anything about belief. I said R-E-L-I-G-I-O-N is not a verb, its not something you do its a state of mind.
If you have no argument, then just shut up. Don't go trying to pussyfoot your way out of a debate by arguing over language semantics like other famous politicians.
If you are worried about this then stop clicking "Yes" to the "Do you want mozilla to remember this information" box. Or turn the feature off altogether.
Don't make Mozilla out to be wrong just because you don't know how to read dialogs.
n : unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human
being [syn: {slaying}, {execution}]
v 1: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss
ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: {slay}, {hit}, {dispatch},
{bump off}, {polish off}, {remove}]
Try KDevelop.
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.. Namely, the new Gideon coming out with KDE 3.2( KDevelop 3.0 ). It's by far the best IDE available on Linux IMO, closed OR open. You've got code-completion, integrated debugging, integrated leak checking, integrated CVS, and it all works like a snap. And if you're dveeloping KDE or QT apps with it, it integrates with QT designer so you have a visual UI editor as well. Also the new version has support for Java.
I tried Kylix before, and seriously, KDevelop royally kicks its arse. I don't know why anyone wanting a graphical linux IDE would use anything else.
Of course, there's always VI for the non-grpahical peeps.
Religion isn't a verb. It's a belief. You don't "do" religion, if it required action then most of the > 75% of Americans who label themselves as christian would be lying because they haven't attended a church service since they were twelve. but they aren't lying because all it means is they believe in something.
What about people like me who could give a FLYING SHIT. I don't believe in God, I don't not believe in God. I dont think that it's possible to understand God. I just don't care either way if there is a God or not. I'll find out when I die. Until then it has no bearing on my life and arguing about it is just a waste of everyone's time.
So what does that make me? So far it rules out Athiest and Agnostic both (I used to think I was agnostic).
Since nearly everyone who uses the internet uses Google, I check the Zeitgeist every month to see what the latest stats are. As you can see, Windows 98 is down to only 29%. XP is at 38%, and 2000 is at 20%, combined, NT kernel based OSes comprise approx. 69% of the browsers who visit Google.
Minus User-Agent spoofers thouhg, but really thats a statstically insignificant number of people.
Frankley, true socialists believe that there would never be a shortage of workers. If you take huge population X odds are that there are a fair number of Y people who would actually *like* to perform job Z, be it janitorial work (yes some people like this), programming or whatever.
As for your second paragraph, this is toal bullshit since a true socialist doesn't believe in government control over the economy AT ALL. Thats just a twisted Soviet-Stalinist view of what socialism / communism means. It's not what Marx originally intended at all.
If true socualism was ever achieved on a global scale, no government would have any need to care about economics period. All they'd need to be concerned with is what a government should be concerned with, encorcing laws andd protecting human rights.
The book is not a review of the pros and cons of Jess, it is an instructional guide. If you bought this book you either already have a Jess implementation or are seriously considerig one. The bias of the author is as irrelavent as the bias of a Ford engineer writing the product repair manual for a F-150.
What is your problem? Why do you feel the need ot elevate yourself above your fellow man?
How would you like to work in a school filled with trash and messy tables?
The janitor's job is just as difficult as the teachers, perhaps even more so. It is a thankless job as well. Yet he does it. Why should he not be compensated equally?
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This fits perfectly with the old security adage of the 3 types. There are only 3 kinds of identification checks you can make on a user - something they have, something they know, and something they are. Using any one by itself is easily twarted, but combining any two is foolproof enough 99% of the time.
Your system uses the "something you have" (iButton) and the "something you know" (password), which is also the same scheme you use at an ATM machine (card + PIN).
The "something you are" is where biometrics come in.. something like a fingerprint scanner combined with a password, for instance.
Actually no. China used to be the huge source for population growth in Asia, until the GOvernment started offering finacial incentives to familties who stop at one child. Since replacement population rate is around 2.2 per couple, it only takes a copule of generations of low birth rates to bring the population down dramatically.
Reflection based displays, like eInk, are great for displaying text. But when it comes to representing graphical concepts they fall far short, since they're limited to greyscale.
It's fairly simple to adjust the amount of light reflected to make greyscale images. What is very hard to do is adjust the wavelengths reflected to make different colors. Until there is an easy way to do that discovered, light emitting displays is pretty much the only option for computing chores that rely on color.
Sure, kids in their mid teens could do complex arithmetic in their heads in the 1800s. But how many of them could factor a quadratic equation? How many of them could explain the basic makeup of DNA? How many of them would know the makeup of an atom? I knew all this stuff in jr. high.
There is only so much time in the day to teach kids stuff. As time progresses, certain things become deemed more and more elementary and are delegated to automation, hence calculators taking over most of math. But this doesn't mean education is necessarily suffering - it's progressing. People who graduate from HS today have as much (even more in some fields) raw knowledge as someone who had a doctorate in the 18th century. Would you rather them spend more time on basic math and less on science and advanced algebra? Of course not.
If in 20 years, my son knows the fundamentals of string theory in junior high, at the expense of having to use a calculator to be able to do simultanious equations, I'll consider that a *good* thing. Leave the mundane tasks to the machines, leave the ones that require actual thinking to the humans.
If this is anything like 95% of the windows laptops I know of, it was littered with bonsai buddy and RealPlayer and Windows Update and tons of other calling home crap. And more than likely, this bozo didn't format the PC or anything else. All the FBI would have to do is find out whats on the PC, and contact these companies for that software's unique IDs.
Write it in a letter, and send copies to SOCAN, your MP, and the editorial page of your local newspaper / TV station.
/. is pointless, you're preaching to the converted. You need to make issues such as this known to the general populace, Speak to them as a songwriter yourself and show them how this does not help songwriters, it only helps huge money grubbing corperations to suck more money out of young artists than they already do,
Saying stuff like this on
"Hey guys, I have a swell idea! Let's take an already huge and clumsy game console, and make it even LARGER! In fact, let's make it 3 TIMES LARGER!
While we are at it, we can increase its already HORRENDOUS power consumption by ADDING MORE LIGHTS!
This will get us on slashdot for sure!"
Seriously though, most case mods are cool, but this is retarded. Not only does it look like ass but the form factor is now so huge you could'nt even keep it in your entertainment centre. Plus I bet it is significantly noiser now that it isn't in its native housing.
The XBox is already a huge ugly console before doing this.
Contrary to popular belief, there is no person named "Magneto" and it would pretty much be impossible to magnetically rip the iron out of you rblood.
Aside from nonsense such as this I don't know why you'd be afraid of a magnatic field. Researchers with supercolliders are routinely within very short distances of fields orders of magnitude greater than anything this would produce.
Not to defend Diebold, but they wouldn't even be allowed to patch the systems. The software on those voting machines (at least in theory) all needs to be checked and double checked by this independant authority before its installed, and ONLY THAT approved softwate can be installed on the machines.
Thus, in order to patch them they first need to get the patch approved. Which is probably a very unneedingly so) lengthy process, knowing the government.
But why the hell these machines were on any kind of a network with any type of connection to the Internet is another question altogether.
The thing about that ad is it wasn't reallly tongue in cheek at all. Whether they admit it or not, nearly all Canadians feel that way about our neighbours to the south :P
:P
Which made it a really, really great ad, thay sold tons of merchadise as well, everything from mugs to shirts with the "Great Canadian Speel" on the back.
It was truely the most effective commercial I have seen in the past 10 years. And it probably cost them no more than 10 - 15 grand to make. Compare that to the millions they blow on superbowl commercials in the US
And explain how matricide can NOT be matriarchal? Or are you just throwing around big words you don't know the meanings of to sound important? Since thins is /. I would guess the latter.
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While this is technically correct, you have to believe something to have a (religious or otherwise) belief.
You can't define an action without also defining its opposite. So if there is such thing as belief, or "the act of believing", there is also the absence of it, or not believing. As such, there is a distinct difference between the absence of any belief and the belief that there is no God, who is "one who denies the existance of a God", they're totally different, with the former describing me and the latter describing an atheist. And so you just won my argument for me; if religion requires belief, then an absence of any belief whatsoever, which is what i originally said I had, means that this state of mind of is not a religious one.
And don't get snotty with me because you can't tell the difference between "murder" and "murderer" and define the wrong word in rebuttal.
Yeah, too bad you totally warped what I was obviously trying to say because you can't come up with a sound argument supporting your incorrect statement.
OpenOffice *already* has excellent DBMS tools, of the same caliber as MS Visual Studio / MS Access, built RIGHT INTO it. It also has connectors for LDAP, ODBC, JDBC, and other native connectors. Actually its interface for designing queries, which also closely mirrors the MS and ERWIN idea, is far FAR superior to what I see in ReKall.
ReKall and Access are not DBMSs by any stretch of the imagination.The only thing that ReKall provides related to Access is a quick and dirty way to make forms to query your database. It is not anywhere near as powerfull as the database construction and query designer utilities in OpenOffice and Access.
In summary, ReKall has its nieche, providing the small part of Access that OpenOffice didn't provide, but OpenOffice can still do many things ReKall can't.
Who said anything about belief. I said R-E-L-I-G-I-O-N is not a verb, its not something you do its a state of mind.
If you have no argument, then just shut up. Don't go trying to pussyfoot your way out of a debate by arguing over language semantics like other famous politicians.
"Define "IS"
- Bill Clinton, 1998
If you can't stream 640x480 compressed video over a 802.11b conenction, you have serious issues with your setup. I do this at home all the time.
If you are worried about this then stop clicking "Yes" to the "Do you want mozilla to remember this information" box. Or turn the feature off altogether.
Don't make Mozilla out to be wrong just because you don't know how to read dialogs.
murder
n : unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being [syn: {slaying}, {execution}]
v 1: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: {slay}, {hit}, {dispatch}, {bump off}, {polish off}, {remove}]
.. Namely, the new Gideon coming out with KDE 3.2( KDevelop 3.0 ). It's by far the best IDE available on Linux IMO, closed OR open. You've got code-completion, integrated debugging, integrated leak checking, integrated CVS, and it all works like a snap. And if you're dveeloping KDE or QT apps with it, it integrates with QT designer so you have a visual UI editor as well. Also the new version has support for Java.
I tried Kylix before, and seriously, KDevelop royally kicks its arse. I don't know why anyone wanting a graphical linux IDE would use anything else.
Of course, there's always VI for the non-grpahical peeps.
Religion isn't a verb. It's a belief. You don't "do" religion, if it required action then most of the > 75% of Americans who label themselves as christian would be lying because they haven't attended a church service since they were twelve. but they aren't lying because all it means is they believe in something.
So your analogy is incorrect.
What about people like me who could give a FLYING SHIT. I don't believe in God, I don't not believe in God. I dont think that it's possible to understand God. I just don't care either way if there is a God or not. I'll find out when I die. Until then it has no bearing on my life and arguing about it is just a waste of everyone's time.
So what does that make me? So far it rules out Athiest and Agnostic both (I used to think I was agnostic).
I need to know what to put on my busines cards!
Since nearly everyone who uses the internet uses Google, I check the Zeitgeist every month to see what the latest stats are. As you can see, Windows 98 is down to only 29%. XP is at 38%, and 2000 is at 20%, combined, NT kernel based OSes comprise approx. 69% of the browsers who visit Google.
Minus User-Agent spoofers thouhg, but really thats a statstically insignificant number of people.
Frankley, true socialists believe that there would never be a shortage of workers. If you take huge population X odds are that there are a fair number of Y people who would actually *like* to perform job Z, be it janitorial work (yes some people like this), programming or whatever.
As for your second paragraph, this is toal bullshit since a true socialist doesn't believe in government control over the economy AT ALL. Thats just a twisted Soviet-Stalinist view of what socialism / communism means. It's not what Marx originally intended at all.
If true socualism was ever achieved on a global scale, no government would have any need to care about economics period. All they'd need to be concerned with is what a government should be concerned with, encorcing laws andd protecting human rights.
The book is not a review of the pros and cons of Jess, it is an instructional guide. If you bought this book you either already have a Jess implementation or are seriously considerig one. The bias of the author is as irrelavent as the bias of a Ford engineer writing the product repair manual for a F-150.
What is your problem? Why do you feel the need ot elevate yourself above your fellow man?
How would you like to work in a school filled with trash and messy tables?
The janitor's job is just as difficult as the teachers, perhaps even more so. It is a thankless job as well. Yet he does it. Why should he not be compensated equally?