The threat to liberty is real. Those weapons exist and are in the hands of some very unstable states and people. If they decide to hand one bomb over to a terrorist organization and the terrorists set it off in New York, it'd kill many people and crater the economy, taking the US and American liberties with it.
The economy would recover, and the rest of the country would still have enough to eat. It would cause horrific devastation, but that is not enough to destroy liberty.
London was continuously bombed for over a year at the beginning of world war 2, as was Hanoi in 1965-66. This did nothing to threaten the people of those nations, if anything it made them more defiant.
I think right now at this time and this place the greatest threat to American liberty comes from al-Qaida and their sympathizers
A threat to American liberty? Sure they're a threat, but how on earth can a small, loosely knit band only really capable of random destruction threaten liberty? They may threaten building, airplanes, and (heaven forbid) a city, but the exact same destruction is wreaked on a larger scale around the world by natural disasters.
You need a large army, militia or police force to threaten liberty.
We could all switch to SCO OpenServer. They recently released service pack 2, a "a key milestone in the OpenServer development roadmap" which allows you to "easily connect to many USB-compatible devices."
Breathtaking stuff.
I wonder if their "pattern matching experts" will start finding OpenServer code in Linux usb.h now?
Yeah, but we won't be able to fast-forward through them on a DVD. I rented a DVD the other night that wouldn't let me skip the previews, which is reason enough to go get a pirated copy.
Amusingly, the very creator himsef of the Linux kernel doesn't share you're strict definition of using things that are only "free." I think the most hilarious thing about the community is the fact that while they in-fight over various things, Linus just uses whatever works for him.
And what works for him is the GPL. Since Linux is his entire life's work he probably cares quite deeply about the licence it's released under. He just doesn't evangelize about it.
The rest of the computing world is myopic, and the very fact that they don't care means they don't deserve any input into licencing issues for 'free' software. Why did you even bring them into it?
If mathematics are not universal, then the mathematical reasoning that can be conducted to deduce the laws of nature is also not universal. Hence, if a different civilization has different mathematics, they have different physical laws as well.
Where is this from? The only real physical "law" I know of is the second law of thermodynamics, and you don't need mathematics to arrive at that.
Physical phenomena are observed, not determined by mathematics.
You're right, and I don't really believe it. I'm just sick of hearing people denigrate Indian programmers because they're insecure about their precious jobs.
Realize that there are smart people in India, and there are smart people in the US.
And realize that there are four times as many smart people in India, simply because they have four times as many people. They're probably more effective workers too, being devoid of western egos.
In any case us western countries have had the lion's share of the distribution of wealth for far too long at the expense of poorer nations. I don't think we have the right to complain if an Indian coder takes our job.
I would just generate playlists at random with some script. I find that if I am involved in choosing what music from my collection I listen to, then I miss things because of prejudices.
It is, in fact, somewhat telling: the file uses the exact same words as the Unix standard and the exact same numbers.
They don't. You can read Linus' history of errno.h here. Apparantly the x86 errno.h doesn't even use the same error codes as in traditional UNIX.
Moreover, if you care to look here you will find that for many of those architectures on which Linux is ABI compatible with UNIX you will find that a major contributor is an employee of Caldera, whose contributions were endorsed by his employee, for the explicit purpose of allowing "Linux to support binaries compiled for non-Linux operating systems such as SCO OpenServer or Sun Solaris."
There's always the possibility that quantum mechanics is wrong for large scale objects, which are the only ones we know to produce a gravitational field.
What are the conflicts between general relativity and quantum mechanics? They have completely different scopes so don't conflict with each other. The fact that we can't come up with a theory that subsumes both has more to do with our ignorance than it does with "conflicts" between the two.
Their rebels are fighting because they hate us, or they want Saddam back. ie, they want a government based on power back, not one that is benificial for the people.
How the hell do you know what they're fighting for? Did CNN tell you?
True - a nice real time map of ionosphere reflection characteristics can be found here . The researchers themselves don't ever mention ionospheric bouncing.
On an unrelated not, the university I work at runs their own ionosonde. They used to have trouble with the station being vandalised until they put up a sign "Warning: this facility frequently bathed in high frequency electromagnetic radiation". The HF radiation in question was sunlight, but there hasn't been any problems since.
They seems very serious and it looks like a lot of thought has gone into it, judging by their publication list. For some retarded reason all the actual documents are in a restricted directory. I remember when academia was all about sharing ideas, now everyone's worried that someone else might beat them to the start up company.
Despite the raw emotions, however, the issue is clear: do you support copyrights and ownership of intellectual property as envisioned by our elected officials in Congress and the European Union, or do you support "free" - as in free from ownership - intellectual property envisioned by the Free Software Foundation, Red Hat and others? There really is no middle ground. The future of the global economy hangs in the balance.
In a nutshell, copyright and patent law protects the rights of people who decide to try make money out of their ideas and inventions. The GPL and copyleft are intended to protect the rights of people who decide to give their ideas and inventions away freely. The choice is entirely up to the originator of the idea, or the inventor, and I don't see why someone can't support both choices. I certainly hope that the US version of common law decides to whenever the GPL is getting aired in court.
But Darl quite likely pretends to himself that the entire world is either black or white.
In C++ I would be using the stl and trying to avoid pointers and arrays.
How are they clearly marked in Module-3 and C#? How does this allow you to reason about security? It sounds like you're just less likely to get a buffer overflow somewhere.
Heh. The Middle Earth Pantheon certainly doesn't lack in complexity. I've never counted the number of Valar and Maia introduced in the first chapter, and am not likely to unless I am stuck on a desert island with nothing but the Silmarillion and Liv Tyler begging me to count them for her. The only bit I paid much attention to was lineage of Sauron and Gandalf, everything else you can look up in the appendix if necessary.
However, the rest of the book is nothing like that at all. It's a collection of mythological epics, all of which I found quite enthralling. The story of Turin and Niniel is a beautiful tragedy.
So anyway, I just wanted to say that I didn't find the book boring or voluminous.
The only way to build a kernel that can be trusted is to develop it in languages and using runtimes that make it easy to reason about runtime safety and security.
I suspect that such a language would make it almost impossible to actually do anything.
The court would most likely ask why you didn't send a cease and desist letter to the people resposible for the website.
Anyways, we had several years with the world's greatest luddite Richard Alston in charge of Australian goverment policy on the internet. His take was that is was a threat to the very fabric of our wonderful society, and needed to be regulated out of existence. It will be interesting to see what his successor does.
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The threat to liberty is real. Those weapons exist and are in the hands of some very unstable states and people. If they decide to hand one bomb over to a terrorist organization and the terrorists set it off in New York, it'd kill many people and crater the economy, taking the US and American liberties with it.
The economy would recover, and the rest of the country would still have enough to eat. It would cause horrific devastation, but that is not enough to destroy liberty.
London was continuously bombed for over a year at the beginning of world war 2, as was Hanoi in 1965-66. This did nothing to threaten the people of those nations, if anything it made them more defiant.
I think right now at this time and this place the greatest threat to American liberty comes from al-Qaida and their sympathizers
A threat to American liberty? Sure they're a threat, but how on earth can a small, loosely knit band only really capable of random destruction threaten liberty? They may threaten building, airplanes, and (heaven forbid) a city, but the exact same destruction is wreaked on a larger scale around the world by natural disasters.
You need a large army, militia or police force to threaten liberty.
We could all switch to SCO OpenServer. They recently released service pack 2, a "a key milestone in the OpenServer development roadmap" which allows you to "easily connect to many USB-compatible devices."
Breathtaking stuff.
I wonder if their "pattern matching experts" will start finding OpenServer code in Linux usb.h now?
Yeah, but we won't be able to fast-forward through them on a DVD. I rented a DVD the other night that wouldn't let me skip the previews, which is reason enough to go get a pirated copy.
Amusingly, the very creator himsef of the Linux kernel doesn't share you're strict definition of using things that are only "free." I think the most hilarious thing about the community is the fact that while they in-fight over various things, Linus just uses whatever works for him.
And what works for him is the GPL. Since Linux is his entire life's work he probably cares quite deeply about the licence it's released under. He just doesn't evangelize about it.
The rest of the computing world is myopic, and the very fact that they don't care means they don't deserve any input into licencing issues for 'free' software. Why did you even bring them into it?
They only have a x86 binary only driver and some newbie fans going crazy because they can run quake with accelerated 3d on their system.
AFAIK they will work on PPCs so long as you aren't using an Apple flat panel. Or are you trying to insert the card into an alpha?
If mathematics are not universal, then the mathematical reasoning that can be conducted to deduce the laws of nature is also not universal. Hence, if a different civilization has different mathematics, they have different physical laws as well.
Where is this from? The only real physical "law" I know of is the second law of thermodynamics, and you don't need mathematics to arrive at that.
Physical phenomena are observed, not determined by mathematics.
You're right, and I don't really believe it. I'm just sick of hearing people denigrate Indian programmers because they're insecure about their precious jobs.
Realize that there are smart people in India, and there are smart people in the US.
And realize that there are four times as many smart people in India, simply because they have four times as many people. They're probably more effective workers too, being devoid of western egos.
In any case us western countries have had the lion's share of the distribution of wealth for far too long at the expense of poorer nations. I don't think we have the right to complain if an Indian coder takes our job.
I would just generate playlists at random with some script. I find that if I am involved in choosing what music from my collection I listen to, then I miss things because of prejudices.
It is, in fact, somewhat telling: the file uses the exact same words as the Unix standard and the exact same numbers.
They don't. You can read Linus' history of errno.h here. Apparantly the x86 errno.h doesn't even use the same error codes as in traditional UNIX.
Moreover, if you care to look here you will find that for many of those architectures on which Linux is ABI compatible with UNIX you will find that a major contributor is an employee of Caldera, whose contributions were endorsed by his employee, for the explicit purpose of allowing "Linux to support binaries compiled for non-Linux operating systems such as SCO OpenServer or Sun Solaris."
but we know that matter is quantum
There's always the possibility that quantum mechanics is wrong for large scale objects, which are the only ones we know to produce a gravitational field.
What are the conflicts between general relativity and quantum mechanics? They have completely different scopes so don't conflict with each other. The fact that we can't come up with a theory that subsumes both has more to do with our ignorance than it does with "conflicts" between the two.
Their rebels are fighting because they hate us, or they want Saddam back. ie, they want a government based on power back, not one that is benificial for the people.
How the hell do you know what they're fighting for? Did CNN tell you?
How slashdot handles these bogus urls :)
True - a nice real time map of ionosphere reflection characteristics can be found here . The researchers themselves don't ever mention ionospheric bouncing.
On an unrelated not, the university I work at runs their own ionosonde. They used to have trouble with the station being vandalised until they put up a sign "Warning: this facility frequently bathed in high frequency electromagnetic radiation". The HF radiation in question was sunlight, but there hasn't been any problems since.
They seems very serious and it looks like a lot of thought has gone into it, judging by their publication list. For some retarded reason all the actual documents are in a restricted directory. I remember when academia was all about sharing ideas, now everyone's worried that someone else might beat them to the start up company.
Now, one big complaint from the bush is that they get bugger all access to broadband.
Hell, my brother lives 20km from the Brisbane CBD and he can't get broadband.
hehe
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1. Read first paragraph of article.
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4. Cut and paste definition then post on relevent slashdot forum.
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Despite the raw emotions, however, the issue is clear: do you support copyrights and ownership of intellectual property as envisioned by our elected officials in Congress and the European Union, or do you support "free" - as in free from ownership - intellectual property envisioned by the Free Software Foundation, Red Hat and others? There really is no middle ground. The future of the global economy hangs in the balance.
In a nutshell, copyright and patent law protects the rights of people who decide to try make money out of their ideas and inventions. The GPL and copyleft are intended to protect the rights of people who decide to give their ideas and inventions away freely. The choice is entirely up to the originator of the idea, or the inventor, and I don't see why someone can't support both choices. I certainly hope that the US version of common law decides to whenever the GPL is getting aired in court.
But Darl quite likely pretends to himself that the entire world is either black or white.
In C++ I would be using the stl and trying to avoid pointers and arrays.
How are they clearly marked in Module-3 and C#? How does this allow you to reason about security? It sounds like you're just less likely to get a buffer overflow somewhere.
You have chosen the morning, I the evening.
Bah. I've got to get a life.
Heh. The Middle Earth Pantheon certainly doesn't lack in complexity. I've never counted the number of Valar and Maia introduced in the first chapter, and am not likely to unless I am stuck on a desert island with nothing but the Silmarillion and Liv Tyler begging me to count them for her. The only bit I paid much attention to was lineage of Sauron and Gandalf, everything else you can look up in the appendix if necessary.
However, the rest of the book is nothing like that at all. It's a collection of mythological epics, all of which I found quite enthralling. The story of Turin and Niniel is a beautiful tragedy.
So anyway, I just wanted to say that I didn't find the book boring or voluminous.
The only way to build a kernel that can be trusted is to develop it in languages and using runtimes that make it easy to reason about runtime safety and security.
I suspect that such a language would make it almost impossible to actually do anything.
The court would most likely ask why you didn't send a cease and desist letter to the people resposible for the website.
Anyways, we had several years with the world's greatest luddite Richard Alston in charge of Australian goverment policy on the internet. His take was that is was a threat to the very fabric of our wonderful society, and needed to be regulated out of existence. It will be interesting to see what his successor does.