Exactly. I'd really like to know what these "tree hugging Luddites" propose that we do about our rather desperate situation in terms of electricity generation.
1. Burn coal? Nope. 2. Burn petroleum. Nope. 3. Nuclear power. Nope. NIMBY 4. Hydro power. Nope, think of the salmon! 5. Wind power. Nope. NIMBY 6. Solar power. NIMBY
etc...
They won't be happy until we're back in the days of using whale blubber lanterns to read at night...oh wait....
The only notable deviation is that the perps were "detained" in this case and the disruption was large enough that it got some unwanted attention.
Translation: The government cronies paid off by the "detained" individuals had less power than the government officials paid off by people inconvenienced by the DDOS attack.
It wouldn't have made the news at all except the bumbling "hackers" and the bag man (who rented the servers) managed to let their private commercial dispute disrupt DNS services in a couple of provinces. These bag men are just proxies for people in positions of power in the government who are profiting by skimming profits from these illegal servers.
Genetic variants? By many accounts, China outright fabricated passports for some of their prepubescent gymnasts in the last olympics. After an initial hand flapping, that got ignored. But some poor girl who (apparently through no fault of her own) has some natural advantage is being punished. That is simply crazy.
For fook sake...if someone is born with a vagina and they haven't taken drugs or gotten surgery to get there, they are a woman.
To try to weed someone out of the athletic process because God (or whatever you believe in) has given them "a little extra" is absurd.
Are we going to treat the Olympics like a dog show and start delving into genetics and "quality of their coat" and all the other BS nitpicks that people use to judge dogs in order to allow people to compete in sports? Absent an obvious attempt at cheating, I find this whole line of "testing" to be repulsive.
It is obvious what happened. Someone in the government who was benefitting financially from the imposition of Green Dam thought they could muscle it through. Someone with just a bit more juju who is a silent partner in a venture that's negatively impacted used the public outcry (which would normally be ignored) as a lever to squash Mr. Lesser Juju without him losing too much face. Had their little commercial spat gotten too public, it would have revealed in an even more obvious fashion how corrupt the Information Ministry (and the government in general) in China is.
As for morality and saving the children, I walk down ChangAn Street (the main drag that goes right through the center of Beijing and between Tian An Men Square and the Forbidden City) daily and there are easily a couple of dozen brothels operating rather openly within 1km of the cluster of government office buildings in the area near Dong (LOL) Dan.
Lance realized this very public oops wasn't going to do anything for his future employment prospects. A shame it had to come to that, but sometimes you need to upgrade from a feather to a cattle prod to get results.
The problem with scientific linux is that it is not updated frequently at all. CentOS is attractive because they are usually pretty quick about folding in security fixes shortly after they are released by Redhat.
One of the other key developers, Karanbir Singh, disappeared (albeit for a very legit reason...he got married and had the gall to go on a honeymoon ) at a very inconvenient time during which a version update was to be released earlier this year. The remaining developers either wouldn't or couldn't complete the process in his absence....the end result being a significant delay in the CentOS 5.2-->5.3 upgrade process.
I have been an active user of CentOS since version 3 (back in 2004) and it would really pain me to see such a great project fall on hard times or disband/fork. Enough of my production machines are running on CentOS that this latest strangeness has got me seriously evaluating Ubuntu's server product for low budget applications and convincing other deeper pocketed clients to consider reverting back to RHEL.
Here's hoping they manage to sort things out and come up with a more evenly distributed model for project responsibility.
For example, a couple of weeks ago I began receiving robocalls to my mobile number from some "collection agency." They were obviously looking for someone else so I wasted a couple of minutes of airtime waiting for a human to pick up. After picking up, the twit basically said "we have the right person and you owe us $X" and that the calls would continue. I told them to never call me again and remove my number from their list. Now the robocalls continue at odd hours of the night and morning. When I complained to my carrier (ATT), they basically said "there's nothing we can do about it. BUT if you sign up for this new service for $4.99/month you can block specific numbers." So I complained that they were extorting money out of me to protect me from harassing phone calls. They suggested I complain to the FCC and didn't offer to help at all (other than suggesting yet another monthly fee).
I'd love to just punt ATT, but they offer the best coverage around here. I'm open to suggestions on how to deal with this. ATT wouldn't even agree to block all "unknown/blocked callerID" numbers for me.
I suspect a lot of companies are gun shy about "rushing" into any standards after the sphincter-busting tactics of Rambus in the JEDEC memory standards fiasco.
In a blow to the domestic economy, American defense contractors have re-adjusted their bids. In light of new competition, next generation shuttle toilet seats will now only cost US$20,000. It's all Elon's fault.
Illegally load VOIP apps and make calls over the net = cut into the revenue stream for one of the state owned telecom monopolies that doles out substantial sums to friends/relatives/mistresses of the same folks that regulate the telecom industry in the country.
You don't really think those government functionaries who earn the legitimate equivalent of a secretary's salary in the west can afford the garages full of luxury cars, the multiple homes, and the expense of sending their children to overseas universities, eh?
I found these instructions in May 2008 and created a reasonably current snapshot of wikipedia that is still rather compact on a Psion 5MX. Not quite the same "curb appeal" as an iPhone, but a lot more functional.
This actually happened to me. A few years back I had open heart surgery. After spending a week in hospital, I was released with a big fat percocet prescription (having your sternum in 2 halves is remarkably painful). I was told to "try" to get by on Tylenol, but to take the percocet if the pain was too much. Funny thing about narcotics...it's pretty easy to forget how many and exactly WHEN you last took the medication. In 3 days, I managed to completely shut down my liver by taking two percocets every 4-6 hours. Back into hospital I went and it took about a week for my liver to "wake up." It could have just as easily failed permanently and resulted in my eventual death.
The doctors and nurses who were responsible for prescribing the medication did a lot of finger pointing about WHO should have let me know about the risk of hepatic failure, but the end result was "you should have known better." I'm a programmer, not a doctor...for fook sake.
Also, as someone else mentioned, it is remarkably easy to destroy your liver when you consume alcohol along with acetaminophen. That should be a big bold warning on the label, not fine print.
Actually, they really don't have anywhere to go. Ask a Chinese citizen how difficult (nearly impossible) for anyone but the uber rich to get a visa to travel to a "first world" country.
Oh, and there is indeed a high degree of complacency about government control/meddling in their everyday lives. Mei ban fa.
Why should Microsoft care if the Win7 prices are "competitive" or not? They've got a captive audience consisting mainly of new PC buyers and existing corporate seats. I suspect they simply did an analysis to determine the amount that maximizes license revenue from those two fish in a barrel and didn't even consider the cost of other alternatives.
Did you even read the article? It doesn't appear that the employee was at fault. The computer was "disposed of" by some outside company. Allegedly, they are responsible for sanitizing the hardware prior to binning it or parting it out.
I would expect, however, that this "outside firm" is wondering if they still have their contract with Northrop Grumman. I suspect not.
The AVERAGE cost for a vehicle purchased in the US today is about $28k. So with the government backhand to the industry in the form of tax incentives, a sticker price in the mid-30's would be within the grasp of the "average" auto buyer.
China is run by a very small group of disconnected old men who are deathly afraid of losing their grip on power (and the privilege and corruption proceeds that flow from it). They are watching groups of other old guard dictators slowly succumb (often with a fight and loss of innocent lives) to the will of a younger generation in other hard line countries around the world.
It's futile steps like this that show how desperate the CCP is to do something (anything) to slow down the inevitable. Fasten your seatbelts because it's going to be a VERY bumpy ride. These guys aren't going to just melt away without digging in their heels and fighting.
Whether there are only "a few differences on paper but little substantial difference" between Ahmadinejad and Moussavi, that is not the point. The point is that the election was rigged. The fact that the mullahs felt the need to rig an election where both front-runners only have "a few differences on paper, but little substantial difference," speaks volumes about how much "dissent" will be tolerated by the Ayatollacrats.
For the moment, people don't see/hear a difference because there is a vanishingly small number of people that have a 1080p TV (though these are becoming quite affordable now) and even fewer that have a surround processor/receiver that can deal with the new audio formats (which can only be excreted digitally by HDMI). So if you play a bluray movie on a 720p (or less) display and use an older processor that can only do Dolby Digital it isn't surprising that people "don't see much of a difference."
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Exactly. I'd really like to know what these "tree hugging Luddites" propose that we do about our rather desperate situation in terms of electricity generation.
1. Burn coal? Nope.
2. Burn petroleum. Nope.
3. Nuclear power. Nope. NIMBY
4. Hydro power. Nope, think of the salmon!
5. Wind power. Nope. NIMBY
6. Solar power. NIMBY
etc...
They won't be happy until we're back in the days of using whale blubber lanterns to read at night...oh wait....
"By setting the keyboard to 'always on', launching a game and restarting BASIC, players got into the 'empty shell' of their C64 emulator."
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Next thing you know they'll block my app that allows users to connect a cassette tape drive. The nerve....
The only notable deviation is that the perps were "detained" in this case and the disruption was large enough that it got some unwanted attention.
Translation: The government cronies paid off by the "detained" individuals had less power than the government officials paid off by people inconvenienced by the DDOS attack.
It wouldn't have made the news at all except the bumbling "hackers" and the bag man (who rented the servers) managed to let their private commercial dispute disrupt DNS services in a couple of provinces. These bag men are just proxies for people in positions of power in the government who are profiting by skimming profits from these illegal servers.
*shrug*
Genetic variants? By many accounts, China outright fabricated passports for some of their prepubescent gymnasts in the last olympics. After an initial hand flapping, that got ignored. But some poor girl who (apparently through no fault of her own) has some natural advantage is being punished. That is simply crazy.
For fook sake...if someone is born with a vagina and they haven't taken drugs or gotten surgery to get there, they are a woman.
To try to weed someone out of the athletic process because God (or whatever you believe in) has given them "a little extra" is absurd.
Are we going to treat the Olympics like a dog show and start delving into genetics and "quality of their coat" and all the other BS nitpicks that people use to judge dogs in order to allow people to compete in sports? Absent an obvious attempt at cheating, I find this whole line of "testing" to be repulsive.
It is obvious what happened. Someone in the government who was benefitting financially from the imposition of Green Dam thought they could muscle it through. Someone with just a bit more juju who is a silent partner in a venture that's negatively impacted used the public outcry (which would normally be ignored) as a lever to squash Mr. Lesser Juju without him losing too much face. Had their little commercial spat gotten too public, it would have revealed in an even more obvious fashion how corrupt the Information Ministry (and the government in general) in China is.
As for morality and saving the children, I walk down ChangAn Street (the main drag that goes right through the center of Beijing and between Tian An Men Square and the Forbidden City) daily and there are easily a couple of dozen brothels operating rather openly within 1km of the cluster of government office buildings in the area near Dong (LOL) Dan.
Probably a step up from how you'd feel if a discussion of women and relationships came up. ;)
Lance realized this very public oops wasn't going to do anything for his future employment prospects. A shame it had to come to that, but sometimes you need to upgrade from a feather to a cattle prod to get results.
While the feature set is nice, it doesn't appear to support encryption at all. That's a deal breaker for me.
The problem with scientific linux is that it is not updated frequently at all. CentOS is attractive because they are usually pretty quick about folding in security fixes shortly after they are released by Redhat.
One of the other key developers, Karanbir Singh, disappeared (albeit for a very legit reason...he got married and had the gall to go on a honeymoon ) at a very inconvenient time during which a version update was to be released earlier this year. The remaining developers either wouldn't or couldn't complete the process in his absence....the end result being a significant delay in the CentOS 5.2-->5.3 upgrade process.
I have been an active user of CentOS since version 3 (back in 2004) and it would really pain me to see such a great project fall on hard times or disband/fork. Enough of my production machines are running on CentOS that this latest strangeness has got me seriously evaluating Ubuntu's server product for low budget applications and convincing other deeper pocketed clients to consider reverting back to RHEL.
Here's hoping they manage to sort things out and come up with a more evenly distributed model for project responsibility.
For example, a couple of weeks ago I began receiving robocalls to my mobile number from some "collection agency." They were obviously looking for someone else so I wasted a couple of minutes of airtime waiting for a human to pick up. After picking up, the twit basically said "we have the right person and you owe us $X" and that the calls would continue. I told them to never call me again and remove my number from their list. Now the robocalls continue at odd hours of the night and morning. When I complained to my carrier (ATT), they basically said "there's nothing we can do about it. BUT if you sign up for this new service for $4.99/month you can block specific numbers." So I complained that they were extorting money out of me to protect me from harassing phone calls. They suggested I complain to the FCC and didn't offer to help at all (other than suggesting yet another monthly fee).
I'd love to just punt ATT, but they offer the best coverage around here. I'm open to suggestions on how to deal with this. ATT wouldn't even agree to block all "unknown/blocked callerID" numbers for me.
Sigh....
I suspect a lot of companies are gun shy about "rushing" into any standards after the sphincter-busting tactics of Rambus in the JEDEC memory standards fiasco.
In a blow to the domestic economy, American defense contractors have re-adjusted their bids. In light of new competition, next generation shuttle toilet seats will now only cost US$20,000. It's all Elon's fault.
Let me translate:
Illegally load VOIP apps and make calls over the net = cut into the revenue stream for one of the state owned telecom monopolies that doles out substantial sums to friends/relatives/mistresses of the same folks that regulate the telecom industry in the country.
You don't really think those government functionaries who earn the legitimate equivalent of a secretary's salary in the west can afford the garages full of luxury cars, the multiple homes, and the expense of sending their children to overseas universities, eh?
Welcome to China.
http://www.instructables.com/id/SBK1NAUFF78M26B/
I found these instructions in May 2008 and created a reasonably current snapshot of wikipedia that is still rather compact on a Psion 5MX. Not quite the same "curb appeal" as an iPhone, but a lot more functional.
Best,
This actually happened to me. A few years back I had open heart surgery. After spending a week in hospital, I was released with a big fat percocet prescription (having your sternum in 2 halves is remarkably painful). I was told to "try" to get by on Tylenol, but to take the percocet if the pain was too much. Funny thing about narcotics...it's pretty easy to forget how many and exactly WHEN you last took the medication. In 3 days, I managed to completely shut down my liver by taking two percocets every 4-6 hours. Back into hospital I went and it took about a week for my liver to "wake up." It could have just as easily failed permanently and resulted in my eventual death.
The doctors and nurses who were responsible for prescribing the medication did a lot of finger pointing about WHO should have let me know about the risk of hepatic failure, but the end result was "you should have known better." I'm a programmer, not a doctor...for fook sake.
Also, as someone else mentioned, it is remarkably easy to destroy your liver when you consume alcohol along with acetaminophen. That should be a big bold warning on the label, not fine print.
Best,
Actually, they really don't have anywhere to go. Ask a Chinese citizen how difficult (nearly impossible) for anyone but the uber rich to get a visa to travel to a "first world" country.
Oh, and there is indeed a high degree of complacency about government control/meddling in their everyday lives. Mei ban fa.
Why should Microsoft care if the Win7 prices are "competitive" or not? They've got a captive audience consisting mainly of new PC buyers and existing corporate seats. I suspect they simply did an analysis to determine the amount that maximizes license revenue from those two fish in a barrel and didn't even consider the cost of other alternatives.
Best,
Did you even read the article? It doesn't appear that the employee was at fault. The computer was "disposed of" by some outside company. Allegedly, they are responsible for sanitizing the hardware prior to binning it or parting it out.
I would expect, however, that this "outside firm" is wondering if they still have their contract with Northrop Grumman. I suspect not.
Yet another example of some bonehead "disposing" of old equipment without wiping the data first. Time to start cranking out those Pulitzer prizes. ;)
The AVERAGE cost for a vehicle purchased in the US today is about $28k. So with the government backhand to the industry in the form of tax incentives, a sticker price in the mid-30's would be within the grasp of the "average" auto buyer.
Best,
China is run by a very small group of disconnected old men who are deathly afraid of losing their grip on power (and the privilege and corruption proceeds that flow from it). They are watching groups of other old guard dictators slowly succumb (often with a fight and loss of innocent lives) to the will of a younger generation in other hard line countries around the world.
It's futile steps like this that show how desperate the CCP is to do something (anything) to slow down the inevitable. Fasten your seatbelts because it's going to be a VERY bumpy ride. These guys aren't going to just melt away without digging in their heels and fighting.
Best,
Whether there are only "a few differences on paper but little substantial difference" between Ahmadinejad and Moussavi, that is not the point. The point is that the election was rigged. The fact that the mullahs felt the need to rig an election where both front-runners only have "a few differences on paper, but little substantial difference," speaks volumes about how much "dissent" will be tolerated by the Ayatollacrats.
Best,
For the moment, people don't see/hear a difference because there is a vanishingly small number of people that have a 1080p TV (though these are becoming quite affordable now) and even fewer that have a surround processor/receiver that can deal with the new audio formats (which can only be excreted digitally by HDMI). So if you play a bluray movie on a 720p (or less) display and use an older processor that can only do Dolby Digital it isn't surprising that people "don't see much of a difference."
Best,