I can't see flicker, my monitors are usually at a resolution that makes normal humans claw their eyes out if they look over my shoulder... I should patent that as a security technique;-)
Is it just me, BTW, or are the library record provisions in there because somebody in the government watched Seven just before the brainstorming session?
Seriously though, I reckon if a security measure doesn't catch anybody, then you need to consider if it is needed or not...
Exactly right. I suspect that the FBI et al are pretty decent bunch of guys and gals who are doing their best to keep the free world safe, and so this finding does not surprise me.
But that doesn't change my belief that you should give the state as few powers as you can get away with, because power is dangerous when abused, and people are only human.
I don't really expect that Charles Clarke in the UK would have abused his proposed power of house arrest without involving the courts, but I still don;t think he should have that power. Even now he has to get a judge to sign off on it, I don't believe he needs that power.
Can I just step in as someone who has actually had to use TeX in the past for what it is designed for - i.e. typsetting mathematics.
If this is what you need to do, then you need to use TeX. Don't waste time arguing, use TeX.
If you are a girlie-man and cannot manage to learn TeX, it is acceptable to use something that puts a user-friendly layer on top of TeX, but that's as far as it goes.
How many other applications can you think of that do what they are meant to so well that there is no point thinking of using any other product?
I think you're missing a bit of sarcasm. Robbedoeske writes "Which of the contestants delivers the best performance, offers the best value for money and has the best featureset?"
Well, the answer is, to quote Spaced: "skip to the end".
Areca ARC-1120 is the best card, and the HighPoint RocketRAID 1820A is the best value for money.
I began to wonder if Samba integration to Open Directory was easy or not, so I looked it up - should have guessed, Samba is already built in to Open Directory!
So, if you're not using an application on the PCs that demands AD, then not using AD seems to be the answer.
However, I fear that you do really need AD, since otherwise your question is a bit pointless!
Or do you just require some sort of authentication mechanism?
I ask since some software packages depend on and demand you use AD, but if you have none of that then things like e.g. Samba could be possible alternatives, and might be easier to integrate.
I would hope that you wouldn't have to put the MS stuff at the top, since that would be a bad network design, but it wouldn't surprise me if you end up having to do this.
That number includes every death involving a firearm, including accidents, suicides, and legal police/military, BTW.
Interesting site. I see that 45,579 people were killed in 2002 were killed by motor veichles in 2002, so what are you wasting your time with gun control for? You should be banning those cars first, then come back for the guns.
... they've included a new combat gametype that is more like a standard FPS.
I wonder if this is good or bad... the learning curve to get in the game is what put me off NS before. Even SI is not that hard to pick up, but NS just baffled me.
Exactly my point. Since I got wireless broadband at home, it has made such a difference. Why buy autoroute, when Michelin or www.theaa.com does everything it could?
Drawing would be hard, I agree. But I would trust google to keep my personal docs in my gmail account; heh, a simple interface to LaTeX and a way to generate PDFs (so I can print) would be perfect.
Ah, but I play games on my XBox, and watch video on my PVR.
You have a good point though, long term predictions in the tech industry are always dodgy...
As that EFF Grokster document pointed out, the internet is meant to be peer to peer, all this client server nonsense is just a temporary arrangement to cope with underpowered PCs and slow links.
And how hard would it be for them or anyone else to make a system that was a Linux kernel + firefox + plugins, and put it in ROM on a range of cheap ARM-based tablet PCs in 3 sizes (paperback book, trad tablet, imac style desktop version) with wifi (and maybe GPRS/3G) and sell them? Then they have a chepa package that contains everything you need to run their platform.
To me, the real OS that is going to replace everything is called the browser, and who better than Google to make that happen?
I mean, what do people actually do with a client PC that you couldn't, in theory, do with a browser and some plug-ins?
You can read news, e-mail, IM, blog, phone, listen to streaming audio and video, look at a recipie database, access an ERP or CRM system, upload the pictures from your digital camera, configure a firewall.
What if Google introduced a GWord that let you do basic word processing and store the documents in your gmail account? And a GSheet? GQuicken? (privacy nuts would freak, of course) GCalendar with a way to sync with a mobile phone? (SMS messages perhaps? Or would your always on 3G phone just access gcalendar.google.com/pda and beep when the alarms are due?)
Google are ideally placed to keep expanding this until Windows, Linux, OSX, etc. become irrelevant except for a handful of specialised tasks. Everything is in a browser; wireless is everywhere; and your computer becomes a phone handset or a TV/PVR or a imac style intelligent screen in it or a tablet or a seat in an internet cafe or a thing between PDA and tablet the size of a thin paperback novel.
I read somewhere something that gave me pause for thought. When electricity was new, companies had electricity departments and electricity managers and chief electricity officers and so on. Nowadays that sounds silly, electricity just works. Won't computing go the same way?
I'm sure it's a very good book,but surely it is a bizzare conclusion to say that America does not expand thru conquest because of it's constitution.
Surely it is because it has never needed to? For all of it's life it has had more empty land than it can use, and as many people as it cares to let in, and more minerals than it could want.
These days, perhaps that has changed because of oil, but it's hard to control a distant colony - simpler just to buy the damn stuff.
Well, then repeal it. You have a perfectly good mechanism for repealing an ammendment if you think it is out of date.
What I argue that you should not do is introduce laws that try and get round it, like every other state seems to be doing. I mean, can you own a gun legally in NYC? If not, it would seem to me that osmething is wrong.
If you RTFA, you discover exactly what this is. It's a Sony K750i with a "play" and a "stop" button on it. Oh, and it's a different colour.
Woo. I recently had a MP3 playing smartphone for a few days myself - a Sendo X. Lovely phone, adequate MP3 player (there is an interface annoyance but the sound is fine), only problem is that is has a bug in it that makes it crap at reacquiring the network if you disconnect for any reason.
Perhaps they use that technology they have on CSI.
You know the one, where they take a frame from a liquor store's video surveillance camera and blow up a reflection in the suspect's eye so much they can see a fingerprint on the hood of a car two blocks away.
Man, I want some of that technology in my cellphone.
I'm afraid you do me an injustice; I'm not quite vain enough to believe that just because I've never heard of something that means it must be so new that no-one else has either.;-)
I think I will try it, actually, it sounds very interesting.
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Oh, it's just occured to me, could it be my Goatse wallpaper that's making them claw their eyes out?
(I know, I know, but I thought it was for the best that I make that "joke" before anyones else did)
I can't see flicker, my monitors are usually at a resolution that makes normal humans claw their eyes out if they look over my shoulder... I should patent that as a security technique ;-)
Is it just me, BTW, or are the library record provisions in there because somebody in the government watched Seven just before the brainstorming session?
Seriously though, I reckon if a security measure doesn't catch anybody, then you need to consider if it is needed or not...
Exactly right. I suspect that the FBI et al are pretty decent bunch of guys and gals who are doing their best to keep the free world safe, and so this finding does not surprise me.
But that doesn't change my belief that you should give the state as few powers as you can get away with, because power is dangerous when abused, and people are only human.
I don't really expect that Charles Clarke in the UK would have abused his proposed power of house arrest without involving the courts, but I still don;t think he should have that power. Even now he has to get a judge to sign off on it, I don't believe he needs that power.
Can I just step in as someone who has actually had to use TeX in the past for what it is designed for - i.e. typsetting mathematics.
If this is what you need to do, then you need to use TeX. Don't waste time arguing, use TeX.
If you are a girlie-man and cannot manage to learn TeX, it is acceptable to use something that puts a user-friendly layer on top of TeX, but that's as far as it goes.
How many other applications can you think of that do what they are meant to so well that there is no point thinking of using any other product?
I think you're missing a bit of sarcasm. Robbedoeske writes "Which of the contestants delivers the best performance, offers the best value for money and has the best featureset?"
Well, the answer is, to quote Spaced: "skip to the end".
Areca ARC-1120 is the best card, and the HighPoint RocketRAID 1820A is the best value for money.
Easy!
I began to wonder if Samba integration to Open Directory was easy or not, so I looked it up - should have guessed, Samba is already built in to Open Directory!
So, if you're not using an application on the PCs that demands AD, then not using AD seems to be the answer.
However, I fear that you do really need AD, since otherwise your question is a bit pointless!
Or do you just require some sort of authentication mechanism?
I ask since some software packages depend on and demand you use AD, but if you have none of that then things like e.g. Samba could be possible alternatives, and might be easier to integrate.
I would hope that you wouldn't have to put the MS stuff at the top, since that would be a bad network design, but it wouldn't surprise me if you end up having to do this.
That number includes every death involving a firearm, including accidents, suicides, and legal police/military, BTW.
Interesting site. I see that 45,579 people were killed in 2002 were killed by motor veichles in 2002, so what are you wasting your time with gun control for? You should be banning those cars first, then come back for the guns.
... they've included a new combat gametype that is more like a standard FPS.
I wonder if this is good or bad... the learning curve to get in the game is what put me off NS before. Even SI is not that hard to pick up, but NS just baffled me.
No no no, there is tremendous value in security through obscurity! Your front door is an example: most mechanical locks
The problem with it is that sometimes people assume that is enough in a situation when it isn't.
They are the people who make the ipods, aren't they, do they do computers too?
Exactly my point. Since I got wireless broadband at home, it has made such a difference. Why buy autoroute, when Michelin or www.theaa.com does everything it could?
Drawing would be hard, I agree. But I would trust google to keep my personal docs in my gmail account; heh, a simple interface to LaTeX and a way to generate PDFs (so I can print) would be perfect.
Ah, but I play games on my XBox, and watch video on my PVR.
You have a good point though, long term predictions in the tech industry are always dodgy...
As that EFF Grokster document pointed out, the internet is meant to be peer to peer, all this client server nonsense is just a temporary arrangement to cope with underpowered PCs and slow links.
I'm not actually American, BTW....
And how hard would it be for them or anyone else to make a system that was a Linux kernel + firefox + plugins, and put it in ROM on a range of cheap ARM-based tablet PCs in 3 sizes (paperback book, trad tablet, imac style desktop version) with wifi (and maybe GPRS/3G) and sell them? Then they have a chepa package that contains everything you need to run their platform.
To me, the real OS that is going to replace everything is called the browser, and who better than Google to make that happen?
I mean, what do people actually do with a client PC that you couldn't, in theory, do with a browser and some plug-ins?
You can read news, e-mail, IM, blog, phone, listen to streaming audio and video, look at a recipie database, access an ERP or CRM system, upload the pictures from your digital camera, configure a firewall.
What if Google introduced a GWord that let you do basic word processing and store the documents in your gmail account? And a GSheet? GQuicken? (privacy nuts would freak, of course) GCalendar with a way to sync with a mobile phone? (SMS messages perhaps? Or would your always on 3G phone just access gcalendar.google.com/pda and beep when the alarms are due?)
Google are ideally placed to keep expanding this until Windows, Linux, OSX, etc. become irrelevant except for a handful of specialised tasks. Everything is in a browser; wireless is everywhere; and your computer becomes a phone handset or a TV/PVR or a imac style intelligent screen in it or a tablet or a seat in an internet cafe or a thing between PDA and tablet the size of a thin paperback novel.
I read somewhere something that gave me pause for thought. When electricity was new, companies had electricity departments and electricity managers and chief electricity officers and so on. Nowadays that sounds silly, electricity just works. Won't computing go the same way?
I'm sure it's a very good book,but surely it is a bizzare conclusion to say that America does not expand thru conquest because of it's constitution.
Surely it is because it has never needed to? For all of it's life it has had more empty land than it can use, and as many people as it cares to let in, and more minerals than it could want.
These days, perhaps that has changed because of oil, but it's hard to control a distant colony - simpler just to buy the damn stuff.
Well, then repeal it. You have a perfectly good mechanism for repealing an ammendment if you think it is out of date.
What I argue that you should not do is introduce laws that try and get round it, like every other state seems to be doing. I mean, can you own a gun legally in NYC? If not, it would seem to me that osmething is wrong.
But the Supreme Court seem not to agree. Ho hum.
We're having a sensible conversation, what will this do to our karma?
Hmmm... what definition of legitimate am I using them... I don't know. "Morally right" perhaps?
Pah, I'm waiting for a phone that is designed for people who can't talk.
If you RTFA, you discover exactly what this is. It's a Sony K750i with a "play" and a "stop" button on it. Oh, and it's a different colour.
Woo. I recently had a MP3 playing smartphone for a few days myself - a Sendo X. Lovely phone, adequate MP3 player (there is an interface annoyance but the sound is fine), only problem is that is has a bug in it that makes it crap at reacquiring the network if you disconnect for any reason.
Pity...
Hey, now, be fair, Paris knew her password. Problem was she picked one that everyone else knew too - the name of her dog.
Well, OK, I didn't know the name of her dog, but I think I would have looked it up if I was trying to hack her hipster.
("Is that what you young people call it these days?")
Problem with Paris using facial recognition though is that apparently there are a few photos of her on the internet....
Perhaps they use that technology they have on CSI.
You know the one, where they take a frame from a liquor store's video surveillance camera and blow up a reflection in the suspect's eye so much they can see a fingerprint on the hood of a car two blocks away.
Man, I want some of that technology in my cellphone.
I'm afraid you do me an injustice; I'm not quite vain enough to believe that just because I've never heard of something that means it must be so new that no-one else has either. ;-)
I think I will try it, actually, it sounds very interesting.