It's too late for me. I'm already suffering from outrage fatigue. This latest insanity doesn't surprise me at all.
John Dean, Republican White House Legal Counsel who was fired by Richard Nixon in the Saturday Night Massacre, says Bush & Cheney "have created the most secretive presidency of my lifetime... far worse than during Watergate."
Ever since day 1, they've followed a whitelist secrecy model: default deny, only allow information that is absolutely necessary. Of course, while it's a smart network design, whitelisting is not particularly compatible with a few silly notions like freedom, democracy, open government, etc.
No, you should give us a break. You're being willfully obtuse.
When you upgrade from Win2K to WinXP (and presumably to Longhorn or whatever), bloat increases and speed decreases.
When you upgrade from 10.0 to Puma to Jaguar to Panther (and presumably to 10.4), features increase AND speed increases.
That's the comparison worth mentioning. And yes, I agree that Steve is rude for not providing version discounts (except for 10.1 which was free, thanks Steve). Nevertheless, each upgrade has been worth my money.
Ever get the feeling you're running in circles? I do all the time. I opened this week's commission meeting, and once again Pinky had forgotten his notes. As usual, he asked "Hey boss, what are we doing today?" And as usual, I replied "The same thing we do every day, Pinky: try to screw over the consumers."
So... WTF? Are you saying that in addition to giving the code back to the community, Apple should be required to provide a marketing campaign and convince people to use the OSS they work with? Or that Apple shouldn't work with low-market-share OSS and only use popular code like gecko and linux?
Ever consider that they picked KHTML because they prefer LGPL over MPL or GPL?
You post begs much explanation, because it makes no sense as is.
Just a shout out to one of my favorite overtly political games: Kimdom Come. It's an expanded variant of Missile Command where you play Kim Jong Il, glorious leader of North Korea. You can kidnap South Korean pop stars to make songs for you, but it hasn't implemented submarines to snatch Japanese women off their beaches yet.
That guy is so damn weird. Sea of fire, here we come!
open source and patented are orthogonal
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The blogger is misusing the term "open source". All patented works are open source, but still proprietary, not "free". Also the code of any organism can be read by performing PCR on its nuclear DNA. True, this is equivalent to assembly language, but it's currently the only language we have for genetics.
(Side topic: Whoever creates a high-level genetic language and compiler will either win the Nobel prize immediately, or be burned at the stake. Or both.)
The problem is abusive patents. The Schmeiser loss completely blew my mind. Canada has given carte blanche for Monsanto to (secretly) shoot their wad over the entire country, then charge royalties on every farmer. Patented food crops go way Way WAY across the line of human decency, but our wonderful nations of Freedom(tm) say it's a great business model.
Words fail me. I can't properly describe how insanely awful this is.
If it's any consolation, they haven't updated their web site:
It has been suggested that DRE machines are inherently subject to fraud unless there is an individual paper record of each vote. This seems extreme. DREs are extremely sophisticated machines and most DREs store information in multiple formats and in multiple places within its program. To tamper with a DRE someone would need to know each and every format and storage capacity and be able to manipulate it undetected. Additionally, it must be remembered that DREs are not an election system unto themselves; they are simply an instrument within a complex election system. The key is to design an overall system that builds in multiple checks making it improbable that the system will be tampered with.
Those "sophisticated" Diebold machines store all of the vote AND audit data in unencrypted MS Access databases. Various tiger teams have found it trivial to make undetectable changes (assuming you can break in to the Windows XP environment, har dee har harr)
The LWVUS does support an individual audit capacity for the purposes of recounts and authentication of elections for all voting systems, including, but not limited to, DREs. The LWVUS does not believe that an individual paper confirmation for each ballot is required to achieve those goals; in fact this is unnecessary and can be counterproductive. An individual paper confirmation for each ballot would undermine disability access requirements, raise costs, and slow down the purchase or lease of machines that might be needed to replace machines that don't work. Simply because a voter verifies their vote on a piece of paper does not guarantee the same results have been be recorded within the machine and vice versa. And why would we assume that, if the total from a paper count and the total from a machine count are different, the paper count is accurate?
Hopefully they delete the entirety of this paragraph except maybe the first sentence.
Akamai uses (some would say ABuses) DNS in ways the rest of us (even global megacorps) wouldn't dare. Half of Akamai's magic is their 10000+ carefully-scattered servers, but the other half is their routing. Those servers are listed differently depending on where you ask from.
It's not like a092156fg.akamai.net is in Seattle and k1039665.akamai.net is in Saskatoon. Instead, all of *.akamai.net goes to whatever cluster is "closest" to the requesting IP (based on BGP, Colonel's Secret Recipe, etc)
So if Akamai's DNS gets screwed up, I would expect major weirdness. And as more sites join EdgeSuite (where you host your entire domain on Akamai's servers & DNS) the effect must magnify.
Of course, I could be completely wrong. I'm not a routing god, just a guy who thinks Akamai is a cool hack.
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ATI Radeon 9800 XT with 256MB of DDR SDRAM (build-to-order option; occupies AGP slot and adjacent PCI slot) "
Apple Store BTO Page (dynamic, not linkable): " Special note on the ATI Radeon 9800 XT: due to size of this advanced graphics card, the adjacent PCI or PCI-X slot will be blocked and cannot be used. This reduces the number of available PCI or PCI-X slots from three to two. "
GPU's in these things suck. The Radeon 9800XT is a toy
Don't be an ass. Yes, the 9800XT is fast, but:
It's Build-To-Order only
It takes up an extra slot
Apple's top-end stock GPU, the 9600XT, is mid-range at this point. The other G5s still use the FX5200, which SUCKS HAIRY GOAT these days and does not belong in Apple's officially designated "Pro" machines.
I tried to post a mirror of http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/codecomparison/ alexey.html
But the lameness filter refused several attempts with varied formatting and ecode. Executive summary: out of tens of thousands of lines in Minix and pre-1.0 Linux, there were four similar sections:
1. in linux, include/linux/ctype.h: in minix, include/ctype.h:
These are the 'character type' macros. They predate both minix and linux, and are a part of the majority of C libraries. They are specified in the ANSI C standard(ANSI X3.159-1989), and are referred to in most C textbooks (i.e. "C++ How to Program"H. M. Deitel, P. J. Deitel --2nd ed. ISBN 0-13-528910-6).
2. in linux, include/linux/stat.h:
in minix, h/stat.h:
Both the names and values of these constants are specified by the POSIX standard.
3. in linux, in fs/read_write.c:
in minix, in fs/open.c
The behavior of the lseek system call is specified by POSIX. Since it is so simple, practically all implementations will be highly similar.
4. in linux, in fs/minix/inode.c: in minix, in fs/super.c
This operation is required in order to correctly mount the minix filesystem. All implementations would need this or equivalent code.
Since, out of thousand of lines of code, only 4 small segments were found to be similar, and since in each case the similarity was required by external factors (the C standard, the POSIX standard, the minix filesystem format), it is highly unlikely that any source code was copied either from minix to linux or vice-versa.
I really liked Independence Day because I saw it for what it was.
I expect my entertainment media to at least TRY not to screw up known facts (except where specifically necessary for the main plot point, and even then the pseudo-physics should be internally consistent). It breaks my WSD when (ID4) the First Lady has a soliloquy while dying of untreatable "internal bleeding" in a military hospital.
And if broken science is critical to the story, as DAT is likely to be, then I really can't see it at all without loud group heckling and probably beer.
I mildly enjoyed Independence Day as an advert for Apple's PowerBooks, but its science was absolutely atrocious. Given that science is much more central to the plotline in Day After Tomorrow, I'm preparing for it with dread.
Yesterday, Linda Chavez bemoaned DAT as liberal activism run amok in Hollywood (she also complained that Shrek2 has a pro-gay agenda). I would usually dismiss her ranting outright, except that last week I got emails from pro-environment maillists urging their readers to go see DAT as a "movie the White House doesn't want you to see". Huh? If Karl Rove says it's a bad movie, well, even a broken clock . ..
There's a surfeit of frightening facts about climate change (et al). Our biosphere is probably in massive danger, but it'll take 100ish years to get there, not 2 days. Propagandist lies are a tool of the dark side.
... says a man whose country was founded by non-uniformed irregulars. General Washington belatedly established a uniform in 1779, but even then many troops could barely afford food and ammo, much less color-coordinated suits.
Sarcastic inference is left as an exercise for the reader.
Using a wormhole is still the same thing, 100% interchangeable with time travel. Physicists such as Stephen Hawking have written proofs of this.
As for hyperspace -- ill-defined term, interchangeable with "carried by angels" or "magic beans". You may as well just ask the genie in the witch's mirror to show you the past.
Do not meddle in the affairs of scientists, for they are grumpy and quick to anger (especially before their coffee).
... to drop a camera X light years from us is a horrible kludge. FTL violates causality by definition, therefore it is physically equivalent to time travel. You may as well just go back in time directly and observe our past at arbitrary closeness.
I love how you forgot that the same thing was doen during the Civil War and WW2.
Umm... your point being? Indefinite detention of non-soldiers was DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL during the Civil War. Although the WW2 internment camps were allowed to stand at the time, they were officially designated a "great injustice" in hindsight.
Sooner or later, the same will be said of our abuses in the War on Freedom^H^H^HTerror. The only question is whether the denunciation will be accompanied by applause or explosions.
the best price/pollution ratio today is a small turbodiesel.
I love my Golf TDI. It averages 40-45mpg (seasonal) for commuting and 45-50mpg on interstate trips, actual verified mileage as opposed to the useless EPA estimates that this article talks about. But please don't kid yourself about pollution. TDIs still make more soot than gas engines, and it'll be years before low sulfur diesel is standard in the US.
I bought it for the mileage. My goal is to always have higher MPG than my age. IMO, suburban SUV owners (not park rangers, USGS, etc) are supporters of terrorism.
/usr/local is a commonly used place in many unixish OSes, but Apple likes to think different. This means that whenever you install a Mac upgrade (or even certain updates) there is a possibility that any non-Apple additions to/usr (also/dev,/bin,/var,/etc) will be overwritten by Apple.
Therefore, the safe-but-annoying choice is to put your 3rd party stuff somewhere else. For example, Fink defaults to the (previously nonexistent)/sw directory. Likewise,/opt does not exist in OSX (unless you install this Mono package)
any particular reason why we seem to be so sure of that?
Spectrometry. We've looked at all of the local objects fairly carefully and haven't seen signs of chemicals related to organic life as we know it. For example, Earth's atmosphere is full of highly reactive oxygen (aka fire, rust, krebs cycle, etc) and should not be abundant unless something is constantly producing it.
If memory serves, the atmosphere of Titan is not so different from that of the Earth a few billion years ago, before life began. So if there's life there, either it's inconceivably unlike us or it hasn't gone much up the ladder.
that a ten megaton hafniabomb would be the size of one million golf balls? That's pretty big...
Yep. The point of hafnium is NOT that it's more powerful than uranium or plutonium. The point is that you CANNOT make a U or P bomb smaller than a grapefruit (approximately), that's the critical mass limit. A golf ball sized bomb that can take out a small building -- that's a great weapon for assassination. Or terrorism.
For those of us non-nuclear scientists (like me) who thought isomer meant a molecule with different bond orientations (e.g. trans vs cis), here's an explanation: A nuclear isomer is a metastable state of an atom caused by the excitation of a proton or neutron in its nucleus so that it requires a change in spin before it can release its extra energy.
Next question: how the heck do you control the spin of individual baryons in a nucleus?
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Of course, if it were, either we would have gone there and slaughtered the natives already, or vice versa.
Instead, Mars and Venus serve as object lessons on the narrow window of planetary viability.It's too late for me. I'm already suffering from outrage fatigue. This latest insanity doesn't surprise me at all.
John Dean, Republican White House Legal Counsel who was fired by Richard Nixon in the Saturday Night Massacre, says Bush & Cheney "have created the most secretive presidency of my lifetimeEver since day 1, they've followed a whitelist secrecy model: default deny, only allow information that is absolutely necessary. Of course, while it's a smart network design, whitelisting is not particularly compatible with a few silly notions like freedom, democracy, open government, etc.
- When you upgrade from Win2K to WinXP (and presumably to Longhorn or whatever), bloat increases and speed decreases.
- When you upgrade from 10.0 to Puma to Jaguar to Panther (and presumably to 10.4), features increase AND speed increases.
That's the comparison worth mentioning. And yes, I agree that Steve is rude for not providing version discounts (except for 10.1 which was free, thanks Steve). Nevertheless, each upgrade has been worth my money.Ever consider that they picked KHTML because they prefer LGPL over MPL or GPL?
You post begs much explanation, because it makes no sense as is.That guy is so damn weird. Sea of fire, here we come!
The blogger is misusing the term "open source". All patented works are open source, but still proprietary, not "free". Also the code of any organism can be read by performing PCR on its nuclear DNA. True, this is equivalent to assembly language, but it's currently the only language we have for genetics.
(Side topic: Whoever creates a high-level genetic language and compiler will either win the Nobel prize immediately, or be burned at the stake. Or both.)
The problem is abusive patents. The Schmeiser loss completely blew my mind. Canada has given carte blanche for Monsanto to (secretly) shoot their wad over the entire country, then charge royalties on every farmer. Patented food crops go way Way WAY across the line of human decency, but our wonderful nations of Freedom(tm) say it's a great business model.
Words fail me. I can't properly describe how insanely awful this is.
It's not like a092156fg.akamai.net is in Seattle and k1039665.akamai.net is in Saskatoon. Instead, all of *.akamai.net goes to whatever cluster is "closest" to the requesting IP (based on BGP, Colonel's Secret Recipe, etc)
So if Akamai's DNS gets screwed up, I would expect major weirdness. And as more sites join EdgeSuite (where you host your entire domain on Akamai's servers & DNS) the effect must magnify.Of course, I could be completely wrong. I'm not a routing god, just a guy who thinks Akamai is a cool hack.
The bad Dr. Schön (aka Schoen) and his forged data were discussed on /. two years ago, when Bell Labs sacked him for the same reason.
BZZT. Thank you for playing, please try again.
Don't be an ass. Yes, the 9800XT is fast, but:
- It's Build-To-Order only
- It takes up an extra slot
Apple's top-end stock GPU, the 9600XT, is mid-range at this point. The other G5s still use the FX5200, which SUCKS HAIRY GOAT these days and does not belong in Apple's officially designated "Pro" machines.But the lameness filter refused several attempts with varied formatting and ecode. Executive summary: out of tens of thousands of lines in Minix and pre-1.0 Linux, there were four similar sections:
I expect my entertainment media to at least TRY not to screw up known facts (except where specifically necessary for the main plot point, and even then the pseudo-physics should be internally consistent). It breaks my WSD when (ID4) the First Lady has a soliloquy while dying of untreatable "internal bleeding" in a military hospital.
And if broken science is critical to the story, as DAT is likely to be, then I really can't see it at all without loud group heckling and probably beer.Yesterday, Linda Chavez bemoaned DAT as liberal activism run amok in Hollywood (she also complained that Shrek2 has a pro-gay agenda). I would usually dismiss her ranting outright, except that last week I got emails from pro-environment maillists urging their readers to go see DAT as a "movie the White House doesn't want you to see". Huh? If Karl Rove says it's a bad movie, well, even a broken clock . . .
There's a surfeit of frightening facts about climate change (et al). Our biosphere is probably in massive danger, but it'll take 100ish years to get there, not 2 days. Propagandist lies are a tool of the dark side.
... says a man whose country was founded by non-uniformed irregulars. General Washington belatedly established a uniform in 1779, but even then many troops could barely afford food and ammo, much less color-coordinated suits.
Sarcastic inference is left as an exercise for the reader.As for hyperspace -- ill-defined term, interchangeable with "carried by angels" or "magic beans". You may as well just ask the genie in the witch's mirror to show you the past.
Do not meddle in the affairs of scientists, for they are grumpy and quick to anger (especially before their coffee).... to drop a camera X light years from us is a horrible kludge. FTL violates causality by definition, therefore it is physically equivalent to time travel. You may as well just go back in time directly and observe our past at arbitrary closeness.
Umm... your point being? Indefinite detention of non-soldiers was DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL during the Civil War. Although the WW2 internment camps were allowed to stand at the time, they were officially designated a "great injustice" in hindsight.
Sooner or later, the same will be said of our abuses in the War on Freedom^H^H^HTerror. The only question is whether the denunciation will be accompanied by applause or explosions.I love my Golf TDI. It averages 40-45mpg (seasonal) for commuting and 45-50mpg on interstate trips, actual verified mileage as opposed to the useless EPA estimates that this article talks about. But please don't kid yourself about pollution. TDIs still make more soot than gas engines, and it'll be years before low sulfur diesel is standard in the US.
I bought it for the mileage. My goal is to always have higher MPG than my age. IMO, suburban SUV owners (not park rangers, USGS, etc) are supporters of terrorism.Therefore, the safe-but-annoying choice is to put your 3rd party stuff somewhere else. For example, Fink defaults to the (previously nonexistent) /sw directory. Likewise, /opt does not exist in OSX (unless you install this Mono package)
Of course, that's just the rocky objects. It's hard to make an educated guess about life in a gas giant.
Spectrometry. We've looked at all of the local objects fairly carefully and haven't seen signs of chemicals related to organic life as we know it. For example, Earth's atmosphere is full of highly reactive oxygen (aka fire, rust, krebs cycle, etc) and should not be abundant unless something is constantly producing it.
If memory serves, the atmosphere of Titan is not so different from that of the Earth a few billion years ago, before life began. So if there's life there, either it's inconceivably unlike us or it hasn't gone much up the ladder.
Yep. The point of hafnium is NOT that it's more powerful than uranium or plutonium. The point is that you CANNOT make a U or P bomb smaller than a grapefruit (approximately), that's the critical mass limit. A golf ball sized bomb that can take out a small building -- that's a great weapon for assassination. Or terrorism.
Next question: how the heck do you control the spin of individual baryons in a nucleus?