FlashMobComputing is unlikely to get much higher up the GFlops ladder as long as their network runs on 100baseT ethernet. Unlike SETI or folding@home, most supercomputing problems are not "embarrassingly parallel". Things like Top500's Linpack are mainly bandwidth-bound, not CPU-bound.
Remember that when Apple & Virginia Tech designed Big Mac, both firewire and gigabit ethernet were built-in, but rejected as being too slow.
Meanwhile, we're all ignoring that "supercomputing for the masses" is already here. The original Cray-1 supercomputer in 1976 ran at a whopping 75MHz with 160 megaflops. Today you can get that much power in a palmtop.
Oh, forgot to mention this before: Bush Jr negotiated with the Taliban to build an oil pipeline for Unocal. 9-11 made further negotiations unnecessary, since both the US-appointed president (Karzai) and the US special envoy (Khalilzad) are Unocal employees. Two birds with one stone, isn't life grand?
Here you go. Sorry if I confused you; the Taliban thing is separate from the dictator thing. Bush Jr used to like the Taliban, because they were anti-opium, then on 9-11 he suddenly hated them. Well, unless they handed over OBL, in which case they'd be jolly fine chaps. Do I detect a whiff of... moral relativism? From our Great Moral Leader?
It's not surprising that you'd never heard of this before. Bush's little elves are experts at hushing up embarrassing events from his past. They've had a lot of practice.
Here in 2004, Bush Jr is perfectly happy to work with any ruthless dictator who promises to help the War on Terror (tm). Just like the way many previous presidents had allied with many previous dictators who promised to help with the Cold War.
Don't you love that so many of the previous batch of dictators became our enemies in recent years? But Rumsfeld & friends assure us that Bush Jr won't fall into the same trap, no no.
totally irresponsible in their action to even THINK that N. Korea could be trusted with such nuclear technology
That's a valid point of view. But it applies equally to Carter, Reagan & Bush Sr, not just Clinton.
It's from AOL's lawsuits in April 2003, which means the Porsche belonged to one of George Moore's affiliate spammers, possibly Michael Levesque.
Definitely didn't belong to Moore. He's here in Maryland, and his front men got a bigger cut than he did (example: on each $29 bottle of "herbal viagra", Moore paid $18 commission to the spammer)
We've reached endgame, so I'd like to speed things up. DigiShaman has two possible replies. The first option is conceding that I'm right. Following is my reply to the other choice:
In the near future, DigiShaman might say: helped them get nukes, or didn't stop them from getting nukes, it's the same damn thing (or equivalent)
So... you believe that allowing a bad thing to happen through inaction is the same as actively helping to do it? If so, I presume you'll admit to ten million counts of attempted murder? As a Libertarian, you are in favor of eliminating Medicaid and other federal programs that help the poor. Although that might be a good idea in the grand scheme of things, doing so would endanger a whole lot of lives in the short term.
Trying to use First Law as a weapon is quite dangerous, because it's actually a three-edged sword. Real easy to cut yourself in the process.
Read this http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/1/7/ 164846.shtml
NEWSMAX??? You're joking, right? Maybe I should point you to Al Franken's radio network, or TheMilitant.com? But okay, I'm a fair and balanced guy, so I read your final stab from the bottom of the GOP barrel. And nowhere in the article did I see support for your claim that Clinton was "giving N. Korea nuclear technology". All it says is that he signed a soft treaty.
I see you're having a tough time with your side of this argument, so I'll pitch in. Clinton did indeed sign a bad treaty with North Korea. It didn't have strong inspection requirements, didn't authorize military action, and didn't explicitly ban uranium enrichment. Basically it gave NK a few extra years grace when the world should have been interdicting. But that's all.
light water reactor still requires enriched uranium.
Yep, once the reactor is built. Clinton didn't send them any uranium, nor did he help them build an enrichment plant. However, he also didn't stop them from doing it on their own.
steps away in the process of making plutonium
Nope, Pu239 is made from U238. LWRs aren't good at that.
arrogant condescending ass!
You're right; I apologize. Let's make a deal: you stop spouting false claims, and I'll stop sneering at you.
The moment any administration tries to negotiate with evil men, is the moment they are marked by me as a traitor
Great. I hope your list includes the following names:
Ronald Reagan: Iran/Contra, trained Osama BinLaden to terrorize Russians, sent Donald Rumsfeld to Iraq for military & oil negotiations, signed treaty with North Korea in 1985
George Bush Sr: remained ally of Iraq until day before Kuwait invasion, left Saddam in power rather than let majority take over, signed treaty with North Korea in 1991
Bill Clinton: signed treaty with North Korea in 1994, various other failures you can look up
George Bush Jr: signed treaty with Taliban in May 2001, remains ally of dictators in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, etc
Funny how everything changes when it's a monopolist. If Apple controlled 90% (or even 51%) of the OS market, I would be pissed to hell at their abusive bundling. And the DoJ would be prosecuting them (hopefully). Monopoly power makes all the difference.
you discourage businesses who place targeted, low-key text ads.
Correction: scam artists who place low-key text ads for rip-off work-from-home schemes on overly common keywords. Seriously, take a look at those sponsored links. If the FTC's enforcement office set up a full-time position prosecuting people who run keyword adverts for illegal scams, it would quickly become a profit center.
Don't get snippy with me about nuclear physics. 15 years ago I could recite all of the fissionable actinide isotopes and how to acquire them. In perl: s/extract/reprocess/
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/29/ nkorea.us/ Basically, the clinton administration gave N. Korea advanced nuclear technology to build "harmless" light water reactors. But instead, N Korea is using this technology to make plutonium.
Umm... I don't think you actually read that article:
Bolton said that unless North Korea began a speedy reform process it would risk losing a key 1994 agreement with a U.S.-led consortium to build two light-water nuclear reactors -- a project that is already well behind schedule.
First, unfinished reactors. Second, LWR is a NON-BREEDER design. Third, those reactors were being built by Donald Rumsfeld's company (before he became SoD), so any illicit technology transfer is more properly on his head. Last, where in that (or any) article does it say Clinton gave nuclear knowledge to NK? In fact, your article says the opposite:
The project was originally agreed with the previous Clinton administration in return for the North agreeing to put a freeze on its own nuclear programs and mothball reactors capable of producing weapons grade material.
They already had operational breeder reactors before Clinton talked to them. So I repeat my challenge: prove it or shut up.
Congratulations, you're much more mathematically talented than average. Most folks reading this theorem see a small speck flying in the stratosphere, then hear a faint *whooosh* several seconds later.
Heck, I took a 400-level topology course way back when, and I still couldn't fully parse the abstract.
thank the Clinton administration for giving N. Korea nuclear technology
Huh? Where did that come from? North Korea already had a plutonium program by the time Clinton took office. And if you want to talk smack, let's take a peek in Donald Rumsfeld's portfolio. Our pals Rummy & Cheney are definitely experts on the "Axis of Evil", considering they were previously in contract negotiations with most of them.
Where has the US gone to a country and told them to go against their laws.
Umm... I hope your favorite history teacher (if any) never hears you say that. Do the words "Gunboat Diplomacy" ring a bell?
Also, I'd say that supporting a rebellion might count as telling countries to "go against their laws": Iran 1953, Chile 1973, Nicaragua/Afghanistan/et al 1980s, and so on.
AAC: codec for mp4 audio (m4a) -- license from MPEG-LA
WMA: audio wrapper format -- license from Microsoft
WMRM: DRM used by WMA et al -- license from Microsoft
FairPlay: DRM used by ITMS (m4p) -- license from Veridisc
Note1: as you can see, Alex Salkelver at Business Week clearly didn't do his homework before writing that article.
Note2: the folks at Veridisc are astonishingly incompetent at e-business: they own neither veridisc.com (unrenewed, squatted, not work-safe) nor fairplay.com (unowned, parked)
Actually I meant literal September. It's a real phenomenon, not just a funny phrase. In early September of both 2000 & 2001 we were listed by ORBL et al due to open proxies in the freshmen dorms. In 2002 we blocked SMTP from the dorms, and we lived happily ever after.
you think Discovery Channel (and its progeny) are hardcore science/history/etc.?
Yeah, sheesh. Discovery Channel maintains breathless "news" pages about critters like the freakin Goat Sucker! Gee, that's a clear sign of serious science journalism. They're a bit more accurate than Weekly World News, but not by much.
clueless users in dorms/offices/wireless connections, who may or may not become spam zombies
As others have said: your problem is clueless sysadmins who have failed to properly firewall the dorms/offices/access points. Allowing outbound port 25 from random user PCs is bad netiquette that deserves blocking.
Every day by about 10 AM, if we're lucky, we've been blacklisted.
We haven't been on any blacklists since a couple septembers ago when we instituted our internal SMTP whitelist.
the system prints out a card with my votes printed on it. I read the card, put the card in a folder so that nobody can see how I voted, and take the card to a poll worker
No. There is a huge non-partisan lobby that pushed for fully computerized voting, with no physical carries involved: Disabled People. The whole system needs to be self-contained, so that a quadriplegic with a single pushbutton is able to vote without assistance. This may sound petty or even crazy to you, but among election officials and legislators this is a Very Big Deal. A million people in wheelchairs have been leaning on them something fierce.
Diebold is incompetent and quite probably evil, but they did achieve this feature quite successfully.
Ms Lepore was technically a Democrat by virtue of checking that box on her voter registration form. Her reason for doing so was entirely non-ideological: Palm Beach County is overwhelmingly Democratic, so the best way to win elected office there is to be the Democratic nominee. Prior to her first campaign for Elections Supervisor, she was either Independent or Republican (sources conflict on this) but definitely not a "lifelong Democrat" as some stories have claimed.
In 2001 she officially switched to Independent, and is running for reelection as such this year. It's true she has claimed to prefer Gore over Bush, but plenty of registered Republicans (me, for instance) feel the same.
to admit that my opponents are as earnest and well-intentioned as I am
Well... they're not! Given that one of the few publically-known topics in Cheney's energy task force was how to divvy up Iraq's oil fields... c'mon, think about it for a second. Well-intentioned?
I spent HOURS googling about Veeck a couple weeks ago, and somehow picked bad keywords every time. All of the search results referred to the original case, the three-judge appeal, and/or the certiorari, but never the full court ruling. Damn page rot.
Thank you for the correction. It's a fucking wonderful ray of sunshine.
Sadly, I don't see Kahle winning this case. The current Supreme Court has shown itself to be quite unwilling to smack down Congress if the end result is "inconvenient". For example, they let Veeck vs SBCCI stand, which allows laws to be copyrighted by private entities.
Not to mention, the Berne Convention is a world-wide treaty (and well-liked by megacorps) that may as well be carved in an adamantium tablet. No way they'd be willing to disadvantage US content owners while foreign copyrights are being extended just as freely.
I don't remember "civil disobedience" as practiced by Ghandi or MLK including breaking things
Then you don't remember enough history. Ghandi's very first major protest was indeed destruction of government property:
In August 1906, an ordinance was issued by the Transvaal Government requiring all Indian men, women, and children to register themselves and obtain a personal certificate bearing name and thumb impressions. This card was to be carried by all individuals at all times and had to be shown on demand. Anyone failing to produce the certificate was liable to be fined, or imprisoned. The police even had orders to enter private houses and check certificates.
Gandhi saw here the need for passive resistance, or "satyagraha." To the people, he explained his concept of satyagraha. First, he said, they must be prepared to observe nonviolence. The authorities would take all measures to put down the agitation. They might use violence, arrest people, and send them to jail, but all this must be faced without resistance.
A big bonfire was lit, and more than two thousand certificates were burned. Many Indians openly crossed the border into the Transvaal, where their presence was illegal. Gandhi and many of his compatriots were imprisoned several times in the course of the agitation.
If paper records are not used in November, this course of action may very well be necessary.
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Remember that when Apple & Virginia Tech designed Big Mac, both firewire and gigabit ethernet were built-in, but rejected as being too slow.
Meanwhile, we're all ignoring that "supercomputing for the masses" is already here. The original Cray-1 supercomputer in 1976 ran at a whopping 75MHz with 160 megaflops. Today you can get that much power in a palmtop.
Oh, forgot to mention this before: Bush Jr negotiated with the Taliban to build an oil pipeline for Unocal. 9-11 made further negotiations unnecessary, since both the US-appointed president (Karzai) and the US special envoy (Khalilzad) are Unocal employees. Two birds with one stone, isn't life grand?
Here you go. Sorry if I confused you; the Taliban thing is separate from the dictator thing. Bush Jr used to like the Taliban, because they were anti-opium, then on 9-11 he suddenly hated them. Well, unless they handed over OBL, in which case they'd be jolly fine chaps. Do I detect a whiff of ... moral relativism? From our Great Moral Leader?
It's not surprising that you'd never heard of this before. Bush's little elves are experts at hushing up embarrassing events from his past. They've had a lot of practice.
Here in 2004, Bush Jr is perfectly happy to work with any ruthless dictator who promises to help the War on Terror (tm). Just like the way many previous presidents had allied with many previous dictators who promised to help with the Cold War.
Don't you love that so many of the previous batch of dictators became our enemies in recent years? But Rumsfeld & friends assure us that Bush Jr won't fall into the same trap, no no.
totally irresponsible in their action to even THINK that N. Korea could be trusted with such nuclear technologyThat's a valid point of view. But it applies equally to Carter, Reagan & Bush Sr, not just Clinton.
Definitely didn't belong to Moore. He's here in Maryland, and his front men got a bigger cut than he did (example: on each $29 bottle of "herbal viagra", Moore paid $18 commission to the spammer)
We've reached endgame, so I'd like to speed things up. DigiShaman has two possible replies. The first option is conceding that I'm right. Following is my reply to the other choice:
In the near future, DigiShaman might say: helped them get nukes, or didn't stop them from getting nukes, it's the same damn thing (or equivalent)So ... you believe that allowing a bad thing to happen through inaction is the same as actively helping to do it? If so, I presume you'll admit to ten million counts of attempted murder? As a Libertarian, you are in favor of eliminating Medicaid and other federal programs that help the poor. Although that might be a good idea in the grand scheme of things, doing so would endanger a whole lot of lives in the short term.
Trying to use First Law as a weapon is quite dangerous, because it's actually a three-edged sword. Real easy to cut yourself in the process.Are we done yet?
NEWSMAX??? You're joking, right? Maybe I should point you to Al Franken's radio network, or TheMilitant.com? But okay, I'm a fair and balanced guy, so I read your final stab from the bottom of the GOP barrel. And nowhere in the article did I see support for your claim that Clinton was "giving N. Korea nuclear technology". All it says is that he signed a soft treaty.
I see you're having a tough time with your side of this argument, so I'll pitch in. Clinton did indeed sign a bad treaty with North Korea. It didn't have strong inspection requirements, didn't authorize military action, and didn't explicitly ban uranium enrichment. Basically it gave NK a few extra years grace when the world should have been interdicting. But that's all.
light water reactor still requires enriched uranium.Yep, once the reactor is built. Clinton didn't send them any uranium, nor did he help them build an enrichment plant. However, he also didn't stop them from doing it on their own.
steps away in the process of making plutoniumNope, Pu239 is made from U238. LWRs aren't good at that.
arrogant condescending ass!You're right; I apologize. Let's make a deal: you stop spouting false claims, and I'll stop sneering at you.
The moment any administration tries to negotiate with evil men, is the moment they are marked by me as a traitorGreat. I hope your list includes the following names:
Funny how everything changes when it's a monopolist. If Apple controlled 90% (or even 51%) of the OS market, I would be pissed to hell at their abusive bundling. And the DoJ would be prosecuting them (hopefully). Monopoly power makes all the difference.
Correction: scam artists who place low-key text ads for rip-off work-from-home schemes on overly common keywords. Seriously, take a look at those sponsored links. If the FTC's enforcement office set up a full-time position prosecuting people who run keyword adverts for illegal scams, it would quickly become a profit center.
Don't get snippy with me about nuclear physics. 15 years ago I could recite all of the fissionable actinide isotopes and how to acquire them. In perl: s/extract/reprocess/
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/29/ nkorea.us/ Basically, the clinton administration gave N. Korea advanced nuclear technology to build "harmless" light water reactors. But instead, N Korea is using this technology to make plutonium.Umm... I don't think you actually read that article:
First, unfinished reactors. Second, LWR is a NON-BREEDER design. Third, those reactors were being built by Donald Rumsfeld's company (before he became SoD), so any illicit technology transfer is more properly on his head. Last, where in that (or any) article does it say Clinton gave nuclear knowledge to NK? In fact, your article says the opposite:
They already had operational breeder reactors before Clinton talked to them. So I repeat my challenge: prove it or shut up.
I agree, especially since it might not be true. You need to back up your claims.
All of the info I've read says that North Korea already extracted over 20 kilograms of plutonium by the end of 1992.Congratulations, you're much more mathematically talented than average. Most folks reading this theorem see a small speck flying in the stratosphere, then hear a faint *whooosh* several seconds later.
Heck, I took a 400-level topology course way back when, and I still couldn't fully parse the abstract.Huh? Where did that come from? North Korea already had a plutonium program by the time Clinton took office. And if you want to talk smack, let's take a peek in Donald Rumsfeld's portfolio. Our pals Rummy & Cheney are definitely experts on the "Axis of Evil", considering they were previously in contract negotiations with most of them.
Umm... I hope your favorite history teacher (if any) never hears you say that. Do the words "Gunboat Diplomacy" ring a bell?
Also, I'd say that supporting a rebellion might count as telling countries to "go against their laws": Iran 1953, Chile 1973, Nicaragua/Afghanistan/et al 1980s, and so on.
Umm, I didn't realize that ...
... is 3rd party software. IMO, any trick that's weaker than ROT13 doesn't count as DRM.
p.s. also reachable by the "Go to Folder" command in Finder (cmd-shift-G), and by various other methodsNope. How about you let me handle this:
Note1: as you can see, Alex Salkelver at Business Week clearly didn't do his homework before writing that article.
Note2: the folks at Veridisc are astonishingly incompetent at e-business: they own neither veridisc.com (unrenewed, squatted, not work-safe) nor fairplay.com (unowned, parked)
Actually I meant literal September. It's a real phenomenon, not just a funny phrase. In early September of both 2000 & 2001 we were listed by ORBL et al due to open proxies in the freshmen dorms. In 2002 we blocked SMTP from the dorms, and we lived happily ever after.
Yeah, sheesh. Discovery Channel maintains breathless "news" pages about critters like the freakin Goat Sucker ! Gee, that's a clear sign of serious science journalism. They're a bit more accurate than Weekly World News, but not by much.
As others have said: your problem is clueless sysadmins who have failed to properly firewall the dorms/offices/access points. Allowing outbound port 25 from random user PCs is bad netiquette that deserves blocking.
Every day by about 10 AM, if we're lucky, we've been blacklisted.We haven't been on any blacklists since a couple septembers ago when we instituted our internal SMTP whitelist.
No. There is a huge non-partisan lobby that pushed for fully computerized voting, with no physical carries involved: Disabled People. The whole system needs to be self-contained, so that a quadriplegic with a single pushbutton is able to vote without assistance. This may sound petty or even crazy to you, but among election officials and legislators this is a Very Big Deal. A million people in wheelchairs have been leaning on them something fierce.
Diebold is incompetent and quite probably evil, but they did achieve this feature quite successfully.No. As custodian of the Terry LePore Fan Page, I must correct this misstatement.
Ms Lepore was technically a Democrat by virtue of checking that box on her voter registration form. Her reason for doing so was entirely non-ideological: Palm Beach County is overwhelmingly Democratic, so the best way to win elected office there is to be the Democratic nominee. Prior to her first campaign for Elections Supervisor, she was either Independent or Republican (sources conflict on this) but definitely not a "lifelong Democrat" as some stories have claimed.
In 2001 she officially switched to Independent, and is running for reelection as such this year. It's true she has claimed to prefer Gore over Bush, but plenty of registered Republicans (me, for instance) feel the same.
to admit that my opponents are as earnest and well-intentioned as I amWell... they're not! Given that one of the few publically-known topics in Cheney's energy task force was how to divvy up Iraq's oil fields... c'mon, think about it for a second. Well-intentioned?
Your wish has been granted
I spent HOURS googling about Veeck a couple weeks ago, and somehow picked bad keywords every time. All of the search results referred to the original case, the three-judge appeal, and/or the certiorari, but never the full court ruling. Damn page rot.
Thank you for the correction. It's a fucking wonderful ray of sunshine.Not to mention, the Berne Convention is a world-wide treaty (and well-liked by megacorps) that may as well be carved in an adamantium tablet. No way they'd be willing to disadvantage US content owners while foreign copyrights are being extended just as freely.
No. Your rule excludes planets with high rotational velocity (oblate) and includes large constructed spheres (Death Star)
Proposed definition of planet:Then you don't remember enough history. Ghandi's very first major protest was indeed destruction of government property:
If paper records are not used in November, this course of action may very well be necessary.