He even refuses to give his name now because he "fears repercussions".
That was the whole point. You don't send agents to knock on the front door of potential terrorists. If someone is dangerous or is believed to be dangerous, they are put under surveillance to see what's going on.
You send agents to intimidate. Apparently people interested in world views contradictory to our own.
So I guess with the Patriot Act in place he would have listened? I didn't see a stipulation in there for "the President must pay attention during intelligence briefings."
'm not ready to pass judgement on GUI vs command line in general, but in this case on Windows, I'd hit WindowsKey+F to open a search box, put *.mp3 in the find description, ALT+L for location, type \MyFiles, enter, wait for the results, hit CTRL+A to select all, CTRL+X to cut, hit ALT+A to focus the address bar, stick \MyMP3s in there, hit enter, SHIFT+TAB to refocus the files pane, and CTRL+V to paste.
Nice. If you ever do decide to become a Unix user, you'll be a natural for emacs.
Ok, let's have a race. I want you to find all the MP3s in a directory tree/Myfiles (or \MyFiles) and move them to a new directory, excuse me folder, called "MyMP3s".
Ready.... Go!
find/Myfiles -name *.mp3 -exec mv {}/MyMP3s \;
I'm done! You done yet?
Ok, that was obnoxious but my point was setting up a chroot jail is easier with command-line utilities. If you don't know of anything that's easier with a command line tool, then you haven't done everything yet.
No one would write a UNIX app that required root to run, but if there were a bunch of such apps, what would you do about it?
Many people have written such apps, they are called servers. Anything that binds on a privileged port requires root access.
The other option is some kind of charade where old apps would get a virtual file system and registry. That would have some advantages, but it would also be a total mess to know where something presented by an application is a real path or a virtual path in the private filesystem.
We call that "charade" chrooting and it works quite well. It's pretty messy with the pointy and the clicky but from the command line it's easy to manage, assuming you know what you're doing.
I see performance issues as being very unprofessional and quite easily fixable. Personally, I have no patience for services that can't keep basic web servers going because I know how simple it really is. Even on my low-traffic websites, I would never allow performance issues to impact the user experience. To me, if a service can't keep web servers up and working 99% of the time, they're not worth visiting.
Creative wags have already turned a Roomba into an automatic bong caddy.
Mr. President, what does this mean for the war on drugs? Do you have an eye on these intelligent, morally-deficient vacuum cleaners?
The president said Friday he could not talk about the matter.
"We do not discuss ongoing intelligence operations to protect the country, and the reason why is that there's an enemy that lurks, that would like to know exactly what we're trying to do to stop them," Bush said in a television interview.
Dude, Duke Nukem Forever? Are you kidding? Did it cost you so much money to develop you're counting on Slashdot posts for marketing? The first one was kickass but that's when Hexen was something worth waiting for.
So pay $1 billion to keep a $400 million source of annual revenue? Ok, sounds good in theory, but this is AOL.
AOL has been steadily shedding subscribers for the past few years and there's no reason to expect that won't continue. How many people do you expect will be dialing up in 2009? They've got no last-mile footprint, zero consumer credibility and tons of bad press, their management staff is in disarray, a merger left them the ugly duckling of a sinking conglomerate, Microsoft is now a sworn enemy, Wall Street hates them, steadily decreasing revenues that are sure to create internal problems, infrastructure issues, on and on and on.
And you want to invest one billion dollars in these guys? Sometimes you have to look beyond the balance sheet and use some common sense. When was the last time Microsoft invested one billion in anything? I guarantee you Bill's having a chuckle at this one.
One billion for 5% of AOL? What a bunch of dopes. You know, this is the worst high-dollar corporate decision since... well.... Time Warner bought AOL. Ask them how that worked out. They might tell you after they get the check.
Maybe Microsoft led them to this. Monkey Boy strikes again, to the tune of one Billion Google dollars? Nice.
You sure about that? No paper trail any more, some of his top deputies are election overseers and the developers of the software on the voting machines refuse to hand over the source.
Methinks they are trying to protect this function...
Jeez, as soon as a Democrat stops marching in complete lock-step with the Party, all the little rats really turn on him, eh?
Lieberman is more than a Democrat, he's a Jewish democrat, and if you've heard the rhetoric coming out of Iran (from their president no less) directed towards Israel, you'll understand why he's behind our military's occupation of that region.
Personally I think that's crap and indicative of the Democratic Party's utter lack of courage and direction. The only thing more disturbing than this administration's rampant abuse of authority, as evidenced yet again by our sitting President ordering wiretaps without court orders, is the Democrats' failure to capitalize on this malfeasance, politically or otherwise. They seem perfectly content to sit back and wait for polls to tell them what to say, when any rational set of humman beings would have stood up long ago and put an end to this nonsense. I mean if you can't stand up to a dope like George Bush, who can you stand up to?
The companies I've worked for recently purchase PCs that do not have an OS preinstalled. It makes more sense. Windows admins prefer to ghost their machines; they've already purchased site licenses, so they don't want to pay twice. Linux admins kickstart; there's no reason to pay a hardware vendor to install something you can install yourself for free. Both prefer to have control over what's installed before they distribute it or put it in the server room.
The hardware vendor has no insight into what OS goes on a PC unless they sell it preinstalled, which I suspect is the case with home sales and small businesses only. They just report "I sold a PC" which assumes nothing.
I was once defrauded of around $1,500 for a laptop on ebay. Hundreds of other people had bought the same laptop from the same "ebay store" and they retailed at around $3,000. I don't know if I did anything stupid because there were 50 other people that also bought the auctions this store had made.
In the future, if someone's selling something for $1,500 less than retail, you can be pretty sure something's up.
I don't know if this is you, but some people are so obsessed with finding deals that they'll put significant cash on the line for something as iffy as an Ebay item. And in my experience these savings aren't so great. I sold a year-old projector (with original lamp) on Ebay for about $100 less than they could have bought one new. And there were a bunch of bids. Every time I have something to sell, I get almost what I paid for it. It's shocking how much people will front to someone they've never met for something they've never seen, with only an email address or Ebay account as proof of identity.
These ratings systems of theirs don't seem to make a difference; I so seldom put items up for sale that I've gone through a handful of accounts and each sale pretty much stands on its own. I've found there's a way around that. As long as I start the bidding low, someone will pounce on it, not able to help themselves, and soon that bid will encourage more bids, etc. You can see why that place is such a haven for con artists.
I've worked with and for a handful of Linuxcare peeps and my impression of them is... well... unfavorable. Generally less-than-talented, albeit good intentioned.
Using Linuxcare or VALinux or even Redhat to judge the financial viability of open source companies doesn't paint a complete picture. The number of companies deploying open source technologies in their production infrastructures, embedding Linux in their hardware and porting their software in order to save their customers' hardware budget, these are a better barometer of the movement's success than the attempts of the aforementioned companies to make money off of something which is intrinsically free.
Did anybody bother to read the RAD website? Look at the papers that have been generated...
A Flexible Architecture for Statistical Learning and Data Mining from System Log Streams
Combining Visualization and Statistical Analysis to Improve Operator Confidence and Efficiency for Failure Detection and Localization
Control Considerations for Scaling Event Processing
Predictive control for dynamic resource allocation in enterprise data centers
Looks like they're trying to come up some fancy-schmancy approach to network management, emergency handling and risk control. It would make sense all three of these orgs would be interested in refining techniques along those lines, but pardon me while I yawn.
Not even if you two are seriouly planning on flying planes into buildings or releasing sarin gas in a subway?
This is what bugs me. There was sufficient intelligence before 9/11 to indicate something was about to happen. Some of the attackers were in the country for years before it happened, preparing for the attack. Intelligence was collected alluding to the project, there were spectators lining up in Jersey City to watch the attacks before it happened and some kid in a Brooklyn school pointed to the WTC the day before and told his teacher "that won't be there tomorrow." The President himself was briefed on it. For whatever reason, nothing was done and there's a crater in Lower Manhattan. They blew it. Unless you can prove that 9/11 wouldn't happen with current precautions in place, I don't buy it. And using what happened that day as an excuse to put in mechanisms to spy on citizens is insulting.
Collecting intelligence at the expense of privacy is delicate business. Putting these mechanisms in place may or may not serve purposes contrary to what's been publically stated, but I don't feel any more comfortable that someone's not going to nuke us because the government can monitor cell phone conversations without a wiretap order.
It's easy to give these things away when you feel you have nothing to hide. What's the point, right? They'll just use them to get the bad guys and bad guys get too much protection as it is. Well what happens is that the government becomes more of a factor in your life. I don't want them knowing my business, whether benign or otherwise. I pay them good money to leave me alone. I want to be able to live my life without feeling like someone's watching my every move. Treating your taxpaying citizens as if they were potential terrorists is completely unacceptable.
There's another possibility... depending on the search term used, the placement of the ad in relation to other ads bound to the same search term might have shoved it to the second page of search results.
My experience has been unless you're somewhere near the top of the adwords list on the first page (and you pay more per hit obviously), your hits will plummet precipitously, not necessarily because Google is spiking the algorithm, but because people who conduct searches get what they want in the first few listings and don't see your ad.
Virgin Galactic said it had chosen New Mexico as the site for its headquarters because of its steady climate, free airspace, low population density and high altitude. All those factors can significantly reduce the cost of the space flight program.
Low population density significantly reduces the cost of the space flight program? I guess they're assuming there will be some bourgeois shrapnel flying around.
I wonder what the road sign looks like that warns against burning appendages falling from the sky.
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That was the whole point. You don't send agents to knock on the front door of potential terrorists. If someone is dangerous or is believed to be dangerous, they are put under surveillance to see what's going on.
You send agents to intimidate. Apparently people interested in world views contradictory to our own.
Yeah, it's almost time to go.
So I guess with the Patriot Act in place he would have listened? I didn't see a stipulation in there for "the President must pay attention during intelligence briefings."
Nice. If you ever do decide to become a Unix user, you'll be a natural for emacs.
Ok, let's have a race. I want you to find all the MP3s in a directory tree /Myfiles (or \MyFiles) and move them to a new directory, excuse me folder, called "MyMP3s".
Ready.... Go!
find /Myfiles -name *.mp3 -exec mv {} /MyMP3s \;
I'm done! You done yet?
Ok, that was obnoxious but my point was setting up a chroot jail is easier with command-line utilities. If you don't know of anything that's easier with a command line tool, then you haven't done everything yet.
Many people have written such apps, they are called servers. Anything that binds on a privileged port requires root access.
The other option is some kind of charade where old apps would get a virtual file system and registry. That would have some advantages, but it would also be a total mess to know where something presented by an application is a real path or a virtual path in the private filesystem.
We call that "charade" chrooting and it works quite well. It's pretty messy with the pointy and the clicky but from the command line it's easy to manage, assuming you know what you're doing.
This is so tempting, but I'm going to abstain.
Mr. President, what does this mean for the war on drugs? Do you have an eye on these intelligent, morally-deficient vacuum cleaners?
The president said Friday he could not talk about the matter.
"We do not discuss ongoing intelligence operations to protect the country, and the reason why is that there's an enemy that lurks, that would like to know exactly what we're trying to do to stop them," Bush said in a television interview.
Dude, Duke Nukem Forever? Are you kidding? Did it cost you so much money to develop you're counting on Slashdot posts for marketing? The first one was kickass but that's when Hexen was something worth waiting for.
AOL has been steadily shedding subscribers for the past few years and there's no reason to expect that won't continue. How many people do you expect will be dialing up in 2009? They've got no last-mile footprint, zero consumer credibility and tons of bad press, their management staff is in disarray, a merger left them the ugly duckling of a sinking conglomerate, Microsoft is now a sworn enemy, Wall Street hates them, steadily decreasing revenues that are sure to create internal problems, infrastructure issues, on and on and on.
And you want to invest one billion dollars in these guys? Sometimes you have to look beyond the balance sheet and use some common sense. When was the last time Microsoft invested one billion in anything? I guarantee you Bill's having a chuckle at this one.
Maybe Microsoft led them to this. Monkey Boy strikes again, to the tune of one Billion Google dollars? Nice.
You sure about that? No paper trail any more, some of his top deputies are election overseers and the developers of the software on the voting machines refuse to hand over the source.
...
Methinks they are trying to protect this function
if ( $vote == "Democrat" && ($republican_votes <= ( $total_votes / 2 ) ) )
{ $vote = "Republican"; }
Unbelievable. Nice link.
Lieberman is more than a Democrat, he's a Jewish democrat, and if you've heard the rhetoric coming out of Iran (from their president no less) directed towards Israel, you'll understand why he's behind our military's occupation of that region.
Personally I think that's crap and indicative of the Democratic Party's utter lack of courage and direction. The only thing more disturbing than this administration's rampant abuse of authority, as evidenced yet again by our sitting President ordering wiretaps without court orders, is the Democrats' failure to capitalize on this malfeasance, politically or otherwise. They seem perfectly content to sit back and wait for polls to tell them what to say, when any rational set of humman beings would have stood up long ago and put an end to this nonsense. I mean if you can't stand up to a dope like George Bush, who can you stand up to?
What a mess.
The hardware vendor has no insight into what OS goes on a PC unless they sell it preinstalled, which I suspect is the case with home sales and small businesses only. They just report "I sold a PC" which assumes nothing.
There's no way to distinguish how much of the PC hardware market belongs to Linux/BSD because ... ... Linux/BSD runs on PCs.
In the future, if someone's selling something for $1,500 less than retail, you can be pretty sure something's up.
I don't know if this is you, but some people are so obsessed with finding deals that they'll put significant cash on the line for something as iffy as an Ebay item. And in my experience these savings aren't so great. I sold a year-old projector (with original lamp) on Ebay for about $100 less than they could have bought one new. And there were a bunch of bids. Every time I have something to sell, I get almost what I paid for it. It's shocking how much people will front to someone they've never met for something they've never seen, with only an email address or Ebay account as proof of identity.
These ratings systems of theirs don't seem to make a difference; I so seldom put items up for sale that I've gone through a handful of accounts and each sale pretty much stands on its own. I've found there's a way around that. As long as I start the bidding low, someone will pounce on it, not able to help themselves, and soon that bid will encourage more bids, etc. You can see why that place is such a haven for con artists.
Greed is good. For Ebay sellers.
Dude, I still have carpal in my left middle and index fingers from Summer Games. If you could pole vault, you're a stud.
But don't be messin with my Hard Hat Mac.
You might want to have a stroll through a Bay Area colo facility, then revisit that opinion.
Using Linuxcare or VALinux or even Redhat to judge the financial viability of open source companies doesn't paint a complete picture. The number of companies deploying open source technologies in their production infrastructures, embedding Linux in their hardware and porting their software in order to save their customers' hardware budget, these are a better barometer of the movement's success than the attempts of the aforementioned companies to make money off of something which is intrinsically free.
Not to mention serving more of those mile-a-minute moneymaking Adwords blurbs.
Looks like they're trying to come up some fancy-schmancy approach to network management, emergency handling and risk control. It would make sense all three of these orgs would be interested in refining techniques along those lines, but pardon me while I yawn.
This is what bugs me. There was sufficient intelligence before 9/11 to indicate something was about to happen. Some of the attackers were in the country for years before it happened, preparing for the attack. Intelligence was collected alluding to the project, there were spectators lining up in Jersey City to watch the attacks before it happened and some kid in a Brooklyn school pointed to the WTC the day before and told his teacher "that won't be there tomorrow." The President himself was briefed on it. For whatever reason, nothing was done and there's a crater in Lower Manhattan. They blew it. Unless you can prove that 9/11 wouldn't happen with current precautions in place, I don't buy it. And using what happened that day as an excuse to put in mechanisms to spy on citizens is insulting.
Collecting intelligence at the expense of privacy is delicate business. Putting these mechanisms in place may or may not serve purposes contrary to what's been publically stated, but I don't feel any more comfortable that someone's not going to nuke us because the government can monitor cell phone conversations without a wiretap order.
It's easy to give these things away when you feel you have nothing to hide. What's the point, right? They'll just use them to get the bad guys and bad guys get too much protection as it is. Well what happens is that the government becomes more of a factor in your life. I don't want them knowing my business, whether benign or otherwise. I pay them good money to leave me alone. I want to be able to live my life without feeling like someone's watching my every move. Treating your taxpaying citizens as if they were potential terrorists is completely unacceptable.
My experience has been unless you're somewhere near the top of the adwords list on the first page (and you pay more per hit obviously), your hits will plummet precipitously, not necessarily because Google is spiking the algorithm, but because people who conduct searches get what they want in the first few listings and don't see your ad.
It probably got tilted by the gravitational pull of Michael Moore's ass.
Low population density significantly reduces the cost of the space flight program? I guess they're assuming there will be some bourgeois shrapnel flying around.
I wonder what the road sign looks like that warns against burning appendages falling from the sky.