About FireGPG, you should be careful when using it with gmail. Unless you are using the HTML-only version, when using their javascript-enabled message composition window a draft of the message gets saved to the gmail server. So now you have your plaintext being sent to gmail. It is only after you write your plaintext that the message is then encrypted for transmission.
I couldn't hit their servers yesterday, so instead I hit the releases.mozilla.org ftp mirrors directly. Will those count towards the record? Anyone know how they are counting? Thanks.
Google trends measures what people are seaching for, while Gootrude measures how many results are in the google database for a given term. These are not even remotely the same thing.
I'm not saying that google should start an open source project for the code, I'm saying that since google no longer will maintain it, they should provide it to the community under a suitable license and let the community maintain it.
I expect that it would go this way:
1. legal approves license. 2. code and protocol specification is zipped up and posted somewhere on google's site with a no-maintenance no-warranty click-through notice/license. 3. community takes code and starts several forks 4. community hosts their own servers 5. community decides which forks are worth continuing and maintaining
End result: Win for the community (new project). Win for google (good PR, no longer have to maintain code, provides upgrade path for existing users).
McIntosh remains pretty much true to their roots. All the analog components are designed and manufactured in Binghamton, New York to very high standards. Of course their price point is notably higher than Denon or Marantz.
Meet The Press was my Sunday morning staple, and it was because of Tim Russert. NBC will be hard pressed to find someone to fill his shoes.
I'll never forget Russert on the NBC coverage of the 2000 presidential election. Early in the evening, Russert wrote on his little whiteboard "Florida, Florida, Florida!" before anyone had any idea how close it was going to be. I stayed up with Russert and Brokaw that night until the next dawn, hoping to find out who the next president would be. Of course there were no conclusions, but Russert's exploration of the electoral college system and the implications of the vote returns were insightful and kept me watching.
Russert wasn't afraid of asking tough questions to powerful people. When they would try to weasel their way out of a direct answer, he would ask again, and again if necessary. If only all journalists would have that kind of conviction.
This posting makes it sound like bind9 is not sufficiently open/free. That is not correct, and kdawson should do a better job of editing to prevent biased postings like this.
Bind9 is licensed under the ISC license, a BSD-like license. The full text of the license follows.
-molo
Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Internet Software Consortium.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND INTERNET SOFTWARE CONSORTIUM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL INTERNET SOFTWARE CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
Acutally, US law does define terrorism and "terrorist group". See: 22 USC sect. 2656f(d). For the lazy:
(1) the term "international terrorism" means terrorism involving citizens or the territory of more than 1 country;
(2) the term "terrorism" means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents;
(3) the term "terrorist group" means any group practicing, or which has significant subgroups which practice, international terrorism;
And yes, it looks like some operations of the CIA would qualify.
I don't have a list, but I know at least New York does it. They call it DWAI (Driving While Ability Impaired), and it applies if your BAC is 0.05 to 0.079. 0.08 is then DWI which is a more serious offense.
Snow in Bagdad this winter and record cold and snow in many places this winter also are interesting data points. Remember that "global warming" is only when measured on a global basis. Individual areas may become either warmer or colder. Weather is a chaotic system. When you add energy to a chaotic system, you increase the severity of the swings (adding noise) in addition to raising the mean. Snow in Baghdad doesn't contradict global warming.
What will multiple parties do? It just means that whichever candidate wins the election will be less likely to match my views, or any other single person's views. And since we have 2 parties, the likelihood of that party's leader matching your views is 50%, right? Thats the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. You form you opinions based on which party you are in??
Neither party matches my views now. They are both beholden to lobbyists and campaign contributers. Yes, we need more parties, and hopefully none of them gets a majority. George Washington had it right when he warned us of the dangers of political parties.
Yeah, and don't forget usenet and UUCP. Massive amounts of data for the time period. The pipes were pretty expensive back then, so if they weren't being used at 100%, it was considered a waste of money.
As for this argument, its basically about over-subscription and the modern ISP. If an ISP has a T3 (45mbit) and 15 clients at 3mbit each, they are fully subscribed. No one does this. Instead, they share that T3 between 1000+ clients, expecting that most of them will be idle. P2P, with full bandwith for long periods of time, breaks the ISP's business model, which is why this is an issue. It has nothing to do with "the Internet". It has to do with ISPs bitching because they can't live up to the expectations that they set with customers and shareholders.
Spreading depleted uranium dust over Manhattan wouldn't produce much in the way of radiation effect, as you said. However, spreading a cloud of heavy-metal particles is a rather dangerous thing. Heavy metals effect the body and can be poisonous in small doses (think of lead). This stuff will stick around for a while, contaminating buildings, soil, and groundwater. This kind of attack could take several years and millions of dollars to clean up after. (all the while the EPA says "the air is fine")
I assume (a) you are busy people with no time to waste and (b) if I don't give you a straight answer to a simple question, you will assume -- correctly -- that I'm trying to conceal rather than reveal the truth.
Spoken as a true New Yorker.:) I appreciate you giving slashdot a bit of perspective. Thanks for your contributions and your work in this area.
-molo
Lessig lives in the wrong district?
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Palo Alto (and Stanford) are in California's 14th District, and Lantos is from the 12th District, representing the area from San Mateo, and Redwood City north to South San Francisco, Daly City, and the southwestern portion of San Francisco. I don't think he's eligible to represent the 12th district without moving. So this would be no small matter for him to undertake.
That said, I would fully support Lessig for congress. Hopefully he can bring some knowledge and sanity to important committees.
My gameboy was next to useless after a year or so of use. There were many verical columns on the LCD that stopped displaying. Cleaning the cartridge connection didn't seem to help either. Yeah, you could drop it and it would still function, but that display would give out eventually.
Just in time. I just happened to be looking at the ICU spec the other day, and saw that they have a pretty cool time format, the ICU Universal Time Scale. It is a 64-bit integer counting ticks of 100 nanoseconds, with an Epoch of January 1, year 1 AD. This allows dates from 29227 BC to 29227 AD.
Yes, of course. I'm guessing at the complexity in a particular dimension or of a particular quantity. Considering that we live in at least a 4D universe, there would of course be more emergent complexity.
And yes, planck mass is not the smallest possible unit of mass. Just throwing that out as another number that approximates 2^200, and so could have been an input parameter to our universe sim.
Absolutely not. NPR just re-launched their audio player system as flash. They went from having two streaming formats that were reasonably well understood and had several cross-platform player implementations (MMS/WMA, RealAudio+RTSP), to one implementation that is obscured under a layer of flash and tied to the whims of Adobe. Now they have to exclude the segments of the market that Adobe chooses not to support. For a publicly funded media distribution system, this is absolute rubbish. They should be streaming plain MP3 or Ogg (Vorbis/Speex).
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They had real IDs! All 19 of them were in this country _legally_ and had no problem getting _real IDs_. Read the 9/11 report!
All this BS about producing better IDs doesn't help us, it just helps the government put us in their databases.
-molo
About FireGPG, you should be careful when using it with gmail. Unless you are using the HTML-only version, when using their javascript-enabled message composition window a draft of the message gets saved to the gmail server. So now you have your plaintext being sent to gmail. It is only after you write your plaintext that the message is then encrypted for transmission.
-molo
I couldn't hit their servers yesterday, so instead I hit the releases.mozilla.org ftp mirrors directly. Will those count towards the record? Anyone know how they are counting? Thanks.
-molo
Google trends measures what people are seaching for, while Gootrude measures how many results are in the google database for a given term. These are not even remotely the same thing.
-molo
I'm not saying that google should start an open source project for the code, I'm saying that since google no longer will maintain it, they should provide it to the community under a suitable license and let the community maintain it.
I expect that it would go this way:
1. legal approves license.
2. code and protocol specification is zipped up and posted somewhere on google's site with a no-maintenance no-warranty click-through notice/license.
3. community takes code and starts several forks
4. community hosts their own servers
5. community decides which forks are worth continuing and maintaining
End result: Win for the community (new project). Win for google (good PR, no longer have to maintain code, provides upgrade path for existing users).
-molo
McIntosh remains pretty much true to their roots. All the analog components are designed and manufactured in Binghamton, New York to very high standards. Of course their price point is notably higher than Denon or Marantz.
http://mcintoshlabs.com/
-molo
Google should know better. Abandonware? Open source it! Then if people care they can upgrade it for FF3.
-molo
Meet The Press was my Sunday morning staple, and it was because of Tim Russert. NBC will be hard pressed to find someone to fill his shoes.
I'll never forget Russert on the NBC coverage of the 2000 presidential election. Early in the evening, Russert wrote on his little whiteboard "Florida, Florida, Florida!" before anyone had any idea how close it was going to be. I stayed up with Russert and Brokaw that night until the next dawn, hoping to find out who the next president would be. Of course there were no conclusions, but Russert's exploration of the electoral college system and the implications of the vote returns were insightful and kept me watching.
Russert wasn't afraid of asking tough questions to powerful people. When they would try to weasel their way out of a direct answer, he would ask again, and again if necessary. If only all journalists would have that kind of conviction.
He will be missed. My condolences to his family.
-molo
This posting makes it sound like bind9 is not sufficiently open/free. That is not correct, and kdawson should do a better job of editing to prevent biased postings like this.
Bind9 is licensed under the ISC license, a BSD-like license. The full text of the license follows.
-molo
Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Internet Software Consortium.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND INTERNET SOFTWARE CONSORTIUM
DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL
INTERNET SOFTWARE CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT,
INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING
FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
I thought there were billions of neutrinos coming from the Sun every second. Wouldn't that provide a lot of noise to drown out your signal?
-molo
And yes, it looks like some operations of the CIA would qualify.
-molo
I don't have a list, but I know at least New York does it. They call it DWAI (Driving While Ability Impaired), and it applies if your BAC is 0.05 to 0.079. 0.08 is then DWI which is a more serious offense.
-molo
Er, meant to say 0.05.
-molo
The states with a 0.08 BAC law already have "driving while buzzed".
-molo
-molo
Neither party matches my views now. They are both beholden to lobbyists and campaign contributers. Yes, we need more parties, and hopefully none of them gets a majority. George Washington had it right when he warned us of the dangers of political parties.
-molo
Yeah, and don't forget usenet and UUCP. Massive amounts of data for the time period. The pipes were pretty expensive back then, so if they weren't being used at 100%, it was considered a waste of money.
As for this argument, its basically about over-subscription and the modern ISP. If an ISP has a T3 (45mbit) and 15 clients at 3mbit each, they are fully subscribed. No one does this. Instead, they share that T3 between 1000+ clients, expecting that most of them will be idle. P2P, with full bandwith for long periods of time, breaks the ISP's business model, which is why this is an issue. It has nothing to do with "the Internet". It has to do with ISPs bitching because they can't live up to the expectations that they set with customers and shareholders.
-molo
Spreading depleted uranium dust over Manhattan wouldn't produce much in the way of radiation effect, as you said. However, spreading a cloud of heavy-metal particles is a rather dangerous thing. Heavy metals effect the body and can be poisonous in small doses (think of lead). This stuff will stick around for a while, contaminating buildings, soil, and groundwater. This kind of attack could take several years and millions of dollars to clean up after. (all the while the EPA says "the air is fine")
-molo
Spoken as a true New Yorker.
-molo
Palo Alto (and Stanford) are in California's 14th District, and Lantos is from the 12th District, representing the area from San Mateo, and Redwood City north to South San Francisco, Daly City, and the southwestern portion of San Francisco. I don't think he's eligible to represent the 12th district without moving. So this would be no small matter for him to undertake.
That said, I would fully support Lessig for congress. Hopefully he can bring some knowledge and sanity to important committees.
-molo
My gameboy was next to useless after a year or so of use. There were many verical columns on the LCD that stopped displaying. Cleaning the cartridge connection didn't seem to help either. Yeah, you could drop it and it would still function, but that display would give out eventually.
-molo
Just in time. I just happened to be looking at the ICU spec the other day, and saw that they have a pretty cool time format, the ICU Universal Time Scale. It is a 64-bit integer counting ticks of 100 nanoseconds, with an Epoch of January 1, year 1 AD. This allows dates from 29227 BC to 29227 AD.
Good stuff.
-molo
Yes, of course. I'm guessing at the complexity in a particular dimension or of a particular quantity. Considering that we live in at least a 4D universe, there would of course be more emergent complexity.
And yes, planck mass is not the smallest possible unit of mass. Just throwing that out as another number that approximates 2^200, and so could have been an input parameter to our universe sim.
-molo
Freaky.
-molo
Absolutely not. NPR just re-launched their audio player system as flash. They went from having two streaming formats that were reasonably well understood and had several cross-platform player implementations (MMS/WMA, RealAudio+RTSP), to one implementation that is obscured under a layer of flash and tied to the whims of Adobe. Now they have to exclude the segments of the market that Adobe chooses not to support. For a publicly funded media distribution system, this is absolute rubbish. They should be streaming plain MP3 or Ogg (Vorbis/Speex).
-molo