The difference between Obama and Clinton in the primaries was that he wanted to be sure every American has the chance to buy health insurance at an affordable price, and she wanted to force every American to buy health insurance whether they could afford it or not. Clinton wanted to fine employers who didn't provide insurance, and individuals who chose not to have it.
Clearly the Democrats favor the Clinton approach, and are intent on forcing another mandated lack of choice on the citizens, and if the cost of health care means you can't afford food or housing, at least you can get medical treatment.
The thing everyone seems to ignore is that even if you have insurance now, in many places you can't get health care! With great coverage and the means to pay cash if needed, an expensive trip to another part of the country may be needed to get care in a timely fashion. Any plan which doesn't include a means to increase the supply will only make thing worse. A plan must have funding to train doctors (not import them), stop closing hospitals in the name of cost control, and some incentive for people to participate in preventative care, like increased co-pay for those who don't.
Back in the late 50's and early 60's Popular Electronics had plans for a dual tuner receiver which took the signal from a strong station and rectified it to drive an audio amplifier to a small speaker, so you could use the other tuner to listen to a weak station.
The idea of capturing power in a useful way is hardly new, about 1990 there was company building a home portable setup which used a tuned cavity to capture EM from a sending station. I don't remember the details, as the price was over my threshold for buying stuff I didn't need just to see how well it worked.
Any post starting with "How fond Americans are of reductionist dualities" is a pretty good indication of forgone conclusion. I agree that a pilot should have the option to go manual, if the auto-pilot is making poor decisions. That doesn't imply that I expect pilot override to be the standard practice. There's a reason why check rides include loss of power, both engine and electrical, and loss of auto pilot. I don't expect a pilot to be doing acrobatics, but I know and approve limits on what the auto pilot will do. That's why the auto pilot will disengage itself under some conditions.
The "real facts on flying" quoted are clearly wrong, the cause was not the storm, but whatever factor, hardware, software, or pilot error, which caused the plane to ever be in the storm instead of flying around it as many pilots said on the news is the standard practice for thunderstorms.
Actually this proves that not only was there life, but intelligent life at that. They evolved, developed space flight, and left before the lower life forms on Earth arrived. The perchlorates are simply contamination for rocket fuel.
Sounds as likely as some of the other theories I've read lately.
Why isn't there a way for the average computer and history buff to donate using Paypal or similar? Having tried to send money to Europe from the US in the past, it becomes a snarl of paperwork, and now we have to file with the government to prove the British Government is not a terrorist organization. Make it easy and people will support it.
You mean the bad guys didn't notice the truckloads of rubble being taken out, the blasting (neighbors complaints made the papers), and the fact that he made public appearances and then went to his "secure location" without leaving the building?
There is no way the bad guys didn't know there was a bunker under the VP house, because the public knew. There might be doubt about the existance or location of other secure locations, and where the VP is at some given time, but bus tours for tourists supposedly announced "that's where the new bunker is being built."
Not "top secret," not "confidential," but "common knowledge."
I'm sure the harvesting of innocent diatoms for their shells will offend someone. Maybe the right to life folks as well, and if these are naked diatoms, the people who want clothes on cats and dogs, as well.
There is no end to stupidity, therefore the Universe must be infinite.
Get a modern machine with few moving parts, install a recent Linux, and run both machines virtual. I assume these are not 7/24 machines and could be shut down for a few minutes to take a backup, which would fit on a single DVD
Example:Newegg has a Shuttle, 64 bit CPU, 1GB RAM, 80GB disk, and Linux installed, although not the one I would use. Add a 2nd hard drive so you can run RAID-1, a DVD burner, and a modern Linux like Fedora-10. When backups are made, use software ECC on the DVDs, like dvdisaster, so they are almost certain to be readable for 15 years.
The nice thing is that these units are only $200, maybe $300 with the DVD burner and 2nd disk, so you can have another on hand and ready to go. And since you are not (hopefully) network connected, security updates are not a requirement, just run.
I would go with the Intel 920 four core+HT CPU, fully populated RAM (12GB), and at least four TB drives using software RAID (my WD run 10 deg cooler than my Seagates). Run Fedora F10 as the host OS, and knock youself out with VM. Linux handles both multiple cores and HT well, seems to make good allocation choices based on understanding cache.
I write this on a VM desktop machine which moves between several hosts similar to described, or a notebook running an AMD dual-core. All run FC9 or FC10 as host, and I have two desktops for various use, XP, Win7, and my HTTP, DNS, DHCP, and mail servers (using CentOS) available as backups if the dedicated hosts should fail.
So you think that if you own a house your heirs should get it, but if I write a book and die my heirs shouldn't? Or when you die should everything you own go to the government?
Why do you think that people who write a book or song, make a film, take a picture, or other creative work, should lose the right to pass on the ownership of the work to their heirs? Could it be that you don't do any of these things and want to just take the work without paying?
Copyright for the lifetime of the author, with a minimum length of time to allow recovery of some portion of the commercial value. Ten years seems too short, given the time it takes for most written work to actually start generating income. Patent for a fixed period, that makes sense, gets the tech out so people can build on it. Otherwise you get a lot of trade secrets and the tech stays secret for much longer. Films are a special case, they generate income for decades, and are physical objects which are owned, not a concept.
It would be nice to have commercial and non-commercial rights, so that after some period electronic copies of books could be available, but not sold. So efforts like Project Guttenberg could have a book for free distribution, but the author would still own commercial rights, including sales of electronic copies. Unfortunately I suppose that publishers would find a way to make money and not share it with the author, so it probably wouldn't work.
I did not see the term embryonic in the article, and since these are derived from adult cells I wouldn't expect to. Embryonic cells are generally easier to replicate and more capable, while adult (somatic) cells have the benefit of not causing rejection. More on the differences at the NIH stem cell info page.
A means to create embryonic stem cells from adult cells would provide pluripotent cells of matching genetic makeup, which seems to be the ultimate starting point for stem cell therapy. The fact that a virus is not used to create these cells seems to reduce the chances of genetic errors or increased cancer cancer risk, a benefit of embryonic stem cells.
I would say that you should go to distrowatch and look at things like Damn Small Linux or Pupply Linux or similar, which use smaller window managers.
I do hear very good things about the Fedora version eeDora although the stock version with the smaller window manager works well, too.
A little tuning in/proc/sys/vm will help:
- swappiness - make smaller
- laptop mode - set ON
- dirty_expires - set to 1000 or smaller
and of course add memory!
While this is clearly impractical and there is at least one obviously more practical solution, I wonder if they have overlooked the light sail effect. NASA has established that it is possible to move small masses away from the sun using nothing but a thin film catching photons. It would seem to me that even if you could build this power station it would be stopping photons in proportion to the energy generated. That would mean a steady drift and the need for even more complexity to get it to "hold station" as the navy calls it.
The less-impractical solution is just to put thin film reflectors in orbit, with a minuscule pointing pod, and reflect photons down to Earth where you can put lots of solar cells you don't have have to boost anywhere. A parabolic reflector with adjustable focal length is trivial with thin film and micro gravity, so you just need to keep it pointed. This reduces the cost and weight of the orbital payload to something practical.
At some point the light sail effect would move these reflectors to the point where they would not be producing useful energy, but with a payload in pounds rather than tons, it is reasonable to call them expendables and a benefit in reliability to having multiple reflectors in place, in case of damage to one. As an added benefit, the energy from each reflector would be far less dangerous than a multi-GW microwave beam, avoiding the real danger of intentional redirection of the beam for terrorist purposes.
Back in the 90's we did just this, servers of a type were named after rivers and streams in upstate NY like Hudson, Esopus, etc. Project groups usually had their own theme, which helped identify the purpose of a machine.
At that time I was mostly doing administration, and had to install a set of new Sun desktops and a group file server for a group headed by a difficult manager. I asked him what he wanted for a theme, and was told "That's your job, if you can't do it I'll ask for someone competent."
The next morning the group was in, body fluids, blood, sweat and tears, vomit, mucus, drool, and their fileserver plasma.
My manager asked me to provide new names when he stopped laughing, and rejected my next theme of social diseases, saying it was "only funny once."
Registered in the wrong TLD? Untrusted PKI source? Tells you you don't have permission to access the site? Screwed up beyond belief? How can you doubt for a minute it's military?
unfortunately no smiley, if the military had gotten a process patent on disfunctional bureaucracy we could have a balanced budget collecting royalties from the banks and investment firms.
I believe that VISTA capable means that it can be upgraded, and VISTA ready means good to go as is. If that's the case the buyer didn't get the message.
To what extent is the retailer responsible to verify vendor claims? Does the spec say 2.2GHz CPU? Is the retailer required to check that? So if the unit says "VISTA capable" is the retailer on the hook for trusting the manufacturer?
I put my backup raid on ext4 and noted that the write speed for large (2-8GB) files, written one at a time, is about 25% faster than ext3 on the same hardware and raid config, both using noatime.
The bad news is that if you have a kernel with no ext4 support and just do a mount command, it appears that the kernel will mount as ext3 and then screw up the data. Forcing the ext4 module to load or using the ext4 f/s type will prevent this.
Sorry, no information on small files at all, that's not how I'm using the storage. However, there is a tool to defrag in cases where some write pattern causes a fragmentation issue, I guess that's a good thing.
Also note: I didn't play with the stride parameter, previous use with ext3 indicates that if you have a software raid five or six this will really help write performance.
A quick look at the protections in MULTICS from the 1960's would show that the claims in the patent are either prior art or totally obvious from the original (like using a one instead of a zero in a bitmap).
MULTICS had one of the most complex permissions arrangements ever put in an OS, the best practice supported in hardware by GE (who built the original GE-645 computer to support it) and MIT who worked on the refinements like protection enforcement on a page fault level
This reminds me of childhood Italian pasta cooking, grab a bunch and throw it at the wall and see if it sticks. I don't know if a court will allow these companies to couter sue for legal costs, but I won't be buying stock in IPAT.
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The difference between Obama and Clinton in the primaries was that he wanted to be sure every American has the chance to buy health insurance at an affordable price, and she wanted to force every American to buy health insurance whether they could afford it or not. Clinton wanted to fine employers who didn't provide insurance, and individuals who chose not to have it.
Clearly the Democrats favor the Clinton approach, and are intent on forcing another mandated lack of choice on the citizens, and if the cost of health care means you can't afford food or housing, at least you can get medical treatment.
The thing everyone seems to ignore is that even if you have insurance now, in many places you can't get health care! With great coverage and the means to pay cash if needed, an expensive trip to another part of the country may be needed to get care in a timely fashion. Any plan which doesn't include a means to increase the supply will only make thing worse. A plan must have funding to train doctors (not import them), stop closing hospitals in the name of cost control, and some incentive for people to participate in preventative care, like increased co-pay for those who don't.
Back in the late 50's and early 60's Popular Electronics had plans for a dual tuner receiver which took the signal from a strong station and rectified it to drive an audio amplifier to a small speaker, so you could use the other tuner to listen to a weak station.
The idea of capturing power in a useful way is hardly new, about 1990 there was company building a home portable setup which used a tuned cavity to capture EM from a sending station. I don't remember the details, as the price was over my threshold for buying stuff I didn't need just to see how well it worked.
Any post starting with "How fond Americans are of reductionist dualities" is a pretty good indication of forgone conclusion. I agree that a pilot should have the option to go manual, if the auto-pilot is making poor decisions. That doesn't imply that I expect pilot override to be the standard practice. There's a reason why check rides include loss of power, both engine and electrical, and loss of auto pilot. I don't expect a pilot to be doing acrobatics, but I know and approve limits on what the auto pilot will do. That's why the auto pilot will disengage itself under some conditions.
The "real facts on flying" quoted are clearly wrong, the cause was not the storm, but whatever factor, hardware, software, or pilot error, which caused the plane to ever be in the storm instead of flying around it as many pilots said on the news is the standard practice for thunderstorms.
Actually this proves that not only was there life, but intelligent life at that. They evolved, developed space flight, and left before the lower life forms on Earth arrived. The perchlorates are simply contamination for rocket fuel.
Sounds as likely as some of the other theories I've read lately.
Why isn't there a way for the average computer and history buff to donate using Paypal or similar? Having tried to send money to Europe from the US in the past, it becomes a snarl of paperwork, and now we have to file with the government to prove the British Government is not a terrorist organization. Make it easy and people will support it.
I live on bananas and Coke (cola, not nose candy) so my potasium should be fine.
You mean the bad guys didn't notice the truckloads of rubble being taken out, the blasting (neighbors complaints made the papers), and the fact that he made public appearances and then went to his "secure location" without leaving the building?
There is no way the bad guys didn't know there was a bunker under the VP house, because the public knew. There might be doubt about the existance or location of other secure locations, and where the VP is at some given time, but bus tours for tourists supposedly announced "that's where the new bunker is being built."
Not "top secret," not "confidential," but "common knowledge."
Atoms with a single electron in their outermost shell bond. Sounds like hydrogen H2.
I'm sure the harvesting of innocent diatoms for their shells will offend someone. Maybe the right to life folks as well, and if these are naked diatoms, the people who want clothes on cats and dogs, as well.
There is no end to stupidity, therefore the Universe must be infinite.
Get a modern machine with few moving parts, install a recent Linux, and run both machines virtual. I assume these are not 7/24 machines and could be shut down for a few minutes to take a backup, which would fit on a single DVD
Example:Newegg has a Shuttle, 64 bit CPU, 1GB RAM, 80GB disk, and Linux installed, although not the one I would use. Add a 2nd hard drive so you can run RAID-1, a DVD burner, and a modern Linux like Fedora-10. When backups are made, use software ECC on the DVDs, like dvdisaster, so they are almost certain to be readable for 15 years.
The nice thing is that these units are only $200, maybe $300 with the DVD burner and 2nd disk, so you can have another on hand and ready to go. And since you are not (hopefully) network connected, security updates are not a requirement, just run.
But... a search warrant must have the item or material to be sought described. Did a judge really sign a search order specifying only "computers?"
I have to think this story is less than complete, and other governments would be making much noise if their 911 service was really shut down.
I would go with the Intel 920 four core+HT CPU, fully populated RAM (12GB), and at least four TB drives using software RAID (my WD run 10 deg cooler than my Seagates). Run Fedora F10 as the host OS, and knock youself out with VM. Linux handles both multiple cores and HT well, seems to make good allocation choices based on understanding cache.
I write this on a VM desktop machine which moves between several hosts similar to described, or a notebook running an AMD dual-core. All run FC9 or FC10 as host, and I have two desktops for various use, XP, Win7, and my HTTP, DNS, DHCP, and mail servers (using CentOS) available as backups if the dedicated hosts should fail.
Cost of a box like that should be
So you think that if you own a house your heirs should get it, but if I write a book and die my heirs shouldn't? Or when you die should everything you own go to the government?
Why do you think that people who write a book or song, make a film, take a picture, or other creative work, should lose the right to pass on the ownership of the work to their heirs? Could it be that you don't do any of these things and want to just take the work without paying?
Copyright for the lifetime of the author, with a minimum length of time to allow recovery of some portion of the commercial value. Ten years seems too short, given the time it takes for most written work to actually start generating income. Patent for a fixed period, that makes sense, gets the tech out so people can build on it. Otherwise you get a lot of trade secrets and the tech stays secret for much longer. Films are a special case, they generate income for decades, and are physical objects which are owned, not a concept.
It would be nice to have commercial and non-commercial rights, so that after some period electronic copies of books could be available, but not sold. So efforts like Project Guttenberg could have a book for free distribution, but the author would still own commercial rights, including sales of electronic copies. Unfortunately I suppose that publishers would find a way to make money and not share it with the author, so it probably wouldn't work.
I did not see the term embryonic in the article, and since these are derived from adult cells I wouldn't expect to. Embryonic cells are generally easier to replicate and more capable, while adult (somatic) cells have the benefit of not causing rejection. More on the differences at the NIH stem cell info page.
A means to create embryonic stem cells from adult cells would provide pluripotent cells of matching genetic makeup, which seems to be the ultimate starting point for stem cell therapy. The fact that a virus is not used to create these cells seems to reduce the chances of genetic errors or increased cancer cancer risk, a benefit of embryonic stem cells.
I would say that you should go to distrowatch and look at things like Damn Small Linux or Pupply Linux or similar, which use smaller window managers.
I do hear very good things about the Fedora version eeDora although the stock version with the smaller window manager works well, too.
A little tuning in /proc/sys/vm will help:
- swappiness - make smaller
- laptop mode - set ON
- dirty_expires - set to 1000 or smaller
and of course add memory!
While this is clearly impractical and there is at least one obviously more practical solution, I wonder if they have overlooked the light sail effect. NASA has established that it is possible to move small masses away from the sun using nothing but a thin film catching photons. It would seem to me that even if you could build this power station it would be stopping photons in proportion to the energy generated. That would mean a steady drift and the need for even more complexity to get it to "hold station" as the navy calls it.
The less-impractical solution is just to put thin film reflectors in orbit, with a minuscule pointing pod, and reflect photons down to Earth where you can put lots of solar cells you don't have have to boost anywhere. A parabolic reflector with adjustable focal length is trivial with thin film and micro gravity, so you just need to keep it pointed. This reduces the cost and weight of the orbital payload to something practical.
At some point the light sail effect would move these reflectors to the point where they would not be producing useful energy, but with a payload in pounds rather than tons, it is reasonable to call them expendables and a benefit in reliability to having multiple reflectors in place, in case of damage to one. As an added benefit, the energy from each reflector would be far less dangerous than a multi-GW microwave beam, avoiding the real danger of intentional redirection of the beam for terrorist purposes.
Certainly Lunar orbit would be more stable due to reduced drag, or to do different science L4 or L5 might be desirable.
If you have a patent you have the option of suing the trolls. That discourages them.
Back in the 90's we did just this, servers of a type were named after rivers and streams in upstate NY like Hudson, Esopus, etc. Project groups usually had their own theme, which helped identify the purpose of a machine.
At that time I was mostly doing administration, and had to install a set of new Sun desktops and a group file server for a group headed by a difficult manager. I asked him what he wanted for a theme, and was told "That's your job, if you can't do it I'll ask for someone competent."
The next morning the group was in, body fluids, blood, sweat and tears, vomit, mucus, drool, and their fileserver plasma.
My manager asked me to provide new names when he stopped laughing, and rejected my next theme of social diseases, saying it was "only funny once."
Registered in the wrong TLD? Untrusted PKI source? Tells you you don't have permission to access the site? Screwed up beyond belief? How can you doubt for a minute it's military?
unfortunately no smiley, if the military had gotten a process patent on disfunctional bureaucracy we could have a balanced budget collecting royalties from the banks and investment firms.
I believe that VISTA capable means that it can be upgraded, and VISTA ready means good to go as is. If that's the case the buyer didn't get the message.
To what extent is the retailer responsible to verify vendor claims? Does the spec say 2.2GHz CPU? Is the retailer required to check that? So if the unit says "VISTA capable" is the retailer on the hook for trusting the manufacturer?
I put my backup raid on ext4 and noted that the write speed for large (2-8GB) files, written one at a time, is about 25% faster than ext3 on the same hardware and raid config, both using noatime.
The bad news is that if you have a kernel with no ext4 support and just do a mount command, it appears that the kernel will mount as ext3 and then screw up the data. Forcing the ext4 module to load or using the ext4 f/s type will prevent this.
Sorry, no information on small files at all, that's not how I'm using the storage. However, there is a tool to defrag in cases where some write pattern causes a fragmentation issue, I guess that's a good thing.
Also note: I didn't play with the stride parameter, previous use with ext3 indicates that if you have a software raid five or six this will really help write performance.
A quick look at the protections in MULTICS from the 1960's would show that the claims in the patent are either prior art or totally obvious from the original (like using a one instead of a zero in a bitmap).
MULTICS had one of the most complex permissions arrangements ever put in an OS, the best practice supported in hardware by GE (who built the original GE-645 computer to support it) and MIT who worked on the refinements like protection enforcement on a page fault level
This reminds me of childhood Italian pasta cooking, grab a bunch and throw it at the wall and see if it sticks. I don't know if a court will allow these companies to couter sue for legal costs, but I won't be buying stock in IPAT.
Seems everyone neglects the popular 4310 used in many otherwise Linux-friendly laptops.