Morons are getting deviously more incompetent all the time. Minnesota currently has some paper ballots marked incorrectly. Rather than throw them out, it's in the courts right now - divining intent or some such. Granted this is only a problem when the counts are so incredibly close.
In Texas, the only non-police that can carry are those with a concealed license (CHL). The only valid sign to ward off a CHL is described in Texas Penal Code 30.06, with explicit wording, and explicit lettering size, and explicit placement. All other signs are called "ghostbuster" signs (pistol with a red slash), and legally mean nothing. Of course, if you can't be carrying legally anyway, I guess they mean something.
I brought up this point with RMS a couple or 3 years ago. If a "blob" is an FPGA code, and if the hardware is such the the FPGA code is is pointless without the hardware, do you really want the source to the FPGA code?
This is a distinction that must be made over simple drivers. I think he concurred, but I never heard.
Even though it may be a very popular chip, the way it's hooked up makes it hopelessly proprietary.
Given that in WW2 we were fighting against right wing ideology
Keep repeating that and keep showing your ignorance. Nazi's were socialists...
Nationalsozialist
You obviously don't know what a "right" or "left" wing is. The ultra right are.... anarchists. Ultra left are government solutions to every problem under the sun.
The Democrat party of today has more in common with Nazis than the Republican party, though not by much.
You are correct, much to the cognitive dissonance of many.
To the right is less top down control, to the left is more. Questions?
Stupid people think Nazis were right wing. But do not discount corruption of language and concepts.
The hope is that he won't make things any worse. That, at least, makes me and many other people both inside and outside the US feel a lot safer. Perhaps he'll go the way of Jimmy Carter, but even if he does, at least we can be fairly sure there won't be another pointless war or needless reduction of civil liberties.
Gas lines and hostages in Iran? The fact that Carter is allowed in public shows how generous we are.
Our "education" system is crushingly inhuman. PubEd is really 12 years of babysitting.
Is it a wonder why some or most kids come away embarrassingly stupid, thinking that knowledge is the crap that your parents and teachers were trying to get you to believe so you would act right?
It's the pervasive version of "acting white".
Teachers' unions my ass. Fire them all, starting from the top, and start over.
Save for college? I'm waiting for the post-hippy version of higher ed for my kid, one where the knowledge gain is positive, not negative (Cornell, anyone?).
It's basically treating someone else's (especially VoIP) packets like red-headed step-children, and giving your (especially VoIP) packets express treatment. That way, your "real-time" services rock, and the competition's suck wind.
The users of a public key algorithm can also protect themselves by just adding random noise to their messages.
Correct. I was thinking of signing, and I had things backwards, but by injecting entropy into the encryption by public key, chosen plaintext attack becomes "hard". In fact, this is not optional.
Effectively, the fact that the public key must be public gives an attacker the ability to encrypt an unlimited number of chosen plaintexts.
Uhm, no, I don't think so. There is not symmetry between the encryption by private key and by public key. You cannot search for a ciphertext match by bruteforce plaintext + pubkey.
You may be on to something, but please explain more.
Actually, as an English clever person with a doctorate and everything (I has a smarts, I do), I've found myself using just 'Math' recently as it seems to make more sense...
Bravo, thermian. Indeed, "math" used to be plural, circa 1970, about the time I learned that to speak poorly was a fast track to mediocrity. To me, "maths" just sounds retarded to the extreme, like wankerspeak - lets be different just to be different.
The first time I saw it around here, I thought it was a typo. I totally agree about the sound of it, too. Just sounds so wrong.
I have a concealed carry permit for work reasons, but anybody who thinks a fully automatic weapon, or a 50 caliber sniper rifle, or any other firearm you care to name, is going to hold off a squad of United States military personnel trained and equipped with enough firepower to bring down a mechanized infantry unit is freakin' delusional.
Thinking that members of the military would turn against their fathers, mothers, brothers, and neighbors is equally delusional. This is not Germany or Russia, or East Asia. We are very different, even while being composed of members of all the crazy and suicidal cultures from the world over.
Good for you and your permit. Keep the criminals guessing. More harm is dome to our freedoms in the name of controlling crime than anything else. Gun crime among the slime (mostly criminal on criminal crime) is a small price to pay.
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You meant 'median', not 'average'. Or should have.
And that makes it all OK, sort of like felons trading in guns for the money - not to actually use them. Right.
Morons are getting deviously more incompetent all the time. Minnesota currently has some paper ballots marked incorrectly. Rather than throw them out, it's in the courts right now - divining intent or some such. Granted this is only a problem when the counts are so incredibly close.
In Texas, the only non-police that can carry are those with a concealed license (CHL). The only valid sign to ward off a CHL is described in Texas Penal Code 30.06, with explicit wording, and explicit lettering size, and explicit placement. All other signs are called "ghostbuster" signs (pistol with a red slash), and legally mean nothing. Of course, if you can't be carrying legally anyway, I guess they mean something.
Don't expect much support around here.
What a perfect thread to seed the lists-of-things-to-do-for-2009 for several police agencies.
I brought up this point with RMS a couple or 3 years ago. If a "blob" is an FPGA code, and if the hardware is such the the FPGA code is is pointless without the hardware, do you really want the source to the FPGA code?
This is a distinction that must be made over simple drivers. I think he concurred, but I never heard.
Even though it may be a very popular chip, the way it's hooked up makes it hopelessly proprietary.
Americans have been taught about that struggle and what it means, and many of us refuse to take freedom for granted.
I hope that's still the case, but I worry a lot about public education and what is being passed down to those whose parents are not fully engaged.
Can I have my 12 years back?
...It means, no RULER. That is to say, no government by force. If everyone agrees to socialist of communist practices, it is still anarchism.
That is either the dumbest belief or the most naive I have heard in a long, long time.
I think you need to go look up anarchism.
How can an oppressive government implement socialist or communist practice if there is no government?
Given that in WW2 we were fighting against right wing ideology
Keep repeating that and keep showing your ignorance. Nazi's were socialists ...
Nationalsozialist
You obviously don't know what a "right" or "left" wing is. The ultra right are .... anarchists. Ultra left are government solutions to every problem under the sun.
The Democrat party of today has more in common with Nazis than the Republican party, though not by much.
You are correct, much to the cognitive dissonance of many.
To the right is less top down control, to the left is more. Questions?
Stupid people think Nazis were right wing. But do not discount corruption of language and concepts.
The hope is that he won't make things any worse. That, at least, makes me and many other people both inside and outside the US feel a lot safer. Perhaps he'll go the way of Jimmy Carter, but even if he does, at least we can be fairly sure there won't be another pointless war or needless reduction of civil liberties.
Gas lines and hostages in Iran? The fact that Carter is allowed in public shows how generous we are.
Level Headed,
Does every wrong need to be met with another wrong?
Or can we draw a line, and say "enough - time to fix the problems and reclaim the American Dream for our children and ourselves"?
Not this time. Next time.
May he be treated with 1/10 the respect GW got.
Our "education" system is crushingly inhuman. PubEd is really 12 years of babysitting.
Is it a wonder why some or most kids come away embarrassingly stupid, thinking that knowledge is the crap that your parents and teachers were trying to get you to believe so you would act right?
It's the pervasive version of "acting white".
Teachers' unions my ass. Fire them all, starting from the top, and start over.
Save for college? I'm waiting for the post-hippy version of higher ed for my kid, one where the knowledge gain is positive, not negative (Cornell, anyone?).
Not that I think Boston has any stupider TSA staff, or local police staff, than anywhere else.
The TSA is the same in Boston as in San Antonio, except almost everyone in Boston is in a real foul mood.
The officials fear they are missing out on all the good jokes because of policies about what can be sent via official email.
What is wrong with the Brits? They hit bottom, started digging, hit rock, and now are reaching for the explosives.
Peek-a-boo, we see you, Winston.
B. Hussein the movie, staring Joe Kyero and Sue Dinero. Want a plot spoiler?
Subject says it all. Looks like smart people are going for Obama, shocking.
This time, it's not about being "for" anything. It's completely sufficient to be "against".
Non-neutral net:
It's basically treating someone else's (especially VoIP) packets like red-headed step-children, and giving your (especially VoIP) packets express treatment. That way, your "real-time" services rock, and the competition's suck wind.
Bullshit. You get more action at peace rallies. Liberal chicks are easy.
Easy, but a little smelly. The conservatives bathe a lot more often.
There is so much sense in this thread, I worry that I have awakened in a parallel opposite universe. Scary, I say.
Correct. I was thinking of signing, and I had things backwards, but by injecting entropy into the encryption by public key, chosen plaintext attack becomes "hard". In fact, this is not optional.
Uhm, no, I don't think so. There is not symmetry between the encryption by private key and by public key. You cannot search for a ciphertext match by bruteforce plaintext + pubkey.
You may be on to something, but please explain more.
IANAC
Actually, as an English clever person with a doctorate and everything (I has a smarts, I do), I've found myself using just 'Math' recently as it seems to make more sense...
Bravo, thermian. Indeed, "math" used to be plural, circa 1970, about the time I learned that to speak poorly was a fast track to mediocrity. To me, "maths" just sounds retarded to the extreme, like wankerspeak - lets be different just to be different.
The first time I saw it around here, I thought it was a typo. I totally agree about the sound of it, too. Just sounds so wrong.
Thinking that members of the military would turn against their fathers, mothers, brothers, and neighbors is equally delusional. This is not Germany or Russia, or East Asia. We are very different, even while being composed of members of all the crazy and suicidal cultures from the world over.
Good for you and your permit. Keep the criminals guessing. More harm is dome to our freedoms in the name of controlling crime than anything else. Gun crime among the slime (mostly criminal on criminal crime) is a small price to pay.