It's not the end-all to everything, but if you need something straightforeward, no hassle and it works in 10 minutes (on a 486) I suppose Novell has nicer stuff, but probalby not for free. You only need ssh to be able to admin the box remotely, much more secure as Webmin. YMMV and IANALE (linux expert) but it's almost all I use, and a little vi maybe. I have no connections to SuSE, I only use it since 6.1, from the 486 firewall to the P4 desktop, with or without X. The firewall is only accessible though ssh, no httpd, or other deamons running.
I suppose these missiles were made in the USSR days, and as even missiles probably have a limited 'shelf life' and they must be 15+ years old I think it's just common sense to use them while they still are in working order, and make some hard needed cash in the process. I suppose Russia will them build some new ones for they still remaining WMD with the cash they earned this way, or have a completely different delivery system altogether. Isn't this the same reason the USA are/were using redstone's as launch vehicules?
Computer!Totaal http://www.computertotaal.nl/
of the Hobby Computer Club Kijk http://www.kijk.nl
Not as much fun as it used to be. PC Magazine Dutch version
Not as good as the Computer!Totaal
The Rabobank in my parents home town in Zuidhorn (The Netherlands) has had a similar system for at least 15 years. There is this vacuum tube system that transports the money. One for incomming and one for outgoing trafic at every tellers desk. Only the money directly involved in a transaction either deposit or withdrawl is in the main area with the tellers desks. I believe it's more or less universal here. As a result bank robbery is virtually non existent here, but money transports occasionally get hit. This might give you an idea www.lendprojectmanagement.nl/ ref6.htm on how it looks.
The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German, wich was the other possibility. As part of negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English speelig had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase in plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish": In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".
Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the trouble- some "ph" will be replaced with the "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that with the horible mes of the silent "e"'s, the language is disgraceful, and they should go away. By the 4th yar, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yar, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yar, ve vil hav a reil sesibl riten styl. zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI KOM TRU !!!
I have very little knowledge of the Amish so I will not comment on them.
What I meant is that before cell phones people did fine as parents, not that the overall living condition has not improved over the past milenia.
I think having a cell phone at you at all times is of no big influence to the wellfare of your child, except at times when you are with your child at the moment it gets an accident and you can call help. But even then your cell phone does not need to be on. Proper (health) care and vaccination have shown to have a beneficial effect on humans in general and children specifically, but that was not the point I was trying to make.
The only reason I can think of, is that it allows the parent to receive information about the child. If an emergency would come up while the parent is separated from the child a capable babysitter would probably be much more usefull as one that would only know how to contact the parent.
The point I was trying to make is that people have been able to leave their children alone or in care of others for milenia, without the means of being constantly updated about their status, so why should this be suddenly different? Is the need for constant information so great that it prevails over everything else?
My cell phone is off, except when I need to call someone, or on duty/standby for work. For everything else there is my answering machine, and e-mail/ICQ. If I am not within 5 minutes of those I either am in my car, where using the phone is not allowed, in a meeting, on holiday, at a concert, or some other place I do not want to be bothered.
In the case of cell phone's I do think "ingorance is bliss" sometimes.
P.S. Do not start about "your child is in hospital and dying, please come quick". That also holds for brothers/sisters/husband/wife/father/mother/best frend/etc. it applies to anyone, not parents specifically. No offence meant, but does the minute chance of this happening and it actually making a difference realy outweigh the day-to-day annoyance, not for me. People afraid of such odds should not drive a car, always wear a helmet, etc.
Yes it is, R. Daneel does make a small apearance in Foundation and Earth, tying the Foundation series in with the Robot series. I like the first three novells of either series best, - Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation - Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn.
These books are almost 50 years old and as readable as ever, they rate second only to Tolkien's work for me.
In his later Foundation novels he ties the earlier stories together: Prelude to Foundation, Foundation and Earth. I am not sure if that makes th stories stronger.
"Engelberger, who built the first industrial robot, called Unimate, in 1958, attributes his long-standing fascination with robots to his reading of [Asimov's] 'I, Robot' when he was a teenager", and Engelberger later invited Asimov to write the foreword to his robotics manual.
I voted for R. Daneel Olivaw to be added to the Hall of Fame, because I think that Asimov's creations have had a much more profound impact on the way we think about robots, as George Lucas more recent creations. This is the guy who invented the word "Robotics" and has been the main inspiration of both Unimate and ASIMO, and probably a lot of other works both in SF and Robotics.
While Marvin is a lot of fun as is the entire series, I do not think he particulary fills the criteria of this Robot Hall of Fame. - These are the fictional robots that have inspired us to create real robots that are productive, helpful, and entertaining. These robots have achieved worldwide fame as fictional characters and have helped form our opinions about the functions and values of real robots. -
I voted for R. Daneel Olivaw on their site. Easily one of the most awesome creations of Asimov ever. It's the main character in several of his books, not just a sidekick. - Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire.
If you never read them you should read the series: Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and the two above mentioned titles. In this series Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and the invention of "the Zeroed law" by Daneel and Giskard have been a real contribution in the way I think about Robots. Types like Data from Star Trek are in my view heavily inspired by this work.
Engelberger, who built the first industrial robot, called Unimate, in 1958, attributes his long-standing fascination with robots to his reading of [Asimov's] 'I, Robot' when he was a teenager, and Engelberger later invited Asimov to write the foreword to his robotics manual.
In my cicle of friends I see a lot of people downloading not the films/series that are broadcasted on TV here in the Netherlands, but especially the stuff that's not on the local networks. Japaneese Anime, Brasilian soaps, indy music, episodes that have aired in the USA but not yet in europe, etc.
They would pay for a legal alternative, but it just is not there. There are hundreds of niche markets that do not warrant nation wide broadcasting, but could make gold money in some bittorrent/iTunes combination, where increased demand would increase the number of nodes. DSL+Tivo-like product could do this in a very convenient way. The box would function as a seed for the last 20 things you downloaded next to the Tivo like behaviour.
I was born and raised in Dutch as my native language, but read/write and speak several other languages quite well. I do not consider myself as good as a native speaker in any of those languages but I do not agree with you at all. Even in my native tongue there are a lot of words I do not know and there are several Computer related words that I know only in English, and that do not even have a proper translation in Dutch because the industry is very English-centered. My point is that every profession has a specific vocabulary and therefore the total word count in a language is huge, and every speaker only knows a small portion of it. This is different from the everyday common language used in newspapers for example. If you can read a newspaper in another language and you know all the words in it, then I think you have a vocabulary that is comparable to that of a native speaker, everything beyond that is propably proffesion related. I think I have a very large vocabulary in Dutch as I often use words that people do not know, but in my sisters theology thesis were a lot of words I did not know. Next to that you have the phenomenon of children of immigrants that have a limited vocabulary in the language of their parents because it is limited to the topics they talk about with their parents, and there is no pressure on them to develop their vocabulary beyond that.
Talking a language is a different matter completely. I knew someone from Spain that could read and write English quite well, but I could barely talk to him, as I was the first one he ever had a conversation in English with. He had no idea how to pronounce it. To some extent this also applies to me: You would pick me out as a non native speaker whe we would have a conversation in English within a minute, but this has nothing to do with vocabulary, it's experience and skill.
For the record: I consider myself fluent reader/writer/speaker in Dutch and English, almost in German and French, and I know enough of Spanish, Italian, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian to understand a newspaper even if I do not know all the words. I know enough arabian, greek and portuguese to do some shopping or ask for directions.
The big thing about Linux that you are missing is that he's one of the few people that were able to start a one man project and now lead something comparable to a large international corporation.
Few people in this world have both the skills to start something, and be able to adjust their view and mode of operation to the different scales that something goes through to grow into something as big as Linux.
Common wisdom is that most new/family businesses never get bigger as 20 people because above this limit you need a different style of management, and very few can manage the switch. I have worked in a family business where every time the staff would appoach 20 people things started going wrong because the boss who started it as a one-man shop could not change his hands-on know-what-everybody-does style of managing.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are also examples of people that could do this. I consider Linus in the same league.
Yes, I already have voted this morning (in the Netherlands the voting is today) and I did let my vote be decided on the Software Patent issue. And I did vote against Software patents. (although there were some other issues where I also agree with the local green party)
My previous employer (a little tight for cash the last two years, that's also why it's my previous employer until six months ago, I do have a new one now)
6 Workstations: P600/128Mb RAM/Windows'98 (developement systems, compiling could take an hour, but otherwise fine machines) 12 Desktops: P350-500/64Mb/win98 (text/browsing/e-mail)
1 Firewall 486dx-33/8Mb
1 Main server P120/32Mb RAM/40 Gb harddisk doing: Samba (20 Gb share) CVS (about 4 Gb, several projects of 100.000+ LOC) MySQL server (with comercial licence) for customer administation, meeting scheduling, financial administration, billable hours administration, etc.(inhouse written applications) Webserver (Apache/PHP) Printer server
It amazed me every day that this stuff was working especially the main server. Not much problems at all. We had one P4/WinXP/Win2000 system (Ghosted) to test our software on the kind of systems our clients were using...
I think unstable systems have at least as much to do with the motherboard and RAM as with the CPU, and AMD/Cyrix used to be on the cheaper combinations.
Ehm, I think you're wrong here, it's called free because it's free of church and government as it was around 1880. It was founded by and closely tied to the then new reformed protestant movement ('gereformeerd') who had separated from the official state protestant church ('hervormd'). It was founded by reverend 'Abraham Kuyper' the early leader of the reformed protestant church. This year officially the two protestant movements united again after 125 years into one church, althoug some new splinter groups have formed. "Free" here means free from the religious views of the mayority. The universities with catholic ties in the Netherlands are those of Maastricht, Tilburg and Nijmegen, esp. the later two. You are right thas Dutch society used to be very divided into separate groups, every group also had it's own political party, which has spawned our long tradition of coalitions ruling the country, never is one party alone in power (nobody has anything close to a mayority).
Actually the 'University of Amsterdam' is called the 'municipal university' at the Free University as it is closely tied to the government and at least nowadays much more secular. The identification of Amsterdam with catholicism dates back much further, to the 80 years independance war, where Amsterdam sided on the side of the Spanish initially due to it's large catholic population at the time. In more recent history it has more been associated with jewism, the Amsterdam soccer club "AJAX" are still often refered to as "the jews" even though probably none of the players are jewish.
I do know several Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry PhD's reading/., as are several PhD students. All CS Masters I know read slashdot (50/50), as are several Mathermatics (5/20) and Physics Masters I know (10/50). The only PhD I know in an overqualified job has a PhD in Biology. I myself am only MS in Applied Physics.
Not everybody is using SQL in a SQL aware editor, either because it's embedded in PHP, C(++), Java, Matlab, etc. In these languages there is syntax highlighting, but the SQL is "only" a string or character array.
This does not prevent the method where they cut the strap, that's why I suggested a backback, it has at least two straps (and probably thicker/stronger too). It should be locked, but thes so should your shoulder bag, as the thief will try to steal it when you're distracted, so your eyes are not on the bag.
Give me a single statistic where the ability to carry firearms has realy lowered the crime rate, compared to places where this is not alowed. I always compare the numbers from the USA with those from my own country (The Netherlands) and I am astonished how much higher the crime numbers in the USA are. http://www.nationmaster.com for example.
We are by no means crime free, but most crime here is pick-pocketing, tax-evasion and burglery, non violent crimes. Murder is so rare here, that most will make national news (population is about the same size as florida or new-york state (16-17 million). Murders -New York -907 Murders -Netherlands -183 Murders -Florida -1152
Slashdot Mirror
It's not the end-all to everything, but if you need something straightforeward, no hassle and it works in 10 minutes (on a 486)
I suppose Novell has nicer stuff, but probalby not for free. You only need ssh to be able to admin the box remotely, much more secure as Webmin.
YMMV and IANALE (linux expert) but it's almost all I use, and a little vi maybe. I have no connections to SuSE, I only use it since 6.1, from the 486 firewall to the P4 desktop, with or without X. The firewall is only accessible though ssh, no httpd, or other deamons running.
ns.nl is a real and valid domain, so you must be incorrect
(ns = nederlandse spoorwegen/ dutch railways)
just my 2 eurocents
I suppose these missiles were made in the USSR days, and as even missiles probably have a limited 'shelf life' and they must be 15+ years old
I think it's just common sense to use them while they still are in working order, and make some hard needed cash in the process. I suppose Russia will them build some new ones for they still remaining WMD with the cash they earned this way, or have a completely different delivery system altogether.
Isn't this the same reason the USA are/were using redstone's as launch vehicules?
Computer!Totaal http://www.computertotaal.nl/
of the Hobby Computer Club
Kijk http://www.kijk.nl
Not as much fun as it used to be.
PC Magazine Dutch version
Not as good as the Computer!Totaal
The Rabobank in my parents home town in Zuidhorn (The Netherlands) has had a similar system for at least 15 years. There is this vacuum tube system that transports the money. One for incomming and one for outgoing trafic at every tellers desk. Only the money directly involved in a transaction either deposit or withdrawl is in the main area with the tellers desks.
I believe it's more or less universal here. As a result bank robbery is virtually non existent here, but money transports occasionally get hit.
This might give you an idea www.lendprojectmanagement.nl/ ref6.htm
on how it looks.
Juropian Englisz.
The European Commission have just announced an agreement whereby English will be
the official language of the EU rather than German, wich was the other possibility.
As part of negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English speelig had
some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase in plan that would be known
as "EuroEnglish": In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".
Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump for joy. The hard "c" will be dropped of the "k".
This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the trouble- some "ph" will be
replaced with the "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach
the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the
removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
Also, al wil agre that with the horible mes of the silent "e"'s, the language is
disgraceful, and they should go away. By the 4th yar, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps
such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yar, ze unesesary "o"
kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer
kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yar, ve vil hav a reil sesibl riten styl.
zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.
ZE DREM VIL FINALI KOM TRU !!!
I have very little knowledge of the Amish so I will not comment on them.
What I meant is that before cell phones people did fine as parents, not that the overall living condition has not improved over the past milenia.
I think having a cell phone at you at all times is of no big influence to the wellfare of your child, except at times when you are with your child at the moment it gets an accident and you can call help. But even then your cell phone does not need to be on. Proper (health) care and vaccination have shown to have a beneficial effect on humans in general and children specifically, but that was not the point I was trying to make.
The only reason I can think of, is that it allows the parent to receive information about the child. If an emergency would come up while the parent is separated from the child a capable babysitter would probably be much more usefull as one that would only know how to contact the parent.
The point I was trying to make is that people have been able to leave their children alone or in care of others for milenia, without the means of being constantly updated about their status, so why should this be suddenly different? Is the need for constant information so great that it prevails over everything else?
My cell phone is off, except when I need to call someone, or on duty/standby for work. For everything else there is my answering machine, and e-mail/ICQ. If I am not within 5 minutes of those I either am in my car, where using the phone is not allowed, in a meeting, on holiday, at a concert, or some other place I do not want to be bothered.
In the case of cell phone's I do think "ingorance is bliss" sometimes.
P.S. Do not start about "your child is in hospital and dying, please come quick". That also holds for brothers/sisters/husband/wife/father/mother/best frend/etc. it applies to anyone, not parents specifically. No offence meant, but does the minute chance of this happening and it actually making a difference realy outweigh the day-to-day annoyance, not for me. People afraid of such odds should not drive a car, always wear a helmet, etc.
People have been parents for millenia before the cell phone was invented and did just fine or we would not be here.
I didn't know her, but she seems a little like a 50's version of Lisa from Weird Science.
I do not know the series so I will make no further comment.
Yes it is, R. Daneel does make a small apearance in Foundation and Earth, tying the Foundation series in with the Robot series. I like the first three novells of either series best,
- Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
- Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn.
These books are almost 50 years old and as readable as ever, they rate second only to Tolkien's work for me.
In his later Foundation novels he ties the earlier stories together:
Prelude to Foundation, Foundation and Earth.
I am not sure if that makes th stories stronger.
From some site about Asimov:
"Engelberger, who built the first industrial robot, called Unimate, in 1958, attributes his long-standing fascination with robots to his reading of [Asimov's] 'I, Robot' when he was a teenager", and Engelberger later invited Asimov to write the foreword to his robotics manual.
I voted for R. Daneel Olivaw to be added to the Hall of Fame, because I think that Asimov's creations have had a much more profound impact on the way we think about robots, as George Lucas more recent creations.
This is the guy who invented the word "Robotics" and has been the main inspiration of both Unimate and ASIMO, and probably a lot of other works both in SF and Robotics.
While Marvin is a lot of fun as is the entire series, I do not think
he particulary fills the criteria of this Robot Hall of Fame.
- These are the fictional robots that have inspired us to create real robots that are productive, helpful, and entertaining. These robots have achieved worldwide fame as fictional characters and have helped form our opinions about the functions and values of real robots. -
I voted for R. Daneel Olivaw on their site. Easily one of the most awesome creations of Asimov ever. It's the main character in several of his books, not just a sidekick. - Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire.
If you never read them you should read the series:
Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and the two above mentioned titles.
In this series Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and the invention of "the Zeroed law" by Daneel and Giskard have been a real contribution in the way I think about Robots. Types like Data from Star Trek are in my view heavily inspired by this work.
Engelberger, who built the first industrial robot, called Unimate, in 1958, attributes his long-standing fascination with robots to his reading of [Asimov's] 'I, Robot' when he was a teenager, and Engelberger later invited Asimov to write the foreword to his robotics manual.
You're so right,
In my cicle of friends I see a lot of people downloading not the films/series that are broadcasted on TV here in the Netherlands, but especially the stuff that's not on the local networks.
Japaneese Anime, Brasilian soaps, indy music, episodes that have aired in the USA but not yet in europe, etc.
They would pay for a legal alternative, but it just is not there.
There are hundreds of niche markets that do not warrant nation wide broadcasting, but could make gold money in some bittorrent/iTunes combination, where increased demand would increase the number of nodes.
DSL+Tivo-like product could do this in a very convenient way. The box would function as a seed for the last 20 things you downloaded next to the Tivo like behaviour.
I was born and raised in Dutch as my native language, but read/write and speak several other languages quite well. I do not consider myself as good as a native speaker in any of those languages but I do not agree with you at all.
Even in my native tongue there are a lot of words I do not know and there are several Computer related words that I know only in English, and that do not even have a proper translation in Dutch because the industry is very English-centered.
My point is that every profession has a specific vocabulary and therefore the total word count in a language is huge, and every speaker only knows a small portion of it.
This is different from the everyday common language used in newspapers for example. If you can read a newspaper in another language and you know all the words in it, then I think you have a vocabulary that is comparable to that of a native speaker, everything beyond that is propably proffesion related.
I think I have a very large vocabulary in Dutch as I often use words that people do not know, but in my sisters theology thesis were a lot of words I did not know.
Next to that you have the phenomenon of children of immigrants that have a limited vocabulary in the language of their parents because it is limited to the topics they talk about with their parents, and there is no pressure on them to develop their vocabulary beyond that.
Talking a language is a different matter completely. I knew someone from Spain that could read and write English quite well, but I could barely talk to him, as I was the first one he ever had a conversation in English with. He had no idea how to pronounce it.
To some extent this also applies to me: You would pick me out as a non native speaker whe we would have a conversation in English within a minute, but this has nothing to do with vocabulary, it's experience and skill.
For the record: I consider myself fluent reader/writer/speaker in Dutch and English, almost in German and French, and I know enough of Spanish, Italian, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian to understand a newspaper even if I do not know all the words.
I know enough arabian, greek and portuguese to do some shopping or ask for directions.
The big thing about Linux that you are missing is that he's one of the few people that were able to start a one man project and now lead something comparable to a large international corporation.
Few people in this world have both the skills to start something, and be able to adjust their view and mode of operation to the different scales that something goes through to grow into something as big as Linux.
Common wisdom is that most new/family businesses never get bigger as 20 people because above this limit you need a different style of management, and very few can manage the switch. I have worked in a family business where every time the staff would appoach 20 people things started going wrong because the boss who started it as a one-man shop could not change his hands-on know-what-everybody-does style of managing.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are also examples of people that could do this. I consider Linus in the same league.
Yes, I already have voted this morning (in the Netherlands the voting is today) and I did let my vote be decided on the Software Patent issue.
And I did vote against Software patents. (although there were some other issues where I also agree with the local green party)
That's my baby ;-)
It helped a lot when the heating broke down last winter, kept the temperature at about 16 degrees Celsius while it was freezing outside...
I'm not sure if the P4's are running a lot hotter as the Athlon-1400Mhz,
but the AthlonXP and Athlon64 line are certainly cooler.
Talking about older CPU's that are still quite capable of keeping up, my Athlon-1400Mhz is still a fine machine.
My previous employer (a little tight for cash the last two years, that's also why it's my previous employer until six months ago, I do have a new one now)
/40 Gb harddisk doing:
6 Workstations: P600/128Mb RAM/Windows'98
(developement systems, compiling could take an hour, but otherwise fine machines)
12 Desktops: P350-500/64Mb/win98
(text/browsing/e-mail)
1 Firewall 486dx-33/8Mb
1 Main server P120/32Mb RAM
Samba (20 Gb share)
CVS (about 4 Gb, several projects of 100.000+ LOC)
MySQL server (with comercial licence) for customer administation,
meeting scheduling, financial administration, billable hours administration, etc.(inhouse written applications)
Webserver (Apache/PHP)
Printer server
It amazed me every day that this stuff was working especially the main server. Not much problems at all. We had one P4/WinXP/Win2000 system (Ghosted) to test our software on the kind of systems our clients were using...
Don't beat him up, studying at the VU is cool, my sister does it too
(reformed protestant theology actualy)
I think unstable systems have at least as much to do with the motherboard and RAM as with the CPU, and AMD/Cyrix used to be on the cheaper combinations.
Ehm, I think you're wrong here,
it's called free because it's free of church and government as it was around 1880. It was founded by and closely tied to the then new reformed protestant movement ('gereformeerd') who had separated from the official state protestant church ('hervormd'). It was founded by reverend 'Abraham Kuyper' the early leader of the reformed protestant church.
This year officially the two protestant movements united again after 125 years into one church, althoug some new splinter groups have formed.
"Free" here means free from the religious views of the mayority.
The universities with catholic ties in the Netherlands are those of Maastricht, Tilburg and Nijmegen, esp. the later two.
You are right thas Dutch society used to be very divided into separate groups, every group also had it's own political party, which has spawned our long tradition of coalitions ruling the country, never is one party alone in power (nobody has anything close to a mayority).
Actually the 'University of Amsterdam' is called the 'municipal university' at the Free University as it is closely tied to the government and at least nowadays much more secular.
The identification of Amsterdam with catholicism dates back much further, to the 80 years independance war, where Amsterdam sided on the side of the Spanish initially due to it's large catholic population at the time.
In more recent history it has more been associated with jewism, the Amsterdam soccer club "AJAX" are still often refered to as "the jews" even though probably none of the players are jewish.
http://www.vu.nl/organisatie/index.cfm
I do know several Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry PhD's reading /., as are several PhD students.
All CS Masters I know read slashdot (50/50), as are several Mathermatics (5/20) and Physics Masters I know (10/50).
The only PhD I know in an overqualified job has a PhD in Biology.
I myself am only MS in Applied Physics.
Not everybody is using SQL in a SQL aware editor, either because it's
embedded in PHP, C(++), Java, Matlab, etc.
In these languages there is syntax highlighting, but the SQL is "only" a string or character array.
This does not prevent the method where they cut the strap, that's why I suggested a backback, it has at least two straps (and probably thicker/stronger too). It should be locked, but thes so should your shoulder bag, as the thief will try to steal it when you're distracted, so your eyes are not on the bag.
Give me a single statistic where the ability to carry firearms has realy lowered the crime rate, compared to places where this is not alowed.
I always compare the numbers from the USA with those from my own country (The Netherlands) and I am astonished how much higher the crime numbers in the USA are.
http://www.nationmaster.com for example.
We are by no means crime free, but most crime here is pick-pocketing, tax-evasion and burglery, non violent crimes. Murder is so rare here, that most will make national news (population is about the same size as florida or new-york state (16-17 million).
Murders -New York -907
Murders -Netherlands -183
Murders -Florida -1152