Posts by Oninoshiko 1937 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2008
yes, while that is why I normally have a problem with prosicuting someone with one device. Normally someone else turned it in, who could be just setting them up. OTOH in this case the OTHER SIX PHONES full of kiddy-fiddling images are kinda a stronger bit of evidace it's not a set up.
Interesting.
i would disagree that it would be useful to have the ground crew changeing paramiters while the aircraft is flying. anything changed via this method could just as easily be changed by someone in the cockpit, and someone tweaking things (even an engeer with good intentions) while flying without the piot's knowlage seems a tad troubling.
OTOH I can see how montioring would be useful for doing parts in JIT. I just dont see a reason to put it anyware near a public network. I do stand by the beliefe that these type of systems have no busness attached to public networks (atleast not ones that actually can exsert control)
I wonder if they are useing something like ModBus over TCP/IP, I know it is popular in industrial controls and power monitoring.
"Supported" means that I have a contract with someone who is obligated to respond in a specified time frame to my support request. It is a FORMAL thing. Your users group is not formal support.
It's kinda like if your about to go to a dinner party and your SO asks you to "get dresesed." The fact that you are ware cut-off jeans and a dirty tee-shirt doesn't qualify.
correction: anything under Creative Commons is copywritten also. it has to be put into the public domain to be in the public domain. the Creative Commons Foundatation may have some language that does this, it's not under creative commons per se, because if it is put into the public domain you are not licensing it. (except in countries like Japan which do not recognise the public domain, which may require an alternitive license stating you intened to permit all users to use it for any legal useage, without attribution (I think that would get around all moral rights, but am by no means an expert in japanese law))
There was no analogy. This is the situation. More end-users use flash then HTML 5. More sites use flash then HTML 5. X is flash. Y is HTML 5 video tags. Not supporting what everyone is useing is stupid.
Your analogy is quite awful, probibly the worst I've heard all year (congradulations!). There is not enough room in this forum to address everything wrong with it.
I would be perfectly content to retire on the profit made on Newground's flash games page. While they may be stupid, they are fairly popular, and there is money to be made.
Nothing is free. the free apps on the internet are paid for with ads. free apps on Apple's site are to entice you to buy the paid product the developer is selling, for that privilage it's less than "£100!" PER YEAR, plus 30% of any sales revenue (ie if you sell your fart simulator on the iphone store for £1 (common) apple gets £.3 and you only get £.7). adobe's flash development enviroment is £653.30 (note: at this price i can keep useing it as long as it suits my needs), plus no additional fees. If I make a flash app that I sell access to for £1 dont give anything else to Adobe. In addition, unlike the iPhone SDK I can use the flash for more then one platform. The iPhone is a closed platform, and it's tool is a one-system-only tool.
that would be the point wooshing past you.
Google wasn't saying "Flash is open" google is saying "Android is open."
So, you want to run flash apps on you phone? Google doesn't care, It's your phone, you paid for it! OTOH Apple does care, because they think they still own the phone you paid for.
And yes, if people actually use X not supporting X is pretty damn stupid. You can still support Y that less people use if you want, but that doesn't exclude also supporting X. (We call what you did there a "affirming a disjunct") You also are setting up some quite well-crafted strawmen, in the implicit assumption that the only usage for flash is for videos (it's also used to make stupid online games, that could eat into Apple's profit from their apps store if they allowed it), and that Yahoo's refusal to implement something you want has any baring on Google's willingness to implement something you don't.
some states even want execution for him [citation please]
There are only 2 cases where exicution is an option in most states (and this is not even a state case, so state law need not apply):
Murder (even then it normally has to be "1st degree" or "premeditated"), Treason (doesn't apply since he is not a US citizen)
For a number of reasons, capital punishment is not as popular in the US as media would have you believe, not least among which being that actually having an exicution (with all the legal rigamore that has to happen beforeand) actually costs more then just locking someone up for life w/o the opertunity of parole. (FTR: I am against capial punishment, in all cases)
I have never had that many problems with it insofar as stability goes, although the performance has (historicly) been rather disappointing. I have not tried this release, as I am already commited to VMWare ESXi (Type 1), Linux VServers and Solaris Zones (OS Level), and Citrix XenAPP (Application Virtualization).
The largest reason for my commitment to VMWare and Citrix is that clients ask for it. An adiquate solution that they want, is going to make me more money then a excellent solution I have to sell. What can I say? I like making money, and NOONE has EVER come to me asking if I can host VirtualBox.
no it wouldn't... well not for anyone familure with US foreign policy
The US has arrangements of this nature as well. While offically not the case the procatical realities of US-Japan treadies, combine with Article 9 of the Japanese constiution leads to them being a somewhat similer status. (both the US and Japan recognise that attacks on either nation would be detimental to both, but Article 9 does not permit a standing japanese military (the SDF is a branch of the civilian police, and has only recently been used in overseas operations)
The Phillippines held a similer relationship with the US until the Treaty of Manila in 1946 (which recognised their full independence.
The Feterated States of Microneia, The Republic of the Marchall Islands, and the Republic of Palau are all members of the Compact of Free Association, under which they are soverign states, but have access to the US FEMA, NWS, USPS, FAA, and FCC programs. Also the US is permitted to operate militarily in from these nations, in exchange for providing military protection.
So anyone familure with US forigen relations, would be able understand the relationship of the UK and IoM, at least generally.
This lie needs to die, It has been ratified by both parites for well over 3 years now.
On 30 September 2006 the US Senate unanimously ratified the treaty.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aEgU_TIgfK1U&refer=home
On the other hand, if you want to argue that the treaty lacks reciprocity then carry on.
All cases prosicuted are polliticly motivated. As a DA one of the things that tends to get you higher seats (govener, senitor, congrassman, etc.) is your how many people you lock up. While the "kiddyfiddler" number sperated probibly wouldn't hurt, the "common drug dealer" and "petty shoplifter" numbers are also helpful.
Additionally the US has an adverserial system. It isn't the job of the DA to find the truth, his job is to prove his case. In (the US) theory he SHOULD be biased. That is why the US dictates that everyone who wants one gets a defence attorney (if you cannot afford one, one will be supplied by the court). The defence attorney's job is to rase doubt about the state's case.
Finally, think about it a moment, what evidence is there to find? I accuse you have being a kiddyfiddler, if your not, prove it. Obviously, there is no evidence I have against you, but you cannot disprove the statement, because there is nothing you can provide that will ever make it impossible for you to be one.
In this man's case there is some evidance that he is, but there is doubt about it (could have been put there by malware, the malware HE TOOK IT IN TO GET FIXED). What was on his computer is not enough to prove beyond a reasonble doubt (threshold for a conviction), but it is enough for probable cause (threshold for a search warrent). They will need to issue warrents and find other corobberating evidance.
From the sun-fanboi-world i want to provide the opinion that i can't fault Ellison with anything quoted in this article. I use a number of sun/oricle products, and would rather them make money then lose it.
Engeering staff rocked, but sales was awe-inspiringly awful.
I once spent a month trying to get them to take my money.
There is also the fact that condoms (like everything else humans do) have a failure rate higher then zero.
Think about it like RAIDed contriception...
When you also account that this is non-invasive, and temporary it starts to gain alot of appeal to someone who is active but not wanting to be "daddy" in the near future (or have a knife in the nether-regions).
strictly speaking, fox news was just reporting what was there, which WAS apperently in violation of US law. (it's a dumb law, kiddie porn should have to contain kids to qualify, and anyone caught making, trading, or collecting the "real deal" needs far more then a judge in the US is allowed to order)
Maybe you should say "we are saved from non-existsant kiddie porn. thank you, US law"
Sounds to me like they where completely right as noone was talking about using useing LPG/Diesel mixed as a fuel.
I dont think I've seen that much in automobiles, but in the generator industry i have seen mixing with natural gas for this reason. also has the benifit if an earthquake hits and takes out the underground pipes delivering the NG, you can still run on full diesel until it is repaired (at higher fuel, personal, and enviromental costs).
http://www.generac.com/Industrial/Bi-fuel_Product_Line/
(i've been shopping for big generators recently)
I still think google should run an ad showing flash enabled sites on both the iphone and the nexus, with the voice-over from apples "the whole internet" ad in the background once adobe finishes the android version. Just hitting Hulu and something like newgrounds should cover it nicely.
I'll laugh harder if they drop the HTML5/H.264 version of youtube. (maybe for HTML5/vp8)
Spot on. I've been slowly "greening" an older home, with the primary consideration being fuel and electrictiy costs, rather then carbon emissions. Sensible choices, taking into consideration all types of energy used in a change is the key. (note: it's quite easy for me to track what I get billed, carbon emissons are a tad more difficult. Frankly I'm really not sure it is even resonably possible. The only numbers I've seen are guesses, based on useage and that have assumptions I could drive a ISO cargo ship through.)
What I have found is the changes are not sexy, and won't win you any kind of recognison. They also tend to involve relitively high capital costs, but are long lasting. Things like new windows, new appliences, LED lighting (1/2 the power usage of the CF bulbs, longer life, and no quicksilver). I'm trying to get a GSHP, but I just cant get the capital, (although the current system isn't too bad).
Insulation was the first thing I did.. and they over-billed me for heating all winter. So that really is the cheapest, and most valuble thing you can do.
yes, it is still a monolithic kernel. Maybe you should google what that means, before putting your foot in your mouth. Here let me quote you the wackypedia article on the topic:
"A monolithic kernel is a kernel architecture where the entire operating system is working in the kernel space and alone as supervisor mode. The monolithic kernel differs from other architectures [1] in that it defines alone a high-level virtual interface over computer hardware, with a set of primitives or system calls to implement all operating system services such as process management, concurrency, and memory management itself and one or more device drivers as modules."
The distinct problem with drivers in Linux is that there is no defined ABI, so if you do need a new module you have to build it spacificly for the kernel you are using. This differs from (at least) Solaris where I have taken binary drivers from Sol 8 (SunOS 5.8) and ran them on OSol (SunOS 5.11), not to say this always works, but they make a strong effort to not break compatibility unless absolutely nessicary. Talk to me when Linus figures out how to do this.
"Possession of stolen goods" is most likely what he is a suspect for, and frankly im suprised it took them this long. Collecting evidence that he commited the crime (cameras, computers, ideally the phone) by exicuting a search warrant would certainly be expected. The likelyhood of this being overtured is quite low, as i beleave a search warrent has to be signed by a judge (who is generally considered qualified to settle matters of law like this (juries are only for settling matters of fact)).
I think Mr. Chen is going to find the "but I'm a journalist so I can brake any law I want with no consiquence" defense just doesn't hold up. I'll have to keep an eye on this.
Maybe you need to look at what right-wingers think about it. A right-winger would consider what is being claimed as a restraint of free market economics. If i can import something for cheaper then I can get it locally, I should be able to. a license has been paid, theirfore everthing is on the up and up.
"Using the wisdom of strategy, think of the enemy as your own troops. When you think in this way you can move him at will and be able to chase him around. You become the general and the enemy becomes your troops. You must master this." --Miyamoto Musashi, "Go Rin No Sho" (Book of Five Rings)
i haven't used the big G's new badger-powered product so could someone avail me of my ignorance? A breif search seems to indicate that it tracks posts to socal networking sites... I don't see the problem. You post to these sites, you put the info out there... posting it is what violates your privacy, not google aggrigating it.
I think you're looking at it half wrong. it IS a good reason to not buy office, and that may be the point. Some governments are making it a matter of law to use standard formats, combine this (inabilty to use ODF 1.2) with that MSO can't even properly edit standard OOXML, and it really makes the case for OOo. It's not like there is any love loss between MS and Oracle.
I can use OOo for free to edit the format or use MSO for 9200 USD to do it.... hmm... carry the one.... yes, I think I know what I'll use....
Do one better. issue them to everyone. Rather then have it decrypt a HD, have it open an encrypted session to a machine in my datacenter. (smartcard & password required) That way they can sit down at any terminal insert their card and it is their machine. They cant leave the presentation at home. (Sun was pushing this for years, it's always been spot on too!). You have two-factor authentication (something you have (smart-card) & somthing you know (password)).
Put a little wrist-band on it with a keyring (ie engourage putting car/house keys with it).
Encourage good beavior (keeping it with things they can't loose). Make data accessable, but not actually leave site. This is the Ideal.
img only works because there are a long list of image formats you EXPECT the browser to read, but do you know which ones it does?
BMP - no idea (no you shouldn't use this, but it's been around forever...)
JPEG - yes
GIF - yes
PNG - most likely (I'm sure someone sill has some anchient IE)
SVG - maybe
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!! Since it's not specified, why not go for cdr, cpp, psd, psp, xcf, or exr?
Wouldn't it be nice to have a list of formats that you could depend on a browser supporting? jpeg, gif, png, svg? As it is, because it's not required, we cant even depend on svg support.
The US concept of libel/slander does require the statement to be false. to understand what libel is please see:
http://www.medialaw.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Public_Resources/Libel_FAQs/Libel_FAQs.htm
if you pay attention to it the attorney is quite unlikely to win. (the statement is not demonstrateably "a false statement of fact"). He probibly filed this to herass the defendent, thinking there would be no consiquences. Personally, I would file a complant with the bar about him, and include in my argument that the lawsuit is frivulous. oh and then leav him some feedback "sued me for leaving bad feedback. would not buy from".
...if they have a manufacturing fault,
(human) design error
or overheat,
(human) design error
or receive sharp knocks or vibration,
(human)design/enviromental issue
or experience power fluctuations,
(human)design/enviromental issue
or are short circuited by moisture/insects/hair/other foreign matter,
(human)design/enviromental issue
or are struck by cosmic rays,
(human)design/enviromental issue (yes kiddies, even this can be protected against, It's just useually not worth the money to do it)
or any of hundreds of unpredictable phenomenon.
We design a machine to operate under specified tolerances. If it fails while within the tolerances that's a human design problem (the machine doesn't operate in spec). If it fails while operating outside the operating paramiters, that is an enviromental design issue (you monkeys need to stop peeing on the kit), which is again a 'human' (i use that in the loosest sence of the word) problem.
I believe the word you are looking for is "Sociology." It is here that we deal with the beliefs of peoples. Psychology is still dealing with the menal (mis)workings of individuals, although studies like this would be useful in establishing that he belief is fairly "normal." The two topics are quite closely tied together, and it's preatty easy to confuse them.
I suppose it could also be filed under memeology, although that has never been more then a joke in my mind.
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