Comment Time Machine (Score 1) 114
I'm getting in my time machine right now... I'm back. The cowboy aliens, I ran into, said large scale matter transporters were used. Who knew?
Joe Satriani, Dregs, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Shadowfax, Lunatic Calm, Jeff Beck, Chick Corea, Ozric Tentacles, Tool, Incubus, BB King, John Lee Hooker, Fripp, etc. So how do I check Classical, Jazz, Rock, Heavy Metal, Techno, New Age, Blues, and Folk on the survey? And, where do Nepalli Monk chants fit in?
Don't listen to rap, country, or especially, country rap.
Have to agree with the poster at the poll with the subject: "Worst Poll Ever"
In the test department I was able to test 8 hours worth of units in 4 hours while listening to Hendrix. In engineering, programming speed was not increased significantly, but I was able to concentrate better. In this completely unscientific comparison I'd say music increases productivity more with mechanical activities.
If Linux is compiled for ARM that means GCC and G++ have been built, which means that ever other app can be built. Therefore, every app for Gnome, KDE, and all the other desktops should be available. You'll probably see a netbook friendly desktop like XFCE or BusyBox, to reduce hardware requirements, but either will allow you to run OpenOffice. OO includes a Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Database, and Drawing apps. There are thousands of other free apps. You could run a web server, an SQL database, Internet clients for browsing, blogging, email, ftp, bit torrent, twitter, IM, etc. You could run a PIM app, several calculators, video and sound apps, hundreds of games. You could make programs in almost any language you like PERL, C, C++, Python, PHP, Ruby, TCL, Basic, multiple shell scripts, etc.
Above is a subset of what is installed on my laptop with the exception of KDE, XFCE, and BusyBox, but I have KDE apps. You couldn't install everything I have on this laptop to an ARM netbook, because it probably wouldn't fit on the storage device included, but I bet you could pick subset you find useful.
To the Linux crowd: I apologize in advance for leaving out your favorite app off the list. To be fair their are thousands.
What app do you need for your netbook?
Police need communication and data to do their job. How does this compare with texting your girlfriend, checking sport scores, or gossiping on the phone? To have a double standard you need a comparable situation and normal drivers can do all of their calling while NOT driving.
As a motorcyclist who has nearly been run over a couple of times by cell phone users I would propose similar punishment to what is given to drunk drivers. Studies have shown similar reaction times for cell phone users and drunk drivers, both of which threaten the lives of the rest of us on the road.
Do you think the President cares about embarrassment? You've pointed out the tax cheat, who actually never completely paid all the money he owes, but what about...
He seems to appoint whomever he wants, sometimes in spite of FBI background checks.
While there was most likely some religious aspects to the society, as there was in pretty much every society of the time, the civil laws would have existed long before anything recognizable as an organized religion.
Your belief that civil laws existed before religion is similar to Christians and Jews believing God was with Adam and Eve. Neither can be proved and both require faith.
Check this out. Wired has an article on Net Neutrality.
Reasonable network management consists of: (a) reasonable practices employed by a provider of broadband Internet access service to (i) reduce or mitigate the effects of congestion on its network or to address quality-of-service concerns; (ii) address traffic that is unwanted by users or harmful; (iii) prevent the transfer of unlawful content; or (iv) prevent the unlawful transfer of content; and (b) other reasonable network management practices.
With this definition of "reasonable network management" an ISP would be required to determine the content of packets rather than the type of packets sent. If a user was to send any image it must be determined if that image violates copyright law or whether it is child pornography, etc. The same thing applies audio and video files and streams. Typically that level of spying on customers has not been implemented and could be very costly. And, what will they do about encrypted transmission? Unless the ISP decrypts transmissions how can they know that the "transfer of unlawful content" has not occurred. This has obvious privacy concerns.
There's a PDF link on the Wired site to the 107 page FCC Proposal. Looking at the PDF table of contents you will notice that there should be 185+ pages. Sections IV F forward are missing and I can not find the document on FCC.gov site. Can anyone find the complete document? I would be interested in reading...
F. Reasonable Network Management, Law Enforcement, Public Safety, and Homeland and National Security pg 133
1. Reasonable Network Management pg 135
2. Law Enforcement pg 142
3. Public Safety and Homeland and National Security pg 145
I think people would be more comfortably with Net Neutrality if it did not contain these Patriot Act type things in it.
I was over at the news site boards and various people stated that the IT office was set up by the county several years ago with "letters of understanding" between agencies (fact). i.e. the county didn't hijack his box and the IT folks in charge had the proper authorizations for the crime database. This sheriff has been in charge forever and HIS name would have signed off, so it should have been legal. Why would he suddenly change his mind?
I did not dispute who was running the computers and you do concede that the Sheriff's department was in charge of the computers, excellent.
Why did change his mind? I'm not sure I can read the Sheriff's mind, or anyone's, for you. Hopefully this information will become available.
yes, the sheriff filed an investigation (fact) as he does whenever anybody tries to investigate him? He was told by the courts he couldn't have the information until the court decides (fact).
This is very interesting. The court rules that the Sheriff's department can not do its duty. Is that a valid legal position? It sounds similar to me saying, "You can't drive your car to work until I decide it is OK." You would tell me where to go, right? Don't like that analogy? How about.. You loan me your car and when you want it back, I say no. Even that isn't quiet right because, unlike both of us, the police have the authority to go get their car.
The IT department is being downsized and the sheriff is concerned unqualified IT staff MIGHT access the data, although at this point in time there are no unauthorized access by IT staff and no knowledge that any IT staff MIGHT be doing something they shouldn't be. (fact)
The logical outcome from such a fact is to verify what is happening with the servers. There's no other way to accomplish it without physical access.
In spite of all that, they decided to rush the law abiding, properly background checked IT staff, with guns, in their office of a public building to "secure" this one computer system. (facts as claimed by the sheriff) The room also contains the computer systems of the other county departments (fact) The deputies demanded (how many?) passwords from the IT staff for (which?) systems, at "gunpoint" under fear of going to gulag. (fact that the jail is degrading and dangerous and honest people die there)
You don't like the standard way police enter a building to secure an area, I get that. Maybe you've never seen an episode of Cops but that's how it's done. They do not rush in with pillows and comfy chairs, this isn't a Monty Python skit. They treat everyone as a threat until the area is secure. Contact any police department you want to confirm what I'm saying.
I'll be waiting to see how many " "honest" people die [in jail]", that is a serious accusation to make. Please send your evidence to the FBI immediately.
Substitute "My opinion is" for "Fact is" in the following two paragraphs and you're good to go.
Fact is that this guy declared war on honest, hardworking IT staff just to get at their bosses, and even admitted there was no known wrongdoing (subject to change now that police have drawn gun on them and they'll be filing suit of course!). Drew weapons on them to illegally obtain access to data pending judg[e]ment he was told he couldn't have.
FACT is if you work for public IT and handle law enforcement data get out now! No matter what clearances you have, your still a "civi" and are expendable as not "one of the blue".
All employees are replaceable. I've been replaced by others in my IT career, even when I had intimate knowledge and experience of the working systems. They called it "cost reduction enhancements". In this economy we are lucky to get jobs and even luckier to keep them. Hopefully, Congress and our administration will stop "fixing" the economy so we can recover.
This guy seem[s] to be revered by "law enforcement" so expect background checked, law abiding IT workers to be subject to this treatment more and more and you have herr Bush to thank for it.
I could respond in several ways but it would require that I make assumptions about what you mean and your statement is completely opaque. All of the possible policies that come to mind are OK with the current administration. Please don't add "herr" to the current presidents name, that might be dangerous.
The first paragraph is all assumptions. The second paragraph isn't much better. If the Sheriff's department is in charge of the security for the computers, they have the law on their side.
The only facts we know in this case are 1) the security for the computers is the responsibility of the Sheriff's department, 2) the Sheriff's department exercised their authority in the matter, 3) the Sheriff himself has called for federal investigation, and 4) you made a bunch of assumptions to support your argument.
You're going to have to let this play out to find out all of the facts. It is possible that some of your assumptions may be proven valid in the future. If that happens send me a message with the appropriate links and I'll send you a note of congratulations.
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