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| 2005/6/7-8 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Troll/Jblack] UID:37998 Activity:high |
6/7 Los Alamos Whistleblower Beaten
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417842/posts
Similar to the whisteblower on Loral / Clinton
\_ Wow, freepers are blaming it on Clinton... amazing...
\_ Obligatory snort of derision at use of freeper link.
\_ The photos at top were worth it.
Do the Liberal Elite always snort with derision at freeper links?
\_ The photos are available elsewhere as well. Any sane person
should snort with derision at freeper links.
\_ Wow, the Bush goons will stop at nothing to cover up evidence
of their wrongdoing. I love how the Freeper all try to pin
it on the "unions." Are there even unions at Los Alamos?
\_ Are you a dumb liberal? You sound like one.
The likely culprit is one or two specific Los Alamos employees
-- identities unknown.
Remember Los Alamos was the place where two workers were put on
investigative leave for misusing government credit cards (one
had spent $30K on a customized Ford Mustang) to a total of $900K.
\_ Go check your facts. This was how it was reported but is
not the truth. Of course your media won't report the truth.
Later in 2002 two other people in LANL bldg maintenance were
accused by 5 co-workers for using LANL funds to buy camping
equipment, GPS tools, a picnic table and lawn chairs, etc. for
their own use.
University of California oversees LANL, so possesses blame for
allowing the situation to get to the point where someone hires
thugs to fuck up the whistleblower.
Whether or not a union is involved, well, that's just freeper
talk.
\_ Which is exactly why it's really lame to post a freeper link
when the info is available just about everywhere else.
\_ This is a Federal Lab, therefore funded and under control
of Federal authorities. When did "The Buck Stops Here"
go out of fashion?
go out of fashion? Are you a brainwashed Bushbot?
You sure sound like one.
\_ Step back Troll! I have a +5 Flaming Sword & Oil Flasks!!1
\_ Hey, I am giving an eye for an eye.
\_ Hey, I am just giving an eye for an eye. |
| 2005/6/7 [Reference/RealEstate] UID:37999 Activity:nil |
6/6 Historical Evidence of US Home Price Booms and Busts, 1978-2003:
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/fyi/2005/021005fyi_table1.pdf
\_ Those who bought homes before 1998 will live like lords over
the peons who failed to buy. Anyone who has not purchased a
home yet is doomed to live forever in bondage, and their
children and children's children too. |
| 2005/6/7 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:38000 Activity:low |
6/6 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8124325 US has 2% of the world's oil reserve. Sucks to be US. \_ Actually it doesn't suck. The US *was* endowed with more oil than almost any country in the world, and that is one reason for our current superpower status. We have just used most of it up. \_ I do not think the above statement is true, sorry. \_ Duh.. \_ We are still the #3 producer of oil in the world, after Saudi Arabia and Russia. \_ http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0922041.html |
| 2005/6/7 [Uncategorized] UID:38001 Activity:nil |
6/6 Damn 12.244.72.206! |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Transportation/Car] UID:38002 Activity:low |
6/7 5th subway car is the man-boy love car!
http://flakmag.com/rejected/train.html -John
\_ http://gelatinous.com/idisk/danh/dropbox/bartm4m.JPG - danh
\_ "the Greater New York Association of Single Parents dubbed the
fifth car of each train the "single parents car" on Monday,
seemingly unaware that the North American Man-Boy Love
Association had already identified the fifth car of every train
as the "man-boy love" car."
\_ It's also "parents without partners" Car!: "It was awful," said
one single mother who asked not to be identified as she got off
the A train at 14th Street. "My 12-year-old son and I boarded the
fifth car of the train hoping to meet a suitable male role
model. Instead, I found myself using my pepper spray to fend off
four overweight middle-aged men in leather pants who assumed I
was Jeffrey's pimp." [ reformatted - formatd ] |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:38003 Activity:high |
6/7 Turns out Kerry and the "Chimp" were equally bad students at Yale:
http://tinyurl.com/dco6d (boston.com)
\_ yeah 4 Ds vs 1 D
\_ 5 (Kerry) vs 1 (Bush)
\_ Same grades, but Kerry raised up his GPA in his junior and senior
years while Bush kept it the same.
\_ How about Clinton and Senior Bush? Were they good students?
\_ Supposedly Clinton was pretty smart, don't know about Bush.
I'd have to say that the last well educated president was
Carter (PhD Nuclear Engineering).
\_ Someone claims Carter says "nukular"
\_ Carter was a nuclear engineer, but he did not have a
PhD in it. Clinton was a Rhodes scholar.
\_ I've heard that Clinton was #2 at Yale, and his wife was
#1. Never seen any reports backing this up though.
\_ And Reagan?
\_ BA Economics Eureka College. Okay student and
football player.
\_ Didn't realize his PhD was honorary - sorry.
\_ If anything this proves that Kerry is a lot dumber than Bush. If
Bush joins the frat, drinks beer, and parties all day and still
manages to gets a C average than studious Kerry, then Kerry is
just plain dumb. |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Science/Electric, Recreation/Humor] UID:38004 Activity:nil Cat_by:auto |
6/7 Lonely dateless geeky Asian men invent ballroom dancing robot. If
only they'd make Geisha bots...
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/06/07/robots.ballroom |
| 2005/6/7-12 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:38005 Activity:nil |
6/7 Is there a way to run more than one instance, at the same
time, of Mozilla Firefox in Windows? When I try to run
an instance using a different profile, a new window running
under the old profile is spawned. - danh
\_ http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile - gerald
\_ Doesn't allow them AT THE SAME TIME. -not danh
\_ I haven't tried this, but this turned up by searching Google for
"Firefox multiple simultaneous profiles":
http://www.techzonez.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-14218.html
\_ Hey cool. This works. Thanks. -not danh
Oh awesome. This also works for thunderbird.
\_ wow, thanks motd! - danh |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Recreation/Humor] UID:38006 Activity:nil Cat_by:auto |
6/7 Asian rap: http://www.funnyjunk.com/pages/asianpride.htm |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Politics/Domestic/Election] UID:38007 Activity:low |
6/7 Hey Swift Boat Troll! Kerry finally signed Form 180! Aren't you
happy? Oh, woops, the records show his service was exemplary...
http://csua.org/u/c9t (boston.com)
\_ "No after-action report for the incident has been found." Guess he
got the records "taken care of" before signing the form.
\_ That's right, he got his dad, the former head of the CIA, to
pull strings to have the report removed. Whoops, my bad, I'm
obviously talking about the other candidate in 2004.
\_ Because a current Senator has *no* pull at all with anyone.
\_ I'm curious to see whatever comes out about his discharge.
\_ When is GWB going to sign his Form 180?
\_ Maybe on the Friday afternoon before he leaves office? Just a
guess. -emarkp
\_ Well, yeah, except Dubya doesn't have to because he's not
eligible and angling for another presidential run.
\_ Exactly. Which is why I guessed that. Or he may not sign
it at all. -emarkp
\_ Probably not != I guess
\_ Uhm, huh? What are you smokin'?
\_ Maybe on the Friday afternoon before he leaves office?
Probably not. -emarkp
\_ essentially Kerry released exactly the same records he did
prior to the election. 180 does not mean all records are
automatically released, they are still sent to Kerry first then
he chooses.
\_ In another Boston Globe article:
"Late last month, Kerry gave the Navy permission to send the
documents to the Globe."
One of these new documents was his Yale transcript.
Yeah, not much to do with Vietnam service, but embarrassing
nonetheless. |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq, Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:38008 Activity:nil |
6/7 Good Intentions Gone Bad - last thoughts on Baghdad
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8101422/site/newsweek
\_ The world would be better if the US media didn't hate America.
\_ Obviously, you don't watch Fox News, the most loved and watched
news in America, except in the West Coast and New England. |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:38009 Activity:nil |
6/7 When will the Chimp admit that he dodged service?
\_ When will all the people who call Bush dumb realize he's no dumber
than Kerry?
\_ Can't speak for them; never thought it myself. As for honesty and
integrity, however, Bush has shown over and over that he has
none.
\_ Make your own Bush-Bashing thread. Here, I'll help you. |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:38010 Activity:nil |
6/7 Who the hell is toshi?
92998 toshi -22 0 21652K 7340K swread 0:04 1.60% 1.56% perl
93677 toshi 60 0 22400K 11632K RUN 0:03 1.92% 1.51% perl
92893 toshi 62 0 25020K 7788K RUN 0:09 1.80% 1.42% perl
93173 toshi 62 0 25060K 17216K RUN 0:07 1.22% 1.22% perl
93020 toshi 63 0 25048K 15072K RUN 0:08 1.17% 1.17% perl
92957 toshi 62 0 25028K 11168K RUN 0:08 1.03% 1.03% perl
92988 toshi 61 0 25020K 9380K RUN 0:08 1.30% 1.03% perl
93074 toshi 61 0 25028K 15584K RUN 0:07 0.98% 0.98% perl
\_ Isn't he the dinosaur that Mario rides?
\_ nah, that's yoshi
\_ Yeah, was Toshi the evil cat-child in 'The Grudge'?
\_ I think you mean Toshio, though I don't speak Japanese
so for all I know that might functionally be the same.
\_ http://www.toshireagon.com |
| 2005/6/7-9 [Computer/SW/SpamAssassin, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:38011 Activity:nil |
6/7 Anyone else use forwarding from procmail & unix mail? I'm
been having a problem with something that used to work.
I forward email from another account to csua via procmail.
Mail headers come with a format that looks like:
From sender@sender.com Tue Jun 7 13:30:20 2005
Status: RO
>From mds Tue Jun 7 13:30:20 2005
...
Normally I use POP for email, but sometimes when I'm in a
rush I use command-line "mail". When I read/delete some
messages and enter 'q', it saves the resulting messages with
a space between the "Status" and ">From" lines. Haven't been
able to find anything via google, but I know that it didn't
previously do this (e.g. a month+ ago). Has anyone else had
the same problem? Thanks!
\_ read your email with mutt like a real man.
\_ Consider setting up a procmail rule to pipe everything through
formail before further processing. -dans |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:38012 Activity:nil |
6/7 Marla Ruzicka artile in Rolling Stone:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7371965 - danh |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Politics/Domestic, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:38013 Activity:nil |
6/7 Doesn't today's marijuana decision from the SCOTUS effectively mean
that the federal government can dismantle any state or local law that
differs from federal law through enforcement?
\_ Uh, Alabama? Civil Liberties? Hello!
\_ Yeah, despite my conservative bent, I'm pretty sure this whole
idea went out with the civil war.
\_ What do you mean? I have/had no idea, so I'm curious. !op
\_ I'm not 100%, but it sounds like he is talking about
the 14th amd which made due process applicable to
the states.
WRT the original question, yesterday's decision doesn't
really break new ground. Congress has always had the
power to enact legislation that preempts state law as
long as the legislation falls w/in one of its enumer-
ated powers. |
| 2005/6/7-9 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/California/Arnold] UID:38014 Activity:high |
6/8 [ Re-posted after deletion by motd censor. It's not even 24 hours
old fer chrissakes - originally from 6/7 ]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4616043.stm
Taiwan assembly passes changes: Future amendments will have to be
decided by referendums, which means the Assembly has effectively
voted for its own abolition.
But, later on, it says this:
However, analysts point out that the threshold for passing amendments
- 50% of the entire electorate, not just those who turn out to vote
- is very high, making it difficult to pass any controversial changes.
Here, it says, typical turnout is around 60%... http://csua.org/u/ca0
That means, in the future, for any amendments to pass, 82% of voters
need to approve, unless turnout is abnormally high.
\_ The failed assassination attempt on Ah Bian proves that Four
Eyes can't shoot.
\_ Yes, DPP has set up Taiwan for Buku-Bucks and big time detente.
Politically they're capitalizing on the KMT's pro-China visits.
You know how GOP folks complain about Democrats co-opting their
goals and vice versa? Same thing.
\_ Can you explain, elaborate, and/or provide url's? How does this
generate cash(Beacoup Bucks?). How does this represent the DPP
co-opting KMT's goals? As far as I understand, this just
makes it practically impossible to pass any kind of amendment.
Does it also make it impossible to pass other legislation? -op
\_ http://csua.org/u/cal (Post)
It makes it harder to pass changes to the Constitution, such
as: Taiwan is an independent and sovereign country, separate
from China (PRC).
\_ That's what it sounds like... then why did the DPP do it?
I thought their platform was independence. This legis-
lation basically cements the current status quo forever:
no independence, no merger, no changes, period. I know
that the KMT wanted this, in fact, this was part of their
election platform, but I thought the DPP ran on change.
\_ They saw a dead-end following a hard-line approach.
\_ it's more than that. DPP want to do it mainly because
this "reform" will squash smaller party, Taiwan
Solidarity Union," headed by Li Deng Hui. the TSU
has becoming more of a threat to DPP than an ally.
Further, you would argue that DPP gained a small
victory because in the past, changing the soverign
territory (such as remove the Chinese mainland)
impossible. With new rule, it's highly improbable, but
not impossible.
\_ Is there any significant difference left in between
the two main parties, then? As far as I understood
the recent elections, the biggest difference was
their stance vis-a-vis re-unification/independence.
Now that issue is no longer on the table, so what's
left? I guess this also pretty much resolves the
entire reunification/independence debate.
\_ in my eye, the differences is still there.
KMT still calls for eventual unification with
the mainland, under the condition that China
would become richer and more democratic.
DPP still want to be independent. If it requires
USA to nuke China off face of the earth, then
they will do everything they can to drag USA
into it.
The blurr you see is more to do with the fact
that lousy economy has made people to think
"may be getting a job is better than pursuit
my own identity;" And the fact that DPP was
ran on a "reform" platform... and it turned out
while KMT was corrupt, it left technocrats to
run most of its government / economic policies;
DPP is more blatently corrupted, and it has
essentially destroyed the civil servant
machines. Major government post are fill by
those who are loyal to DPP or made significant
contribution to the campaign. Political
correctness overrides any economical / political
consideration. This is why under DPP rule,
TW went from a meager 1% fiscal deficit to
30+% deficit today. -live in TW now.
\_ thanks for all the replies. What party, if
any, do you support? -op
\_ i am completely disillusioned with
democracy for Chinese in general now.
I prefer rapid unification with some
degree of self-goverance for three reasons:
1. so TW can jump onto the Chinese economic
bandwagon. People in taiwan can make most
differences, AND benefit most from China's
boom.
2. DPP build its power based upon fueling
racial tensions. Want to get rid of that
before this racial tension turned into
sectarian violence
3. it is only way to remove this potential
flash point which may cost hundreds of
millions of Chinese lives... i.e.
full confrontation with United States.
- denizen of Chinese Republic.
\_ I'm not Chinese, and I know very
little about this. However if I were
Taiwanese, I think I would be very
nervous about reunification until
China makes some democratic reforms
and builds up a better track record.
Can't argue with 3 though.
\_ I agree with you.
Not many people in Taiwan is in
a hurry to "re-unite" with PRC.
However, it is important to
get a dialogue going, and not
constantly provoke PRC (mostly
by DPP, etc. for domestic
political consumption). It would
also be nice to reach some form of
understanding with PRC on some
guidelines, necessary
conditions, etc. for co-existence
and possible eventual unification,
while Taiwan still has the
political, economic, and military
capital to do so, cause unless
you think PRC will suddenly
collapse, time is on PRC's side,
unfortunately. Very few in
Taiwan are willing to pay the
price for dejure independence.
The best thing to do is to
maintain defacto independence,
not unnecessariy provoke PRC,
set guidelines and conditions
on what PRC needs to do before
unification can be considered,
and observe and bid time. The
problem is everytime someone
tries to do that, the more
extreme TI supporters will
start yelling "traitors",
"sellouts", and fan emotions and
fears.
\_ I concur.
\_ Interesting. These Taiwanese
conservatives sound just like
the NeoRepublicans of America.
\_ Huh? What do you think
then?
\_ DPP, because they don't buy votes and
they're not full of wackos who think Chen
shot himself.
\_ I don't know whether he shot himself
or not, but I wouldn't call people
who think so wackos cause the whole
incident and how it was handled do
smell fishy.
\_ ^wackos^Wackjobs
DPP's biggest problem is it doesn't know
how to handle corruption among its own.
\_ wacko's version of assassination:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5911.htm
\_ Wackjob.
If Chen really wanted to stage the shooting, don't you think
he would have done a lot better job acting? Not, "Oh,
what's this blood on my shirt?" but "Shit, what the fuck was
that that just blew into my stomach?!"
\_ huh? the wikipedia article pretty much supports
the claim that the whole thing smells fishy.
\_ Okay, I took out the URL and gave you the reason why
they're all wackjobs.
\_ otoh, it could just be ah bian being his usual
self: a clown and a bad actor
sorry, but I don't buy your "he couldn't be so
dumb" defense.
\_ Wackjob. Go home. Think about it.
\_ wikipedia article reposted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-19_shooting_incident
\_ what is the big deal? we got a president who staged an
assassination; his wife made millions in stock markets, put
his house servant on government payroll, sued and searched
opposition newspapers and magazines, and allow cronies to escape
island after embazzled millions, flare racial tentions for his
political gain and completely ignore the
Consititution since the it states One-China policy... are you
trying to say this "reform" is significant in some way?
\_ Oh gawd, you're still on the assassination theory?
\_ don't know about that, but ah bian's fat belly
(supposedly scratched by the bullet) is certainly
world famous now.
\_ not to mention the suspect they "caught" died
one year ago. the will which suppose to proof
he was the assassint was burnt... and that is the
official end to this assassination... you don't call
this a cover up?
\_ ^cover up^conspiracy theory
\_ url for these accusations?
\_ google is your friend. |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Politics/Domestic/President/Reagan, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:38015 Activity:kinda low |
6/7 Poll on your perception of Mark Felt. Put "d" if you're a Democrat,
"r" if you're a Republican, and "i" if you're Independent, "." if
you're not sure:
Hero: .ddid
Traitor: .r
\_ Why is he a traitor? They say Veritas vos liberabit, the truth
will set you free. Mark Felt was honest and told the truth,
freeing America from lies and deceptions.
\_ The poll is a false dichotomy anyway. !Hero != Traitor. It
looks like what he did was motivated not by doing the right thing
but by being passed over for promotion. -emarkp
\_ Damn you and your sensible observations. They have no place
here in my senseless invective!!
\_ I love the old crank conservatives coming out of the
woodwork with their long essays about how Nixon
wasn't so bad.
\_ Compared to Bush, Nixon was a choirboy.
\_ He divulged information that was protected and broke the
law and his oath as an FBI agent in doing so. This to me
is treason.
\_ to me this falls under the same heading as civil disobedience.
sometimes in order to make change for the better, one has to
question the letter of the law. If the intention of the law
is to make the world safer for individuals of our nation,
what do you do when living by that law allows others in power
to threaten the rights of individuals in our nation?
\_ ah, yes, one shall not tell a lie, ANY lie, even if it does
greater good.
\_ What greater good? Personally I don't think that
what Nixon did was wrong. He was trying to run
cover for some stupid idiots. While the right
cover for some stupid flunkies. While the right
thing to do would have been to not get involved,
its not like his actions were all that bad.
\_ B&E, plans for arson, blackmail, use of Federal
Agencies for political vengeance-- these do not
constitute wrong? Physician, heal thyself.
\_ And when are we having Robert Novak's public execution by
firing squad? You can't eat your cake and have it too.
\_ You need a dictionary.
\_ It's clear to me that the Republican party of today hasn't
changed much from the Republican party of The Crook 3 decades
ago. They still keep dirt on all of their enemies. The real only
difference is that the Republican party of today conceals
activities a lot better.
\_ It shits me to tears to hear the so-called liberal press fall
over themselves to tell us what great presidents Nixon and
Reagan were. Mao never had it this good. Kim Il Sung is turning
over in his grave with envy. |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Politics/Domestic/Abortion, ERROR, uid:38016, category id '18005#14.6967' has no name! , ] UID:38016 Activity:high |
6/7 Monkey Business (NYT article on monkeys and economics):
http://csua.org/u/ca5
\_ How can the Freakonomics authors have any credibility with what's
left of their "when abortion is legal, crime goes down" theory?
http://www.freakonomics.com/ch4.php
http://www.isteve.com/abortion.htm
With a dubious claim on an inflammatory topic from people degreed
to such a high level, the burden is clearly on the authors to
demonstrate their theory with very high confidence, and I don't see
that.
\_ The http://isteve.com link is playing very loose with its comparisons.
I haven't seen the freakonomics research, but their synopsis
indicates a wider data base than the age 14-17 homocide rate
data on the http://isteve.com page. Just at first glance, this page
is doing serious apples to oranges crap.
\_ Not that I'm necessarily disagreeing with you, but abortion is
is an incredibly inflammatory topic and the involvement of
American Conservative magazine here isn't exactly reassuring.
\_ Not that I'm necessarily disagreeing with you either, but the
Freakonomics authors aren't doing much to dispel the notion of
the Liberal Elite.
\_ I think the people actually running the country and making
most of the policy decisions have done enough to dispel
the notion that any of the Elite are particularly Liberal.
\_ I sincerely hope so. To the independents at least.
\_ I am not a liberal, but I find the 'abortion has a
positive effect on crime rate' hypothesis interesting, and
worthy of further investigation. Your comment is kind of
dumb. -- ilyas
\_ ilyas, are you trying to out-compete tom on calling
people dumb while signing your name?
\_ I called the comment dumb, not the person. Even
smart people say stupid things sometimes. Tom is
the reigning king of ad hominem, I wouldn't dream of
trying to dethrone him. -- ilyas
\_ ilyas, your comments have been kind of dumb.
Even smart people say stupid things sometimes.
\_ Are you talking about something in this thread
or going off on a tangent? -- ilyas
\_ What is tangential about your opinion that
my comment is kind of dumb, and my opinion
that your comments are kind of dumb?
\_ he is not a liberal. He just make conclusion based upon
satistics, not political correctness. If you think he
is a libera, look at this: he is the same guy who
said that having a swimming pool in the house is much
more dangerous than having a gun in the house.
you think a Liberal will allow that to published?
\_ A claim from http://isteve.com debunks Freakonomics? What a load of
he said she said. That having been said, the anectdotal image
monkeys trading is amusing and thought-provoking.
\_ The bar is very low in this case, because the theory is so
spectacular as well as political. All you need to do is cast
doubt.
It's just as if you presented the case that black people are
physiologically dumber than white people. You need to back up
such a theory with very high confidence. On the opposite
side, all you need to do is cast doubt.
\_ I don't see why a 'controversial' theory should require
any proof over and above normal. It may be good to provide
more proof _for practical reasons_, but I don't think this
is required for the underlying science to be good.
Requiring greater burden on 'controversial' theories is a
very dangerous practice, because you can always drum up
controversy to silence the science you don't like. By the
way, doubt is good in science. Doubt is only bad in
religion. -- ilyas
\_ In an ideal world, what you write would be highly
persuasive.
\_ No duh. |
| 2005/6/7-9 [Recreation/Activities] UID:38017 Activity:nil |
6/7 Does anyone use (or have familiarity with) WordPress as
blogging software? What are its dis/advantages compared to
Movable Type? Thanks.
\_ It's been a year or two since I did an involved comparison of the
two so this may be somewhat dated, YMMV, not responsible if this
advice causes your CPU to catch fire, kills babies, etc... Last I
looked at them, WP wasn't quite there yet vs. MT. This was shortly
after the genesis of WP (prior to that it was a package called
Cafelog IIRC). From what I understand, WP has been making leaps
and bounds and, at this point, it is likely on par or superior to
MT. Older versions of MT were written entirely in Perl. WP is and
always has been written in PHP. Modern MT is a mix of Perl and
PHP. As I understand it, this was done as a way to work around the
fact that, in older versions of MT, you had to manually rebuild
your pages regularly, which was annoying, to say the least. IMO,
the MT plugins community is a little more mature than that of WP.
These days, the main deciding factor I care about is licensing.
Although MT is free for personal use, it quickly gets expensive for
any sort of commercial or contract work. I think this is because
SixApart (makers of MT) would prefer that people use TypePad, their
hosted subscription-based service. My main beef with MT's
licensing is that they absolutely forbid you from distributing
modified versions of the MT source. So, in essence, if you write
any plugins, fix any bugs, or develop any enhancements for MT, you
are at the mercy of SixApart. Sure you could distribute them
separately or as patches, but I don't particularly expect bloggers
to be the sort of users that are willing to deal with tools like
diff and patch (nor do I think they should have to). Consequently,
I am inclined to avoid MT since I have little interest in doing
what amounts to free development work for SixApart. WP, on the
other hand, is licensed under the GPL so you can hack on it to your
hearts content, though any changes or enhancements you release must
also be licensed under the GPL. Feel free to email me if you have
more specific questions. -dans |
| 2005/6/7-9 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:38018 Activity:moderate |
6/7 Why Intel? why not AMD? They both run on notebooks(unlike the G5)
Also, does this pave the groundwork for porting OS X to all PC
machines?
\_ You know, you guys are trying to find good technical reasons
for the move. I think it's actually simpler than that. Economics.
IBM can't produce their chips cheaper than Intel, which we all
know is kicking TI and other microprocessor fabs. IBM simply can't
sell their chips to Apple at competitive market rate. The
mundane technology of integration is driven by business, not
technology.
\_ Intel has the best laptop chips and once Apple has made the
transition it'll be easy to move to AMD if they want to.
\_ PC BIOS is a fundamentally different architecture than the Mac.
\_ I wonder. Macs these days use mostly commodity hardware.
What differences will remain? The BIOS? Motherboard type?
\_ PC's have a BIOS. Macs have real firmware. -dans
\_ Alas, not on Intel:
http://csua.org/u/cae (adc)
See "Specific Scenarios->Open Firmware" - ciyer
\_ Each Mac will come standard with a little slice from the ego
of Steve Jobs.
\_ Which is where they get the hot air to blow out the back.
\_ Intel has good support for DRM. (Why delete this MOTD censor?)
\_ It does? Cite?
\_ Apple may not want to limit itself to x86.
\_ Apple is trying to get away from a marginal chipset, why replace
it with another one?
I haven't seen enough discussion to know about the larger
implications; will OS X be able to run on Dells? There's a
lot of risk for Apple either way. -tom
\_ In the short/mid term, Apple is unlikely to let other PC vendors
sell OS X (of course, the hackers will make it possible). NeXT
took about two years to solve all the driver problems that affects
most users of generic x86 hardware and peripherals. However, moving
to x86 would let Apple open OS X up to Dell & other select vendors
in the future if they wanted to do so. However, not likely... one
of Jobs' first things he did when he came back to Apple was to end
the Clone Wars.
\_ This is all about laptops and Athlon 64 can't compete in that
space in the foreseeable future. Also Apple probably wants to
get at the pentium risc[?] core w/o the x86 microcode at some
point in the future.
OS X will probably never run on a non apple branded machine
legally. While the x86 mac's will have a bios (so Windows might
be installable on them), they will likely have a special apple
boot rom (the dev machines supposedly have this already) which
is needed in order to boot OS X. Unless you own an apple x86
system you can't get a legal copy of the rom so no legal OS X
on dells.
The bigger question is WHY you would want to run OS X on a dell
anyway? Is OS X that much more compelling than Windows/Linux?
\_ OS X is much more compelling than Windows/Linux. And you'd
want to run it on a Dell because Dell makes inexpensive hardware.
I would also run it on my Sharp laptop in a second, if it were
possible. -tom
\_ I run OS X on a daily basis and I still don't see why
it is more compelling than Windows/Linux. I agree that
it is nice and all but most of what I like about Macs
has less to do w/ OS X and a lot to do w/ the hardware:
ADC (w/ OSD of my monitors controls), deep sleep, power
on from the kbd, low noise, multiple firewire ports, &c.
I could easily buy a Dell but I don't b/c I can't get
these hardware features from any vendor other than Apple.
NOTE: I might not "get" it b/c I used to buy Macs for
purpose of running LinuxPPC b/c I liked Mac hardware
better than PC/Sun hardware (though the SS20 was
a NICE system, too bad there was no IDE support).
\_ Interesting. I am less enamored with Apple's hardware.
I do like my G4 Powerbook's sleek form factor and large
17" screen, though. What makes Apple interesting to me
again is OS X. UNIX-like and also runs applications
like Office and Photoshop. It's the best melding of
Windows and Linux. In fact, I run VMWare on a
Windows/Linux box to achieve the same things I get
with OS X. The Intel h/w is superior to Apple's, IMO.
I don't even care about any of the 'advantages' you
mentioned. --dim
\_ Yes, it is. However, part of its beauty is its tight
integration with the hardware and the lack of all the misery
generic x86 hardware and peripherals imposes on its users with
little incompatibilities. The "OSX on Dell" idea is kind
of a cruel joke. |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Uncategorized] UID:38019 Activity:nil |
6/7 Where's ~psb/pub/RotS ?
\- it is avail by subscription only. |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Uncategorized] UID:38020 Activity:nil |
6/7 How'd he find a new chainsaw so fast?:
http://redirx.com/?3esh
\_ Uh, maybe I'm confused but I thought he chainsawed/knifed some
people in Canada, and then across the border with the bloody items
which were confiscated but he was let in.
BTW, anyone else reminded of the evil judge in "Roger Rabbit"
from his picture -- what a looney tune! |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Politics/Domestic/911, Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:38021 Activity:nil |
6/7 Amusing article on how the out of control guard urine
splashed the Koran of a GITMO inmate:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05158/516835.stm - danh
\_ "Deep Throat, if you're out there please save us." Amen. |
| 2005/6/7-9 [Consumer/Audio, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:38022 Activity:nil |
6/7 Any suggestions for saving a WM/Real audio stream that happens at the
same time every day (on windows xp)?
\_ 1. how do you save WM/Real audio stream at first place?
2. I don't think time of the day has anything to do with solution.
you need to figure out a pattern of changing streaming
URI according to date.
I do this everyday using a tool called "hidownload." I have to
manually cut n paste URI and feed to hidownload on daily basis.
I occationally need Firefox's "View Rendered Source" plugin to
figure out URI. Let me know you got better way. -kngharv
\_ The URI doesn't change. They were offering mp3 downloads, but
they've been heavily edited in the last week, so I was planning on
recording the live stream (which isn't edited). I've used CDex in
the past to simply record, but it picks up all sound on the computer
(including beeps, etc.)--not just the stream. I'll look at
hidownload. |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:38023 Activity:nil |
6/7 http://csua.org/u/ca6 (Post) The Bush administration, having found no alternate candidate or support from any allies, has given up on its attempt to force out Mohamed ElBaradei as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to two U.S. officials. |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX, Recreation/Humor] UID:38024 Activity:nil Cat_by:auto |
6/7 http://s94009834.onlinehome.us/xyz/move.html Nifty Javascript. Doesn't work well on OSX Firefox but pretty well on OSX IE and OSX Safari |
| 2005/6/7-8 [Politics/Domestic/President] UID:38025 Activity:nil |
6/7 Unpatriotic news poll from Washington Post shows Americans don't
think Iraq war has made US safer. This is on the headline news of
MSNBC. Interestingly, Fox News uses Mrs. Robinson as the headline.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8135134 |
| 2005/6/7-9 [Recreation/Dating] UID:38026 Activity:moderate |
6/7 RIP Anne Bancroft
Bless you, Mrs. Robinson
\_ Poll, oldest SO you've ever slept with:
21: .
30:
40: .
50:
Yermom: .
N/A: .
\_ Poll, biggest age difference of SO you've ever slept with: ('+'
for older than you and '-' for younger than you):
-2: .
+21: .
-15: .
+14: .
+/-0: .
\_ Poll (for men), biggest age difference of women you've ever
wanted to sleep with:
+~10: .
\_ Here is her listing on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000843 |
| 2005/6/7 [Uncategorized] UID:38027 Activity:nil |
6/7 Cold fusion article on /. (for people who rightfully don't check /.
regularly). -- ilyas |
| 2005/6/7-9 [Consumer/Camera] UID:38028 Activity:low |
6/7 Using a 128 Meg sandisk compact flash card that I've had
for a little over a year in a digital camera that I've had for
nearly 7 years, I took a picture and when I went to look
at it, it was corrupted as were a few images I had taken
before. Is it likely the fault of the card or the camera?
Could it be that I switched the camera to the "view" mode before
the camera had time to completely write the picture to the card?
If the problem is likely with the card, will reformatting it help
prevent this from happening in the future, or is it better to just
use a new card?
\_ what are we, psychic? experiment with it and see what happens.
\- metadata or data corruption? there are some recovery softwares
but frankly 1. format in the camera [not on PC] and take some
test shots 2. if that is ok, then cross your fingers and hope
it was transient problem 3. otherwise the replacement cost of
a 128mb card is so low low [<$20], just get a new one and use
that for "important" pictures.
\_ Nice delete. I've had this happen to me. CF cards are cheap, get
a new one. -John |
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