Would a picture of her head grafted onto some poor innocent donkey's ass make her happier?
Would some video of her proclaiming violent death to California otters make her any happier?
She's a pubic, uh, public figure. If she doesn't want to be fantasized about, let her shed the little white outfits (in private of course,) and wear a "chador."
That might excuse her fading game but it still wouldn't stop the abuse of her image. Some people fantasize about fucking mud. She a cut above that. (I could make some really crude comments about first and second seed here...)
It'll be cheap. We don't need to send space suits.
Star Wars started at 4 because 1, 2, 3 are DARK
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· Score: 2
Its the loss of the universe to the dark side. The beginning of the series whows the slide down the scree and the plunge into the volcano.
No amount of cinematographic wizardry is going to help movie #3 the end of which is already known since it segues into #4. It will have real crap as grosses.
That doesn't mean it won't be made or that it shouldn't be made. Just that it will take at least another generation before the entire series can be viewed (from 1 to 9) without the angst and agita that #3 will create.
By the way, nobody seems to remember that the series was orogonally conceived and written about the life of the 'droids, not about the evanescent existence of the "flesh" beings.
The saga is older and tired and the audiences are older and tired too.
The "Geek Factor" is dying as surely as the original audience is losing its hair.
I just wish that the studios would stop milking the paltry media history of the late Boomers and Gen X'ers.
Who needs anything new? Rerun "The Philadelphia Story" All the actors are dead by now.
Pretty soon, the eternal corporate entities who want to own all copyrights to everything will strangle the artists. (A remake is much cheaper to make than something risky and original. [A rerun is cheaper still.)
Soon the only recourse for an artist will be to copyleft their work and to create their own distribution channels. (FTP with a commercial protocol sending an email to the artist about the copy just transmitted.)
If you're artist, its better to get $1/copy from potentially a lot of people than to sell your rights away for this month's rent and to get squat else FOR EVER.
Once the media outlets own the work, that's it. They live forever so their copyright never expires, unlike a real human being who eventually dies.
Even at that, reselling, rerunning and re-issueing is a lot more profitable than supporting creative artists so look for acquisitions to wind down.
Apple's G4 flip open cases are still a joy to own
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Choosing a Good Case
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· Score: 5, Insightful
I have yet to find another case as easy to open, get at all the components and make whatever mods are required and flip closed than the Apple tower cases.
Man I hate opening up my PC case to get at stuff. The Mac case just flips open and everything's exposed. There's no reason for it either. I'm sure PC makers could offer the same convenience. Why do we secure our drives on BOTH sides of the unit? An L shaped snap-in plate that hangs on to ONE side would be just as effective.
And the handles molded into the unit make moving it around securely, specially when lifting it up on a higher shelf, a real breeze. Ever dropped a PC? Ever come close and only scraped a couple of knuckles?
Latest's of every thing I need:
Apache-1.3.24
php-4.2.1,
with all the php packages I have to move over,
MySQL-3.23.49,
LOTS of standard stuff (Nautilus, Mozilla etc.)
I should be able to upgrade my box, install ZendStudio_Server, use the journalling file system to mirror my drives and have the bullet proof system I need to support my Community Wikis.
Like giving Arrafat control of Palestine. (Now lets see if it outlives him.)
Like giving Levesque control of an independent Quebec. (it never happened...)
Like giving Lenin and his band of thugs control over the Soviet Union. (Who? What? I don't read history...)
Like giving Botha control over the system of Apartheid. (South Africa is now free to find solutions it can live with rather than laboring under rules it can die from.)
Giving the xxAAs absolutely EVERYTHING they asked for and being able to blame them for EVERYTHING that goes wrong after will lead to their membership being decimated and their being declared outlaws.
The cessation of the creation of content is an inevitable conclusion. NO NEW CONTENT. NO NEW BOOKS. NO NEW MUSIC. NO NEW MOVIES. Nothing will be created by the "factory" system since its cheaper to re-cycle the same old shit.
The neo-Luddites of the xxAAs will be so surprised when they finally win one after having fought EVERY technological development since the invention of the player piano and NEVER having won, not even ONCE.
That single victory be pyrric indeed as they get dismanteled and the rules of the self-styled industry watchdogs get regulated and enforced by government fiat.
The creation of content is anathema to the xxAAs since it involves expense and possible financial loss.
These people(?) would rather sell reruns of crap for pure profit than spend a buck on a creative artist.
They see artists as a necessary evil which is controlled and manipulated by putting the art and the artist through a mill which grinds out "hits" while grinding down the artists.
Sometime the hype is so transparent that anyone with an ounce of integrity would hide their face in shame. Instead , you get some babe shilling shit while holding up a can of beer for scale.
What gets air play or screen time is not what's good or what is worth seeing but what some soul-dead accountant decides you should see.
Harry Potter books sold? Lets play it safe and make Harry Potter movies. How about a remake of... ?
Eventually, they media mavens realize that the rerun is more profitable, specially if all the artists are dead of old age. How else can you explain Alphal-fuckin'-fa still being on TV? How about the "Three Stooges," week after week after week? Used as filler between commercials.
The reason they don't want anybody to be able to copy anything is that THEY want to SELL every byte that comes over the 'net and they don't want you to be able to hang on to any of them because then they can't charge you over and over for the same cra, uh, content.
The creators of content, the animators, artists, authors, musicians, playwrights, thespians etcetera will soon have no market anyway.
500 channels on TV and ALL running infomercials.
Message-less Media in the purest McLuhanistic sense.
The artists who are already the source for the content, will have to form their own separate distribution networks and use some form of micro payment PER COPY (the bane of the xxAAs control mechanisms.:-)
Imagine after the introduction of IPv6, when DynIP can finally be disposed of and spoofing becomes a great deal more difficult, a very minor change to the FTP protocol, call it cFTP, which records, when necessary, the address of the recipient of a document or packet stream.
Imagine a micro payment scheme which records charges for every copy of some artist's work collecting money from the recipient and depositing it in the artist's account.
Now imagine the xxAAs wondering where all the sucke, uh, audience has gone? Don't we WANT to pay for the n-th rerun of "My Mother The Car?"
"She insisted that decisions about airplay are driven strictly by research showing what the public wants to hear."
That's bass-akwards. By definition, you can't run a poll asking what people want to hear. What the public wants to hear is something different.
They hear something and they like then at that moment or they don't. The same thing at another time might get a different result.
These media corporations have the depth of a puddle of dog urine and the soul of adding machines.
What THEY want is to use yesterday's content as filler between the ads. I'm sure they'd be happier to do away with the content altogether (All those freaky artists. What do they know? And that noise?) and run informercials 24/7. "Sigue, Sigue Sputnik" writ small and quiet.
I hadn't even thought of cash registers and other point-of-sale systems but it figures. They need utter reliability and 100% up-time.
There is no way anybody is going to trust the collection or the handling of cash or credit card transactions to machines that are as virus prone and crashable as anything M$ puts out.
The PATH system of trains between New York and New Jersey uses some M$ box to display information to riders on iys trains and M$ is prominently displayed in all its glory when the big monitors hanging over the platforms get "Blue Screens of Death." Tens of thousands of people ride the system every day. That's GREAT advertising for M$. -NOT!
I wish somebody would replace these with some Linux servers so we riders could get systems we can use and trust.
I love the quote "Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed." That's an honest appraisal.
What the fuck are people doing with it then? That's like laying down in front of a bully and yelling "Kick Me?"
I'd hate to think that it really was a matter of National Security. Luckily, its not. Nobody with something that needs a serious, secure computing platform uses Windows.
Man, M$ are slash(dot:-)ing their own fucking throats.
Now some people I know who were merely concerned before will install Linux on their servers for sure and try StarOffice on their desk top machines.
What will happen to the people at bug tracker then? They'll be made redundant since almost all these "Net" bugs are M$ bugs.
Why is somebody building humonguous drives that can store more data than I would be able to absorb in my entire waking lifetime? Will they sell me one? Maybe not or maybe two (you got to have backup.)
Why is somebody building humonguous drives that can store more data than a small to average average business will generate in its entire corporate lifetime? Same reasoning.
Its got nothing to do with me, or you. They do it because they CAN. All of scientific progress is based on "... ?" and all technological progress is based on "... !", the debris left by the answers.
I once wrote some code in Command level CICS-COBOL that used GETMAIN and FREEMAIN to do dynamic memory allocation so I could take a data structure in a file (by order.item.warehouse.quantity,) and stand it on its ear (by warehouse.order.item.quantity,) to get at the data that way.
It worked fine and I documented it and the BLL cell layouts properly but the CONCEPT of dynamic memory allocation proved to be the stumbling block.
I ended up giving a course on my hack and they still didn't get it. I eventually left the company and left them with working code that they were not intellectually capable of modifying. I didn't feel good about that.
Sometimes they don't understand one concept (object instance relationships) and sometimes its another (state machines) but I always seem to encounter people having problems that they are too busy struggling with to see that the problem lies with their application of an innapropriate solution.
AND THEY AREN'T MENTALLY EQUIPPED TO PERCEIVE THE TRUE DIMENSION OF THE PROBLEM. (Not its metric, [I didn't say SCALE of the problem,] but its topology.)
There is bugger all to be done in those cases.
Being ignorant of the uses and applicability of state machines leads to combinatorial explosion of GUI (and supporting objects) code to handle different state transitions.
Rather than maintaining the state machines, (not even the engines but the state transition arcs and nodes,) they were ending up replicating GUI code.
That was really fucked up. I was asked to resign. I did, heaving sighs of relief.
(And then somebody used the building as a landing strip. Yeah. I'm still fucked up about that...)
I start my sob story about living next door to the World Trade Center and having my world blown away on Sept, 11th and being unemployed since then and...
And you know, they don't let me finish the sentence.
Word must get around too. Nobody's really bothered me since.
I've had a community wiki project in place for months and I've been promoting it around the Jersey City artistic community for a couple of months.
Its beginning to pay off and generate interest. Maybe you'll be able to find my site. The DNS servers don't seem to know about http://www.creativecommons.org/ yet.
I'm using an implementation of wiki, phpwiki-1.3.3, which uses logon to attribute edits to their authors, tracks all deltas and I back the thing up everyday.
I have no opinions on subject matter, I apply no censorship. I am just trying to give writers a place to collaborate on works, register a copyright on their own works and perhaps round out some things which have always been experimental and awkward and bring to works words which couldn't exist in any othjer form.
Come see it at http://wage.packet.org/
Click on the community Wiki in the left hand pane and if you're a writer, contribute your ideas
That might prove harder than reading a password off a PostIt note stuck to a 3278 terminal.
Geting a usable print that isn't smudged in some respect is not that easy. Ask any AFIS operator. Getting the right finger from a glass is also hard if the glass was rotated in the least.
Its not likely to be done on casual contact.
It requires collusion or coercion.
That's no reason to give up on biometrics yet.
No temperature sensor on the unit? (I'm sure that the gummy bear wasn't the same temperature as the guy's finger. Yuck.) And I can't forget my finger at home. I still like a LONG biometric password (my fingerprint) for logging on.
Start with a really good CVS (Check-out check-in.)
Make everything and I do mean everything a configuration item:
configuration management documents,
object repository
class/method code, (The CVS itself)
data instance (data sources & sinks)
project & subproject
tasks & milestones,
configuration item production and consumption
(critical) paths,
human resource experience set
skill inventory
task experience requirements,
design specs,
analysis docs,
layouts of
files,
tables,
object models &
relationship models,
presentations (screen & report),
system architecture documents,
strategy documents on
database,
middle ware,
business logic &
presentation layers components & reuse
coding specs,
reusable components
code classes and methods/functions,
test plans,
test runs & results,
implementation/deployment plans,
migration paths from
development, (stages and what
testing,
production to
final deliverable packaging.
Then, maybe, just maybe, you may be able to create something and deliver something that won't make you want to stick your head in a bucket in shame, at all, never mind on-time or under budget.
There's a lot more to managing a project than inspirational speeches and waving "The One Minute Manager" around and failing to remember Brook's "Mithical Man Month."
The Guvmint and the ISPs can deputize one employee who is granted autority (by the power vested... blah, blah,) to conduct information searches while employed there.
The lawyers are shut up. The ISPs don't have a bunch of cops around underfoot. And the bad guys still get caught.
Coming up with a new business model requires thinking. An original idea.
Fuggedaboud id!
These xxAA parasites have opposed EVERY single fuckin' thing since the development of the player piano.
They ain't interested. Whatever it is, they ain't interested.
The fact that they have LOST every fuckin' time and that every loss has gone on to found entire industries doesn't seem to matter to them.
The fact is that if they had won there would be: NO radio, NO record players, reel-to-reel or cassete players, No CDs, never mind the audio recording and reproduction industry, NO TVs, VCRs or DVDs, never mind the video recording and reproduction industry, NO advertising industry, never mind the multi-billion dollars that spent every year on the vain hope that something they they flash in front of you eyes will lead to a sale.
These cock suckers have NEVER won a thing. And thank God cause we'd ALL have to sit 'round the porch playing the piano, no matter how badly, and singing along, no matter how off-key, for something to do on a Saturday night.
BUT THE XX-AAS DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO THREATEN THE STATUS QUO AND THEY ARE FUCKIN' PARANOID ABOUT TECHNOLOGY.
The last time an original idea entered the halls of some xxAA, they took it out back, beat it to death with tire irons and dragged the corpse to the highway so it could get run-over by passing motorists.
Jack Valenti and Hillary Rosen are reactionary pond scum who will obstruct and block ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. Their knee-jerk reaction is to jerk their knee of anybody nearby with an idea right in the 'mads.
I'm an ex-musician and, in case you con't guess, I HATE the parasite, dog-scum, suckin' xxAAs with a passion.
Jack Valenti and Hilary Rosen can find a nice place in Hell and burn there in agony for all eternity like the creativity deprived fuck-wited Luddites they are.
God. Just thinking about 'em makes me reach for Piperazine.
Slashdot Mirror
Won't they miss the threats, the terrorism?
NEVER! PLEASE DEAR GOD. NO!!!!
Then again it might put Richard Simmons out of business.
Thinks that make you go Hmmmmm.
There are lots of worse things that being naked.
Would a picture of her head grafted onto some poor innocent donkey's ass make her happier?
Would some video of her proclaiming violent death to California otters make her any happier?
She's a pubic, uh, public figure. If she doesn't want to be fantasized about, let her shed the little white outfits (in private of course,) and wear a "chador."
That might excuse her fading game but it still wouldn't stop the abuse of her image. Some people fantasize about fucking mud. She a cut above that. (I could make some really crude comments about first and second seed here...)
Get used to it. Bee-atch.
It'll be cheap. We don't need to send space suits.
Its the loss of the universe to the dark side. The beginning of the series whows the slide down the scree and the plunge into the volcano.
No amount of cinematographic wizardry is going to help movie #3 the end of which is already known since it segues into #4. It will have real crap as grosses.
That doesn't mean it won't be made or that it shouldn't be made. Just that it will take at least another generation before the entire series can be viewed (from 1 to 9) without the angst and agita that #3 will create.
By the way, nobody seems to remember that the series was orogonally conceived and written about the life of the 'droids, not about the evanescent existence of the "flesh" beings.
The saga is older and tired and the audiences are older and tired too.
The "Geek Factor" is dying as surely as the original audience is losing its hair.
I just wish that the studios would stop milking the paltry media history of the late Boomers and Gen X'ers.
Who needs anything new? Rerun "The Philadelphia Story" All the actors are dead by now.
Pretty soon, the eternal corporate entities who want to own all copyrights to everything will strangle the artists. (A remake is much cheaper to make than something risky and original. [A rerun is cheaper still.)
Soon the only recourse for an artist will be to copyleft their work and to create their own distribution channels. (FTP with a commercial protocol sending an email to the artist about the copy just transmitted.)
If you're artist, its better to get $1/copy from potentially a lot of people than to sell your rights away for this month's rent and to get squat else FOR EVER.
Once the media outlets own the work, that's it. They live forever so their copyright never expires, unlike a real human being who eventually dies.
Even at that, reselling, rerunning and re-issueing is a lot more profitable than supporting creative artists so look for acquisitions to wind down.
I have yet to find another case as easy to open, get at all the components and make whatever mods are required and flip closed than the Apple tower cases.
Man I hate opening up my PC case to get at stuff. The Mac case just flips open and everything's exposed. There's no reason for it either. I'm sure PC makers could offer the same convenience. Why do we secure our drives on BOTH sides of the unit? An L shaped snap-in plate that hangs on to ONE side would be just as effective.
And the handles molded into the unit make moving it around securely, specially when lifting it up on a higher shelf, a real breeze. Ever dropped a PC? Ever come close and only scraped a couple of knuckles?
Latest's of every thing I need:
Apache-1.3.24
php-4.2.1,
with all the php packages I have to move over,
MySQL-3.23.49,
LOTS of standard stuff (Nautilus, Mozilla etc.)
I should be able to upgrade my box, install ZendStudio_Server, use the journalling file system to mirror my drives and have the bullet proof system I need to support my Community Wikis.
Like giving Arrafat control of Palestine. (Now lets see if it outlives him.)
Like giving Levesque control of an independent Quebec. (it never happened...)
Like giving Lenin and his band of thugs control over the Soviet Union. (Who? What? I don't read history...)
Like giving Botha control over the system of Apartheid. (South Africa is now free to find solutions it can live with rather than laboring under rules it can die from.)
Giving the xxAAs absolutely EVERYTHING they asked for and being able to blame them for EVERYTHING that goes wrong after will lead to their membership being decimated and their being declared outlaws.
The cessation of the creation of content is an inevitable conclusion. NO NEW CONTENT. NO NEW BOOKS. NO NEW MUSIC. NO NEW MOVIES. Nothing will be created by the "factory" system since its cheaper to re-cycle the same old shit.
The neo-Luddites of the xxAAs will be so surprised when they finally win one after having fought EVERY technological development since the invention of the player piano and NEVER having won, not even ONCE.
That single victory be pyrric indeed as they get dismanteled and the rules of the self-styled industry watchdogs get regulated and enforced by government fiat.
The creation of content is anathema to the xxAAs since it involves expense and possible financial loss.
... ?
:-)
These people(?) would rather sell reruns of crap for pure profit than spend a buck on a creative artist.
They see artists as a necessary evil which is controlled and manipulated by putting the art and the artist through a mill which grinds out "hits" while grinding down the artists.
Sometime the hype is so transparent that anyone with an ounce of integrity would hide their face in shame. Instead , you get some babe shilling shit while holding up a can of beer for scale.
What gets air play or screen time is not what's good or what is worth seeing but what some soul-dead accountant decides you should see.
Harry Potter books sold? Lets play it safe and make Harry Potter movies. How about a remake of
Eventually, they media mavens realize that the rerun is more profitable, specially if all the artists are dead of old age. How else can you explain Alphal-fuckin'-fa still being on TV? How about the "Three Stooges," week after week after week? Used as filler between commercials.
The reason they don't want anybody to be able to copy anything is that THEY want to SELL every byte that comes over the 'net and they don't want you to be able to hang on to any of them because then they can't charge you over and over for the same cra, uh, content.
The creators of content, the animators, artists, authors, musicians, playwrights, thespians etcetera will soon have no market anyway.
500 channels on TV and ALL running infomercials.
Message-less Media in the purest McLuhanistic sense.
The artists who are already the source for the content, will have to form their own separate distribution networks and use some form of micro payment PER COPY (the bane of the xxAAs control mechanisms.
Imagine after the introduction of IPv6, when DynIP can finally be disposed of and spoofing becomes a great deal more difficult, a very minor change to the FTP protocol, call it cFTP, which records, when necessary, the address of the recipient of a document or packet stream.
Imagine a micro payment scheme which records charges for every copy of some artist's work collecting money from the recipient and depositing it in the artist's account.
Now imagine the xxAAs wondering where all the sucke, uh, audience has gone? Don't we WANT to pay for the n-th rerun of "My Mother The Car?"
"She insisted that decisions about airplay are driven strictly by research showing what the public wants to hear."
That's bass-akwards. By definition, you can't run a poll asking what people want to hear. What the public wants to hear is something different.
They hear something and they like then at that moment or they don't. The same thing at another time might get a different result.
These media corporations have the depth of a puddle of dog urine and the soul of adding machines.
What THEY want is to use yesterday's content as filler between the ads. I'm sure they'd be happier to do away with the content altogether (All those freaky artists. What do they know? And that noise?) and run informercials 24/7. "Sigue, Sigue Sputnik" writ small and quiet.
She insisted that decisions about airplay are driven strictly by research showing what the public wants to hear
I hadn't even thought of cash registers and other point-of-sale systems but it figures. They need utter reliability and 100% up-time.
There is no way anybody is going to trust the collection or the handling of cash or credit card transactions to machines that are as virus prone and crashable as anything M$ puts out.
The PATH system of trains between New York and New Jersey uses some M$ box to display information to riders on iys trains and M$ is prominently displayed in all its glory when the big monitors hanging over the platforms get "Blue Screens of Death." Tens of thousands of people ride the system every day. That's GREAT advertising for M$. -NOT!
I wish somebody would replace these with some Linux servers so we riders could get systems we can use and trust.
I love the quote "Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed." That's an honest appraisal.
:-)ing their own fucking throats.
What the fuck are people doing with it then? That's like laying down in front of a bully and yelling "Kick Me?"
I'd hate to think that it really was a matter of National Security. Luckily, its not. Nobody with something that needs a serious, secure computing platform uses Windows.
Man, M$ are slash(dot
Now some people I know who were merely concerned before will install Linux on their servers for sure and try StarOffice on their desk top machines.
What will happen to the people at bug tracker then? They'll be made redundant since almost all these "Net" bugs are M$ bugs.
Bwahahahahahahaha.
Those Luddites? I'm surprised they don't use a pen make by plucking a feather from a goose's ass.
Oh that's rich. Thanks for laugh...
Because they could.
Why is somebody building humonguous drives that can store more data than I would be able to absorb in my entire waking lifetime? Will they sell me one? Maybe not or maybe two (you got to have backup.)
Why is somebody building humonguous drives that can store more data than a small to average average business will generate in its entire corporate lifetime? Same reasoning.
Its got nothing to do with me, or you. They do it because they CAN.
All of scientific progress is based on "... ?" and all technological progress is based on "... !", the debris left by the answers.
Then proove it. :-P
I once wrote some code in Command level CICS-COBOL that used GETMAIN and FREEMAIN to do dynamic memory allocation so I could take a data structure in a file (by order.item.warehouse.quantity,) and stand it on its ear (by warehouse.order.item.quantity,) to get at the data that way.
It worked fine and I documented it and the BLL cell layouts properly but the CONCEPT of dynamic memory allocation proved to be the stumbling block.
I ended up giving a course on my hack and they still didn't get it. I eventually left the company and left them with working code that they were not intellectually capable of modifying. I didn't feel good about that.
Sometimes they don't understand one concept (object instance relationships) and sometimes its another (state machines) but I always seem to encounter people having problems that they are too busy struggling with to see that the problem lies with their application of an innapropriate solution.
AND THEY AREN'T MENTALLY EQUIPPED TO PERCEIVE THE TRUE DIMENSION OF THE PROBLEM. (Not its metric, [I didn't say SCALE of the problem,] but its topology.)
There is bugger all to be done in those cases.
Being ignorant of the uses and applicability of state machines leads to combinatorial explosion of GUI (and supporting objects) code to handle different state transitions.
Rather than maintaining the state machines, (not even the engines but the state transition arcs and nodes,) they were ending up replicating GUI code.
That was really fucked up. I was asked to resign. I did, heaving sighs of relief.
(And then somebody used the building as a landing strip. Yeah. I'm still fucked up about that...)
I start my sob story about living next door to the World Trade Center and having my world blown away on Sept, 11th and being unemployed since then and...
And you know, they don't let me finish the sentence.
Word must get around too. Nobody's really bothered me since.
I've had a community wiki project in place for months and I've been promoting it around the Jersey City artistic community for a couple of months.
Its beginning to pay off and generate interest. Maybe you'll be able to find my site. The DNS servers don't seem to know about http://www.creativecommons.org/ yet.
I'm using an implementation of wiki, phpwiki-1.3.3, which uses logon to attribute edits to their authors, tracks all deltas and I back the thing up everyday.
I have no opinions on subject matter, I apply no censorship. I am just trying to give writers a place to collaborate on works, register a copyright on their own works and perhaps round out some things which have always been experimental and awkward and bring to works words which couldn't exist in any othjer form.
Come see it at http://wage.packet.org/
Click on the community Wiki in the left hand pane and if you're a writer, contribute your ideas
That might prove harder than reading a password off a PostIt note stuck to a 3278 terminal.
Geting a usable print that isn't smudged in some respect is not that easy. Ask any AFIS operator. Getting the right finger from a glass is also hard if the glass was rotated in the least.
Its not likely to be done on casual contact.
It requires collusion or coercion.
That's no reason to give up on biometrics yet.
No temperature sensor on the unit? (I'm sure that the gummy bear wasn't the same temperature as the guy's finger. Yuck.)
And I can't forget my finger at home.
I still like a LONG biometric password (my fingerprint) for logging on.
Start with a really good CVS (Check-out check-in.)
Make everything and I do mean everything a configuration item:
configuration management documents,
object repository
class/method code, (The CVS itself)
data instance (data sources & sinks)
project & subproject
tasks & milestones,
configuration item production and consumption
(critical) paths,
human resource experience set
skill inventory
task experience requirements,
design specs,
analysis docs,
layouts of
files,
tables,
object models &
relationship models,
presentations (screen & report),
system architecture documents,
strategy documents on
database,
middle ware,
business logic &
presentation layers components & reuse
coding specs,
reusable components
code classes and methods/functions,
test plans,
test runs & results,
implementation/deployment plans,
migration paths from
development, (stages and what
testing,
production to
final deliverable packaging.
Then, maybe, just maybe, you may be able to create something and deliver something that won't make you want to stick your head in a bucket in shame, at all, never mind on-time or under budget.
There's a lot more to managing a project than inspirational speeches and waving "The One Minute Manager" around and failing to remember Brook's "Mithical Man Month."
This is a non-issue.
... blah, blah,) to conduct information searches while employed there.
The Guvmint and the ISPs can deputize one employee who is granted autority (by the power vested
The lawyers are shut up. The ISPs don't have a bunch of cops around underfoot. And the bad guys still get caught.
What's the problem here?
Coming up with a new business model requires thinking. An original idea.
Fuggedaboud id!
These xxAA parasites have opposed EVERY single fuckin' thing since the development of the player piano.
They ain't interested. Whatever it is, they ain't interested.
The fact that they have LOST every fuckin' time and that every loss has gone on to found entire industries doesn't seem to matter to them.
The fact is that if they had won there would be:
NO radio,
NO record players, reel-to-reel or cassete players,
No CDs, never mind the audio recording and reproduction industry,
NO TVs, VCRs or DVDs, never mind the video recording and reproduction industry,
NO advertising industry, never mind the multi-billion dollars that spent every year on the vain hope that something they they flash in front of you eyes will lead to a sale.
These cock suckers have NEVER won a thing. And thank God cause we'd ALL have to sit 'round the porch playing the piano, no matter how badly, and singing along, no matter how off-key, for something to do on a Saturday night.
BUT THE XX-AAS DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO THREATEN THE STATUS QUO AND THEY ARE FUCKIN' PARANOID ABOUT TECHNOLOGY.
The last time an original idea entered the halls of some xxAA, they took it out back, beat it to death with tire irons and dragged the corpse to the highway so it could get run-over by passing motorists.
Jack Valenti and Hillary Rosen are reactionary pond scum who will obstruct and block ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. Their knee-jerk reaction is to jerk their knee of anybody nearby with an idea right in the 'mads.
I'm an ex-musician and, in case you con't guess, I HATE the parasite, dog-scum, suckin' xxAAs with a passion.
Jack Valenti and Hilary Rosen can find a nice place in Hell and burn there in agony for all eternity like the creativity deprived fuck-wited Luddites they are.
God. Just thinking about 'em makes me reach for Piperazine.