The GPS isn't logging the speed, or if it is it's as secondary, calculated data.
Okay - fair point. But I think the original point still obtains; how do the cops know the data is *not* being cooked (in whatever form it is being collected)? If the client controls the data collection/recording, the cops are at the mercy of the code on that device. Are they going to validate that code? How?
It's the same thing as a desktop, web client, or indeed the browser itself - the client can never be trusted.
Are the cops or the courts going to audit every GPS device or line of device code to ensure that 20 mph is *not* being deducted off what is written to the log above a certain speed?
Come to think of it, that's a great idea for OS or FSF - create code for popular GPS devices, and then produce the code for audit when you go to court contesting a ticket, while asking that the cops produce the code off of their device!!
Maybe you can go via Canada. Since you don't need to show your passport when crossing back from Canada into the US how is anyone going to know?
You need a passport to enter the U.S. from Canada now, and it is my understanding that it is looked at both ways. I don't know if the passport requirement is reciprocal; do you need your U.S. passport to travel to Canada now?
Thank Christ. There is a sane person in this world. Thank you, R2.0; I thought I was going fscking nuts for a few minutes there.
Summary: Spoiled daughter has a party that's too damn big and extravagant for any 15 year old, lies about it on the god-damned *Internet* (not to three friends the next day in the smoking area outside school property, or any other forum where one might have some expectation of privacy), newspapers pick up the story and publish the daughter's bogus account, and the mother, just to be sure the kid hasn't caught sight of a decent value in the whole process, sues the newspapers.
And as a chart-topper,/. engages in a dialogue on the responsibilities of newspapers, fer chrissakes, rather than parents.
I'll second this endorsement. I wanted out of the AVG v8 Linkscanner business even before the public outcry - on my Mother's somewhat underpowered desktop (she didn't know it was underpowered, but thought I had set her up with a new spanky machine - thanks AVG) it slowed the user browsing experience significantly, as well as kicking the shit out of her DSL-lite connection, which is already somewhat strained when streaming video and similar activities.
So I installed Avast on one of my desktops, and it works pretty well, once you turn off the sound effects which give you such treats as a really macho voice telling you a new update has been installed. The only issue for me was that the free version - as far as I've found - doesn't support scheduling drive scans, but rather supports a scan on boot. You need the Pro version for the anytime scheduling capability.
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The dropped the scroll wheel on the side that made the old blackberries have such a (in my mind) LEGENDARY interface. Honestly that was one of the best interfaces i have EVER used. They dropped it for a stupid trackball that, while pretty, is all but useless unless you use two hands to operate the phone.
I liked my 7520 too, and I agree with your comments about key size, etc. But I'm surprised by your comments about the trackball. I was more than ready to hate the trackball when I got my 8830, but surprise, I liked it more than the scroll wheel. It balances better in my hand, as the point of balance is centred on the trackball, rather than over to the right as it was with the scroll wheel.
I'm not very confident about the durability of the trackball, though. I've had it stop tracking in one or more directions twice. Turns out that a little spit and rotation gets the grit in the trackball out of the way, and you're good to go again. I suspect that over time this will become a bigger problem, as grit seems to get into the mechanism easily, and there is no complete way to clean it (remember that mouseballs used to have this problem, but you could take them apart and give them a through cleaning, which you can't with the 8830 trackball).
Your comment about the screen recessing on the 7520 points to an issue with the 8830 - the screen is *not* recessed, and mine was getting pretty scuffed up after four months use.
I had my first 8830 replaced under warranty after the keyboard went berserk. Keys started to fail, and then start working again, while other keys started to fail at the same time. It was like the problem was circulating through my keyboard; it did make life exciting though, as you found out what keys weren't working on a particular day. The biggest problem was when the Alt key and Del key weren't working at the same time. My PIN had numbers in it, which made it impossible to unlock.
Overall, I don't think that the 8830 has the durability of the 7520, and even though I do like the trackball, I don't think it is going to last in service. I never had any issue with the scroll wheel.
They date from the Macintosh development days, but the stories on http://folklore.org/ give the impression that guys like Andy Hertzfeld were driven crazy by Jobs, but would still follow him to hell and back.
For recognition, how's getting to sign the case mould for the Macintosh? How much salary would you give up for that?
Actually, given that a profitable amount of people believe they are communicating with Nigerian royalty
I don't know of any way of measuring the total value of Nigerian scams, but as noted in the quote, it seems that it is profitable; scammers keep playing the game, so it must be working for them to some extent.
The entry page used in the video demo was http:. There was no indicator (that I could see) that the login process was secured in that http: page. Maybe there is an indicator and I'm just looking in the wrong place because of my limited exposure to Firefox in an OSX environment.
If not, is there any reason that an html-based authentication process not by secured by SSL (i.e. https) in this day and age? The other day I used a yahoo.ca account that I've kept around for years as a throwaway address, and I saw that yahoo has, somewhere in the no so distant past, secured login to their mail service. This was after years of having it default to http, though. Post login, your session reverts to hhtp.
Gmail was similar - by default the auth was secured but the session wasn't, unless you logged in via a particular URL. I'm not sure what the current status is, as the CustomizeGoogle plugin has an option to force https for all gmail activities.
My long-winded point is that all auth processes and data in associated sessions should be forced to https. Why does tilestack.com not do so? It doesn't exactly inspire faith in their attention to detail.
That being said, the whole idea looks pretty cool. Anyone got a non-trivial HyperCard stack out there that can put tilestack.com through its paces?
Heh, that's interesting....[snip]... ; often, references aren't even followed up on,
Speaking for myself (and I've acted as a hiring manager on dozens of interviews, but less than a hundred) I use references for one reason: to investigate a behaviour(s) I have concern about as a result of something said or not said in the interview. This includes further discussion on specific behavioural answers given.
In my experience, you've got a pretty good handle on whether you're interested pretty quickly in the interview, particularly from an expertise perspective (if not, then your interview is crap). However, there are people out there who are *experts* at interviewing, and their interview answers may not align with their actual behaviours in the job. So the reference check is an opportunity to ask specific questions of a previous employer that will tell you whether the individual in the job acts similar to the individual in the interview.
This approach also allows the reference to give a meaningful reference without incurring any possibility of litigation ('you gave me a shitty reference - I'm suing!' behaviour)
BTW, I am Canadian, interviewing in Canada. Whether this is indeed a characteristic of the overall Canadian job hunting scene , I can't say.
When I read the headline, I thought "I wonder how long it's going to take for some fanboy to recommend the iPhone, despite the fact that it doesn't have a keyboard & is inferior for text entry compared to say a blackberry
Different Blackberry models have different keyboards. To call the iPhone keyboard inferior for text entry as compared to a Blackberry is to ignore the different performance characteristics of different Blackberry keyboards.
I'm on my third B/B (7250, 7280, 8830) and of the three the current keyboard - on the 8830 - is the best for me. But I know people at work for whom this isn't the case, the particular bevelling of the 8830's keyboard hindering them rather then helping.
I have limited typing exposure to the iPhone, but a tonne of Blackberry keyboard time under my belt, some good, some significantly worse.
Note that the B/B Pearl is an entirely different beast, and if you're comparing residential (i.e. non-commercial/business) market phones, you'd could arguably end using the Pearl as RIM's entry.
I do know that derivation is one source of creativity. It's a tricky source - get too formulaic + too derivative while writing a song or a story, and it can bomb out the original idea.
This can even be true for authoring or reading/. posts. Most days, my eyes roll on the classic 1.xxxx 2.yyyy 3.??? 4.Profit!, but every once in a while, i"m knee slapping from the gut up.
Derivative works *can* be nothing but a cultural drag/dupe. However, they also can be a support for the interested reader, an impetus for a whole 'culture of xxx' thing that creates a previously unimagined phenomena.
I read the lexicon site for a while tonight. It's pretty damn cool (but I like that sort of thing (shameless plug for Simon Winchester and the OED).
I don't care how much money Rowling has already made - meaningless to me. I only care that she made the characters and settings up should someone appropriate the characters for the writing of another fictional story in a similar setting.
However, a work which slices and dices the facts, foibles & follies of an existing fictional story must, by definition, overlap the detail and content of the original work. That's what it is all *about*.
More importantly, it affords an opportunity for the author's work to step out front of the cultural curtain and make their work not just a story, but a view into the cultural details of our present-day world. Foolish to skip out on that one...
Rolwings is missing a major opportunity here, perhaps on the bad advice of a lawyer obliged, by a crappy IP law
landscape, to offer a good legal interpretation. Major bummer, but at the end of the day she's the one making the money call rather than the cultural call.
mars.exe, that voxel-based 3-d "Martian surface" demo from the mid-90s that was like 4 kilobytes
Thanks Colonel. I'd forgotten about this gem - had to go snag it just now to remind myself. Tim Clarke's description of the method he used in this demo of a Martian terrain can be found in the thread at http://www.whisqu.se/per/docs/math37.htm.
Well worth a few minutes reading. And the bonus of a Catch-22 reference in the parent post to boot!
If the optional HP USB Floppy Drive Key has been used in an environment without current (up-to-date) anti-virus software then the W32.Fakerecy or W32.SillyFDC virus may have spread to any mapped drives on the server. In this case HP recommends that the server and mapped drives are scanned with current (up-to-date) anti-virus software.
Does HP actually think that a potentially worm-infected server should be a/v scanned and (possibly) cleaned, and that's the end of it? That's beyond dumb; any production server so exposed requires a bare-metal rebuild. In the absence of a tripwire-esque delta, you have no understanding of the state of the server installation after undergoing an infect/clean cycle, and there's no way that box should be left in production in that state.
It's nothing new to Canada and our long-standing disputes over softwood lumber and other issues. The US even ignores it's own courts when it doesn't like the rulings.
This is a really interesting case, in that the U.S. is using a related WTO ruling on this matter to ignore the NAFTA Extraordinary Challenge Committee (ECC) ruling. So, WTO rulings are welcomed on one hand, and ignored on another.
This approach makes it pretty hard to deny assertions that trans-national trade agreements are welcome in the United States, as long as they are favourable; if not, fsck them. This isn't free trade, it is using free trade as a means to remove trade restrictions viewed as punitive or restrictive against U.S. trade.
In my experience, this speaks directly to opposition in Canada against free trade agreements. The folks I argue out the problems of the world over scotch and beer with are not so much against free trade, but rather are skeptical as to whether 'free' has bi-directional meaning in practise.
He's like the old tart that suddenly grows a conscience.
I can't match that chestnut. Uncle.
Can we get 'watery' in there, and maybe 'moistened bink'?
Come to think of it, 'supreme executive power' == MS, Arthur == Gates/Balmer, the Lady of the Lake holding forth Excalibur == Jobs offering up the GUI, the autonomous collective == Novell,... err scratch autonomous.
And Dennis deserves better than Miguel anyway. Rewind... Uncle.
Novell is the one that is moving towards irrelevancy
I can't touch base with this. Novell's death watch has been on so long it reminds me of 'imminent death of net predicated' Metcalfe-style comments. Novell's 2007 fourth quarter results (Note: PDF) reported a net income of $245 million, around $10 million more than the same quarter the year before.
No juggernaut, but Yahoo Finance reports a market cap of $USD 2.19 billion.
Gone are the giddyup days when Novell owned the NOS market, but Novell keeps on cranking out software products for a remarkably loyal user base. When you contrast Novell's braindead marketing with Microsoft's predatory marketing machine, it's amazing Novell is even alive, let alone a stable, profit-generating company.
e-Directory is a mature, scalable and stable enterprise directory product. The ZEN family of products is pretty cool. They've almost finished up removing e-Directory dependencies from their apps line in favour of full-feature LDAP interfaces, and they still sell enough Groupwise licenses - but I'll give you than one, because there is no excuse for that.
Netware is dead, but they know it, and they've got two solutions for replacement (OES2 and SLES), but their apps line isn't even tied to those solutions. So they've got a bit of coming and going there.
I think Novell hasn't done badly, given Microsoft's outright attempts to fsck them (most recently screwing their desktop management product line via Vista). *Plus*, they've held the line on SCO, even if they didn't know what they were doing at the time and it was all an accident, which is all quite possible.
Their great blemish in this community is the deal with the MS devil, and I can't find anything good about that, although, as other posters have noted, the bean-counters probably have a different view on that, to wit the cash.
Our view of Novell on/. - which I share in spirit and some of the details - doesn't mean they're going away anytime soon. My 2 cents worth, anyway...YMMV.
Voiceover: Lydia Meridith runs the daycare centre... Lydia: [... at night... ] This whole square is enveloped with homeless people and drug dealers...
So, the bot-operator sits on the Board of the daycare which occupies part of the footprint in question. He doesn't own it. Homeless people are lumped in with drug dealers. He admits to firing the bot's water cannon at 'extremely stubborn' people.
BTW, the 'bot is *not* autonomous as claimed in an earlier comment; the guy is pulling the switch.
Where I come from (which is admittedly not Atlanta or anywhere near there, as indicated by the audio transcription above) firing a water cannon at someone is assault, hassling dope dealers setting up shop in your neighbourhood with a 'bot is really freaking cool, and treating the homeless the same as dope dealers (lifestyle and intention overlaps notwithstanding) is a recipe for escalating social dysfunction.
I admire Mr. Terrill for taking a stand, and doing so with a geek gadget ups his score. I do not understand the lack of differentiation (in both the video report and this thread) between a homeless man and a Misery Merchant. How is it this is not even on the radar?
I suspect I might be on the cusp of a hearty karma smackdown, but WTF?
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The GPS isn't logging the speed, or if it is it's as secondary, calculated data.
Okay - fair point. But I think the original point still obtains; how do the cops know the data is *not* being cooked (in whatever form it is being collected)? If the client controls the data collection/recording, the cops are at the mercy of the code on that device. Are they going to validate that code? How?
It's the same thing as a desktop, web client, or indeed the browser itself - the client can never be trusted.
Are the cops or the courts going to audit every GPS device or line of device code to ensure that 20 mph is *not* being deducted off what is written to the log above a certain speed?
Come to think of it, that's a great idea for OS or FSF - create code for popular GPS devices, and then produce the code for audit when you go to court contesting a ticket, while asking that the cops produce the code off of their device!!
Maybe you can go via Canada. Since you don't need to show your passport when crossing back from Canada into the US how is anyone going to know?
You need a passport to enter the U.S. from Canada now, and it is my understanding that it is looked at both ways. I don't know if the passport requirement is reciprocal; do you need your U.S. passport to travel to Canada now?
Okay, so I got mod'd -1 Overrated by someone who doesn't know what a pragma directive is and thought I was taking a run at Linus? Sheesh ...
Should you have to pass a test to get mod points on /.? I'll post without a Karma Bonus here 'cause this is definitely offtopic.
From what I have read about Linus, he is a very pragmatic guy.
Hmmm - I heard he was big on portability.
Thank Christ. There is a sane person in this world. Thank you, R2.0; I thought I was going fscking nuts for a few minutes there.
Summary: Spoiled daughter has a party that's too damn big and extravagant for any 15 year old, lies about it on the god-damned *Internet* (not to three friends the next day in the smoking area outside school property, or any other forum where one might have some expectation of privacy), newspapers pick up the story and publish the daughter's bogus account, and the mother, just to be sure the kid hasn't caught sight of a decent value in the whole process, sues the newspapers.
And as a chart-topper, /. engages in a dialogue on the responsibilities of newspapers, fer chrissakes, rather than parents.
I like http://www.avast.com/ quite a bit.
I'll second this endorsement. I wanted out of the AVG v8 Linkscanner business even before the public outcry - on my Mother's somewhat underpowered desktop (she didn't know it was underpowered, but thought I had set her up with a new spanky machine - thanks AVG) it slowed the user browsing experience significantly, as well as kicking the shit out of her DSL-lite connection, which is already somewhat strained when streaming video and similar activities.
So I installed Avast on one of my desktops, and it works pretty well, once you turn off the sound effects which give you such treats as a really macho voice telling you a new update has been installed. The only issue for me was that the free version - as far as I've found - doesn't support scheduling drive scans, but rather supports a scan on boot. You need the Pro version for the anytime scheduling capability.
You can work around this by using the Avast Quickscanner and the Windows Scheduler. There's a good Howto on this on Avast forums at http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=3796.
The dropped the scroll wheel on the side that made the old blackberries have such a (in my mind) LEGENDARY interface. Honestly that was one of the best interfaces i have EVER used. They dropped it for a stupid trackball that, while pretty, is all but useless unless you use two hands to operate the phone.
I liked my 7520 too, and I agree with your comments about key size, etc. But I'm surprised by your comments about the trackball. I was more than ready to hate the trackball when I got my 8830, but surprise, I liked it more than the scroll wheel. It balances better in my hand, as the point of balance is centred on the trackball, rather than over to the right as it was with the scroll wheel.
I'm not very confident about the durability of the trackball, though. I've had it stop tracking in one or more directions twice. Turns out that a little spit and rotation gets the grit in the trackball out of the way, and you're good to go again. I suspect that over time this will become a bigger problem, as grit seems to get into the mechanism easily, and there is no complete way to clean it (remember that mouseballs used to have this problem, but you could take them apart and give them a through cleaning, which you can't with the 8830 trackball).
Your comment about the screen recessing on the 7520 points to an issue with the 8830 - the screen is *not* recessed, and mine was getting pretty scuffed up after four months use.
I had my first 8830 replaced under warranty after the keyboard went berserk. Keys started to fail, and then start working again, while other keys started to fail at the same time. It was like the problem was circulating through my keyboard; it did make life exciting though, as you found out what keys weren't working on a particular day. The biggest problem was when the Alt key and Del key weren't working at the same time. My PIN had numbers in it, which made it impossible to unlock.
Overall, I don't think that the 8830 has the durability of the 7520, and even though I do like the trackball, I don't think it is going to last in service. I never had any issue with the scroll wheel.
They date from the Macintosh development days, but the stories on http://folklore.org/ give the impression that guys like Andy Hertzfeld were driven crazy by Jobs, but would still follow him to hell and back.
For recognition, how's getting to sign the case mould for the Macintosh? How much salary would you give up for that?
Grist for the mill anyway. The man is a slave driver, an egomaniac who steals your ideas and presents them back to you as his own and apparently possesses a Reality Distortion Field , but people love the experience of working with him.
I don't know of any way of measuring the total value of Nigerian scams, but as noted in the quote, it seems that it is profitable; scammers keep playing the game, so it must be working for them to some extent.
Scambusters says $100 million to $200 million a year http://www.scambusters.org/nigerian-scams.html with no detail on the calculation.
Has anyone ever seen a serious attempt to monetarily quantify Internet-based Nigerian fraud type activity?
The entry page used in the video demo was http:. There was no indicator (that I could see) that the login process was secured in that http: page. Maybe there is an indicator and I'm just looking in the wrong place because of my limited exposure to Firefox in an OSX environment.
If not, is there any reason that an html-based authentication process not by secured by SSL (i.e. https) in this day and age? The other day I used a yahoo.ca account that I've kept around for years as a throwaway address, and I saw that yahoo has, somewhere in the no so distant past, secured login to their mail service. This was after years of having it default to http, though. Post login, your session reverts to hhtp.
Gmail was similar - by default the auth was secured but the session wasn't, unless you logged in via a particular URL. I'm not sure what the current status is, as the CustomizeGoogle plugin has an option to force https for all gmail activities.
My long-winded point is that all auth processes and data in associated sessions should be forced to https. Why does tilestack.com not do so? It doesn't exactly inspire faith in their attention to detail.
That being said, the whole idea looks pretty cool. Anyone got a non-trivial HyperCard stack out there that can put tilestack.com through its paces?
Steve Jobs seems to agree.
Speaking for myself (and I've acted as a hiring manager on dozens of interviews, but less than a hundred) I use references for one reason: to investigate a behaviour(s) I have concern about as a result of something said or not said in the interview. This includes further discussion on specific behavioural answers given.
In my experience, you've got a pretty good handle on whether you're interested pretty quickly in the interview, particularly from an expertise perspective (if not, then your interview is crap). However, there are people out there who are *experts* at interviewing, and their interview answers may not align with their actual behaviours in the job. So the reference check is an opportunity to ask specific questions of a previous employer that will tell you whether the individual in the job acts similar to the individual in the interview.
This approach also allows the reference to give a meaningful reference without incurring any possibility of litigation ('you gave me a shitty reference - I'm suing!' behaviour)
BTW, I am Canadian, interviewing in Canada. Whether this is indeed a characteristic of the overall Canadian job hunting scene , I can't say.
Good luck, mate!
Pete Best is the drummer in question. Georgie Best was England's greatest football player.
How fsck'ing stupid can you get, not proofreading an IQ test?
And I'm a Canadian - what the hell do I know about *soccer*? /ducks
Different Blackberry models have different keyboards. To call the iPhone keyboard inferior for text entry as compared to a Blackberry is to ignore the different performance characteristics of different Blackberry keyboards.
I'm on my third B/B (7250, 7280, 8830) and of the three the current keyboard - on the 8830 - is the best for me. But I know people at work for whom this isn't the case, the particular bevelling of the 8830's keyboard hindering them rather then helping.
I have limited typing exposure to the iPhone, but a tonne of Blackberry keyboard time under my belt, some good, some significantly worse.
Note that the B/B Pearl is an entirely different beast, and if you're comparing residential (i.e. non-commercial/business) market phones, you'd could arguably end using the Pearl as RIM's entry.
I've yet to see a truly comprehensive test of keyboard usability across smartphones. Here's an individual who seems to do pretty well on both a B/B (a 7250?) and an iPhone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsUPYmUzYXA&feature=related.
I am not a Harry Potter aficionado. I've never read a book in the series. This topic has been sufficiently raked over the coals from a legal perspective by people who know better than me.
I do know that derivation is one source of creativity. It's a tricky source - get too formulaic + too derivative while writing a song or a story, and it can bomb out the original idea.
This can even be true for authoring or reading /. posts. Most days, my eyes roll on the classic 1.xxxx 2.yyyy 3.??? 4.Profit!, but every once in a while, i"m knee slapping from the gut up.
Derivative works *can* be nothing but a cultural drag/dupe. However, they also can be a support for the interested reader, an impetus for a whole 'culture of xxx' thing that creates a previously unimagined phenomena.
I read the lexicon site for a while tonight. It's pretty damn cool (but I like that sort of thing (shameless plug for Simon Winchester and the OED).
I don't care how much money Rowling has already made - meaningless to me. I only care that she made the characters and settings up should someone appropriate the characters for the writing of another fictional story in a similar setting.
However, a work which slices and dices the facts, foibles & follies of an existing fictional story must, by definition, overlap the detail and content of the original work. That's what it is all *about*.
More importantly, it affords an opportunity for the author's work to step out front of the cultural curtain and make their work not just a story, but a view into the cultural details of our present-day world. Foolish to skip out on that one ...
Rolwings is missing a major opportunity here, perhaps on the bad advice of a lawyer obliged, by a crappy IP law landscape, to offer a good legal interpretation. Major bummer, but at the end of the day she's the one making the money call rather than the cultural call.
Still great!
http://www.campchaos.com/blog-archives/2006/05/napster_bad.htmlTell people you're having a party, serve lots of booze ...
And the rest follows by induction!
Thanks Colonel. I'd forgotten about this gem - had to go snag it just now to remind myself. Tim Clarke's description of the method he used in this demo of a Martian terrain can be found in the thread at http://www.whisqu.se/per/docs/math37.htm .
Well worth a few minutes reading. And the bonus of a Catch-22 reference in the parent post to boot!
From the advisory:
If the optional HP USB Floppy Drive Key has been used in an environment without current (up-to-date) anti-virus software then the W32.Fakerecy or W32.SillyFDC virus may have spread to any mapped drives on the server. In this case HP recommends that the server and mapped drives are scanned with current (up-to-date) anti-virus software.Does HP actually think that a potentially worm-infected server should be a/v scanned and (possibly) cleaned, and that's the end of it? That's beyond dumb; any production server so exposed requires a bare-metal rebuild. In the absence of a tripwire-esque delta, you have no understanding of the state of the server installation after undergoing an infect/clean cycle, and there's no way that box should be left in production in that state.
Pinkley: Where you from, son?
Soldier: Madison City, Missouri, Sir!
Pinkley: [Shakes head] Neeever heard of it ...
This is a really interesting case, in that the U.S. is using a related WTO ruling on this matter to ignore the NAFTA Extraordinary Challenge Committee (ECC) ruling. So, WTO rulings are welcomed on one hand, and ignored on another.
http://www.ictsd.org/weekly/05-09-07/story4.htmThis approach makes it pretty hard to deny assertions that trans-national trade agreements are welcome in the United States, as long as they are favourable; if not, fsck them. This isn't free trade, it is using free trade as a means to remove trade restrictions viewed as punitive or restrictive against U.S. trade.
In my experience, this speaks directly to opposition in Canada against free trade agreements. The folks I argue out the problems of the world over scotch and beer with are not so much against free trade, but rather are skeptical as to whether 'free' has bi-directional meaning in practise.
I can't match that chestnut. Uncle.
Can we get 'watery' in there, and maybe 'moistened bink'?
Come to think of it, 'supreme executive power' == MS, Arthur == Gates/Balmer, the Lady of the Lake holding forth Excalibur == Jobs offering up the GUI, the autonomous collective == Novell, ... err scratch autonomous.
And Dennis deserves better than Miguel anyway. Rewind ... Uncle.
I can't touch base with this. Novell's death watch has been on so long it reminds me of 'imminent death of net predicated' Metcalfe-style comments. Novell's 2007 fourth quarter results (Note: PDF) reported a net income of $245 million, around $10 million more than the same quarter the year before.
No juggernaut, but Yahoo Finance reports a market cap of $USD 2.19 billion.
Gone are the giddyup days when Novell owned the NOS market, but Novell keeps on cranking out software products for a remarkably loyal user base. When you contrast Novell's braindead marketing with Microsoft's predatory marketing machine, it's amazing Novell is even alive, let alone a stable, profit-generating company.
e-Directory is a mature, scalable and stable enterprise directory product. The ZEN family of products is pretty cool. They've almost finished up removing e-Directory dependencies from their apps line in favour of full-feature LDAP interfaces, and they still sell enough Groupwise licenses - but I'll give you than one, because there is no excuse for that.
Netware is dead, but they know it, and they've got two solutions for replacement (OES2 and SLES), but their apps line isn't even tied to those solutions. So they've got a bit of coming and going there.
I think Novell hasn't done badly, given Microsoft's outright attempts to fsck them (most recently screwing their desktop management product line via Vista). *Plus*, they've held the line on SCO, even if they didn't know what they were doing at the time and it was all an accident, which is all quite possible.
Their great blemish in this community is the deal with the MS devil, and I can't find anything good about that, although, as other posters have noted, the bean-counters probably have a different view on that, to wit the cash.
Our view of Novell on /. - which I share in spirit and some of the details - doesn't mean they're going away anytime soon. My 2 cents worth, anyway ...YMMV.
So, the bot-operator sits on the Board of the daycare which occupies part of the footprint in question. He doesn't own it. Homeless people are lumped in with drug dealers. He admits to firing the bot's water cannon at 'extremely stubborn' people.
BTW, the 'bot is *not* autonomous as claimed in an earlier comment; the guy is pulling the switch.
Where I come from (which is admittedly not Atlanta or anywhere near there, as indicated by the audio transcription above) firing a water cannon at someone is assault, hassling dope dealers setting up shop in your neighbourhood with a 'bot is really freaking cool, and treating the homeless the same as dope dealers (lifestyle and intention overlaps notwithstanding) is a recipe for escalating social dysfunction.
I admire Mr. Terrill for taking a stand, and doing so with a geek gadget ups his score. I do not understand the lack of differentiation (in both the video report and this thread) between a homeless man and a Misery Merchant. How is it this is not even on the radar?
I suspect I might be on the cusp of a hearty karma smackdown, but WTF?