If Colorado simply required a state ID for purchasers that would seem to mute the issue. Purchases by out of state people would be illegal like anywhere else and CO would have done nothing to impact NE and OK. Of course, we tourists would be infuriated and might try our own suit claiming unfair impact.
I logged on in the early days of October to disastrous effect. After multiple attempts and cache clearings I was able to register but could not progress very far. Now I am able to pull up and edit my application with no "serious" glitches. The site still throws up poorly designed pages, imposes goofy requirements, and loads slower than would be optimal. It does, however, appear to get the job done which is what counts in a critcal government service. Unfortunately, I don't actually qualify for ACA coverage so I was not able to test the critical identity verification process.
The above lead says the new drug "will extend the average human life span to 150," the article says it "can slow the aging process...raising the prospect of people eventually living to 150 or more." Big difference. We can't cure common diseases yet we expect the average person to gracefully live another 70 years? Good luck with that.
Someone who did the checks Patrick made could write to the IT staff describing everything he did in hypothetical terms: "it looks like it might be possible for me to increment the number and download other account holders' statements. In fact it looks like I might be able to run the following linux bash script and download hundreds of statements... If you try this script and validate my concerns, ideally the pillar website should generate some kind of hash (such as member ID + unique salt = 'documentId') instead of a direct object reference. See:...Please let me know what you find. If my fears are validated I would hate to see this vulnerability appear on public sites thus jeopardizing my information."
This thread sure brings back memories. I spent a couple of summers in the 60s as an assistant to the Chicago schools photographer. I loved shooting the Graphlex 4x5s but the high volume darkroom work was a serious PITA.. I am not aware of any 4x5 digital backs but marrying one of those old cameras to the digital world would certainly be fun.
You don't need expensive equipment to do some wonderful astrophotography. The FOSS community has developed a marvelous toolbox. Take a look at what my daughter did with a home made 6 " Dobsonian coupled with a 10 quickcam, and free AstroStack software: http://www.heffernans.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=AstroPhotos
You should join the Yahoo Group: Quick Cam and Unconventional Imaging Astronomy Group ti see incredible efforts and technical support: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/QCUIAG/
Also, for a great free planetary program try the excellent Cartes Du Ciel (Star Charts). It has much that you would get in a several hundred dollar commercial program. Save your bucks until you find out whether this is truly your thing. It is at:http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/
If you did not sign a non-compete agreement you should ask your attorney about whether a counter suit might be in order. It sounds like you firm is using a frivolous law suit to intimidate your new employer, you, and your co-workers. As to notice, you owe no obligation to give any notice, let alone more than two weeks. Think about it - did they give you two weeks notice before escorting you out the door? If I was a co-worker and witnessed that behavior I would not give any notice when I was ready to leave.
That was my question when I read the article. I believe we would be hearing a lot more buzz if a photon actually traveled at less that the speed of light - C is still a constant. When light travels through material like glass (or Ceisium gas) a single photon doesn't "slow down," "bend," or the like. A single photon excites an electron in an atom of the substance causing it to make a "quantum leap." That electron later drops back down to a lower shell releasing another photon. The "slowdown" is in the nature of the exchange. The interesting thing about the article is that they were able to use this process to create a sort of buffer that could be put to effective use.
I have been using Linux since about 1997 and still consider myself a noob in many ways. I am an old retired guy. My everyday PC runs XP. I use Linux to run a Web server, a file and print server and to learn things (all on a home network). But I have only used Red Hat, Fedora, and more recently Ubuntu. I read the F'ing manuals and generally get things done myself, but I also get frustrated and post questions in OS forums (initially in RH, later in Fedora, recently in Ubuntu). I also posted a lot of questions in application specific forums (snort, nessus, gallery, samba, apache). Sometimes my questions indicate the extensive - if flawed - research I did. But other times I have posted truly dumb questions before I really gave the problem much of a try. I always got very positive, helpful responses. I can't remember getting a rude reply and I must have posted a hundred or more questions. Is rudeness a distro thing?
You discover your husband abusing your three year old daughter. You have no proof and have been getting psychotherapy. You flee with your daughter. Now imagine that husband is a highly respected law enforcement officer. Better ditch the car until you get a false identity. Oh wait, the identity broker was busted on the freeway...
I agree with this post on several counts. I am an example of the non-technical manager brought into IT in the mid nineties because the IT staff needed some management professionals to manage them. I was the HR manager prior to my move. Luckily for my staff, I was an HR manager who was bitten by the Internet bug (I had a web site in 94 and started running Linux in 96). Within a few years I was considered the most tech savvy senior level IT manager in the agency. I found that rather shocking, but it was probably true. Very few of the top staff new anything about the technology.
There also continues to be a widespread perception that IT geeks are not people people, but I liked my IT staff (in several organizations) much more than the typical business line staff. There is a much higer proportion of IT employees who are truly "into" the work they do. And at least a typical proportion that have all the native talent needed to be effective managers.
Many companies require external IT security audits as part of their financial controls. I used to routinely do my own assessments since it was a useful way to police my infrastructure (used to becasue I retired). The auditors rarely uncovered anything significant since we had already corrected the vulnerabilities. We were aware of and ready to explain the routine false positives as well as the low level "vulnerabilities" that we wanted for one reason or another or were not concnerned about.
As a former CIO (recently retired) and before that HR director I have to strongly second this post. Plan your exits sensibly - you shouldn't wait until you find yourself dreading Monday morning. And never trash your former employer. Did you ever date someone who constantly trashed her (or his) former spouse? How warm and fuzzy did that make you feel about your future as a couple?
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The very question is irritating. Why would someone NOT use GIMP, a well featured, free, graphics program, just because it doesn't have all the features of a very expensive commercial offering. All serious graphic artists know that PS is the gold standard. But very few of us are professional graphic artists.
I love to fiddle around with photo manipulations and I love to draw on a graphics tablet. I use GIMP frequently, and PhotoShop Elements (it came free with a printer) to mess around with photos and text. When I want to draw I use Painter 8, a program that has features for drawing that you can't match in PS, but for a fraction of the price.
If the claim turns out to be true it will not lower the tensions over embryonic cells, it will exacerbate them. It is well settled that embryonic stem cells are much more flexible and useful than adult stem cells cited in the report. If it turns out such a breakthrough was achieved with limited adult cells, think how much could be done with more capable embryonic cells. The "speculation" that embryonic research may lead to cures for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and paralysis would quickly become a perceived certainty. The pressure to accelerate research with embryonic cells would increase dramatically. Too bad the claim will probably turn out to be false.
Darn - I didn't know all this was going on in the background. Who is who here? I use yum against fedora.us to keep updated and it *seems* to work well. But they sound pretty confused and fed up on IRC:-) Am I safer (from a vulnerability perspective) in updating from fedora.redhat.com?
Come on people, commercial entities are not going to use RFIDs for the exotic custom tracking everyone seems to be afraid of. You build these systems. Think of the complexity and cost to track things across multiple supply chains. There won't be enough ROI to bother tracking your underwear past the front door my lifetime. NSA might love to track us all but they can't do it unless the commercial sector sees enough value to build and interconnect the systems and that is just not going to happen in the forseeable future.
That is not uncommon in a reimburseable agency like USPTO. They are not in it to make a profit. In fact, they can't retain earnings. Excess funds go back to the treasury and reduce the debt. It is very difficult for OMB or the Hill to do anything specific with funds like that because they can rarely find a way to identify them in advance with any certainty (there are some recent exceptions). USPTO very likely sets its rates at a level that will more than cover their needs so they don't go in the hole.
In saying all this, I am assuming that USPTO's total revenues are in the several $billion range. If they return $100M on revenues of a billion or less - they are doing a piss poor job.
Profit Center? The USPTO collects money to defray its costs:
"All fees available to the Director under section 31 of the Trademark Act of 1946 shall be used only for the processing of trademark registrations and for other activities, services and materials relating to trademarks and to cover a proportionate share of the administrative costs of the Patent and Trademark Office."
It may be doing a lousy job of it, but it ain't no IRS.
What does it (Optiview Workgroup Analyzer) do that makes it worth $25k vs Ethereal for free? For someone with a small network does it add significant value? Finally, is this the sort of tool a large organization could buy one of and loan to staff that need to go where Ethereal can't go?
Deception Point already did this story (NASA discovers metorite under the ice with extraterrestrial fossils). I don't want to spoil the plot but suffice it to say there is a lot of deception and conspiring go on. We better look pretty closely to be sure this isn't really a man-made lake.
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If Colorado simply required a state ID for purchasers that would seem to mute the issue. Purchases by out of state people would be illegal like anywhere else and CO would have done nothing to impact NE and OK. Of course, we tourists would be infuriated and might try our own suit claiming unfair impact.
I logged on in the early days of October to disastrous effect. After multiple attempts and cache clearings I was able to register but could not progress very far. Now I am able to pull up and edit my application with no "serious" glitches. The site still throws up poorly designed pages, imposes goofy requirements, and loads slower than would be optimal. It does, however, appear to get the job done which is what counts in a critcal government service. Unfortunately, I don't actually qualify for ACA coverage so I was not able to test the critical identity verification process.
The above lead says the new drug "will extend the average human life span to 150," the article says it "can slow the aging process...raising the prospect of people eventually living to 150 or more." Big difference. We can't cure common diseases yet we expect the average person to gracefully live another 70 years? Good luck with that.
Someone who did the checks Patrick made could write to the IT staff describing everything he did in hypothetical terms: "it looks like it might be possible for me to increment the number and download other account holders' statements. In fact it looks like I might be able to run the following linux bash script and download hundreds of statements... If you try this script and validate my concerns, ideally the pillar website should generate some kind of hash (such as member ID + unique salt = 'documentId') instead of a direct object reference. See:...Please let me know what you find. If my fears are validated I would hate to see this vulnerability appear on public sites thus jeopardizing my information."
This thread sure brings back memories. I spent a couple of summers in the 60s as an assistant to the Chicago schools photographer. I loved shooting the Graphlex 4x5s but the high volume darkroom work was a serious PITA.. I am not aware of any 4x5 digital backs but marrying one of those old cameras to the digital world would certainly be fun.
You don't need expensive equipment to do some wonderful astrophotography. The FOSS community has developed a marvelous toolbox. Take a look at what my daughter did with a home made 6 " Dobsonian coupled with a 10 quickcam, and free AstroStack software: http://www.heffernans.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=AstroPhotos
You should join the Yahoo Group: Quick Cam and Unconventional Imaging Astronomy Group ti see incredible efforts and technical support: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/QCUIAG/
Also, for a great free planetary program try the excellent Cartes Du Ciel (Star Charts). It has much that you would get in a several hundred dollar commercial program. Save your bucks until you find out whether this is truly your thing. It is at:http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/
If you did not sign a non-compete agreement you should ask your attorney about whether a counter suit might be in order. It sounds like you firm is using a frivolous law suit to intimidate your new employer, you, and your co-workers. As to notice, you owe no obligation to give any notice, let alone more than two weeks. Think about it - did they give you two weeks notice before escorting you out the door? If I was a co-worker and witnessed that behavior I would not give any notice when I was ready to leave.
That was my question when I read the article. I believe we would be hearing a lot more buzz if a photon actually traveled at less that the speed of light - C is still a constant. When light travels through material like glass (or Ceisium gas) a single photon doesn't "slow down," "bend," or the like. A single photon excites an electron in an atom of the substance causing it to make a "quantum leap." That electron later drops back down to a lower shell releasing another photon. The "slowdown" is in the nature of the exchange. The interesting thing about the article is that they were able to use this process to create a sort of buffer that could be put to effective use.
I have been using Linux since about 1997 and still consider myself a noob in many ways. I am an old retired guy. My everyday PC runs XP. I use Linux to run a Web server, a file and print server and to learn things (all on a home network). But I have only used Red Hat, Fedora, and more recently Ubuntu. I read the F'ing manuals and generally get things done myself, but I also get frustrated and post questions in OS forums (initially in RH, later in Fedora, recently in Ubuntu). I also posted a lot of questions in application specific forums (snort, nessus, gallery, samba, apache). Sometimes my questions indicate the extensive - if flawed - research I did. But other times I have posted truly dumb questions before I really gave the problem much of a try. I always got very positive, helpful responses. I can't remember getting a rude reply and I must have posted a hundred or more questions. Is rudeness a distro thing?
Finally, the test results are in.
You discover your husband abusing your three year old daughter. You have no proof and have been getting psychotherapy. You flee with your daughter. Now imagine that husband is a highly respected law enforcement officer. Better ditch the car until you get a false identity. Oh wait, the identity broker was busted on the freeway...
I agree with this post on several counts. I am an example of the non-technical manager brought into IT in the mid nineties because the IT staff needed some management professionals to manage them. I was the HR manager prior to my move. Luckily for my staff, I was an HR manager who was bitten by the Internet bug (I had a web site in 94 and started running Linux in 96). Within a few years I was considered the most tech savvy senior level IT manager in the agency. I found that rather shocking, but it was probably true. Very few of the top staff new anything about the technology.
There also continues to be a widespread perception that IT geeks are not people people, but I liked my IT staff (in several organizations) much more than the typical business line staff. There is a much higer proportion of IT employees who are truly "into" the work they do. And at least a typical proportion that have all the native talent needed to be effective managers.
Don
Many companies require external IT security audits as part of their financial controls. I used to routinely do my own assessments since it was a useful way to police my infrastructure (used to becasue I retired). The auditors rarely uncovered anything significant since we had already corrected the vulnerabilities. We were aware of and ready to explain the routine false positives as well as the low level "vulnerabilities" that we wanted for one reason or another or were not concnerned about.
Don
As a former CIO (recently retired) and before that HR director I have to strongly second this post. Plan your exits sensibly - you shouldn't wait until you find yourself dreading Monday morning. And never trash your former employer. Did you ever date someone who constantly trashed her (or his) former spouse? How warm and fuzzy did that make you feel about your future as a couple?
The very question is irritating. Why would someone NOT use GIMP, a well featured, free, graphics program, just because it doesn't have all the features of a very expensive commercial offering. All serious graphic artists know that PS is the gold standard. But very few of us are professional graphic artists.
I love to fiddle around with photo manipulations and I love to draw on a graphics tablet. I use GIMP frequently, and PhotoShop Elements (it came free with a printer) to mess around with photos and text. When I want to draw I use Painter 8, a program that has features for drawing that you can't match in PS, but for a fraction of the price.
Get the tool you need for what you want to do.
If the claim turns out to be true it will not lower the tensions over embryonic cells, it will exacerbate them. It is well settled that embryonic stem cells are much more flexible and useful than adult stem cells cited in the report. If it turns out such a breakthrough was achieved with limited adult cells, think how much could be done with more capable embryonic cells. The "speculation" that embryonic research may lead to cures for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and paralysis would quickly become a perceived certainty. The pressure to accelerate research with embryonic cells would increase dramatically. Too bad the claim will probably turn out to be false.
"-- I remember hearing some people post that "Python sucked" ...and now it's one of my most useful productivity tools..."
Hmmm, could this nugget be the real reason for the post?
Darn - I didn't know all this was going on in the background. Who is who here? I use yum against fedora.us to keep updated and it *seems* to work well. But they sound pretty confused and fed up on IRC :-) Am I safer (from a vulnerability perspective) in updating from fedora.redhat.com?
Come on people, commercial entities are not going to use RFIDs for the exotic custom tracking everyone seems to be afraid of. You build these systems. Think of the complexity and cost to track things across multiple supply chains. There won't be enough ROI to bother tracking your underwear past the front door my lifetime. NSA might love to track us all but they can't do it unless the commercial sector sees enough value to build and interconnect the systems and that is just not going to happen in the forseeable future.
That is not uncommon in a reimburseable agency like USPTO. They are not in it to make a profit. In fact, they can't retain earnings. Excess funds go back to the treasury and reduce the debt. It is very difficult for OMB or the Hill to do anything specific with funds like that because they can rarely find a way to identify them in advance with any certainty (there are some recent exceptions). USPTO very likely sets its rates at a level that will more than cover their needs so they don't go in the hole.
In saying all this, I am assuming that USPTO's total revenues are in the several $billion range. If they return $100M on revenues of a billion or less - they are doing a piss poor job.
Profit Center? The USPTO collects money to defray its costs:
"All fees available to the Director under section 31 of the Trademark Act of 1946 shall be used only for the processing of trademark registrations and for other activities, services and materials relating to trademarks and to cover a proportionate share of the administrative costs of the Patent and Trademark Office."
It may be doing a lousy job of it, but it ain't no IRS.
What does it (Optiview Workgroup Analyzer) do that makes it worth $25k vs Ethereal for free? For someone with a small network does it add significant value? Finally, is this the sort of tool a large organization could buy one of and loan to staff that need to go where Ethereal can't go?
Modded Informative? I guess I blew that comment, I meant it to be funny. Maybe I should have mentioned the black helicopters.
Deception Point already did this story (NASA discovers metorite under the ice with extraterrestrial fossils). I don't want to spoil the plot but suffice it to say there is a lot of deception and conspiring go on. We better look pretty closely to be sure this isn't really a man-made lake.
We have a special program for people oppressed by repressive regimes - Asylum.