``Is it more likely that the people running these things have failed at security and actually been ripped off?''
What if the people running these things haven't failed at security but have been using security tools that have been compromised (by you know who) and that have been bypassed by the ``thieves''? As to who might want these operations to fail? Some would say ``governments'' but I'm thinking more along the lines of major banks (working in conjunction with governments). Now we might just have the makings of a nifty conspiracy theory.
Brew the pot of coffee, fill up your travel mug, and put the rest in a thermos. You can take it to work to share with a co-worker or have a second or third cup yourself. I found that the coffee I brewed myself and took to the office always tasted better than the drek they sold for an extortionate price down in the cafeteria. Even worse, they switched to Starbucks. [gag]
Sorry, Keurig... I've tried your coffee and didn't like it. Didn't care for the non-biodegradable waste, either.
... when I kept an emergency DOS boot floppy I would have included a smallish text editor like 'edlin' and a hex editor (for editing binaries, screwed up wordperfect files, etc.). Later on I replaced 'edlin' with 'point', a nifty editor that came with Logitech's mice that could edit files of any size that would fit in memory. Probably not exactly what the OP was asking about but those were my go-to tools back in those days.
Nowadays, I try and install Emacs (yes, vi is everywhere but I started out with the Perfect suite on DOS and then microemacs on Coherent so Emacs key bindings are permanently burned into my brain and if I'm going to be working on something all day, I find Emacs to be more useful), PostgreSQL, a slew of Perl modules, rcs, make, and R. Yeah, yeah... a C compiler is required for the Perl modules so I'll want that on at least one system. If I have the space I'll toss TeX (and a couple of closely related -- for me at least -- tools like ps2pdf, etc.) on my primary system so I can pound out documentation, especially for things that change fairly often (MS Office and LibreOffice drive me crazy). I use rcs for tracking changes in those.tex files; don't need anything heavier than that. Even if I'm stuck on a Windows system, I'll be downloading Cygwin and including those tools.
I will likely never buy an Apple product, I would like to shake Cook's hand for the way he pushed back against the NCPPR. It's about time these "Profits Uber Alles!" twits got their behinds handed to them.
Of course, who wants to bet on how long it is before the NCPPR begins pushing for a shareholder proposal to have Cook removed as CEO? "How dare he waste money that we could be squirreling away in our offshore accounts on that dirty, hippie stuff like Green Initiatives?"
``This physical level of hostility is unusual, but discomfort with Glass is common, especially among those who don't understand how it works. Given that much more hidden spy cameras are available for far less than the $1500 cost of Glass, what will it take for general acceptance to finally take hold?''
Discomfort is common because people are damned sick and tired of being filmed everywhere they go. I'm not all that familiar with Glass (not even remotely interested in owning something like that, especially since I already wear glasses and can't see how the device would even work for someone who needs corrective lenses) but if it doesn't have a bright red LED blinking whenever the camera is on it ought to. Glass owners might appreciate that, too, so that they can (hopefully) avoid getting punched out when wearing their expensive toy.
BTW, the way that final question was worded makes it sound like there's some discrimination against Google Glass wearers that us philistines who don't want to be on camera 24x7 have to get over. The vast, vast majority of people on the street, in bars, in stores, etc are not celebrities, politicians, or other public figures and should be afforded privacy. Filming or photographing strangers in public used to require a model release form. (If it no longer does, I can easily see laws reinstating that requirement being passed soon.) You don't give up your right to some privacy just because you step out of your house just because a CEO from an Internet company says so.
Now... let the flames from the Google Glass fanboyz begin...
... is now complete. Or is there anything else the government thinks they need? If so, surely they won't have any trouble getting Scalia and company to make up something else they think they see in the Constitution.
Oh yeah, I trust Forbes to be completely unbiased in all aspects of this story. How long to you think a story that featured the anti-fracking aspect of this situation would last in an editorial meeting? Forbes has advertisers that would be on the phone and screaming bloody murder within a microsecond of such a story appearing.
It wouldn't, for example, prevent anyone from cheating by doing some browsing at the local coffee shop to find the cheats and then coming home to play games on the desktop system at home.
Are you suggesting that the reason that the video store went under was because its patrons were unable to rent Monster-In-Law? (Part of me thinks the failure to return that video was a public service.)
Yeah... I think a lot of people are overlooking that exchange in the email where CR would provide attribution of his photos, etc. Having failed to do that, they (CR) may not be in violation of Jackson's copyright but it seems to me (as a non-lawyer) that there's still a clear contractual violation in the way CR chose to use his photos.
I think Color Run needs to admit they screwed up and, at the very least, pull all of their marketing materials and replace them with versions that provide the byline that Jackson was asking for. Failure to do that just makes CR look really, really dickish. And as a runner, I'd never toe up to any starting line that they had anything to do with.
Who decides which degree has more value to society? It sounds like you think some board should decide which degrees are going to be subsidized by the tax. But later on you mention The Market which, frankly, has sucked as a mechanism for steering people into the kinds of study that are supposedly needed. Part of your argument reminds me a lot of what I used to hear from people who no longer have kids in the school system complaining about their property taxes going up because a new school was needed. I support the local schools with my taxes because I don't want a bunch of kids growing up in our town with no future. I support the arts because they make society a better place to live. Geez... just imagine... an engineer having to support the education of a non-engineer? The horror! If you want to earmark funds to help educate the next generation of engineers, create a scholarship fund at your alma mater for a deserving undergraduate engineering student.
At one time, a college education was, or was almost, free. How did we do it? Well, for one we taxed corporations far higher than we do now. We also had an income tax rate was much higher at the higher income levels, we didn't have to waste money supporting a gigantic military that we used to police the entire planet. (Imagine what could be done with the $100B/year that's being thrown down the rat hole that is Afghanistan?) I'm willing to bet that the writer at Forbes never had to worry about how to pay for his higher education nor did he have to defer buying a house, or having children, because he was saddled with years of college loan payments. Or a tax on his post-gradate income. It's easy to suggest that new graduates pay an extra tax for their education when you've never had to do it yourself. The whole concept reminds me of another argument for people to "have more skin in the game" for whatever reason the staff at Forbes thinks will save those more well off from having pay higher taxes.
And don't get me started on why using colleges and universities as vocational training grounds for corporations is the wrong way to be using higher education. I just visited a college book store this past weekend and took a look at what texts were being used for the CS courses. It looked like the school thought that a CS education meant Microsoft Office and developer training. I should take a closer look at their web site; maybe their CS degree comes with a Microsoft certification. Thank $DIETY my daughters aren't interesting in CS; I'd likely forbid them from attending any school that thought teaching students how to use the latest Office and Visual tools constitutes a college-level computer science education and steer them to a local community college's computer curriculum if all they wanted was to learn something that makes them employable for a few years.
I can see why they might be concerned about the returns costs even if that's what they're doing.
I ordered an IT book a couple of months ago and Amazon keeps sending me emails about other stuff I might be interested. I shudder to think how in the world they think that shipping another book on object oriented assembly language (kidding... that's not what I ordered) to the local shipping depot is going to be all that good for Amazon even if there was someone in my immediate vicinity that wanted to order such an item. Same goes for the CD I ordered from them a while back. It was from an artist that's rather obscure and I can't imagine too many others who'd be ordering the same music. (Though it be nice to know there were like-minded music listeners nearby. But please dear $DIETY, let's not get Amazon into the business of disseminating that sort of information; we all have enough trouble maintaining what little privacy we still have.)
For the things I might order from Amazon, I can't see how this shipping practice is going to keep me from going out and buying it at a local shop. Amazon's already killed off 99% of the local bookstores and music stores making Amazon the only place to order those items. As for the expensive items like big screen TVs and the like... why on earth, given the videos we've all seen with delivery drivers tossing electronics over fences and damaging them, would anyone buy something like that from any place other than a local store that delivers it themselves?
``Of course, Amazon's algorithms might sometimes err, prompting costly returns.''
Has the law changed? At one time, if a company sent you something you didn't order, is was within your rights to merely keep it.
I will be charging Amazon a ``handling'' charge if they want to insist on me returning an item they shipped to me that I didn't order. My time and fuel costs for driving the item to a UPS store for the return are going to be compensated for.
IANAL but I doubt there's anything in trademark law that would allow the Nagios team to appropriate the work of the Nagios Plugin team wholesale the way they did and merely change the name of the team members. While I hate the term, this looks like it could be a blatant example of ``intellectual property'' theft. Was the Nagios team unable to come up with their own wen site? Really? Rights to the domain name don't give you rights to the work that went into creating the plugin web site.
After having used it for 6-7 years, Nagios just went off my list of recommended monitoring tools. Icinga just moved to the top.
While I hate to comment on a grammatical post... I, too, am getting more than a little tired of seeing this misuse in a comment by someone who, otherwise, seems to have a good grasp of the English language. Whenever I see it, my respect for that poster's argument/comment drops by about 10dB. They may as well have posted in all caps.
My everyday keyboard is a Model M made in March '94. I'm about to replace it -- while I take it apart for a good cleaning -- with one made the month before. The one I have hanging off the KVM for the servers was made in Sept. '93. The suckers are darned indestructible. When people at work were dumping their desktops for laptops, I grabbed all the Model Ms I could lay my hands on. They're the only keyboards I like to use with the old Digital LK-series being a distant second (quiet and decent springiness in the keys but nothing like the IBMs).
``Move the Control(Ctrl) key back to it's rightfull place where CapsLock is...''
I always thought that the change in position of the Ctrl key is what killed off WordStar. It was painful to navigate within documents when you have to contort your hand to get your pinky on the repositioned Ctrl key.
The original IBM PC keyboard --- and most of the clones (say Keytronic) -- had all their function keys on the left-hand side. I recently ran across one of the WordPerfect function key overlays that slipped over those left-hand keys.
My beef with the Sun keyboards was the mushiness. Oh yeah,.. and the freakin' optical mouse. (I still have an Ultra60 with one of those.)
How much of that Congressional funding is earmarked to be used in purchasing by the schools on technology that will be obsolete before the students even graduate?
'We strongly encourage Congress to pass legislation that directs H-1B visa fees to enable underserved inner-city and rural schools to participate in FIRST,' Kamen testified. 'Specifically, these fees should support efforts to enable underserved inner-city and rural schools to participate in FIRST.'
Just like we were told that allowing the state to create lotteries was going to make all sorts of money available for the schools. If that were really the result, we wouldn't be seeing property tax increase referendums appearing on the local election ballots year after year.
Just like the fees that we were being charged by the phone company were going to be used for building high-speed internet access to rural areas.
When the hell will we learn to stop believing these liars? Whenever they trot out the ``think of the children'' argument you can be certain that the only thing they're really concerned with is their quarterly profits. The children -- along with the rest of us -- always get the shaft.
CBS seems to run more energy industry ads than any other network so it doesn't really surprise me to hear that they're running 60 Minutes segments that are hostile to something that threatens the incumbent energy companies. Tune in on Sunday morning and each and every commercial break has at least one ad from an energy-related (usually oil) company or from a group that lobbies for the energy industry. I stopped watching the talking heads on Sunday mornings because of the incessant energy sector ads that play over and over (and over and over) in an attempt to convince me that I should be thankful that energy companies are destroying the damned planet and are the greatest thing to happen to the American economy since the invention of money.
``And of course, the majority source of that money is ultra-leftwing environmental groups from? If you guessed the US, you won a cookie.''
So you don't think that us Americans have any interest at all in plans for the transportation of toxic tar sands across our land and aquifers? I'd be more riled up if American environmental groups were not supporting their counterparts in Canada.
They're not selling the raw material to China. They're shipping it to the Gulf coast where there are oil refineries and easy shipping to China. I imagine that the economic effect for Canada is about the same as it will be for the U.S.: our gas prices will increase once the tar sands begin getting turned into fuel for export. We get to deal with the ugly side effects of using the damned stuff (fouled water suppplies from spills, increases in cancer downwind from the refineries, etc.)
This has been in the news ever since the Keystone XL pipeline has been a controversy. Well, maybe not on the half-hour of entertainment that passes for the "news" nowadays. It could have been covered during one of those shows, though. Once. Between the sports segment and the cutesy "human interest" story that typically closes each broadcast.
Making it more difficult to access the environmental data that's in these libraries is, I strongly suspect, just a way to make it more difficult to slow or halt the increased use of the tar sands based on environmental reasons. Once the data that might be used in support of any attempt to shut production down is either destroyed or neatly tucked away in a locale that's more difficult to access, then the profits can more easily flow. (BTW, who else is betting that we're going to find that large swathes of this data are going to be found to not have been digitized as Harper's government is claiming?)
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What if the people running these things haven't failed at security but have been using security tools that have been compromised (by you know who) and that have been bypassed by the ``thieves''? As to who might want these operations to fail? Some would say ``governments'' but I'm thinking more along the lines of major banks (working in conjunction with governments). Now we might just have the makings of a nifty conspiracy theory.
Brew the pot of coffee, fill up your travel mug, and put the rest in a thermos. You can take it to work to share with a co-worker or have a second or third cup yourself. I found that the coffee I brewed myself and took to the office always tasted better than the drek they sold for an extortionate price down in the cafeteria. Even worse, they switched to Starbucks. [gag]
Sorry, Keurig... I've tried your coffee and didn't like it. Didn't care for the non-biodegradable waste, either.
... when I kept an emergency DOS boot floppy I would have included a smallish text editor like 'edlin' and a hex editor (for editing binaries, screwed up wordperfect files, etc.). Later on I replaced 'edlin' with 'point', a nifty editor that came with Logitech's mice that could edit files of any size that would fit in memory. Probably not exactly what the OP was asking about but those were my go-to tools back in those days.
Nowadays, I try and install Emacs (yes, vi is everywhere but I started out with the Perfect suite on DOS and then microemacs on Coherent so Emacs key bindings are permanently burned into my brain and if I'm going to be working on something all day, I find Emacs to be more useful), PostgreSQL, a slew of Perl modules, rcs, make, and R. Yeah, yeah... a C compiler is required for the Perl modules so I'll want that on at least one system. If I have the space I'll toss TeX (and a couple of closely related -- for me at least -- tools like ps2pdf, etc.) on my primary system so I can pound out documentation, especially for things that change fairly often (MS Office and LibreOffice drive me crazy). I use rcs for tracking changes in those .tex files; don't need anything heavier than that. Even if I'm stuck on a Windows system, I'll be downloading Cygwin and including those tools.
Now let the flames begin!
I will likely never buy an Apple product, I would like to shake Cook's hand for the way he pushed back against the NCPPR. It's about time these "Profits Uber Alles!" twits got their behinds handed to them.
Of course, who wants to bet on how long it is before the NCPPR begins pushing for a shareholder proposal to have Cook removed as CEO? "How dare he waste money that we could be squirreling away in our offshore accounts on that dirty, hippie stuff like Green Initiatives?"
have over the content of a web page not hosted on a Canadian server?
Or else what? Are they going to revoke her business license?
Discomfort is common because people are damned sick and tired of being filmed everywhere they go. I'm not all that familiar with Glass (not even remotely interested in owning something like that, especially since I already wear glasses and can't see how the device would even work for someone who needs corrective lenses) but if it doesn't have a bright red LED blinking whenever the camera is on it ought to. Glass owners might appreciate that, too, so that they can (hopefully) avoid getting punched out when wearing their expensive toy.
BTW, the way that final question was worded makes it sound like there's some discrimination against Google Glass wearers that us philistines who don't want to be on camera 24x7 have to get over. The vast, vast majority of people on the street, in bars, in stores, etc are not celebrities, politicians, or other public figures and should be afforded privacy. Filming or photographing strangers in public used to require a model release form. (If it no longer does, I can easily see laws reinstating that requirement being passed soon.) You don't give up your right to some privacy just because you step out of your house just because a CEO from an Internet company says so.
Now... let the flames from the Google Glass fanboyz begin...
... is now complete. Or is there anything else the government thinks they need? If so, surely they won't have any trouble getting Scalia and company to make up something else they think they see in the Constitution.
Oh yeah, I trust Forbes to be completely unbiased in all aspects of this story. How long to you think a story that featured the anti-fracking aspect of this situation would last in an editorial meeting? Forbes has advertisers that would be on the phone and screaming bloody murder within a microsecond of such a story appearing.
... decision-makers had an IQ that was right around room temperature.
As it turns out I wasn't specific enough. I meant Celsius and not Fahrenheit.
It wouldn't, for example, prevent anyone from cheating by doing some browsing at the local coffee shop to find the cheats and then coming home to play games on the desktop system at home.
Are you suggesting that the reason that the video store went under was because its patrons were unable to rent Monster-In-Law? (Part of me thinks the failure to return that video was a public service.)
Yeah... I think a lot of people are overlooking that exchange in the email where CR would provide attribution of his photos, etc. Having failed to do that, they (CR) may not be in violation of Jackson's copyright but it seems to me (as a non-lawyer) that there's still a clear contractual violation in the way CR chose to use his photos.
I think Color Run needs to admit they screwed up and, at the very least, pull all of their marketing materials and replace them with versions that provide the byline that Jackson was asking for. Failure to do that just makes CR look really, really dickish. And as a runner, I'd never toe up to any starting line that they had anything to do with.
Who decides which degree has more value to society? It sounds like you think some board should decide which degrees are going to be subsidized by the tax. But later on you mention The Market which, frankly, has sucked as a mechanism for steering people into the kinds of study that are supposedly needed. Part of your argument reminds me a lot of what I used to hear from people who no longer have kids in the school system complaining about their property taxes going up because a new school was needed. I support the local schools with my taxes because I don't want a bunch of kids growing up in our town with no future. I support the arts because they make society a better place to live. Geez... just imagine... an engineer having to support the education of a non-engineer? The horror! If you want to earmark funds to help educate the next generation of engineers, create a scholarship fund at your alma mater for a deserving undergraduate engineering student.
At one time, a college education was, or was almost, free. How did we do it? Well, for one we taxed corporations far higher than we do now. We also had an income tax rate was much higher at the higher income levels, we didn't have to waste money supporting a gigantic military that we used to police the entire planet. (Imagine what could be done with the $100B/year that's being thrown down the rat hole that is Afghanistan?) I'm willing to bet that the writer at Forbes never had to worry about how to pay for his higher education nor did he have to defer buying a house, or having children, because he was saddled with years of college loan payments. Or a tax on his post-gradate income. It's easy to suggest that new graduates pay an extra tax for their education when you've never had to do it yourself. The whole concept reminds me of another argument for people to "have more skin in the game" for whatever reason the staff at Forbes thinks will save those more well off from having pay higher taxes.
And don't get me started on why using colleges and universities as vocational training grounds for corporations is the wrong way to be using higher education. I just visited a college book store this past weekend and took a look at what texts were being used for the CS courses. It looked like the school thought that a CS education meant Microsoft Office and developer training. I should take a closer look at their web site; maybe their CS degree comes with a Microsoft certification. Thank $DIETY my daughters aren't interesting in CS; I'd likely forbid them from attending any school that thought teaching students how to use the latest Office and Visual tools constitutes a college-level computer science education and steer them to a local community college's computer curriculum if all they wanted was to learn something that makes them employable for a few years.
I can see why they might be concerned about the returns costs even if that's what they're doing.
I ordered an IT book a couple of months ago and Amazon keeps sending me emails about other stuff I might be interested. I shudder to think how in the world they think that shipping another book on object oriented assembly language (kidding... that's not what I ordered) to the local shipping depot is going to be all that good for Amazon even if there was someone in my immediate vicinity that wanted to order such an item. Same goes for the CD I ordered from them a while back. It was from an artist that's rather obscure and I can't imagine too many others who'd be ordering the same music. (Though it be nice to know there were like-minded music listeners nearby. But please dear $DIETY, let's not get Amazon into the business of disseminating that sort of information; we all have enough trouble maintaining what little privacy we still have.)
For the things I might order from Amazon, I can't see how this shipping practice is going to keep me from going out and buying it at a local shop. Amazon's already killed off 99% of the local bookstores and music stores making Amazon the only place to order those items. As for the expensive items like big screen TVs and the like... why on earth, given the videos we've all seen with delivery drivers tossing electronics over fences and damaging them, would anyone buy something like that from any place other than a local store that delivers it themselves?
Has the law changed? At one time, if a company sent you something you didn't order, is was within your rights to merely keep it.
I will be charging Amazon a ``handling'' charge if they want to insist on me returning an item they shipped to me that I didn't order. My time and fuel costs for driving the item to a UPS store for the return are going to be compensated for.
Creepy? Howzabout "disgusting"?
IANAL but I doubt there's anything in trademark law that would allow the Nagios team to appropriate the work of the Nagios Plugin team wholesale the way they did and merely change the name of the team members. While I hate the term, this looks like it could be a blatant example of ``intellectual property'' theft. Was the Nagios team unable to come up with their own wen site? Really? Rights to the domain name don't give you rights to the work that went into creating the plugin web site.
After having used it for 6-7 years, Nagios just went off my list of recommended monitoring tools. Icinga just moved to the top.
While I hate to comment on a grammatical post... I, too, am getting more than a little tired of seeing this misuse in a comment by someone who, otherwise, seems to have a good grasp of the English language. Whenever I see it, my respect for that poster's argument/comment drops by about 10dB. They may as well have posted in all caps.
My everyday keyboard is a Model M made in March '94. I'm about to replace it -- while I take it apart for a good cleaning -- with one made the month before. The one I have hanging off the KVM for the servers was made in Sept. '93. The suckers are darned indestructible. When people at work were dumping their desktops for laptops, I grabbed all the Model Ms I could lay my hands on. They're the only keyboards I like to use with the old Digital LK-series being a distant second (quiet and decent springiness in the keys but nothing like the IBMs).
I always thought that the change in position of the Ctrl key is what killed off WordStar. It was painful to navigate within documents when you have to contort your hand to get your pinky on the repositioned Ctrl key.
The original IBM PC keyboard --- and most of the clones (say Keytronic) -- had all their function keys on the left-hand side. I recently ran across one of the WordPerfect function key overlays that slipped over those left-hand keys.
My beef with the Sun keyboards was the mushiness. Oh yeah,.. and the freakin' optical mouse. (I still have an Ultra60 with one of those.)
How much of that Congressional funding is earmarked to be used in purchasing by the schools on technology that will be obsolete before the students even graduate?
Just like we were told that allowing the state to create lotteries was going to make all sorts of money available for the schools. If that were really the result, we wouldn't be seeing property tax increase referendums appearing on the local election ballots year after year.
Just like the fees that we were being charged by the phone company were going to be used for building high-speed internet access to rural areas.
When the hell will we learn to stop believing these liars? Whenever they trot out the ``think of the children'' argument you can be certain that the only thing they're really concerned with is their quarterly profits. The children -- along with the rest of us -- always get the shaft.
``Follow the money.''
CBS seems to run more energy industry ads than any other network so it doesn't really surprise me to hear that they're running 60 Minutes segments that are hostile to something that threatens the incumbent energy companies. Tune in on Sunday morning and each and every commercial break has at least one ad from an energy-related (usually oil) company or from a group that lobbies for the energy industry. I stopped watching the talking heads on Sunday mornings because of the incessant energy sector ads that play over and over (and over and over) in an attempt to convince me that I should be thankful that energy companies are destroying the damned planet and are the greatest thing to happen to the American economy since the invention of money.
So you don't think that us Americans have any interest at all in plans for the transportation of toxic tar sands across our land and aquifers? I'd be more riled up if American environmental groups were not supporting their counterparts in Canada.
They're not selling the raw material to China. They're shipping it to the Gulf coast where there are oil refineries and easy shipping to China. I imagine that the economic effect for Canada is about the same as it will be for the U.S.: our gas prices will increase once the tar sands begin getting turned into fuel for export. We get to deal with the ugly side effects of using the damned stuff (fouled water suppplies from spills, increases in cancer downwind from the refineries, etc.)
This has been in the news ever since the Keystone XL pipeline has been a controversy. Well, maybe not on the half-hour of entertainment that passes for the "news" nowadays. It could have been covered during one of those shows, though. Once. Between the sports segment and the cutesy "human interest" story that typically closes each broadcast.
Making it more difficult to access the environmental data that's in these libraries is, I strongly suspect, just a way to make it more difficult to slow or halt the increased use of the tar sands based on environmental reasons. Once the data that might be used in support of any attempt to shut production down is either destroyed or neatly tucked away in a locale that's more difficult to access, then the profits can more easily flow. (BTW, who else is betting that we're going to find that large swathes of this data are going to be found to not have been digitized as Harper's government is claiming?)