Not spammers, bot nets (which often generate spam). Taking down malicious and devious programs like the Storm network would help remove an existing threat and would help them brush up on both offensive and defensive tactics.
This would imply that these botnets aren't a subtle yet powerful control mechanism to keep the internet "in check". Although, publicly downing a non-sanctioned/friendly botnet would indeed prove your point. All I'm saying is... what's to say Storm is not "our bad guy"?
Seriously, on OSX, Webkit nightly (Safari) is so much better than FF3B5 (Firefox). Faster, better render, better integration. Only thing keeping me from Webkit completely is 1) Extensions (Adblock+, Google Gears, Firebug!) and 2) Awesomebar It's that nice.
Repeat after me - "In terms of fundamental human behavior, the internet has not, and will not, change JACK SHIT."
Well, I guess I'm just going to have to refute you instead. The Internets have already changed politics as we know it, just like every other technological advance. Radio. TV. Mass-Mailing, Telephones... all changed the political fundraising and activity landscape as campaigns used these to reach their voters and to fund their campaign. In recent history, the 2004 election was dramatically changed due to Howard Dean's massively successful internet-based fundraising and collaboration efforts. When the purse-strings of politicians are affected, politics is very easily changed.
The Ribbon sucks. It takes ages to get used to the "new way to do things" and they had no way to transition that I could find. I missed most the shortcuts which they removed or reordered.
Plus it's slow and crashes a lot (Office 2k7, Excel in particular). Personally, Office 2k3 was not bad IMHO, and I still prefer 2k for the raw speed. Microsoft just doesn't make software that well anymore. If it doesn't just outright suck (Vista) it's still slower with each revision.
He was the first Democrat I've ever voted for, and I still feel a bit dirty about it.
The Republican party you knew is gone now... Folks like Abrahmoff, Delay, and Bush have tied the party train to the Corrupt, Corporatist, & Fundamentalist wings of your party.
McCain is going to lose in November because he realizes that he has to pander to all these groups, and leave Americans behind in the process.
(1) How do you feel about large-scale datamining projects such as the Total Information Awareness project? While the project itself is gone it is not the first of its type. Do such projects strike you as technically feasible or even usable?
You do realize that TIA from the recently unearthed archives dug up by congress.. is the root of all the warrantless wiretapping shit that's been in place? TIA is gone as a "program" but the work and contracts are still being done in the dark, and with no oversight.
Ahhh... They almost did and you want to know what your knights in shining armor did? They exempted themselves from having to abide by the patent (effectively telling RIM that they could continue to service the US Govt) and basically told the rest of us we could go screw. A few weeks later RIM settled for $385 million or so. So what was that idea again?
I actually don't think it would matter. Not only because our congresscritters/leadership are craven idiots, but the fact that the software-patent lobby will effectively buy the media, and the poor company that drowns (ie, RIM) will be blamed for other reasons -- the leadership will be blamed, or media will crown iPhone as the "RIM replacement" and ignore the patent parasitism that was the actual cause of (corporate) death.
I've seen this same bullshit time and time again.
Unless we get wrestle the media away from corporate grasp, money can easily subvert truth.
Me: "I have fleshed out our draft spec for the new Web site through a series of phone calls and emails over the last few weeks and the developers say they will be able to meet perhaps 80-90% of what you want by the tight deadline you have set and then they will roll out the remaining features over the next couple of weeks."
Director: "I am really concerned that the developers are so far away in another country"
You should realize that Trust = Competency + Compassion. It's clear your director did not trust the developers you quoted, because he didn't trust that a long-distance project could work.
The way I've found to discourage this kind of thinking is to show your decision maker just how close the world is today. Have him talk with the dev team (or team lead). Do a video conference over Skype. Show track record for the development team if possible.
People make decisions with their heart. If the decision maker doesn't have a direct (good) experience with global development teams, then they won't feel good about implementing them.
That was a bi-partisan bill which Republicans happily supported because it hurt the Democrats most (now that they are in charge). I'm not going to give them a marksmanship trophy for shooting themselves in the foot.
Wow, OK, so let me get this straight... you'd rather the Democrats be partisan rather than ethical?
Maybe not, but there's something your highway authority can do about it: Adopt German rules. Passing on the right gets you a ticket; driving on the left without passing gets you a ticket.
As much as I would like to see this, this would NEVER NEVER work in the good ol USA.
Here is an anecdote from when I was in Deutschland:
My friend and I were at a street crossing on a long road with few other crossing locations in sight. The signal light was green (no crossing), no cars were in sight in either direction, yet people were patiently waiting for it to turn red so they could cross. My friend, being irreverent and generally disobedient, attempted to cross the street, but was halted quickly by one of the people waiting who yelled(can't remember exactly) "NEIN GEHEN NICHT!!"
He jumped back thinking some car was careening down the road or something. The person who yelled then clarified (yelling again) as he pointed at he crosswalk signal "VERBOTEN!"... Apparently, the signal was enough to keep people waiting. We chuckled and waited for the signal to turn.
Lesson: Germans respect the law much more than the Americans, so difficult to enforce laws will work here only if there's a strong effort to indoctrinate the populace.
Sorry, copying the bad eyecandy from Microsoft doesn't classify as an improvement in my opinion.
Normally, I would agree with you, but in this case it's a clearly huge improvement to the existing URL bar and worth the bloat (which ironically, is faster anyway due to other optimizations).
Firefox 3 Beta 3 on Mac is especially fast (although I'm using the latest webkit nightly, and it just rocks the web. Insanely fast.)
I think he can do more work as an outsider than an insider. This is also the reason I was disappointed that Al Franken decided to run for Senate. I was of the opinion he can do more work, reach more people, and effect greater change on the radio than in the Senate.
Perhaps, but Norm Coleman needs to go. That backstabbing SOB needs to be dealt with decisively, and Al is probably the best person to do this.
Besides we need more people in Congress with a sense of humor!
Apple's notebooks are also lacking a trackpoint-like mouse. I personally can't stand touchpads, even the ones on Apple's notebooks. The trackpoint is a much better input device when done right, and the ones on the Thinkpads work quite well.
I used to have a very similar opinion. However, with my macbook (late 2k6), the trackpad is very impressive. Acceleration is good, accuracy is very good, and the scrolling and right-click options are very intuitive and useful.
Compare/contrast that with a friend's sony vaio I borrowed for a while. The trackpad was horrible and counterprodtive. I even lost data due to missed input. I blame Sony pretty squarely for this (probably the trackpad quality or software integration), but still... it made the point for me: not all trackpads are created equal.
Basically, when I switched from my old thinkpad to the macbook, I was expecting to use an external mouse a lot. Now I take the macbook to presentations and don't take my bluetooth mouse with me. the trackpad is that good.
I even prefer it to my new work Thinkpad's trackpoint. It's a 2007 laptop, and it STILL has issues with ghost movement (rare, but happened during a preso, and distracted my audience). Dude, wtf... it's 15 year old technology, you figure it'd be mature by now.
Incorrect! The Republican Party was founded when there was a split between the Democratic-Republic party. The Democrats formed when they started to oppose the anti-slavery sentiment in the party so they left and formed the Democrats. The Republicans formed out of what remained of the party and took up the issue of opposition to slavery.
You're about correct until you forget to mention that the pro-slavery democratic vote of the 60's died when the Democratic party became the party of civil rights (with Lyndon B Johnson's "war on poverty" and the civil rights act of 1965).
The Republican party then took on the "cause" of the pro-slavery jim-crow supporters with their "Southern Strategy" staring with Nixon and continuing until this day.
The rest of your post about "elitism" and "CEOs supporting Democrats" is pretty much complete nonsense. Corporate America (tm) supports both major parties, favoring the more "business friendly" ones (ie, Bush, Clinton, Lieberman). "Elite" college professors make much less than your average software engineer in Silicon Valley.
Looks like this is what Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, etc will need to begin supporting 5 in the future. How long that takes, noone really knows. More importantly, how easy will this be to use and how useful will the semantic bindings be?
Finally, anyone know if HTML5 mandates any specific version of EMCA/Java-Script? That part seemed vague to me.
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I <3 me some Awesomebar.
Seriously, on OSX, Webkit nightly (Safari) is so much better than FF3B5 (Firefox). Faster, better render, better integration.
Only thing keeping me from Webkit completely is 1) Extensions (Adblock+, Google Gears, Firebug!) and 2) Awesomebar
It's that nice.
All you haters can use a theme that kicks it.
The Ribbon sucks. It takes ages to get used to the "new way to do things" and they had no way to transition that I could find.
I missed most the shortcuts which they removed or reordered.
Plus it's slow and crashes a lot (Office 2k7, Excel in particular). Personally, Office 2k3 was not bad IMHO, and I still prefer 2k for the raw speed.
Microsoft just doesn't make software that well anymore. If it doesn't just outright suck (Vista) it's still slower with each revision.
The worst egregious changes happened after 911, where the Patriot Act was substituted after congresscritters voted for it.
McCain is going to lose in November because he realizes that he has to pander to all these groups, and leave Americans behind in the process.
I've seen this same bullshit time and time again.
Unless we get wrestle the media away from corporate grasp, money can easily subvert truth.
However, keep in mind, the US Dollar is much lower than, say, even 6 months ago, so this could be a symptom of dollar devaluation.
Watercooler talk will be more viral and less structured, and structure will now be organic rather than institutionalized.
About time... I'm looking forward to it
And I'm the kind of guy who won't browse without AdBlock or some equivalent.
I'd say TiVo's adverts are about as intrusive as Google's text ads, but maybe a bit more sly.
This is more worrying, I agree. But I hope the existence of viable alternative DVR competitors will ward them away from going too far.The way I've found to discourage this kind of thinking is to show your decision maker just how close the world is today. Have him talk with the dev team (or team lead). Do a video conference over Skype. Show track record for the development team if possible.
People make decisions with their heart. If the decision maker doesn't have a direct (good) experience with global development teams, then they won't feel good about implementing them.
Were you by any chance a staffer for Congressman Jefferson?
Ethics should be a non-partisan issue that all Americans support. If you disagree, I honestly think you could deserve the label "UnAmerican".
Which is pretty on-par with Safari 3.0.4
I wonder what other mobile browsers get?
It'll be sweet when the latest webkit makes it's way down to the iPhone :-)
Faster than FF3 beta 4, much much faster than FF2 or IE7.
However, they haven't stepped up to the plate when it comes to Impeachment, and for that they will suffer.
Here is an anecdote from when I was in Deutschland:
Lesson: Germans respect the law much more than the Americans, so difficult to enforce laws will work here only if there's a strong effort to indoctrinate the populace.Besides we need more people in Congress with a sense of humor!
Compare/contrast that with a friend's sony vaio I borrowed for a while. The trackpad was horrible and counterprodtive. I even lost data due to missed input. I blame Sony pretty squarely for this (probably the trackpad quality or software integration), but still... it made the point for me: not all trackpads are created equal.
Basically, when I switched from my old thinkpad to the macbook, I was expecting to use an external mouse a lot. Now I take the macbook to presentations and don't take my bluetooth mouse with me. the trackpad is that good.
I even prefer it to my new work Thinkpad's trackpoint. It's a 2007 laptop, and it STILL has issues with ghost movement (rare, but happened during a preso, and distracted my audience). Dude, wtf... it's 15 year old technology, you figure it'd be mature by now.
The Republican party then took on the "cause" of the pro-slavery jim-crow supporters with their "Southern Strategy" staring with Nixon and continuing until this day.
The rest of your post about "elitism" and "CEOs supporting Democrats" is pretty much complete nonsense. Corporate America (tm) supports both major parties, favoring the more "business friendly" ones (ie, Bush, Clinton, Lieberman). "Elite" college professors make much less than your average software engineer in Silicon Valley.
Looks like this is what Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, etc will need to begin supporting 5 in the future.
How long that takes, noone really knows. More importantly, how easy will this be to use and how useful will the semantic bindings be?
Finally, anyone know if HTML5 mandates any specific version of EMCA/Java-Script? That part seemed vague to me.