Answer seems to be no on the rules changing out from under the guy, as you describe. The "insider interview" noted that in fact Childs drew up security policies, more than once, submitted them for approval, and they kept getting turned down because "no one wanted to be held to [any] standards."
A decent lawyer ought to be able to get him a nice severance package.
Very confused here... I get "POOR" at home behind a NAT router; okay, I understand that. I run the same test on a remote server on the backbone, which is running the latest bind9, patched this week, and it gives exactly the same "POOR" result.
What hoop are we supposed to jump through to get a "GOOD" result?
"RAW" photos are a lossless capture, which means they are larger files (bad) but with few of the artifacts produced by JPEG compression, and thus your editing options are greatly increased (good).
The exact details of the format depend on the make and even the model of camera you're using; a low-end "point and shoot" camera seldom provides RAW output (see recent Slashdot article on FOSS firmware that adds RAW support to higher-end Canon P&S cameras, however).
A modern digital camera will also add a nice chunk of metadata to each image, giving the details of its exposure. The main difference between a FILL manager and a PHOTO manager is the latter's awareness of, and ability to use, this metadata in a "workflow."
By "workflow" we mean the situation where a professional photographer will routinely generate thousands of images at a wedding, and will want to pick through them to find images worth further refinement, apply a set of transforms (crop, tweak the exposure, sharpen 0.02%, yada yada) to them in large batches, but SELECTIVELY, to produce a finished body of quality work.
Managing those images only with a file manager would be nightmarish; being able to select just the images that were shot with Lens A to apply a certain transform means you can automate the process, go have pizza while the mass of bits gets twiddled, then come back and get creative with the results.
"Ex post facto" only applies if this were a bill to make the Telco actions illegal retroactively. It doesn't apply to making the actions legal (nor to waiving all penalties, which is not necessarily the same thing).
"All three of my representatives voted nay" -- that's not quite how the House works. One of those Representatives is "yours." The other two represent different districts, and are not subject to your vote.
It's a small distinction, granted, but it might make a difference to you someday. Wouldn't hurt to figure out which of them is "yours" and send a "thanks for trying."
This may be ok if all you want to do is restart a server, but for any serious work cell phones just don't cut it. Uh... restarting a server is about as serious as it gets for some of us!
Well, I don't know if it's the best, since I haven't got much to compare it against, but my Treo650 with pssh works quite well. It is by no means a replacement for a laptop with a vpn client, but it nicely handles the "service X has died for some reason and needs to be manually restarted" and "minor configuration tweak Y required" type scenarios. Likewise here... though after having to use it once or twice, I finally set up a script to handle the recurring problem that required this manual intervention, and linked it to a BIG RED BUTTON on a protected web page. Much easier to load a bookmark and tap the screen twice.
There's also the Python-based "WebShell" by Marc Ressl. Stick it on a server, access it from any AJAX-aware browser. It looks especially nice on the iPhone version of Safari but works "okay" on my Treo or T|X.
Once you've set it up on a server somewhere, of course, you can then ssh back out to wherever it is you need to get to. As a web-based service it does NOT require you to jailbreak your iPhone. Hell, jot down some one-time passwords and you can rely on the "kindness of strangers."
Not a lot of shared attributes between these two subclasses of class "vehicle."
Car: heavy suspension built to handle potholes and such; real-world roads still apply various nasty twisting moments throughout the body, which must be stiff enough to cope. Can ignore the occasional shopping cart dimpling the sides as irrelevant to operational safety.
Plane: built very VERY lightly. Undercarriage takes one good "whomp" on landing but time spent taxiing is a very small part of the overall life of the vehicle. Even a minor ding may result in it being flagged non-airworthy.
Executive summary: Cars make lousy planes. Planes make lousy cars.
you can "contribute" to both major party candidates, and whichever one loses won't matter to you because the winning politician will now be beholden to you. Odd; if I know that the guy contributed heavily to my opponent, I've got a lot of incentive to discourage him from ever doing that again.
That "thousands of feet" thing in the trailer bothered me too -- turns out it's a classic bit of Hollywood misdirection.
Spoiler (based on a different trailer, haven't seen the movie yet):
He apparently recovers from the boot explosion/flameout and comes to a hover about five feet above the roof. He asks Jarvis what the load rating for the roof is, cuts the jets without waiting for an answer --
C'mon, work with me here. The scene is "dramatically reveal that the lead character has donned that powered suit that (you hope) the audience has completely forgotten you set up earlier." The power loader in ALIENS, the original Iron Man suit in IM #19, that's 1969 or 1970. (Volume one, as apparently there have been a few reboots since I collected.)
It was a great scene in ALIENS. It was also a great scene when Iron Man did it *sixteen years* earlier.
I'm just a little sad that Downey won't get a chance to recreate it, because it would have been a hell of a storyline.
Loved the scene with the Power Loader; Cameron set it up fair and square, then managed to make me forget all about it until the critical instant. Nicely done.
But for the record, a very similar scene was in an Iron Man comic book years before ALIENS. (Issue #19, Tony in the old armor vs a rogue Life Model Decoy android in the new armor.) They'll never use it in an Iron Man sequel now, because everyone would go "Boo, ALIENS rip-off!" and that's really unfair.
I find the timing odd, in that all my copies of Firefox updated themselves from 2.0.0.12 to.13 the day before the contest. Wonder what would have happened if the contest had been started two days sooner... or two days later, for that matter?
Or is 2.0.0.13 comparable in any way to Safari 3.1?
Mod parent up. I don't have the article in front of me and I have no doubt that 'dickish' won't believe me anyway -- but the last time this happened, someone high up in the.org domain administration reported that the entire.org TLD was at risk of foundering under the load of UNANSWERED queries.
I tell you three times: At the volumes we're talking about, merely turning off the server does not solve the problem caused by people continuing to query it.
What you're missing is that if ORDB flags all mail as "good," then clueless soi-disant 'admins' will continue to hammer the site with their useless queries, up to thousands of them per second. Blocking world+dog is a desperation move -- which has been used a few times in the past by other RBL administrators -- just to make people stop doing that.
When someone just plain will not check back to see if your free service is still working (and free), how else do you get their attention?
"As the material contracts after an expansion the rearranging of the carbon nanotubes generates a small electric current that can be captured and used to power another expansion or stored in a battery."
The other expansion should not be of the same muscle, of course; alternate between two opposing muscles and you can get a very efficient walking motion going.
(I said "walking," dammit, not "wanking!")
All of the posts complaining that "muscles should contract, not expand" -- hey, it's not that hard to use an expansion to create a useful pulling force. Wrap an elastic sleeve around it that will get shorter as it gets rounder, and mechanically it will work very much like a muscle.
I recall reading once that the hominids in 2001 didn't win any industry awards because "many of the voters thought they were trained apes, not actors in costumes."
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Answer seems to be no on the rules changing out from under the guy, as you describe. The "insider interview" noted that in fact Childs drew up security policies, more than once, submitted them for approval, and they kept getting turned down because "no one wanted to be held to [any] standards."
A decent lawyer ought to be able to get him a nice severance package.
Very confused here... I get "POOR" at home behind a NAT router; okay, I understand that. I run the same test on a remote server on the backbone, which is running the latest bind9, patched this week, and it gives exactly the same "POOR" result.
What hoop are we supposed to jump through to get a "GOOD" result?
FILE manager, not FILL manager. Duh.
"RAW" photos are a lossless capture, which means they are larger files (bad) but with few of the artifacts produced by JPEG compression, and thus your editing options are greatly increased (good).
The exact details of the format depend on the make and even the model of camera you're using; a low-end "point and shoot" camera seldom provides RAW output (see recent Slashdot article on FOSS firmware that adds RAW support to higher-end Canon P&S cameras, however).
A modern digital camera will also add a nice chunk of metadata to each image, giving the details of its exposure. The main difference between a FILL manager and a PHOTO manager is the latter's awareness of, and ability to use, this metadata in a "workflow."
By "workflow" we mean the situation where a professional photographer will routinely generate thousands of images at a wedding, and will want to pick through them to find images worth further refinement, apply a set of transforms (crop, tweak the exposure, sharpen 0.02%, yada yada) to them in large batches, but SELECTIVELY, to produce a finished body of quality work.
Managing those images only with a file manager would be nightmarish; being able to select just the images that were shot with Lens A to apply a certain transform means you can automate the process, go have pizza while the mass of bits gets twiddled, then come back and get creative with the results.
"Ex post facto" only applies if this were a bill to make the Telco actions illegal retroactively. It doesn't apply to making the actions legal (nor to waiving all penalties, which is not necessarily the same thing).
"All three of my representatives voted nay" -- that's not quite how the House works. One of those Representatives is "yours." The other two represent different districts, and are not subject to your vote.
It's a small distinction, granted, but it might make a difference to you someday. Wouldn't hurt to figure out which of them is "yours" and send a "thanks for trying."
There's also the Python-based "WebShell" by Marc Ressl. Stick it on a server, access it from any AJAX-aware browser. It looks especially nice on the iPhone version of Safari but works "okay" on my Treo or T|X.
Once you've set it up on a server somewhere, of course, you can then ssh back out to wherever it is you need to get to. As a web-based service it does NOT require you to jailbreak your iPhone. Hell, jot down some one-time passwords and you can rely on the "kindness of strangers."
Not a lot of shared attributes between these two subclasses of class "vehicle."
Car: heavy suspension built to handle potholes and such; real-world roads still apply various nasty twisting moments throughout the body, which must be stiff enough to cope. Can ignore the occasional shopping cart dimpling the sides as irrelevant to operational safety.
Plane: built very VERY lightly. Undercarriage takes one good "whomp" on landing but time spent taxiing is a very small part of the overall life of the vehicle. Even a minor ding may result in it being flagged non-airworthy.
Executive summary: Cars make lousy planes. Planes make lousy cars.
That "thousands of feet" thing in the trailer bothered me too -- turns out it's a classic bit of Hollywood misdirection.
Spoiler (based on a different trailer, haven't seen the movie yet):
He apparently recovers from the boot explosion/flameout and comes to a hover about five feet above the roof. He asks Jarvis what the load rating for the roof is, cuts the jets without waiting for an answer --
And goes right through the roof. Whoops.
C'mon, work with me here. The scene is "dramatically reveal that the lead character has donned that powered suit that (you hope) the audience has completely forgotten you set up earlier." The power loader in ALIENS, the original Iron Man suit in IM #19, that's 1969 or 1970. (Volume one, as apparently there have been a few reboots since I collected.)
It was a great scene in ALIENS. It was also a great scene when Iron Man did it *sixteen years* earlier.
I'm just a little sad that Downey won't get a chance to recreate it, because it would have been a hell of a storyline.
I believe that preview scene was from the video game.
Loved the scene with the Power Loader; Cameron set it up fair and square, then managed to make me forget all about it until the critical instant. Nicely done.
But for the record, a very similar scene was in an Iron Man comic book years before ALIENS. (Issue #19, Tony in the old armor vs a rogue Life Model Decoy android in the new armor.) They'll never use it in an Iron Man sequel now, because everyone would go "Boo, ALIENS rip-off!" and that's really unfair.
Where are my 10 mod points when I need them? Bravo, sir! Bravo!
"Kill them all. God will know His own."
"I'm not stupid, I'm not expendable, and I'm NOT GOING." - Kerr Avon
I find the timing odd, in that all my copies of Firefox updated themselves from 2.0.0.12 to .13 the day before the contest. Wonder what would have happened if the contest had been started two days sooner... or two days later, for that matter?
Or is 2.0.0.13 comparable in any way to Safari 3.1?
Security (is|as) a moving target....
I tell you three times: At the volumes we're talking about, merely turning off the server does not solve the problem caused by people continuing to query it.
When someone just plain will not check back to see if your free service is still working (and free), how else do you get their attention?
"As the material contracts after an expansion the rearranging of the carbon nanotubes generates a small electric current that can be captured and used to power another expansion or stored in a battery."
The other expansion should not be of the same muscle, of course; alternate between two opposing muscles and you can get a very efficient walking motion going.
(I said "walking," dammit, not "wanking!")
All of the posts complaining that "muscles should contract, not expand" -- hey, it's not that hard to use an expansion to create a useful pulling force. Wrap an elastic sleeve around it that will get shorter as it gets rounder, and mechanically it will work very much like a muscle.
I recall reading once that the hominids in 2001 didn't win any industry awards because "many of the voters thought they were trained apes, not actors in costumes."
If reading something by a dedicated vegetarian bothers you in 2008, imagine how this farm boy felt reading The Deep Range in 1957.
"You know they're remaking that with Keanu Reeves as Klaatu?"
DO NOT WANT!
"Gort, Klaatu barada nikto!" clearly means "Gort, Klaatu has fallen and he can't get up!"