...of course, the media will cover up stuff like that. Free press my ass.
Err, and slashdot isn't "the press"? If there were really no freedom of the press you wouldn't even have learned of this.
The old line press barons are stuck in a rut. Don't get stuck in the same rut. Blogs may not be a panacea, nor the save-the-world future of the press, but they are part of a change...
I had a hassle at a company I worked for once...I refused to let the company's insurance have my SS...I told them to generate a new ID for me...after a little bitching...they gave me one.
You hope. At one company I worked for many of us were concerned about privacy so specified that SSN not be used for health insurance. That worked for a while, until the ins co called up a clerk in HR and said "Oh, we have a small problem: some people's SSNs were not sent to us" and so she happily sent them all the "missing" information!
Just install the required unames and passwords into the autofill data for the browser and put the sites into your booksmarks before you burn the CD. The key logger is unlikely to see much that's interesting.
If you are afraid of losing the CD and having whomever finds it figure out how to use it, just use the bookmarks part. It's unlikely that someone will be able to connect a keylogged uname and password with the correct bank name (especially if you click on the password field first and type it, then click on the uname field and type it second.
I mean, internet cafés are incubation sites, but the scammers/keyloggers aren't superhuman!
Someone already suggested allowing the user to choose and then remembering them from caller-ID so I won't expand on that.
The thing that causes me the problem is when they break in and tell you "your call is important blah blah." When I get music on hold I just put the speaker on and do something else. When I hear a voice I then pick up the handset.
If you break in with a voice all the time I can't do this -- I have to pay attention just to find out when I'm no longer on hold! Really dumb. Don't do this to your callers.
Oh yea, and play Grateful Dead bootlegs of summer concerts from between 1973 and 1978.
I have several of the predecessor device to the squeezebox, the SliMP3. It's great. Even has a high WAF -- my wife asked me to put one in her office too.
Oh yea, it can read your iTunes DB so it knows your songlists and shoutcast radio stations and the like. The server software is all GPLed so you can tweak it (the guys at slimdevices integrate lots of user-contributed changes). It can't play your iTMS songs though unless you know how to use google. For that, your only alternative is the Apple device.
They're easy to use, quite reliable, and plug straight into the stereo. What more is there to say about it?
Yesterday, a German court decided that it is illegal to sell books below the prices set by publishing houses...The implications of this could be far reaching, having an impact on your right to sell old CDs, DVDs, perhaps even art
Your right to sell art is already controlled in at least three ways:
Certain subjects are verboten
Resale of art is controlled; you are required to rebate part of your sale to the original artist(!) (droit d'auteur)
They're subject to VAT
And of course books are sold shrink-wrapped so you really have to judge the book by its cover!
But you know Germany is full of anticonsumer laws (lifetime guarantees forbidden, shops may not open on Sunday, sales (discounts) are only permitted twice a year, etc) so this is just one among many.
To show that OS X is better than Windows AND Linux.
I'll be happy to do it for them. It really is cheaper to buy and maintain one Mac OS X machine than to buy and maintain two machines, one with Windows and one with Linux! Struth!
It would be great, if instead, I could hook into the compiler and tell it exactly how it should handle vectors.
Well of course that's what templates are. Yes, their syntax is horrendous but that's what comes of trying to wedge the concept into the existing crannies of C syntax (or when, as Stroustrup remarked to me once, "the ecological niche was already polluted").
But if you really want to consider "hooking into the compiler" as you say then you should look at the reflective programming work, the ground work for which was laid down almost 25 years ago by Brian Cantwell Smith and was even implemented, by me and others, back then. Although a lot of work continued in this area that vein pretty much got mined: unless you can think up a completely new control structure there's not a huge amount more you can do with such a system than you could with a normal metasyntactic extension mechanism.
The name was altered in the 1980s because housewives (understandably) didn't want to buy a product called "rape": http://www.yaelf.com/aueFAQ/mifcanola.shtml
If you can get into the cafateria without any security stuff you can just go to lunch there for a couple weeks, get to know people's name...
A former girlfriend of mine worked at an unnamed government lab. Although her work was unclassified and utterly non-weapons related (she was an astrophysicist), she needed a clearance to just do her work (though she could publish the results freely -- go figure)...and I couldn't meet her for lunch in the otherwise boring, unclassified lunch room without getting cleared either. 20 years later, you've explained to me why!
In line with their "Don't be evil" motto, Google should secretly fund a contest like this...and then program in defences against all the effective techniques!
One time I was on a sales call to a defense contracctor. They were interested in a free software alternative (this is from before the "Open Source" days) to their then current proprietary vendor.
Why? Well, up to when the missile was launched they needed only one license, but when it MIRVed they would need n (I think 6 or 8) more...and they didn't want to have to justify to the government paying for the extra "unnecessary" licenses...
(I suggested they just deal with the contractual issues when they came up, but apparently the kinds of guys who worry about these issues don't find comments like that funny).
I heard these same claims in the 80's, and even worked on some early visual programming systems in '83 and '84. In the late '70s the claim was that programming would be done via a "natural language interface" and that programming languages would become obsolete.
And this howler:
"Many of the holy grails of computing that have been worked on over the last 30 years will be solved within this 10-year period, with speech being in every device and having a device that's like a tablet that you just carry around,"
is another longstanding claim, decades old.
Progress comes incrementally, except in Marketing Space. This guy's past public predictions have been bogus, why should these ones be any different?
(I suspect his private predictions, like "we will crush OS/2" have a better track record, but he doesn't share those ones except via their manifestations!)
In English there isn't an official accent (BBC "Received English" notwithstanding). Other languages have different conventions.
For example, German. There is an official "High German" (Hochdeutch) that is learned in school and is considered "correct." Other dialects, of which there are many of course, are considered "nonstandard." This is more than just a Texan being proud of speaking Texan, they are really considered different. Someone who speaks Hochdeutch natively (there are a small number) are considered by others to have "no accent."
Remember: this is a language that standardises its spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation and comma usage by international treaty. Making one accent official is comparatively speaking, trivial.
As a native english speaker myself, I find this all all a bit berserk. But other people, other ways.
You're right, Coca-Cola mostly deals with the CIA.
You joke, but have you seen this film? It's about a coke marketer who travels to Australia, and then sends out for a bag full of machine guns...well it's worth seeing.
I always thought that the whole film it was a veiled reference to alleged CIA involvement in this event.
One of the reforms suggested (i.e. not enforced by any code or law) by the SEC as a response to the enron/worldcom pseudo-scandal is that the job of CEO and chairman be split. Note that Disney just did this in the hopes of deflecting some dirt.
In the case of Dell: if your company is doing well but you want to split this job to make the Street happy, well, would you take the job that involves more work or the one that involves less? So the CEO job becomes more like a COO...and guess what? Rollins is the COO right now!
Like other posters I doubt this implies much change for Dell the company or Dell the man.
I don't know about these days, but this was one of the criteria in the selection of the initial astronauts in the 1960s. I believe this was written up in The Right Stuff, along with the comment "what a way to wash out."
I'm not sure how they measured it either, but it can't have been pleasant. I think it involved a tube...
Slashdot Mirror
Err, and slashdot isn't "the press"? If there were really no freedom of the press you wouldn't even have learned of this.
The old line press barons are stuck in a rut. Don't get stuck in the same rut. Blogs may not be a panacea, nor the save-the-world future of the press, but they are part of a change...
If you are afraid of losing the CD and having whomever finds it figure out how to use it, just use the bookmarks part. It's unlikely that someone will be able to connect a keylogged uname and password with the correct bank name (especially if you click on the password field first and type it, then click on the uname field and type it second.
I mean, internet cafés are incubation sites, but the scammers/keyloggers aren't superhuman!
I only had to read the first paragraph and now I have that goddamned "Mr Bojangles" tune running through my head AND I CAN'T GET RID OF IT!!!
The thing that causes me the problem is when they break in and tell you "your call is important blah blah." When I get music on hold I just put the speaker on and do something else. When I hear a voice I then pick up the handset.
If you break in with a voice all the time I can't do this -- I have to pay attention just to find out when I'm no longer on hold! Really dumb. Don't do this to your callers.
Oh yea, and play Grateful Dead bootlegs of summer concerts from between 1973 and 1978.
I have several of the predecessor device to the squeezebox, the SliMP3. It's great. Even has a high WAF -- my wife asked me to put one in her office too.
Oh yea, it can read your iTunes DB so it knows your songlists and shoutcast radio stations and the like. The server software is all GPLed so you can tweak it (the guys at slimdevices integrate lots of user-contributed changes). It can't play your iTMS songs though unless you know how to use google. For that, your only alternative is the Apple device.
They're easy to use, quite reliable, and plug straight into the stereo. What more is there to say about it?
All in all, a real winner.
Let this fine film be an instructional video for what could go horribly wrong.
And of course books are sold shrink-wrapped so you really have to judge the book by its cover!
But you know Germany is full of anticonsumer laws (lifetime guarantees forbidden, shops may not open on Sunday, sales (discounts) are only permitted twice a year, etc) so this is just one among many.
The best way to honor the memory of "NASA's golden age" would be to top it.
NASA does excellent unmanned science, but the moon shot, cool as it was, wasn't good science or space policy.
Good thing private efforts are starting to pick up the slack.
I must add that the most awe-inspiring thing to me is that all the construction, design and launch was done on slide rules.
Not really. It is true that the software is widely distributed (and packaged in a handy interpreter!)
But it's rather aggressively copy-on-write; changes generally show up in the child rather than the parent
There's even a government program to try to stamp out self-modifying code!
So: widely distributed, yes. "Open source": not hardly.
Teenage acne and world hunger, perhaps, but not C++ template syntax.
Well of course that's what templates are. Yes, their syntax is horrendous but that's what comes of trying to wedge the concept into the existing crannies of C syntax (or when, as Stroustrup remarked to me once, "the ecological niche was already polluted").
If you hanker for a language in which metasyntactic extension is natural, you need Lisp macros (or here and here for a more complex example), Scheme "hygenic" macros or the CLOS MOP.
But if you really want to consider "hooking into the compiler" as you say then you should look at the reflective programming work, the ground work for which was laid down almost 25 years ago by Brian Cantwell Smith and was even implemented, by me and others, back then. Although a lot of work continued in this area that vein pretty much got mined: unless you can think up a completely new control structure there's not a huge amount more you can do with such a system than you could with a normal metasyntactic extension mechanism.
HTH
-d
The name was altered in the 1980s because housewives (understandably) didn't want to buy a product called "rape": http://www.yaelf.com/aueFAQ/mifcanola.shtml
In line with their "Don't be evil" motto, Google should secretly fund a contest like this...and then program in defences against all the effective techniques!
This is not a joke.
One time I was on a sales call to a defense contracctor. They were interested in a free software alternative (this is from before the "Open Source" days) to their then current proprietary vendor.
Why? Well, up to when the missile was launched they needed only one license, but when it MIRVed they would need n (I think 6 or 8) more...and they didn't want to have to justify to the government paying for the extra "unnecessary" licenses...
(I suggested they just deal with the contractual issues when they came up, but apparently the kinds of guys who worry about these issues don't find comments like that funny).
And this howler:is another longstanding claim, decades old.
Progress comes incrementally, except in Marketing Space. This guy's past public predictions have been bogus, why should these ones be any different?
(I suspect his private predictions, like "we will crush OS/2" have a better track record, but he doesn't share those ones except via their manifestations!)
It's only TV. And you can just get TV for free if you want.
Congress should be worrying about more important things, like the $1Tr deficit they created, or food safety, or.... TV is just TV.
In English there isn't an official accent (BBC "Received English" notwithstanding). Other languages have different conventions.
For example, German. There is an official "High German" (Hochdeutch) that is learned in school and is considered "correct." Other dialects, of which there are many of course, are considered "nonstandard." This is more than just a Texan being proud of speaking Texan, they are really considered different. Someone who speaks Hochdeutch natively (there are a small number) are considered by others to have "no accent."
Remember: this is a language that standardises its spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation and comma usage by international treaty. Making one accent official is comparatively speaking, trivial.
As a native english speaker myself, I find this all all a bit berserk. But other people, other ways.
I always thought that the whole film it was a veiled reference to alleged CIA involvement in this event.
One of the reforms suggested (i.e. not enforced by any code or law) by the SEC as a response to the enron/worldcom pseudo-scandal is that the job of CEO and chairman be split. Note that Disney just did this in the hopes of deflecting some dirt.
In the case of Dell: if your company is doing well but you want to split this job to make the Street happy, well, would you take the job that involves more work or the one that involves less? So the CEO job becomes more like a COO...and guess what? Rollins is the COO right now!
Like other posters I doubt this implies much change for Dell the company or Dell the man.
I'm not sure how they measured it either, but it can't have been pleasant. I think it involved a tube...